Sunday wargaming at Strategies

I sneaked away from baby duties today and played a game vs a friend at Strategies Games & Hobbies.  Strategies is unique in Vancouver because it's about the only place left that still enforces the "play it painted" rule.  Now that I have a good portion of my stuff finished I can actually field a decent force and have some options when i play here. I played Rasheth vs Venethrax (crap...) and after a close game and almost everything on both sides dead I admitted defeat.  It was an interesting situation, however, because I had bloodmark on venethrax, and the only thing on the board that could really kill rasheth was venethrax himself.  he didn't want to attack me, however, because he knew i would transfer the damage to him, possibly killing him.  the situation was not that simple though; earlier rasheth had bile thrall chunks spewed his way and got corroded.  corrosion does not expire within venethrax's control area.  oh shit.  like the clever opponent he was, my friend decided to just let rasheth corrode to death.  for fun, after conceding the game to my opponent, i asked him to swing at rasheth with venethrax, just to see if i could transfer the damage to him and take him out with bloodmark.  of course, he rolled exactly what he needed to kill himself! good times.  maybe this trick would've worked on a less experienced opponent but i digress.

i think this was a bad matchup for me with rasheth.  my list had exactly what he wanted - lots of titans to eat and steal fury from.  this was my first time vs venethrax, however, and i think next time i could do things differently.  since his list was mainly infantry, i dont think enraging the titans every turn is necessary.  instead, i should make sure i keep as little fury on them as possible so venethrax cant keep mulching through them.  also spacing them out a little and making sure venethrax has to choose 1 to go kill instead of getting 2 in a turn would be handy.  gators aren't particularly useful vs undead stuff either.

his list was
Venethrax
Seether
Defiler? bonejack with spray attack
Skarlock Thrall
Mechanithralls max
Bloodgorgers min 
Bile Thralls min fuck these guys
Necrosurgeon and Stitch Thralls
Gerlak Slaughterborn
Warbitch Siren
Bloat Thrall
Necrotech & bomb guy lol 

my list was
Rasheth tier 2 chain gang
Titan Gladiator
Bronzeback Titan
Titan Sentry
Gatormen Posse max
Paingiver Beasthandlers min
Swamp Gobbers Bellows Crew
Agonizer
Paingiver Taskmaster (proxied with Aptimus Marketh, I forgot the Taskmaster at home on the paint table)

 This was a game my other friend was playing.  both very nicely painted armies.  go strategies for this awesome rule.  the experience of playing a wargame is just so greatly enhanced by these amazingly painted little toy dudes.