Good morning gamers,
This is our second post in our review of scenarios from Pool 6 (and our penultimate post in this series - at least for singles Matched Play scenarios). Last time, we looked at a really cool scenario where both players are bluffing and trying to mask their plans from their opponent (usually). Today, we're looking at a scenario that could be seen as having more or less bluffing going on, depending on who you are and what you're running: Assassination.
As we've done with all the posts in this series, we'll start off with a brief overview of the pool (but if you read this before in a different article, you can click here to skip it).
Pool 6: Killing Enemy Heroes
We've seen four scenario pools that ultimately come down to being able to get somewhere (whether that's with maelstrom deployments in Pool 1, holding multiple objective markers in Pool 2, getting to different objects in Pool 3, or starting from a corner/walking onto a board in Pool 5). We've also seen one pool that's all about killing more of the enemy than you lose in Pool 4 (which could be limited to kills by your army leader or just mass killing with your army).
Pool 6 is more like Pool 4 in that it's about killing things - but how many enemy models total you kill is usually not weighted as strongly as being able to kill enemy heroes (either one specific hero or all enemy heroes). Since heroes are generally speaking better than warriors, killing enemy heroes in Pool 6 requires some planning in the list building stage in order to avoid a "no win" scenario.
