Sunday 21 June 2015

Tuffalo Tales

So continuing my discussion with my newest Troll additions, I recently played my first game with these guys.
Playing Captain Winter (from this very blog) I had taken a 50 pt Tier 3 EBorka list, with full Tuffalo and Horthol vs a tier 4  PSorscha Khador list (we were both practising for an upcoming tier tournament, full report will follow).
The game started with typical running, Khador mortars running to the light artillery boosting objective, full Winterguard and Joe running down one flank shadowed by Widowmakers and Beast 09. Two more kahdor heavies and a load of mechanics ran down the other flank heading straight for my objective. Borka feated and waited, not wanting to make the entire Khador army stationary Sorscha had her army take potshots at the approaching Trolls, mostly lobbing mortars at the Kreilstone unit behind the wall of beasts. Next Troll turn there was a couple of slams and a Winter Troll's spray (yay it did something!)which cleared the way to Sorscha. Borka was just within 12" and that was that (I think the fact Borka2 had pathfinder caught out Captain Winter as Sorcha was hiding behind rough terrain trying to avoid kill box), but how did the Tuffalo do?
They had snow shroud upkept then formed a wedge around Horthol, stopping them outdistancing the kreil aura was annoying but they need that ARM 19. Line breaker and bull rush was awesome, boosted impact hits and slams on annoying Winterguard was great, I didn't really have anything else to deal with that amount of high def (maybe a primaled axer). Did they earn their points back? nearly.
Horthol slamming Beast 09 helped set up the assassination but he didn't do anything else (other than bring line breaker for the Tuffalo). So they had an important impact on the game. Potential pitfalls? Lack of pathfinder but that's why we have the Fell Caller Hero.

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