For my first match up I went against Harkevich and two Conquests. I won the die roll and chose to go first, and ran everything up the board. My opponent moved up but kept everything out of the alpha strike range on his turn. On my turn I set up everything to either score or charge in on my next turn. I stayed just outside of his charge ranges but was going to take some shots – lost two wights and a guardian got chunked but nothing crippled. He feated to gim himself some bonus armor. At the end of turn 2 playing wolves at our heels, the score was 2 – 2. We each scored the flag and 40mm but contested the 50mms.
On my turn I took some shots with the woldwyrd, which I decided I am going to drop from this list, and the celestial fulcrum and then feated and went all in, two guardians straight up deleted a conquest, and then one had hot rolls and took out the left side and half of the right. Due to my poor positioning, I couldn’t get the fourth guardian into the Conquest so he took out a a unit of Manowars. I used the wights to charge into his flag terrain piece to build syngery first and contest that one. At the end of my turn 3 the score goes to 5 – 3 me.
Turn four for Khador is mostly him positinoing to protect Harkevich and repearing the remaining conquest. He is able to remove my woldwyrd and 2 guardians but he can’t get the conquest into position to reach Bradigus so it is pretty much over at this point. Score goes to 7-5.
On my turn 4 I take out the conquest and some of the chaff models, I also realized just now that I can use the shifting stones to teleport the celestial fulcrim. I need to remember that going forward. I clear out everything in the way and he is left with just harkevich and a few solos so he concedes. I am officially 1-0 with Bradigus.
Main takeaway from this battle is that I think 4 Wold guardians might be overkill and I want to try swapping one out for a woldwarden at some point, but not yet. Mend and chain attack: smite gives me a resilient option into shooting that can built up synergy, or if I am able to build up synergy with the wights like normal it becomes just as brutal as a guardian. Fury management was rough, even with losing all my wights pretty fast and the guardians I wasn’t able to get it all off them the turn after my alpha strike. I removed the Woldwyrd & one stoneshaper and have added in sentry stones & mannikens and a druids of orboros.
