Atlach's Shipyard

  Well the Sultanate orbat just dropped and I had a game lined up, so I couldn’t resist trying out the new rules. I’m quite interested in the faction (I love the Egyptians in Dystopian Wars) and the playstyle also looks very interesting with the heaviest rotorcraft to date and strong melee infantry that can attack from anywhere. BROADSIDE! We rolled for the mission and got Lord of the Manor again. For some reason I’m was also motivated to write in a more narrative style today, so let me know if that is better or worse than my usual style for these. Lists and Deployment My opponent ran his old reliable Empire list. Double Full Strength Rockets, a Laoshan, some Fanguns and Launchers, Steambikes, a Command Platoon, Full Bulnabangs, Full Terracotta and AA Lions, and a singleton Doksuri.   The "Plan" I went with my usual approach to a new faction, the greatest hits that I found interesting. This time I even overthought my gameplan in advance. The skiff was there to enable goin...

 Another new army to try today, the Enlightened. I love the faction in Dystopian Wars, but what I’ve seen so far in Armoured Clash is not what I’m interested in. They look like an infantry based melee army, with some light walkers supporting, but not particularly fast overall. Still, the models are neat, so I’m giving them a shot.  Preparing to scuttle We played Pitched Battle at 2K points to provide a good baseline. We did end up trying 6ft x 4ft, and rivers were ruled as open ground as they would have disadvantaged the Empire significantly. All other terrain was size 3. The objectives were also slightly off to put them at actual points of interest (a bridge, crossroads, and town, played as a garrison building). Deployment   Eve of battle I ended up splitting my objective holders into 3 groups, pointed straight at the objectives. My fire support units ended up between these blocks to be able to support either side. I did not put anything in reserves due to the wider tab...

  So I finally got a second army assembled, and so did my regular opponent. Today we move away from Union vs Crown to the more standard Crown vs Empire. We played Find the Lady, which ended up a lot more interesting and tense than I expected it to be. It was also the first game which actually ran to the end, the game being decided on the second to last activation of turn 5. Deployment   Crown Forces I had decided in advance that the Monarch would go on a flank, to hopefully always have a target outside of the minimum range, but well forward so that it could get its secondary weapons into play. Each objective got a unit that could grab it turn 1 to hopefully be able to shape where the main battle would take place. Sapper Tristans in the center to hopefully cause some pain to the Laoshan, and Spitfires in position to support as needed. Basic Sapper units on a hill and in the center would hopefully give me spotter to priority targets. Tonight on Fun with Flags Empire deploye...

  I finally got a game in against Empire. We ended up on Flanking Maneuvers, 2K points, on 4ft x 4ft. I also decided I would not be using the transport missile to clear out buildings, so that’s a bit of a house rule I guess. Deployment The flank objectives are worth more, so those should be the priority. Each player has one close and one far, so locking down the close one with walking infantry sounds good, followed by a fight for the center. Seems reasonable. (That’s not what happened.) I put my mechs in the center to hopefully be able to engage any central forces, or to move to engage any heavy pushes to one of the other objectives. His objective got my fast movers (bikes and ironhides), especially when I saw him deploying an artillery park there. The central woods got a pacifier unit to hopefully take the center and some field guns in a similar role to the mechs. My home objective got the Lakota to hopefully flank and Troopers to hold the objective. To hopefully not get my M...