Gauntlet-
Banded Mongoose
Well we had a great game yesterday, four player team game-
Side 1.
Jake- Exo Suits
Kevin- LAMI
Side 2.
Chris- Skinnies
Ryan- Bugs (Thats me)
So as a little Background, poor Chris and his skinnies have played well over two dozen games and probably has won about two... it isn't the army as we proxy allot, and it isn't strategy most of the time.. he really is the worst roller Ive ever seen.
This game would be fairly tough and since the exo suits were the new army to be faced (second game for them) we decided to ensure that our alien armies would be able to decimate them... the bugs took 2 brains 2 plasma, 20 fire frys, and 40 warriors...
the skinnies took a war chief and four raider units, 2 units equipped with bone shard pistols, and all units having the stealthy trait, and we positioned them in ambushes as far forward as possible... in addition he took 4 Heavy Speeders with mass drivers.
So we both took attack, a simple battle line, the board had a very large forest on one side, and the other had three large facility buildings... we got the forest, we placed the 40 warriors within the forest, and everything else was in reserve.
The enemy placed four squads of LAMI- and kept everything else in reserve - in retro spec that wasn't legal but lets move on anyways...
So they took first turn and longbow shots destroyed seven warriors...
One our turn all four skinny ambushing raiders appeared and opened up, there was no where for the humans to hide from the fire power as we had a squad between each gap in the line of facilities right at their deployment edge. When the dust settled there were the scattering remnants of about 1 and a half squads worth... The warriors moved forward and were right behind their skinny allies.
Then Round 2 came, three squads of LAMI one after another in 'gettysburg' style marched in and cleared the far edge of a squad of skinnies, and some more, including bugs... Then another squad at the far edge came in and laid in a little hurt... The Skinnies reacted and halved the enemies squads in some places.
Then 10 Exo suits flew in and destroyed all but one skinny raider model, and decimated the warriors to about the 20 mark... the War Chief dies as well
So we punched them and they punched back... and of course it was our turn now...
Plasma 1 walks on and fires and destroys a Exo Cougar Sergeant
Plasma 2 walks on and fires and destroys a Cougar Sergeant and Grizzly
Heavy Speeders 1-4 Fly in and destroy all but two Exo Suits
Brain Bug 1 walks on and ruptures a suit...
a Single Grizzly is left with half health...
Air Phase...
Three Fire Storm missiles drop in and kill one Heavy Speeder and severely cripple two others.
The Enemy turn sees more warriors die, they have been reduced to ten and are now evacuated to the woods... their job of pointless decoy fulfilled... At the end of the turn the Exo LT flys in and nukes a brain bug... some missiles hit a plasma, and only one speeder is left alive, in the woods with one hit point.
Our turn sees one plasma bug fire and destroy the Exo LT. The Warriors retreat more, the Heavy Speeder readies....
Another air phase sees a plasma hit by the last firestorm missile... The enemies turn wipes out all but three warriors and destroys the wounded plasma...
Our fourth turn sees the plasma fire and destroys a squad leader and two long bows ... a Brain comes forward and fails to rupture a squad leader, (it was a tie roll)
The 10 Fire Fries make their debut and land smack into the LAMI kill roughly... well 10 of them... then the enemy fires into them and kill about 8 more of his own men!
With the remaining men out of range of a quick fire fry jump the remaining ten jump into the woods and ready for next turn. The last skinny speeder flies out and kills the last exo suit.
With Round 5 the enemy destroys the last skinny speeder/model and then chooses to surrender to their buggy masters (in my house the LAMI and the Bugs have a long history of honorable combat and usually alliance in FFAs lol)
With this game Chris originally wanted to take tawn riders and I vetoed it, despite misgivings from other players saying the ambushing was a bad idea, it really worked marvelously... what Chris had apparently never used was the stealthy trait which is well worth the 25 points!
The Warriors existed merely to allow me to keep the juicier items in reserve, and the retreat was to preserve some squad members to prevent the enemy from getting points for wipe outs... with the Exo Suit Platoon destroyed and most long bows out of action round six would have seen the plasma destroying more LAMI and the Brain and Fries finishing off what was left.
it Was a great game and really very close...it was late at night so I didn't take the time to take pics sadly.
