Brief Battle Report - ISC vs Convoy

[Dangerousbeans]

So we had our second game of Eden last week, this time playing at the club to show off how super-sexy the models are..... they did get a lot of attention

Anyway, it was the starter boxes but Covoy had Georg in place of the guy with the boomerang (as he appears to be quite, quite useless). I don't remember the whole game, but here's a run down with the juciest parts....

Missions were: Convoy - Infiltration, ISC - Excavations.

Turn 1

Everyone moves around a bit. We were playing on a sewer board (terraclips) so terrain was very important (as it wasn't so easy to just 'run past' anything). In sight of this, I moved my Ronin to block a doorway leading into my deployment zone, the Kunoichi was to the right on her own and, thanks to her great speed, managed to get mid-board and started to dig up the excavations there, the Daimyo hung back and started some excavations of his own. Most of the Convoy were set to face off against the Daimyo and Ronin, with only Angela and Leo out on his left flank. I kind of hoped I could just ignore them and let her make her VP's while killing everything else......

Turn 2

A bit more facing off happens, he spends a bit of time redeploying his models after realising he'd have to smash through two giant robots to get where he was going! So Georg starts to make for the centre of the board , towards the Kunoichi and another door leading to my deployment zone. Daimyo and Kunoichi continue to dig. Otto decides 'to hell with it', revs his chainsaw and plunges into the Ronin! The Ronin gets the upper hand and manages to damage Otto's arms......but not enough..... on the riposte, Otto chops off both the Ronin's legs! Leaving the drone flailing about helplessly on the ground before shutting down (and losing me his excavation pts.....GRRRR!!!!!!) OTTO MUST DIE!!!!!!

Turn 3

After the untimely demise of the Ronin, the Kunoichi realises she can't leave the Daimyo in a room with Otto and Freidrich (who I also learned to fear in our last game) so she gives up the dig and moves in to support the Daimyo, sadly leaving Angela free reign to 'infiltrate' without a problem. Kunoichi manages to get some more damage on Otto and takes his torso down to wounded..... that should help Otto, realising his fate is near, tries to get messy with his Chainsaw against the Daimyo but, luckily, the Daimyo doesn't just survive but also finishes off Otto! Freidrich makes for the central door and Leo comes out of nowhere to charge the Daimyo (annoying little puppy! You'll see why soon....)

Turn 4

I play 'Blow below the belt' and hope for the best..... before realising that it affects me too! Well that's that plan ruined! I have a tough decision....do I run to the excavation sites and continue the dig or do I try to hold off Freidrich and Georg? My decision was made for me as the Daimyo completely and utterly failed to disengage from Leo! (in hindsight I could have used 'crushing'... oh well). So, after that and a quick calculation I realised that it was impossible for me to actually win. The Kunoichi and Daimyo would not be able to dig enough to beat the 2 infiltrates he had left so all I could do was get the Kunoichi in contact with George and Freidrich and hope she could stop them disengaging for two turns.....

Turn 5

..needless to say, she failed! Angela got back into the action and finished of the Kunoichi (who had previously been damaged by Freidrich - forgot to mention) so Fried and Georg managed their infiltration in the last turn.

I don't remember exactly what the VP's finished at, but I think it was 30 -75 or something like that..... anyway, very close game right up until the end! Very enjoyable though.

Excavations is really, really hard..... not only do you have to spend a lot of time digging but losing your VP's when a model dies is just punishing! I feel models like the Komuso and Mamushi would be very helpful for this mission.....

Seriously enjoying Eden though, it has a hell of a lot of depth to it and is a lot more tactical that most games out there at the moment (on par with Warmachine I'd say, but without the hefty price tag!)

HATE THAT CHAINSAW!