A Week in Winions -2-

Another week and another week of building and refining my Minions lists for the upcoming Summer Series of Steamrollers.  The lists remain unchanged in general and this week had some tough opponents!


Game 1: Maelok vs Skarre3 (Banes Banes more Banes) : Scenario Win

Turn 1 on both sides was pretty standard with running into position.  Maelok won the roll to go first which is a massive advantage against a Bane list where we both share the same threat ranges.

Going into turn 2, the Husks who had taken up residence behind the central forest ran to engage the front line.  On the left, and middle, they ran hand in hand with Croak Raiders to stop the Banes from just charging/advancing past the Husks since they have Ghostly.  The idea here is to pen in the Banes near their flag and stop them getting into the zone as much as possible, and also, to allow the Posse the turn after to surround the flag to stop Skarre from scoring.  A Boneswarm with Swarm charged in too.  Reason being, if Skarre wanted to come forward to try shoot the models behind the frontline, she'll be in Swarm range with an effective -2 to Hit and with the Posse under Dirge of Mists, making them Def16.   On the right, a single Husk who had been camped out behind the wall ran to a position where if he died, the resulting AoE hazard would scupper a lot of Bane movement.  On the right, i knew i had to sacrifice Posse as i didn't have the same resources as the left.  The first row were established to again try crowd out the zone, with the back rank set up behind the wall for protection and in range to just be able to walk over and hit Banes without the need to charge.

A Week in Winions -1-

So while the title says a week, i've actually had multiple games since my last blog post.  A lot of the games are with people who were practising for certain tournaments like the Welsh Nationals and decided not to blog a lot of the games to protect certain list secret tech etc.  Or so I use the excuse, truth be told, I've just been way too busy.  Anyway, to the games I've had most recently.