Norway Hugin Skorne vs France Falbala Convergence

This post will detail the game state and describe what happened between Hugin Skorne and Falbala Convergence at Game 6, WTC 2017. If anyone finds anything factually incorrect here, please notify me and I will look into it and update this post accordingly.

:: Table of Contents ::

1. Army Lists
2. Scenario
3. State of the Game
4. Rules Dispute
5. Resolution and Analysis

1. Army Lists

Hugin Skorne dropped Xerxis2, France Falbala dropped Axis:

2. Scenario 

The scenario was Outlast from Steamroller 2017:

3. State of the Game

Skorne started. The game was in its third round. CPs were 0:0. Axis had feated bottom of 2. Convergence had lost one TEP, all but one of its light jacks, a heavy was crippled and a lot of servitors were destroyed. Xerxis2 had feated this turn and a lot of his army had activated. Axis was left on 3 boxes with 3 focus camped. A previous hit on him by a Basilisk Krea had left him Paralysed. The token was next to the model.

The Skorne army had at least 3 Basilisk activations left. A Basilisk Drake moved up within 6" of Axis and Axis elected to counter-charge it. At this point in time he was in the middle of the Skorne army which was shaped roughly as a crescent. Neither player remembered that Paralysis prevented this move. The Basilisk Drake which was counter-charged didn't get to spray since it was engaged and its activation did no damage to Axis.

4. Rules Dispute

The next Basilisk (another Drake) activated. During this model's activation, the players remembered that Paralysis should have prevented the counter-charge. Upon discovering that he had made an illegal move, the Falbala Convergence player offered to resign. The Hugin Skorne player declined this resignation, because he believed it was both players' responsibility to remember the various token effects. Instead, he wanted to call a judge, which they agreed to do.

After some debate, it was agreed that rolling back the last 2 Basilisk activations and placing Axis back to where he was prior to the counter-charge was trivial. Both the Falbala Convergence player and the Hugin Skorne player agreed to this ruling.

Prior to starting the clock, the Hugin Skorne player double-checked with the judge. He asked two questions, receiving 2 unequivocal answers:

"Is this how we should resolve this issue?"
'Yes.'
"Shall I start the clock?"
'Yes.'

After this, he started the clock and they ensued the game. The first Basilisk Drake to activate sprayed Axis and dealt 1 box to him, leaving him on 2 boxes and 2 focus. The second Basilisk Drake to activate sprayed Axis and dealt 4 boxes to him, killing him and ending the game on assassination.

5. Resolution and Analysis

The game was resolved with both players in agreement. From the Hugin Skorne player's perspective, this was not a game-breaking judge call. Had the judge ruled to play the game from the position it was, Axis would have required some crazy dice to survive. He had feated and was paralyzed (which is not shakeable), which with his SPD5 would not have left him with a whole lot of options had he even survived the rest of the Hugin Skorne player's turn. Being in the middle of the Skorne army, lacking most of his lights, a TEP and a heavy it is highly unlikely that he would have lived past the ensuing Skorne turn. The CP score was 0:0 and Xerxis2 was out of threat. Hugin Skorne could have happily played on from this position.