Post by sand20go on May 1, 2017 20:55:57 GMT
Another wonderful KingdomCon in the books. If you can find yourself in San Diego in late April/early May you really should make the trip out. A wonderful 4 days of geekdom. Highly recommend. I will organize a Khador Craft Brewery Pub Crawl in case you don't really want to play DrunkQuest.
Some observations from Khador
First, congrads to one of the motherland for making it to the top table in Masters. I will let Scott Chandler write up his experiences but while we need to congrad him on an amazing accomplishment we need to hit him with a wet noodle for losing to Wormwood even while dropping Irusk2. We need specifics Scott....specifics!!!
Second, lots and lots of ghost fleet. Crxy made a big come back and everyone is in love with the recursion mechanism. I am not telling you guys to tech for it but you should be aware and you should be thinking about whether your lists can handle 2 reven and 1 blackbane units and then all the ghost shots. With Denny1 it is definately a "thing" and there is no reason to believe it will not be even stronger come SR 2017. Those Greyforge Seers and Magical weapons are looking stronger each and every day. No reason to believe it is going to be nerfed. So get all your Cryx toys you put away back on the table (Spriggan, I missed you!!!)
Third, Strak 2 is a thing. I tabled 3 opponents with him over in Iron Arena/Scramble. In a team tournament I mirrored into him with Butcher3 and he pulled off the win (though shouldn't have - I was NOT playing well this weekend).
Fourth - Juris rocked Haley3 assinations and another Cygnar got to top 4 with Caine3. Yeah - I am starting to see one thing that divides me from some of my fellow big red - I play in a meta with GOOD cygnar players. It makes a difference as to how you see the faction's strengths ;-)
Fifth, Prime Axiom is a Female Dog. I lost Jacks to getting pulled in EVEN AFTER I knew the trick. It is just hard as heck to avoid it. I hate that theme.
Sixth - you all should hit ME with the wet noodle (several actually). In my loss over at Master Qualifying things were going well. I exposed Hark a bit to a Vyros2 killing run but he was 8 boxes short of killing me so really needed to spike. At that point things were in pretty good shape. I killed a light (or 2) and then feated. He pounded head against rock. I killed MORE stuff, even weathering out the respawning crap that is Invictus.
But yes, SanD20go spaced ridiculously on the Kill box rule. We don't move shit. We just don't (absent throws and who THROWS the caster other than to toss him over to a khador jack for killing.
San's opponent "Well I rolled a 13 with Hylios's gun and push you back 2 inches. You are out of kill box. I score 2"
San (who apparently needs to take 4th grade reading so he understands the rules) "OK" So I get back into Kill box and murderate some more stuff
San's Opponents "Well shit. Things are looking bleak this turn. Your jugger is over on that flag with nothing threatening it. Helios is about to take some serious wacking from things. Behemoth is alive and kicking and wants to shoot elf on a horse. And how many kodiaks do you have up on full.
San - I am going to move out Hark a bit more to get some work done
San's opponent "I move you again" 2 more. Good game.
Of course as ALL of you know...you only give up Kill box points on YOUR turn. As long as you can move back into it you are fine.
But god he was earnest and sounded like he knew what he was doing ;-)
Some observations from Khador
First, congrads to one of the motherland for making it to the top table in Masters. I will let Scott Chandler write up his experiences but while we need to congrad him on an amazing accomplishment we need to hit him with a wet noodle for losing to Wormwood even while dropping Irusk2. We need specifics Scott....specifics!!!
Second, lots and lots of ghost fleet. Crxy made a big come back and everyone is in love with the recursion mechanism. I am not telling you guys to tech for it but you should be aware and you should be thinking about whether your lists can handle 2 reven and 1 blackbane units and then all the ghost shots. With Denny1 it is definately a "thing" and there is no reason to believe it will not be even stronger come SR 2017. Those Greyforge Seers and Magical weapons are looking stronger each and every day. No reason to believe it is going to be nerfed. So get all your Cryx toys you put away back on the table (Spriggan, I missed you!!!)
Third, Strak 2 is a thing. I tabled 3 opponents with him over in Iron Arena/Scramble. In a team tournament I mirrored into him with Butcher3 and he pulled off the win (though shouldn't have - I was NOT playing well this weekend).
Fourth - Juris rocked Haley3 assinations and another Cygnar got to top 4 with Caine3. Yeah - I am starting to see one thing that divides me from some of my fellow big red - I play in a meta with GOOD cygnar players. It makes a difference as to how you see the faction's strengths ;-)
Fifth, Prime Axiom is a Female Dog. I lost Jacks to getting pulled in EVEN AFTER I knew the trick. It is just hard as heck to avoid it. I hate that theme.
Sixth - you all should hit ME with the wet noodle (several actually). In my loss over at Master Qualifying things were going well. I exposed Hark a bit to a Vyros2 killing run but he was 8 boxes short of killing me so really needed to spike. At that point things were in pretty good shape. I killed a light (or 2) and then feated. He pounded head against rock. I killed MORE stuff, even weathering out the respawning crap that is Invictus.
But yes, SanD20go spaced ridiculously on the Kill box rule. We don't move shit. We just don't (absent throws and who THROWS the caster other than to toss him over to a khador jack for killing.
San's opponent "Well I rolled a 13 with Hylios's gun and push you back 2 inches. You are out of kill box. I score 2"
San (who apparently needs to take 4th grade reading so he understands the rules) "OK" So I get back into Kill box and murderate some more stuff
San's Opponents "Well shit. Things are looking bleak this turn. Your jugger is over on that flag with nothing threatening it. Helios is about to take some serious wacking from things. Behemoth is alive and kicking and wants to shoot elf on a horse. And how many kodiaks do you have up on full.
San - I am going to move out Hark a bit more to get some work done
San's opponent "I move you again" 2 more. Good game.
Of course as ALL of you know...you only give up Kill box points on YOUR turn. As long as you can move back into it you are fine.
But god he was earnest and sounded like he knew what he was doing ;-)
those guys are good players and they will rock your world (did you notice how your weekly Boogieman thread was about Circle during that period Juris was playing them a few months ago? 
Considering I've been painting more than playing I feel very satisfied
Will was giving me a hard time because of how illegal it was but that he likes it so much he would allow it. I just told him to consider it a really elaborate base.
