Played against Rory’s Cities of Sigmar Border Wars, he brought a fairly uncommon list of steam tanks with gotrek.

Deployment shows a tight castle for the Gitz, with all the Gobbapalooza at the front. I gave turn 1 away to Rory who declared to Slay the Entourage and kill Kragnos top of turn 1!!!

With all the shooting from 5 steam tanks, Kragnos took a total fo 13 wounds. Denied the bactic and kragnos then rallied to heal 4.

In my turn 1, I declared Attack on Two Fronts, therefore needing to take control of both flank objectives. I would plan to spend a CP to ensure the Gobbapalooza on the left would move onto the objective. And then plan on charging the other steam tank with squigs and another gobbapalooza unit.

The gobbapalooza failed to charge on the far right but the rest of the plan went ahead without issue. I decided to speed up the tempo of the game and sent Kragnos into the front steak tank. Unfortunately, Rory spent 2 CP to counter charge Gotrek, landing the 11 inches required.

Very cinematic moment!

I opted to attack with everything into gotrek and it worked. Passing all hits and wounds with the club was enough and Gotrek was squished in one swipe! (Maybe the counter charge was a benefit to myself in the end!)

The squigs also killed the steak tank due to their MW (crits). All other steam tanks were tagged with the end of turn pile ins.

End of turn 1 photo.

Then I won priority for turn 2! And decided to take the double knowing that I could go for a tabling at this stage.

I didn’t take a photo of the rest of this turn but suffice to say, there was just 1 steam tank and the warforger left on the table. Kragnos did die on the cities players turn – a consolation prize! And that was game. A fairly clean 20-0.

Closing thoughts:
Rory took a fun list against the list I am trying to use as a competitive one. I commend his bravery is trying to one shot kragnos. The mathshammer machine says that he would average 13.7 damage before all out defence and ignoring the 5+ ward. Going all in with Kragnos wa very risky, but managing to kill off Gotrek in turn 1 alleviated the one scary threat, and then the double turn secured a fast victory. Technically, the gobbapalooza were positioned well, used their abilities and spells to great effect. I need to position the stabbas, fanatics and snufflers better.