tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35941256376333442212024-03-05T03:05:25.994-05:00Blood, Skulls, and Fire!A blog dedicated to my hobby...Warhammer Fantasy and 40k, Warmachine & Hordes...and Flames of War, too!Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.comBlogger208125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-73672819153007710592020-05-04T12:37:00.001-04:002020-05-04T12:37:42.614-04:00The Irony...It's been many years since I've posted anything, or even touched a miniature. I think the last time I played a miniature game on a table with dice and everything was about fall of 2015.<br />
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My miniatures languished in the basement untouched and unloved for many years, until Halloween night of 2019 they decided they'd had enough, and wanted to enjoy one last flaming hurrah.<br />
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During a windy cold rain storm, a tree broke the neutral wire from the power pole to our house. This caused an electrical "event" that set my miniatures on fire. They burnt mightily, as the forced of Chaos should.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This used to be my tournament Daemon army...<img height="16" id="3stvd96o6cfl" src="data:image/gif;base64,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" width="16" /></td></tr>
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The whole family managed to get out of the house. It was a near thing. My daughter and I lost some eyelashes and bangs singed off from the extreme heat just running by basement door.<br />
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Things to remember in a house fire: grab your cell phone which is probably right on your night stand. I had to pound on neighbors doors until someone woke up to call 911 for me. Then I got to stand in the road in a windy cold rain storm up to my ankles in cold water in my underwear watching smoke come out of my house waiting for the fire department.<br />
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The miniatures are a total loss, along with the rest of the house. Insurance is treating us well, but it sure is a tough time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beloved Slaanesh Soul Grinder</td></tr>
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And of course, now that all my paints and brushes and EVERYTHING we all have mountains of to paint and assemble and modify our models, not to mention models themselves, are all gone, I have an itch to start painting!<br />
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I looked around for game systems, and have decided I want to do Kings of War. Big units of ranked up fantasy dudes lined up across from each other has always been my prime love. I have some local friends that play. There are tournaments regionally I can attend.<br />
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So, I'm build a Dwarf army! I don't know how good it is, but I'm more interested in painting and assembly big pretty units than tournament crushtastic gameplay.<br />
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So hopefully I can start blogging again and get an army painted up and regale you with my stories of tabletop conflicts, failures, bad dice, and me being stupid once again.<br />
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Miss you all, be safe!<br />
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<br />Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-7649349062572856412015-07-13T17:25:00.003-04:002015-07-13T17:25:52.872-04:00Seamus' Belle of the Ball: Malifaux at Connecticon 2015!No, I'm not dead. My gaming adventures are limited to getting kicked around by my friend Brendan at Monday Night Malifaux, and getting kicked around by my son Bobby on Conquest night...but I finally made it to a Tournament...my first since Nova last year, I think? Is it bad if I can't even remember?<br />
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Despite being unable to remember my name, the ages of my children, the location of half my miniatures, and my anniversary (I was only not in trouble for forgetting that because she forgot too...), I did manage to get some things painted and got myself nearly on time to Hartford, got checked in at the Con, and went to the game room.<br />
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Like last year, the Miniature Gaming was done in the Hilton, a long way away from the actual Convention. This is a big negative for me, as I'd like to be able to take advantage of time between games to actually participate in the convention...wander the vendor halls, get an autograph (George Takei was there this year!!!), listen in on a panel, ogle the hotties. Instead we're hidden away in a side room on the 3rd floor of a Hotel and interacted with literally no one else. Disappointing.<br />
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That said, the Malifaux stuff was very well set up. Unsurprisingly the turnout for Malifaux was not great (though I think we had more than the 40k did this year!)...it's not a 'mainstream' game (Yet!), CaptainConn is next week, and in my limited experience with Malifaux gamers, two-day events don't seem to be "the thing" like they are in 40k. Pity.<br />
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So if I understand things right, we had a fair number of no-shows, ending up at 9 players. My friend Brendan stepped in to get us to an even number. The decision was made to drop the second day's games and do just the 3 games on Saturday. I understand why this decision was made, but I disagree with it. I went there to play 5 competitive games of Malifaux against people I'll likely never get to see again. The opportunity was there to go do 'open gaming' on Sunday, but it's not the same. Still, 3 games is better than none, and off we went!<br />
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Part of the sponsorship for this event...I've forgotten the name of the company, so will look it up later as I'm at work and brought none of my notes with me, yes I suck...provided some really gorgeous tables to play on, one a beautiful Japanese setting complete with cherry trees, another a dockyard section of Malifaux including a chapel and graveyard!<br />
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Those tables were beautiful and a lot of fun to play on. The dockyard was a bit too busy and cluttered, and even 30mm bases struggled to find places to sit, but it worked and looked great...pics below!<br />
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I took two Masters with me to play: Dreamer and Jacob. I intended to use Jacob in Headhunter and Reckoning, and Dreamer in the others. As it turns out, only one Master was needed!<br />
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My first game was against Jonah from western Massachusetts. He was playing Guild (which made me sweat a bit...I have very little exposure to Guild stuff other than Perdita, but know that Perdita and Sonnia have plenty of tools to cut thru Dreamer like he's not even there.<br />
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The Strategy though was Headhunter, which meant he'd want to get close to me to pick up the heads. The Schemes included Breakthrough, Murder Protege, Assassinate, and...damned if I can remember, neither of us chose it anyway. The terrain was beautiful, but dominated by a giant multi-level Pagoda at the middle of the table.<br />
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I went with Dreamer (Dreams of Pain and Wings of Darkness), 3Daydreams, Iggy, two Teddies, and Widow with a Cache of 6. I figured he'd have to get in close to get heads, so I had a decent chance of being able to pull off either Protege or Assassinate, and I could summon a couple Madness easy to glide thru the very busy terrain and get schemes down with no issue.<br />
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He chose Perdita (Trick Shooting, Badge of Office, and Vengeance Bullet), Francisco (Wade In and Diestro), Enslaved Nephilim, Papa Loco, Latigo Pistolero, Witchling Stalker, and Ryle.<br />
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I figured Ryle would be the one that would want to get in close, and he's more points than Francisco, so chose Murder Protege on him, and Breakthrough. I didn't reveal either.<br />
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Jonah revealed nothing either, and off we went!<br />
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With Corner deployment, I deployed with the intention of moving around the Pagoda 'clockwise', getting inside as quickly as I could, where I thought I'd have the advantage in close-quarters fighting. After his first activation, however, we realized that 40mm bases fit on the patio/porch all around the pagoda, but only 30mm could fit inside. That kind of left my Teddys in a bad way.<br />
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Fortunately for me, he moved 'clockwise' as well, with some models up on the patio and some down on the ground. I basically held my ground, getting Lilitu and Lelu summoned while pushing Teddy's up just a bit so I could threaten things that were coming around the corner. He shot up one of the Teddies pretty badly, and killed Lelu with his first volleys in turn 2, but I was able to push that Teddy way back with Daydreams, get a couple Madness out, pop Chompy and get a 0-Waking Dreamer in a prime spot.<br />
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My gameplan from turn 2 on was to hold my ground, let him come to me to try to collect heads, and kill everything that got close. I kept the Madnesses in close thru turn 3, then sent them sprinting thru the Pagoda to the backfield where they were able to get down 4 Objectives before game end.<br />
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My plan worked out well, as he was able to push things up to me and dish out damage, but with two Stitched brought out on turn 3 I had so much 'close in' killiness that he wasn't able to bring anything down, while I dropped Ryle for 2 Murder Protege points and the pile of Web Markers started taking their toll. Turn 3 peaked with him running Loco up in the middle of my mess...I pushed a few things away with Daydreams, then in very fun moment got off Gobble You Up on Loco with a Teddy, Smell Fear killed Loco, both Teddies survived the Explosion, then that Teddy was able to walk over and pick up the head! Beautiful!<br />
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Turn 4 he went "all in" as he ran Francisco, Perdita, and the Latigo up close. They put down both Teddies and took a chunk off Lilitu, but a few more Stiched were summoned, Chompy came out in Ten Inch Claw range of Francisco. A few Stitched Gambles and Chompy was able to finish off Francisco, leaving Perdita isolated and vulnerable. My stable of Stitched, now near a 0-Waking Dreamer, went to work and killed her as well.<br />
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I ended up killing all but the Enslaved Nephilim by end of 5, and got full points for Headhunter, Breakthrough, and 2 points for the unrevealed Murder Protege. He got 2 points for Headhunter and 2 for Murder on a Teddy, but failed to Assassinate Dreamer...9-4 for me!<br />
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After a quick lunch (thanks Joanne!!) we settled in to Round Two. I was a bit confused by the Scheme Pool in this one: Turf War with Distract, Cursed Object, Deliver a Message, and Plant Explosives. This is not a pool that's possible, as there's only one "suit" scheme. Regardless, they all play well together, as enemy crew can be expected to be near the middle for Turf War.<br />
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My opponent was Will, playing Ten Thunders. He was from the same store as Jonah, I believe he's Inquisitor Wall on the Wyrd Forums.<br />
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I again went with Dreamer...I think Teddies and Widow's Webs very quickly make quick work of folks in the Turf. Instead of Iggy I went with a Doppelganger...her plan was to walk over and drop a Scheme for Plant Explosives at a key time. I then had to decide based on Crew whether I was more comfy with Distract or Cursed Object...Deliver a Message was an option too, as Teddy can easily Gobble You Up to get in position and have two AP left, but if the opposing Master wasn't one to get in the thick of things it'd be tricky.<br />
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As it turns out, he chose a master that I've never played against but understood his 'trick' a bit...Brewmaster! I have to admit, I panicked a little bit, as he would do bad things to any of these 'up close' schemes. Then I read Fingers' card, and I panicked a lot. No interacts within 6"?! He can just toe in to the Turf and prevent me from doing any Schemes at all! In support he had Sidir, 2 Performers, Wesley, and a very imposing Whiskey Golem.<br />
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I have to say, I felt absolutely screwed at the prospect of trying to pull off any of this.<br />
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Moreover, the terrain we were playing on (as mentioned above) was very "tight", making pushes and charges very challenging.<br />
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More-moreover, I gave him first deploy and got stuck deploying basically "behind" a 2" wall (a dock) that I had to climb to get out of my deployment area. I could have gone in a corner, but that would stick me even farther away from the Turf and give no cover at all.<br />
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I somehow swallowed down my panic, and just focused on playing turn by turn. I had no clear idea in mind how I would be able to score points, but I figured he'd have a hard time getting me out of the Turf so I could at least keep the points difference down to a minor loss.<br />
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I did pretty standard summoning stuff at start, with Lelu and Lilitu being summoned, and everyone else just climbed up on the dock ready to jump down in to the turf.<br />
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Second turn he decided he wanted to kill a Teddy...so lured it over to him. So I pushed him backwards to safety. So he lured him again. So I pushed him again. And again. And kept him safe! Giving up on the Teddy, Sidir started shooting at Widow, and got her down to just a few wounds left, so she dropped a web and ran behind the wall back in to my deployment zone where she'd heal back up from Dreamer and stay safe. I started spamming Stitched at this point...as I realized something:<br />
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Stitched can kill the hell out of stuff from outside the Brewmaster's 3" Drinking Contest range; and moreover, I could block LOS to Lenny with either my or his models (using pushes) and not be prevented from performing Interact actions!<br />
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So I was able to do exactly that, get Doppelganger in to a spot where Sidir blocked LOS to Lenny, and she dropped a Scheme for full 3 points on Plant Explosives. Sadly for me he was able to lure a little Daydream to his side of the table, along with the tug-of-war Teddy, for full 3 points for Plant Explosives also. Moreover, he handed that Teddy a Cursed Object, going up a point there while I had none.<br />
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I summoned more Stitched, and started focusing on out-activating and killing things in the Turf. Stitched and Teddy were able to drop the Whiskey Golem before it even got to swing, which was very helpful!<br />
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I think he made a key mistake here, moving Fingers far enough away from Brewmaster that I was able to get a Teddy on him, and between Smell Fear and a single attack I was able to push him pretty far away, but he pushed himself out with his Defensive Trigger to prevent me getting in the killing blow and keeping himself unengaged.<br />
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With activations on my side I was able to push myself in to key spots with un-poisoned models and get a few Cursed Objects down and thin things out a bit.<br />
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Midway thru turn 5 we realized we were already way over on time. We clarified with TO that we should not start a new turn, and I spent a fair amount of time coming up with a plan to pull out a win. I had to ensure at least one model stayed alive with an Object on it; I had to kill all but one model in the Turf (at this point he had Brew, Sidir, and a Performer left in there), and I had to get the Cursed Object off a Teddy (who had high poison and within Drinking Contest range). I also wanted to kill Fingers, as just in case the game did go another turn I wanted to prevent any models from making a dash in there.<br />
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There was a LOT of activity here, including Lelu getting some hits in, Dreamer going crazy with Empty Night, clearing poison off two models, pushing the Cursed Object Teddy out of engagement, and pushing the other Teddy to kill Fingers. Cursed Object Teddy was able to remove his Curse, I hung on to a card to allow Doppelganger to pass her Drinking Contest duel and give a cursed object out, and the Stitched all combined to work on killing Sidir...<br />
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my last Stitched activates, Sidir has 1w left. Gamble Your Life fails, the Stitched only takes 3, not enough to get Reactivate. I'm out of cards, will has some in hand...I assume he's saving a high card...I flip a 9 for the attack, for a 15 duel total...and Sidir can't beat it! Will has no cards in hand. The damage flip (which I'm sweating hard, as I'd had to reshuffle deck and had Black Joker in there still!), and get him! Sidir goes down, leaving just Brewmaster in the Turf, and a Performer holding a Cursed Object...while I had no models holding a Cursed Object!<br />
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Will got 3 points for Turf War, 3 points for Plant Explosives, and 2 points for Cursed Object: 8 points<br />
I had 4 points for Turf War, 3 points for Plant Explosvies, and 2 points for Curse Object: 9 points!<br />
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What a game!<br />
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I can't remember any other miniature game making me sweat and work as hard as this one did! Will was a tremendous opponent and that crew was horrific to deal with. Once I figured out that I could block LOS to Brew or Fingers with pushes I felt I had a big piece of the puzzle on how to pull it off, and it worked out! I also kind of figured out that while Brewmaster is very control-oriented, he had very little things in his crew that actually killed things...once the Golem was gone, I had no worries about losing models, and just focused on getting points (something I tend to not be very good at as I still tend to play more of an attrition game than I should!)<br />
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Hands down my favorite game of Malifaux ever! Thanks Will!<br />
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<b><u>Game Three</u></b><br />
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Sadly I was too pooped to thing of taking any pictures of this game...sorry...<br />
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The TO told me as we return from dinner (a nice Shepherd's Pie from an awesome Irish Pub) that I'm currently in third based on TP and Diff, and I was paired up against the #4, a guy who was 1-1....Dreads from Houston, TX! I'm very jealous of Dreads' hair...like really. I'd love to be able to do that with my hair! Dreads had flown up for the day in hopes of winning a ticket to the Nova Malifaux Championship...he was clearly a pro, who traveled around to tourneys, and I was again in a panic! He was playing Neverborn, and was a Dreamer player too, which kicked up my panic a little more (I tend to think one of the greatest assets one can have in a competitive miniature game is for your opponent to not know what your stuff does very well...I enjoyed that in my last two games, but not in this one!)<br />
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This was another really bizarre Scheme Pool: Flank Deploy, Bounty Strategy, and Make Them Suffer, Take Prisoner, Outflank, and Vendetta. Not a single 'suit' Scheme in there. Weird!<br />
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I'd originally intended to take Jacob for this round, as I thought he'd do well in the Strategy, but with this Scheme Pool...hell, I didn't know what to do. Outflank I very much dislike...easily blocked, hard to 'hide' what you're doing, and have to reveal for full points. MTS is ok for Jacob/Hungery, but not so much for Dreamer/Widow. Vendetta I very much dislike, as once it's revealed your opponent can prevent more than 1 point for pretty minimal effort. I didn't like any of them!<br />
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I decided I liked working with Dreamer more than Jacob, so went with the Iggy crew again. In hindsight Iggy was a mistake here, as I had another model in my stable that would have worked out much better for me...<br />
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Dreads chose Lilith (with Growth, Living Blade, and Beckon), Barbaraos, Mr. Graves, Hans, two Young Nephilim, Primordial Magic, and an Alp. An Alp, I thought? WTF?<br />
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I've only played vs. Lilith once before, that opponent not being a high-end competitive player. It was a tough game, but it focused on lure/push tricks to cause damage and conditions. This was something different!<br />
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Time to choose Schemes, and I turned my brain off COMPLETELY, and chose/revealed Line in the Sand (more on the brain off part of that later...) and Take Prisoner on Hans (I intended to summon a Madness to hide, look like doing Outflank, then run over late on last turn and engage Hans).<br />
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He did not reveal anything.<br />
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Things started really well for me. I summoned my usual Lilith and Lilitu, moved Dreamer so he'd be "safe" from Hans behind a large building, and started shifting towards a corner. The first two turns saw him push Lilith and Barbaros to mid-table (on opposite side of building where Dreamer was hiding), while the Young moved aggressively to the other side of the building. With a flurry of bad cards, one Young was attacked by both of my Teddies and lived...that Young then happily ate Lelu, and turned in to a Mature on his next turn! Yikes! Luckily a Teddy went crazy on that guy, killing him before he could do any damage. The other Young was Lured by Lilitu and killed by the other Teddy. To ensure the kill I discarded my last card to get Flurry, which wasn't needed as Teddy did good work and dropped the Young in two Hugs!<br />
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And here's where things get bad...<br />
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...Dreads confirmed I had no cards in hand, cast Tangled Shadows on Dreamer, and pulled me over the building to be chopped up and bashed up by Lilith and Mr. Graves. I had no cards in hand to pass that attack off to a nearby Nightmare, and no way to get any Nightmares over to that side of the building quickly. To add insult to injury, there was now an Alp in the middle of my crew, while I didn't fail any of those Wp duels, that was a damned good trick. Ah! That's what the Alp is for!<br />
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Dreamer lived thru two activations from Lilith, but Graves finished him off. I was in a complete panic and messed up some things...I think I could easily have saved some Stones that I'd used to prevent damage, and use those stones to Summon some things that I could have passed the attacks off to and lived. Instead I lost Dreamer, and went down the tubes quickly.<br />
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Note that if I'd had the Effigy, then Dreamer could have used the Push from the Condition to react to the Tangled Shadows, push in to the building he was next to, and be completely untouched and fine.<br />
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I tried to keep in the fight with a nice Teddy barrage on Barbaros that failed to take the big demon down, leaving him at one wound. Barabaros and Lilith killed that Teddy. A number of attacks later and a Madness I'd summoned finally brings Barbaros down, but it was too little too late.<br />
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I had Widow, Lilitu, Iggy, a Madness, and two Daydreams to deal with Hans, Graves, and Lilith. I got two Schemes down on the Centerline...and here's the REALLY bad part...and had myself convinced that's all the Scheming I needed to do, so stopped trying! If I'd played just a tweak smarter, I had great opportunity to get the other two Schemes down, but I did some wasteful things (Iggy set Hans on fire to make him think I didn't have him as Take Prisoner target; Widow did an Exhale Terror on Mr. Graves for no reason and to no effect, Madness did nothing at all one activation, as I was just moving once to make sure I was within 14" of Hans...) but instead had it in my head that I needed 2 for 2 and if revealed got 1 more...like Breakthrough. So brainless! I blame the Sheppard's Pie!<br />
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I danced around a lot, avoiding getting everyone engaged and maintaining some mobility until the end of 5, when I ran the Madness through a building to engage Hans. I flipped for game end, thinking I had him easily...he had only 1 point for MTS and 2 for Vendetta on a Teddy...but the game went on.<br />
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I won initiative, and all I THOUGHT I had to do was keep Lilith from charging the Madness and I'd win. He wanted to get Hans away from the Madness, and kill the Madness or a Daydream for MTS. I used the Madness to push Widow thru Lilith's forest, dropped a web next to her (making two webs within 3") and got off the Seize Prey on her, paralyzing her! He got Hans away from the Madness, and shot it hoping to kill it, but did 3 damage, Incorporeal for 2...it lives! And I don't remember what Graves did, but it was effectively nothing. The Madness walked over to Hans, and the game ended!!<br />
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Dreads has 3 for Bounty, 2 for Vendetta, and 1 for MTS for total 6...<br />
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I THINK I'm at 1 for Bounty; 3 for Prisoner, and 3 for LITS for 7 and am SO Psyched to have pulled that off with the brainless play with Dreamer!!<br />
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Then Dreads corrected me, I only had 1 for LITS, so lost 6-5!<br />
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While it was disappointing to lose, I had a tremendously fun game! Dreads was a real pleasure to play, super talented...I really liked how he kept his heavy-hitters unengaged and took advantage of my mistake with absolute perfection. I very much feel that if I'd not lost Dreamer at that point, the game was mine. As it was, I take a tremendous confidence boost from having made such a horrible mistake (remember what I said about not knowing what your opponent does? I'd completely lost focus on him having Tangled Shadows!), losing Dreamer, and still playing well enough to have such a close tight game...and giving myself opportunity to win, but I simply didn't focus on LITS and played based on a wrong assumption there!<br />
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So since the final two rounds had been cancelled, that was the end! I was a complete zombie at this point (the final round didn't start until 8pm, we were finishing after 11!) so missed the name of the guy that won all three of his games, but I'm sure James will post it on the Wyrd Forum. Congratulations to him!<br />
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I ended up tied on W/L with Dreads; and tied on Diff with Dreads; but pulled out Second Place on Points (those two 9-point wins saved me!!)...the prize support was INCREDIBLE! Little prizes were raffled off thru all the games, including a very fun 'straight razor' that's actually a measuring tool! I won Lucas McCabe box all painted beautifully by one of the sponsors (wouldn't it be nice if I remembered who that was? I suck!), a gorgeous piece of terrain (I think the sponsor was Plasticraft?), a nice brush set, a pretty wooden deck box, some tokens, lots of grass tufts, and an awesome airbrush!<br />
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Thanks to James for a well-run event! Thanks to Jonah, Will, and Dreads for three incredible games and a great way to spend a Saturday!Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-58535791683095454172014-08-22T17:04:00.002-04:002014-08-22T21:34:27.357-04:00Monday Malifaux... and more!Actually, this isn't even a Monday Malifaux...but the last few Sundays and some Vassal short-stories thrown in!<br />
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I'm still using Dreamer and a little Jacob thrown in. I've gotten two games in with each in the last week and a half, read on to learn how they went!<br />
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Last Sunday I played a game vs. James. I was all excited to use Dreamer with Mr. Tannen and see how many Teddies I could Summon, but alas when we went to put together crews, my Tannen card is missing! So I just subbed in a Stitched Together and went with:<br />
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<b>Dreamer</b> (<i>Dreams of Pain</i>)<br />
<b>Teddy</b><br />
<b>2 Stitched Together</b><br />
<b>2 Insidious Madness</b><br />
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James' crew included <b>Seamus</b> (with the Big Hat and a few other upgrades, didn't catch the details), a couple <b>Rotten Belles</b>, a couple <b>Nurses</b>, <b>Sebastian</b>, some <b>Canine Remains</b>, and a <b>Punk Zombie</b>.<br />
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Strategy was <i>Reckoning</i>. <i>Corner Deployment</i>. I don't remember the whole Scheme Pool, but I went with Breakthrough and Frame for Murder (on one of the Madness).<br />
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I deployed Teddy and the Stitched aiming for the middle of the table, while the Dreamer and summoning cronies hid behind a giant tower. The Madnesses went behind the tower also, ready to shoot around the flanks.<br />
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James split his force up a bit, with Sebastian, Nurses, and Remains going to my left, Punk, Belles, and Seamus more towards mid-table.<br />
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Now, remember when I said I wanted to use Mr. Tannen this game? My first hand included 13 Mask AND Red Joker. Could you imagine his reaction if I'd shit out two Teddies on turn 1? Hilarity! Instead I pushed Stitched up a lot, Teddy got pushed around to my left (to deal with Sebastian), and I summoned...all in one turn...Coppelius, Lelu, and Lilitu! Lilitu walked up to the middle to support there, while Lelu and Coppelius went around to the left a bit to support Teddy...lots of killiness going that way! Seamus zipped off deep to my right using Back Alley a time or two. I sent the "sucker" Madness that way, but hid him so as not to tip my hand!<br />
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Turn 2, I sent the "sucker" madness near Seamus (above the table stuff, I mumbled about not wanting him to Back Alley anywhere bad). Seamus took a shot at him, but didn't kill him. A Belle worked her way towards him, tried to Lure him, but failed. My other Madness zipped thru a ruined bulding and got a Scheme Marker just within Breakthru range. We jockeyed for position at midtable a bit. Dreamer summoned a Daydream to replace last turn's, spawned Chompy. Chompy re-buried and shit out a 0 wakening Dreamer....who I put a bit more than 3" of friendly Nightmares...<br />
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Lelu and Coppelius got pushed closer to the left where the action was about to happen. Teddy did Gobble You Up on a Nurse, Hugged the other nurse due to Smell Fear, then Flurried to kill the other.<br />
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A Belle Lured my "sucker" Madness in and killed him...yeah! I moved Stitched and Daydreams and an Alp to mid table. Lilitu lured the Punk in to the mess, and the a Stitched killed him!<br />
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On the left things got exciting. Lelu killed one of his Remains, and Pushed himself thru the forest to get closer to the other. Coppelius killed off the last Nurse. Sebastian tried to run for it,Teddy failed his Gobble You Up but Charged Sebastian, leaving him barely alive. My other Madness ran over and Schemed again. Seamus did a great Back Alley move that set him up for a shot on the Dreamer, leaving him with 2 wounds left...so the Dreamer ran like a girl 14", and removed Poison from Teddy. My last Alp moved to engage Seamus, forcing him to take a Wp Duel or be Slow, and at least have to kill the Alp before trying to Back Alley again.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Run, Sebastian....Run!!!</td></tr>
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At this point James realized he was going to lose Sebastian early turn 4, leaving him with 2 Belles and Seamus vs. about 100ss worth of stuff. I don't know what schemes he had, but he was down on Reckoning (I think I had a Nurse and a Remains on turn 2; a Nurse and Punk Zombie turn 3), I had two VP from Frame for Murder, and was going to get 3 VP for Breakthru. He would likely get 2 for Breakthru...I think maybe he had Bodyguard on Sebastian? So, he thought the outcome was inevitable, so he surrendered. Thanks for the game, James!<br />
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But no worries, as Pat was standing by ready for a game! Pat plays Neverborn also, and we decided since time was a factor to do 35ss.<br />
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Strategy was Squatters Rights, Corner Deployment, pool was Assassinate, Entourage, and really...I don't remember what else.<br />
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I wanted to get some trigger-time with Jacob, so went with:<br />
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<b>Jacob</b> (<i>Woke Up With a Hand, Wanna See a Trick, Rising Sun</i>)<br />
<b>Hungering Darkness</b> (<i>Addict</i>)<br />
<b>2 Illuminated</b><br />
<b>2 Beckoners</b><br />
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He had Lilith (with the Big Sword), Shaman, Waldgeist, 3 Tots, and a few Upgrades that I didn't catch the name of.<br />
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I went with Assassinate (I figured Lilith would be coming at me anyway...) and Entourage (let Hungry take a chunk out of Lilith, die, then Jacob finish her off, spawn new Huggy, and off he'd go!)<br />
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He moved very aggressively with the Waldgeist early, so I planned to Lure and Heed My Voice the thing up to where I could kill it with Illuminated and Jacob.<br />
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But after the first Beckoner's Lure, Lilith came up even more aggressively! She used her "lure" thing to pull an Illuminated in close, where she was surrounded by Severe terrain from the Cherub, which made my Illuminated take even more damage. Ouch!<br />
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So...I changed my plan, and started Luring her. A Lure and a Heed My Voice later (<b>Yes! I know...I cheated!</b> I realized later that it's only able to target Non-Leader models. My bad!), she was less than 10" away from Jacob. An Illuminated took a shot at Lilith, hoping for the Mask trigger to get her Brilliant, but that failed...<br />
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...so Jacob walks up, takes a shot, hits, discards for a Mask trigger and gets her hooked on the Brilliance, but only for weak Damage. Goes to cast Final Debt...with 8 cards in hand...Black Joker. Uhoh!<br />
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So did 52 Pickup for six, and stood by to die.<br />
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Second turn Initiative would be so important...if he wins, Jacob dies. If I win, Lilith dies.<br />
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Of course he wins!<br />
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Lilith moved well to engage multiple models, and killed the hell out of Jacob. Huggy got revenge though, killing her off. Turns out we both had Assassinate, so both got full points for it. Yeah?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lilith is (cheatily) lured in to the Killbox! (Jacob is just off frame behind the rock near BootyButt)</td></tr>
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The Shaman made the game for him here, as Corpse Markers were used by the Shaman to turn Tots in to Young after they claimed some Squatters Rights. One of my Illuminated went down quickly (spawning a Young Nephilim), while Huggy and the Beckoners struggled to get things off Huggy, get Huggy across the table, and not die.<br />
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Pat went up quickly on Squatter's Rights, and on turn 5 I'd not made any headway getting in to his table half with Huggy, tried a hail-mary to disengage and by Luring a Young Nephilim off of Hungry, but failed. Final Score was 6-5 (He has assassinate for 3, and 3 Squatters Rights; I had assassinate for 3, and 2 Squatter's Rights)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lilith is gone, but the Tots remain!</td></tr>
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In showing our age, neither Pat nor I can remember what his other Scheme was. Sorry!<br />
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This was a really good challenging game for me. I was out-activated, and was really in a pickle as I didn't feel I could 'trade' models well, as any dead models were likely to result in him Growing something. The speedy tots were all over the Squats, and I was not...I had to send fighty Illumianted to do squats, a guy I'd much rather have had to help kill stuff to free up Huggy! I had to make hard choices, and really enjoyed it!<br />
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Huggy was super survivable. With Terrifying and Incorporeal, he was very hard for Pat to get wounds on, then when he activated he was able to heal up well. I wasn't able to set up the Illuminated with Brillianced targets very well, but having one of them dragged away to his death and the other off Squatting made that kind of moot.<br />
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Pat did a great game with the Shaman pushing me in to bad spots with the Young Nephilim spawns and taking advantage of every mistake I made. Thanks for the great game Pat!<br />
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Well, two games written and this post is getting long, but I've got two more games under my belt to talk about, so talk I will...it's something I do a lot of!<br />
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Pat and I got together on Vassal for a 50ss game. I took screenshots of the game, but Vassal is smarter than I am, and has hidden the pictures from me. Sorry!<br />
