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[loligarchy]

Turn Sequence: Dolus, Loligarchy

Turn 13 - Loligarchy

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	Dolus BUA		Dolus DUA		Dolus Reserve Army	Dolus Summoning Pool
*
	Dolus		Dolus		Dolus Home Army
	Loligarchy's Home (Loligarchy) (Deadlands)		Frontier City		Dolus's Home Temple
	Loligarchy Home Army		Loligarchy		Loligarchy
*
	Loligarchy Reserve Army		Loligarchy Summoning Pool		Loligarchy DUA	Loligarchy BUA

First March
Annihilator: 2 Save
Annihilator: 3 ID
Bog Adept: 1 ID
Bog Adept: 1 Magic
Bog Runner: 1 Save
Bog Runner: 1 Save
Marsh Mage: 4 Magic
Marsh Swimmer: 2 Maneuver
Marsh Swimmer: 2 Save
Swamp Giant: 4 Maneuver
Swamp Wizard: 4 Cantrip
Swamp Wizard: 2 Melee

4 ID 5 Magic 4 Cantrip
4 ID doubles black to 8, use that and the 4 Cantrip to bury your Mammoth Riders
Use the Standing Stones to Path my reserve Bog Runner back to the Frontier

Second March
Tick the Frontier up to 4

Reserves
Bog Runner jaunts his happy ass back to the reserves

End Turn
Turn Sequence: Dolus, Loligarchy

Turn 14 - Dolus

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	Dolus BUA		Dolus DUA		Dolus Reserve Army	Dolus Summoning Pool
*
	Dolus		Dolus		Dolus Home Army
	Loligarchy's Home (Loligarchy) (Deadlands)		Frontier City		Dolus's Home Temple
	Loligarchy Home Army		Loligarchy		Loligarchy
*
	Loligarchy Reserve Army		Loligarchy Summoning Pool		Loligarchy DUA	Loligarchy BUA

[loligarchy]

Dragon Attack:
Black Wyrm: Treasure

Maybe I shouldn't have made the Smaug remark, it was just asking for Halfling Hijinks

[Dolus]

Another nitpick (which I may just be wrong on, but Chuck will pop in if I am). Path says "Target any of your units at any terrain." Terrain being the keyword. So I don't think you can target your reserve unit.

But you can just as easily target a Bog Runner at your home. Then during reserves, reinforce your home from reserves, and send your frontier army to reserves. The end result is exactly the same, the process of getting there is ever so slightly different.


Dragon Phase
Promote Theurgist to Patroller.

Wizard: 3 ID
Wizard: 2 Melee
Thaumaturgist: 2 Magic
Theurgist: 1 ID
Theurgist: 1 ID
Patroller: 2 Maneuver

5 ID
2 Melee

Not enough to do anything.

I'll maneuver up to 4 - missile.

EoT[/i]

[loligarchy]

Oh very interesting. I will make note of that. I enjoy knowing minutia so that's good to know.
Yeah it says Terrain which always unless otherwise stated refers to units at a Major Terrain die so as far as I can see you are absolutely correct. I'll adjust my turn to that.
Its actually especially good to know as I have a friend that only plays armies with Gold magic and hitherto has been making use of Pathing a unit from Reserves to terrains which is apparently most illegal and so definitely good to know.

Turn Sequence: Dolus, Loligarchy

Turn 14 - Loligarchy

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	Dolus BUA		Dolus DUA		Dolus Reserve Army	Dolus Summoning Pool
*
	Dolus		Dolus		Dolus Home Army
	Loligarchy's Home (Loligarchy) (Deadlands)		Frontier City		Dolus's Home Temple
	Loligarchy Home Army		Loligarchy		Loligarchy
*
	Loligarchy Reserve Army		Loligarchy Summoning Pool		Loligarchy DUA	Loligarchy BUA

First March
Magic

Annihilator: 5 Melee
Annihilator: 4 Smite
Bog Adept: 1 Magic
Bog Adept: 1 ID
Bog Runner: 1 Save
Bog Runner: 2 Maneuver
Marsh Mage: 4 Magic
Marsh Swimmer: 2 Melee
Marsh Swimmer: 4 Maneuver
Swamp Giant: 4 Maneuver
Swamp Wizard: 2 Save
Swamp Wizard: 2 Save

