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diggity60503 · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 7:35 am GMT Post subject:

4 Bog Adepts to DUA via Smite

Save:

Cantrip: Ashes to Ashes on the Warder, Foul Water on a Spellbinder
9 Saves: 2 Marsh Mages

End My Turn

Yes, I attempt to Counter:

9 Maneuvers
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649...6/12/13
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piMaster · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 11:57 am GMT Post subject:

Foul Water roll: 1 ID & two melee, which is enough to save against the one point of damage.

Turn Sequence: piMaster, Diggity

Start of piMaster's turn

	*****************	**	*****************	**	*****************	*****************
	piMaster BUA		piMaster DUA		piMaster Reserve Army	piMaster Summoning Pool
*
	piMaster		piMaster		piMaster Home Army
	Diggity's Home		Frontier		piMaster's Home
	Diggity Home Army		Diggity		Diggity
*
	Diggity Reserve Army		Diggity Summoning Pool		Diggity DUA	Diggity BUA

Maneuver attempt: 9 ID + SFR logo = 11 maneuver results
(BTW, I only counted six maneuvers in your roll)
Turn terrain up to 8th face.

Melee action:
4 melee icons, 1 ID, SFR logo, 8 Smite.

Resove 8 smite, then 7 melee results at you.

diggity60503 · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 1:29 pm GMT Post subject:

Sorry 6...I flipped the concept of Save as Maneuvers...

Smite: Raider, Striker, Marsh Mage and Swamp Wizard to DUA.

Save:

4 Saves...Invader to DUA

Counter Attack:

12 Melee.
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465 dice and counting...
now 641 and counting...(the wife isn't suspicious yet)...06/05/13
649...6/12/13
Might have an actual addiction...die 1000 Gold Speed Slipper...07/04/13
Final Count 1212

piMaster · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 5:36 pm GMT Post subject:

diggity60503 · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 7:19 pm GMT Post subject:

Well, that was demoralizing.

I resign. Unless you think it's worth while for me to roll back to the Reserves for my turn. Since I presume you're just going to pop off some Lightning Strikes to finish me off on your turn. Then I cast Magic maybe with what I have left to bring back a unit.

I'll put up some of my own analysis on my play a little later.
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465 dice and counting...
now 641 and counting...(the wife isn't suspicious yet)...06/05/13
649...6/12/13
Might have an actual addiction...die 1000 Gold Speed Slipper...07/04/13
Final Count 1212

piMaster · Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 7:25 am GMT Post subject:

Those eldarim champions are pretty tough customers with all those SAIs on them.

If you hadn't killed your mages it would be more worthwhile to keep going (the other terrains are at faces 1 and 4, so there is still some time for you to come back). Since I now have a standing stones, I'll use it to put your green dragon at my home terrain so no matter what terrain you go to you'll have to face a dragon. Plus the lightning strikes (not much else I can cast at this point besides hailstorms and lightning strikes - missile attacks would be pointless with this army). Those ravagers are hard to kill with magic since they save so well.

I guess it entirely up to you if you want to continue or resign. I figure the game will be over in about 4 or 5 rounds no matter what.

diggity60503 · Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 1:04 am GMT Post subject:

In some other games, I felt I wans't aggressive enough, so let's try this on for size...

1. After losing my attempt at the 8th Face, I figure that I need to try and reduce your chance at it, so I attack with Melee. You manage to save 16 of 18 Melee. I wasn't very shocked by that considering that you army as a whole seemed to have above average Save chances. You counter and manage to drop 8 of my health with the smite and additional when i don't get enough saves on my part.
2. I send the mages to the DUA hoping that what little chance I have to counter your Maneuver lies with the infantry rather than the mages. Should I have instead assumed/yielded that I was going to lose 8th face for sure and retreated the whole army to th Reserves.
3. If I'm assuming that I'm going to lose the 8th face, should that thought have pushed me down the line to the idea of ditching the Heavy and Light so the Mages could bring them back?
4. Or was I better off in an attempt to stand my ground.
5. Then you manage to get 8 Smite after taking 8th face. Was that a fortunate roll or something "more" assured by the army composition? I further fail in the saves, losing 3 more. Then my own counter attack is vitimized when you get a counter popping off another 4.
6. The Counter on my part at that time was foolhardy, correct? Since you were 8th faced, I had basically no chance there.
7. Only thing left that maybe I should have done was leave the terrain at my home unchanged or put it up to 7 when we both had all units in the reserves. It might have given me a better shot to the 8th.

I'm curious for thoughts on mine above.
I'd be up for another if you're inclined. You pick the format.

Thanks.

Also, if you have a generic comment about a wholesale mistake I'm making, feel free to share.

