2020 C3V Playtest Tournament - (Congrats vegietarian18)

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Originally Posted by capsocrates

This game will go down at 1830MT/2030ET this Thursday

Valledon Fortress
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B-11 Resistance Fighters, Brute Gruts, Axentia, Rygarn, Kursus
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CaptainStupendous
12th Cacusus Rifles x3, Cathar Spearmen x2, Motley Max, Guilty McCreech

Round-by-round

Spoiler Alert!

Round1
Cathars move up
Brute gruts move up
Cathars move up
Axentia moves up, harming herself with Immolation
Caucasus Rifles attack Axentia from lower ground, putting 1 wound on her
Axentia engages a Cathar and Rifle and kills a Cathar with her normal attack (no spears or immolations occurred)

Round2
Cathars reposition and put 3 wounds on Axentia
Axentia leaves engagement from a Rifle, taking a wound, and decides to land next to two Cathars and a Rifle (no spears or immolations occurred), she then kills a Cathar with her normal attack
The remaining adjacent Cathar safely left engagement and then it attacked Axentia along with two others; they killed her, and Phoenix Rising took out a Rifle
Safely unengaged, Axentia engages Motley Max and whiffs against him
Rifles put a wound on Axentia
Axentia's 2/5 attack on Max was blocked

Round3
Axentia finally lands a solid hit (4/5) on Max who resists poorly 1/3
Cathars swarm Axentia, putting 3 wounds on her
Axentia is blocked by Motley max (2/5)
Cathars put 2 more wounds on Axentia
Axentia kills Motley Max (4/5)
Rifles finish off Axentia and kill a Brute Grut

Round4
Brutes advance, killing a Cathar
Rifles kill a Brute
Brute OM Chrono-keyed over to B-11s who kill the only Rifle in sight
Rifles advance and put 2 wounds on Rygarn
B-11s advance, taking the move glyph and killing 1 Rifle
Cathars advance, but cannot kill any B-11s

Round5
Kursus Sonic Fists at a Rifle and Cathar (3/5) but the Cathar blocks
Cathars advance and kill two B-11s and Kursus
B-11s kill a Cathar
Cathar take Wannok and kill the last Brute Grut and another B-11
Last B-11 kills the Cathar on Wannok
Rifles ping the B-11 and miss

Round6
Rifles take height and kill the last B-11 (taking all 3 OMs)
OM1 Chrono-Keyed to Rygarn, who kills a Rifle
Last Rifle takes height and puts a wound on Rygarn
OM lost on B-11s
Cathars attack Rygarn
OM lost

Round7
Rygarn temporal jumps away from Cathar
Rygarn kills a Cathar
Cathar chase Rygarn
Rygarn kills another Cathar
Cathar is blocked by Rygarn
Rygarn is blocked by Cathar

Round8
Rygarn kills the last Cathar
Rifle Gas Grenades Rygarn to death

Stats

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Attack rolls: 58 out of 98 (59.18%)
Defense rolls: 43 out of 127 (33.86%)
Total dice rolled: 225

CaptainDude
Attack rolls: 67 out of 145 (46.21%)
Defense rolls: 32 out of 96 (33.33%)
Total dice rolled: 241

Which units survived?
CaptainStupendous won with 1xRifle and Guilty McCreech

General Battle Report/Flow of game
I spent my first OM rolling out Brute Gruts, which was probably a mistake. Meanwhile Cathars were rolling out to meet the onslaught of Axentia. She killed a pair of them with her normal attack and then by the time she died she was engaged with just one Rifle. The Cathars did not engage her after Phoenix Rising so she flew over to hammer on Motley Max. She had some dud rolls but after 5 or 6 OMs she managed to kill him right before the Cathars and Rifles finished her off.
The rest of the game was the rest of my army trying to finish off the rest of his. I made some poor decisions with my B-11s and they ultimately had less impact than I would have liked. But with 1 life left Rygarn hit his one and only successful Temporal Jump to move onto the road, which he then used on his turn to get out of the reach of the remaining Cathar while still being able to attack them. He ended up single-handedly finishing off the Cathar, but then whiffed against a Gas Grenade.

CaptainStupendous never held any of the glyphs (when they would have mattered) and never got a Braced Spear roll
I never held Wannok and only held Valda briefly; I also never got Immolation to hit, except once against Axentia

How useful were the playtesting units' powers and how often did they come into play?
Axentia: Only got one Immolation roll and it was against herself, but she drew a lot of attention, killed 2xCathar with her normal attack, 1xRifle with her death, and then killed Motley Max with her normal attack. Despite her bad luck, she managed to "take her points" (~135 Motley Max + 37 2xCathars + 30 1xRifle = 202 points)
Motley Max: Never got an OM, but he drew Axentia's attention. 0 points taken

Any additional comments
I enjoyed the game, and Axentia, although I would have liked her to pull off some Immolation rolls.