Game 1, I got the bye and played the TO using one of the players' Blindwater Congregation.
I brought the same Jarl list I've been running:
Jarl
-Mauler
-Bomber
-Impaler
-Runebearer
Max Fennblades w/ UA
Fell Caller
Whelps
he brought:
Rask
-Wrastler
-Swamp Horror
Max Gatorman Posse
Max Gatorman Posse
2 Gatorman Witch Doctors
We rolled and I got first turn.
Top of 1: I advance Jarl up, put Tactical Supremacy on myself and put Quicken on the Fennblades who advanced 8"--I wanted to try and keep from getting too exposed early on. The Beasts basically just advance and rile/run for the correct amount of Fury. I accidentally advanced the Mauler out of Jarl's Control Area, but Tactical supremacy at the end of my turn let Jarl side-step to get the Mauler back in.
Bottom of 1: Pretty much the same thing. Stuff ran, a few Gatormen toed the edge of the zone, and chanted Dirge of Mists for +1 DEF and Terror. (DEF 13 Overall)
Top of 2: Let me say first that 5 minute turns are a bitch. Moving forward, I see the chance to alpha-strike. With the Gators' ability to WRECK living models (so, everything I have), it seemed important to get there first. Jarl tried some Magic Bullet shenanigans, attempting to bounce it off of a Posse member into a Witch Doctor, but I didn't manage to kill either. Meanwhile, the Fell Caller calls +2 MAT on the Fennblades, who minifeat and charge-- about 6/12 manage to engage Gators-- and then it all goes wrong. At MAT 8 rolling against DEF 13, 4/6 Fennblades miss their attacks, and the ones that hit barely scratch the gators. Moving the whole unit and doing those attacks (none of which were lethal) took up a great deal of time. Once that was finished, I barely had time to rile the Bomber for more fury before time ran out.
Bottom of 2: After my Fennblades just bounced off the wall of Gatormen, they retaliated, and wiped all of them out. Some who were not already engaged managed to engage others further back in the unit, and the Fenns took heavy losses. Not much happened, just an attrition war going against me.
Top of 3: Concerned about time, I completely space out and blow by the remaining Fennblades' Vengeance Moves/Attacks. The Fennblades activate normally, and continue to miss attack rolls and underperform on damage rolls. I see a chance with Jarl to take a shot at Rask (who is sitting on several fury and 2 largely unused warbeasts, so the Impaler puts his animus on Jarl, and Jarl takes a shot... and misses. His second shot hits and does a respectable amount of damage (which is immediately transferred). The Mauler charges and kills a Gatorman, and I pretty much ran out of time for everyone else.
Bottom of 3: My opponent sees a chance to go for the assassination. One Witch Doctor walks up and uses Sacrificial Strike to kill a Fennblade and open up a charge lane. Then, 3 Posse charge Jarl and beat him to feakin' death.
Rask wins by Assassination.
Looking back at it, I think a lot of went wrong came down to dice-- Charging at -6 against models with 8 Boxes and Tough was going to be a tall order, but I didn't expect 66% of them to miss their 5-to-hit rolls. Yikes. Overall, I'm feeling pretty down on the Fenns at this point, but I'm trying to give them their due and get some more experience with them.
My battlegroup ended up being largely irrelevant in the game-- being so short on time, and not having any particularly juicy targets for the bomber (everything in the list had boxes), he ended up just being a Fury battery. The Mauler charged and killed a Gatorman, but he should have been doing way more than that. My major issue is time, I just don't really know how I would have activated all of that meaningfully in 5 minutes--at least at this stage, given my lack of familiarity with Trolls.
I'm not really sure how I could have defended better against the Assassination, probably just placing Jarl more centrally to have more stuff in the way.
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