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Deployment was Standard, Recon was the strategy. As usual I only remember the schemes I chose, not the entire pool...I went with Assassinate and Deliver a Message.<br />
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His force was led by <b>Pandora</b>, with <b>Teddy, Baby Kade, Candy Kane, </b>a couple of <b>Sorrows</b> and a <b>Poltergeist</b>.<br />
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I took a slightly different Summony Dreamer list...what I'm aiming for Model-wise:<br />
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<b>Dreamer</b> (Dreams of Pain)<br />
<b>3 Daydreams</b><br />
<b>3 Alps</b><br />
<b>Teddy</b><br />
<b>Stitched Together</b><br />
<b>Doppelganger</b><br />
<b>Mr. Tannen</b><br />
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I'm in love with the DG, and really wanted to see if Mr. Tannen could be as helpful as he seemed he might. As noted, I chose Assassinate and Deliver a Message. In retrospect, Assassinate vs. Pandora was probably not the smartest move...but it was my first game vs. her!<br />
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Since I have no screenshots, I'll just have brief description....<br />
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brief for me means only a few thousand words, though!<br />
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I got a great first turn hand with Tannen, with a 10 and 13 Mask. Pat pushed most of his forces up the middle (this particular map was a series of interconnected buildings, with a wide train-track thru-way that cut thru the middle of the table. Most of the action took place along this wide street). His Teddy and Kade, a Sorrow and the Poltergeist pushed up at me, with Candy lurking behind...Pandora and the other Sorrow hid in a 'side room'. I pushed the Stitched up a bit, but mostly hung back first turn, and summoned...a second Teddy and Coppelius! Lilitu would have been a better choice probably, but I thought Coppelius' speed might come in handy if I needed to chase stuff down with all the LOS blocking walls and rooms etc.<br />
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Turn 2 things got hot and heavy. He beat up my Stitched, but it was able to help my hand with a few extra cards, and put a few wounds on hid Teddy. My plan at this point was to keep him occupied in the middle with the summoned stuff while I pushed the original Teddy (#1) around some corners where he could Deliver a Message to Pandora. This worked out well, particularly with the help of a Red Joker on a damage flip on his Teddy with one of mine that put him down pretty quickly. Dreamer and Daydreams pushed Teddy #1 as planned, he took a lot of knocks on his way in, and just barely survived long enough to get there and deliver it. Notably he was hit with Nobody Likes Me, so had to activate dead last in my crew...which was ironic, as that's what I wanted to do with him anyway!<br />
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The next turn I won the initiative (I believe I cheated it with the Doppelganger), Teddy activated, barely survived the damage taken just for activating near Pandora and a Sorrow, and he took a chunk out of Pandora. Lots of things dogpiled on him, and of course Teddy #1 died, but he'd done his job. Teddy #2 went to work fighting against Baby Kade and Poltergeist. He and Coppelius did pretty well, while Doppelganger tied up with a Sorrow and mimic'd Coppelius to collect some Eyes for her own!<br />
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Turn 3 Dreamer pulled off some great tricks...he summoned up two fresh Daydreams, getting me back to three, got to Waking 4 and summoned Chompy right outside the door to the 'room' Pandora was hiding in. The two new daydreams walked right thru the wall to get within range to drop Pandoras WP, the non-slow one pushed Chompy thru the door first then did the same. This left Pandora with Wp4, with Chompy ready to charge her. He did, and with her defense low he ripped her apart, and at that point we called the game. I had a damaged Coppelius and Teddy staring down his Poltergeist and Candy, his last Sorrow was unengaged but well within range for Chompy to get pushed to and kill on turn 5.<br />
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I believe the way things worked out, I won 9-0. I believe Pat had Assassinate and Breakthru (something schemey), but he failed to Scheme any. Moreover he'd misread Reconnoiter and didn't catch the 'models within 6" of center don't count' part, so he failed to get any there either.<br />
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I was quite happy with how the crew clicked together. I could easily see dropping an Alp for Otherwordly and a stone (I keep wanting to stone in a Crow when I'm going to summon something awesome, but am afraid to be defenseless!). This is a crew setup I'll most definitely be using at Nova!<br />
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And last, one more "quick" battle...Jacob versus Lilith round 2!<br />
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The first Jacob vs Lilith was a clear defeat for my Jacob force...the score was close, but I was trounced. I wanted some payback!<br />
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The deployment was Flank.<br />
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The Strategy was Stake a Claim!<br />
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Schemes were Entourage, Bodyguard, Spring the Trap, and Assassinate<br />
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I liked the idea of Assassinate, as I was pretty sure Lilith would get up close, but at the same time I liked the idea of just not getting engaged with Hungering Darkness, using his Incorporeal to stay away and hide and zip in to his backfield to score. Moreover, with Rising Sun, I felt I could even use him a bit offensively early and replace him to still score full.<br />
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So I went with what will probably be my standard Jacob crew:<br />
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<b>Jacob Lynch</b> (<i>Woke With A Hand, Wanna See A Trick, Rising Sun</i>)<br />
<b>Hungering Darkness</b><br />
<b>3 Illuminated</b><br />
<b>2 Beckoners</b><br />
<b>2 Terror Tots</b><br />
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He went with:<br />
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<b>Lilith</b><br />
<b>Nekima</b><br />
<b>2 Young Nephilim</b><br />
<b>Lilitu</b><br />
<b>2 Terror Tots</b><br />
I'm quite certain there were lots of upgrades in there, but I don't know what they were...sorry.<br />
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I deployed scattered all over, hoping to not tip my hand to what I was doing. I wasn't happy with the deployment, particularly putting Beckoner on the top floor...lazy.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deployment! Note the Beckoners head in the top floor of the building</td></tr>
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As this post is already way too long, I'll keep it brief. He played cagey with most of his models early, as did I. I wanted to push an engagement that I wanted, so I dangled Hungry out at mid-table where Lilith might come to get him...and she did. She killed the shit out of him, but that left her in a lureable spot.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lilith in position to be lured!</td></tr>
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So lure her I did, then got Brilliance on her. An Illuminated then charged her, and left her with only two wounds left. Then, what I didn't see coming....Nekima flew over, and killed her! He thought I had assassinate, and didn't want to just give her up. I'd arranged it so she was within 6" of Jacob, so Hungering Darkness popped back out, and Jacob went to work on Nekima...he burnt many soulstones, despite having all 3 AP to shoot at her with, plus 52 pickup, I couldn't finish her off.<br />
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He won the initiative next turn, and did some great Nephilim magic...Nekima flew over and killed Jacob, but within range that a Young got credit for it, growing to a Mature! Nekima, having effectively 4 AP to use, also killed an Illuminated. Lilitu lured a Beckoner off the balcony she was on, she fell, was killed by a Tot that grew in to a Young! Yikes!! Hungry tried to save the Beckoner, but wiffed horribly before the Tot could get to her. While this was going on I managed to get two Claim Markers down on his side of the table.<br />
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Hungry disengaged from the young he was stuck with, and got away in to his deployment zone, but Lilitu lured him right back out! Even worse, the Cherub hit him, making him Slow! His last Tot Sprinted to get ready to place a Claim that would remove one of mine...so I ran one of my Tots to engage him. Make him work for it!<br />
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My hand on turn four was GROSS. I had Red Joker, a 13 Mask, and two 11s!<br />
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I won the initiative, and the Illuminated already stuck on Nekima went first, cheated the 13 Mask to trigger Flay (allows cheating damage flip even with a - ), and cheated Red Joker for massive damage (she only had 4 wounds left at that point, so was probably overkill, but I wanted that bitch dead!) With her out of the way, I thought I had a chance...my illuminated and Beckoner could keep his Mature and one Young occupied while Hungry killed the other Young and made his way in to his deployment zone!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nekima preparing to die to the Illuminated!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Huggy tries to fight his slow way out of the Young Nephilim</td></tr>
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Pat saw that, and resignedly revealed he had Bodyguard and Entourage on Nekima. He was screwed for points, I was already up 2 on Stake a Claim (potentially 3), and Hungering Darkness had a good chance of fighting his way out of the mess he was in for 2 VP on Entourage...we talked thru things, and it looked a lot like it was going to be an 8-2 win for me!<br />
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We'll have to get a Jacob vs Lilith rubber match in soon!!<br />
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So the rest of the weak has been spent getting everything ready for Nova! I have a few Wicked Dolls I'd like to have painted "good enough" to get them on the table if I use Widow + Handback, but otherwise I'm all done and ready to go!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dreamer Crew</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacob Crew!</td></tr>
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Well, I'm done...except all the Guild stuff I have (Austringers, Latigo Pistoleros, Riflemen to go with Perdita), and then there's all the stuff I ordered from Gencon...and the Johana I just picked up, and I need to get a Mr. Graves...<br />
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...see you at Nova I hope!!<br />
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<b><br /></b>Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-16808086579483406662014-08-07T13:54:00.000-04:002014-08-07T13:54:44.195-04:00Malifaux Monday - Football Practice?!Yeah, sadly, no Malifaux Monday for me...I coach little kid football: 5-7 year old kids. It's like herding cats!<br />
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I did get a few games in with Jacob Lynch, but I took no pictures or notes. So, business as usual for me, right? :)<br />
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<a name='more'></a>I got in a 50ss game on Vassal. The deployment was Corners. The Strategy was Reconnoiter. The Schemes were Spring the Trap, Assassinate, Breakthru, and Vendetta.<br />
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I really wanted to do some fun Luring along with Spring the Trap. I figured I could walk up, throw down some Schemes, have Beckoners and Doppel Lure his Leader in, SPring the Trap, then kill him next turn.<br />
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So I went with:<br /><br /><b>Jacob Lynch</b> (Woke Up With A Hand, Wanna See A Trick?, and Endless Darkness) (<i>3 ss pool</i>)<br />
<b>Hungering Darkness</b> (maybe Addict, not sure, don't remember :) )<br />
2 <b>Beckoners</b><br />
<b>Doppelganger</b><br />
and 3 <b>Illuminated</b><br />
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He took <b>Sonnia</b>, <b>Brutal Effigy</b>, 2 <b>Guild Guard</b>, 3 <b>Guild Riflemen</b>, <b>Witchling Handler</b>, and <b>Captain Dashel</b><br />
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I was pretty familiar with how the Riflemen and Dashel work together, but honestly was far too lazy to look at anything else. Even Sonnia I had no idea what she did. Her model has her with a sword, so I assumed she was a melee fighter...great for me!<br />
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So some highlights of the match...what my poor opponent had to explain to me 20 times before I finally got it through my head was that Sonnia doesn't allow Ca actions to use their Suits, so my Lure would never work as it needed two suits...both normally on the Ca. I literally played until turn 3 before that finally got thru my head.<br />
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Moreover, as real Malifaux players no doubt already know, she's a shooty person. I set up a few Scheme Markers (lazily disguised in a half-assed fashion as LITS) and hid around corners hoping to get her to come over...but of course she wouldn't. I ended up spending half my forces messing around with two Guard that were running Schemes and interference for her Sonnia as she took shots at things.<br />
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The other half of my forces did better. I was able to Lure Dash out a bit, get Hungry on him, but he survived. The Witchling charged Hungry, but he survived too. Next turn Initiative would be critical, and the combination of free cards from Woke Up With A Hand and hand-improvement from Mulligan set me up with a nice hand with which to cheat initiative, I won it, and Hungry killed both Dash and the Handler!<br />
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Then, an ignominious death to Riflemen. Sigh.<br />
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I had two Illuminated over there to deal with the Riflemen too, but one was shot down before he could get close, and the other spent three turns engaging two riflemen and failing to even injure one of them. Fail.<br />
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After figuring out she was un-Lure-able I moved Jacob up to threaten and got an Illuminated on her. With my hand stacked from Jacob's tricks the Illuminated was able to take her down to two wounds...but then she activated and healed back up AND got to draw cards to stack her hand. Jacob never quit got close enough to really threaten her (because I'm super hyper-conservative with him!) and I don't think I scored a single point for either the Strat or Schemes!<br />
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Sunday we played an awkward three-way battle at 35ss each at Gamers Gambit. I had my Neverborn, James was using his Ressers, and a newish player Ben was proxying some of my models as his 10-Thunders Misaki box that's on backorder. :)<br />
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We didn't have the Chronicle available that details the 3-player game, so did some off-the-cuff thing where one person was stuck in the middle 6" of the table while the other two were on the table edges. James with his Ressers drew the short-straw and was stuck in the sandwich.<br />
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The Strategy was Turf War, the Schemes available were Assassinate, Bodyguard, Entourage, and I believe Spring the Trap.<br />
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I figured Hungry with Bodyguard and Entourage along with Rising Sun upgrade would be pretty awesome (correct me if I'm reading it wrong, but the Bodyguarded model is Buried and that same model comes back 'in to play', right?)...so I took:<br />
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<b>Jacob</b> (<i>Rising Sun, Woke Up With A Hand, Wanna See a Trick</i>) (3ss Pool)<br />
<b>Hungry</b><br />
3 <b>Illuminated</b><br />
and a <b>Beckoner</b><br />
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I figured Illuminated with Jacob and Beckoner help would be great for holding down Turf War and Illuminated could just sneak off on his own and hide in buildings across the table. Boring, but effective! I revealed Entourage on Hungry.<br />
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I'm not super familiar with what the other guys took, but roughly:<br />
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Misaki, Ototo, 2 Torakage, Thunder Archer, and a lot of Upgrades. No revealed Schemes.<br />
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Seamus (He had the Big Hat, but not sure of others), Sebastian (Those are not ours!), 2 Belles, a Nurse, and Bete Noire. He revealed Bodyguard on Sebastian, and Entourage.<br />
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Seamus set up along the centerline. A Belle, Bete, the Nurse, and Sebastian all piled in to a building right near the Turf War marker. One door, one window. Hard to get in to kill Sebastian, and hard to stop him from getting Turf War. Bummer.<br />
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So no details here other, just highlights...<br />
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Seamus used Back Alley 3 times in a row on first turn to get deep in to my deployment zone. I considered committing Jacob and Hungry to killing him...stopping him from getting Entourage would be great, they might think I have Assassinate, I felt the Illuminated could hold Turf War ok for a few turns. On the other hand, it wouldn't be that hard for Seamus to Back Alley away when he saw me coming, and even if he didn't he's so damned hard to kill!<br />
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So I opted to just sneak around with Hungry and Jacob and did a lot of nothing first turn.<br />
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Some Ninjas ran up and made smoke clouds, Misaki ran like crazy to mid table, and the Ressers (other than one Belle that was just lurking around near the Misaki side of table) had a nice quiet afternoon tea in their little building!<br />
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Turn 2 got hot quickly, as Misaki was able to move then Charge Jacob! Guess he chose Assassinate! I'd drawn a really good hand with Woke Up and Mulligan on turn 1, so was able to Cheat like crazy and burn stones to not die to Misaki's Assassinate, ending up after two attacks Stoneless and with 6 wounds remaining. A damned near run thing!<br />
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But that left Misaki's ass hanging in the breeze, as they say...first the Beckoner hit her with the Brilliance, then an Illuminated too giant chunks out of her, then Hungry ran over to finish her off! Ben was disappointed, but we all learned a lesson about exposing key models too early! Realistically he had a decent chance to kill Jacob, I just had better cards to cheat with and wasn't afraid to blow thru all my soulstones to minimize his chances.<br />
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The rest of the game revolved around the Torakage and Illuminated skirmishing around the Turf marker while the Beckoner, Hungry, and Jacob (along with one Illuminated 'shooting' in to the room thru a window!) tried to thin out Sebastian's protectors and kill the little bugger!<br />
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To try to stop me from getting Entourage, on turn 4 the Nurse popped out and gave a bunch of drugs to the Hungering Darkness (the rich irony was not lost on me!), and he ended up Paralyzed! This complicated things...I ended up Luring Hungry closer to the other side of the table and out of the fray with the Beckoner, but I'd really needed her help to clear the way in to the room to get Sebastian!<br />
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As it turns out, though, Jacob is a ridiculous badass. Turn 4 he killed off the Nurse and a Belle (both having been damaged already) with a combination of shooting, discarding 'medium' masks to get Brilliance, and 52 Pickup.<br />
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Turn 5...if Ben wins initiative Ototo would be able to engage Hungry and I'd lose out on Entourage. But no, Ben flipped his third 2 in a row for initiative, and I just ran Hungry safely thru some walls out of LOS and out of danger (except the festering Poison from the Nurse, but that wouldn't kill him until much later!).<br />
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Beckoner and Illumianted had to clear out some Canine Remains that were popping up all over from Corpses, and I had one last Hail Mary to get to Sebastian...who was cowering in a corner behind a Canine Remain and Bete...<br />
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...Jacob calmly walks in the room, shoots the dog dead (discarded a Ram for +2 damage on the Weak damage flip to kill), shoots Sebastian (discarded a Mask for Brilliance), and does 52 Pickup with 3 Aces for 6 damage, and dead Sebastian!<br />
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James was grumpy. Sorry, James!! :)<br />
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We totaled up the points, and it was super duper close! James had 7, I had 7, and Ben had 6! A great game, some exciting action, a great finish, and good friends!<br />
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Thanks guys!<br />
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<b><br /></b>Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-33978247070109684202014-08-01T13:14:00.001-04:002014-08-01T13:14:13.156-04:00Malifaux - Vassal game: Jacob vs. MarcusA really short mini-batrep from a Vassal game against Brendan last night! He wanted to try out the Molemen, I wanted to try out Jacob some more, so we hooked up on Vassal and Skype and went at it!<br />
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<a name='more'></a>I play Soccer on Thursdays...I'd expected to be home a bit after 7, but my son met two girls there after soccer, and went off to flirt with them. I didn't want to interrupt, so let me practice his game. We ended up not getting home until quarter after 8...I was supposed to be online with Brendan at 8! Grabbed a quick bite, quick shower, sent the kids to bad, and fired up the game! We didn't get started until well after 9...I'm always late :(<br />
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So, having started as late as we did, we didn't finish until midnight. So not only was I a zombie when we played, I'm a zombie now while writing...this is just highlights and tidbits from the game, not a play-by-play. Sorry!<br />
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Deployment flip was <b>Corners</b>. Strategy was the Black Joker for <b>Stake a Claim.</b> Scheme pool was <b>Distract, Power Ritual, Protect Territory, </b>and <b>Frame for Murder</b>.<br />
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I really am shaky on how best to run Jacob and the drug-addicts, but wanted to get a feel for how things went together. I figured with Corner deployment and Power Ritual sending Tots to the corners for easy fast Scheming would be a solid play. I knew I wanted to be in his face, particularly with the Illuminated, so chose Frame for Murder on one of them.<br />
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So with those in mind, for crew I chose:<br />
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<b>Jacob Lynch</b> (<i>Woke up with a Hand, Wanna See a Trick, Endless Hunger</i>)<br />
<b>Hungering Darkness</b> (<i>Addict</i>)<br />
2 <b>Beckoners</b><br />
2 <b>Illuminated</b><br />
2 <b>Terror Tots</b><br />
and a <b>Doppleganger</b><br />
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I really had a hard time fitting in what I want in this crew. I really wanted a third Illuminated but I really wanted two Beckoners. I could have used more Tots, but would have had to give up a Beckoner. I ended up with a little bit of everything. Not terrible, but almost seemed like too much support and not enough schemey or fighty.<br />
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Brendan's crew was led by <b>Marcus</b>, with <b>Myranda</b> helping out again. He had the usual suspects with <b>Cojo, Sabertooth Cerberus, and Rattler</b>, along with two <b>Molemen</b> and two <b>Gupps</b>.<br />
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Neither of us revealed any Schemes.<br />
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I won the deploy flip and chose to deploy first in a corner that had a Train in front of it, Ht 4 and Ht 2, giving me lots of cover to hide behind (though I don't know why...he had no guns!).<br />
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First turn was a good one for me, he ran a Gupp down one of the table edges, but within 18" of the Doppleganger. She Mimic'd a Beckoner's Lure, and Lured the Gupp twice. This set up a charge from an Illumianted, which killed the Gupp. I didn't get the Ace of Masks this turn, but was still able to cheat in some Masks to get both Tots far in to the corners, while Jacob himself placed a Scheme near my own table corner.<br />
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Brendan made good use of the Molemen, placing Schemes all over as he moved up to the middle. The Molemen's (0) action was great, allowing him to get in to midfield right away. Then Cojo was able to move up and consume many of those Scheme markers to gain Defensive +107 (or something like that).<br />
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We both had a misplay though, as we both thought the Stake a Claim action was (1). He had put one down with a Moleman that had walked to the centerline. I'd set up my guys to walk over the centerline on turn 2 and drop them. So, major gaff, particularly by me as I had fewer movement tricks to make up for it.<br />
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Turn 2 I was really conservative, particulary with Hungry. Pretty much my whole Crew was hiding behind the train. I got Schemes in both corners, and did a whole lot of nothing. He did about the same, though he got his Claim down on my side of the table and went up 1-0.<br />
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Turn 3 I was still really conservative...I don't know why. I took some long range shots with the Beckoners and Hungry trying to annoy, but failing to engage anything left him free to get a Gupp in a corner where he threatened my Scheme Marker. I ran a Tot up there to engage the Gupp to keep him from being able to remove my scheme. I got my own Claim down on his side of the table with a Tot, and ran an Illuminated over to place one next turn. I did manage a long-range shot with a Beckoner to get Brilliance on Cojo, and my sucker Illuminated charged him, taking him down to his 1 from Hard to Kill. The Addict upgrade made the Illuminated absolutely terrifying...without even cheating I was able to do 12 points of damage total, only Hard to Kill kept the big ape standing. The point, though, wasn't to kill Cojo, but to encourage Marcus to come over and kill the Illuminated so Cojo could go kill the Beckoner or Terror Tot!<br />
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Marcus didn't, though. He did charge, but he hits like a girl. Boo.<br />
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Turn 4 I cheated initiative...Brendan flipped a 13, and I cheated a 13 to force a reflip. I love the Doppleganger! On the reflip I won the Initiative...and decided to really push Marcus to act on the sucker Illuminated by activating him first and finishing off Cojo.<br />
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Marcus did try to set things right and kept on beating that Illuminated, but he hits like a girl and the Illuminated was fine. The Sabretooth did kill him off though, then jumped up and killed my Terror Tot. This freed up the Gupp to place a Scheme in the corner. Hungry finally commited to that corner to take on the Gupp and the Cat. He tickled the Cat a bit, and killed off the Gupp. Jacob finally got brave enough to come out from behind the train, and killed a moleman that was going around placing Claims. Sadly this was bad, as it was his Sucker for Frame for Murder, so I handed him 2 points. Sigh. He got another point for Stake a Claim (he had 3, I had 2).<br />
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Turn 5 I had the Doppelganger in a nice spot after a double walk where she'd be able to remove two of his Claims and replace them with 1 (still on my side), making us even. I had a plan getting another one, but I forgot it while doing it and failed. He won init and ran Marcus down to the Doppleganger and did Law of Meat on her, preventing her from taking the (2) Interact. Most of turn 5 was focusing on killing Marcus so the Doppelganger could save me a Victory Point. First a Beckoner put Brilliance on him; then the Illuminated that was left charged him (through Lava! Cool!!) and took a big chunk out of him. Jacob then stepped up, did Final Debt for 5, leaving him with one wound, and 52 Pickup, revealed an Ace and finished him off. My last Terror Tot dropped a Scheme in his deployment corner, and that was the end of the game.<br />
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So, having focused more on being cagey and making good killing moves, I ended up losing only a Tot and an Illuminated, and he was left with just Myranda and a very damaged Sabertooth. But sadly, killing the enemy efficiently is not the way to win.<br />
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He revealed Power Ritual (we both took the same Schemes!), and got 2 for that one. He got 2 for Jacob killing the Moleman. And he got 3 for the Strategy.<br />
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I got 1 for Frame for Murder, 3 for Power Ritual, and none for the Strategy, for a heart-breaking 7-4 loss. Boo!<br />
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Lots of post-game thoughts here. First, I loved his Molemen. Their (0) action doesn't require a flip, they just go. Dropping Schemes all over is pretty easy. The Gupps are a bit faster overall, but require that Mask. It occurred to me that Gupps would actually go pretty well with Jacob, for the same reason Terror Tots do...use that Ace of Masks to get the Leap off, then pick it back up. Tots are overall faster, but the Gupps can get unengaged and are a wee bit tougher.<br />
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I made poor choices for this Strategy. I needed more fast things to push across the centerline early to get Claims down. Dreamer with Daydream spam would allow pushing things up to mid-line right away. Madness could do the Power Ritual pretty well. Dreamer overall probably better crew for this.<br />
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My Scheme selection was probably poor for this too. I think I would have been better served doing Protect Territory with some Depleted instead of the Tots. Push to mid-table, Scheme and Claim, and kill as he came to me. Or at least, if taking Frame for Murder, get the Sucker in to the fight a lot quicker than end of turn 3!<br />
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Instead I split things up, played un-aggressively until late. Seems like Jacob's boys want to be in the shit as quick as they can, but I didn't do that. Tots running Power Ritual was fine, but I think I probably should have focused more on Power Ritual and Stake a Claim by taking more of them...losing a Beckoner would have been fine, as I got very little mileage out of them and the Doppelganger tended to hang back with them mimic'ing them anyway.<br />
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Which then brings up the bigger question that I don't quite have my head around yet...what does Jacob and the Darkened do better than Dreamer? What Strategy/Scheme pool would I want one over the other?<br />
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I'm new enough that I don't have good answers yet, but my instinct is that Jacob is better at killiness and survivability, which Dreamer has far more activations, summoning what's needed, and well...I don't know.<br />
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Since I'm kind of mentally preparing for Nova, I kind of have in mind that Reckoning and Turf War will be Jacob territory, while Recon and Stake a Claim seem good fits for Dreamer's crew. Squatter's Rights seem like either could do well, so would depend on what Schemes go along with it.<br />
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Also, Doppelganger is pure gold. We both got the vibe that she was pretty under-costed. She's tough to deal with (Manipulative 14 and decent Wounds), cheating the Initiative, potentially crazy high damage output with Mimic, or complete toolbox really with Mimic letting her do anything anyone else can do. I can see those 7ss making it in to every crew I put together!<br />
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So another great game of Malifaux that's definitely proving itself to be my game of choice! Thanks for another great game, Brendan!Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-52453214244318945102014-07-30T20:15:00.001-04:002014-07-31T10:42:52.187-04:00Malifaux Monday! The Dreamer faces Marcus and the beasts!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Another Malifaux Monday, and this time I got to play Brendan and his freshly painted Marcus-led crew! This was also my first time using my almost-but-not-quite-completely-done Nightmares, with creepy-fog effect!</div>
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<a name='more'></a>We decided to do a 50ss battle (the first for both of us I believe). We got Normal Deployment, and <b>Reconnoiter</b> Strategy.<br />
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Scheme pool was <b>Assassinate, Bodyguard, Cursed Object, </b>and<b> Plant Evidence</b>.<br />
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I didn't like my chances of Assassinating Marcus...not that I really know if he's hard to kill or not, but the not knowing made me think I'd rather not try it. I considered taking Bodyguard on Widow and trying to keep her out of harms way, but I didn't think I could keep all his leaping Beasts away. Coppelius with Wings was something I considered, as he could just fly around and scheme and stay away from the meanies...but didn't sound fun. Instead I decided to try to use some Madness for Plant Evidence and follow my 'charge in there' instinct and take Cursed Object...I figured I could out-activate him and use later-turn activations to hand over an Object for easy points.<br />
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To that end, I chose to bring:<br />
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<b>Dreamer</b> (<i>Dreams of Pain</i>)<br />
<b>Teddy</b><br />
2 <b>Stitched Together</b><br />
2 <b>Insidious Madness</b><br />
2 <b>Alps</b><br />
3 <b>Daydreams</b><br />
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Brendan brought some models with which to proxy as the other things he's ordered aren't in yet, so was using some GW models to fill in. His crew was made up of:<br />
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<b>Marcus</b><br />
<b>Myranda</b><br />
<b>Cojo</b><br />
<b>Saberetooth Cerberus</b><br />
<b>Razorspine Rattler</b><br />
<b>Jackalope</b><br />
and 3 <b>Gupps</b><br />
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He had many upgrades, but I didn't catch what they were called or what they did...Brendan, feel free to expound here!<br />
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As planned I chose Plant Evidence and Cursed Object. Neither of us revealed anything...and off we went!<br />
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He deployed with his fighty stuff central, and Gupps on the wings. I put Teddy and the Stitched centrally (ready to hand out cursed objects!), both Madness on my left, and the summoning crew went to my right, hiding behind a very attractive building! ;)<br />
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I grossly underestimated the range and ability of the Gupps. I pushed both Madness up early, and the Gupps jumped on one and killed it! I then started pushing Teddy towards those Gupps, hoping that with Peekaboo Teddy could kill them both...if I could trade one of mine for two of his, I'd be happy.<br />
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But he had other plans, using Marcus to reactivate Cojo, pushing him up in Teddy's way and showing Teddy his junk, pushing Teddy back away from the Gupps.<br />
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A Daydream was Sacrificed for Masks, and since I had a super good starting hand (an 11 and two 13s!) The Dreamer went crazy, summoning Lelu, Lilitu, and Coppelius. Alps healed up the Twins, and all three went to the extreme right where he had only one Gupp...I thought I had a good chance of killing that Gupp, owning the two right Quarters for Recon, and putting me in solid position to control the game. Between activating near Dreamer (Waking 2), the Alps, and their own regeneration, the Twins were at 7 Wds. Coppelius was slacking with only 2.<br />
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Then with my final activation, Teddy...insulted by Cojo's display, went for the Gobble You Up on Cojo. He cheated in to beat Teddy's low flip, but I'd pulled off one of my summons with a flipped 12, so had a 13 in hand which I used...I figured the + Flips on Teddy would be more than worth it...<br />
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and I was right. Teddy Flurried, and killed Cojo with three sweet and loving hugs...after pushing him back out of position to make it harder for Myranda to heal him up if he lived, and get Teddy out of LOS for turn 2 charges!<br />
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Turn 2 and I ran my Madness back deep in to his Corner, hiding from everything hoping to stay alive long enough to get some Scheming done. Teddy did Gobble You Up on a Gupp, and I got ready to Flurry, then remembered I'm supposed to be handing out Cursed Objects, so saved my card, wasted a lot of AP on Teddy, and just handed the little baby lizards a Cursed Object.<br />
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I'd walked some Stitched up towards left centerline. The Rattler quickly charged one and took him to one wound, giving him Reactivate. Which I did, handing a Cursed Object to the Rattler! The Gupp Teddy was trying to hug Lept away next to the Stitched, and killed him with the Trigger that turned him in to a Silurid, which cleared away the Cursed Object on him! Oh no!<br />
