Warmachine Battle Report- Goreshade vs Arkadius

 In a bit of a throwback I decided to pull out my old Cryx for Warmachine to play with a friend, who has been printing and painting Farrow since they've been made available as part of Warmachine 3D. I brought out my old favourite Banes led by Goreshade, and faced a Warbeast-heavy list fueled by the mad Dr Arkadius. 

My initial advance was somewhat spread out, with Goreshade in the middle, a unit of Bane Knights either end with a Deathripper, and Tartarus, a unit of Warriors with command, a Desecrator and Deathwalker all around Goreshade. The goal was to get the arc nodes up so I could start slinging Hex Blasts into grouped units (which was successful in wiping the Bone Grinders turn 2) and try and get the units into position to do as much damage as possible early for a Goreshade Feat run at Arkadius.

As things advanced I was facing 2 Hogs on one flank, and Lytiersis on the other. I had hoped the Warriors could deal with Lytiersis while the Knights moved the other way to take both Hogs, but ultimately they dealt a little bit of damage before all getting killed by Lytiersis, who then had to deal with a Desecrator before he could reach Goreshade. 

With all the Knights moving over, Tartarus unfortunately was priority target and the first to die. The Knights ended up doing quite a lot to the War Hog, although they didn't quite get through the Road Hog. A few rounds of Gunfighter on the Flamethrower did work, putting damage onto Goreshade and killing Deathwalker although not doing much to the Banes in front of it.

Arkadius took an unlucky 11 damage hit from the Desecrator's gun, which was forced onto a lone Razor Boar looking down Goreshade. He then managed to Feat on Arkadius after a Psychic Surgery, sneak a slam onto the Desecrator from Lytiersis, knocking down Goreshade in the process, the Road Hog shooting to take Goreshade to 1 wound remaining before the Razor Boar finished him off and ending the game. It was a real hail mary of a turn as I had quite a lot of Banes remaining and had them within charge range of Arkadius the next turn, but unfortunately the gamble paid off and Goreshade got taken out. My first game of Warmachine since early Mk3 it's been a real experience coming back, but I had a lot of fun and I'm now looking at printing an all Monstrosity Cephalyx list for a bit of fun and to have some variety