Side 1.
Jake- Exo Suits
Kevin- LAMI
Side 2.
Chris- Skinnies
Ryan- Bugs (Thats me)
So as a little Background, poor Chris and his skinnies have played well over two dozen games and probably has won about two... it isn't the army as we proxy allot, and it isn't strategy most of the time.. he really is the worst roller Ive ever seen.
This game would be fairly tough and since the exo suits were the new army to be faced (second game for them) we decided to ensure that our alien armies would be able to decimate them... the bugs took 2 brains 2 plasma, 20 fire frys, and 40 warriors...
the skinnies took a war chief and four raider units, 2 units equipped with bone shard pistols, and all units having the stealthy trait, and we positioned them in ambushes as far forward as possible... in addition he took 4 Heavy Speeders with mass drivers.
So we both took attack, a simple battle line, the board had a very large forest on one side, and the other had three large facility buildings... we got the forest, we placed the 40 warriors within the forest, and everything else was in reserve.
The enemy placed four squads of LAMI- and kept everything else in reserve - in retro spec that wasn't legal but lets move on anyways...
So they took first turn and longbow shots destroyed seven warriors...
One our turn all four skinny ambushing raiders appeared and opened up, there was no where for the humans to hide from the fire power as we had a squad between each gap in the line of facilities right at their deployment edge. When the dust settled there were the scattering remnants of about 1 and a half squads worth... The warriors moved forward and were right behind their skinny allies.
Then Round 2 came, three squads of LAMI one after another in 'gettysburg' style marched in and cleared the far edge of a squad of skinnies, and some more, including bugs... Then another squad at the far edge came in and laid in a little hurt... The Skinnies reacted and halved the enemies squads in some places.
Then 10 Exo suits flew in and destroyed all but one skinny raider model, and decimated the warriors to about the 20 mark... the War Chief dies as well
So we punched them and they punched back... and of course it was our turn now...
Plasma 1 walks on and fires and destroys a Exo Cougar Sergeant
Plasma 2 walks on and fires and destroys a Cougar Sergeant and Grizzly
Heavy Speeders 1-4 Fly in and destroy all but two Exo Suits
Brain Bug 1 walks on and ruptures a suit...
a Single Grizzly is left with half health...
Air Phase...
Three Fire Storm missiles drop in and kill one Heavy Speeder and severely cripple two others.
The Enemy turn sees more warriors die, they have been reduced to ten and are now evacuated to the woods... their job of pointless decoy fulfilled... At the end of the turn the Exo LT flys in and nukes a brain bug... some missiles hit a plasma, and only one speeder is left alive, in the woods with one hit point.
Our turn sees one plasma bug fire and destroy the Exo LT. The Warriors retreat more, the Heavy Speeder readies....
Another air phase sees a plasma hit by the last firestorm missile... The enemies turn wipes out all but three warriors and destroys the wounded plasma...
Our fourth turn sees the plasma fire and destroys a squad leader and two long bows ... a Brain comes forward and fails to rupture a squad leader, (it was a tie roll)
The 10 Fire Fries make their debut and land smack into the LAMI kill roughly... well 10 of them... then the enemy fires into them and kill about 8 more of his own men!
With the remaining men out of range of a quick fire fry jump the remaining ten jump into the woods and ready for next turn. The last skinny speeder flies out and kills the last exo suit.
With Round 5 the enemy destroys the last skinny speeder/model and then chooses to surrender to their buggy masters (in my house the LAMI and the Bugs have a long history of honorable combat and usually alliance in FFAs lol)
With this game Chris originally wanted to take tawn riders and I vetoed it, despite misgivings from other players saying the ambushing was a bad idea, it really worked marvelously... what Chris had apparently never used was the stealthy trait which is well worth the 25 points!
The Warriors existed merely to allow me to keep the juicier items in reserve, and the retreat was to preserve some squad members to prevent the enemy from getting points for wipe outs... with the Exo Suit Platoon destroyed and most long bows out of action round six would have seen the plasma destroying more LAMI and the Brain and Fries finishing off what was left.
it Was a great game and really very close...it was late at night so I didn't take the time to take pics sadly.