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On my right, the Freshly Summoned crew moved out. I Schemed just past centerline on a small piece of terrain with Coppelius. Lilitu tried to Lure a Gupp to setup a charge for Lelu, but the Gupp activated and jumped away. Instead Lelu pushed himself (?!) and walked to place a Scheme in the forest on Brendan's side of the table. Dreamer then summoned a Madness to go down my right and another Daydream, going Chompy. The Daydreams pushed Chompy towards the Rattler. I finally got him up there, and had to intentionally not kill him...if I'd killed him I would not have scored that Cursed Object! Chompy left him with 3 wounds, and that was the end of the turn. I believe we both got a point for Recon, and I got a Cursed Object point on the Serpent!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of effort went in to getting Chompy on the Serpent, then I had to pull back and not kill him because I needed him alive to score Cursed Object!</td></tr>
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My memory from this point on is a bit hazy, sorry to say. I remember at this point that I actively (for the first time!) tried to determine what Scheme my opponent was doing. He'd been placing markers on the centerline, some not in terrain, so that indicated LITS. He was NOT placing any in terrain, so I didn't think he had Plant Evidence. He wasn't handing me Objects, so he didn't have that either. That left Assassinate (which would be bad, as I'd run Chompy up in to the shit!), or Bodyguard. I figured he wouldn't want to have to try to kill Dreamer, and since his Cerberus was lurking in the rear...well, he must have BG on the Cerberus!<br />
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I clearly had my brain off in turn 3, as despite having more activations, I set myself up in a pretty bad position. I went first, and did something worthless with an Alp. He then went with the Cerberus that was lurking behind the church and killed my Insidious Madness back there! Damn, I should have done him first, placed a Scheme and hid! Oh well!<br />
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I did something else unimportant, and he activated Myranda, healed up the Snake, then Companioned the Snake, which killed Chompy! We both Cheated a lot, but Chompy just wasn't tough enough to take it. I probably could have (should have?) burnt some stones to try to stay alive, but...I failed. He pushed Chompy somewhere even more inconvenient before Dreamer popped out...groggy and Slow and feeling very vulnerable (damn...maybe he does have Assassinate!?) All I had with Dreamer were some Daydreams and a Stitched. Teddy was near enough to support, but I decided to use Teddy to try to kill the Cerberus. I cheated a 13 on the Gobble, but he did too, and the Cerberus was kept safe. So instead Teddy walked and placed a Scheme marker for me near the church. Take that!<br />
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Coppelius got healed up a bit more and moved back to try to chase down the stupid Silurid that spawned from the Gupp. Jackalope charged Dreamer but failed to do anything. Slow Dreamer chose to stay where he was, summoned a Madness to try to tie up the Jackalope and the Serpent (at least forcing it to Slither if it wanted to get away). The Stitched chose to remove another Scheme marker, despite his early Schemings he was down to 3 on the centerline now. I got a point for Recon, he got none, and I got Cursed Object point.<br />
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Turn 4 and he revealed that he was Bodyguarding the Cerberus. I felt ok leaving Dreamer exposed now! As the hour grew later, though, my awareness and memory of things grew slimmer. Coppelius charged the Silurid...I forgot about the - to Charges, though, and though I collected a few eyes I couldn't kill it, leaving it at 1 wound. It of course Lept away before I could finish it with a nearby Alp or Madness. Sad Madness moved to centerline and removed another one of his Schemes. Sabertooth moved out from behind the church. Lilitu did Blood Whispers then Lured the Sabretooth, getting him in Pounce + Charge range for Lelu. Not sure what Brendan did after that activation, but I was able to do just that with Lelu, taking off a big chunk of the Sabre's health and leaving him poisoned. Marcus then charged Lelu, turned him in to a beast, and despite some really sobering debuffs to Lelu managed to not kill him, leaving him at two wounds! The damage from Black Blood left the Sabre with only 2Wd, and Poison ticking!<br />
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My Madness gave the Serpent another Cursed Object, and I think that was that for the turn. I got another point for Recon and one for Cursed Object, he got none.<br />
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Very key, I won the initiative here on turn 5. Lelu of course activated first, doing a Vampiric Bite to the Sabre for 1 to finish him off, then doing 1 to Marcus too to heal up a tweak. Marcus didn't care, and killed him anyway. We maneuvered around a bit with little serious action. I tried to get Coppelius in to remove a Scheme at the middle of the table he'd placed, but he jumped a Silurid thru the window to prevent me from Interacting without killing the Silurid...Coppelius tried, but couldn't do it in one shot, but killed it with the second.<br />
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Marcus and a Gupp did something scary to my Madness at mid-table to kill it, and the Gupp turned in to another Silurid which was able to Scheme. Another Gupp moved towards one of my scheme markers, but wasn't able to get in base. I stood an Alp on top of it to at least make him have to kill me before he could do it. Playing for turn 6, Myranda sacrificed herself to become another Sabre which he set up to clear out my right side (at this point down to Lilitu and an Alp on 1wd).<br />
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Teddy failed Gobble You Up on the Snake, so Dreamer used the auto-Mask on Empty Night to push him 3 times and was able to kill the Snake and the Jackalope, and the flip for end of game came up and it was over!<br />
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I revealed my unsurprising Plant Evidence, which got me 2 points (I had 3 markers down at this point...extra credit?). He revealed his LITS, but with only 3 markers down he got no points.<br />
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I scored 4 for Reconnoiter, 3 for Cursed Object, and 2 for Plant Evidence.<br />
He only got 1 for Recon on turn 2. No Bodyguard on turn 4 as he wasn't far enough from his Deployment Zone, and I took all his LITS Schemes away<br />
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9-1 for Dreamer!<br />
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My opponent and I are both still really new to the game. Any evaluation on Dreamer Summoning ability should take that in to account! Brendan seemed disappointed with his Scheme selection...having one of his heaviest hitters lurking behind his lines didn't do him any favors, and he said he misread Plant Evidence or he would have taken that one along with BG on Myranda (who likes to live behind the Beasts anyway) I think.<br />
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This was a tremendously fun game, with some great amusing flips (Red Joker for Gupp Leap was hilarious!). My initial hand (11 and two 13s!) made for a very potent first turn of summoning. Teddy was nice until I got him stuck way out of the way, though he was still able to do some scheming (removed one of his, planted one of mine) while dominating a big chunk of the table thru pure threat. Lelu and Lilitu are great summons. I'm still unsure on the Alps. I like the IDEA of them (that being they heal up my initial summons then push forward to be a Pain with their Aura on enemy), but I still haven't really made it work. Coppelius did very little, but that was more on me trying to use him to keep up with models that are considerably faster and able to leap out of melee.<br />
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Brendan seems to be really liking his crew, and is anxious to get his Gupps and Silurids in. He's also got some Molemen on order to try out!<br />
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I've got to get a few more small things done on the Nightmares, then get the Jacob crew painted and I'll be ready for Nova! One small thing before Nova, Gamer's Gambit is having a small 25pt Henchmen-only 3rd event on Monday Aug 11th! Come on by if you're in the area!Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-64188656460477319962014-07-28T16:57:00.000-04:002014-07-28T16:57:18.377-04:00More Malifaux!Yes, I'm still hooked on Malifaux!<br />
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I've dropped from the 40k GT at NOVA this year and signed up for all the Malifaux events (though I'm desperately seeking a Doubles Partner...either Neverborn or Guild!)<br />
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I got a demo game in with my good friend and Stupidhammer co-host (when he's not off traveling the world) Brian Fox this weekend!<br />
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He used my standby Perdita crew (that box has definitely been worth it! Having a ready on-hand crew that's simple to use to help folks learn the game has been priceless!) while I used my new hotness...Jacob Lynch!<br />
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I took no pictures (partially because I was lazy, partially because I was distracted with my kids, and partially because I was lazy!) but still want to write up a bit about the game.<br />
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Our Strategy was Turf War. Scheme pool was Assassinate, Entourage, Protect Territory, and Cursed Object. We did 35ss forces.<br />
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I wanted to keep things simple for the demo game, so I chose Assassinate and Entourage (Hungering Darkness). My crew was Jacob (Woke Up With a Hand, Trick, and Rising Sun)m HD, 3 Illuminated, and a Beckoner.<br />
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Brian's no dummy, he quickly recognized (based on his innate and uncanny ability to do 'mathhammer' in his head...freak!!) that Jacob is pretty squishy and has to get close-ish to do things, so he chose Assassinate. He also recognized that most of his guys were shooty, so he could place Scheme Markers after turn 1 and do well with Protect Territory, so that's what he chose. His crew was the starter box (Perdita with Trick Shooting, Francisco with Wade In, Santiago, Nino, Papa, and Nephalim)<br />
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(none of these were revealed at the start, of course).<br />
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Brian quickly grasped the interlocking moving and activating synergy the crew has, and saw the power of El Mayor. He moved up to mid-field quickly while I lurked around behind a forest at mid-table avoiding getting shot at too much.<br />
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Second turn for no real reason I shifted two of the Illuminated where Santiago and Nino had LOS, we both circled around the Turf, and he took some shots at an Illuminated in the forest....a lot of shots. Once he commited, he ended up throwing the kitchen sink at him.<br />
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Third turn he finished off the damaged Illuminated. I inexplicably used HD to use Fran's ability to get in to melee with HD...my semi-coherent thoughts being to keep him away from Perdita to avoid El Mayor and kill him while isolated. This didn't work as planned, however, as Perdita used her ability to discard a card, push up next to Francisco, kill HD, and put a shot on an Illuminated! This left Fran unengaged, so he Flurried on Jacob...but had bad flips and did no damage! Brian then very sneakily used his Nephalim to push Perdita away from my lines towards Papa and be safe! Beckoner applied Brilliance to Fran, and an Illumianted finished him off (he'd been hurt by HD already)<br />
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Then my most brilliant move, the damaged Illuminated 'shot' at Papa, despite his being in the forest one of my shots landed with a cheated Mask for a Brilliance Token. Then Jacob the Assassin did Final Debt at Perdita...but missed. So he shot her with his holdout, despite a minus damage flip managed a Severe with +2 for the Trigger for big damage...then used Want To See a Trick with 3 Aces for 6 more free damage and bam! She was dead!<br />
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The rest of the game went pretty quick, as Papa failed to do much damage with his self-immolation move, and Nino & Santiago were able to finish off my second Illumianted and the Beckoner (vulnerable to Nino she is!), but Jacob and an Illuminated were able to hold the center of the table for a turn longer than Brian was. He got 3 points for Strategy and 2 points for Protect Territory; I got 4 points for Strategy and 3 points for turn 3 Assassination.<br />
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I have to admit that despite it being a 'demo' game I pulled out all the stops after letting HD go down so quick and easy! Brian is an experienced wargamer so had no trouble with the game. I sincerely believe, however, that if I'd played the same and Brian had a better grasp of some rule details (some little things that weren't taught well...can only do one trigger, pushes have to be straight line directly towards target,etc) that he would have tabled me!<br />
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I really enjoyed the Jacob crew, however. It will take some getting used to, of course, and I'm still a newb overall anyway, but definitely feel I chose wisely with my second Neverborn master!<br />
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Brian, thanks for the great game! I'm glad you had fun, and look forward to getting kicked around by your Lady Justice soon! :)<br />
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And sorry for the short post, but I'm off to try a 50ss game vs. another Stupidhammer co-host, Brendan! Oh the decisions...Jacob or Dreamer?! :)<br />
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<br />Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-75977311476888195242014-07-23T15:43:00.005-04:002014-07-23T15:55:11.574-04:00Malifaux Monday! Dreamer vs Mei FengI sure do love Malifaux Monday! We had a great turnout at Gamer's Gambit as more and more folks are recognizing what a great game Malifaux is. We had six people playing Malifaux, two guys playing 40k but only because the Malifaux stuff they'd ordered isn't in yet, and two Malifaux players doing Relic Knights because it's the new shiny. A great crowd and fun times!<br />
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I got a game in with my friend Hutch who's using his Mei Feng Rail Crew starter box. We agreed to 35ss, to achieve that he piled up pretty much every upgrade he had on Mei and Kang...not a terribly optimized crew, but still effective!<br />
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Strategy was <b>Reckoning</b> (one I hadn't done before!!).<br />
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Scheme pool was<b> LITS</b> (of course!), <b>Make them Suffer</b>, <b>Protect Territory</b>, <b>Bodyguard</b>, and<b> Cursed Object</b><br />
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I totally should have taken Make them Suffer since I knew he had only one Peon, but failed. Cursed Object sounded really fun, and I thought Stitched with summoning backup would be good for Protect Territory...push up 10", drop Schemes, and try to not die too fast.<br />
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So I brought:<br />
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<b>Dreamer</b> (Dreams of Pain)<br />
<b>Widow Weaver</b><br />
2 <b>Stitched Together</b><br />
3 <b>Daydreams</b><br />
2 <b>Alps</b><br />
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(Notably I forgot to take Handbag. 2 Daydreams would have been fine, but I just spaced it out).<br />
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I took <b>Cursed Object</b> and <b>Protect Territory</b>, and did not reveal. He did not reveal his Schemes, and his crew was the starter box with about two dozen upgrades :P (Mei, Kang, Emberling, 3 Rail Workers)<br />
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He picked a corner and deployed, I set up a little summony handholding formation with Alps and Daydreams around Dreamer, all hiding behind a forest and building. Stitched and Widow set up to zip around a forest to start Scheming!<br />
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First turn he just moved stuff up. Stitched and Widow moved up double Walks. Stitched made Creepy Fogs which did nothing because he doesn't shoot anyway.<br />
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My first turn hand was nice, a ten, eleven, and two thirteens...sacrificed a Daydream for the Masks, summoned Lilitu and Lelu, used a Ram to heal the twins, reduced Waking. Alps healed the Twins. Twins healed some more when they activated near Dreamer. I summoned them so they were in the forest to see through it, but deep enough in that they'd be pretty unchargable...but I'd have little trouble Pushing them out of the forest to set up charge for Lelu.<br />
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Second turn and shit got a little more interesting. The Emberling ran up and kicked a Stitched in the junk so hard pieces fell off, making a Scrap Marker and setting him on fire. I certainly don't remember exact order of activations...I'm way too old to remember things in that detail...but things went like this...<br />
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Lilitu did Blood Whispers (or whatever the +Flip thingie is called) and tried to Lure Kang, but Kang stood strong. Lelu discarded a card to push out of the forest and charged the Emberling, but fluffed the attacks and left him alive but Poisoned.<br />
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Mei Feng did some Railwalking and got behind the Stitched that the Emberling lit up. She did some Jump Kicking and ended up pushing a lot and beating the tar out of Widow Weaver after killing a Daydream. I burnt both Soul Stones to keep Widow alive with 2 wounds. Alps repositioned, healing up from Dreamer nearby, and getting ready to heal more on Turn 3. Rail Workers beat up Lelu but poor cards kept Lelu alive. Stitched gave a Rail Worker a Cursed Object...I don't remember exactly the sequence here, but he ended up dying to Black Blood before the turn ended so no VP. Dreamer summoned Coppelius, healed up Widow, and I believe I summoned another Daydream? Widow was pushed away from Mei Feng so she might hopefully live another turn! Somewhere in this mess both Stitched died, giving him a point for Reckoning, and a point for Make them Suffer, though he forgot to reveal it (we're both new, lots of things were done wrong I'm sure!) Coppelius did well...I had two attacks with him somehow, either I cheated or I'd done an Empy Night to get a Push/Attack...he got a Remove Eye and a I Want Them Both, resulting in two Eyes collected (one used to heal himself a bit) and beat Mei down a little bit.<br />
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Things got even more interesting then. Lelu had one wound left and was surrounded by bad guys, so he did some vampiric bites to finish off the Emberling and do a little to a Rail Worker, healing himself up a bit. Mei Feng was Lured in to a killbox by Lelu, Dreamer summoned a few Daydreams and Empty Night'd Widow up to Mei Feng. I then spent all of Chompy and Widow's actions to try to kill her, and she lived. :( Widow used a Trigger to place Mei several inches away so she would be well away from Dreamer and the still weakened Coppelius.<br />
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I gave a cursed object to a Rail Worker that had already activated, and tried to recover from the Mei Feng bullet messing up my plans!<br />
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We both got a little distracted during turns 3 and 4, so my memory is more vague than normal (which is pretty bad!). Getting Mei away was actually a bad thing, as she was able to kill more Nightmares and an Alp before Chompy killed her, then he put Dreamer to Sleep, spawning Dreamer who was able to Empty Night a few times to get me some pushes in to Kang and the Workers. I pulled a good move with Widow this turn...Hutch had two Workers next to each other, near web markers. Widow did Seize Prey to one, paralyzing him (before he activated!) then killed the second one with her armor-ignoring needle-filled mouth. Then Lelu gave the Paralyzed guy a Cursed Object. Woot! Point for me!<br />
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Turn 5 and things were grim for him. Kang killed Widow, but he needed to kill a Daydream, had one Worker with which to do it, and failed, doing only 2wd (reduced to 1 for Incorporeal). I handed that Worker a final Cursed Object, and Dreamer walked twice and dropped a Scheme, getting me a second Protect Territory point. Lelu and Coppelius killed Kang, who had been revealed as the target of his Bodyguard. Lilitu Lured the Daydream away from the Railworker...I couldn't kill him or I'd not get Cursed Object, and didn't want to get the Daydream killed by him if it went to turn six.<br />
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We did a bad job of keeping track of the score thru the game, but came up with a 6-5 win for me when we added it up after (I had 1 for Reckoning, 2 for Protect Territory, and 3 for Cursed Object; Hutch had 3 for Reckoning, 2 for Make Them Suffer...or maybe the other way around...who knows?!).<br />
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I handed away lots of free points with my alps and daydreams (for Make Them Suffer). Preventing Bodyguard with Kang was key. Summoned models were game-winning...he chewed thru my starting force pretty easily (primarily due to my forgetting that Make Them Suffer was one of the Schemes and handing him all the Daydreams to kill). I only got one point for Reckoning (in retrospect, Cursed Object with Reckoning was a REALLY BAD IDEA). I think I would have been far better served taking Bodyguard on Weaver and hiding her while summoned meanies went forth and slaughtered without having to try to keep things alive to score the Cursed Objects, along with Make Them Suffer...killing the Emberling early (as I did) should have gotten me full points for that one too....but hey, it was fun!<br />
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An awesome game. Was nice to have all painted minis on the table (though my bases are still very much works in progress!). Both of us had our heads around the rules so were able to focus on the "what" more than the "how". I really enjoy Hutch, and am looking forward to more games with him! Thanks Hutch!<br />
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Sorry for lots of vagueness, but hope you enjoyed!Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-75277130922520240722014-07-21T11:35:00.000-04:002014-07-21T15:13:59.519-04:00Malitastic Weekend!I did literally nothing besides simple domestic chores and modeling for Malifaux all weekend...and I have pics to prove it!<br />
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Picked up some Tokens and Markers from <a href="http://store.urbanlasercraft.com/" target="_blank">Urban Lasercraft</a>. Really happy with them. The 'masking' is left on so they can be spray-painted for whatever color combination you want! I wanted to have a really stark contrast so went with white. Looks nice!<br />
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Also from Urban Lasercraft I picked up two of the two-story 'Wild West' laser-cut MDF buildings.<br />
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They were packaged well, assembly was easy (though I got wood glue all over myself...wood glue in leg hair is bad) and the finished product looks great! I'm intimidated to paint, but will pick some folks' brains and get ideas! Double Plus Good for Urban Lasercraft!<br />
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And I got pretty much all the painting done on all the Nightmares for Dreamer's crew! Painting and flocking of bases left to be done, but that's quick and easy!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daydreams! Yeah, I know they're Rare 3, I meant to order 6 Alps and 3 Dreamers...woops!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Teddy and Stitched Together! I love these guys!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Stitched Together with his "stuffing" falling out...gross!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Widow Weaver! I sure hate working with Yellow!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My favorite part is the pink flower on her bonnet! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rage-inducing twins!</td></tr>
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I've started on the Perdita box set too, hoping to have them done this week...along with the basing for the Nightmares. Then I can get some reinforcements!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The whole Nightmarish mess! Yes, there's a Mr. Tannen in there...I suppose I should finish him too!</td></tr>
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<br />Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-55499158072379142892014-07-18T16:51:00.001-04:002014-07-18T16:51:13.434-04:00Malifaux...experiences with DreamerI'm certainly no Malifaux expert...if you stumbled on this post hoping to find a winning strategy, know that I've played about a dozen games total in 3 weeks of being a Malifaux player...please view anything read here thru that lens!<br />
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That being said, though, I've pondered the use of the Dreamer quite a bit, and have some thoughts and experiences that I want to share...more for my own benefit than anything else!<br />
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I was drawn to the Dreamer by his story and the way the Nightmare models look. I'm a horror movie fan, and this stuff is right up my alley!<br />
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For those that don't know, the Dreamer is a little kid in "the real world" that has tremendous natural abilities...when he dreams, he manifests in Malifaux, and any twisted thing he thinks up in his dream comes to life and horrifically murders people for him!<br />
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A powerful nightmare entity has realized the power of this kid, and is trying to use/manipulate him so that he can become "real", and not just a nightmare any more.<br />
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He's befriended the kid in his dreams, and encourages the kid to "play games with him". The kid calls him Lord Chompy Bits, and they have a lot of fun rampaging through Malifaux eating stuff!<br />
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But the kid doesn't know that it's real! He thinks it's just a game in a dream with Lord Chompy! Isn't that twisted? I love it!<br />
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So fluff aside, the Dreamer works in Malifaux as pretty much purely a support type guy. He's very easily killed (though has a few tricks to pass off damage to nearby friendly Nightmares), has only one (two with an upgrade) relatively weak attack, and has no place being close enough to enemy models to be targeted.<br />
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He does have a few survivability enhancements, notably that he's short (Ht 1) allowing him to hide behind low terrain, and he's Incorporeal, so he can move behind said terrain easily with his very health Wk of 7.<br />
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Where he really shines is in his ability to support the Nightmares in his crew. All friendly nightmares that activate within 6" heal up to 3 damage (this is variable, depending on the status of the Dreamer). He can summon Daydreams (small easily killed Peons that can Push other nightmares 4" and sacrifice themselves to add a Mask suit to Dreamer's next flip) or sometimes Alps (small easily killed Peons that can take damage to heal friendly Nightmares, or force Wp Duels on enemies that activate near them or gain Slow). When he summons these things he wakes up a little bit (Waking Condition +1). When his Waking gets up to 4, he is removed from the table and Chompy comes out!<br />
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Dreamer also has an extremely potent spell called Empty Night. This spell targets a friendly Nightmare, and it's effect is completely dependent on the suit. The Ca has a Mask, and the Mask effect is to Push the target up to 6" and it gets to make a free Ml attack! Rams heal 2 points of damage. Tomes remove a condition and allow recasting the same spell. Crows give Fast.<br />
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Only 2s and 3s fail this spell, so relatively low cards in hand can get good use based on their suit.<br />
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Then there's the upgrade I've been using, Dreams of Pain. An expensive upgrade at 5ss, this upgrade allows The Dreamer to summon Minions or Enforcer Nightmare models (at a net requirement of SS cost of the summoned Nightmare + 4 Mask), and the summoned model is damaged down to one remaining wound.<br />
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A key difference that I see with this summoning relative to others is that it requires no resource (other than AP and a high card and/or suit). No Corpse. No Scrap. Of course, those Summoned things don't come on the verge of death either, so that's something to consider!<br />
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So as an example of how I've been using Dreamer, I'll do a short battle report of a 35ss game at my FLGS this past Monday.<br />
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Flank deployment. Strategy was Turf War. Scheme Pool: Distract, Assassinate, Power Ritual, and Breakthrough<br />
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Our table was set up like this:<br />
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My opponent was at a disadvantage in that not only does he have a far more limited supply of models than I do, he's also not done the research and prep that we as competitive 40k gamers tend to do in order to up our game. He plays Ressers, owning the Seamus starter set and a Bete Noir...was no surprise then to see him place out:<br />
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<b>Seamus</b> (Tools and Muhaha, I think)<br />
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I chose Assassinate (yes, Seamus is tough, but I wanted to see if I could do it!) and revealed Power Ritual...I figured not much better at running Power Ritual than a couple Insidious Madness!<br />
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My plan was to hide Dreamer, Daydreams, and alps in the bottom right of the table to summon stuff and push it out to do nasty things while Widow lurked behind the Ht2 wall waiting for reinforcements. The Madness would both zip in to corners and scheme. This should give me 3 Schemes in corners nice and fast and allow me to then concentrate on Seamus, who I was quite sure would make his way mid-table for Turf War!<br />
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I kind of changed my plan a bit though while deploying, the thought being I wanted to be able to get my newly summoned models in to mid-field quicker...if they were summoned hiding in the corner it would be turn 3/4 before they'd be able to do anything!<br />
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So on the weak and lame Powerpoint built map below, you can see my deployment in bottom left. Widow Weaver and Dreamer huddle behind the wall along with all the Alps and Daydreams, while the Madness get set to sprint to corners.<br />
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He sent Bete Noir out far to my right (to counter that madness, I guess), a Belle went to my left to counter that madness, and the rest of his crew set up in the middle.<br />
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We drew cards (I had a bunch of 5s and 6s and one 11 Ram...at least enough to summon something constructive!) and flipped for Init. I can't honestly say I remember who won that flip, and I can also honestly say it probably made no real difference! :)<br />
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I moved Madnesses (what the hell is the plural of Madness?!) double Walks in to the corners, he shuffled Belle and Bete towards them. WW gimped over the wall to at least attract attention and threw down a web.<br />
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Then Dreamer fun began. I sacrificed a Daydream, and Dreamer tried to summon Lelu. I flipped an 11 mask, ironic, but wasted the Daydream. No worries, I summoned another Daydream, dropped my Waking one, and pushed Lelu so he was close enough to corner to drop a Scheme and still be 6" from The Boy, who dropped down to Waking 1. At this point my opponent was out of activations, and all he did was double walks forward. Lelu activated, healed up a bit, dropped a Marker, got pushed twice by the two daydreams and healed twice by the Alps. On to turn 2!<br />
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Turn 2, again I don't remember who got init, though it was probably a bit more important here. My Madnesses dropped Schemes within 6" of corners, giving me 3 for that Scheme so far. Bete ran down on top of the Scheme in my bottom right, ready to remove it next turn. Copy cat walked over and shot/killed the madness on my left. Boo. Sacrificed another daydream. Summoned Lilitu. Things got tense at this point as my opponent was very frustrated with the summoning mechanic and relative ease with which I was healing them up and pressing to the middle. Lilitu had her Slow removed and she was healed a bit.<br />
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Seamus walked up on the hill and shot at Widow, I believe, taking off a chunk. Lilitu Lured the Belle on the left up close enough for Daydreams to push Lilu in range, and Lilu ate her disgusting face, healing up both himself and Lilitu to full. Alps activated, near Dreamer so damage from Blood Gift healed and the took 2 more to heal up Widow a bit.<br />
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Opponent very grumpy now. I've summoned in 14 points of enforcer plus a daydream, he's down on schemes, realizes he's in a poor position, and is ranting about how my crew seems to have every power available and is unstoppable and how summoning Dreamer is completely broken as it takes no resources while his crew is unable to generate corpse markers because I'm all Nightmares...it wasn't very fun to hear.<br />
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in Turn 3 he cleared out all Alps and Daydreams save one, I was able to Lure Seamus over the hill and push a Fast Lelu on to him, leaving him about half dead and Poisoned. Widow walked up on top of hill continuing to throw Webs around. My last madness double-walked to support the scrum on Seamus next turn. Sybelle shrieked at Dreamer several times, I passed the wounds off to Lilu and Lilitu.<br />
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At this point I've got mildly damaged Lili on Seamus, Widow about 3" behind Seamus on the hill. One Alp near Seamus and a Madness about 3" away. Lilitu and Dreamer are supporting. He's got Sybelle and a Belle coming in to support while Bete is stuck off on a table edge doing nothing but removing one of my Scheme Markers.<br />
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Winning initiative on turn 4 is key, and I win it. I don't think an unbuffed Lelu can drop Seamus; Dreamer is in a bad spot, the Madame is bearing down on him, but I have a lot of junk cards in hand. My waking was at zero, so I decided to push the bad spot Seamus was in and setting up for total knockout by summoning in 3 new Daydreams, all near Seamus. With webs and daydreams, Seamus would be at -5 WP. Very likely he'd get Slow on activation near the Alp. My opponent rage quit.<br />
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I think he could have Lured Seamus away from all the Nightmares with a Belle, Lured either Widow or Lelu out of my support, and killed either with Seaums, Sybelle, and Copycat. Instead he just got too grumpy to go on and gave up.<br />
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I submit a question though, was his situation really hopeless? I think not. I think he had a lot of presence he hadn't flexed yet. Moreover, I think his deployment and first turn movement kept him from gaining any ground on my weak starting forces. More-moreover, he chose Assassinate and Breakthrough vs me...probably not the Schemes I would have chosen, but none of them are great for his crew as put together.<br />
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I really think if he had Madame and Bete working to tag team things lured by Belles, he could have chewed thru me quickly enough. He had the right idea throwing Ca shots at Dreamer too...doing that really made me go thru my hand fast, and came close to getting him Assassinate!<br />
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I'm really enjoying the flexibility of the Dreamer. I can pick models I need to fit the scheme then summon models I need to supplement and match what the opponent is doing and really make them react to me instead of doing what they want.<br />
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I somewhat understand my opponents frustration...no doubt Summoning Dreamer is very powerful. That said, Seamus is really good at not dying and has great mobility. Playing more to his strengths and disrupting my plans would go a long way to not letting me overpower the game!<br />
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Hoping to get another game or two in Sunday, and maybe more on Monday! See you then!Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-16079846897454644032014-07-15T14:48:00.003-04:002014-07-15T14:49:05.382-04:00Connecticon 2014!Fresh back from a weekend of geekery! Cosplay, 40k, Malifaux, and rage-quits!<br />
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No, I didn't play Deathwing....silly! I let a friend borrow that termie, set him on the dash while I programmed the GPS, and thought it looked cool...so...yeah! :)<br />
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Took a half day off work on Friday, drove thru horrible traffic taking two and a half hours to make the one hour drive, got to the venue, said hi, and went to the Convention Center to get my badge...<br />
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It was really disappointing to have the gaming in a separate place. I really enjoy the costumes and the eye-candy and the overall geekery. Hopefully Brendan's feedback (he's in charge of tabletop gaming, but got no say in where the tabletop gaming was going to be) to the Con higher-ups will get them to change it back for next year!<br />
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I took Daemons, as usually. This event was 2000 points, you could have two total detachments, could not ally with your own faction, but could have multiple Combined Arms Detachments. I took the following:<br />
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<b>Fateweaver</b><b>Herald of Tzeentch</b> (Disc, Lvl 3, Exalted Reward)<br />
<b>Herald of Tzeentch</b> (Disc, Lvl 3, Exalted Reward)<br />
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<b>11 Horrors</b><b>11 Horrors</b><b>8 Screamers</b><b>8 Screamers</b><b>7 Screamers</b><b><br /></b><b>Belakor</b><b>11 Horrors</b><b>3 Nurglings</b></blockquote>
