Captain Not-So-Fantastic

I feel like such a fool. I made such a silly, silly mistake that was bad for the Oli’s and my second CGC Doubles league game (can you guess which way this is going to go?) After our shaky start in the first league game, Team Burning Car Bomb took on the might of the Mark/Bill Troll combo.


After rolling off, we opted to go first. So we set up our Xerxis/eMorghoul force:

Xerxis

Titan Gladiator

Molik Karn

Arcuarii (max unit)

Beast Handlers (min unit)

eMorghoul

Adeptimus Marketh

Titan Gladiator

Cyclops Brute

Cyclops Savage

Praetorian Swordsmen

and Mark and Bill set up their list:

pMadrak

Calandra

Mulg

Impaler

Slag Troll

Axer

Fennblades (max unit) + Unit Attachment

Champions

Fell Caller Hero

Stone Bearers (max unit)

Chronicler

(I think that was it)

like so:

The game starts with a general move forward in a kind of brick like style, while our Praetorian Swordsmen ran forward.

And so did the Trolls. Mark and Bill sent a scouting force of Fennblades and Mulg towards our lines while protecting their warlocks with Stone Bearers and Champions.

Next turn and our Swordsmen ran into the Fennblades after the Arcuarii took down of them down (which triggered Vengeance for the Fennblades). Everything sort of just shuffled forward.

The Fennblades tore their way through a few of the Swordsmen, but not as many as they had hoped for. Everything had bricked forward in typical Troll fashion.

Then the game was won! My mistake was noticed. Again, Xerxis seems to have trouble with the Kill Box scenario. Last time he got blasted out of the zone, while this time he just didn’t want to enter it. The trouble was that I forgot to move my warlock in the first turn and his movement wasn’t enough in the second turn. I felt very silly and still do to this minute.

Mark and Bill didn’t want the game to end this way, so agreed to play on.

The Praetorians and Molik took out most of the Fennblades an eMorghoul went to engage the Troll mountain.

After watching Molik go through the Fennblades, the Trollkin champions and Axer took their revenge and made short work of the monster Cyclops. eMorghoul and the remaining Swordsmen were also dispatched. With no way of actually harming either of the Troll warlocks, and because the game went on for a long time already, we called it a night.

Another loss for me, and Oli, is not a big deal really. But it is ever-so slightly embarrasing making the simplest of mistakes in front of all of your European Team Championship teammates. Not that we want to go up there and beat the other 39 team attending (though it would be nice - think of the prizes), we just want to have a laugh playing a game that we love.
There are plenty more league games to play so I’m sure we can move up the table. Hopefully, I’ll be able to learn how to wield Xerxis more efficiently in future games because I really love him. I would hope to get him in a larger gamer with two full units of Cataphracts and a couple of Titans, although there may not be enough time after the league and before the forthcoming ETC.