***Early Thanks to Damo for the post title***
Today being the celebration of my 11th year of
Anyway, it would have been a great loss to have missed the opportunity for some Dojo shenanigans just to sit on The Big Show's shoulder and wave pom-poms all day so I headed over around 2pm in the hope that I would get a game against Mr McLeish who had tagged along with some of the travellers and conveniently brought along an army. Unfortunately by the time I turned up John was up to his ears in Trolls and Damo was applying the burn to Matt so I drew weekly punching bag and all-round Warmachine loser Chris Baker. Guess it's time to apply the sick beats :)
I've been struggling with a pDenny list that won't embarrass the general Warmachine populace for a while now, persevering with Raiders because let's face it - they're smokin' hot. Nevertheless the very handy Raider Package was sucking up a lot of points in the list for a lot less return than I had hoped to receive so I embarked on my very first adventure with a McThrall Package instead (Max Mechanithralls + Necrosurgeon and friends - no Brute Thralls this time round). The remaining points were filled out with Min Bane Thralls who are always good for a laugh.
Chris used yet another incarnation of those easy-to-loathe elves - Retribution. This time it was Kaelyssa - oooh, what a coincidence - fielding a ROF3 gun-toting Feat = Stealth and no charges caster with True Sight that steals camped Focus and here I am using a Stealth caster with a bunch of ranged support! How convenient! Reminds me of my first game against Luke when I'd had all of 5 games of Warmachine, was using pDenny, and he decided Kromac would be the fairest choice for a match-up. Nice one.
Kaelyssa is more than a tad annoying to face - between Banishing Ward and her "magic my stuff and something gets to move and attack" (Witch Hound) nonsense I was nearly at my wits end negotiating with a Banshee and a Daemon. Chris' love affair with Halberdiers continues and the list with bulked out with a couple of Mage Hunter Assassins (erk) and a Pain Knight (frustrating to deal with at best). I managed to scrap the Daemon early after Chris advanced under the that annoying Witch Hound thing and fluffed a shot at the McThralls while he was under Denny's Feat (RAT3 - suck it!). The Banshee was Death Chilled, Blinded, and otherwise harassed into submission before being possessed by a Machine Wraith (that joke never gets old!). Shocker - I didn't cast Parasite or Crippling Grasp all game and I was still giving him a good kicking.
None of that mattered of course because while I set about destroying his army Chris did the only right and proper thing and shot Denny in the face with his cheating damned True Sight caster. I played right into his hands by camping Focus. Sigh. Chris' attack rolls were kind and he left Deneghra bleeding hard with 8 boxes left after the first round of ranged badness.
At which point I retreated behind a wall. At which point Kaelyssa sauntered up, cast Phantom Hunter on herself (damn), and finished Denny off (damn).
Damn.
Another fine lesson in Warmachine (this being that Chris is still a better player than me - I know right? I was surprised too!). Admittedly not a stunner matchup (where's eSkarre when you need her... oh... still in her blister, unassembled and unpainted? Oh...) but nothing much in Warmachine is "fair" I gather. I also learnt that I still hate Ret (elves in ANY system just seem to really piss me off!), that Chris' dice will still rescue him after he derps epic, and I still can't build a satisfactory pDenny list.
Excuse me... I have a date with the drawing board...