1 ID and 5 Magic
Summon my Drake to your Home

Reserves
Move my Bog Runner back Home

End Turn

Turn Sequence: Dolus, Loligarchy

Turn 15 - Dolus

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	Dolus BUA		Dolus DUA		Dolus Reserve Army	Dolus Summoning Pool
*
	Dolus		Dolus		Dolus Home Army
	Loligarchy's Home (Loligarchy) (Deadlands)		Frontier City		Dolus's Home Temple
	Loligarchy Home Army		Loligarchy		Loligarchy
*
	Loligarchy Reserve Army		Loligarchy Summoning Pool		Loligarchy DUA	Loligarchy BUA

Dragon Attack
Black Drake: Tail, Jaws
Black Wyrm: Tail, Claws

24 Incoming Damage

[Dolus]

[chuckpint]

Two things. First you are right that you can't Path a unit from reserves.

Second, that Wizard that Pathed away from the dragons at home to the frontier, now has to face the dragons at the frontier. You are still in the dragon attack phase, so if you have a second army at a terrain with dragons, then they attack.....
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[Dolus]

Whoops. Forgot that, should've pathed to his home.

Gold Wyrm: 1 Treasure
Gold Wyrm: 3 Tail 3 Tail 3 Tail 6 Claw (Wow!)

So promotion from treasure!

I get nothing.

15 damage incoming. Hrmm...

Wizard: 3 Save


Woohoo! I only take 12 damage. Let's see... I'll take, 1 Wizard.


Good game.

[loligarchy]

Your Wizard sure did get a whole lotta tail right there.

Ok well that was a lot of fun. Thank you for helping me learn how to run these boards.
I have come to the conclusion that there are definitely times when manually editing them is still easier having worked with html in the past.
I'm not sure if I like Swamp Stalkers all that much.
When I was younger they had just come out right before we stopped collecting and its interesting how I did not see how game breakingly overpowered their mutation was in that incarnation but now with the change they seem a little odd. I mean when you have an advantage you can press sure they are pretty insane but it almost feels like they're really only good at kicking a dead horse and not dying in the meantime. Not sure, may be just that I haven't played them enough to find anything else.

Again, thank you so much for playing and assisting me

[Dolus]

Anytime. And thank you for a good game as well. I see I definitely have a lot to work on with Dwarves.

I haven't played SS yet, but I would like to. They definitely discourage opponents from turtling up at their reserve, which I like. And at a swampland, especially with the cavalry, they have so many maneuvers that I couldn't come up with a good way to kill your guys off without casting a lot of TRtM. Especially with a lack of offensive magic from the Dwarves.

I don't know all of how rules and racials have changed over time. How did the Swamp Stalkers use to operate?

[loligarchy]

SS use to get a mutation side board equal to half of their units for free. Otherwise it worked more or less the same, it was just that any time anyone went into the reserves they would try to pluck a few of the reserves out and bring in units from the sideboard. They also still had the manuevers to saves in the swamp
Of course this was back when black magic could only resurrect commons and doubled by burying you or your opponents units. So as soon as anyone put anything in the reserves they'd just kill off a couple dice and then immediately bury them and then start casting their magic.

I recently got an old swamp stalker rulebook too and they also had a black spell called bloodlust that made an opponents army attack themselves: they rolled a combination roll and if their melee was higher than their saves they had to kill units. They also flat out ignored all IDs

I think I saw on the forums around here somewhere that for a while before SFR overhauled the rules the only armies that won worlds were SS or Goblin armies composed entirely of commons and I can definitely understand why.

I love knowing how games and such change and evolve over time, its really interesting to me. One of these days I'd like to get my hands on one of the old Scalder and Frostwing booklets to finish out my collection of them.

[TheLazyhase]

Slightly off-topic : can you explain what the old rule were for charge ? I don't know much about thoses, excepts that UD couldn't do it and the rule was dropped because it was too powerful.

[Dolus]

That's very interesting. IDs doing nothing sounds pretty negative. And if I recall correctly, at one point didn't unused black magic hurt your army?



The old rule for charge is pretty much the same as if you rolled a Behemoth and got a charge result. You would just choose to charge instead of skirmish in a melee roll. Out of laziness and trying to make sure I don't say anything wrong, here is Charge SAI text:

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