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Post by macdaddy on Apr 30, 2018 17:54:00 GMT
I have friends back in Lynchburg who play down there. Never been myself but they really enjoy the meta. That's a Long drive... Who do you know from the LBurg crew? I live 40ish minutes from there in Roanoke and we get out to their store pretty often for steamrollers Matt, John, Paul, Damian (I think that was his name) a few other folks as well but I played the most against those guys.
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kaernak
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Post by kaernak on Apr 30, 2018 17:56:52 GMT
Who do you know from the LBurg crew? I live 40ish minutes from there in Roanoke and we get out to their store pretty often for steamrollers Matt, John, Paul, Damian (I think that was his name) a few other folks as well but I played the most against those guys. I know all those guys, except Damian, we keep missing each other some how. Funny. Small world!
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Post by macdaddy on Apr 30, 2018 18:02:45 GMT
Matt, John, Paul, Damian (I think that was his name) a few other folks as well but I played the most against those guys. I know all those guys, except Damian, we keep missing each other some how. Funny. Small world! How long have you been playing there? Its entirely possible we have been at the same event in the past
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kaernak
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Post by kaernak on Apr 30, 2018 18:33:25 GMT
I've only been out there once since the advent of Mk 3. Was probably around this time last year. I was running Amon CM and Sev2 (and never dropped sev2 because lolsynergyop)
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Post by macdaddy on Apr 30, 2018 18:56:26 GMT
I've only been out there once since the advent of Mk 3. Was probably around this time last year. I was running Amon CM and Sev2 (and never dropped sev2 because lolsynergyop) Darn, I had left by that point. Well I may be trying to come down there sometime this summer for an event maybe we will meet!
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Post by kaernak on Apr 30, 2018 19:03:33 GMT
It is quite likely. I will also be at Nova Open if you are planning to attend that!
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Post by macdaddy on May 1, 2018 0:46:33 GMT
Long time Coming but finally here are the reports from the Store Wars Qualifier I just participated in! As a reminder here were my lists: Conflict Chamber LinkMy team was a troll player running doomy 1 and Koldgrannie, A legion player running oracles and a super awesome Kallus 1 list, A minion player with Barny2 and rask, and a circle player with Una2 and Baldur2. Overall I was actually feeling pretty confident we had decent answers to some of the questions brought. I fit in with a decent gunline match up with durst, and a solid Brick Breaker with Thyra. The issue was list chicken, which was highly likely into certain factions like Skorne and trolls who can run gunlines and bricks in a pair. Round one saw us facing off against one of the toughest teams in the event. They were bringing things like Gaspy 3 9 slayers and Sloan 5X5 both of which are awful lists to play into without practicing the match up. I felt fairly comfortable with thyra into Gaspy 3 but not so comfortable with durst into sloan. Sadly lost the ability to choose match ups and that ended up being a big issue for us. I don't remember what the other lists were, but I got paired off against Warmachine-ist who was running Jarl in Storm of the North, and Madrack 1 Band of heroes. I was actually really confident here because thyra can break both the bricks and errants can jam super well in time for tough ignoring overtaking knights exemplar to end some troll lives. Game 1:His List:Jarl -Rock -Impaler Max champs with skaldi double min Long riders Horthol Valka Max stone with northkin Elder Fell Caller I think that was it anyway. I won the roll off and chose to go First, plan was to force jarl to feat turn 1, jam with errants through his feat, and then murder with knights exemplar, and Blood of martyrs. Easy enough right? Turn 1: Protectorate:
RUN FORWARDS FOR THE CREATOR DEUS VULT!!! Yeah..lots of angry rightous running. Thyra puts Gates on herself, and Occultation on the left (black) errants to prevent randomly magic bullet-ting things. Jarl is an issue for thyra, magic bullet is a great un-jamming tool and thyra can actually randomly die for the pow 12's making this match up more difficult for me. I leave a few errants in the threat of the long riders to bait them up further to make them easier to jam. Trolls:
He does exactly what I expect him to do. Magic bullets a couple errants, kills a couple with long riders, makes clouds, hides behind clouds. Quicken goes on the champs *clenches butcheeks* Calls it a turn. Turn 2: Protectorate: *forgot picture UGH*
You know whats bad about being overconfident in a match up? you make mistakes...big...big...massive...huge...you get the picture... I literally blow my entire game plan here for no good reason. Ill blame it on tournament jitters and nervs, but I have no idea what I was thinking here. I for some reason blow my feat *(STUPID)* put silence of death on the black errants, walk into melee with long riders and do nothing because pow 11 WM is still bad into arm 20 without a charge. So instead of jamming properly I spread a bit and open up too much for him to get to more models...*sigh* not sure what I was thinking here my game to win and I made a huge blunder. Rest of the army just runs up hoping he cannot chew through 30 or so models (2 units of errants and a full unit of knights E. Before he gets to my jacks and knights E with UA. Even worse I leave my knights E senny on the right in ambush bear charge range *AGHHHH SO MANY MKISTAKES* Trolls:
He kills everything but a sanctifier and a few knights e. I Basically lost the game in one round. Pivitolly black penny and magic bulet kills the errants jamming the champs letting the charge blood of martyrs who was just barely in LoS...*sigh* *To Be continued for Images* IMG_9688.JPG (86.01 KB) IMG_9689.JPG (84.07 KB) IMG_9690.JPG (100.39 KB)
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Post by macdaddy on May 1, 2018 0:53:20 GMT
Turn 3:
Protectorate:I cant give up, because I need to try and score...something. I send thyra and the sanctifier with battle and gates of death into the champs they kill them all. Knights E kill bears and a few long riders. I am actually not feeling too terrible now. See how good this goes if I don't utterly give my opponent the game?
