A bit of a battle report on Gortens most recent outing.
Shae
- Mariner
- Mangler
- Mangler
The Commodore Cannon & Crew
Dirty Meg
Master Gunner Dougal MacNaile
Sea Dog Crew
Vs
Gorten
- Driller
- Gunner
- Blaster
Ogrun Bokur
Thor
- Gunner
- Rockram
Ogrun Bokur
Max Forge Guard
Ogrun Bokur
Shae ran the Manglers and the Cannons on the Mariner and Commodore cannon had a go at the Rockram, the Mariner managed to surgically remove the Rockram's Pulveriser with a cannon ball.
Gorten casts Solid Ground, and the main army advance the other side of a forest to reduce the effectiveness of those big guns Thor and co head to the nearby forest and hug the edge of the forest.
Shae continued to push the Manglers up, so I laid down rock wall to prevent a change into the Forge Guard, the Rockram took refuge from the cannons in a small wood and Thor repaired the missing arm.
A cannon shot from the Mariner directly hit an unfortunate Forge Guard (MacNaile exteneded the range of all the guns) however his comrades were nicely protected from the blast damage by Solid Ground. I ran my Driller forward to get a better position, hoping it might draw the interest of one of the Manglers, as my second rock wall prevented a charge on to the forge guard. I land a shot with a gunner on one of the Manglers and do a little damage.
Shae popped his feat and everything go a free 3" move, the Manglers moved sideways reducing the effectiveness of the Rockwall but the manglers lost interest in the forge guard and one charged the Driller, the other charged Gorten's Bokur. The Bokur proves too nimble to hit but the Driller loses it's grabber.
Thor's gunner takes a shot at Dirty Meg, who is loading the Mariners gun, and misses, the Rockram lands a shot on the Mariner with the Sledge Gun from the safety of the woods.
Gorten casts Strength of Granite on himself and loads the Driller with Focus in order to go to work on the two Manglers, one has a full damage grid, the other had taken damage from the gunner. The Driller swings around between both Manglers and Drives its Drill into the least damaged of the two, I boost to hit. Do a far bit of damage, I pay for a 2nd attack and this sees the end of the Mangler. The Driller, tries to get the 2nd Mangler but fails to get a hit. The Forge Guard charge the 2nd Mangler and, with their Reach, Swamp it. It took 8 of them landing blows but they stood over the wreckage of the 2nd Mangler at the end of their activation.
Gorten then advances, as does his Bokur and Gunner & Blaster.
Shae hangs back, as do his Sea Dogs, MacNaile gets a shot off at the Forest dwelling gunner but misses. Dirty Meg fires at and stalls the Rockram (can't run/charge). The mariner ditches it's cannon in favour of some close up work, charges and kills Thor's Bokur.
Gorten sees his opportunity, the Blaster moves up close to the Mariner and fires a shot at Dirty Meg, catching two unsuspecting Sea Dogs that are behind her, with the one focus for boosted attack and damage rolls, every one dies. The Forge Guard leave the wreckage of the Mangler and run to engage the Sea Dogs preventing them a move in the next turn. The Bokur assigned to the Forge Guard moves up to the Mariner and does a fair bit of damage with both Polearm and Shield, softening it up for Gortens Charge. Gorten does loads of damage, but the Mariner is a stubborn jack and does not go down. Gorten pops his feat with Shae just in his control range......
As both the Rockram and the Gunner would have been targeting Shae with big shooty guns at -3 def the game is called.
A good game, a very good game.
