The Menites go to town

In between games of Warhammer, I’ve managed to squeeze in some Warmachine games with a mate down at the club and the other with a mate who wants to get into it.

I’m starting to get a better idea of what I want to include in my eKreoss themed force. Plenty of Exemplar models to make use of his abilities, his feat and of course his tier.

The first game played of the two was against Davor who wanted to use my small Cygnar force. I didn’t have enough models to make a 35 pt list for Cygnar, so we thought we’d go for 28 pt lists.

The Cygnar list looked something like this:

pStryker

Thunderhead

Thorn

Charger

Gun Mage Team

Dirty Meg

Arlan Strangewayes

Not an optimal Cygnar list, but that’s all I have and we were happy with that – considering Davor doesn’t have any models whatsoever.

My list was:

eKreoss

Vanquisher

Redeemer

Knights Exemplar

Knights Exemplar Errants (base unit) with UA

Choir (base unit)

Heirophant

The game did take a while to play. Constantly looking up rules, showing rules, advising on which move would be better, phone calls, lunch at the kebab shop, etc etc – the game took about 3 and a half hours to play. Anyway, to put it simply, the Menites won, but it was good showing Davor how to play. He’s mainly a Warhammer player, so I’m not too sure if I had him hooked onto Warmachine, but at least he showed a bit of interest and had fun along the way. He advised me that if he ever got into Warmachine, he would definitely pick Cygnar as his faction.

The latter game was against Ross down at Unlimited Hobbies. After a long night shift and 2 and a half hours of sleep, I decided to come down and give him a game since he was keen on trying out his Khador force.

His list was:

eSorcha

Destroyer

Juggernaut

Kodiak

Widowmakers

Man o War Demo Corps (base unit)

Battle Mechaniks

Winter Guard (full unit) with UA

I didn’t think I would prove too much of a challenge after such little sleep. Coming up with a list was hard enough itself, but I gave it a go and found myself running a Tier 3 list.

eKreoss

Crusader

Redeemer

Repenter

Exemplar Bastions (full unit)

Exemplar Knights x2

Exemplar Errants (base unit) with UA

Exemplar Errant Seneschal

I think this was the first time I was running a list without a Heirophant. Also worth mentioning that it was my first game with the Errant Seneschal (ok, ok. It was unpainted. I feel so dirty...).

I think this was the first time I’ve come up against Widowmakers. And let me just say, they are the bane of my Knights Exemplar. I lost 5 Knights in one round of shooting and while that last Knight survived the whole game (after the round where his friends got pummelled by shooting, I hid in him behind a piece of terrain on the middle of the table), I’ll never put my Knights within range of Widowmakers again...

I had the upper hand for most of the game. I must admit that my deployment has gotten better since I started. I crowded the middle and ensured that the Bastions weren’t deployed in the flank and were with Kreoss for the most part of the game.

During the latter phases of the game, I had exposed Kreoss to his army after using his feat to allow the Exemplar units to go to town on his Kodiak, Man o Wars and Juggernaut. Ross aimed his Destroyer at Kreoss first. Luckily he missed with a boosted ‘to hit’ roll as a Power 14 (with an extra focus ready to go for damage) would’ve meant bad news. Then the Widowmakers took 3 wounds off Kreoss. Then Ross  managed to sneak in a cheeky cyclone move with Sorscha and charged Kreoss. I thought it was game over right there. But some terrible dice rolls proved the difference as Sorcsha failed to hit twice (with boosted dice).

The dice Gods can be cruel indeed. And to make matters worse, the dice where he only had 2 dice to hit (and no focus left) actually hit and scored quite a few wounds on Kreoss, leaving him with only 6 left.

I did the honourable thing in the following turn by activating only Kreoss to smack Sorscha sideways for the win.