The PKA had its first outing yesterday against those damn rule ignoring, flying snakes of the Legion of Easybutton. F those snakes. What’s your guess…think I won? I blame NOBODY but myself for this one…and Jefferson’s cool, calm, deliberate dismantling of my entire army.

Here was my list…

Sorcha’s Porsche (you try to rhyme something with Sorcha)

pSorcha
xWardog
xKodiak
xKodiak
xBeast-09

Man-O-War Shocktroopers (5)
Man-O-War Demo Corps (4)
Manhunter
Winterguard Mortor Crew
Greylord Ternians

That was 750 pts of MkI love against those filthy blighted snakes that had…

Vile
Schredders (x100)
A bunch of blue reindeers
2 Fing Seriphs
A Carnivean
Blighted Swordsmen with Incubi
Blighted Archers with Incubi
Sheppards Pie (x2)

I am not going to go into turn by turn but I lost because my whole army died. In my last turn, I was down to Sorcha, the Wardog, and the Morter Crew. I had managed to run Sorcha (after starting dead center at the rear of my deployment zone) all the way down the left flank, across the back of the deployment zone, and within 4 inches of Vile…and I forgot to feat.

One of the ten thousand shredders walked up and bit the dog to death and then the Seriph hit the morter crew and rolled a 6 on the strafe. Whatever. I don’t understand why I have to lose when my caster is more than capable of wrecking and entire army almost single handedly. But…thems the rules I suppose!

Hats off to Jefferson. He played a great game. Both of us rolled like crap so it was even that way, and he did what he needed to win.

I had lots of learnings about my new faction the PKA (or for those who are new to the blog…The Protectorate / Khadoran Alliance – aka Khador). Here are some:

  • Sorcha is amazing. I think about here much like I think about Feora. The difference is she is MUCH more mobile with Wind Rush, and damn near impossible to hit with the War Dog keeping an eye on her (DEF 23 when she has Wind Rush going).
  • I have heard her feat is sick…how would I know…I failed to use it in the one situation where I would have caught EVERY REMAINING model he had…and then won immediately. SUCK!
  • Kodiaks are very cool…especially when you vent steam…which you have to remember to do.
  • Beast-09 is a great jack…and I am looking forward to getting my card. On that subject, Privateer Press called me today and told me they were putting it in the mail tomorrow. I think I have discovered how to manage that transaction…and I will share some tips in a future post.
  • Demo Corps ARE superior to Shocktroopers. Two hits are better than one. Next time I will bring more the Demo and less of the Shock. The Shocks are very cool as a ranged threat though. I managed to kill some swordsmen with them. That was sweet.
  • Manhunter died immediately…must have done something wrong.
  • Greylords did next to nothing. Once again…must have done something wrong. My guess it’s best to run these guys along side your jacks to freeze up easy to hit targets like jacks. I was trying hit blue reindeer. That didn’t work out so well.

All in all, I am happy with my new faction. They aren’t the PoM yet…but I love my crazy religious nuts. Khador is a screw around faction for me. They are very different and are less of a thought exercise compared to PoM.