750pts EButcher vs Karchev

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The game took place on a 4" by 4" table (or a pool table) terrain included a water feature in the centre on the butcher side of the table.

Karchev (750pts)

• Karchev
• Kodiak
• Kodiak
• Behemoth
• Max Mekaniks
• Greylords
• Widowmakers
• Aiyanne and Holt
• Man Hunter
• Yuri the Axe
• Eiryss, Mage Hunter of Ios.

EButcher (750pts)

• EButcher
• Juggernaught
• Juggernaught
• Widowmakers
• Greylords
• Aiyanne and Holt
• Doom Reavers
• Drakuhn with mount (NOT DISMOUNT!)
• Ogrun Bokur
• Yuri the Axe
• Manhunter
• Manhunter
• Eiryss, Mage Hunter of Ios.

Turn 1 (Karchev)

Karchev gets first turn and casts tow and Iron curtain on the Kodiaks. He moves an slingshots the jacks to his front. Eiryss moves around and shoots dead a Doom Reaver. Widowmakers run into the woods. Behemoth advances and bombards the juggernaughts for deviations but for no effect. Kodiaks advance and vent, Yuri and Manhunter move onto jacks flanks. Aiyanne and Holt go invisible and advance. Cloud templates go up and cover jacks.

Turn 1 (Butcher)

Rolls a 7 for focus and takes a gamble and tries to deviate a unnatural disaster onto the widowmakers. Doesnt work and it lands in a heap for no damage. Does another gamble and uses Howl but the widows pass. Juggernaughts advance and form a wall alongside the butcher who is hugging against the water. Bokur moves up in front to screen butcher. A&H go invisible and try and shoot dead the Widowmakers but they are stupid defence and so no go. Doom Reaver get a charge order and try to get to Eiryss, the closest person was out so instead everyone else ran. They either engage or hide behind the obstruction in the top right corner. Eiryss gets scared and flees. A Manhunter runs up with the Reavers to threaten the flank. Widowmakers advance slowly and plink the Kodiak for three damage. Manhunter 2 runs to be a distraction in front of the warjacks. Eiryss runs forwards towards the jacks but stays just out of their melee threat ranges. My Drakun runs behind the Butcher. Yuri forgets to activate, doh!

Turn 2 (Karchev)

Karchev puts one on Kodiak A, upkeeps tow and uses Arcantrik Turbine. Widowmakers clear four hits off Jugger A. The greylords close on the manhunter and blast him with two frostbites. A&H cap two doomies in short order. Manhunter charges straight into Jug A and does a bit of damage. Yuri charges into the Bokur and rolls well on flying steel killing him and even getting in on the butcher for two points of damage. Karchev pops feat, uses unearthly rage and swings around droping Kodiak A and the behemoth in the face of my army. Behemoth charges and disables Jug A in about two hits. The Kodiak charges and gets his chain attack off one Jug B but doesnt disable him even with the extra attack. Kodiak B pops smoke in front of Karchev to stop Eiryss from shooting at him.

Turn 2 (Butcher)

Butcher rolls for five focus and keeps it all. He activates first, and realising hes not going to get much better shots at using his feat he pops it now, advances and wipe out yuri, and does two hits on the KD Jug B and the kodiak, repeat until he is down too two focus before stopping afterwhich the Kodiak is crippled and the jugger is dead. The Drakun, ride by attacks the Kodiak and totals it and finish his move traveling closer to Kodiak that is screening the Karchev but not engaging it. A&H moves up too the manhunter and he virtuso's it with his melee attacks and tries again to shoot the widows but for no effect. The greylords move onto the Juggernaught wrecks and freeze the Behemoth with frostcage. Doomies are out of formation and so the unit leader tells himself to run and he rushes straight into the middle of A&H, Greylords and Mekanics. The others advance or run so that we have cohercency and a single doom reaver cuts down a greylord. Yuri charges Kodiak B and takes out a column and a bit, Manhunter B runs off to give some support to the doom reavers. Eiryss now activates and moves around the cloud to get a shot at Karchev but doing so makes he is not in range after she scrounges for LOS. The widows who should have activated after Yuri stand and shoot at the Kodiak and put it really close to losing its movement, i missed once but steal saves Yuri, one also targets the unit of the mecaniks and kills him so they cant rally. The Drakun gets all my three rage tokens and carenns into Kodiak B and puts a bit of damage on it but somehow misses with an attack and pretty much all systems but Right arm.

