Tuesday, June 4, 2013

50pt SR 2013 Tourney: Trollblood lists for June 15th

As pGrexy mentioned, our FLGS has a 50pt tournament coming up, and I think I'm going to try and make this one -- I have to get over my flagrant dislike of timed turns one way or another, and I'm hoping the longer limits on a 50pt game won't annoy me as much.  Here are the lists:

Calandra 50pt:
Calandra Truthsayer, Oracle of the Glimmerwood (*5pts)
* Troll Axer (6pts)
* Dire Troll Mauler (9pts)
* Earthborn Dire Troll (10pts)
* Trollkin Runebearer (2pts)
Krielstone Bearer and 5 Stone Scribes (4pts)
* Krielstone Stone Scribe Elder (1pts)
Pyg Bushwackers (Leader and 5 Grunts) (5pts)
Trollkin Champions (Leader and 4 Grunts) (10pts)
* Skaldi Bonehammer (3pts)
Janissa Stonetide (3pts)
Troll Whelps (2pts)

A good old fashioned Trollblood Attrition list, this time with Champions! Just enough ranged to annoy and pick of enemy solos, plenty of support and buffing, and of course Star Crossed to truly piss off my opponent. I've had a lot of fun playing a similar list with pDoomy, and from what I've been able to tell it might work a lot better with Calandra. I made a few alterations (dropped Mulg and min-ed the Bushwackers for the EBDT, whelps and Janissa), which I think will work better with Calandra. I want to give the updated version a shot before the tournament, so hopefully I'll have a decent battle report up soon (I've hit a dry spell on battle reports - shame on me).

Specialists (10pts): ...?

I'm drawing a blank here. I'd be tempted to borrow some Nyss Hunters and drop the Bushwackers, Janissa, and the Whelps if I need to get a big ranged game in last minute, but the question then becomes "why am I not using Nyss to begin with?" and that's not a road I want to start down. Option 2 is max Scattergunners + UA and drop the aforementioned models (or EBDT) for the option of going whole-hog on the ranged game for a feat turn, but I don't know how effective that would be. I'll have to use the list a couple of times before I can figure out the specialists.


pGrim 50pt:
Grim Angus (*6pts)
* Pyre Troll (5pts)
* Troll Impaler (5pts)
* Dire Troll Bomber (10pts)
* Mulg the Ancient (12pts)
Pyg Bushwackers (Leader and 9 Grunts) (8pts)
Trollkin Fennblades (Leader and 9 Grunts) (8pts)
* Trollkin Fennblade Officer & Drummer (2pts)
Lanyssa Ryssyll, Nyss Sorceress (2pts)
Stone Scribe Chronicler (2pts)
Troll Whelps (2pts)

Mobility, a solid ranged game, speed, and a good feat for objectives. I like the ranged game this list brings, and it's a lot faster than the Calandra list. I'm still flip-flopping over which one needs Mulg more - one the one hand, he works well with Grim as he can be given a speed boost and pathfinder and won't require much support, while on the other he's almost better in a brick format to really threaten the enemy once they become engaged, and protect Calandra.

Specialists (10pts): EBDT. 

On the off chance that I go up against a list with a hard counter to shooting (Ossyan, for example), I can drop either the Bomber or the Bushwackers and SSC or Lanyssa (depending) and plop in another melee beast with a speed boost.

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