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T1
I outdrop him, but decide to let him go first, banking on a double in order to get enough distance and remove his heroes from whatever objectives he places them on before he gets too far ahead on points since only Nagash can cap them. He has a largely uneventful turn, kills 2 Mortek with a Spellportaled spell and gets some buffs up, otherwise he only moves Drycha onto the top right objective while the Treelord teleports to the bottom left woods he set out.

Nagash heals everything back to full and I get off all spells, namely Empowered Nadarite Weapons which goes off on the left unit of 20 Mortek and Nagash Protections himself.. Other than the Shrieker going off I'm not in range of anything else. I can't rreally gauge where he's moving anything so I just move up a bit going heavily towards the left and middle while I send the Stalkers to deal with the Drycha top right as they're the fastest thing I have. Left Mortek fail to charge the Treelord on the left with snake eyes.

1-1


T2
He wins the roll off, killing 2 Mortek with 1 spell again, but nearly everything else is unbound by Nagash. He teleports his TLA to the left objective while 2 of the Tree-Rev units appear 9" away from Nagash. Shooting puts 1 wound on Nagash with his bow Kurnoths but Drycha manages to kill a Stalker. For charges, only the standard Treelord makes it into the Mortek, who promptly 1-shot it (Empowered Nadarite helped a ton here, getting around 5-8 additional hits out of 17 rolls) before rolling their second batch of attacks.

My turn has Empowered Nadarite go off again on the same left Mortek unit while Nagash Protections himself again... once again everything is out of range for AB spam. Also, Stalkers gave themself re-roll charges. Stalkers just barely get into the Drycha with their re-rolls and the left Mortek get into the TLA and Tree-Revs while the middle gets into the other 5 Tree-Revs. Stalkers go first, completely whiff with the 2 wound rolls for the Falchions, but the Blades go next (buffed with Bludgeon) and 1-shot Drycha. The left Mortek fight last thanks to the TLA, so I wipe out both Tree-Rev units.. and the TLA kills 4 Mortek, but they respond (again buffed with Bludgeon) to 1-shot the TLA.

We roll off and he wins priority, but with him only having 3 squishy Heroes left, he calls it there. OBR Major Victory.


Overall Thoughts
So, I was going to run my Katakros\Arkhan list but I forgot Arkhan at home and didn't have\want to use a suitable proxy. My opponent has been trying new lists and trying to find something that works well as an all-comers list, but I think we both agreed this wasn't quite there. I was pretty worried going into this as this battleplan puts this list at a huge disadvantage as only Nagash can cap objectives and he can't move off of them.. so I knew right away I was going to have to let him go first, move up and hope to just remove his bigger heroes before they got onto objectives for longer than a turn. Nagash would have no issues staying in the middle on his 2+, 4++, 5+++, 6++++, 5++++ (Mystical terrain) so I knew he was going to stay on that the entire game. The only casualty ended up being the Stalker after healing was said and done.

Overall... yeah I like Nagash, but definitely don't think he has a place in the tournament scene, especially with an objective like this as he's the only hero I could feasibly take. He's easy to shut down\kill for a lot of armies with 1-2 good CC\Shooty hammer units to kill him in a single turn and only generating 1 RDP wasn't helpful. Arcane Command helped with this a bit, but the most RDP I had was 5 (4 if you count always using Nagash's CA) but with me always going second and him not having enough CC potential to warrant using Shieldwall I didn't need to worry about spending them too much. Nagash definitely would've done a lot more if it was any other battleplan, but it forced him to stay put and never get into combat. Anyway, thanks for reading.