Trolls:Feeling ok actually, the Sanctifier will live another turn hopefully, and thyra can kill models like a champ. I may lose, but I can score some army points to help my opponent with placing at the end of the round,. Who knows I might even get lucky and make it close! Nope, toughalow slams the sanctifier a whopping 5" into thyra and knocks he down. A quickened valka finishes her...DOH. Should have seen that coming -____- Summary:Wow...sorry to my team for this one, what a terrible showing from me. Embarrassing for sure. Lots to learn from this one. This took all my confidence away for the day. It shows me how much more practice I need with protectoerate. Seriously...writing this actually makes me upset with how terrible I did this game...so many stupid mistakes made for no good reason. ugh. *grabs pint of ben and jerry's, cries into pillow* IMG_9691.JPG (90 KB)
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Post by macdaddy on May 1, 2018 0:54:45 GMT
Oof, I know that team. Sorry about the matchup! Don't be sorry, it was fine match up, just really really really poor play on my part :/ Do you mind deleting and reposting under my second half of the report for coherency sake? I forgot to reserve a spot :/ I would appreciate it
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Post by Hashmal on May 1, 2018 1:01:37 GMT
Oof, I know that team. Sorry about the matchup!
PS see you Sat.
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Post by macdaddy on May 1, 2018 1:03:19 GMT
Oof, I know that team. Sorry about the matchup! PS see you Sat. Ty for reposting Maybe our teams will face off
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Post by macdaddy on May 1, 2018 1:03:30 GMT
Round 1 was really rough for our team, losing all but one game and losing pretty badly in the other match ups. (we really really needed to choose match ups and got destroyed with bad match ups. Except for me...who had a good match up and failed the team *beats head with penitence plank* Round 2 saw us facing down another strong team representing Huzzah. We actually won the roll and chose match ups this time. It came down to me and the troll player choosing between shooty ret and mercs. I felt Durst could play into ret, but My confidence was shot and none of us had an answer to the merc players Ossrum Jack spam list so I decided to bite the bullet for the team and take the pretty much guaranteed loss into ossrum, to give our team a better chance of winning the round. His List:
Ossrum- Irregulars -4 Spray bunnies -2 Slug Bunnies -3 Drillers -2 Bashers Artillary crew Kayazy Eriss Ragman Ayanna and Holt Kell Baelock He won the roll off and chose to go first. I chose the sides with more cover to try and make this sort of ok. I dropped thyra, hoping to use spacing to deliver Pow 15 Knights E with Minifeat and SoD into his arm 23 jacks and still kills some to try and earn points. Turn 1: Mercs:
He runs everything, energizer and sheanigans means he is super far up the table...booo! Protectorate:
He threats my deployment zone so backing off is not an option, (and wouldn't really accomplish much anyway as he out threats me by allot on feat with speed 8 gun bunnies) I jam with errants and space as best I can expecting him to feat and kill all my errants but hopefully not get to the Knights E and my jacks. Thyra puts up gates, SoD on Blood of Martyrs and camps 2. Turnn2: Mercs:
Goes as expected, he kills all my errants, more knights e than I was hoping, and feats. also, Blood gets disrupted by Eriss ...Oh boy looking good! *sarcasm* *To be continued for Images* IMG_9692.JPG (112.71 KB) IMG_9693.JPG (111.31 KB) IMG_9694.JPG (95.79 KB)
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Post by macdaddy on May 1, 2018 1:03:42 GMT