The intent is basically same old screamerstar, but multiple layers of protection on multiple screamer units (cursed earth, grimoire, shrouding and invis from belakor) to multiply the threat and maintain a high level of survivability while at the same time having enough power dice to effectively summon as needed and/or take the occasional potshot with some psychic shooting attacks (shriek, flame breath, etc).<br />
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My first game was versus a blog reader, Jesse. Jesse embarrassed me greatly by telling me what a big fan of Blood, Skulls and Fire he is and taking my picture! His army was terrifying though...<br />
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Chapter Master (Smashfucker!)<br />
Gravgun Bike unit<br />
3 units in Pods<br />
3 in Rhinos<br />
2 LotD squads<br />
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So many Marines, going wherever they want. So many OS vehicles. Sigh. The mission combined Relic with 4 player-placed objectives (Relic being worth 5 pts, Objectives worth 3) along with First Blood, Warlord, Linebreaker.<br />
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He was worried about my list, but I was just as worried about his. So much MSU goodness, TFC to kill my troops, Hunters to keep Belakor and Fatey honest...interesting.<br />
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Apparently the trick to beating folks that have better lists and play better than you is to just roll really really well, though!<br />
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I got two Cursed Earth's, which is the only power I really care about rolling. The third herald went Divination. I wanted Prescience. Screamers need the help!<br />
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I won the roll, deployed first, and chose to go first. I zipped forward, FMC hiding at mid-table from his Hunters, Grim'd Screamers getting the Relic, Invis Screamers turbo'd in front of them. Third screamer unit strung out to keep in Shrouding range (which he blocked anyway) and threaten Rhinos that moved to my left. I summoned a new Tzeentch Herald who rolled Incursion and Possession, and for no reason at all put him where he could be easily killed.<br />
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So Jesse wastes no time in killing him. He drops his two pods near my objectives. One squad kills the new herald, the other starts working on horrors. His bikes don't want to get tied up with invisible screamers, so hang back. Rhinos push up. Chapter Master tries to take out some Screamers with an Orbital Bombardment, but it scatters and he kills 4 guys from a combat squad. This set the tone for the rest of the game, really...stupidly bad dice for him, stupidly good for me. Yeah, Stupidhammer!<br />
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My second turn I tried to surround a Rhino on my right with Screamers to wreck it and kill the guys inside, taking pressure off one of my objectives. Grim'd Screamers handed off the Relic to the Nurglings the dropped in on Cursed Earth, then went after the pod and combat squad that had killed my new Herald. On my left some Screamers went after the combat squad that was picking on my Horrors. I also summoned in a unit of Bloodcrushers at midtable. I really like being able so summon just the right thing to help with the matchup...if there's anything that Space Marine Combat Squads hate it's Bloodcrushers! Fatey flew off the table. Belakor went to my right, staying near the Cursed Earth guy and out of LOS of the Hunters.<br />
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The combat squad fights worked out just right, I left one marine alive tied in combat so I couldn't get shot. Sadly the Rhino fight I was braindead and used Lamprey bite, getting several penetrating hits and exploding the Rhino so the guys inside were fine. Someone smart would have used regular bites, which...with Prescience on them like I had...would very likely have glanced it to death with no chance for explode and really would have helped my midgame. But I'm not someone smart.<br />
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Jesse's third pod came in, and one of his Legion, but the other Legion refused to participate. The Legion dropped in on my left objective, while the Pod tried to land to support and threaten relic, but scattered a bit and landed right next to the Crushers.<br />
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His bikes got on the unbuffed screamers and wiped them out, despite my hot saves. Speaking of hot saves, he shot the Relic-bearing Nurglings with the TFC at S6. I'd forgotten the TFC, you see. He did eight S6 wounds, by all rights he should have wiped the Nurglings...instead Tzeentch smiled and I passed 7 of 8 4+ saves and giggled. The rest of my dice this turn were just as hot, and he only managed to kill the Screamers with his Bikes when the Chapter Master stepped in and showed his boys how to swing, doubling out the remainder.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">During my third turn I think. Screamers have finished killing Marines, ready for the Legion. Fatey just Vectored that lonely guy. Crushers all ready to Crush. Pink Screamers in the distance ready to assault the bikes.</td></tr>
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So top of 3, I'm down a Screamer unit but have some strength around the Relic and am clinging on to two objectives. Fatey flies in on my left, and Vector Strikes the sole survivor from the Orbital Bombardment mishap, killing him. The Screamers on the left there had finished off the squad from the Pod and moved to eat the Legion. The Crushers charged the combat squad from the pod next to them. Nurglings and Horrors moved in to the terrain middle of my deploy to play patty-cake with the Relic. I came to the realization (far too late, of course) that the TFC having bottom turn was going to make it extremely unlikely that I'd end the game holding the Relic and got sad...my whole plan was to hold the relic and my two objectives and not care about his side of the table at all! Sigh. I Glided Belakor then to help support my right objective, and then mindlessly (as usual) charged the Grim'd Screamers in to the bike squad (I needed to keep them from eating thru my troops)...getting in to the bikes and Chapter Master was not such a bad idea, it was not multi-assaulting in to the combat squad from the Rhino the other Screamers had exploded, leaving them free to do ugly things that was bad. Horrible play! I did manage to summon some Bloodletters at mid-table to help support the Relic. Also seeing what was coming, I put Invisible on the Horrors near Belakor, on my right objective.<br />
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The Crushers of course crushed the marines from the pod. Screamers on my left and the Legion began a battle of attrition. Screamers on his Bikes did little as Smashfucker tanked it all. Oh well!<br />
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Things started moving quickly now. On my right objective he pushed in the combat squad from the exploded rhino...the squad I should have assaulted with the Grim'd Screamers...and the last Legion came in back there as well! Another Rhino disabled itself on the wall at mid-table. The guys got out and shot at the Crushers...along with several other long range boltgun shots, killing one and wounding others. A Hunter began zipping down my left (where Fatey was) along with an empty Rhino (empty, but Objective Secured!). Yet another combat squad came out of somewhere and started pushing around the left side of the middle LOS blocker. So many units!<br />
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He shot the TFC in S5 Ignore Cover mode at the Nurglings with the Relic, leaving only one base with 2 wounds left. The Legion shooting at Horrors was minimized by Invis, as was the damage when the Tactical squad assaulted them, I lost about half the Horrors total. Screamers on my Left finished off the Legion. Bikes and Screamers giggled at each other.<br />
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Top of 4, and I'm feeling quite desperate. On my left, Screamers move to kill the OS Rhino. Fatey glides behind ruin-wall mostly safe from shooting and sits on an objective. Bloodcrushers move to get in position to pick up relic next turn. Bloodletters move to kill the combat squad that came out of the immobile Rhino. Belakor moves to assault the combat squad that's eating my Horrors. Grim failed, even with reroll. Uhoh! I summon some Daemonettes in a vain attempt to fight him off an objective and get to the TFC!<br />
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Rhino on my left dies, so I'm feeling half-way decent about that objective. Bloodletters wipe the combat squad. Belakor wipes another combat squad. Screamers breathe sigh of relief as Chapter Master wiffs, getting only one hit and I made that save.<br />
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Bottom of 4, Jesse pulls off a great trick, and his the Hunter on my left move up in to the ruins where Fatey is sitting on objective to contest it! He finishes off the Horrors at mid-table and the Nurglings, leaving the relic unheld by anyone.<br />
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At this point we're told there's only 10 minutes and this has to be our last turn. If the game ended here Jesse wins, as I've got one objective and he has two (assuming he'd kill the relic-bearer bottom of 4). I talk Jesse in to doing a round 5, as my whole game plan going forward requires turn 5. He of course could have said no, but he's an awesome guy so agreed that a turn 4 end would suck, so we play on.<br />
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His Legion shoot up and assault the last of my Horrors on the right objective as Belakor helplessly watches. Invisible helps, but I'm wittled down some more. Bikes actually take wounds (I think he'd LOS'd to save last wound on Chapter Master?), and only the CM is left. He kills a few Screamers but no damage from Instability. Note here that a smart player would have challenged the CM with a Herald right away so the rest of the Screamer's attacks would have ground down the bikes faster..but I'm not a smart player apparently. Just a lucky one...<br />
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So top of 5, Crushers pick up relic and spread out. I'm gambling the three wound guy can live thru the TFC. Bloodletters kill the last combat squad on my side of the table. Portal goes down, makes daemonettes. They run forever and get within range to contest the objectve on his part of the table. There are only 4 of them, but at least it's pressure. The other Daemonettes move up as well, though they are not OS so are worthless. Screamers on my left turbo to get Linebreaker. Belakor assaults the Legion.<br />
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And the dice start to get REALLY stupid in my favor...Fatey assaults the Hunter next to him, and with one hit explodes it. Belakor kills all but 2 Legion, and those Legion kill all but two Horrors.<br />
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And Jesse, a gifted player, calmly turbo's the immobilized rhino that I'd forgotten about over to my bottom right objective (where the Legion are)....he'd fixed it the turn before and I ignored it! His Librarian and combat squad move to assault my 4 lonely daemonettes.<br />
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The Legion finish off the last two Horrors, giving his Rhino that Objective (despite Belakor standing on it!).<br />
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And more stupid dice. Everything shoots at the Bloodcrushers, one crusher with one wound survives holding the relic! His Librarian assaults the Daemonettes fine. The Combat Squad need 2" through terrain, and he rolls snake-eyes and fails the charge. Daemonettes live thru the Librarian, and contest that objective.<br />
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Game ends.<br />
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Jesse had two objectives, first blood, and linebreaker for 8.<br />
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I had one objective, relic, and linebreaker for 9.<br />
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If ever there was a game I won because I'm a lucky son of a bitch, this is it!<br />
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But really, Jesse won that game. It should have ended on 4 where he'd have 2 obj, FB, and LB for 8, and me 1 obj for 3. Going on to turn 5 was certainly not an auto-lose for him, but stopping on turn 4 was an auto-win for him. Big props to him for playing on! And even bigger for taking the ridiculous dice in stride and with a smile!<br />
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And here all my pictures stopped. I'd had Pandora playing thru the game with Jesse, and battery died. :(<br />
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Second game was versus a super fun guy that I love to meet at tourneys, Jared Friedman! Jared and I played at <a href="http://bloodskullsfire.blogspot.com/2014/02/templecon-onslaught-gt-2014.html" target="_blank">Templecon a few months ago</a>, where a late-game Fatey reroll on Hallucinate helped me snatch victory from defeat, and he was anxious for some payback!<br />
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His list was the same, I believe. Ethereal, Buff Commander, Broadside unit loaded with Missile Drones, 2 Riptides (Ion, Fusion, Skyfire, Intercept), Skyray, Sniper Drones, some Fire Warriors, some Pathfinders, a Kroot unit...and Eldar allies to be a Farseer on bike, jetbike unit, and a Wraithknight.<br />
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The mission this time was combined Scouring (which was distilled down to be pre-placed pre-pointed objectives of different value) along with Kill Points. I won the roll and chose to go first...I turbo'd to corners with two units of Screamers...along with a freshly summoned unit of 3 (Thanks for the loan, Amir!). I wiped a Pathfinder unit for First Blood, and another unit tried really hard to kill Ethereal for the extra points by hitting the unit he was in but landing so that he was the closest model. He took one wound, but not enough. Grim'd screamers landed so the Broadsides would be easy charge next turn. Belakor actually glided, hiding behind a LOS blocker, but threatening sniper team, riptides, and center table.<br />
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Jared's return fire was imposing. One Screamer unit was reduced to one wound. A Herald I'd summoned was shredded by missiles...too bad, he had Possession, and everyone loves a free Greater Daemon! The Snipers had gone to ground from all the Slash Attacks (I think I did something like 15 wounds with hot Slash dice!) so the guys on that side of the table had 4 Screamers left...and the freshly summoned unit had 2 whole models left! He was indecisive with his Wraithknight, and ended up putting him at table center...which is exactly where I wanted him!<br />
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Because that let me zip Belakor next to him, and get Belakor in range of Cursed Earth Herald who was going in to assault the Broadsides with the Grim'd Screamer unit! That was a well-arranged assault...I don't do that often...where I put an I3 guy on the Commander so all the Lamprey Bites at I4 had to go on Drones and Broadsides. I think I wiped all the drones, one broadside, and did one wound to another. Wraithknight did nothing to Belakor and was left with one wound left! Stubborn Broadsides H&R out. I also summoned another unit of Screamers!<br />
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He did some more painful shooting on turn 2, with a bit of a focus on Horrors. Going to ground in terrain kept them alive, and they were already where I wanted them anyway. I lost a few more Screamers, but had enough left to really keep on pressure.<br />
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Top of 3 I assaulted the Broadsides again. Some screamers assaulted the Skyray, Belakor assaulted the Jetbikes with Farseer. Some other Screamers did some Slash Attacks to Firewarriors.<br />
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My memory here gets fuzzy, skip ahead to end of turn 4. I had summoned some Flamers to kill his outflanking Kroot...they didn't scatter and got 30 hits. Hilarious. (To me, at least. Jared was surely not amused!). I got the Skyray after much plinking with Lamprey Bites. He ground down Screamer units but I finished off the Commander and Broadsides, got the big Grim'd unit in to Firewarriors, and that was all she wrote. I had a 4, 3, and 2 point objective. He had a 1, 3, and 2. But I was up a ton on Kill Points, LB, and FB. I ended up winning something like 18 to 10, I think.<br />
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Sadly we only got through turn 4. I was super late to start the game (ran off to get lunch after a late finish game one), and my army plays slow as hell. I don't know if turn 5 would have been any better for him, but there were enough small units left he had a good chance to make up a lot of points, while I was pretty much out of easy things to kill. Sorry for being slow, Jared!!<br />
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Then on to round 3! I was paired versus a gentleman with an extremely efficient and frightening list: Autarch, 6 Jetbike units, 3 Wraithknights, 3 units of six Hawks; and a second combined arms detachment: Spiritseer, 2 Jetbike units, a Wraithknight, and 2 units of six Hawks.<br />
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The mission was objectives, Vanguard deployment. I won the roll, deployed, and chose to have him go first. I couldn't let all those bikes get the bottom turn!<br />
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He of course deployed Knights and everything else was in reserve. He took a few Knight shots, and handed turn to me. I moved up to mid table aggresively, with good Cursed Earth and Shrouded coverage. I dangled some Horrors out to tempt some Wraithknights to assault them so Belakor could kill them. I cast Invisible on them with Belakor, and got Perils. Rolled a 1. Fatey-fix-it reroll was another 1. An 11 for the Ldr test. Bye Belakor. Still, things aren't hopeless. Having bottom turn with Screamers and ability to summon is doable!<br />
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He gets in all his Hawks. They blow up lots of Horrors, but don't wipe out anything. One Knight assaults some Screamers at mid-table, we do nothing to each other.<br />
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Bottom of 2, I summon Flamers to kill Hawks, move to vector strike more hawks with grim'd Screamers and use third screamer unit to TRY to kill the WK that has me locked up at mid-table.<br />
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Then during the shooting phase while trying to do number of template hits from flamers, the ugliness got overwhelming for me and I quit.<br />
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Starting during deployment there was constant arguing. Every movement and measure seemed to be questioned. Every action had to be verified by looking up the rule. It was not fun. So, I gave him the win and put my models away. I'm not proud of doing it, but it was definitely the more fun thing to do.<br />
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So I ended up playing Malifaux! In fact, I played more games of Malifaux at the 40k GT than I played of 40k!<br />
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Which is great, because Malifaux is a far better game!<br />
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So, sorry for the abrupt ending there, but it is what it is! A huge thanks to Jared and Jesse for super games of 40k! Big thanks for Brendan for putting on another fine tournament, and a bigger thanks for the awesome games of Malifaux!<br />
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Here you see on my side Dreamer leading Teddy, Coppelius, and some Stitched Together across the table towards James' Saemus and his zombie hookers...yes, Rotten Belles with their Madame. Their special power (other than being hard to damage) is luring people to come closer to them, with a special success for that power called "She doesn't look that dead to me!"<br />
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I really love the twisted sense of humor in this game. Unlike many mini games, it doesn't take itself too serious but still makes for a very clean and competitive game.<br />
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In order to have another crew I can use to do demo games, I picked up a Guild faction set: The Latigo Posse...a family of gunslingers and mercenaries that specialize in hunting down the Neverborn enemies of the Guild.<br />
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The Family is led by Perdita Ortega. The Family models have fun interaction rules that allow them to supplement and support each other...a whole greater than sum of parts feel with them. <br />
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I think they'll be a lot of fun to paint, and lend themselves well to a 'walk up and shoot things' playstyle that will do nicely for starter games, while having a good amount of depth and more advanced interactions available to allow growth.<br />
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Look for James and I at <a href="http://connecticon.org/" target="_blank">Connecticon</a> this weekend!Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-88173280974498227552014-07-10T14:15:00.000-04:002014-07-10T14:15:41.026-04:00Beginning Malifaux!I've recently started going to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/gamersgambitct" target="_blank">Gamer's Gambit in Danbury</a>, and am loving it!! There are some great guys playing 40k there on Thursdays, Matt has an awesome Warmachine Hordes group going on Tuesdays, and my kids play Pokemon Card Game on Sundays...giving me time for more miniature gaming!!<br />
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All that, and it is literally 7 minutes from my house!<br />
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A few weeks ago I learned they were having a Malifaux night on Mondays. Everyone I know that's tried Malifaux has loved it, and I really love the aesthetic of the models I'd looked at, so thought I'd give it a try.<br />
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And I'm hooked!!!<br />
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For those that don't know Malifaux, it's a 'skirmish' style mini game set in the fictional 'world' of Malifaux, which was discovered when earth's magic-using weanies all got together to cast a spell to restore magic to earth but they instead blasted a hole (the Breach) to the magical land of Malifaux. There they mine 'soulstone' to enable the use of magic on earth.<br />
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Different from most mini wargames, the 'random' factor in Malifaux is done with an oft-shuffled deck of cards. Just a normal deck of playing-cards will do, though of course Wyrd would much prefer you buy their cool cards! When you need to see if some action you want to perform is successful, instead of rolling a die, you flip over a card from your face-down deck.<br />
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Random is still random, but in Malifaux you have a secret 'hand' of cards that in most cases you can use to 'cheat fate'...if you don't like the number or suit you got, you can play one of the cards from your hand. Your hand is of course a limited resource, with only a few 'cheat' cards available per turn.<br />
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Moving and fighting mechanics are pretty standard and simple...models have attributes that define how far they move, how much damage they can take, how they attack or interact with other models, etc. Other than the card mechanic, veterans of other mini war games will have no problem picking this game's basic mechanics up.<br />
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But where the game REALLY shines is the Victory Conditions. In most mini war games, you and your opponent both know what the victory conditions are, you're both trying to do the same thing and stop the opponent from doing it. Objectives in 40k, for example. The number of different possible Victory Conditions is relatively limited (40k main rulebook has only 6 'normal' missions, 4 of them are objectives done in slightly different ways, one is relic, other is kill points. /yawn)<br />
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In Malifaux, however, things work quite a bit differently. Players accrue Victory Points thru the game. How they accrue victory points is determined randomly at the start of the game. One "Strategy" will be determined (thru the flip of a card, of course)...this is an objective that applies to both players. Then five "Schemes" will be determined (out of about 15 total possible), and each player will SECRETLY pick two of those Schemes.<br />
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THEN you build your army! Yes, you build your army after you know what Schemes are available, knowing what your objectives will be but not your opponents.<br />
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Some of these Schemes will be kept secret until you complete them. Some you'll get more Victory Points if you reveal them at the start of the game to your opponent.<br />
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This is what really makes the game stand out to me. The combinations of secret and asymmetrical missions and choosing what models you'll use after you know what those missions will be (and what faction your opponent has!) makes for a very dynamic and exciting game!<br />
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The faction I chose is the Neverborn...creatures and monsters of myth and legend that live in the Malifaux world. My first "crew" is led by "The Dreamer"....and I fell in love with how twisted this story is...he's a real boy in the real world. When he sleeps, he goes to Malifaux. Any horrible twisted monster he thinks up in his "dream" comes to life and murders (horribly) people for him.<br />
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But he thinks it's a game in a dream. He doesn't know that it's real. How fucked up is that!?<br />
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He has an 'imaginary friend' too, that he calls Lord Chompy Bits...a very powerful Nightmare creature that's trying to use the Dreamer's power to get out of nightmares and be 'real'. Chompy is terrifying!<br />
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The Dreamer has a lot of the aspects of what I like about Malifaux built in to him already. With optional Upgrades that he can take (as part of building an army list...called a "Crew" in Malifaux), he can other summon powerful creatures during the game, be extra supportive to his nightmares, make Lord Chompy Bits more powerful (and easier to manifest), or even make his own attacks a bit more powerful.<br />
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And of course, all the models in Dreamer's crew are horrific childish monstrous beasties from a kid's imagination...giant evil Teddy Bears, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Sandmann" target="_blank">Coppelius</a> who steals children's eyes and feeds them to his own children that live on the moon, evil Daemon Twins, black widow women, crazed manifestations of madness (very Tzeentch-like!), and even relatively happy little Daydreams!<br />
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I've started painting some of these guys up, and have really enjoyed it. It's fun to paint some really outlandish things and not have to 'assembly line' paint!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dreamer in his nightgown and blue blanket. Little guys to the front are his Daydreams. Teddy and Chompy beside him. Insidious Madness behind. Flanking them all are the demon twins Lelu and Lilitu.</td></tr>
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I invite anyone in the area to stop by Gamer's Gambit on Monday evening. We'll happily go thru a demo game with you! We already have about half a dozen active people, and would love to have more!<br />
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I know it's lame to have no posts for months then two on the same day, but what can I say? I'm in the mood to blog :P<br />
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Hope to post up more Malifaux pics and some battle reports soon!<br />
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I have been playing a few 7e games on Vassal, got together a Daemon list I'm happy with, and went off to play in a small tournament at the Battle for Salvation gaming club in White Plains, NY. What army did I take? What things were popular at the tournament? Will 7e work for competitive play?<br />
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So, Daemons.<br />
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I think Daemons are the army most changed by 7e. Malefic Daemonology Psychic Powers add summoning new units; FMC are significantly different...no longer able to swoop around safely and contest objectives at the end of the game being the most debilitating change to how I used them; Objective Secured makes taking minimal/few troops not the greatest idea. Changes (Nerfs!) to D-Weapons make our invulnerable save functional versus Imperial Knights (or other Super Heavies if Escalation is being used). Telepathy (my primary go-to discipline for Daemon Princes) was changed with the inclusion of the very powerful Shrouded and Invisibility spells, while the game-winning Hallucination was beaten down to uselessness and rage-inducing Puppet Master was removed altogether.<br />
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So with all those changes in mind, I came up with a list with some help from friends...love you endlesschat! <br />
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Note that this tournament was 1750 points, only one Combined Arms Detachment, up to one other detachment allowed, using slightly modified book missions. Imperial Knights were explicitly allowed.<br />
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<b>Fateweaver</b><br />
<b>Herald of Tzeentch</b> (Level 3, Disc, Exalted Reward)<br />
<b>Herald of Tzeentch</b> (Level 3, Disc, Exalted Reward)<br />
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Is there any surprise? Looks a lot like old-school Screamerstar, right? It will work a lot the same, but instead of rolling for Forewarning I'll be trying for Cursed Earth. Having Cursed Earth up on a Jetbike that can Turbo to get in the best spot seems great, and there's some redundancy in having multiple Screamer units.<br />
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But there's so much more here than one 2+++ Screamer unit!<br />
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Belakor casts Shrouding. Just one model from a unit gets within 6" of him (Turbo!), that model gains Shrouded, and it applies to the rest of the unit. When fired upon, they can then Jink for a 2+ cover save...and yes, Tzeentch still rerolls 1s. That means against non-Ignores Cover firing, the Screamers, Heralds, and Fateweaver are effectively immune to ranged fire.<br />
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As an aside, any pretense that a 2+ rerolling save was not intended should now be set aside. I could buy that it was an oversight when they put the Grimoire in the Daemon book. Then the Eldar came out, and there was a different way to achieve this. I could maybe see this being an oversight too...it is GW, right?<br />
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Then years later they have a whole new Rules Edition with countless opportunities to modify the reroll mechanic or modify the specific items and/or powers that provide these saves, but instead THEY MADE MORE WAYS TO ACHIEVE IT.<br />
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Guess what...it's intended. It's in there. It's on purpose. Forewarning + Grim; Cursed Earth + Grim; Jink + Shrouded; Protect + Fortune; Conceal + Fortune.<br />
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(Of course, it is GW...I reserve the right to be wrong :P )<br />
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Anyway, I have a 'formation' of Swooping Fateweaver and Screamers, all with 2+ cover. This is nice. I also have 4+ Invuln on the Screamers, and 3+ Invuln on Fatey and Belakor. That's nice too. Then I have Grim to throw on whoever (whomever?) I think will be the most threatened or vulnerable unit...or the one I just like the best. Even Belakor is a great Grim target, as his stock 4+ goes to a 2+.<br />
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But wait, there's more! (RIP Billy Mays!) Belakor also has Invisibility! You should all know by now how good Invisibility is, right?<br />
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So, terrain dependent of course, I can hide some things, while sending a few others out to do damage while under the protection of 2+ invuln from Cursed Earth + Grim, while the other has 4+ invuln and Invisible, as well as a 2+ cover save.<br />
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There are few things a unit of Screamers can't handle. Hopefully those things can be dealt with by Belakor. I'm looking at you, Wraithknights!<br />
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Because guess what...FMC can't assault the turn they switch to Gliding, but being Invisible is better than Swooping! So when necessary, Belakor can Invisible himself in preparation for assaulting things that probably don't want him assaulting them, and things are great, right?<br />
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Well, mostly. All these tricks require a wild barrage of dice rolls to go my way, and to get decent chances for these powers to all work I have to throw handfuls of dice at them, which makes it pretty damned likely that I'll kill myself while enacting this plan for tabletop domination.<br />
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Astute mathematicians amongst you readers will have already noted that this list sports 19 Power Dice. Most Psy Phases I'll have ~22 Dice to play with....and here's where this list gets really nice: I only NEED to cast two powers. A Cursed Earth, and a Shrouding. Anything else is gravy (for most situations). Depending on how many Deny dice the opponent has, I can safely (mostly!) cast those two powers and still have a dozen dice to play with. This will mostly be used for Invisibility on something vulnerable, but can also go to summoning something fun! Everyone loves a few free Bloodthirsters, right? :)<br />
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And the Gravy? I have Fatey's reroll to help with Perils (either by preventing or saving myself on the chart!)<br />
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So, now that I've written a novel on my first 7e list, how about that tournament?<br />
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Well, as usual, I was far too lazy to take pictures...only managed two the whole day, so after all the build up, I'm just doing brief summaries :)<br />
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My first game was against a good friend, Sean McCloud, and his Grey Knights. Sean's typically a daemon player, but he hasn't played in ages and ages (new job, new baby, new house...the same old story of people losing interest in 40k due to fucked up priorities!)...so he wanted a low model-count army to sample 7e.<br />
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After my shenanigans, though, I'm not sure we're friends anymore.<br />
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His army was Draigo and a Grand Master with some Paladins in a Land Raider; some Strike Squads on foot, and a Jumpy Dreadknight.<br />
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The mission was Kill Points.<br />
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Other than the DK's template, he had nothing to ignore cover, but I didn't really want to get in melee with Paladins on his terms. Normally I'd be ok with tying them up with Screamerstar, but with Banishment all over the place, I didn't think I'd hold up in melee vs. them. So I danced around a few turns, and he drove his DK and Land Raider down my throat...and then I earned the Biggest Dick of the Day award...<br />
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I had summoned one Screamer unit with Incursion, for no good reason other than I could. That unit and one of my starting units turbo'd and mostly surrounded his Land Raider. The other Screamer unit and Belakor assaulted it. I was of course hoping to Wreck it, such that no models had room to disembark, and were therefore all destroyed.<br />
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Unfortunately, though, Belakor's Armorbane was a little too good, and one of his three Pen rolls was a six, causing the Raider to explode. :(<br />
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But no matter, I'm a dick, still had Fatey's reroll, so rerolled the 6 to a 3, completed the Wreck, and earned his icy stare and zero conversation for the rest of the game.<br /><br />
I love you Sean!<br /><!--3--><br />
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Next game was versus Zach from The Only Game in Town in NJ. Zach's a young but very experienced player, having won his brackets at Nova and 11th Co GT last year, and consistently doing well at local tourneys. He was using a slightly modified version of the Necron list that Nick Nanavati had just spanked me badly with a few weeks earlier, which included several Night Scythes with Warriors, three Annihilation Barges, and a "deathstar" of Zahndrekh, Obyron, a Destroyer Lord, a few crypteks with Haywire, and a bazillion (six?) Lords with Warscythes with 2+ saves. A tough nut!!<br />
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That "deathstar" (I really hate that term, but what the hell else am I going to call it?!) is impossible to nail down, as Oby will just deep strike the unit out. Killing some models is not that hard, but they just get back up. It's got enough shooting that it's a threat if it starts popping Horrors...but really in melee is where I don't want to be with this unit. Not on his terms, anyway.<br />
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This mission is Scouring. We both thought that meant Screamers had Objective Secured until he actually read the mission. Apparently Scouring and Big Guns are a big FU to Fast Attack and Heavy now, as they give up additional points when killed but have no benefits. Dumb. Regardless, as it was an objective mission he wisely deployed first and chose to go second.<br />
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I buffed up, went mid-table, and waited. He tried to deep strike in to my backfield (which I'd left less defended than I should have, it being Hammer & Anvil I messed up). But I didn't leave good landing places (unintentionally)...he scattered and landed on some Horrors. He mishaped, rolled the 1.<br />
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But he had a Chorno, so rerolled it, and got a 2. I thought long and hard...I couldn't throw them in a corner as they'd just pop out later and do something ugly, so I decided to gamble on removing the unit completely (or at least thinning them down a lot), and I placed them where Belakor (who was Gliding) and all the screamers could assault.<br />
