My list (Borka - Drunk and Disorderly T1):
Borka Kegslayer
* Earthborn Dire Troll
* Rök
Trollkin Champions (Leader and 4 Grunts)
* Skaldi Bonehammer
Fell Caller Hero
Secluded Savage (League Model)
His list (what I remember, I left my notes at home)
Lich Lord Asphyxious
* Deathripper
* Stalker
* Seether
* Skarlock Thrall
Bane Thralls (Leader and 9 Grunts)
Mechanithralls (Leader and 9 Grunts)
* 1 Brute Thrall
Necrosurgeon & 3 Stitch Thralls
Pistol Wraith
3 Scrap Thrall
Warwitch Siren
So off the bat it is my 11 models versus his 37 - I was a bit concerned. We ended up playing one of the League Scenarios, Domination. Without getting too into detail, it involves trying to get members of your Battlegroup into your opponents half of the Control Zone and then surviving your opponent's turn to score control points. This is done through an 18" x 24" pass in the middle of the table though, the other 30 inches are 15" x 6" Mountain Wall obstructions.
Vastly outnumbered, defending a mountain pass meant that Borka and his drinking buddies were going to play "300" while they tried to push forward and win by Scenario.
I am not going to go into every turn here because this game lasted a LONG time, we went through a number of turns where it felt like my opponent was just waves crashing against the Champion shore. However I will relate two great moments for me.
When the Mechanithralls charged, they got practically every piece into melee with the Champions + Secluded Savage. Skaldi Counter-Charged the Brute Thrall, not wanting him to stick around, and then killed off a Mechanithrall. My opponent's second attack landed on the Secluded Savage, unfortunately for him the Savage was not killed/knocked down so he took his Retaliatory Strike, which hit and killed a model, so using Killing Spree he moved 1" and took another swing... and killed another model. Suffice to say, by the time my opponent activated his next unit, only one Mechanithrall was still in play.
The second great moment for me was my opponent's reaction to this, which was to charge he Bane Thralls in. They did not manage to kill any of the Iron Flesh/Defensive Line Champs, but did kill Skaldi, Kenny, my Fell Caller and the Secluded Savage. There was a bit more he did, but it only ended up killing a single Champ. He passed the turn and Borka feated, hit Seether twice and cast Iron Flesh on himself, Rök trampled into a nice, perfect space in the middle of the Bane Thralls. He killed four on the trample and another four with Berserk attacks, the Earthborn also charged Seether and created some.
At this point, my graveyard looked like this:
My opponent's looked like this:
The table at this point (well, right before the Earthborn scrapped Seether):
Borka was a little open at this point, but at Def 17, Armor 19 (21 in melee) with 2 Transfers available, I was feeling pretty confident that he could survive the turn.
On my opponent's turn, he popped feat and sent in some Bane Thralls at Rök and Borka. He did some damage to Rök, and three came in at Borka - two missed, third one hit like a truck and Borka transferred to Rök, killing him. The Stalker also came in at Borka, doing so damage but not killing him.
Back on my turn, I felt the best option was to try and score some Control Points, try as I might I needed Borka out of the way to get at the Stalker though, so Borka took a free strike (at Arm 21) and...
Failed his tough roll, Cryx wins!
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