Lost to Mike tonight. Made some pretttty big mistakes. What did I do wrong?

Deployed counter to Winterguard but with Desperate Pace, they ended up being faster than the Assassins I was trying to bait. Need to deploy against the Assassins next time.

Winterguard mow through both Daughters and Errants. Going to need to deal with them using Fear of God and the Avatar. Daughters behind the Avatar to clear out chaff while benefiting from Awe. They need to come at the WGI in waves of 2 until Joe is gone as DEF 16(from Piper) isn't enough.

Need to be more aggressive with Harbie.

Errants did very well against the Assassins, and would have been fine there if things had gone well on the other sides of the battle.

Forgot to run the Reckoner on turn two. This pervented me from getting him into a position where I could counter charge with him.

Overestimated the Avatar's charge range by 0.75", failed the charge, lost him. That hurt. Called it as the Assassins blocked off my Enliven lanes.

Forgot about Anna and Eiyrss. Anna could have come in and backstruck Mike's Eiryss while mine could have run across the field to disrupt, at the very least, the Spriggin that the Avatar failed to charge.

Hopefully I can get in two games next week, Mike. I need to fix my 0-2 record against your eSorcha :)

Got in three games tonight, so just the overviews and I'm pretty fuzzy on lists.

First game had eFeora against eCaine. Redeemer sets Caine on fire turn two with a decent deviation. Fire doesn't go out and he takes 7 damage. Ouch. Feeling pressured by the fire, he advances closer looking for a quick victory. Too close. Avatar and Vanquisher clear out a path through some Stormknights to give the Reckoner a clear Assault lane. Menoth wins by assassination.

Second game pitted Harbinger against eSkarre. DJ gets within 11" of the Avatar and dies. Daughters and Errants with Guided Hand run riot on Raiders and Bloodwitches. Feat pins everything but Skarre and a Seether who have no choice but to feat and run up to contest objectives. Gorman splashes the feated Seether with blackoil, Errants surround Skarre, Covenant and Avatar lock her down. Menoth wins by concession.

Third game saw Harbie versus Terminus. Daughters and Errants push up hard, securing the zone early. Terminus retaliates. He and his army kill alot of shit but it served to effectively jam things up. Nine souls but Terminus has no one contesting the middle zone. Menoth wins by scenario.

Very happy with how the lists are running. At no point did I ever feel stretched for time. Even with the mistakes that my opponents made, I feel like I could have dealt with the right choices. Another solid month of playing and maybe I'll be ready for SoCal Smackdown.

Set of 35 and 50pt lists

35pt tournament at Comicquest on Saturday. Completely forgot about it. Have thrown together this two lists for it:

 

Harbinger of Menoth

- Reckoner

Avatar of Menoth

 

Choir of Menoth (Leader and 3 Grunts)

Exemplar Errants (Leader and 5 Grunts)

 - Exemplar Errant Officer & Standard Bearer

Visgoth Juviah Rhoven & 2 Honor Guard

 

Anastasia di Bray

Gorman di Wulfe, Rogue Alchemist

The Covenant of Menoth

Vassal of Menoth

Feora, Protector of the Flame

 - Redeemer (Bonded)

 - Reckoner

Avatar of Menoth

 

Choir of Menoth (Leader and 3 Grunts)

Visgoth Juviah Rhoven & 2 Honor Guard

 

Eiryss, Angel of Retribution

Gorman di Wulfe, Rogue Alchemist

The Covenant of Menoth

Vassal Mechanik

Vassal of Menoth

The Harbie list is a straight rip of dicegod's. The Feora is something new. Pretty confident about both. Finished hastily putting together the Harbinger and reassembling the Avatar. Should be getting the Repenter and Ana from Jay tomorrow. Will need to stop by Brookhurst to get Rhoven & Co to finish both lists.


Revisions to my 50pt lists after much reading and a few games:

Harbinger of Menoth

 - Reckoner

Avatar of Menoth

 

Choir of Menoth (Leader and 3 Grunts)

Daughters of the Flame (Leader and 5 Grunts)

Exemplar Errants (Leader and 5 Grunts)

 - Exemplar Errant Officer & Standard Bearer

Lady Aiyana & Master Holt

Visgoth Juviah Rhoven & 2 Honor Guard

 

Anastasia di Bray

Eiryss, Angel of Retribution

Gorman di Wulfe, Rogue Alchemist

Rhupert Carvolo, Piper of Ord

The Covenant of Menoth

Vassal Mechanik

Vassal of Menoth

Feora, Protector of the Flame

 - Redeemer

 - Repenter

 - Reckoner

 - Vanquisher

Avatar of Menoth

 

Choir of Menoth (Leader and 5 Grunts)

Visgoth Juviah Rhoven & 2 Honor Guard

 

Eiryss, Angel of Retribution

Gorman di Wulfe, Rogue Alchemist

The Covenant of Menoth

Vassal Mechanik

Vassal of Menoth

Vassal of Menoth

Trying hard to fit in A&H in the 50pt Harbie list. Hope they're worth taking the min unit of Errants for. Would really like to have a Exemplar Senny as well but no idea where I'd get the 3pts from. eFeora is an extended version of the 35pt list, with a good selection of jacks to deal with the things Harbie doesn't want to. Will have both finished once I get everything for the 35s tomorrow. Good stuff.

Harbinger 50pts v1 vs Steve's pIrusk

Kommandant Irusk

 - Beast-09

 - Devastator

 - War dog

Great Bears of Gallowswood

Iron Fang Pikemen (Leader and 5 Grunts)

 - Iron Fang Pikemen Officer & Standard

Man-o-war Demolition Corps (Leader and 4 Grunts)

Widowmakers (Leader and 3 Grunts)

Winter Guard Infantry (Leader and 9 Grunts)

 - Winter Guard Infantry Officer & Standard

Kovnik Jozef Grigorovich

Highlights

- A&H took out the Great Bears. DEF 17 with Awe makes them amazing.
-Eiyrss distracted a full unit of Winterguard and Joe, taking them out of the game for two or three turns. Should keep her back for DEF 19...
- Forge Guard got lucky and took out Beast 0-9's Ice Axe but with Murderous he still slowly killed them all. They failed to damage the ARM 25 shield jack. Lady A and/or Gorman would have made a big difference here. Need to remember that they're DEF 12/14 because of the debuffs.
- Reckoner missed a charge into a forest to get Beast, bad pre-measurement on my part. He didn't kill much with tramples and the free strikes weren't worth it.

- Devestator is Steve's MVP without doubt. ARM 25 and bulldoze is very hard to deal with.

Thoughts

- E'rybody needs to stay together.
- I almost/maybe kinda won after failing a charge with a heavy against another heavy. That's pretty badass.

50pt Harbinger list and discussion

Harbinger of Menoth

 - Reckoner

 - Vanquisher

Choir of Menoth (Leader and 3 Grunts)

Daughters of the Flame (Leader and 5 Grunts)

Exemplar Vengers (Leader and 2 Grunts)

Horgenhold Forge Guard (Leader and 9 Grunts)

 - Attendant Priest

Lady Aiyana & Master Holt

Eiryss, Angel of Retribution

Gorman di Wulfe, Rogue Alchemist

Rhupert Carvolo, Piper of Ord

The Covenant of Menoth

Vassal of Menoth

 Discussion here.