Danish masters 2013 first list - 50 point Skarre2 Vs. Legion

I am preparing to go to the Danish masters, and it is a three list required event with character restrictions and painting requirements. Last tournament of some size that I attended I fought legion and lost a game, so this time I will bring a list especially for taking care of legion players. I talked to a friend of mine who plays legion and he told me that three casters I would properly face would be Lylith2 Vayl2 and Saeryn with Saeryns list being the most common anti cryx list chosen due to cryx nature of relying on melee and hopefully alpha charges. Something this caster can steal by using her feat and loads of beasts. With this in mind, as well as eyeless sight and loads of awesome beasts I picked Skarre2 and made this list.

Skarre2 (+6)

Nightmare (10)

Looks great! But it works a lot better for Skarre2 than Deneghra.

Stalker (4)

Such a hard model to take pictures off… and put together… and look at… it does however make up for it with awesome rules.

Defiler (5)

Blackspot and this thing are great friends.

Skarlock (2)

I find that since I dumped the death jack, skarre needed help to cast all the spells she likes. This guy makes up for it.

Satyxis Raider Captain (2)

Necrosurgeon & stitch thralls (2)

Minimum Mechanithralls (3)

How did I paint these you ask, well I spend several hours playing skyrim and then painted trolls, that’s how. Now I need to rush the paintjob before the tournament.

Full Satyxis blood witches with UA (8)

For some reason one of these ladies has lost one of her horns. I am considering replacing it with something cool, just do not know what yet.

Full Satyxis raiders with UA (10)

Full Bane Knights (10)

I am currently painting this unit, and making a how to paint guide with these.

Total 50 points

As skarre2 lacks ghost walk I have long thought about using Nightmare as a jack bullet rather than death jack. Sure it has lower survivability, lower damage output, higher focus requirements, BUT the additional potential threat of 5,5 regardless of difficult terrain or walls just seemed nice. I have tried a version of this list 4 times and in the first 3 nightmare killed the warlock/caster in rounds 3/2/2 and this was against Saeryn/lylith2/asphyxious2. Fourth game it two rounded a galleon. Only problem, need to rush the painting of the model. The stalker is incredibly good against any hordes faction and can be protected by Skarre2s feat and so far it has killed a few soloes, some boom howlers and stopped Saeryn from transferring damage. I picked the knights over thralls, because stealth matters little against Legion, I like reach and with deathward they are arm 18. I usually bring the surgeon with Skarre2 just to pay for the hit point she loose on upkeeps, so this time I tried to bring 3 points of mechanithralls, so far they have done Little but fits the point cost. Generally, I am happy with the list even if it relies mostly on using skarre2s feat to make heavy beasts do little for a round and put some pressure on the enemy warlock with nightmare. By the way, it has a potential threat of 21 inch so in kill box scenarios warlocks will get a jack to face unless they screen with a huge base.

The other faction I lost to in the last tournament was Cryx and Asphyxious2. I fought him twice with the coven won the first and lost the second. After talking to my opponent, he pointed out that bringing a kraken against Asphyxious2 feat is like starting with minus 19 points, so I do not think I will be doing that this time. However, my counter list against him will be the content of another post.

By the way, if anyone reading this has input on how to counter Asphyxious2, any good ideas on what my next two lists should be or input on this list please leave a comment.