Warmachine & Hordes Szczecin Meeting #3

Introduction

Hello friends, today we have met for the third time in local gaming store Wrota for our Warmachine & Hordes Szczecin meeting. The new awesome thing that happened was the introduction of Company of Iron, the Privateer Press skirmish set in the Warmachine & Hordes setting.
So, I have played a game with my Stryker2 list against Issyria run by Elros. Next, Gomez came with the mentioned Company of Iron and have played a game Cygnar vs Trolls.

The Lists

Cygnar - Stryker 2 - SD
Theme: Storm Division
3 / 3 Free Cards 75 / 75 Army
Lord Commander Stryker - WJ: +28
- Ol’ Rowdy - PC: 18 (Battlegroup Points Used: 18)
- Lancer - PC: 10 (Battlegroup Points Used: 10)
Journeyman Warcaster - PC: 0
- Firefly - PC: 8
Stormblade Captain - PC: 0
Rhupert Carvolo, Piper of Ord - PC: 4
Major Katherine Laddermore - PC: 8
- Major Katherine Laddermore (Continued)
Savio Montero Acosta - PC: 0
Storm Lances - Leader & 4 Grunts: 20
Storm Lances - Leader & 4 Grunts: 20
Stormblade Infantry - Leader & 5 Grunts: 10
- Stormblade Infantry Officer & Standard - Officer & Standard: 5

Retribution Army – 75 / 75 points
[Theme] Shadows of the Retribution

Issyria, Sibyl of Dawn – WJ: +29
– Chimera – PC: 8 (Battlegroup Points Used: 3)
– Banshee – PC: 18 (Battlegroup Points Used: 18)
– Chimera – PC: 8 (Battlegroup Points Used: 3)

Narn, Mage Hunter of Ios – PC: 0
Arcanist Mechanik – PC: 2
Arcanist Mechanik – PC: 2
Mage Hunter Assassin – PC: 0
Mage Hunter Assassin – PC: 0
Arcanist Mechanik – PC: 2

Mage Hunter Strike Force – Leader & 9 Grunts: 16
– Mage Hunter Strike Force Commander – PC: 4
– Soulless Escort – PC: 1
Mage Hunter Strike Force – Leader & 9 Grunts: 16
– Mage Hunter Strike Force Commander – PC: 4
Spears of Scyrah – Leader & 2 Grunts: 9
– Eiryss, Mage Hunter Commander – PC: 6
Mage Hunter Infiltrators – Leader & 5 Grunts: 8

The Game

After the total destruction and failure of my first attempt to play Stryker2 with 2 lances during the Poznań Masters Tournament I decided to give the list a second try. So here's the deployment. My plan is to run towards the enemy,  see what survives and only then consider some remaining options. Here's the deployment.

First round, Adam pushes everything forward just outside my threat ranges of Lances. In return I push forward and on the right flank kill two pesky Mage Hunters. Stryker sits behind Rowdy on the hill camping all the focus.

So this how the table looked before Elros started to slaughter my units. All in all, Issyria popped her feat and after all his activations only two lances and Laddermore remained in play. Stormblades were reduced to a 3 man unit plus the solo. All jacks were ok with Rowdy getting some light damage. It could have been worse but the dice were not in favour of the elves.
Ok, my turn. See that Chimera under the forest? Perfect. +1 Focus from Squire. Stryker gets March from Rhupert, charges the Chimera, Velocity x3 he is now in range to butcher Issyria. Overload +5. Still 3 hits are needed to finish his caster.
This is how it ended. After that we decided to try put Stryker where he was and put the Chimera a bit further away to see what would happen if I couldn't kill Issyria this turn. To make a long story short we have butchered each other. I have managed to clear the left flank completely and kill all his jacks but Elros managed to kill Stryker who was left on 0 after charging his heavy. It was fun.

Company of Iron

After Elros left Gomez came with Company of Iron rules and we played a 20pts game against each other. Martini was helping us out with the rules and learning at the same time. I will post some pictures under the text but I must say the game itself is a blast. Played on a 3x3 table that can be full of 3d terrain with a minimum amount of miniatures that activate one after another it is fast paced and full of excitement. I have been slaughtered but that does not matter because it was so much fun were going to play it for sure next time and maybe then I will post a battle report.




That would be all, see you next week for more Warmachine & Hordes Szczecin meetings reports.
The text is also available in Polish on WarRoom.pl