Protectorate:I try my best to kill things and dice say no in some places. Blood of martyrs does 1 damage to the basher. Thyra does a few damage to the same basher, feats, and casts carnage. Knighst E senny slams it into the house doing a few damage. Knights exemplar under SoD and minifeat leave the basher on 1 box and do like 5 or so damage to a bunny and kill a single kayazy. 3 Knights E on the right under minifeat do 10 damage to the basher. Sanctifier goes into a gun bunny, misses 2 attacks and does like 3 damage with the last attack. Yay.... Turn 3: Mercs:*forgot to take pictures* He kills pretty much everything but BoM (crippled arm and disrupted again) and a couple knights. Protectorate:I go for a long bomb assassination involving 2 boosted strangleholds and ellias with prey shooting ossrum. Bom manages to kill Eriis to swap prey to ossrum good start! Thyra throws a boosted stranglehold into Ossrum, needs a 10! Misses. Second Stranglehold misses. Ellias misses both shots. Lol long shot assassination anyway. Summary:Terrible match up...I desperately need to find a way to answer this list. Gun bunnies kill infantry and heavies kill heavies. I...don't know. Other than amon maybe?. Ossrum is stupid powerful that's for sure, +3 Arm Speed and PF feat, + energizer, Bulldoze, and the most points efficient lights in the game. I just...its so gross. Mercs are so good right now and so versatile, they have the strength of being so diverse you cannot tech for them, and that makes lists like ossrum that skew this hard really difficult to prep for. Ill be thinking about this one for a while. May just have to use sevvy2 to assassinate as the Awareness shots from 2 reckoners and 3 boosted hex blasts should kill him reliably on non feat turns. IMG_9695.JPG (110.82 KB)
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Post by macdaddy on May 1, 2018 1:30:08 GMT
Round 2 saw our team lose 3 of our games. With one deciding game being a really random display of dice where an e-leap one shots kallus under nemo 3's feat (at least I think that's what happened it might have been 2 e-leaps) That game would have given our team a round 2 win and opened us back up to qualifying in the Final event. Sadly, we were unable to pull out the win here, still solid games from my team though, awesome guys for sure, so far I was the dead-weight and I needed to make up for that. Round 3 comes and we are just going for points here to have better chances at qualifying when we participate this weekend. We go up against a great group of folks and win the roll again choosing match ups. I am confident and choose to play into a Magnus 2, Cross2 pairing because I have played both before with durst and Thyra and know how the games go. My opponents List:Magus 2: Irregulars -4 Nomads -2 Freebooters Kayazy with UA 2 Units of Eliminators Kell Baelock Eiriss (curse you pointy eared mistress!) Ayana and Holt Ragman He might have also had dirty meg but I am pretty sure he did not. I dropped Thyra, because durst auto loses to magnus2 on scenario and Thyra has OK game in Crosse2 as long as I can avoid getting randomly shot off the table (signs and portents pistols with reinholt make me sad) I won the roll off and chose to go second to deny magnus his dirty scenario shenanigans. Prey goes on Eriss! Turn 1: Mercs:
Everything runs. Protectorate:
I see an interesting opportunity here, assault shots are an option into kayazy and I have to jam with errants anyway. Through an unbelievable stroke of good dice I kill over half the kayazy, and and Eliminator on the right. Gates goes up, SoD goes on the right unit of Knights Exemplar. I keep my back-lines out of magnus' feat threat. Turn 2:Kayazy and jacks kill most of my errants, magnus charges and feats. *to be continued for Images* IMG_9696 Small.JPG (116.97 KB) IMG_9697 Small.JPG (124 KB) IMG_9698 Small.JPG (115.27 KB)
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Post by macdaddy on May 1, 2018 1:30:18 GMT
Protectorate:I use my feat to poof the few models in his feat out of it, or into melee, Thyra puts charges and kills some eliminators, overtakes back a bit. BoM with full focus misses 2 attacks and leaves a Nomad alive. *Sigh* Sanctifier goes into same nomad...Its still alive. Knights kill remaining Kayazy. Ellias Kills Baelock. 4 Knights E with SoD and minifeat fail to kill a Nomad. (dice were pretty terrible this turn. makes up for all the errant bows I guess) I think I prefer to kill the 2 heavies lol Score: Protectorate: 1 Mercs: 1Turn 3:Mercs:Ragman enables the nomads to kill my sanctifier Jacks on right eat a lot of knights. Eriss Disrupts BoM (BOOOO!) Score: Protectorate: 2, Mercs: 2Protectorate:Knights charge things, more poor damage rolls means I only Kill 2 nomads (and one was over half dead) Ellias Kills ragman *GET WRECKED HERETIC* Thyra poofs behind wall, sacrificing scenario to avoid nomad assassination (even though its unlikely as def 17 is a thing) Score: Mercs: 3, Protectorate: 2
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