100th Game With Cryx

Had my 100th game with my Cryx army last May 1, 2012. That day, I played Mortenebra twice.

First was a 25 point game against Christian Melo's Strakhov which I got by mainly because he was new and the second game was against Rob's Prime Haley.

 In my game with Melo, we played Envelopment scenario but ended up more on going for assassination. I deployed first spreading my models in the center of deployment. I played a tier list with the following models:

Mortenebra
Deathjack
Reaper
Leviathan
2x Warwitch Sirens.

Melo had:

Strakhov
Beast
Min Kayazy+UA
Widowmakers
Manhunter
Yuri the Axe
Prime Eiryss
Kell Bailoch

So I ran my models forward my first turn with DJ getting Spectral Steel giving it +2 to Arm and Ghostly. He cautiously advances and shoots with his Widowmakers doing some damage. Beast is also given Superiority.

Next turn, I tried to hit Beast with the Reaper's ranged attack and hoping to Drag it and missed even with boosting the attack via Mortenebra's interface. Leviathan tries shooting the Widowmakers and miss. I then charge with the Deathjack against a Widowmaker and kill it then I attack Beast taking it down 2/3rds of its points. At this point, Mortenebra is a bit up front and exposed.

So on Melo's turn he shoots with his Widowmakers again and pEiryss hits Mortenebra with a Dirsuption bolt stripping her of her focus. Strakhov feats and charges the Leviathan, damaging it. Beast does some damage to the Deathjack but not enough as Strakhov didn't allocate focus to Beast. Kayazy now charge Mortenebra. Unfortunately, they had to go through Deathjack's Abomination range as well as Mortenebra's Terror range. They promptly failed the first test and the attack against Mortenebra failed.

My turn, Derilyss casts Spectral Steel on the Deathjack and it went for the win.

In my next game vs Rob, I played the same list, adding a Defiler and Slayer. Rob had: Prime Haley Thorn Squire ATGMs with ATGM Officer Jackmarshalled Defender Stormblades with Stormblades Officer and Standard Strangeways Journeyman Warcaster In this game, we played the Process of Elimination scenario. Rob won the die roll but decided to have me go first.

So as usual I ran most of my models forward and Mortenebra giving Spectral Steel to the Deathjack and Warwitch Sirens giving focus to some of the jacks. I stayed mainly in the middle of my side of the board.

Rob's turn, he moved Thorn forward and arced Arcane Shield on it and it moved again. Journeyman moved up and cast Arcane Shield on the Stormblades. ATGM stayed put and the Defender moved forward and shot but missed as he made a mistake in sequence of activations with Arlan.

Next turn I ran moved my defiler forward and tried spraying Thorn, missing my attacks. I then ran Mortenebra towards the Reaper and then the Reaper interfaced with Mortenebra and tried to hit Thorn and missed it. Deathjack then ran towards the Reaper. Leviathan tried shooting ATGMs and missing and the Slayer moved up. Sirens also moved up.

On Rob's turn, he shot with his Defender doing damage to the Leviathan. ATGMs move up and tried shooting at the Siren but her high defence lets her live one more turn. Haley tries to Scramble the Reaper but just stays put as the direction was towards Mortenebra whom the Reaper we in base to base with already. Stormblades moved up as well. Journeyman damages the Defiler.

My next turn, Mortenebra ran forward to get to base to base with the Reaper. The Reaper boosting via Interface hit and damaged Thorn and dragged it to itself. Followup attacks didn't do much damage. Siren tries to hit Reaper with spray and misses. Deathjack however finishes off Thorn. On the other side of the table, Defiler sprays and hits 2 Stormblades. Slayer charges and also does kills 2 Stormblade. Second Siren moves up.

On Rob's turn he feats with Haley. ATGMs shoot at and damage the Leviathan as well as kill the wounded Siren. Defender shoots and heavily damages the Reaper. Journeyman shoots at the Slayer damaging it and then the Stormblades finish it off.

Next turn, Mortenebra moves from her position risking falling damage which didn't punch through her armor. Mortenebra can't be knocked down so it was a good play. Reaper moves forward and again with Interface shoots at Defender, damaging it and dragging it to itself. Does some more damage with focus from Mortenebra and Deathjack finishes it off. Defiler sprays the Stormblades and hits a couple of them.

Rob goes for hail mary pass on his turn. First, some Stormblades die to Corrosion. Then Haley along with the Journeyman breaks the Reaper. ATGMs now try to shoot at Mortenebra and she takes some damage but cover from the wrecked Reaper keeps her Defense high enough to weather the shots. Rob concedes the game after his turn as the Deathjack will be in range of Haley. Good games and worthy opponents who will only get better with experience. When I got home and listed my games, I found out the last gamge was my 100th game. Winning it is a good bonus. Until next time!

P.S. Forgot to take pics! Arrrgh!