Cursebreakers vs Thorns of the Briar Queen 16.12.18


My first game with the Cursebreakers! I really wanted to try these guys out as I was imagining them to be pretty much the opposite to my grots. I was going from the largest warband in the game to the smallest and from very little killing ability in a single activation to every model being more than capable of taking out my opponent’s fighters. I was up against Josh and the Thorns again but he had spent some time revising his deck rather than using the one straight from the box so I knew I was in for a tough fight.
I had drawn extreme flank, conquest and sorcerous scouring so I deployed deep in my territory close to edge hexes to prevent my fighters getting bogged down early and try to force him into a couple of push activations with Varclav. His first activation was a push and I tried to empower Rastus for inspiration and failed. He went on guard with the everhanged and I tried for the empower inspiration and failed again! The everhanged charged in (scoring change of tactics) but missed and was killed in response using stormstrike on Ammis.
                                
I tried to set up for extreme flank but he jumped into my territory with the Queen using a ploy, doing some damage to Rastus and then cast a spell to push all fighters near an objective to stop me getting extreme flank. The Queen got great strength and her upgrade to teleport to starting hexes as a Move action so was now very dangerous.

I spent the second round trying to avoid getting killed and get some damage on the Queen. He charged at Rastus but failed to kill so I struck back and also failed! Some chainrasps tried to dig into my territory and one was killed with a fulmination scoring me sorcerous scouring. I then managed to charge away from the Queen and lethal hex I was next to with Rastus to kill a chainrasp deep in Josh’s territory and score measured strike.

The final round saw the Queen go on a rampage killing both Rastus and Ammis but the remaining chainrasp and Varclav were still way back in Josh’s territory. I moved into a corner with Stormsire (three hexes from any start hexes and so unchargeable by the Queen) and started cycling objectives. I don’t think I got any (I think I drew denial amongst others – no chance!) but managed to edge the game out 7-6 in the end.


This was a really close fight and shows how scary the Queen can be once she starts to get a couple of upgrades. I really enjoyed the Cursebreakers but definitely need some practice keeping them safe and maximising my activations! It really hurts to lose a fighter when you only have three compared to nine!

Comments

  1. Zimagic (Owen)20 December 2018 at 03:44

    Every time I've gone for an Empowered Rastus or Ammis and missed it felt really, really bad. If I'm using my character abilities, I want them to effect the board in some way: Damage/kill something, add figurines, gain board position etc. Buffing a character without making a significant defensive move to also protect them is real bad feels.

    To get around this, there are 2 solutions: "Inspire fighter" ploys (of which I run 1) and Ammis/Rastus-playable (i.e.: 1 Lightning cost) spells of which I run 3-4. If you focus on using those cards on inspiring the 2 guards and Stormsire's own attack for his Inspire, it tends to work out better overall.

    Enjoy the Cursebreakers, lots of fun.

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    1. Coxy8722 December 2018 at 13:50

      Thanks for the detailed reply :) this is really helpful stuff and I have been leaning towards making them work without inspiring early game and getting a ploy/upgrade for inbuilt channel then casting empower.

      Which spells do you run with them? I have found it tough to cut down on some of the awesome ploys out there in favour of less exciting spell options.

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