Lastly, while I want to win. I just enjoy the hell out of this game regardless of the outcome.

Very Happy

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465 dice and counting...
now 641 and counting...(the wife isn't suspicious yet)...06/05/13
649...6/12/13
Might have an actual addiction...die 1000 Gold Speed Slipper...07/04/13
Final Count 1212

Dolus · Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 8:48 am GMT Post subject:

Eldarim are just evil. Neutral

diggity60503 · Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 10:18 am GMT Post subject:

That became evident very quickly as I was trying to figure out which units to target. Mr. Green

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649...6/12/13
Might have an actual addiction...die 1000 Gold Speed Slipper...07/04/13
Final Count 1212

Dolus · Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 10:35 am GMT Post subject:

I don't want to answer your questions, because Eldarim I have the least experience with so far. So I don't know how to play them or against them. I'm excited to learn to, but I don't plan on doing so until after I learn at least most of the other 12 races to some degree.

But my last game against Eldarim, I realized that my mistake was attacking my opponent. This was in part because all of our terrains were rolled high, but had I just gone for maneuvering to two 8th faces, I think I could've won. But whenever I attacked or counter-attacked, I inevitably lost more units and bloated his army strength instead.

Not exactly the same thing that happened here, but similar.

piMaster · Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 4:31 pm GMT Post subject:

diggity60503 · Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 7:10 pm GMT Post subject:

Night of the Living Dead souns good. I'll start putting an army together. Busy time this week with work and my son turns 14. It will probably be a couple of days.

Thanks.
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465 dice and counting...
now 641 and counting...(the wife isn't suspicious yet)...06/05/13
649...6/12/13
Might have an actual addiction...die 1000 Gold Speed Slipper...07/04/13
Final Count 1212

piMaster · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 4:12 pm GMT Post subject:

I'm ready whenever you are.

diggity60503 · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 7:33 pm GMT Post subject:

Dragonkin?
Minor Terrains?
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465 dice and counting...
now 641 and counting...(the wife isn't suspicious yet)...06/05/13
649...6/12/13
Might have an actual addiction...die 1000 Gold Speed Slipper...07/04/13
Final Count 1212

piMaster · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 9:52 am GMT Post subject:

Yep, standard army construction rules.

diggity60503 · Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 1:48 am GMT Post subject:

Turn Sequence: piMaster, Diggity60503

	*****************	**	*****************	**	*****************	*****************
	piMaster BUA		piMaster DUA		piMaster Reserve Army	piMaster Summoning Pool
*
	piMaster		piMaster		piMaster Home Army
	Diggity60503's Home		Frontier		piMaster's Home
	Diggity60503 Home Army		Diggity60503		Diggity60503
*
	Diggity60503 Reserve Army		Diggity60503 Summoning Pool		Diggity60503 DUA	Diggity60503 BUA

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465 dice and counting...
now 641 and counting...(the wife isn't suspicious yet)...06/05/13
649...6/12/13
Might have an actual addiction...die 1000 Gold Speed Slipper...07/04/13
Final Count 1212

piMaster · Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 9:46 am GMT Post subject:

I guess we need to figure out who is running the board.

My horde roll:
3 maneuver icons, 3 ID = 6 maneuver results

	*****************	**	*****************	**	*****************	*****************
	piMaster BUA		piMaster DUA		piMaster Reserve Army	piMaster Summoning Pool
*
	piMaster		piMaster		piMaster Home Army
	Diggity's Home		Frontier		piMaster's Home
	Diggity Home Army		Diggity		Diggity
*
	Diggity Reserve Army		Diggity Summoning Pool		Diggity DUA	Diggity BUA

diggity60503 · Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 2:55 pm GMT Post subject:

I can put the board together.

I'll do it tonight.

In the meantime...

Here's my end of the start...

Horde Roll:

4 Maneuvers

Roll for My Home Terrain:

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465 dice and counting...
now 641 and counting...(the wife isn't suspicious yet)...06/05/13
649...6/12/13
Might have an actual addiction...die 1000 Gold Speed Slipper...07/04/13
Final Count 1212

piMaster · Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:37 pm GMT Post subject:

Since I'm using the Lurker, you'll need to manually edit the board or create a custom BBCode tag (or pester Chuck to put the next version up).

I'll take the first turn, so you get the choose the frontier terrain.

My home terrain rolled six.

diggity60503 · Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 11:00 pm GMT Post subject:

Can you cut and paste what you used and then I'll pop it in as needed?
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465 dice and counting...
now 641 and counting...(the wife isn't suspicious yet)...06/05/13
649...6/12/13
Might have an actual addiction...die 1000 Gold Speed Slipper...07/04/13
Final Count 1212