Journal of a Warmachinist, 15th Entry

I just got a hefty acquisition of Khador additions today. Barring any lists or what have you, my single warcaster (Sorscha) can head off into battle at 769 points! And Gorman and the Widowmakers should still come soon!

Next time, I'll be getting those Khador tokens, too. ^_^ Maybe next payday. Then bag Irusk and Vlad as well.

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Journal of a Warmachinist, 16th Entry

Game 1: Kim's Khador vs. Emp's Cryx

Emp played his warjacks defensively behind the hill, away from my Bombards. After much outmaneuvering, I got Sorscha to pop her Icy Gaze feat, freezing Deneghra and a big lot of his army. That and I had Eiryss and my Manhunter very much in assassination range. All Deneghra could have done is cast some spell, but my trio was too close already. The following Khador turn, I would have Sorscha boost up a Freezing Wind making the Cryx warcaster stationary again, then have Eiryss and the Manhunter charge (bayonet charge in the case of Eiryss) at her.

Emp conceded and Khador was at a good start.

Game 2: Kim's Khador vs. Pork's Magnus Mercenaries

Playing at a different table, I got to set my forces up behind a big hill, all the while everyone was jeering me about Page Five LOL! I would have brainlessly blundered forward, but I was wary of that Obliterator Cannon he carried. On Pork's second turn, everyone was out in the open, and Magnus wasn't even screened. I generously provided my Behemoth some focus on his Bombard subcortex and proceeded to pummel the mercenary warcaster. AFter two strong hits, Magnus was still alive! But my WG Mortar were already perched on top of the hill after my first turn. Taking his third Bombard (this time POW 16 pa!), Magnus fell, and his five warjacks went inert.

Second turn kill. Not bad against someone who's been playing a lot more Warmachine than I have. And Lito was there. Pork never heard the end of that one LOL!

Game 3: Khador (Ace) and Magnus Mercenaries (Kim) vs. Cryx (Joel and Fred) -- "The first ever Warmachine multiplayer game ever played in the Philippines"

Honestly, I wanted to lose the game so badly. To be brutally honest, I was pissed when Ace mishandled my Eiryss. After the countless "ingatan mo yan ha" and "pag nasira yan, bilhan mo ako ng bago", he perched the Eiryss model on top of a two-level terrain, probably because he emulated by deployment during Game 2. When Eiryss fell and her arm broke off, I wanted to hit him. Then Eiryss fell a second time. I wanted to hit him even more. Call me mean, but I spent a lot of time and effort onto THAT model! And here's this guy that I just met a while ago, wanting to borrow my models. And he let my preciously-painted model fall! That's just so fuckin' against the goddamn Ten Commandments!

So there I was. Pissed as hell. Playing with the dude that nearly ruined my day. So I just Page Five'd it and had Magnus and his troops charge forward. I did get to use the Obliterator. Very nice. In some unforeseen circumstance, I had a Nomad engage a bonejack at one point in the game but having very high DEF, the small critter came out unscathed. After several turns, I had Magnus and another warjack hit by some Cryx spell and knocked down courtesy of Fred. He even left the table to park his car right after that move. I mean, what else could I do after that, right?

But I did manage to pull off something. The engaged Nomad was still in Magnus control area, and Fred's Deneghra was close enough to be engaged by that Nomad. Receiving three focus from Magnus, the Nomad ignored the bonejack it was engaged with (got damaged in the process), and advanced to the Cryx warcaster. The boosted onslaught put Deneghra to the ground.

Joel conceded after. Facing two opponents will not turn out to be a fun game (more like facing me with two armies). Fred came back. "What happened?" "Your Deneghra was killed by a Nomad." "HOW?"

Game 4: Kim's Khador vs. Joel's Cryx

This one was an eye-opener for me. I may have Jacob's Escalation but I never read on Goreshade. I know he can summon Bane Thralls and do a teleport thing with his units. But I didn't know he has buffs like avoiding being targeted by spells or ranged weapons, or a large area spell which prohibits enemy feats and spells!

He managed to charge at my Behemoth with his Bane Thralls, doing some heavy damage. Seeing how pointless it would be to whack away at the Bane Thralls surrounding it, I made the Behemoth trample towards another unit of Bane Thralls, hoping to get into melee range with Goreshade (which I missed by a half inch!). The Behemoth fell under a barrage of weapon master fury!

Joel managed to charge at Sorscha with some Bane Thralls, reducing her to 4. But I managed to bring her back up after careful dissection of Joel's army. Primarily I was just lucky. The Kodiak would not have been able to Vent Steam if it was totaled by the Bane Thralls that charged it (good thing I ended it's move in some difficult terrain). The Vent took out three of those nasty bastards! Eiryss came into the same woods and cleaned up the last Bane Thrall.

So technically, we didn't have a set objective. So he pushed for just keeping Goreshade alive, moving him as far from my models as he can. I flanked out Eiryss, the Kovnik and the Kodiak with Sorscha bringing up the center. On the turn that Joel gave up his anti-feat spell, I came in with Sorscha and held him with Icy Gaze. The rest is history.

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And since this is my FIRST ever OFFICIAL Warmachine game (since no proxies were used), I'll start my personal ranking now.

Games played: 4
Wins: 4
Losses: 0
Draws: 0

Opponents:
VS Cryx: W3 L0 D0
VS Khador: W0 L0 D0
VS Cygnar: W0 L0 D0
VS Menoth: W0 L0 D0
VS Mercenaries: W1 L0 D0

Armies played:
Khador: W3 L0 D0
Mercenaries: W1 L0 D0
Cryx: W0 L0 D0
Cygnar: W0 L0 D0
Menoth: W0 L0 D0

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