I've started a new faction: Skorne. And my friends are getting into Trollbloods and Crucible Guard, so our new armies will be making some appearances here over the coming days and months.
We decided to try a game at the FLGS rather than in one of our homes. I brought Morghul, and my friend brought Ragnor.
Skorne (Masters of War)
- Master Tormentor Morghul
- Aptimus Marketh
- Cyclops Savage
- Cyclops Savage
- Cyclops Savage
- Titan Gladiator
- Paingiver Beast Handlers (max)
My opponent's Trollbloods army was:
Trollbloods (Storm of the North)
- Ragnor Skysplitter, the Runemaster
- Trollkin Runebearer
- Troll Bouncer
- Troll Impaler
- Troll Axer
- Storm Troll
- Troll Whelps
- Troll Whelps
- Troll Whelps
- Valka Curseborn, Chieftain of the North
- Troll Whelps
As you can likely tell, we were playing 15 point lists, since neither of us yet owns much of our new factions. With such small armies, we just threw a single zone in the center of the table rather than rolling a Steamroller scenario.
I won the roll and decided to go first.
Skorne Turn 1
Trollbloods Turn 1
Skorne Turn 2
The cyclops that got impaled moves back and has his boo boos medicated by beast handlers.
One of the beast handlers enrages a cyclops, and Morghul gives that cyclops abuse and admonition. The cyclops then charges forward to stab the impaler who hurt his friend. This is where things get weird.
Valka countercharges before the cyclops can attack. But then I remember admonition, and the cyclops backs away from the countercharge before it hits, then completes his charge attack. Yeah, weird. The impaler ends up wounded.
Trollbloods Turn 2
The impaler boosts a spear into Morghul, hitting. Morghul uses his only transfer to move the damage to the cyclops that had just gotten medicated.
The storm troll shoots lightning at the cyclops, and the lightning generator leaps hit Morghul and the titan. The third and final leap kills Aptimus Marketh.
The axer headbuts the cyclops and knocks him down, allowing Valka, a weaponmaster, to charge Morghul without taking a free strike. He does so and misses, then Morghul dodges back into the smoke cloud. A hit likely would have ended the game. Valka's second attack hurts a cyclops.
The brawler beats on the cyclops, but the cyclops survives. The rune bearer hex blasts the cyclops for good measure.
Skorne Turn 3
The cyclops in the back gets healed by beast handlers and charges Valka, killing him.
Morghul moves up behind the forest, feats, heals the knocked down cyclops, and it stands up and maxxes out its fury pounding on beasts.
Then another cyclops charges in, hacks away, and does lots of damage but kills nothing. Lots of whelps pop out.
The titan gladiator positions forward.
Trollbloods Turn 3
Ragnor isn't able to pull all the fury off his beasts, and both the storm troll and the axer frenzy. The storm troll smacks the axer, and the axer kills a whelp.
The brawler eats a different whelp, heals, and kills a cyclops. The impaler moves around the crater and throws a spear at Morghul, who transfers the damage to his whipping boy cyclops.
Ragnor feats this turn, which means that I'll be rolling one fewer damage die next turn.
Skorne Turn 4
The cyclops nearly maxxes his fury and thanks to Ragnor's feat barely manages to take out a whelp.
With that whelp gone, the titan gladiator slams the axer. It misses Ragnor by a half millimeter, but it does die. The gladiator takes a free strike while using his follow-up move, but ends next to Ragnor, and when Ragnor transfers titan's damage to the storm troll, the storm troll pops like a pimple. A cyclops finishes off the axer, and the other cyclops charges the impaler, failing to kill it.
Trollbloods Turn 4
The troll brawler kills the cyclops savage. The troll impaler charges out of melee to try to hit the titan gladiator and dies to a free strike from the remaining cyclops.
Ragnor attacks the titan and leaves it on three boxes.
Skorne Turn 5
The titan gladiator gets abuse from Morghul, and the abuse spell damages the Titan for two points. If it had done 3 damage, it would have killed the titan. Then Morghul heals the Titan's crippled aspects, and it beats Ragnor to death.
Victory Skorne!
Final Thoughts
- This was a pretty close game, and because we're both new to Hordes, we both forgot things. I kept forgetting about the cyclops savages' future sight, and my opponent forgot lots of Troll rules which may have let him win. But we're learning.
- The round that the trolls frenzied really hurt my opponent. I'll need to keep this in mind in the future, as I have lots of models which can add fury to enemy beasts.
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