Regrets On A Girl That Floats…Part 2

When last we discussed my escalation tournament, I was was highlighting my complete lack of Devout in this list. Devouts are particularly useful with everyone’s favorite pubescent flying godhead. The humble Devout has some really useful abilities:

Spend a focus and you can’t cast spells at Harby (pay close attention to this one)

Shoot at the Harby and the Devout jumps in front and takes one for the team.

Stop in it’s melee range and eat a +2 attack P+S 13 boosted damage roll before you get to attack the Harby.

Now, having said that, it was time to play Trolls…Grissel to be exact. My buddy Dallas and I have the most epic battles. We met that Wednesday in the 500 pt round. For those of you not familiar with Grissel, she has the fell call known as Hoof It. This call makes that slow and ponderous troll army really fast. Top of turn 2, I had 3 cav surrounding the Harby. He kind of bet the show on this gambit…that was when Dallas discovered Cataclysm. After throwing down two boosted cataclysms, all three of his cav were dead.

It wouldn’t be much of a lament if the story ended here…because it didn’t. The endgame came when ended up with a Dire Troll Mauler up against my Reckoner getting ready to hit the Harbinger the next turn. Oh, and the Mauler was completely healthy. I had only one choice, I needed to take Harby into melee and beat the beast to death. My only issue was that I had activated Doc already in an attempt to heal Harby, and I didn’t move before the action so I trapped the easiest way to the Mauler that would have kept blocked charge lanes. I ended up having to move completely around Doc, and I didn’t have enough movement to get Harby back under cover behind my Reckoner.

Oh, I completely destroyed the Mauler, but I only had 4 focus left when it died.

Grissel charged in, and ruined me. I had already Martyred a couple times, and so I was not at peak wounds…

Now…This was a warning sign that I didn’t have my Devout and I was going to pay. That little 69 pt Jack could have easily be up in the way of the charging Grissel, and then…it would have been one very dead, fat, fell caller.

I felt at this point I had made a really fatal mistake, and because my lists were all in…I couldn’t fix it…but more about this in Part 3…Frozen, Not Stirred.