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So, my turn, I did. All buffed up with Invisibility and Endurance from Fatey and Grimoire, I even managed to get a Terrify on them to reduce that Ldr by 1...which was key. Because I won combat by 5, and he rolled a 5 (after a reroll from Chrono)...which would have passed if it weren't for Terrify!<br />
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So failing, I win Sweeping Advance (Thanks Belakor!) and with 20 models + Belakor (and even a smartly placed nearby swooping Fateweaver) I'm able to cover enough area to prevent any Reanimation, and bye-bye super unit!<br />
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The rest of the game came down to his Barges and Scythes trying to kill my Horrors while I tried to keep my Horrors alive and kill Scythes and Barges. End of game he had two Scythes left able to deploy troops, so he took the 4 and a 3 from me, but I held all the others for 8-7, plus I had Linebreaker, Warlord, and First Blood for a solid win.<!--3--><!--3--><br />
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FYI I managed to summon some Plagues and drop them on an objective, which required him to shoot them off taking up a big chunk of his firepower. I also got some non-OS troops from the Portal, which helped me get on every objective, making things very hard for him late-game.<br />
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So the final game, and drew what I think will become one of the new super-power-army-archetypes: Seer Council + Wave Serpents played by my friend Amir from The Only Game in Town. He got Fortune. He got only 1 Protect. He rolled a lot of Santic for Banishment. I was sad. Another objective mission, this one Vanguard. I won roll to go first and chose a side that had a combination of terrain pieces that made for a very large "shadow" where his Serpents wouldn't be able to alpha-strike. He won the roll and choice to deploy first, of course, then gave me first turn as I'd deployed hiding.<br />
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I continued to hide, but got powers up, with one 2+++ screamer unit, and one 2+ cover/Invisible unit, while Fatey and Belakor hid. I also summoned a Tzeentch Herald that knew Possession.<br />
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He avoided coming within range of Screamers while maneuvering for shots to try to thin stuff out, and basically turned the table in to Hammer & Anvil style. Then he decided to flex his Santic muscles and Gate of Infinity the Council in my face. He threw three dice at it, got a 1, 1, 5. That guy died, but the council still got the power off. They scattered in to terrain, where he lost another to Dangerous because he'd done this before casting Fortune and Protect. Woops! As I recall, he then failed his Protect, but as I had nothing to shoot him with or to assault, it didn't matter. He shot 4 Serpents at Invisible 4+ Invuln / 2+ Cover Screamers, and did 1 wound (admittedly my save dice were hot, but it was still hilarious and gratifying to see the much-feared Serpent shooting be so ineffective!)<br />
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My turn 2, and I fail Grim on Screamers. First time today, I was due. A smart conservative player would have then hidden that unit by Turbo-boosting, and played it safe...but I crave action and destruction. So I Invisibled them instead, and went after a 6" charge on a Serpent, while the other Screamer unit moved to support. Note I made a grievous error here, as I measured to be out of Council charge range when I started the turbo of the second unit, but then redid my move a few times and ended up giving him an 8" charge out of sheer laziness. Belakor Glided up to support, Fatey stayed hidden, and the summoned Herald from turn 1 was Possessed by a Lord of Change, that swooped in, then ran a mighty 12" to almost mid-field, immediately being a threat! The Screamers wrecked the Serpent for First Blood (note that this was wrong but not noted at the time and made no difference, but he should have had First Blood from the Herald turning in to a LoC)<br />
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Amir's turn 2 he got some Dire Avengers out of their serpent, and the other DA from the Wrecked serpent made a Bubblewrap around the now empty Serpent. The Fire Dragons he had in another Serpent got out to pick on the "weak" Failed-Grim Screamers. Those Screamers of course Jinked and the Melta bounced off. The Council tried to throw a Banishment on the non-failed-grim Screamers, again using three dice, again rolling a double and killing another Warlock, and I easily Denied it (as I denied maledictions from a Lvl 1 guy on 4+). The assault still wrecked me though, after Instability I had 3 Screamers left (2 wounded) and the Herald with 1 wound. However, I did manage one unsaved wound, which as luck would have it was required to go on the Protect Warlock...as soon as the Protect guy dies, the unit loses Protect. He then lost another Warlock to Dangerous Terrain.<br />
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My turn 3, and we realize we've been playing over 2 hours already and are out of time. My new LOC Glides behind middle table terrain blocker, as does Belakor. Engaged Screamers get Grim'd up. Unengaged Screamers get Invisibiled and multi-assault Avengers, Dragons, and an empty Serpent. I only got one Glance on the Serpent, killed all but 2 DA, and a couple Dragons. Nobody ran away, however, and of course the Council/2+++ fight was a wash. He'd had some Jetbikes fly on, so Fatey and some Horrors threw some dice to try to shut them down, but I did nothing. :(<br />
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We had no time, so he simply talked thru his last turn...the Bikes contest one of my objectives, his Serpents tank-shock me off others, and he wins 3 obj to 1.<br />
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I very much believe if it had gone on and we'd played out the rest of the game (which at our pace would have taken about 6 more hours) I had this one in the bag, but we'll never know! As it was, he scored a 20-0 over me, and I have no complaints, it was a fun game where we both learned a lot about how our stuff works in 7e!<br />
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I've used this army a few times on Vassal as well, and it is pretty effective when the dice cooperate. In fact, it has that very typical daemon flavor of 'when it works, it's abusive, but a quarter of the time it doesn't work and falls apart' that I'm very used to. Though really...I don't know if I should say I'm used to it. It stresses me out and drives me bonkers most times, actually! :)<br />
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The thing though, when everything does work it's really not very much fun to play with or against. Units that can't be hurt; new units popping out all over; long drawn-out psychic phases.<br />
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So it took me a month to finish writing this post. Next 40k event is right around the corner now, Connecticon in Hartford July 11-13! It's a giant anime/cosplay event, lots of gaming (video, role-playing, and some tabletop) and geeking. I had a great time ogling the hotties last year, and of course am going back this year!<br />
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The <a href="http://connecticon40k.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">40k event</a> is 2000 points, with few restrictions on force organization (basically straight from the book). so I'm taking basically the same as above with an extra screamer unit and rearranged the troops so that I have a second Daemon Combined Arms Detachment with Nurglings instead of Cultists.<br />
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But really, I've not played much 40k at all in the last month. The few games on Vassal I mentioned, some 1k pickup games at Gamers Gambit, but nothing else. What I've been investing my time and energy in is World Cup and Malifaux!<br />
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Malifaux is incredible! I'll blog about that soon! :)<br />
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<!--3--><!--3--><!--3-->Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-74822186168166777472014-05-24T18:09:00.000-04:002014-05-24T18:09:51.392-04:00Geoff "Incontrol" Robinson......is a massive douche.<br />
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I was trying to get some 7e in on Vassal today. I saw Geoff on. We'd met at the Torrent of Fire Invitational, so I popped in his room to say hello, and immediately got this:<br />
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- Waiting for Game Info...<br />
- Synchronization complete<br />
<geoff incontrol="" robinson=""> - stupid bob<br /><geoff incontrol="" robinson=""> - get out you stupid fuck<br /><stupid bob=""> - nice to see you again too geoff :)<br /><geoff incontrol="" robinson=""> - sup<br /><stupid bob=""> - we met at tofi<br /><geoff incontrol="" robinson=""> - that's nice<br /><geoff incontrol="" robinson=""> - but we'd like to play in private please<br /><stupid bob=""> - then lock your room and don't be a fucking douche<br /><geoff incontrol="" robinson=""> - fuck you man<br /><stupid bob=""> - nice<br /><geoff incontrol="" robinson=""> - bob pls go<br /><geoff incontrol="" robinson=""> - bob suck a dick</geoff></geoff></stupid></geoff></stupid></geoff></geoff></stupid></geoff></stupid></geoff></geoff></blockquote>
Charming person, right?<br />
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Great guy. Sure to win many friends and influence many people!<br />
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Look, our community is pretty small. Treating people like this...not very mature or productive IMO.<br />
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Geoff....grow up.<br />
<br />Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-34344957103208233462014-03-10T15:01:00.000-04:002014-03-10T15:01:33.056-04:00Torrent of Fire Invitational!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last weekend (Mar 1-2) I was lucky enough to have been able to participate in the Torrent of Fire Invitational Tournament and Summit in Woodbridge, VA! I was up against 31 of the best players around, and was really lacking confidence that I could perform at the level these other guys do! I'd be going up against names like Andrew Gonyo, Tony Kopach, Sean Nayden, Alan Bajramovic, Ben Mohlie, Justin Cook, Nick Nanavati...many other names just as intimidating! How the hell was my newb ass going to compete with these guys?!<br />
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Easy! Play Screamerstar, always roll Forewarning, never fail Grim, and always win the roll to go first!<br />
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No problem, right?<br />
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This tourney format was a bit different than most. Typically some kind of Swiss Pairing is used...random first round matchups, then winners play winners, losers play losers, etc.<br />
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But in this tourney, a<a href="http://challonge.com/tofinv" target="_blank">n NCAA-style 32-player pre-determined bracket format</a> was used! I knew who all my potential matchups were going to be...most importantly my first! Moreover, we knew <a href="http://www.torrentoffire.com/3549/torrent-of-fire-invitational-and-summit" target="_blank">exactly what was in everyone's lists</a>...there were no surprises, and a LOT of wasted work-hours theory-hammering how to deal with each potential matchup.<br />
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So first things first...what army was I using? Well, I'm kind of a Daemon guy, and I'm kind of a Screamer guy, so should be no surprise that I used Daemons with a Screamer-star. Now typically I add in a couple Tzeentch Daemon Princes with my Screamers...but for this one, I knee-jerked about a Fiend ruling and went with some Fiends instead. The ruling being that the Fiends gave -1 Ldr to Psykers for each Fiend within 12"! I had big ideas of shutting down Seer Councils...but never played against one...and in every game I wished I had my Princes instead!<br />
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<b><u>The List</u></b>:<br />
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Fateweaver (giant emaciated two-headed bird-man with a book on a stick with a fish on top)<br />
3 Heralds of Tzeentch (Lvl 3, Discs, two with Exalted Rewards, one with Exalted Locus)<br />
Herald of Slaanesh (Steed, Greater Reward, Exalted Locus)<br />
10 Daemonettes<br />
10 Horrors<br />
10 Plaguebearers<br />
6 Fiends<br />
7 Screamers<br />
2 Slaanesh Soul Grinders with Torrent</blockquote>
It was very soon after submitting my list that I regretted doing it. But, what's done is done and can't be undone, so off I went!<br />
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<i>I want to take this opportunity to apologize for not taking any pictures. I really like writing and reading battle reports that have pictures to help tell the story, but I simply didn't think to take any pictures in any of my games. I apologize...I'm a bad blogger!</i><br />
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My first matchup, as I've spoken about before, was a good friend of mine Kurt Clauss. We rode down together with Sean and ruthlessly talked trash to each other about our matchup! To punish Kurt, Sean and I sang Pitch Perfect at him for hours. He cried a little I think. Kurt was playing a very different army:<br />
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Iron Hands<br />
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Coteaz<br />
small Cultist unit<br />
DCA/Crusader/Banisher unit<br />
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Dreadknight<br />
Vindicare Assassin<br />
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So, this was the only game I put a lot of pre-game planning in to. The mission was one of the new variety that are being developed, where players have an option of using 'normal' objective rules (ie you score points for controlling them at the end of the game), or to accrue points throughout the game.<br />
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I expected he would choose the former, putting the scouts and DCA in the Ravens to zip around and shoot things then disembark on the bottom of turn 5. I also recognized that he had few things that could really clear out troops (only two of the Ravens had Hurricanes), especially early-game, so I chose the alternate and to deploy all my troops on objectives at the start of the game....very different from how my Daemons are normally played! I expected if he won the roll for first turn he'd want to go second, and I wanted to go first so would choose that if I won the roll, so I planned on getting first turn.<br />
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The game went pretty much according to plan, with some hiccups that weren't unexpected and didn't hurt me too terribly. As expected I got first turn, buffed up...a quick aside here, I got Forewarning in every game...flew Screamers straight at the Knight. I wanted to be in melee with him before the GK Raven came on! The Grinders went towards the bastion at full speed...I'd hoped to get Templates on the windows turn 1, but he saw that play coming and set up a bit too far (FYI about 26" threat range on the templates...), and Fateweaver, who had rolled the Pyromancy Meltabeam power, flew to take a potshot at the Bastion with the Melta, and found that Kurt's Warlord Librarian was hiding behind the hill Fatey had landed on...all by himself! We used the laser in my pocket (and you thought I was just excited to play!) to confirm that Fatey could see him, and some Flickering Fire and a Melta shot went...the Flickering Fire was denied, but the Melta went thru, hit, wounded, he went to ground, and failed his save...First Blood and Warlord from one stupid lucky shot! Hey, it's better to be lucky then good!<br />
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On Kurt's bottom of 1 his Vindicare killed a Soul Grinder...some luck of his own! The DK shuffled a bit, and the Acolytes on the table tried to hide from the Fiends bearing down on them...<br />
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...unsuccessfully, as the Fiends were easily in LOS and charge range. Fatey flew off the table, Screamers hit the DK, Fiends hit the Acolytes, and a wound was done to the Assassin with a Soul Grinder template! Oh, and I scored 3 points from the objectives all my troops started the game on! I also threw down the Portalglyph deep in his deployment zone, which made a new Plaguebearer who was in range of an objective already...<br />
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His turn 2, and all the Ravens came on (he had the whoseywhatsit that lets him reroll reserves on top of his bastion). He couldn't fire the Mindstrikes at the Screamers as they were in (perpetual) combat with the Knight, so he saved them and went troop hunting. The Storms killed off a few Horrors and Plagues; the Ravens killed the new Plaguebearer and several Daemonettes. The Soulgrinder took a fair amount of fire, but between saves and bad Pen rolls, the Grinder came thru ok! A handful of shots went to the Portal, and it survived too...clutch!<br />
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Top of 3, and I get 3 more points! FW comes on and tries to kill a Speeder Storm, but hot saves keep it alive with 1HP. Plagues assault the other Storm, but they also wiff and leave it with 1HP. Grinder templates the Assassin dead and assaults and kills the Bastion. The Fiends I fail with, though...I tried to get them to run and surround the DCA Raven which would prevent the DCA from getting out. Sadly I ended up being about 2" short and horribly exposed...<br />
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Bottom of 3 he shoots more troops, all the units survive, but the Plagues within range of their Objective die, so no points from them. The Grinder dies. The DCA get out and assault the Fiends. Slaanesh Herald challenges Coteaz and they kill each other (grenades had me going at I1, sadly). Fiends get ripped apart and the unit pops on Instability. Screamers finally finish off the Knight!<br />
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Top of 4, and I go to 7 points. FW moves to shoot down the DCA, while Nettes move to finish them off...this works well, as the DCA are all destroyed and the Nettes consolidate back to their objective. Screamers moved so the Heralds could help shoot the DCA, but I was braindead and left the Heralds all clumped up. Portal makes a unit for me, I choose Horrors because I want to run them to get out of LOS as much as possible while holding an objective in his deployment...need to have the troops on the objective at the start of my next turn to score! I also seem to remember the Storms died this turn as well...don't ask me how!<br />
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Bottom of 4 he Mindstrikes the Grim and the Portal Herald, he kills them both. He shoots some more troops, but I still hold 3 objectives after his turn...<br />
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Top of 5, I max out at 9 points for primary. I fly Fateweaver to contest an objective, surviving Screamers (I think I have 4 plus the Herald at this point?) Turbo to contest another. I have small Nette unit on one and small horror unit on another. The Portal makes another Nette unit for me, which I run towards the objective Fateweaver is on, meaning he'll have to kill both units to keep me from contesting that objective, and the Nettes are another unit getting me Linebreaker.<br />
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Bottom of 5, and this is last turn as time has been called. I have max points: 9 primary, 4 for 'escalated' Warlord (a point for each character killed: Dreadknight, Assassin, Coteaz, and Librarian), 2 for First Blood, and 2 for Linebreaker. Kurt has 3 troop units with which he needs to get 3 objectives (worth 3 points each), he has to kill 1 more Character to max his escalated secondary, get linebreaker, kill all my linebreaking units, and still tie because of First Blood? I forget exactly, but that's how I think it was working out. He had 3 Scouts and 4 Stormravens with which to do this, and he came damned close! But the Screamers protected the Herald, one Linebreaking Daemonette refused to die, and regardless I still had First Blood...so, a win for my first game! Thanks for a very fun game, Kurt! It was really fun to have to think so differently from normal games! Props having a giant pair of balls to bring a list like that!<br />
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<b><u>Game 2</u></b><br />
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Game 2 was against <a href="http://www.torrentoffire.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/rob_tilly.pdf" target="_blank">Rob Tilly and his White Scars and Space Wolves</a>. I really thought a lot of Rob's list. MSU'ish, threats for anything, very solid. I had no good plan for how to deal with it...to make matters worse he won the roll and chose to go first, so I knew I'd have two drop pods landing in my face.<br />
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I simply surrounded the Grim guy making it very unlikely he'd get sniped out. I deployed some Plaguebearers in some ruins. FW was on the board but in a bad spot for him to try to gun him down. Grinders (foolishly) were deployed to take out the Bastion.<br />
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His Ravenwing stuff outflanked. Two pods came in and tried to shoot up the Screamers, but only killed a few...I weathered that pretty well! The Grinders went towards the Bastion with the Centurions in them, but AP4 templates make Centurions giggle. Fiends moved up along with Invisible Fateweaver, while Screamers assaulted both Drop Pod units.<br />
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Things then turned in to something of a slog-fest on my half of the table...screamers, plagues, and fateweaver dealt with all the pods and outflanked bikes (one squad came in on my side), while the Fiends intercepted and destroyed a rhino squad trying to push in to my half also. At one point I had about 1000 points of stuff chasing around one stupid Flamer marine that refused to die as he cooked an entire Daemonette unit!<br />
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The mission was a combination of Kill Points and 4-objectives. I was trying to tie on objectives and win on kill points, so kept retreating behind the giant LOS blocking terrain we had. When time was announced (turn 5 for us? Maybe 6?), he was too far away to contest one of my objectives with anything because the Fiends semi-bubble-wrapped the nearest of the two objectives I had deployed with half the fiends, while the rest hid behind a giant wall so even if he shot them to shit he'd not get the kill point...the Screamers similarly split off from the Heralds...the Heralds hid behind the same wall while the Screamers assaulted the Rhino he was pushing towards my objective so I could keep the marines away! And Fateweaver flew to contest one of his objectives, being Invisible and Enduranced, I felt pretty comfortable throwing him in front of all of Rob's army...<br />
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...because I forgot that Kahn has an Instant Death sword! Rob shot everything he had at Fatey, who fell to the ground unwounded....Kahn and a Squad charged him. Fatey Challenged, Kahn accepted...Kahn hits on 4s due to Invisibility, he gets 4 hits...<br />
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and...<br />
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rolls no 6s! Fatey survives!<br />
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I think I won on Primary (I had 2 objectives, he had 1...thank you Invisible Fateweaver!), I think he had me on Kill Points (hard for old people to remember these details!). Neither of us had Linebreaker or Warlord. So, another Win for me! OMG I made it to the Quarter-finals!<br />
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I didn't see that one coming!<br />
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Rob was a blast to play against! I really hope I get to play him again! Great "unsexy" but solid list, very well played, and we had a lot of laughs! Thanks Rob!!<br />
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<b><u>Game 3</u></b><br />
If I had to pick the 2 people that had the <a href="http://challonge.com/tofinv/predictions" target="_blank">least number of picks to advance to the quarter finals</a>, it would be me and John Parsons.<br />
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So in the quarter finals, it's me and John Parsons!<br />
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John was using Nick Nanavati's "old" <a href="http://www.torrentoffire.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/john_parsons.pdf" target="_blank">MC spam Daemon List</a>. I had zero plan for this matchup going in to the game, which is terrible. I pushed to mid-table and reacted to his moves...which is a terrible thing to do vs. FMC spam. I failed Grimoire on turn 2, and still drove forward to take (lots) of Flickering Fire shots at the CSM Daemon Prince, which is terrible. I placed my Portalglyph on turn 2, which was terrible.<br />
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In short, I was Terrible.<br />
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John, on the other hand, did everything right. The mission was primarily Objectives (Scouring, with 6 objectives semi-randomly point-costed) and Kill Points as a secondary. I had the two 3 pt objectives in my deployment zone, yet still inexplicably pushed everything out towards mid-table (hammer and anvil). Terrible.<br />
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The CSM Mace DP assaulted the over-confident Screamers, and I avoided disaster there and killed him in two combat rounds (He'd taken wounds from FF first, or I'd be there half the game).<br />
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The Heldrake flew on and killed several Daemonettes, but I knocked the Baleflamer off it top of 3 which kept it from being worse. Total through the game I did in area of 15 glance/pens to that stupid thing, and he made saves like it was his job. It never died, and ended up scoring an objective :(<br />
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The Keeper dropped in and threatened the Horrors I had on a 3pt objective, so I drove the Fiends in to it and we had a big old scrum there. I couldn't roll Rends to save my life, the few I did make he saved. He couldn't hit to save his life, and the few he did hit I saved. I think I finally finished off the Keeper when he forgot to Challenge out the Herald a few turns (and I sure wasn't going to remind him!) and her AP2 S5 attacks dropped the big guy eventually! Invisibility from Fateweaver made that fight winnable for me.<br />
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His Grim Herald came under fire from both Grinders and Fateweaver at one point. He was dropped to 1 wound left and grounded, so I assaulted with a Soul Grinder. Mathhammer says a Soul Grinder wins vs. a DP when he gets the charge...but not this time. John rolled 2 pens and a glance, I saved 1 pen, but the one that got thru was an Explode. Bullocks! Then Nick Nanavati reminded me that Soul Grinders have Hammer of Wrath, so I rolled that wound, he failed his save, but passed the 6+ FNP that he'd gained from Flickering Fire, so lived anyway. Then everyone around us told Nick he was a damned cheater: that Walkers do NOT have Hammer of Wrath, so we all got another good laugh at Nick's expense. I love you Nick! But my Grinder was still dead. Meh.<br />
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The game ended on turn 6, after which I'd killed the Keeper, the CSM DP, the Grim DP (brought down by Heralds' Flickering Fires), his Portalglyph, and his Daemonette unit. I'd only lost a Soul Grinder, 2 troop units, and the Portal....AND the 3 stupid units that popped out of the portal right where his FMC were able to come on and kill them :) I was up 5-3 on objectives, so he flew Fateweaver over to contest the 3-pointer I was on...Fatey needed an 8-inch run, and got a 9! (He still had his RR I believe, so good odds of getting that 8). Great game to John, who ended up facing the overall winner in the Semi-finals losing in a close game...wish they had streamed and saved that one too!<br />
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Thus, my dreams of pulling off an upset in the event were foiled, but it was a great game and I have nothing but good things to say about John..who is not from Jersey as I reported on Stupidhammer, but from Philly! Sorry John, my bad! He played a super solid game taking advantage of everything I gave him and I was in pure reaction mode doing nothing but stupid! Congrats man!<br />
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Day one was over, and I'd exceeded my expectations and handily made my goal (which was to not be the 0-5 guy!), so off to dinner we went! Dinner was booked in a swanky pizza place in Alexandria. The food was great, the wine was nice (Alan Bajramovic and I shared a nice bottle of some Italian red...very tasty!), the room was nice...but when we all got together and started drinking it got loud, and sadly there was no overall 'Summit' conversation to be had. A lot of semi-isolated conversations discussed the things we'd wanted to discuss, but I'm not sure if any consensus or agreements to be taken for action were made. Regardless, it was a great time! I got to hang out with some old friends (I love you Brad!) and meet some new ones! Then off to bed, where Sean refused to snuggle with me, so I slept lonely and cold...and on to Day Two!<br />
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<b><u>Game 4</u></b><br />
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And wouldn't you know it, after splitting a bottle of wine, we got to play each other in Round 4! Yes, I got to play against <a href="http://www.torrentoffire.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/alan_bajramovic.pdf" target="_blank">Alan Bajramovic and his horribly painful Beast-star</a>!<br />
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I had no good plan for this game either...the Walkers nullify my Grinders. His fast shooty units can tear apart my troops. My Fiends were my only hope...getting Fortune blocked and making some kind of exciting assault that might do more than kill half his beasts?<br />
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Well, as luck would have it, Fateweaver got Terrify. Now that combination started to look like something that could possibly happen...but would someone of that caliber allow that to happen?<br />
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I had Perfect Timing, Misfortune, and Forewarning for the Screamers to play with, and all the Heralds had Flickering Fire. IF the Flickering Fires all work, this can put out a staggering amount of firepower (somewhere in the area of 25 HITS if all works right!). The problem of course is the extremely random nature of this, requiring the power to be cast and to not be denied...something like a 40% failure rate vs. units with Psykers! Still, using that firepower along with Terrify and some effective charges to force break tests was my play.<br />
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The mission was Relic primary with controlling the majority of 4 'corner' objectives as a secondary. Alan won the roll off and as expected chose to go first. He deployed the beasts and one of his bike units front and center, setting up a <a href="http://rumorsofheresy.blogspot.com/2014/02/adam-tricola-takes-beaststar-to-lvo_21.html" target="_blank">standard eldar jetbike play</a> to sneak off with the relic on turn 1. So I deployed where I'd be able to move the Screamers such that the Heralds would have good shots at the likely place the Bikes would Turbo away to, or if they went the other way the Soul Grinders would get them.<br />
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As expected his bikes grabbed the relic and zipped back 6", the beasts shuffled to support them without committing themselves. Walker shooting did nothing due to night fight.<br />
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I moved the Grinders up a bit to threaten board center, Fiends hid semi-centrally, and the Heralds and Screamers moved to shoot the Jetbikes....<br />
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...and the Stupid started. I'd not used Fateweaver's reroll for the turn, so when I rolled a 1 and a 5 for the Warpstorm, I chose to reroll the 1...and got the 6. Yes, that's an 11, and yes that's bad for his Farseers. He rolled to see which it would be, it was the Warlord with Shard...he died. Firstblood and Warlord. Stupid.<br />
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But wait, there's more!<br />
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I'd moved not as sharply as I could have, so only 2 of my Heralds had LOS to the Relic-holding Jetbikes, but they shot, and killed the 2 they had range to. He passed the Warpflame check, gaining 6+ FNP, and passed his Morale test. Damn!<br />
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Then the Soul Blaze did a wound, and he failed both the save and the FNP, and the relic was dropped!<br />
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I bought him a drink.<br />
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So top of 2 and he realizes his Beaststar is no longer fearless, so he goes to cast Mental Fortitude...I pointed out that he didn't have that, that he'd rolled Fortune and then went to Divination for Forewarning and Prescience. He moved the Beasts way backwards (I basically let him completely re-do his movement phase). Walkers killed a Grinder, and took the Flamer off the other. Boo. He dropped some Spiders in to my backfield to shoot up some Plagues in ruins...they didn't do much.<br />
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Bottom 2, I get some Horrors in my backfield on an objective. Screamers push forward to get shots at Beasts (which all failed). Fiends killed the Spiders. Portalglyph I put down centrally and shit out some troops to threaten the relic. This was a mistake.<br />
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Top of 3 he pushes the Beasts to assault the new troops and the Portalglyph. He considers splitting Baron off the Beasts to join some Hawks with which he wanted to charge a Grinder and Haywire it to death, I point out this would leave his beasts with no HnR, and he changes his mind...I let him re-do his movement again...I felt bad for the Stupid Warpstorm. Instead he lined up a great multi-assault to kill my new troop unit and the Portalglyph (with Baron and the Jetseer). The Hawks flew away, the troops died, but the Portal lived!<br />
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Bottom of 3 and I finally got what I wanted...he'd had a poor consolidate, so I was able to move so that 4 Fiends were within 12" of his Shardseer...Grinder and Screamers went to the flanks of the beasts as best they could ready to try to chase him down next turn. Heralds shot at a unit of Walkers and killed all 3! It's nice when that shooting stuff actually works! I got some Daemonettes in, and pushed them in to his side of the table on one of his objectives.<br />
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And then Stupidity struck, and I MINDLESSLY charged the Beastpack with a Soul Grinder. I have no excuse, I was just Bloodthirsty. I killed a dog or two, and he hit and run well away from Fiend range, and I was fucked. I hate being stupid.<br />
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Top of 4, and he assaults Horrors and Fiends with a big stretched out assault. Spyders and Hawks rip apart the Daemonettes. Horrors die. Fiends make a good showing for themselves and keep the combat loss reasonable (the Blue Horrors helped too!), and only lose a few wounds to CR. But the damage was done.<br />
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Bottom of 4 FW comes on and vector strikes his two remaining bike squads, with high hopes of killing them both. Heralds shoot at Walkers (killing two) and Screamers Slash his DE warriors (troop-clobbering time!). Fatey fails, as Alan's Team USA die answered his lovingly whispered question, "What country do I play for?" with a USA 6, so only 2 bikes were killed from the Vector and my plan failed. Combat was meh and the Beasts HnR out...<br />
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Top of 5, his Jetseer leaves the Beasts, joins with full bike squad, and they turbo to the Objective the Horrors had been on. His solo bike turbos to the objective my Daemonettes had been on (actually 2 were alive at this point, Hawks had to hang around to kill them). Beasts did an even bigger multi-assault, being fearless now due to Power from Pain they assaulted a solo Nette the Portal had made, the Fiends, a Grinder, and the Screamers. Alan's Save Dice got hot, and despite dishing out a good number of wounds, I couldn't kill shit. Suck.<br />
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Bottom of 5, all I have at this point is Fateweaver trying to Flickering Fire down the Bikes near an Objective. Alan again asks his Team USA Die what country he plays for, and again the question is answered with a USA - 6! Dammit! In combat I again go batshit crazy causing tons of wounds, but his save dice are still super hot (I hate it when someone uses my dice and rolls hot...it's like my dice are betraying me! :P ). My only hope at this point was to have the Screamers kill enough Beasts that he can't consolidate back in to melee and free up the Screamers, but it doesn't happen again, and of course he does not Hit and Run.<br />
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If the game ends here, we tie Pri, he wins Sec, and wins the game!<br />
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I roll it, and the game goes on!<br />
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His 3-bike unit backs up and snatches up the relic, stretched out so that he can turbo back to the objective he had been on. We're up against the clock at this point, with a million people watching and sweating on us, so we blew thru the turn quickly. Alan wanted to proclaim the game over at this point, but I protested and asked to be able to do the bottom turn, because there was hope! And that hope was again with the Screamers fighting their way out of combat...<br />
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...which they did! Alan's hot save dice betrayed him this turn, I think I did only like 12 wounds, and he failed 8 of them! The Screamers were free, consolidated towards his Bikes, and I had a reasonably good end-game play...<br />
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Fatey flew over (unable to get close enough to contest, he just vectored and planned to Flickering Fire). The Screamers moved so that the Horrors could shoot at the unit too, and the Screamers themselves Turbo'd to get on the objective.<br />
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If I could kill off the unit, I could win!<br />
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Fatey's Vector Strikes did work, as I did 3 wounds, doing 1 bike that didn't matter, and 1 to the Farseer.<br />
