Fatality

The time and place of Iain's challenge have come and gone now, and battle we did. In a slight surprise Iain opted to play his Trollbloods and to set the game at 500 points. I was really expecting a game of 750 points against Sorscha. I wasn't sure which warcaster to play so I let Iain pick, and since he's never played against Ashlynn she was chosen over good old Magnus.

Usually Ashlynn against Grim Angus isn't the best of match ups, if Grim Angus aims, he can usually plug away at Ashlynn until she dies horribly from having a craptastic armour. It is said that 'knowing is half the battle' and knowing how to protect Ashlynn from said shooting certainly helped - namely by either having Stannis Brocker standing directly between her and Grim, or having a wall of three Steelheads in base-to-base in front of her. It was a bit of a white wash however, as I killed ALL the champions on turn two. Once they were out of the way it was pretty much two or three turns of poking Grim until all his beasts died from transfers and Ashlynn stepped in to finish the job.

In MKii news, more good news for Mercenaries. The Mangler now has Chain Weapon and Croe's Two Handed Sword has +1 POW (making the P+S on Croe's card correct). Nothing else new for the other factions alas.