OBR vs. Sylvaneth - Focal Points
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Allegiance: Ossiarch Bonereapers
- Legion: Petrifex Elite
Leaders
Liege-Kavalos (200)
- General
- Trait: Mighty Archaeossian
- Artefact: Godbone Armour
Mortisan Soulmason (140)
- Artefact: Gothizzar Cartouche
- Lore of Mortisans: Reinforce Battle-shields
Mortisan Boneshaper (130)
- Lore of Mortisans: Drain Vitality
Mortisan Boneshaper (130)
- Lore of Mortisans: Empower Nadirite Weapons
Battleline
20 x Mortek Guard (260)
- Nadirite Blade and Shield
20 x Mortek Guard (260)
- Nadirite Blade and Shield
20 x Mortek Guard (260)
- Nadirite Blade and Shield
Units
6 x Necropolis Stalkers (400)
- 2x Dread Falchions
Battalions
Mortek Shield-corps (120)
Endless Spells / Terrain / CPs
Bone-tithe Shrieker (30)
Nightmare Predator (40)
Soulstealer Carrion (20)
Total: 1990 / 2000
Extra Command Points: 1
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 106
Their List (from memory, General and Spells may be incorrect)
Allegiance: Sylvaneth
- Glade: Harvestboon
Mortal Realm: Ghyran
Leaders
Spirit of Durthu (340)
- General
- Artefact: Ghyrstrike
Treelord Ancient (300)
- Artefact: The Silent Sickle
- Deepwood Spell: Regrowth
Branchwych (80)
- Artefact: Acorn of the Ages
- Deepwood Spell: Throne of Vines
Battleline
10 x Dryads (100)
10 x Dryads (100)
10 x Dryads (100)
Units
3 x Kurnoth Hunters (200)
- Scythes
3 x Kurnoth Hunters (200)
- Scythes
3 x Kurnoth Hunters (200)
- Scythes
Battalions
Forest Folk (140)
Free Spirits (140)
Endless Spells / Terrain / CPs
Umbral Spellportal (70)
Total: 1970 / 2000
Extra Command Points: 2
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 104
T1
He outdrops me and chooses to go first, immediately setting up 2 more woods for 3 total. Otherwise, he just runs everything forward (with his battalion letting the Hunters\Durthu auto-run 6 for free) and waits outside ~6" of my Stalkers.
I fail almost all of my spells aside from a single Soul-Guide and the Carrion. I UA the left Mortek Guard to make a 5" charge while the left Boneshaper stays on the home objective. He had no Tree-Revs and I didn't see anyway of him getting Woods setup behind me so I knew this side of the board was won from the get-go. For charges\combat, the Stalkers get into Durthu and 1 unit of Hunters while the left and middle Mortek make their charges into their respective Dryad units. I throw out +1 attack on the Stalkers and Durthu fails to make them fight last, so I put 2 Dread Falchions and 2 Blades into Durthu for him to take 10 damage total; out of the 8 Dread Falchion hits, only 2 managed to get through and I will 100% blame this on the fact I didn't get out the Shrieker. The last 2 Blades kill 2 Hunters and the left Mortek Guard wipe out the Dryads and the middle Mortek bring their Dryads down to 7 (units of 2 and 5). In return, Durthu and the remaining Hunter kill 2 Stalkers. The Carrion goes off for it's 1 MW within 6" ability.
6-5 OBR
T2
He wins priority, fails his spells but manages to make the Stalkers fight last which allows him to finish off all but 1 of them.. and that Stalker (Dread Falchions) manages to completely wiff all 3 attacks. In the end, the middle Dryads have 1 left but it runs from Battleshock, prompting the Carrion to roll again for another 3 to do another 1 MW to everything in range, which is enough to kill Durthu.
At this point my opponent concedes for an OBR Major Victory.
Overall Thoughts
I wanted to try something other than Katakros + Crawler this time and I gotta say I think I prefer it.. kinda. Having Katakros' 36" +1 to hit bubble and -1 to hit on any unit is great and I really felt it when I didn't get that +1 to hit from the Shrieker out.. especially on those 4+ to hit Falchions, of which I'm not 100% if I regret modeling them that way or not. I'll chalk it up to new model syndrome and see how they do next time. Anyway, I still had ~6 RDP but I can't say if this felt alright since I never really got to use much of them and only the Stalkers took any wounds this entire game. Speaking of them, despite the Falchion-fiasco I really like them a lot and they obviously still did a great job; fighting last in the end is what really did them in.
As for my opponent, I think he played way too aggressive by running everything right up to and allowing me to charge his Durthu, although he said he was banking on getting that 4+ to make the Stalkers fight last and that could have definitely changed the course of the game. That said... I did have my 20 Mortek + Liege sitting there as backup and I had 40 Mortek Guard that would've swept to the right to help clean up.
I also have a Harvester built, so next time I may try out Harvester + Crawler with Katakros, but we'll see since I've really got a good impression with this list.. even though my spells didn't work 😉
Anyway, back to painting. Thanks for reading.
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