pButcher v Convergence (Father Lucant)

Played my first games since the tournament today - 3 in total. Welcome back to earth.
The first was against Josh's Convergence, with a caster I hadn't seen before. I ran the same Butcher list I took to the tournament.


Father Lucant
-Corollary
-Inverter
-Cipher
Enigma Foundry
Enigma Foundry
Steelsoul Protector
Eradicators (5)
Perforators (5)
Reciprocators (5)

pButcher
War Dog
Demolisher
Beast 09
Boomhowlers
Valchev
Iron Fang Pikemen, Officer & Standard
Iron Fang Konvik
Iron Fang Uhlans
Gobber Tinker

Scenario - The Pit

The setup. I lost the roll and went second. My plan is what is currently standard for me on the pit. Hold my flag with Boomhowlers and Demolisher. Hit the middle zone with Pikemen and Spriggan. Sweep his flag with Uhlans. There are a couple of proxies here - I have the Malifaux goblin in as Tinker, he has Menoth models in for Perforators.

Convergence turn 1. Tromping forward. Shield walls in front. This is looking tanky.

End of Khador turn 1. I was being pretty cagey with the Pikemen - very wary of getting charged. No surprises here really.

I missed a photo, so this is after bottom of turn 2. He had feated (+4 armour for everyone), meaning he was on armour silly. I had a bit of a poke at them with the Boomhowlers, to zero effect, then used Valachev to bring them back with Zephyr. After that, I pretty much turtled up - I didn't see much point in bouncing off him - better to stay in formation and weather the storm. I ran the Uhlans around the back to contest his zone and give him something to think about. 1 scenario point for me.

End of Convergence turn 3. He managed to use the Perforators to clear out 3 of the Uhlans. I was OK with that, until the remaining models managed to fail a command check. I was pretty disappointed with this - until that moment I'd been pretty happy with the way the board was looking. He tried to work through the Boomhowlers to contest the zone. I thought I had it covered, but in the end He got a guy a couple of mm inside 4 inches. It turns out you're allowed to measure that 4 inches at any time - I must do that next time I'm trying to hold a zone. A few Pikemen went down, but they held reasonably well.
At the start of my turn, I spent a long time staring at the board. It felt like a puzzle I had to unpick. I thought I had a chance of clearing out at least the Eradicators (left hand side), but I had to get the order of activation right.

It turned out to be more of a struggle that I'd hoped, but I got what I wanted to done, more or less. I'd feated and started to try to pick apart the Eradicators - unfortunately the dice weren't with me and I fluffed a lot of rolls. The Decimator had to come across to help clean up. I'd come close with the Reciprocators as well, but the models outside of my feat range couldn't get it done. My big problem was the 2 heavies coming in - now able to ignore the right flank, trusting in the Perforators to finish the job on the terrified Uhlan.

In his next turn, he brought back a Reciprocator to tie up the majority of my Pikemen, cleaned out the Uhlans, and Wiped the floor with the Decimator. He brought up an Enigma Foundry (they have Pathfinder) to contest my flag. At this stage, he was on 3 scenario points, I was on two. I did another deep bout of board staring, then conceded. At the bottom of his next turn, he would have had 5 control points, and there was little I could do to stop it. In a tournament setting, I could have cleared my flag to gain 1 more point, but in a friendly game, there was little point.

Yet again, a fun game that I felt like I was in, until I wasn't. These are both pretty tanky lists - I think it is a pretty good matchup. This is the first time I've played around with Valachev's Zephyr - that is a really powerful action, that has a lot of potential - a free 3 inch move can cause all kind of interesting interactions.