Hi Cowboys,
Some time ago I have asked "How to win against Mishima?", now (in fact about two month ago) I have done it!
I'm just in the mood to retrospective about this great victory. It was a Trenchstrom Scenario, each side 1000 Pts.
I played Capitol against Bagombas Mishima force. Setup was a deploymentzone on each side behind 36'' long trenches.
The distance between the two trenches was 20''. Mission task was to get as many models as possible into the enemy
deploymentzone behind his trench. Turn limit was six turns. The models were counted at the end of the sixt turn.
It was a very exciting game, with a dicission in the last round.
Here are the forces:
Capitol (me):
2x Squads Hvy. Inf. with Sniper
1x Colonel
2x Squads Wailing Banshees
2x Wailing Banshee Captain
2x Orca Mk III, 1x Orca with RL, 2x HMG Rider
Mishima (don't remember exactly):
4x Squad Faceless
2x Squad Pheonix Samurai
4x Battlewalker
1x Ameratsu
1x Toshiro
1x the Guy with the Screach Gun
2 or 3 Deathbringer or Demonhunter
Deployment:
I deployed the Hvy. Inf on the flanks of the Trenches, the Orcas in the centre and the Wailings in the middle.
Mishima deployed his Demonhunters, Toshiro together with two Battlewalker and one Squad Pheonix on one flank.
On the other were two Battlewalker, the other Pheonix, Ameratsu and Screachy. Faceless were on the whole front as meatshield.
I don't remember each turn exactly, so I just write the tactics of each one (it's shorter, too).
I played four turns "sitting duck". I stayed behind my trench and let Mishma come. The Wailings were in the middle, to have a better chance to survive. Then on the fifth turn I started an assault with the remaining Banshees, to get them behind the enemy trenches at the end of turn six.
Mishma attacked right from the beginning. One one flank he assaulted with two Battlewalker, Toshiro and the Demonhunters.
On the other flank just Screachy stormed my Trench. Two Battlewalker and the Phoenix stayed for defence of his Trench.
The Faceless as Meatshield were fully erased in the first round. To defend my trench I moved the two HMG Riders and the Colonel to
the heavily attacked flank. Somehow I managed it, to destroyed most of his assault troop before he could make a single hit in CC.
Only Toshiro and the Battlewalker did some damage. On the fifth turn there were not much models left on the table.
I put my two remaining Wailings foreward, flying over the trenches . They survived an attack of a Phoenix and stayed in the enemy deploymentzone until the end of turn six. Mishima had no models in my deploymentzone, so I won the scenario against Mishima.
One (ok, three) sentence about "luck". I think the dice were on my side concerning attack rolles and saves.
But with initiative I can say that Mishima won most of the important initiatives. If I had won more initiatives I wouldn't have needed the
luck on my other rolls.