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Then the Heralds went bat-shit crazy, doing a million wounds which, basically, wiped out the unit!<br />
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We tied on Pri (nobody had the Relic), we tied on Sec (we each had 1 objective), and I had Warlord and Firstblood for 2-0 win!<br />
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Alan was mildly grumpy, saying, "I feel cheated!" but offered no explanation...Alan if you read this I'd love to know your thoughts!<br />
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This was a really fun game, and I have to say it felt really good to pull out a win against someone of Alan's skill! Thanks for the game, Alan! I'm sorry you were upset!<br />
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So having had a drink while playing Alan, I had another drink after. Then had a drink during lunchtime, but was too keyed up to eat...so going in to game 5 I was feeling no pain...this was a bad thing!<br />
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<b><u>Game 5</u></b><br />
Unsurprisingly in this event, I was up against another internet-famous personality, <a href="http://www.torrentoffire.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/kenny_boucher.pdf" target="_blank">Kenny Boucher and his "Superfriends" Marine/Wolf list</a> (one of many exactly identical lists at the event...wtf?!)<br />
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He won the roll, chose to go first...it was clear he wanted his Orbital Bombardment on unbuffed Screamers.<br />
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So he deployed the Superfriends, the TFC, and something else...reserving everything else with a lot of outflanking Melta.<br />
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I then forgot about the OB and clumped the Screamers up back in the corner where they were out of TFC range (due to Nightfight). I suck.<br />
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Luckily I'm lucky, so the OB only did 4 wounds, passed off by the Grim Herald to a Screamer, who only failed one save!<br />
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Then I mindlessly shuffled the Fiends forward to be within 12" of his Runepriest (for no reason), and mindlessly shuffled the Screamers to shoot at the Superfriends (like I'm going to do any damage!), and mindlessly shuffled a Grinder nearer a board side to make it easier for his flanking melta...<br />
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So he killed the Fiends with the Wolflord and Master; killed a grinder with Melta from the Command Squad, got on a lot of reserves and killed the other Grinder with Melta. Sigh.<br />
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So I put the Plaguebearers in to the 5 Marines that had killed the grinder, and mindlessly shuffled the Screamers (without Forewarning due to Runepriest) in to the Command Squad. I did a few wounds, but he of course stuck, and somehow failed his H and R out...Lolz. He also HnR the surviving tactical guys out from the Plagues.<br />
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He gets another Tactical in that goes to help clear out the Plagues. The Lord and Master go in to the Screamers. Thunderfire scatters exactly on to his new Tactical, killing all but 2 of them. Hilarious. Screamers hold there own, still winning combat. Shots at Fateweaver are ineffective (he was placed so the Hunters had to move 12" to get LOS, so only Snapshots, so no worries...I'm sure if he'd been grounded the Lord and Master would have gone in to him, but he stayed in the air).<br />
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My turn and I'm actually feeling I'm turning this around a bit and have a reasonable chance...at least putting up a fight! My Plagues clear out a tactical squad (leaving like 7 plagues vs. 2 tacticals in my 'corner'. New Horrors drop in and along with Fatey clear out another unsupported troop unit. Warpstorm gives me 10 new Daemonettes which I hide behind a hill. Melee happens and I get the Command Squad down to the Apothecary and the Rune Priest (has 1 wound left). I fail a save on a non-Grim Herald and lose him to ID, and a Screamer goes down to the Rune Priest also...I lose combat by 1.....<br />
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...and roll Boxcars. Fatey's reroll had already been used on the Grim.<br />
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I surrendered (he and his friends were anxious to head out to hopefully beat predicted bad weather). If the Screamers had survived then he'd have to split up the Superfriends to deal with the things I had all over, which would free up the Screamers to go clear out the rest of his (dwindling) troops. I had a slim shot at pulling something out of my ass....but once the Screamers were gone...I had another drink and got comfortably numb and was quite pleased to have gone 3-2 versus some of the meanest competitors in our hobby!<br />
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As it turns out, based on competitive ranking, I somehow managed 7th overall! Wow! That's exciting! :)<br />
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I had my final drink while waiting for Nayden to finish his 5-hour game vs. Watkins (Sean was playing for 3rd place, but some cagey play by James kept Sean from getting the points he needed).<br />
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Big congratulations to Tim, Matt, and Matt! Also congrats to my friend Sean for his 4-1 showing! It's the beard!!<br />
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And biggest of all, thanks to Chip for putting all this together, and Mike for providing all his help and support! The ToF guys ran a great event, the terrain was THE BEST I've played on hands down! The venue was so awesome! I mean three times I was like "Hey, I'm hungry when's the next break?" and a waitress showed up and took an order and brought my food to the table! THAT'S the way 40k should be!<br />
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The Bloody Marys were damned good, too! :)<br />
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Overall, one of the greatest 40k weekends ever. Great games with top-notch players, great food and drinks, great tables, great missions, no negative rules issues or anything! What a great time!<br />
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And thanks to Sean and Kurt for good company on the drives there and back!<br />
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I sure hope I'm invited again next year! :)Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-8636137184153590872014-03-07T11:22:00.004-05:002014-03-07T11:23:13.577-05:00Stupidhammer!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Me! I forgot to tell you about <a href="http://www.stupidhammer.com/" target="_blank">Stupidhammer</a>!<br />
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What's Stupidhammer, you ask?<br />
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I'm glad you asked! It's a joint blog and podcast project some friends of mine and I are doing! We'll talk about 40k gaming, modeling, rules, lists, etc. We'll also of course talk about non-40k gaming (man can not live on 40k alone!).<br />
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Sean Nayden is involved, picking his brain for his outside the box tactical and list theories for high-level competitive play will be great fun!<br />
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Brian Fox is involved, a friend of many years, he dabbles in several different war-games and has a lot of experience with competitive gaming in 40k and Warmachine.<br />
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Tim Wright is the most amazing hobbyist I've ever met. I got to a good amount of competitive events, and I've not seen anything that compares to what Tim does! Hearing him talk about his projects and then having video/pictures on the Blog to back up what he talks about will be incredible!<br />
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And of course me, I intend to complain about Stupid 40k a lot and try to talk you out of giving Stupid GW any more of your Stupid money!<br />
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So hey, check us out! The Stupid podcast is available at the link above and on iTunes!<br />
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<br />Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-25647985720221745092014-02-21T17:27:00.001-05:002014-02-21T17:27:26.060-05:00Templecon - Dropzone Commander!Well writing this up has taken a lot longer than I'd intended! Between being sick (Damn You, McCloud!!) and work and Titanfall Beta, well...I just put it off!<br />
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But hey, at Templecon a few weeks back I was able to play in a 1500 point Dropzone Commander tournament hosted by Simon and Dave (the wizards of Hawk Games)!<br />
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Brendan and I both participated, he with his nicely painted Shaltari, and me with my almost but not quite completely unpainted UCM! I took the dreaded Double-Ferrum list:<br />
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Double Ferrum<br />
Clash: 1493/1500 points<br />
Standard Army<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Standard Roster [1493/1500 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Field Command [168 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kodiak: Kodiak(Lieutenant) [168 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Armored Formation [328 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sabre Squad: 3x Sabre, Condor(+Missile Pods) [152 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rapier Squad: 3x Rapier, Condor(+Missile Pods) [176 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Legionnaire Corps [219 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Legionnaires: 3x Legionnaires, Condor, 2x Bear [141 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>^ Sharing ^ Legionnaires: 3x Legionnaires [78 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Legionnaire Corps [160 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Legionnaires: 2x Legionnaires, Raven A [80 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Legionnaires: 2x Legionnaires, Raven A [80 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Special Ordinance [309 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Gladius Squad: 2x Gladius, Condor [149 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ferrum: Ferrum [160 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Special Ordinance [309 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Gladius Squad: 2x Gladius, Condor [149 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ferrum: Ferrum [160 pts]<br />
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I literally had never put this army on the table before, in fact had only played half of a practice game fudging it on Vassal-40k! I was going to meet other DZC people and get some 'trigger time' in...not a lot of other local players here!<br />
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So, trepidation weighing in a bit, I took out my mins as the other attendees stood by. I am sad to say I was the only one with an unpainted army, which made me feel bad. Too many video games took away my time to paint! Many groaned at the double Ferrums, but hey...what can I say? I liked the idea of how it would work!<br />
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Now it's been a few weeks, and while I took a few pictures, none of them really captured much of the action and are effectively worthless, so please forgive lack of details and errors of memory!<br />
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My first opponent was Joe from the DC Area with his terrifying Scourge list:<br />
Two Desolators<br />
2 squads of Destroyers<br />
3 squads of Prowlers<br />
2 squads of Reapers<br />
a squad of Hunters<br />
a squad of Tormentors<br />
and, as I recall, three squads of Warriors (but maybe just two...bad memory!)<br />
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The mission was one I wasn't familiar with, moreover Simon made some tweaks to how it would be scored. He was very clear in his description, but it didn't absorb in to my head. The mission was called Focal Points, where there are basically 5 'objective' areas that you get points for having a unit within 6" of. In addition, you get bonus points for having more points near a Focal Point than your opponent does. I understood this part, but what I didn't get my brain around (until well after the game) was that I only have to do this on the last turn of the game....so...I messed up.<br />
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I knew his Tormentors would fry any Infantry out of any building I went in to. I also knew his Destroyers would absolutely wreck any Infantry they CQB'd (hell one squad could probably beat all of mine at the same time!). His Desolators would clear out vast swathes of guys if I clumped up too much...and they'd drop buildings I was in as well.<br />
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So with more of a Grab Objectives gamestyle, I zipped infantry in to FP buildings near my edge, and went mid-table with my big Infantry Condor. I then had to spend three turns clearing out all the Prowlers, and chased down the Tormentors with my Drones. While that was going on, he'd driven his Tormentors over to the building I'd dropped two big squads of infantry in and was having a nice human-barbeque. I couldn't get good shots at the Tormentors, despite my 'tank advantage', and sadly I grossly underestimated the killiness of the Plasma Hoses on all his dropships...which killed both my Ferrums while my Rapiers were horribly misplaced. Other than dropping the Desolators that would have tabled me if I'd let them, the only other good play I made was with my small infantry squads, when attacked by the Destroyers, I simply activated later that same turn, got back in dropships, and left, and went to another FP.<br />
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The game was a loss for me, but not a horrible one...I believe somewhere in the area of 13-7, something like that. Thanks for the game, Joe!<br />
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Game 2 was against Scott (piperider361 on DZC Forum)...also from the DC area. He was a fellow UCM player, using:<br />
Kodiak<br />
Ferrum<br />
6 Sabers & 3 Rapiers in an Albatross<br />
2 Gladii in a Condor<br />
a squad of Snipers<br />
a squad of Praetorians<br />
2 squads of infantry<br />
and a squad of 2 Archangels!<br />
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This was the mission I was prepped for...5 buildings with Objectives to be found and carried off the table. I felt like I had the stronger list...if I could avoid getting beaten piecemeal in CQB by the Praetorians, and if I could drop the Ferrum quickly enough, I'd have an advantage in the 'tank battle' and my Drones could focus on dropships.<br />
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But, as they say, no plan survives contact with the enemy. I went first, zipping some small infantry squads up, he then countered with his Archangels that blew one of their dropships up, leaving them stranded where they didn't want to be.<br />
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We then began stacking tank resources all in one long street that ran from one side of the table all the way across...a perfect long wide street for our tanks to have at each other. We both dropped Condors in front of our tanks, but things swung my way due to having more battlegroups available to play with (one of his was tied up with the Fast Movers), so I got to kill his blocking Condor and get unblocked shots at his tanks before he could shoot at mine. I focused on Rapiers first (to allow unrestricted Drone love) and sent one batch of Drones after his Ferrum (which died around turn 3) while another shot down the Praetorians' Raven, killing one of the stands. I then threw 6 bases of infantry in to his one Preatorian, killing him off for minimal loss!<br />
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But then again, while I'm busy killing off Rapiers and Ferrums and Condors, he was finding objectives like a boss. His snipers found one, and hightailed it off the table before I could touch them. His other infantry found theres, and I had no good way to stop them either. Near the end of turn 5, I had a spot of luck, and two infantry squads found the last two objectives, and I had unpurposefully (is that a word?!) left the Bears and Condor in great position so all the infantry could transfer to the Bears, and the Bears loaded on the Condor, and I was about 10" from the table edge..no problem!<br />
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So at the start of 6, he very calmly activated his Archangels (which I'd forgotten about). If my Condor makes it off the table, I have one stranded infantry unit with an objective left on, and 2 objectives off; to his 2 objectives off, for a 5-4 win...since I'd forgotten about his Archangels, I was pretty happy, thinking I had it in the bag! I would love to have had a picture of my face when he activated the Fast Movers and rolled for their attack run...<br />
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...and I'd also love to have a picture of his face when he rolled a 1 and they didn't show up, and I flew off the table!<br />
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I'd killed a pretty fair chunk of his army and I'd been left pretty unscathed, so I got a lot of bonus points (I'm not clear on how this metric worked...but from what I understand the winner got bonus points for killing more than his opponent did, but not vice versa). Yeah! My first win!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winning the tank fight, but where are those damned objectives?!</td></tr>
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Then my final match was against Quinn, of the <a href="http://flightintheshade.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Fight in the Shade</a> blog! He's DZC Zealot on the Hawk Forums. He was using a very squirmy Shaltari list that I had a really hard time getting my head around:<br />
Coyote<br />
2 Jaguars<br />
2 Firedrakes (!)<br />
2 squads of Braves<br />
2 squads of Firstborn<br />
a Tomahawk Squad<br />
a Kukri Squad<br />
a small Yari squad<br />
and a million gates (I couldn't keep track!)<br />
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This was another FP mission, but the regular buildings were replaced with Bunkers...basically buildings that could not be targeted/destroyed in any way, and infantry inside could not shoot out.<br />
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The matchup was worrisome to me. My only test game was against a lot of Jaguars, so I knew the AA was mroe than enough to rip apart my Drones. I know the Firstborn are about as mean as things get in CQB, so I didn't want to go there either. The Firedrakes I had a healthy respect for due to their long range and area effect. This was not a matchup I felt great about!<br />
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So, I played reserved and cagey. Having learned my lesson on Focal Point missions, I did not commit my infantry early at all. I kept them in their dropships and well away from his AA. I used Drone and Gladii positioning to keep him from pushing in to the center of the table (which was relatively wide open). We killed very little of each other's armies...I lost a Ferrum early due to careless stupidity...I was hiding it behind a building. I knew there was some rule that bad things happened if a building collapsed while you were near it, but I didn't know it was YOUR SHIT IS DESTROYED. Moreover, I assumed it was a 20 damage point building, but instead it was a 10. This cost me a Ferrum. Boo. Lesson learned there.<br />
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As it evolved, we both played extremely cagely. He did not drop down the Firstborn until the 6th turn. I had the middle objective locked up. We both had the objectives in our deployment zones locked up. The objectives in the corners were a toss up, so in turn 6 he did Shaltari gate tricks to drop his last Jaguar and the Firstborn near one (giving him a very large point lead there), while he shuffled his Kukri to the other, putting him up by just a handful of points. I did some math (annoying everyone that was waiting for us to finish so we could go eat!) and realized that if I killed one Kukri, I'd have that FP (giving me control of 3 to his 2). I asked others to confirm this, so out came the smartphone calculators, and it was confirmed, but Q didn't see the Hail Mary I was about to attempt...<br />
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...I moved 4 surviving Drones to have LOS to the Kukri (without getting close enough to get shot!), and my mighty Kodiak...the 1 rolling machine of death and cable TV, took his shot. I needed a 5 to hit (2+, target moved for 3+, skimmer for 5+), but I had an Assisted Targeting card...so the odds weren't that bad. Regardless, my Commander found the mark on his first shot, and somehow managed to not roll a 1 for the damage roll, and that was it! Another win!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I thought I had this objective locked up....until that Gate brought a giant Walker over and stole it from me!</td></tr>
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I have to say, that last game vs. Quinn was one of the most tense, cerebral, and exciting table-top wargames I've ever played. We only killed a small fraction of each other's armies (I think I killed like 290 he killed 280? something like that!), but the maneuver and counter-maneuver we did was awesome, and that Hail Mary at the end coming through...man that was a blast! No game of 40k has made me feel like that game did!<br />
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After the game we helped clean up, and all of us went to drinks and food with Simon and Dave and picked their brains about all kinds of things: the politics in the UK driving the Scotland Independence vote; game balance and designing for sustainable growth; and of course bashing Games Workshop!<br />
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This day playing DZC was definitely the highlight of the weekend for me. I really enjoyed the game, and had an amazing time talking with Simon and Dave throughout the day, and I kept going back to chat with them thru the weekend when I got a chance between 40k games!<br />
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Simon and Dave, thanks for a great game, a great tournament, and a great weekend! I look forward to seeing you guys again at NOVA! And thanks to Joe, Scott, and Quinn! I hope to see you guys at NOVA too!<br />
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<br />Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-2267900776771544322014-02-17T12:37:00.000-05:002014-02-17T13:17:06.465-05:00Templecon - Onslaught GT 2014!It's been over a week, but with diseases and snow-pocalypse and Valentine's, I've simply not taken the time to write anything about my fun weekend!<br />
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So, here goes!<br />
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I rode down with my friend Brendan (who runs the Gaming, Etc tournaments as well as table top gaming at Connecticon!). We actually drove down Friday morning early to participate in the Dropzone Commander tournament...which was GREAT! I'll blog about that later, it definitely deserves it's own post!<br />
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Saturday morning we got there late (no surprise, I woke up late and made us late), but not terribly so. Got to tables, and found the terrain was a bit...sparse. Very few LOS blocking pieces, and several of them weren't in good positions (shoved in to a corner instead of center table). Disappointing.<br />
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But when I waded thru to my table (they were very close together, all butted end to end, and each row of ~10 tables was butted in to the wall, so only one way in or out!) I found that this table was the real winner, as we litteraly had a beer bottle on an area base. I laughed it off as having been left there by one of the previous day's players, but when I knocked it over while getting out my toys one of the Judges said, "Hey, you knocked over your beer forest!"<br />
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I was a bit shocked, but hey, function over form. If it's a forest, it's a forest. But really...what really got me...it wasn't even real beer, it was Bud Lite. WTF?!<br />
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So on to the gaming! I took two armies. I'd intended to borrow my friend Mike Morales' Eldar and run:<br />
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Farseer<br />
5x 5 Dire Avengers in Wave Serpents (Scatter, Cannon, Ghostwalk)<br />
3 Windrider Jetbikes<br />
2x 6 Swooping Hawks<br />
2 Wraithknights</blockquote>
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Unfortunately for me Mike's Knights and other bits are new to him, and he hadn't finished painting them. Mike is an EXCEPTIONAL painter having won several awards with his Eldar...but the Knights didn't quite meet the 3-color fully painted requirement. I discussed with the TO, who was very understanding but forthright, saying if someone complained the complaint would be valid and he'd have to remove them.<br />
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So, lucky for me I brought a back-up army! Daemons!<br />
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Fateweaver<br />
3 Heralds of Tzeentch (Lvl 3, Discs, two with Exalted Rewards, one with Exalted Locus)<br />
2x 10 Daemonettes<br />
9 Screamers<br />
2 Daemon Princes (Tzeentch, Wings, Armor, Lvl 3, 2 Greater Rewards, one had 1 Lesser Reward)</blockquote>
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Two troops is bad. Screamer-star was "nerfed" by the 2++ reroll being on a 4++, but I'd rather play with a mediocre list than not at all!<br />
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<b><u>Game One</u></b><br />
My first match was Bryan Hayzler with a Tau/Eldar army including a Farsight "Bomb", 3 Skyrays, a Riptide, a Farseer and two Jetbike troop units, and a couple units of Kroot. I knew the idea of Farsight Bomb, but have never actually played against it. My plan was give him nothing but 2+ rerolly Screamer goodness to shoot at when he came in, flying all the FMC off the table, then have them come on and vector strike him to death.<br />
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Then he rolled Misfortune on his Farseer and that plan kind of went out the window! :)<br />
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He won the roll, and had me go first (I'm not sure why...3 Skyrays could have removed the Screamers!). So I buffed up, threw screamers in his face with a reroll invuln/FNP DP supporting them. He Misfortuned the Screamers then unloaded all the Skyrays in to them...you know what? A 2+ Invuln save is pretty good! I think I only lost 3 Screamers! My DP went in to his Riptide after Terrify chased a Kroot bubblewrap unit off the table. Screamers killed two Skyrays and got ready for the Bomb! The rest of the game came down to my Screamers slowly dieing to the Bomb while Fateweaver and the other DP zipped around to kill troops as they came in. The game was a close one, ending on turn 5 due to time with each of us holding one objective (I thought I was solid, but forgot that Hvy scored in that mission, so the surviving Skryay kept him in it!), he had Warlord and Linebreaker; I had First Blood and Linebreaker...but he only killed 1 Heavy choice, and I'd killed 2, for a very tight 1 point win!<br />
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<u>Result: 11-9 Win</u><br />
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<u><b>Game Two</b></u><br />
Next game was vs a super fun guy, Jared Friedman and, yes, Tau with Eldar again! Jared had Ethereal, Buff Commander, Broadside unit loaded with missiles, a Skryay, two Riptides, lots of pathfinders and fire warriors...your basic nightmare. I got all the powers I needed, had one strong DP and one gimp. I'm not sure who won the roll, but Jared was going first. I hid behind a giant hill in my triangle, but one of his Riptides was still able to drop a pie plate back there and take out a few Screamers. My turn Grim failed, so I hid again. Again he got to drop one pieplate back there, again I lost a few Screamers. Despite Scrier's Gaze my Daemonettes came in on turn 2, which worked out ok as it was a Relic mission (with 'C&C' objectives in our deployment zones) and I needed to push in to the Relic! I got some good work from Puppetmaster on a Riptide, killing half his Broadside unit. A combo charge by a unit of Daemonettes in to Kroot and a Riptide killed all the Kroot and they ran down the Riptide with Sweeping Advance. My Daemonette push scored me the Relic plus a bubblewrapping unit bottom of 4, but he'd be able to shoot the unit with the relic down with no sweat on top of 5. I tried a Hallucinate on the Broadsides, hoping to keep them from shooting, but rolled the "stop hitting yourself!" result. Realizing the game was on the line, I used Fatey's reroll on the Hallucinate result roll and got the 3-4 result, preventing him from shooting! With just just a few potshots at the ladies holding the relic, he couldn't remove them all, bottom of 5 I flew a DP to contest his objective, secured mine by shooting down his remaining Jetbikes with the two surviving Heralds (all that lived from the Screamerstar!), and my Daemonettes did unspeakably nasty things to the relic!<br />
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<u>Result: 20-0 Win!</u><br />
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<b><u>Game 3</u></b><br />
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My third game was against a great game named Brad whose last name I can't remember. He was a really nice guy, we talked wrestling a lot, he knew the game and played very well, and had a really solid list:<br />
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IG with CCS, 2 blobs with lots of lascannon teams (I think he had 9 lascannons total?), three vendettas, a manticore, a mortar squad, and two Psyker Battle Squads, along with Rambo. He had Inquisition allies with Coteaz and an Inq with the Liber Whatchamacallit as well, giving those blobs sexy Stubborn!<br />
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The mission was something new too: you accumlate points at the end of your opponents turns for every objective you control, with a center objective being worth 2 points and quarter objectives worth 1. On top of that, it was Kill Points. Brad won the roll and of course chose to go first so he could nuke me.<br />
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Luckily for me I was able to deploy to avoid the bulk of the lascannons, Screamers took a Manticore to the face, losing a Herald (the Locus guy took one for the team) and 4 birdies total, but that's reasonable. I had started my troops on the table, so they'd start scoring right away. I figured if I could get enough points before they died, and pick on some easy kill points, I could pull ahead a bit. This worked well, as I zipped down one flank, killed Marbo, a PBS, the Mortar Squad, and the Warpstorm did good work for me, killing off most of his CCS (I finished it off with Fateweaver), and turning Coteaz in to a Herald. After going up a few kill points I flew off the table and ran away with the Screamers to try to stay alive, and did alright in that regard. I'd put Grim on Fatey and flew him in his face and let him shoot the entire army at him, which he of course took on the chin and smiled and flew away. He ended up being up by 1 on objective points (I'd thrown a DP in to one of the blobs to contest one of his objectives for a few turns, but he got his other blob on the 2-point objective so caught up), but I was up by 4 on kill points (I only lost a Herald and a DP, he lost CCS, Coteaz, Manticore, Mortars, Psyker Battle Squad, and Marbo).<br />
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<u>Results: 13-7 Win!</u><br />
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After a solid 3-0 start I was feeling pretty good! We talked with the Dropzone Commander guys while everyone was cleaning up, and realized we'd missed a lot of the dinner planning, so we made our own plans! We met up with a few guys at the same place we've eaten every night there, the Ironworks, and had a nice meal....when we noticed our roommate Sean Mccloud not touching his food and looking pretty green! He ended up barfing and shitting all night, and packed up his things and drove him at about 5am. Poor guy...but fuck him, cuz I got that too AND gave it to my family! Stay in quarantine next time you disease bag! I missed work Weds, my daugher missed school, my son missed school, my nanny almost quit due to the puke-fest!<br />
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But, that was later! Day 2 the schedule we had said to be there at 9:15 for 9:45 round start. Turns out that was wrong (they said it was wrong, but never told us what the right schedule was!), but we were on time regardless. I was paired up with a very prominent tournament goer, Ragnar Arneson and his CSM!<br />
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It turns out the rest of the terrain showed up...apparently they'd forgotten several boxes of their terrain, so things were in shape for the second day with a lot more reasonable placement of larger pieces and no beer bottles in sight!<br />
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<b><u>Game 4</u></b><br />
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Ragnar was running two Lords with Spawn packs, a Heldrake, 3 cultist units, 3 Nurgle Obliterators, a Khorne Herald with small Fleshhound unit, big daemonette pack, and some Horrors all behind an ADL. I won the roll and had him go first. This was another odd missions...three relics along the centerline of Spearhead, and Kill Points.<br />
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He moved up cagily. I moved up aggressively, giving his hounds a charge in to Screamers, but I was set up to counter with two Princes. I unloaded a lot of Flickering Fires and Psychic Shrieks in to the Hounds, which Denied several as expected, but still wittled them down by quite a bit. He took the bait, charged in, and died on my next turn to Princes. The Screamers then got hit by his Black Mace Lord and the Oblits while my Prince got hit by the spawn. The non-Nurgle spawn were doubled out easily enough, but my plan to Terrify the other Spawn never worked out as I had to use that DP to kill off his Troops getting to Relic. With the Oblits and Screamers tied up, and the Spawn and a DP tied up, it came down to Fateweaver and a DP trying to kill off his troops and protect the Daemonettes from the Heldrake, a mad scramble for relics and kill points. The game ended on die-roll on 5, with each of us banking a relic, and me up by 5 kill points. I was sad to see that game end, I was way behind the 'leaders' in points and needed more, and felt like I had a good chance to get several more on turn 6, but that's the game!<br />
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I have to say that Ragnar was a real joy to play. He was calm, cool, and efficient. We finished our 5 turns before many others were even on 3. He also was a great sport, we both made mistakes and both allowed our opponents to do things we'd forgotten to do earlier...notably he let me do the Grim after having moved to the shooting phase (I'd rolled warpstorm already). Definitely a great guy to play!<br />
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<u>Result: 15-5 Win!</u><br />
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Now at 4-0, amongst the top tables, and irony in full effect! Remember that Eldar list I posted above that I'd inteded to use? Guess what!! I get to play Bill McFadden (surprisingly sober!) who's running almost that very list! He wedged in Space Marine allies with an Eternal Shield Bike Boss and a Bike Squad instead of the Hawks and Bikers that I had, but the core of 4 Serpents and 2 Knights was the same!<br />
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Unfortuantely for Bill, this turned out to be one of the lousiest games of Warhammer ever, and neither one of us did anything about it.<br />
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I won the roll, and chose to go first (otherwise his shooting destroys the Screamers and I lose). I had THREE FOREWARNINGS and TWO INVISIBILITIES this game, as well as Puppetmaster, Hallucinate, Terrify, and two Shrieks!<br />
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First turn I buff up, hide one DP, send an Invisible +1W/IWND & 4+FNP DP and Screamers in his face. Second turn he jukes around a bit, shoots a lot but does nothing. Second turn I move DP up to assault bikes and play for middle board control with shooty-screamerstar. Instead the Warpstorm (Slaanesh loves me!) kills two Wave Serpents; Puppetmaster on a Wraithknight kills a third. A lot of flickering fires kill most of the Avengers that fell out. The DP got in to the bike squad, killed the Master, and they were standing by to die on his turn.<br />
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Yes, top of two and he's down to 1 Serpent and 2 Wraithknights.<br />
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He surrendered. I bought him a drink.<br />
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<u>Result: 20-0 Stupid-win</u><br />
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Definitely my best GT result! 5-0 with 79 of 100 possible points! I was really pleased with how everything worked out, had 5 fun opponents and 5 solid games (I had no soft matches, everyone I played was an experienced tourney-goer with a solid list!). I stole Nick's Seagrams 7 and tied one on after that last game!<br />
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Sadly, however, the Onslaught is a Battle Point format, so despite being one of two 5-0 players, my minimal troop army really struggled to score points, so I didn't make it to the podium. Still, can't complain, right? :)<br />
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Here's the email the TO sent after the event:<br />
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Final Scores for Onslaught 2014<br />