Turn 3 (Karchev)

Karchev unearthly rages after and steps over to kill the other Yuri. A&H activate with Aiyanne advancing towards the Drakun and going to cast harm on it. She misses and also misses the kodiak fortunately, Holt snaps a doom reaver dead. . I dont remember what the Kodiak did but i know it didnt kill the Drakun but he did cap the manhunter. Widows cant get a really good shot at the grey lords who have DEF 18 behind the wrecks and so they concentrate on unmounting the drakun and drop it too three hp but not dead. Two greylords go gutsy and advance into melee with the greylords and actually manage to kill one of them.

Turn 3 (Butcher)

Butcher gets like three fury and so casts fury on the Drakun and backs off behind the wrecks. A&H Harm the Behemoth and shoot the widows but dont make a kill. The Drakun ride bys and gets a one and gives a wack to the Kodiak before steping back towards the butcher and the greylords. The last doomreaver moves out of cover and engages one of karhevs greylords and Holt and bezerks both dead, greylords flee. The widows close in on Aiyanne who stepped out of her invisiblity and killed her in about three attacks, the last plinks the kodiak. Eiryss takes her much feared shot and cripples the Karchev. Butcher goes moves in front of the Widowmakers and puts fury on the Drakun and slaps the behemoth for some damage with a single attack before the Drakun comes back and does a ride by on the behemoth levelling it with some help. One of the butchers greylods advance and frostbite a widow, the other tries to cloud Aiyanne but rolls bad and misses.

Turn 4 (Karchev)

The Mekaniks flee out of the battlefield and the Greylord rallies. The three widows shoot and kill Aiyanne despite holts quickdraw and dismount the Drakun. Karchev who was disrupted charges Eiryss but only gets in with the axe and misses, Kodiak B runs into melee with Eiryss as well.

Turn 4 (Butcher)

Eiryss backs out and provokes two freestrikes but dodges both. She then shoots Karchev with a disruptor bolt and misses... damn. Widows back up and all attack the kodiak killing movement but it is still operational. The Butcher finally gets to charge something and freaks out the widow makers before cutting two down, moving one inch into the forest and finishing off the unit then drifting back out. The on foot Drakun and Holt advance or run toward Karchev and the two Greylords drop two blizzards on the last both Karchev and the Kodiak. I forget the lone doomreaver in the back of the board.

Turn 5 (Karcbev)

Down to about three models things are looking bleak for Karchev. He has all his focus and drops a fissure on Eiryss rolls well to hit and kills her, a Eruption blows up the unit leader of the Widows.

Turn 5 (Butcher)

Butcher gets five focus and runs towards Karchev but it will take some time to get their now. Most my army shoots or moves towards Karchev but the big guy is still in good shape.

The game continues to play out with Karchev making a bold effort killing off all the widows and even finishing off the unmounted Drakun before he came face to face with a focus flaming butcher who took him appart with Lola in a brutal one on one.

Very intense game, massive casulties both sides. A&H on both our sides accounted for little actual sucess but they had a tough time chewing on their foes respectively. The warjacks all died in a big heap on one side of the table as after the Kodiak and Behemoths met each other they all died a couple of turns later. The other Kodiak limped away before getting put down by the Drakun.

These lists are going to be our final variations for the Gencon Hardcore in Brisbane later in the year but neither of us actually played to Hardcore rules. It was a fun game and very close with the two angry men breaking hearts and snaping bones in this epic throwdown.