Analyzing OTC Stryker2 List Builds

Continuing my Cygnaran armchair quarterbacking, I'm now analyzing the other popular Cygnar caster at the OTC. Haley3 was number three, but given that she was always in Gravediggers, and given that I don't personally have much interest in Haleys or in Trenchers, I'm skipping that one.

There were eight Stryker2 lists at the OTC this year, six in Storm Division, and two in Heavy Metal. Let's go through and analyze list composition.

Analyzing OTC Nemo3 List Builds

Nemo3 is the biggest caster in Cygnar at the moment. On his feat turn, his two striders and dynamo melt heavies, and all the lightning generator he can bring melts infantry regardless of its defense. There are twelve Nemo3 lists at this year's OTC, half each of storm division and heavy metal. This should give us a decent sense of what's popular in his lists. Let's dissect things.

Analyzing The OTC Cygnar Lists

The Ontario Team Championships begins tomorrow, and the lists have been posted online for a while now - enough for analysis. I've pored through the 21 Cygnar list pairs looking for trends, and I have a few things to share.

Steamroller 2018 CID - Week One

The first iteration of the newest Steamroller 2018 scenarios were released on Monday, and by now, even those not on the CID forums have likely gotten a look at what's coming. Overall, it's far less drastic of a change than we saw moving from SR2016 to SR2017. Champions will require specific themes rather than only casters, the Divide & Conquer rule is gone, and three of the six steamroller scenarios have changed.

Battle Report: Cygnar (Stryker1 Heavy Metal) vs Cryx (Denny1 Ghost Fleet)

I got together recently with a friend who hasn't played warmachine in over a year. His Cryx models were gathering dust, so he pulled out the only army he could remember: Denny1 Ghost Fleet. He had to proxy a number of models, and had to tweak the army list a good bit since Denny's warjack points have been changed since he last played, plus he'd bought a few new models that didn't exist a year ago. I just played the list with which I'm most familiar.