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<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Robert Roda</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">18</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">25</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">79</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">122</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Nick Navanti</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">19</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">22</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">80</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">121</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Sean Nayden</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">17</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">22</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">80</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">119</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Chris Johnson</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">12</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">81</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">113</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">dan bunker</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">16</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">22</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">72</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">110</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Ed Miller</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">19</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">27</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">62</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">108</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Sam Gould</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">22</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">65</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">107</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Dean Johnson</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">25</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">59</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">104</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Simon Leen</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">19</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">64</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">103</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Cullen burns</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">6</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">74</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">100</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">lucas riabowol</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">10</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">25</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">65</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">100</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Troy Esposito</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">24</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">56</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">100</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Brad Voorhees</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">15</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">63</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">98</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Bill Mcfadden</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">22</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">55</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">97</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Brad Bitler</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">18</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">59</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">97</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Nicholas J. Miele</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">15</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">22</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">60</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">97</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">brad nichols</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">14</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">22</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">60</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">96</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Patrick Mcaneeny</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">18</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">25</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">53</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">96</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Keith Girard</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">22</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">53</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">95</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Matt Bennett</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">14</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">60</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">94</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Ragnar Anderson</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">18</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">55</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">93</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">brendan gallager</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">13</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">59</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">92</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Brian Freitas</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">17</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">25</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">49</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">91</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Chris Scotti</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">25</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">46</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">91</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Bryan Hayzler</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">10</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">22</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">57</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">89</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">kurt clauss</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">12</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">56</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">88</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Bill Souza (W)</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">24</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">22</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">41</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">87</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">cameron pineiro</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">12</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">49</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">81</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Matthew Weissman</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">14</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">22</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">42</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">78</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Amir Golpoor</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">13</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">44</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">77</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Cary Gould</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">16</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">22</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">37</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">75</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">John Walsh</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">15</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">39</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">74</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Jared Friedman</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">14</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">25</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">34</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">73</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">JawaBalls</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">26</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">27</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">73</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Jason Orlowski</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">17</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">34</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">71</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Jared Sequeria</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">13</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">37</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">70</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Rob Pro (W)</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">12</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">22</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">33</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">67</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Stephen Burris (W)</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">12</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">22</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">33</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">67</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Jason McCarthy</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">14</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">30</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">64</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Mark Howell</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">17</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">25</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">62</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Sean McCloud (W)</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">22</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">32</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">54</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Brian Warner (W)</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">12</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">52</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Gil Fuhr</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">21</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">27</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">3</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">51</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">lucas james patruno</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">22</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">26</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">48</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">cory morris (W)</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">24</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">44</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Pedro Brito</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">19</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">39</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Joseph D Demastrie (W)</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">17</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">37</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Kevin Calkins (W)</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">7</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">27</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Mike Begin (W)</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">2</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">22</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Carl Grivakis (W)</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Daniel Dubouis (W)</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Decio M. Terra (W)</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">0</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 17px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; direction: ltr; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Mike Kachanis (W)</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">20</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr>
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Todd Silber took best overall. He ran an unconventional Daemon army (LOC, Seekers, Drones, Belakor CSM Ally). I hope he remembers to roll Warpstorm at future events! :)<br />
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First in Battle Points went to Chris Johnson with his Gravstar, just edging out Nick N (who took Second in Battle Points) in a 5th round match that saw Nick's Fateweaver get grounded by a Skyray's SMS and killed by Kroot, and Nick's Plague-drone-star lose combat by 1 to the Centurions and roll Boxcars...boom...dead!<br />
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Jawaballs took best painted, and my good friend from BFS Ed Miller won the Best Sportsmanship prize!<br />
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Sean Nayden did very well also, edging me out in Kill Points but having lost 0-20 to Nick's Beasts.<br />
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My list did what I wanted. I got Forewarning every game (many games I got it multiple times!). I had minimal Grimoire failures. I rolled Telepathy almost exclusively, getting a lot of mileage from Puppetmaster, Terrify, Invisibility, and of course Hallucinate! Psychic Shriek is my go-to shooting attack for the Princes, particularly against other Daemons! In only one game (vs. Brad's IG) I had plenty of Flickering Fire on my Heralds (once I get Forewarning, I of course take FF) which did a lot of work. I can't say much about my list that I didn't like, except the lack of troops. Even that was mitigated as I had very reasonable success with the Portalglyph getting me guys (or gals!) when needed! Thanks to Bryan, Jared, Brad, Ragnar, and Bill for the games!<br />
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So what's next?<br />
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I've somehow made the cut to be invited to the first <a href="http://www.torrentoffire.com/3549/torrent-of-fire-invitational-and-summit" target="_blank">Torrent of Fire Invitational </a>down in DC in a few weeks! I'm taking a bad list to an event featuring the best players in the country...I'm not very hopeful! Still, it will be fun hobnobbing with the 'famous' people and feeding their egos as they crush me!<br />
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Except Clauss...he's mine!Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-48779666365383229422014-01-24T16:42:00.001-05:002014-01-24T16:43:24.424-05:00Missions, Leagues, and something new!I'm 3 games in to the BFS League, with a not very inspiring record of 1-3!<br />
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My first game was vs. Ed Miller and his super biker heavy army. I did not get forewarning. I failed grim on turns 2 and 3. I let Fateweaver get blown up for no real reason. I think I was tabled in 4? Ed did everything right, his list is perfect for 'missions', I played like an idiot and had no good powers or rewards to save myself, so I lost!<br />
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Second game was vs. Sean Nayden and his double beast pack. This was a test of a new missions, even now I'm not sure I entirely understand what I was supposed to do...I was doing the Relic, while Sean was accruing points every turn he held an objective. But my points were weird, getting 1 point for holding relic at the ends of turns 2, 3, and 4, and 3 more for holding it at end of game? I somehow got things confused and thought I got points for holding objectives too, so wasted a fair number of troops fighting for objectives. First turn first shot killed about 1/2 of one beast pack (no Forewarning, but lots of FF!), they failed morale and ran off the table. Second beast pack hit the screamers, who tanked it well with their 3++. Princes assaulted the 'rear' of the Beasts, their S6 hits going on Razorwings. I won combat by about 30, and he rolled snake-eyes. Vect then tanked the Screamers until the bottom of turn 5. Sigh. I was never able to get on the Reclic thanks to tank-shocking Wave Serpents, but nearly tabled him before the game ended after 5...all he had left was 1 Serpent with 1 Hull Point. I claim moral victory.<br />
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Third game was against a new guy at the club and his Nurgle CSM. I was able to avoid his Nurgle Spawn unit long enough to avoid getting tied down, and was able to pick on some easy Kill Points for a minor win, I think it was 5-3? A fun game, where again I did not get Forewarning.<br />
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Maybe all this lack of Forewarning will come around in Templecon and I'll get it every game!<br />
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But my new awesome...after decades of wanting to try it, I finally got to play a Napoleonic Miniature Wargame! A friend at BFS (Burt!) introduced me to <a href="http://www.dbnwargaming.co.uk/" target="_blank">DBN</a>, a game made for larger-sized battles using relatively few miniatures and bases.<br />
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Each "base" has four figures on it, and represents roughly one Brigade. 1" is about 100 yards. The playing area was in the area of 2' by 2'. Turns are supposed to represent roughly 15 minutes. Units can shoot every turn, but to represent Clausewitzian "friction", a commander receives a random number of 'command points' (PIPs) to use to get units to move and assault. A very simple and stream-lined idea that takes total control out of the tabletop general's hands and really throws a wrench in the works of the best plans!<br />
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Of course historical scenarios can be played...that's kind of the point...but the game has a very simple (simplicity a recurring theme!) points system to field evenly matched armies (basically, 1 unit...or base...is 1 point!). We fielded 12 point armies (12 points seems to give a pretty good sized army corps, and is the 'standard' for competition...yes, competitive napoleonics apparently exists!)<br />
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All the figures used were Burt's...mine are still in their bags for the most part!<br />
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In the first game, by random roll, I was the defender. I got to set up the terrain, and my opponent got to choose (semi-randomly) which board edge he's attacking from. I deployed first, and he got the first turn.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I put my cannon and several units (probably too many!) on a hill to my left, my Legere in a forest on my Right, with a small reserve behind them. My cavalry went to my right flank, left flank secured by board edge.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burt formed up in one long line opposite my right, with is Cavalry overlapping mine...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He advanced his line up to just outside my artillery range, where it paused while everything pushed up to my right...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Cavalry feeling very outnumbered...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lines clash! My cavalry got the shit end of the exchange against his, but my Legere in the forest were TOUGH (as expected!), fighting off twice their number!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the other side of the forest my reserve is committing, while two brigades from the hill move down to work on the flank of his attack...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">His artillery was able to support his isolated unit enough to come out roughly even though (despite me outnumbering that unit significantly!), my reserve unit blundered forward and got charged instead of charging (my mistake!)</td></tr>
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The first game was great...I think Burt expected me to be easy pickings, but I came within a 4+ on a d6 of winning...he displayed great relief to not having lost to a complete newb! But, really, I've gamed Napleonic stuff a LOT, just not on the tabletop, so understand what I needed to do, it was just learning the rules to do it in this particular game!<br />
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So, having done one game in about 2 hours (and this with Burt VERY patiently dealing with all my millions of questions!), I talked him in to another!<br />
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Again I was the French, again the defender...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I deployed my Legere mid-table in a forest, and extended the line to the right from that. My Cavalry on their left. I kept a larger reserve in column this time, ready to support either flank depending on how his attack developed. He came STRONG on my right again, with 3 attack columns, so I quickly marched the reserve to that side to hopefully hold the line!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Which actually worked out ok, as I was able to keep half his army isolated with 2 Legere and my 2 Cavalry, I was able to crush his attack....here you see only 2 units of the 6 attacking units remain after some fierce firefights and back-and-forth melees!</td></tr>
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Thanks to Burt for the AWESOME intro games! I'm really psyched to have finally gotten to play some Naps!<br />
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Now, while the game was fun, a word about the game system. It feels and reads as if it's written intentionally to be a rules-light quick and fast game. This is not a bad thing. It seems to lend itself very well to playing small corps-level clashes in an hour, or massive battles in a playable amount of time and space. Waterloo is done on roughly 3' by 4' table with the French having less than 50 units/bases...that's only 200 models!<br />
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The trade-off though is that it simplifies and abstracts a lot of the things that I really like about the Napoleonic period...different formations, reactions to charges, different sized units, and really just more detail in general. The units looks small (they are! just 4 models!) and the 'suspension of disbelief' isn't there for me...it didn't look like I was fielding two Army Corps, it looked like I had a handful of guys, and a cannon!<br />
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This is not meant to be bashing the system, I think it does what it's meant to do VERY well, and it's something I hope to play. This is IMO a GREAT introductory Napoleonic game! I also think it will lend itself well to 'campaigns' at the club!<br />
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Which, speaking of that, I'm hoping some of my BFS and Ordo Ineptus friends will be interested in starting a campaign soon!! :)<br />
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Vive L'Empereur!!<br />
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<br />Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-75424129287758423212013-12-27T12:24:00.001-05:002013-12-27T12:24:28.020-05:00I'm tired of Christmas...I'm normally not very Scrooge'ish or Grinch'ish, but I've had enough. Grumpy wife home from work...psycho kids showing me their new toys over and over, fighting over who gets to play the Xbox next and who touched who's toy...Chirstmas clutter piled around everywhere (actually I cleaned up the kids' messes yesterday, but the wife's crap is EVERYWHERE...).<br />
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So, I'm retreating to some peace and quiet and a quick blog post to help restore sanity!<br />
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First up is the Battle For Salvation Winter 40k League! Lots of competition here...Bob Sinnot, Sean Nayden, Brendan Gallagher, Mike Morales, Ed Miller, Danny Internets...I think maybe even Will Smith too! I'm not really in to 40k these days, but really enjoy playing with these guys, so will wade in there with the same list I've been wading in with for awhile now...Screamerstar with FMC support. It's not a great list anymore, despite the whining of the newbs, but it's what I've got, and I'm not motivated enough to build/paint anything else for 40k, and certainly don't want to give them my money! So here's what I'll be using:<br />
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<b>Fateweaver</b><br />
<b>Herald of Tzeentch</b> (Disc, Level 3, Exalted Reward)<br />
<b>Herald of Tzeentch</b> (Disc, Level 3, Exalted Reward)<br />
<b>Herald of Tzeentch</b> (Disc, Level 3, Exalted Locus)<br />
<b>12 Daemonettes</b><br />
<b>12 Daemonettes</b><br />
<b>11 Horrors</b> (Champion)<br />
<b>9 Screamers</b><br />
<b>Daemon Prince</b> (Tzeentch, Wings, Armor, Level 3, Lesser Reward, 2 Greater Rewards)<br />
<b>Daemon Prince</b> (Tzeentch, Wings, Armor, Level 3, Lesser Reward, 2 Greater Rewards)<br />
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That being said, we're allowed to modify/tweak the list in the first few weeks of the league, so I may try replacing one of the Daemon Princes with Belakor as CSM Ally...if nothing else he's a guaranteed Invisibility to throw on something, and a fine target for the Grimoire if Forewarning doesn't come up.<br />
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I'm also planning on attending Templecon again this year for the Onslaught GT! 1850 tournament, that is sadly using the nerf to Screamers that has become popular (by those who have a) never used the army; and b) are not imaginative enough to see it's weaknesses and deal with them)....the first roll is on a 2++, but the reroll is not a 2++, but a 4++. Whatever. For you math-inclined folks, that means you go from 1/36 failure rate to 1/12. Not good enough in today's environment of 50-60 wounds vs T4 being generated by Wave Serpents and Broadsides, and terrain is sure to not be good enough to provide protection as it should, but as I said before, it's what I have, and I'm not going to give GW any more of my money, so that's what I'll use! :)<br />
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I'll be using the same list as for the BFS thingie, but probably just drop to two units of troops and maybe one Screamer model...something like that. 2 Troops takes it from bad list to horrible, but I'm not in the mood to care much, I just want to push models around and blow shit up....<br />
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...because that's something you never hear much about, is Screamer units blowing shit up. See, the way I see it, if I'm not going to have my 1/36, I'm not going to go 'all-in' trying to get Forewarning; instead every HoT will be taking Flickering Fire. I'll have decent chance of having Perfect Timing or even better Misfortune. I'll be guaranteed to have Prescience. That means something like 9d6 S6 shots with some kind of psy support...something like 27 hits, not much that doesn't threaten. But wait, there's more! (I miss Billy Zane!)...<br />
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the way it was ruled at Nova and 11th Co, Turbo boost is by model, not unit. So while the Heralds are shooting mental bullets at people, the Screamers will be doing Slash Attacks, too! For 9 Screamers that's another 18 S4 hits...not too shabby!<br />
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Of course, more often than not, I'd rather just be in melee with a lot of shooty-things to keep them from shooting, but still...I think it's fun, and will unload dice buckets at people as often as I can! (Then I'll cry when they're Denied and all my plans are for naught!)<br />
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But even more importantly than all this 40k drivel! I'm also going to participate in the Dropzone Commander tournament!<br />
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I've still not finalized a list yet, in fact I'm close to waffling to play Scourge instead of UCM...but as of now I'm going to go UCM with LOTS of tanks. My AA may suck, but I'll be damned if I'm going to be out-tanked! Something like this is what I'm aiming for:<br />
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Got Tanks?<br />
Clash: 1493/1500 points<br />
Standard Army<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Standard Roster [1493/1500 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Field Command [303 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kodiak: Kodiak(Squad Leader) [143 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ferrum: Ferrum [160 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Armored Formation [423 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sabre Squad: 6x Sabre, Albatross [288 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>^ Sharing ^ Rapier Squad: 3x Rapier [135 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Legionnaire Corps [219 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Legionnaires: 3x Legionnaires, Condor, 2x Bear [141 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>^ Sharing ^ Legionnaires: 3x Legionnaires [78 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Legionnaire Corps [160 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Legionnaires: 2x Legionnaires, Raven A [80 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Legionnaires: 2x Legionnaires, Raven A [80 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Special Ordinance [388 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Gladius Squad: 4x Gladius, 2x Condor [298 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Longbow Squad: 2x Longbow, 2x Raven B(+Missile Pods) [90 pts]<br />
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It's been suggested...wisely...that I drop 3 of the Sabres, add in a 6th battlegroup of Wolverine As, and upgrade the Commander to not suck (CV3)....but man, I like those tanks!<br />
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Here's the probably more sensible list:<br />
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Got Tanks?<br />
Clash: 1495/1500 points<br />
Standard Army<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Standard Roster [1495/1500 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Field Command [328 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>Kodiak</b>: Kodiak(Lieutenant) [168 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>Ferrum</b>: Ferrum [160 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Armored Formation [328 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>Sabre Squad</b>: 3x Sabre, Condor(+Missile Pods) [152 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>Rapier Squad</b>: 3x Rapier, Condor(+Missile Pods) [176 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Legionnaire Corps [219 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>Legionnaires</b>: 3x Legionnaires, Condor, 2x Bear [141 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>^ Sharing ^ <b>Legionnaires</b>: 3x Legionnaires [78 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Legionnaire Corps [160 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>Legionnaires</b>: 2x Legionnaires, Raven A [80 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>Legionnaires</b>: 2x Legionnaires, Raven A [80 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Special Ordinance [388 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>Gladius</b> Squad: 4x Gladius, 2x Condor [298 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>Longbow Squad</b>: 2x Longbow, 2x Raven B(+Missile Pods) [90 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Expeditionary Group [72 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>Wolverine Squad</b>: 4x Wolverine A [72 pts]<br />
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Adds a bit more AA, more Scout, 6th battlegroup, and CV3 commander, gives up 3 Sabres. I suppose that's the way I'll end up going. Sigh!<br />
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And I've actually gotten to play a real game of DZC too! Last week at BFS Brendan and I played! We used two Starter Boxes and added in the Command Vehicles (and used Command Cards!). I drove my UCM, he drove Bobby's Scourge!<br />
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We set up a 4x4, loaded it with some hastily folded up Buildings (I've been too busy/lazy to actually glue them!), and threw down some reasonably fair looking Objectives! The game took us about 3 hours, but that was with a lot of talking to other folks that were interested in the game, eating pizza, looking up rules, and not playing at a fast pace.<br />
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It was very interesting to me how much more engaged I felt in the game than in 40k. In 40k, I do all my stuff, then sit there and wait while you do all your stuff, and I remove models, and I go to the bathroom, go see how other folks are doing...ie I start to zone out often during opponent's turn. In DZC, with alternating activations, I was always ready to do something (which may be a problem in a tournament...I have a tiny bladder!)<br />
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Anyway, the game was tremendous, I had a great time and got a lot more mental exercise out of it than I have in competitive 40k lately. I highly recommend it to folks that are looking for a change of pace game!<br />
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Here's a few shots of the game, I hope you enjoy!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My second Infantry Battlegroup (2 squads of 3 in Bear APCs) rushed forward and grabbed two objectives early...they jumped back in their Bears and drove for my table edge (to the right in this pic), unable to be picked up by the Condor Dropship because of the Scourge AA Tanks lurking nearby!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rapier AA Tanks and Sabre Battle Tanks play hide and seek with Scourge Tanks hiding behind the buildings in front of them. Note my Condor has Landed, providing Cover for the Tanks which are using their "Articulated Turrets" to fire over without penalty!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the Bears made it off the table with the objective, but the other was destroyed by a hellacious combination of Arc Casters and Plasma Hoses! The remnants of the squad jumped in to that brown building, then I used the Monorail Command Card to give them a jump in to this building close to the edge!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Scourge have captured an objective! All my firepower went in to destroying their APC, trying to slow them down and keep them on the table!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Scourge tried to destroy the building to keep me from keeping that Objective, but a few men survived, and they were able to Call For Extraction (getting a new APC from a Command Card)! On the next Scourge turn, the APC and the Infantry were destroyed, the Objective was left on the table, and my Kodiak Command Vehicle snatched it up and drove off the table!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Scourge had taken one Objective off the table early, and were dancing around with their second, while I got my Third from this large building in the middle of the table! Only one Unit of the six Infantry in that battlegroup was alive, and he was chased down by scourge dropships, Desolator, and infantry! At game end, it had been picked up by one of those Rapiers, while he drove his second Objective off the table, giving the UCM a hard-fought 5-4 win! This game rocks!</td></tr>
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Oh, and Merry Christmas to you! I hope you have a restful and blessed holiday!!Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-35389474243117040562013-12-12T11:03:00.001-05:002013-12-12T11:03:24.817-05:00Remember when 3++ was good?I mean, there was a time where if you had a unit with a 3+ Invulnerable save...it was GOOD!<br />
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It was so good, some <a href="http://www.3plusplus.net/" target="_blank">cool guys down under named their blog</a> after it!<br />
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Amongst all the chattering about nerfing 2+ rerollable invulnerable saves, it occurred to me today...that's what you need to survive!<br />
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I am of the opinion that the problem with the game these days is how ridiculously easy it is for "Super-Shooty" armies to remove whatever they want, whenever they want.<br />
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Shooting effectiveness has scaled up so much in the last year or so that having a 3+ Invuln isn't good enough...<br />
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having a 2++ isn't good enough!<br />
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The only units that survive the ridiculous fusillade of firepower that modern armies generate are those with a 2++ AND a reroll!<br />
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The "Talking Heads" that are discussing such things are suggesting that the 2+ rerollable save is detrimental to the game.<br />
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Me, I think it's the only thing saving it. If you remove it (the compromise floating around is to make the reroll work on a 4 instead of a 2), all you're doing is pushing people to play Tau and Eldar.<br />
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The game will come down to who can get the best first strike in.<br />
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And to me, that's even more boring and interactive. Opponent shoots, I remove models. Blah.<br />
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Want to fix the game? Deter the super-shooty armies by using A LOT MORE LINE-OF-SITE blocking terrain! Then and only then should discussion about "balancing" the two units in the game that can not be instantly removed by Serpent or Broadside spam be undertaken.<br />
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Oh my, I think I ranted! Have a nice Thursday!Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-18823652335959819052013-12-10T16:31:00.001-05:002013-12-10T16:39:35.545-05:00There are no D Weapons in Dropzone Commander!I'm at once both amused and horrified at the upheaval caused by the Escalation update for 40k, amongst other things these last few weeks.<br />
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I'm having a hard time getting my head around the mad swinging of the ban/nerf bat that doesn't seem to address the core issues or balance problems that abound in the game.<br />
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Frankly, if folks nerf Daemons (if you haven't read, prominent vocal people are advocating banning the Grimoire), this will just make Eldar even more dominant. Dumb, reactionary, subjective, and really won't affect the core issue, that there is little to no competitive balance.<br />
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But, while I am amused and horrified, I'm also happily plugging along getting my head around Dropzone Commander!<br />
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My second starter box is ordered, but sadly appears to be on backorder at The Warstore...no worries, I've had lots of positive experiences with Warstore, and from those I expect to be getting it in a week or so instead of a few days.<br />
