First month in
Well after a month of ToMB I’m now in a
position where I need to think about my next models. I’m three games in with 2
losses and a win, although two of those games didn’t go beyond turn 3.
The two games I haven’t reported back on
were;
Vs Mike Marshall (Coloddi) on Vassal, Reconnoiter
I was absolutely hammered on this one,
whatever I tried didnt come off and once again I felt as though I was wandering
around aimlessly. Mike got 3 points from plant explosives on T1 from
re-activating dolls and I just about got into position for this before the game
ended. Jack performed well, taking out Vasilisa quite easily and the void
wretches were OK. Everything else didn’t do Jack! Montressor in particular was
very poor again and I struggled with his positioning.
We called it on T3 and worked out it
would more than likely finish 9-6 ish to Mike but I think that’s probably being
generous, I was played off the board.
After this game I went away and had a
think about things, and wrote a little piece on the phases I go through for
winning games, which I will post up in the next couple of days.
Vs Henchman Lee (Dreamer) Turf War
Again this was called on T3 (we were
both playing very slow and yapping a lot) but I fared a lot better. Jack
positioned himself pretty much in the middle of the board and caused a nuisance
for 3 whole turns before finally being eaten by Chompy. Montressor’s
contribution was again somewhat questionable but he did manage to kill Tuco in
T1. Unfortunately the killing blow was achieved by sucking him into base
contact along with half the rest of my crew and killing him at the end of the
turn where his Black Blood caused chaos!
Void Wretches again performed well for
Line in the Sand and Turf War. At the end of T3 I think the score was sitting
at 6-2 but I was beginning to fall to pieces a little bit and it would probably
have finished much closer than that.
So what have I learned from month one?
Jack is awesome; he can be a real pain
for opponents and takes a lot of resources to get rid of. He pretty much
performed as I expected. Ligeia is awesome, you have to be careful with her
positioning and she may not last that long in the thick of things but the no
cheat aura is massive. Void Wretches are awesome; they performed much better
than expected for a 4SS minion.
The Guilty are average, I wasn’t
expecting much from a 5ss minion but they are very ‘meh’. They require a lot of
work to get their pushes off and can be quite card intensive if you want to use
their tricks. Their saving grace is hard to kill which is great on a low cost
minion. And then there is…
The Trouble with Montressor
After 3 games with Tara I was on the
verge of dropping the Nothing Beast and after around 5 games it went into the
case and never came out again, I’m almost at that point with Montressor and if
it wasn’t for the restriction of ToMB I would probably be doing the same with
him.
My main problem is, well, erm I don’t
have a main problem, just an all round lack of inspiration. So, the problems I
have are…
Walk 4. Yes he’s nimble which is good but
walk 4 is slow, real slow. His 50mm base is great for the auras but a lot of
the time he just seems to get in the way, blocking LOS and auras from other
models.
Triggers. No built in crow for toss the
noose means you have to cheat one in, and the suck into base contact can be
countered by the opponent dropping 2 cards, so potentially I’m swapping one of
my high crows for two of his cards, not great.
0 Actions. The only one he has is from
his upgrade which forces a WP resist or pushes them into base contact, the only
problem with this is that it sucks everything, friendly and enemy, into base
contact and pretty much everything I’m running has a WP of 4 so if I don’t want
them to go I have to cheat high or position them further away, which leaves him
isolated, and he won’t last long like this with his….
8 Wounds. On a 9SS model is not great,
not great at all.
I’m pretty sure a lot of this is down
to activation order and positioning. I will persevere with him and see what
happens but a beatstick of some kind is on my shopping list.
The next problem I have with the models
I am using is low WP. Everything apart from Jack has WP4 and boy did I feel it
when I went up against Neverborn so that’s also something I need to bear in
mind for my next purchases.
I have a week to decide what’s next up,
hmmm…………….
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