Resurgence Training and Battle Report

[Dyoria]

In preparation for resurgence I ran what I thought at the time was going to be my 35 point list this weekend. (Turns out the list works REALLY well, but needed a minor tweak). I ran the following:

nStryker
Lancer
Stormclad
ATGM+UA
Rangers
Stormblades + UA
Jr
Stormsmith

Vs a really good Khador player who ran:

nSorsha
Spriggan
Kodiac
MoW Demolition Corps (3)
Iron Fang Pikemen (6)
Widowmakers
WG Mortar
Manhunter
Manhunter

I managed to win the dice-off and elected to go second.

First Turn:
Khador: He moved his widowmakers away from my rangers and advanced everything forward. nSorsha cast fog of war.

Cygnar: Rangers ran from one flank to the other (got to love that 14" run) and setup a mark target on the widowmakers. ATGMs put a CRA into a man hunter on the left flank smooshing him. Jr ASed the Lancer which moved up. Stryker arced earthquake through the lancer to knock down 3 widowmakers, 2 MoW and the Spriggan (best EQ EVAR), and sniped the stormblades. Stormblades assaulted the widowmakers, fell short (duh! :)) but 4 of them where within 10" for their assault (what I wanted to do in the first place). When the aoe's cleared, the widowmakers were no more.

Second turn:
Khador: MoW get up, run up a hil. Kodiak advances. Sprigan gets up advances. Manhunter advances besided MoW. Mortar kills three rangers (who fail ld test) and a stormblade (ya I was stupidly bunched.)

Cygnar: Stormblades charge MoW and Manhunter. Wipe them out on assault (I was rolling like a demon). Stryker knocks down the spriggan with EQ again, casts AS on the Stormclad and feats. Stormclad shoots it, does a little damage, kills an ironfang with the electroleap. ATGMs fire 7 thunderbolt shots at the kodiak, push him back about 6 inches and finally knock him down. Stormsmith arcs lightning on the kodiak but rolls a 9! Jr casts AS on the Stormblades and takes a pop at the Spriggan, does 1 point of damage.

Third Turn:
Khador: Sorcha feats and windwalls back. Ironfangs charge my stormblades and kill 2 (they had AD and the Feat on them). Spriggan charges my Stormclad with full focus and does 0 damage. Kodiak vents and kills my stormsmith. Mortar nails 4 ATGMs.

Cygnar: Shakeoff the stormclad. It chews through the Spriggan, leaing it with 6 boxes and a working lance (of all the bloody systems). Rangers still fail test. Stormblades and that were not hit by the feat kill 3 of the 5 remaining ironfangs. Jr kills 4th ironfang. Stryker EQs kodiak again and then I go and give my opponent that game by charging the spriggan (I wanted to disrupt it). Roll snake eyes. ATGMS try to finish off spriggan's lance to no effect.

Khador: 3 focus spent on spriggan and somehow, stryker survives with 5 wounds left. Then I forgot that sorsha can charge after windwall, after some spectacular rolling, she connects and did 6 damage, killing Stryker.

Unit of the match: Stormblades, they killed 17 points of my opponents list.

Army worked really well. The combination of stryker's feat and AS where you know you are going to get it is AMAZING.

Lesson: Must practice more. Must remember that nStryker is NOT DARTH. :)

[whats82]

pStryker is a lot more defensive support than darth for sure.

When I play him, I love shoving ARM25 stormlances or ARM28 rowdy in my opponent's face. It almost lives up to the name of the feat.

[slinkdawg]

Stormblades are pretty darn good now. I plan on running 2 units with the UA on one unit. Running them with a Stormclad is even nastier.

With pStryker, I would likely just Arcane shield both units, and EQ once or twice a turn. Using the feat early on would help them to get upfield, and it sounds like you dealt with the widowmakers pretty handily.

With EQ making pretty much any target hittable, are rangers really neccesary? Seems like a ton of support with a caster who is already awesome at supporting.

[Dyoria]

At 35 points, I have to admit that the rangers are somewhat redundant with nstryker EQ. However I have to get them in for 50 and 75, when there will be much more in the list.

I could bounce them and a stormsmith to 50 points and put a hunter in at 35.

[Bewie]

I like that for your 35pt list, I think I am going to steal this from you and try it out. :)

[Jiub]

A Squire would be a godsend for your list. The extra control area helps with arcing quakes and the feat, and the extra focus lets Stryker upkeep a spell and chuck out two quakes. Too valuable to pass up really.

[ZenBattleLust]

Thanks for the write up. Doing a write up helps the community, by giving us something tactical to talk about, but also helps the person writing it, by forcing them to think about the battle and what could have gone better. Much appreciated.

From the picture of the battle in my mind, it really looks like you could have tried to disrupt the spriggan via stryker's gun. Assuming you rolled the same crappy snake eyes, the spriggan might have been able to get to stryker and do some damage, but Sorscha probably wouldn't have been able to get close enough to finish the job, giving you another turn to kill her.

I'll second the squire suggestion. If you dropped the rangers, you could have room for a squire and another 3 points worth of solo goodness. Eiryss is quite good with Stryker, disrupting knocked down jacks so they can't stand, taking sniped shots at knocked down casters, etc.

[Templar Coyote]

I'm looking at the Haley's for this to lock people down with the feat (or try) very interesting report; thanks!

[Dyoria]

@Templar Coyote
Ya, I was tossing about the idea of the Haleys too, especially considering it would be eHaley in a tournament vs nothing but Warmachine. In the next few weeks I have a lot to test.

@Jiub
I did find myself missing a squire for the extra 2 inches of control on my feat turn (would have saved my Stormsmith, 1 stormblade and 2 ATGMs).

@ZenBattleLust
I completely forgot he had a pistol! :) Stupid boxset version! Hehe. I can get a squire without dropping the rangers. I posted in the list forum, my updated (thought about it during my commute) list. Dropped the Stormclad for an Ironclad (to upgrade to Ol'Rowdy later) and added a GMCA and another Stormsmith to fill out the points. I can grab a squire instead of a GMCA. (Although I am sorta determined to prove he is worth it since he got AD... :) ). Been thinking of also droping the rangers and a stormsmith until 50 points and swapping in a hunter to help deal with heavies. The list as it is can handle 2 heavies, Im not sure if it can handle 3.

[Defenstrator]

Yeah, Stryker's gun is actually gold. I've had games where I had mainly a melee force and put Snipe on Stryker while also running Rheinholdt. Earthquake + two magic disruption shots can stall the Menoth jack wall pretty nicely. Untill they start auto-including the Covenant that is.

[Templar Coyote]

I'm toying with eHaley TAing and TKing to charge a poor trencher, popping feat and trying to catch lots of guys first turn in their deployment zone (could maybe TK the trencher out of melee and "fail" the charge but eh.) It may or may not work, but it seems fun to try

[dergliss]

I'd not only keep the Stormsmith in the list, but I'd try to fit at least one more since disrupting a KD'ed 'jack is great control.