BZ Tournament Round 3. eSorscha v Iron Mother (Convergence)

Round 3, and I was up against Convergence. Time to roll out Sorscha. This is a list that I've had a bit more experience with (apart from the Great Bears) - pretty much an extension of the All-in-one box (what a deal that was - but it has ended up costing me a lot of money!).
Asker is also an inexperienced player - I'm pretty sure this was his first tournament too. His army had some AOEs that could 1 shot (puncture I think) all of my 1 box infantry, so I wasn't feeling great about the matchup.

Iron Mother
List to come.....

Forward Kommander Sorscha
Sylys Wyshnalyarr, The Seeker
Spriggan
Winter Guard Infantry, Officer & Standard, 3 Rocketeers
Kovnik Jozef Grigorovich
Kayazy Assassins, Underboss
Kayazy Eliminators
Widowmakers
Widowmaker Marksman
Great Bears
Eiryss, Angel of Retribution
Lady Ayana and Master Holt

This time, I won the roll. There was pretty much no terrain on my side of the board, except for a forrest in the center. My plan was to contest the left zone with a well spread out Winter Guard unit, and aggressively go for control on the right flank. I was hoping I could snipe out most of the mines before they could cause too many problems.

First turn, and I spread out as deep and wide as I could. I pretty much stuck to the plan - the only mistake might have been not repositioning the Widowmakers to ensure 5 good shots in the next turn.

Bottom of turn 1 - Convergence came forward and spread out. I was worried about the mines, but pretty happy about what looked like a pretty even split of his forces.

I missed a turn or two of photos here, but basically, everything was going to plan. The Mines were all gone, through a combination of sniping, and running low-cost models in to take the hit. I had the Winterguard spread across the left zone, bobbing and weaving and generally being hard to hit. It was going to be pretty hard for the Heavies he'd sent that way to clear them all out. On the other flank, the assassins and great bears had cleared the zone, and I was dominating for two points.
Asker was being patient here. I was taking my time, trying not to make any silly mistakes, and it  was frustrating for him to see me so spread out and hard to hit. 

One turn later, and I'd feated and cleared the zone again, meaning I was on 4 control points. But it was here that I made that one silly mistake that might have cost me a game I was dominating. I tried to get cute, freezing-gripping the jack on the hill. I've had some success locking down units with freezing grip in previous games - it hadn't occurred to me that a jack could just shake it off. But the really sill part was where Sorscha had ended up. I'd not been thoughtful about it at all - she's not even in this photo, sitting by herself with no focus in the back of the zone. Suddenly I was worried that he could pull out some tricks with his jack and assassinate me. 

This is how it ended. I missed a photo on his turn again, but he got his jack in to contest the zone, and popped off some shots at Sorscha, doing a bit of damage, but not really coming close. I then had 6 minutes to clear the zone again. a combination of the Spriggan and Sorscha did that pretty comfortably, and it was a win for me, 5 points to 0.

So all in all, a pretty comfortable win for me, though I did manage to make a mistake that made it more interesting than it should have been. It was a tough match-up for Askir. I think he's used to playing against jack-heavy Khador lists, so this was very different for him. I think he'd play it differently if we played this matchup again.

The tournament ended up going to 4 rounds, but unfortunately I'd misunderstood, and made a commitment that meant I had to leave before the last round. 

All in all, I was really pleased with 2 and 1. 3 great games that were all very different and a lot of fun. The whole tournament had a great feel to it. Lots of smiles, minimum saltiness. I really liked the format, and I'm looking forward to more opportunities to play in events like this. A big thanks to Eric for organizing it - thing went super smoothly.