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Along with the second starter set (which, by the way, I'm hoping to get painted up ASAP so I can apply to be a Hawk Talon!) I've ordered the Command Vehicles for both the Scourge and the UCM. They're mandatory, so I figured why not!<br />
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And now the next exercise is trying to figure out what I want to take at 1500 points and start planning purchases there. I'm intending to do both UCM and Scourge, not only because I like them both but because I want to be able to have plenty of goodies for demo games to try to build up the community!<br />
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So, since my Hawk Games Forum account is not yet approved, I'm going to post my 1500 point list thoughts here, and maybe someone familiar with the game will give feedback! And if not, at least others will get some idea of cost of entry in to this fantastic game!<br />
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For both forces, I wanted to maximize the use of the forces from the Starter Sets. Fortunately it looks like the forces they chose to include are "staples" of both forces, so few parts will go to waste!<br />
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Here's the 1500 point UCM Force I want to try:<br />
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Bob UCM 1<br />
Clash: 1500/1500 points<br />
Standard Army<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Standard Roster [1500/1500 pts]<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Field Command [311 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kodiak: Kodiak(Lieutenant), Condor(+Missile Pods) [209 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Wolverine Squad: 4x Wolverine A, 2x Raven B [102 pts]<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Armored Formation [423 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sabre Squad: 6x Sabre, Albatross [288 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>^ Sharing ^ Rapier Squad: 3x Rapier [135 pts]<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Legionnaire Corps [219 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Legionnaires: 3x Legionnaires, Condor, 2x Bear [141 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>^ Sharing ^ Legionnaires: 3x Legionnaires [78 pts]<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Legionnaire Corps [219 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Legionnaires: 3x Legionnaires, Condor, 2x Bear [141 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>^ Sharing ^ Legionnaires: 3x Legionnaires [78 pts]<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Special Ordinance [149 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Gladius Squad: 2x Gladius, Condor [149 pts]<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Air Wing [179 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Archangel Squad: Archangel [67 pts]<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Seraphim Squad: Seraphim [112 pts]<br />
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The Field Command Battlegroup is mandatory at this point level. It must contain a Command unit.<br />
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The Kodiak is the UCM Command Vehicle. The commander of a force has a Command Value rating that determines his bonus for the initiative roll for each turn, and determines how many Command Cards (special cards drawn from a deck at random that let you do cool things) he can hold. This guy is only CV3 (the highest is a 6!) but is a reasonable 60 points (the highest guy clocking in at 220!). The vehicle itself is moderately tough, but has a "shooting attack" that is really not from the vehicle, but calling in an orbital strike. It's a pretty accurate very high power shot that does not require the Kodiak to see the target (someone else in my army must, and the Scouts excel at it!)<br />
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Also in the Command Battlegroup is a small Scout unit. They spot for the Indirect Fire from the Kodiak, extend the Commander's Sphere of Influence (the range at which he can use Command Cards on units), and these in particular have an AA gun that will probably be helpful in deterring enemy bombers from hitting the Kodiak.<br />
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A force of this size must include at least one (up to two) Armored Formations. In mine I've taken all six of the Sabres (Main Battle Tanks) from the two box sets, along with three of the Rapiers (Anti-Air Tanks), and have stuck them in one large dropship, the Albatross. I did this to save points, as having smaller dropships would take more points, and they'll be operating close together anyway. Also I think the Albatross looks really cool!<br />
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I also must include at least one (up to two) Legionnaire Corps. These include the staple Infantry (Legionnaires) that will go in to the buildings to secure objectives for me! From what I can tell, the UCM infantry borders on useless as far as killing things goes, but is absolutely vital for winning games. I don't have a good feel for how little infantry I can get away with, so would rather err towards the side of having too many...I figure if nothing else I can try to use them to deny objectives to the enemy. These guys are analogous to Troops in 40k...you can't win without them, but often skimp on them to fit in the sexy stuff!<br />
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I've got 4 Squads of infantry then, each 3 bases big, with an APC for each, and each pair of squads in it's own Dropship. My gut tells me this is too many points invested here, BUT, I really like the aesthetic of those APCs, so can't resist!<br />
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A Force of this size is allowed to have up to two "Special" Battlegroups, in which you can fit the super heavy tanks, or more support units, or even some of the more exotic troop types. I've chosen to take a small battlegroup that has two Gladius Heavy Tanks. They have two damage points (as opposed to the one the Sabres have) and their gun is identical to the Sabre gun except it has two shots. I'm a firm believer in having lots of heavy armor, and this seems to fit the bill!<br />
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And last, each Force is allowed some Air Support! The UCM has two Fast Mover Aircraft (they don't spend time on the table, instead making attack runs or intercepting enemy Fast Movers)...the Archangel Interceptor and the Seraphim Bomber.<br />
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The former looks to be a pretty good interceptor hopefully able to keep me safe from enemy bombers or tear up enemy dropships (ideally before they unload their cargo!). The Seraphim has a very powerful cannon, as well as a limited number of missile shots that should be able to do tremendous damage to buildings! And of course, they both look cool as hell!<br />
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Everything has a Dropship in this army. I'm not sure if that's really needed to make it work (things like the Kodiak could drive on the table and linger near the rear, which is where he's likely to be hiding anyway! But...I really like the visual of all these ships flying in dropping off the ground forces as they scurry forward!<br />
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And I already have half a plan on how I want to grow the other 500 points to 2k...I'd add a Ferrum Drone Base, a second Archangel, some Longbow Artillery, and probably some Praetorians in a Raven Dropship...I just think they're cool! I might use more Rapier AA Tanks, though...not sure how much AA I'll really need at that level!<br />
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So what does that mean I have to buy? Surprisingly very little, since most of this is coming from the Starter Set!<br />
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-The Kodiak ($14), which I've already ordered, of course;<br />
-the Wolverines($10) and Ravens($13);<br />
-the Albatross ($25);<br />
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A total (from The Warstore) of $104. If I'd been splitting the two Starter Sets with someone else, I'd be in to a tournament-size and (I think) -caliber army for under $200. I'm only wasting 3 Rapiers from the starter sets, too!<br />
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So...if you know DZC, let me know what you think of the army! If not, I hope this gives you some idea of what kind of armies are on the tables, and what the cost of entry might be!<br />
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Tomorrow I'll post up the 1500 Scourge list I'm going to try to make!Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-24625991235050231962013-12-09T16:26:00.001-05:002013-12-09T16:26:16.149-05:00I'm a bit fed up...I really enjoy 40k, but for me and what I want from the game, the last several releases have started something of a downward spiral of unpleasantness that has me very dissatisfied. In the last two GTs I've attended, the lack of variety in top-table performing armies was really disappointing...<br />
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...in other words, if you're not Daemons, Tau, or Eldar (or some combination there-of), you may as well not even try.<br />
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These new Advent Calendar digital releases have me even grumpier. I don't want to play mini-Apoc. I don't want to see every army including a detachment of Tau. I want to see more armies being more viable, more internal and external balance between army books, and a more reasonable representation of all armies in tournaments.<br />
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I love Chip, and I know this is not his intent, but seeing how uncompetitive most of the non-new army books are (and even some of the new ones! Sorry, Dark Angels!!) in the data from Torrent of Fire is really the final nail in the coffin.<br />
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not rage-quitting or anything. But I'm simply not excited to play competitive 40k. I will. I hope to go to Templecon, I'll do Nova, local events that Brendan runs at Gaming Etc...<br />
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...I guess to simplify my thoughts and feelings, I don't expect 40k to be my "main game" anymore. At least until thing get a bit more even-keeled!<br />
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So what will I play? Good question, I'm glad you asked...<br />
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A new gamestore just opened very close to my house...Gamer's Gambit. No GW product at all (that should tell us all something...), but a seemingly vibrant "out of the box" Warmachine community already is active there...they've done a Tournament already, and are looking to grow to multiple game nights it seems! So, I expect I'll do a bit of Warmachine (Hordes, actually...my Skorne tortured baby elephant needs some table-time!)<br />
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But what's REALLY calling me now is Dropzone Commander by Hawk Games!<br />
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It's a relatively new game (out about a year, I believe) that seems to be getting nothing but positive reviews, including from me!<br />
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I bought the starter box. For ~$75 you get a full size rulebook, two small forces for the UCF (humans that survived having Earth taken over and are fighting to retake their "homeworlds" from the evil aliens...) and the Scourge (the evil aliens). But also, you get two fold-out maps and 10 pre-folded cardstock buildings to make a complete game-play surface.<br />
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The rules are simple and straightforward. The rulebook is kind of big, but the rules for the game are really only about 25-30 pages long. Simple, straightforward, and tight.<br />
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Each army is divided in to battlegroups (analogous to platoons in Flames of War) , which include squads of units (a unit being a 'base' of infantry or one vehicle). The types of battlegroups, what kind of squads and units can be included, and the number of squads and battlegroups and units is detailed in a FoC that varies based on the points level being played.<br />
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At the start of each turn, which player has the initiative is determined by a die-roll (modified by the command value of your leader...higher CV costs more points!). The player with the initiative chooses who goes first. That player then 'activates' one of his battlegroups; moves/shoots or shoots/moves each of the squads in that battlegroup.<br />
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Then the other player does one of his battlegroups. And this alternates until both players' battlegroups have had a turn. Then you roll for initiative, and do it all over.<br />
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The focus of the game, as the name suggests, is Dropships delivering the ground forces to the battlefield. These dropshops are, for the most parts, the only things in the game that are fast. Designed for a 4' x 4' table, infantry have a movement of 2"....and a range of less than 12". Some vehicles move quite a bit faster, but the fastest ground vehicles are still moving only 12" or so. Similarly, ranges are pretty short...against non-infantry targets, most guns are limited to less than 24". This means that in order to really apply the force that you have, being able to maneuver and redeploy using your speedy dropships is the key to the game.<br />
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It looks like most of the missions involve having your infantry (the only unit type able to do so) search through buildings to find objectives (worth 1 point) and if possible, getting them to carry it off the table (or giving it to another model...a vehicle can carry, just can't search a building)...getting the obj off the table gets you 2 points. This means infantry is very valuable, but interestingly they are for the most part very soft and squishy when no in a building, buildings are relatively easy to blow up (killing all inside), and infantry's firepower is pretty insignificant (for the most part...there are of course exceptions). Melee fights don't really happen, but there are Close Quarters Battles fought between infantry in buildings...think room-to-room fighting with grenades, etc. Very deadly, very decisive, quick and fun!<br />
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It looks to me like each faction (there are four: The UCM, described above; the Scourge...evil parasitic aliens that take over other lifeforms and use their bodies; the PHR...Post Human Republic...humans that fled earth before the Scourge, disappeared, and showed up at UCM planets a few hundred years later with freaky cybernetic add-ons and super high technology; and the Shaltari, another alien race with super high tech and a love of combat.<br />
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All the races have the same unit archetypes: Main Battle Tanks; Heavy Tanks; AA Tanks; Infantry; APC/IFVs; Fighters; Bombers; etc. But each race has it's own unique flavor.<br />
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For example, the UCM has middle of the road firepower, range, and toughness, but is pretty slow. The Scourge are fast, have very high firepower, but low range and low toughness.<br />
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The game also includes very potent Air Support, Anti-air units, Artillery, and some fun 'specialist' infantry for each faction (the UCM have Praetorians...hyper-trained soldiers that repel from dropships directly in to buildings where they do a far better job in Close Quarters Battles than the regular UCM infantry).<br />
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All this put together means the game seems to encourage and reward well-rounded lists that have "enough of everything" to not be dominated by any one 'branch' of the opponent's army. Armor is good at killing AA vehicles which are good at shooting down Aircraft which are good at killing tanks...this kind of rock/paper/scissors seems to me to be well balanced and keeps the focus of the game where I think it's meant to be: on maneuver and planning instead of overpowering with a spam of the most point-efficient unit and/or throwing the most dice downfield (I'm looking at you, 40k!).<br />
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I've ordered a second Starter Box, and am hoping to get it painted up soon, and apply to be a Hawk Talon (like a Press Ganger) for Hawk Games...get some Demos going at some regional clubs/stores, and see if I can get a bit of a community going here in the area!<br />
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Also, there's a DZC tournament at Templecon...maybe I'll get in on that while I'm there for 40k! :)Stupid Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00635724267013590918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3594125637633344221.post-11258922519718115772013-11-18T15:50:00.003-05:002013-11-18T15:51:35.324-05:0011th Company GTAmidst a gaming draught, I took a quick trip down to Myrtle Beach, SC to see my friends Neil and Pat and get some gaming in!<br />
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The hotel...and I travel a bit for work, so have experienced quite a few...was probably the most quiet hotel I've ever been in. I'm a terribly light sleeper, but I had no interruptions caused by anything outside my room! Moreover, the complimentary breakfast was better than what you'd pay top-dollar for at other places...eggs, bacon, sausage, grits (any of you Yankees know what Grits are?), biscuits with gravy, pancakes with warm syrup, fruit, pastries...breakfast foods are my favorite, so I was in heaven!<br />
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I took a slightly different Daemon list that I'd used before. Still a 'Screamer-star', but instead of the Daemon Princes I'd been using before, I took two large Fleshhound units:<br />
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Herald of Tzeentch: Lvl 3, Disc, Exalted Reward<br />
Herald of Tzeentch: Lvl 3, Disc, Exalted Reward<br />
Herald of Tzeentch: Lvl 3, Disc, Exalted Locus<br />
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12 Daemonettes<br />
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9 Screamers<br />
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The Tournament was 2000 points, 7 games, Nova-style. I believe there were about 90 participants signed up, with 3 or 4 no-shows the morning of the event.<br />
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My first game was against a super nice guy named Caleb. He had some really fun conversions that he was working on for his CSM with Daemon army which included Ahriman, some 1k Sons, a Land Raider, Heldrake, Forgefiend, Maulerfiend, Skarbrand, a big Bloodletter herd, and some cultists. Both Fleshhound units outflanked, I got Forewarning and Grim up, multi-assaulted Skarbrand and 1k sons with the Screamers which popped Skarbrand on DI, and killed of Ahriman and the 1k Sons in a couple combat rounds. I don't think the guy was quite prepared for this level of brokenness!<br />
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I got a 20-0 win here. The mission was straight kill points, I conserved well and killed enough to get 20 and then played conservative. I frankly felt a bit bad for Caleb, he lost all 4 games the first day and didn't come back for the second. I think this was his first big GT...I hope he was able to have a bit of fun despite the losses and keeps on playing!<br />
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Round two was against Gabe Dobkin playing a very balanced Necron list...<br />
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Destroyer Lord<br />
a few Crypteks (Chrono guy for a reroll, S8 shot guy, I think a Lord somewhere for a Res Orb)<br />
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2 min Warrior units in Nightscythes<br />
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2 Barges</blockquote>
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I made him go first so I could have last turn shenanigans, having gotten Forewarning , Flickering Fire on all three Heralds, along with a Perfect Timing.<br />
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We both played cagey at first, neither wanting to get in charge range of the other. I made a mistake, didn't account for the range addition granted by adding Scarabs to the unit, and he had a charge on the screamers with Scarabs of about 8", which he failed despite Fleet. Lucky me! I then shot up the Scarabs, killing all but a handful of bases (after him adding for 3 turns!) which were killed by an assault by Fleshhounds, including grinding thru the Destroyer Lord who'd joined the Scarabs. The Spiders went in to those Fleshhounds too, which really only kept both units tied up.<br />
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In one of my coolest Warhammer moves ever, I had Fateweaver fly up to his Night Scythes, one in front of the other...fired at the rearmost one, using Puppet Master to make it shoot down the one in front, and 3 Warp Charge Flickering Fire to shoot down the rear one. The proverbial two birds with one stone!<br />
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I dropped a few troop units to keep him tied up on one corner of his deployment while the Screamers ate things off the other. With his mobility taken away and a long Hammer/Anvil deployment, he had no way to get to the objectives I held on my side of the table while I had Screamers happily contest one of the two he held. I don't remember the details, but I got a 17-3 win.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I postured with the dogs, getting where I could charge turn 1...but he moves backwards and shoots me...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So I move up a bit more, where I won't eat Scarabs or Wraiths, but still potential charge next turn. I like pushing people backwards on Objective missions!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scarabs failed this 8" charge, saving my Screamers from a tarpitty fate!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James Watkins mounting his table to get to stuff on the other side. I got the camera out, waiting for the entire table to collapse with James at the bottom of a pile of broken minis and terrain...but the table held.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One Hound unit eats the Scarabs, while another pulls back to keep a counter-charge option available on my table half. Note the Night Scythes, ripe for Fateweaver to work his magic!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fateweaver was grounded and eaten over a few turns by the Wraiths.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Which gave up a table quarter for me, causing Quarters to be a tie, hence the 17-3 win. If I'd simple assaulted the Wraiths with the Hounds (who instead went in to Warriors...I don't know why) then I would have had 20-0.</td></tr>
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Gabe was a very skilled opponent, with a good plan and a nice list with answers to anything. He ended up winning Best Overall. He was pretty grumpy about some of the Daemon tricks that he'd not seen before..."That's so broken!" and "Oh man that's so ridiculous!" were said a few times. Welcome to the new 6e, Gabe! Despite that he was a joy to play, and I had a very good time with him!<br />
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Round 3 was against a really nice guy with a mean as shit list: Seth Pluckelman (pardon if I misspell!) and his Seer Council with Wave Serpents (4) and a Wraithknight!<br />
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Luckily for me, he did not get Fortune, I got Forewarning, and won the roll to go first, and chose (perhaps unwisely) to go second. His shooting left me with 2 Heralds and 1 Screamer, but I was able to tie up and eventually kill the Seer Council with the Fleshhounds, kill enough Serpents to take away mobility, take the Relic away from him, and pretty much control the flow of the game. We chose to stop at the 15-minute left point, at which I had a 13-7 win. I should most definitely have asked to play another turn to try for the 17 points, but I was tired and didn't want to do anything stupid to throw away a win! Seth was a real joy to play, knowing the rules, and really...like me...liked to talk thru the "I could do this, or that" and "I did this, but probably should have done that". I learn a lot from folks that are willing to talk things thru like Seth did. I really sincerely hope to meet him again some time!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He moves up on Turn 1 ready to blow away some Screamers!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Screamers were stomped, but the Hounds started in on the Council!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hounds grinding down the Council, while the Screamer-star (is one screamer still a Star?) took pot-shots at things and tried to survive to do late-game shenanigans.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nearly the end of the game here. 2 Dire Avenger units are left. I had a unit of dogs free, the screamer/Heralds and FAteweaver to pursue, and a mess of daemonettes still around. I should have pushed that last turn...oh well!</td></tr>
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Round 4<br />
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Round 4 was against a good friend who I've met and hung out with at several tourneys but never played...Kurt Clauss...he's a fucking mutant with the wierdest giant double-jointed thumbs I've ever seen! Fucking wierdo!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">His thumbs are like 8" long! Hannah must be happy, though!</td></tr>
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Kurt's list is a great one, combining great Eldar and Tau broken things in to one package that is not reliant on any 'gimmicks' (Like me relying on Forewarning, or a Seercouncil nearly relying on Fortune). He had a Farseer, 4 Dire Avenger units in Wave Serpents, 2 units of six Swooping Hawks, a Wraithknight, some Jetbikes, a Tau Commander with a Riptide, Broadside unit, and some Kroot.<br />
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I did not get Forewarning this game. I have no mental plan ready for failing to get Forewarning, so I just kind of stumbled around until I lost.<br />
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I went all-in trying to get Forewarning, so had no Flickering Fires on Heralds. I was super tired being the fourth game in a day, so made some key early mistakes.<br />
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The primary one being I scouted up full blast for no good reason, and got one unit of Hounds charged by the Wraithknight, while the other was removed by all his shooting.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A failure of a deployment, as I got way too close to the Wraithknight!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To pull off what I was trying to do, I should have had everything on the table moved up as far as possible, instead the hounds went first, then the screamers, then the nettes. Piece-meal does not work!!! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kurt and I were pretty goofy the whole game! We even wore matching headbands! Afterward we spooned...</td></tr>
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Despite some boneheaded early play, I got my caffeine going and played hard late game. I had good Portalglyph rolls, and was able to push a lot of troops at him, and using Grim on Fateweaver a few times to get him in dangerous positions to do good damage with Puppetmaster on the Riptide while being near invulnerable.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I kept pushing models at him, his backing up gave me room to (sort of) secure my table half...interesting to be able to still apply pressure when my "deathstar" was immediately neutered.</td></tr>
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The final turn came around, with me having Bottom, and I actually had a slim chance for an awesome Hail Mary to get a win on secondary. The objective on the bottom left (my deployment) had my Horrors on it, all spread out, fighting the Wraithknight in melee, but the Wraithknight was too far to contest. He dropped one unit of Hawks there to contest. The top left had one of my Horrors on it (from Portalglyph), but was contested by 3 more Hawks. I had two small Horror units near enough to take shots at either. He had the two Right objectives solidly held and wrapped, no good way to get Fateweaver in. He had Bikes on the middle objective, but I had two daemonette units near by that could contest.<br />
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My plan, then, was to shoot down the Hawks contesting my objectives, using the 3 small Horror units and Fateweaver. Fatey held the bottom Right corner, the Horrors would then hold the Top Left quarter, and I'd position the two Daemonette units at mid-table so they'd help me hold the bottom left corner while contesting the middle objective. It was a beautiful plan...Kurt started to sweat!<br />
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So, Fateweaver started it off with Bolt of Tzeentch (or whatever it's called...the small-blast AP1 random-strength Tzeentch power), got off the power, it was not denied, and that killed 3 of the 6 off the bat! Then he failed his 2 warp-charge Flickering Fire with an 11, and I'd already used his reroll...this was key.<br />
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The first little horror unit shot at that same unit, and did just enough unsaved wounds (thru the 4+ cover from firing thru my unit and him going to ground) to kill the last three!<br />
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That left two Horror units to shoot down 3 Hawks on the top Left objective. After all the psychic bullets, one Hawk remained! Arg!!<br />
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So, grasping at straws, I try to charge him! The unit of 2 attempted the 5" charge, and fails!!!<br />
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That leaves one Horror assaulting one Hawk! He makes it in to melee! The Hawk swings, hits, and fails to wound!!<br />
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The Horror...if he can kill this Hawk, I win the game!...swings twice...two hits!!<br />
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And fails to wound! I lose! Arg!!<br />
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Oh well, it was a good fight, and I didn't play as horribly as I usually do, and I did smart and fun things. Kurt was a blast to play, we had a great time talking trash and throwing things at each other. Kurt's girlfriend Hannah was super nice. I'm insanely jealous that his significant other goes to these events with him! You're a lucky man, Kurt! Make sure she knows you know how lucky you are!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All you have to do is kill one puny Swooping Hawk!!!</td></tr>
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This game ended somewhere in the area of 10 o'clock, I think. I was a super zombie. Everyone else had already gone to dinner, so I walked a bit to see if there was a fast-food place nearby, but there wasn't. So I went back to the Yeehaw place next door and got another Shrimp BLT, took it back to the room, ate while reading some Stephen King, and slept...<br />
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...until 5am, when my bladder decided it was time to wake up, then was never able to get quite back to sleep after that...dozing and hitting the snooze button a lot!<br />
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Went to another awesome badass breakfast, and off to do battle in Bracket 3!<br />
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My first opponent was another good friend who I've played several times in tournaments, Matt Schuchman and his Seer Council + Tau!<br />
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He got the powers he wanted, I didn't get Forewarning, and I felt really doomed!<br />
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I didn't play well, in fact I didn't even really try. I did goofy shit, like assaulting the Seer council with 2/3 of my army...I did one wound and lost most of the rest to Instability! It was bad play, but hilarious! :)<br />
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He tabled me in 4, but I still had a fun time, and I hope Matt did too!<br />
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And yeah, I didn't take a single picture on day 2. Nor did I keep any notes or anything. Too tired, I guess...I didn't even think about it, just played!<br />
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Game 6 was against what could be a super bad match-up, Tyranids! The player known as Juice had a very respectable Double-Flyrant, Triple-Mawloc, Triple-Tervigon, Triple-Hive Guard Pair list that looked to be pretty terrifying.<br />
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I got Forewarning early (in fact I had two!), had Perfect Timing, Misfortune, and 3 Flickering Fires. He had 3 Enfeebles...bad news for me.<br />
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I won the roll and had him go first. He enfeebeled some dogs and killed a ton. Two Tervigons crapped out on turn 1.<br />
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I lined up a nice counter-attack with shooty Screamer-star and Invisible Fateweaver that had a very good chance of dropping both Flyrants. If this had happened I would have been pretty much in clean-up mode the rest of the game.<br />
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Instead I failed the Grimoire even with the reroll (after having moved first, like a dumbass, instead of staying safe) and then he passed SIX DENY THE WITCH ROLLS IN A ROW and I was fucked.<br />
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His Tyrants flew behind my Screamers, and killed the Heralds out of the unit with good positioning by him. Sigh.<br />
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I spent the rest of the game focusing on his copious troops, and this ended up paying off as Fatewaver, the Invisible badass, along with a last-turn Portalglyph spawn allowed a tie on objectives, and a win on quarters, for a soft 13-7 win. Juice was very competent and awesome player. Hot dice for him early and hot dice for me late and he was cool as a cucumber all thru it. A really nice guy that I'd happily play again. A football fan, we spent a fair amount of time thru the game checking Fantasy Football scores!<br />
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The final game, meaningless for tourney standings but for bragging rights none the less, was against Mike Taylor...another prominent tourney-goer who I've hung out with a lot but had never played! He was using a very model-intentisive Marine + IG army, something like this:<br />
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Tigirius<br />
Librarian<br />
2x 5 Scouts in Storms<br />
Bike Unit<br />
2 Thunderfires<br />
One of the AA tanks...I forgot the name<br />
CCS<br />
2x PCS<br />
2x 50 guardsmen<br />
Manticore</blockquote>
I got the good powers again, loading up with Misfortune, Perfect Timing, and Flickering Fire. I won the roll and had him go first, hoping that the last turn shenanigans would help me win the game. Since it was night-fight, I was able to deploy mostly out of danger of the Manticore.<br />
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The TF-Cannons and Manticore made me pay early (mostly due to brain-dead deployment where I set up in range needlessly!). The Screamers, which I'd deployed far back in my corner, didn't get to weigh in until turn 2, when they combi-charged both Guard Blobs after having killed about 15 of one unit with shooting.<br />
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I kind of erred by throwing Fleshhounds in to one of the units also...I was able to grind down one of the units to almost dead and nearly half kill the other unit, but it would have been smarter, I think, to have the Hounds kill everything else while the Screamers just kept the blobs occupied. My Horrors and Fateweaver did good work killing off all his other scoring and denial stuff that tried to sneak on to my objectives (Scouts outflanking in a Storm, Bikes) and I was able to kill him off the central objective for a 2-1 objective win...but I tell you what, that was one of the slowest games of Warhammer I've ever played. Not just the playing part, but we had SO MANY DICE to roll...FRFSRF from two blobs, then the overwatch from two blobs, then the attacks from two blobs...then the attacks from 9 screamers, 3 heralds, and ~25 flesh hounds...all starting on turn 2. We only made it thru turn 3 in about three and a half hours! Neither of us slow-played, it was just a BUSY game! Lots of fun, neither of us had ever seen a melee that big or ridiculous! I was really happy to get to play Mike finally, and look forward to doing so again!<br />
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So, the list worked fine, I played half way decent most the time. I lost the games I didn't get Forewarning...I really haven't been "in" to 40k enough lately to have worked up much of a mental plan for that kind of thing, so wasn't disappointed to have blown those games. I'm not really sure the Hounds were any better than the Princes...in a way they were more fun, as my opponent and I both had stuff to do, but they seemed to be less valuable in more situations than the Princes, and lacked the late game fly-off-the-board-and-come-back-later thing. I may try one of each some time, see if that's too diluted to work. Princes undoubtedly play faster. Don't know!<br />
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So, nothing much planned for me in terms of GTs in the near future. Next thing on my agenda is Templecon...and I don't even know if they're doing 40k there this year!<br />
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Sorry for lack of pics, but hey, I do what I can! :)<br />
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If you don't read Torrent of Fire, by the way, you should. Interesting articles and statistics there! Noteworthy from the latest article...Eldar are absolutely dominating, overall winning 64% of their games!<br />
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But even more interesting, is the top 10 players:<br />
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I think it's weighted a lot more by number of games played than results, but hey, I'll take it! :)<br />
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And, back home at La Guardia...a nice view of Manhattan from the top floor of the parking garage. If you zoom in a bit you can see the new Freedom Tower dominating Lower Manhattan!<br />
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Thanks for reading! Hopefully with Football over I can start to be a bit more active again! Fingers crossed! Also good luck to all my friends going to Da Boyz this weekend! While you're finishing up Sunday night, I'll be surprising the wife with a trip to see the Patriots and Broncos play at Foxboro!<br />
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