Butcher3

So I had a game against Butcher3, I ran eKaya,

My stalker managed to box a Khador heavy jack in one turn with Forced Evo and warping Strength,

that was mostly the only circle highlight though..

Doomreavers are stupid good, especially against circle, they just sit at the front of an army forcing you to deal with them, yet can be targeted by spells.. I will have to do some research on how to take car of this..

Butcher3 is also very good, I felt at first that his "suck you to your death" spell was a little OP, but the more I think about it I think it is just something you have to make sure you keep mind all the time.

On the point of Butcher, using a shifting stone I put a feral right in front of him, a feral with no fury managed to do 4 points of damage to him.. butcher was camping a lot of focus so there was just too much armour for the feral to handle,

points to take away for the game:

Forced Evo is awesome, I should have cycled it from the stalker to the feral.. i'll remember that for next time.

eKaya does not seem to have a lot to do with her fury, her spells seem pretty lackluster, I need to think harder about when to activate her and how to use her spell list to its full potential


As always thanks for reading :)

Loks I am running of late.

So I am really feeling eKreuger, pKreuger, eKaya, eKaya, and Mohsar.

eKreuger is quite offensive (ROF 3 lighting can be exactly what is needed, to take those last few boxes of your opponents caster) and his feat is awesome for scenario, also his feat takes away the ability to charge you in the following turn which can be a much needed reprieve for circle.

pKreuger is hands-down incredible against units, especially high def low armour units. Problem is most of the strength he is putting out is only 10, which really hurts against higher armour. His feat can be perfect for removing a unit or two at the perfect time, or even blocking charges lanes. I find I tend to rely a little to much on this trick though.

eKaya is brand new to me but her feat is incredible, and more then that, forced evolution on a stalker is one of the best options I have come up with for dealing with high armour.

pKaya was my lok, I almost feel like it is a cruel trick for the circle starter box to come with pKaya. She has very little offensive punch, but she really buffs the living warbeasts that she brings to the fight, I have found that +2Mat means I am less likely to boost to hit, and that means more fury for extra attacks or boosted damage. Her feat lets here have access to a tone of fury and that gives her a lot of potential for a roun where you need to get a lot done. I like pKaya but I feel like in a faction that has a very steep learning curve (circle), she may be a caster with one of the steep learning curves. I want to get better with her but I don't see myself taking her to a tournament any time soon.

Lastly Mohsar, he is an interesting cat all round. His giant control zone and interesting spell list make him a real threat. his ability to reduce a units armour by 2 is another ne of the few ways to help circle deal wit high armour models. His feat however is mostly useless against warmachine opponents, other then shutting down arc nodes. Against Hordes though, here he shines, it basically shuts your opponent down for a turn especially if they are running a lot of warbeasts.

As always this is just my opinion (limited experience and all), and I welcome any suggestions or comments :)

A.

First encounter with trolls

Had my first game against trolls, the blood type..

That was a bit of an experience, I ran eKaya (first time running her too..) with druids some heavies and Skinwalkers,

The skinwalkers did really well against his runeshapers, he ran Doomshaper1 with 4 units of runeshapers. He also had Mulg and a few other big guys, whom I mostly ran away from, although my shadowhorn did try un successfully to throw one of them into another one.

 so in short, super high armour, it was tough for me to handle. I reallized though that I did not use eKaya's feat when I should have, and that I need to take more advantage of my mobility to surround him, you can't run a brick of circle against a brick of trolls.. they are the better brick.. by far

revelation: Skinwalkers with UA are awesome!!

a few pics from the game courtesy of my opponent Jakub - Thanks!

I am going to start this blog going forward, I am not gonna recap earlier games though I may mention them

First up was this past Friday,

What I ran:

Ekreuger

Stalker 

Druids with UA

Winter argus 

Gallows grove

Shifting stones

Shifting Stones with UA

I had a 25point intro game against mercs, what I learned I this game was that I still have a hard time dealing with high armour, 

I was able to do a few things and in the end I pulled off an assassination win, probably for the best since there was no scenario in this game. I was playing my buddy Tristan who hasn't played in a while. We had figured it would be best to not complicated things with scenarios 

Shenanigans I was able to pull off this game.

First my druids were able to pull a heavy jack all the way to my line. I was then able to walk a Stalker up to it and kill it in one turn.

One tip I would point out, I did not charge with the stalker, instead I walked up and swung. My thinking was that if I swung I would waste the first fury since I wouldn't get the boosted damage roll.

Later in the game my shifting stones moved the stalker past a unit of dwarves with shields. That let him activate warp for berserk and kill all but one model, conveniently 1. I was behind them so the we're -2def and 2.i was behind them so they did not get the use of there shields.

He feated let him move all models in his control 8 inches towards a board edge if his choice. That let him kill my Stalker since he was sitting he ended up right in front if his heavy jack. 

So the next turn I went all about and killed his caster with e-kreuger and my winter argus.

All in all it was a good game.

Revelations:

Shifting Stones have AD..

Stalker with berserk is even better then I thought against infantry, I need to try and pull this off more..