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Agent Minivann
February 18th, 2007, 01:04 AM
First I have to say thanks to UtahScott for getting the event planned. I had a lot of fun. I have to say the look on Nickmodaily's face was priceless when I said that I decided to do something crazy and put Dund in my army. (his army was 8 squads of zombies) There were 9 of us and three three player maps.

My army was Braxas, 2x Marrden Hounds, and Dund.

My first game was on a map that neutered my strategy. The map was essentially a giant volcano. It had a lot of choke points that would restrict movement on everyone except fliers and lava resistant. It also didn't have much room for double space figures. I was the first one out on that map. I played against my son and my neighbor's daughter. She ended up winning on that one.

My second game was on a much better map for my army. I was playing this one against my neighbor and his daughter. I was able to send out the Marrden Hounds with the primary objective of killing all heroes. My plan was to send out Braxas after that to mop up all the squaddies. Then Dund was the clean up hitter when there was a good chance of catching all the order markers on a single card. I ended up killing all but three heroes. Braxas took out Eldgrim in one attack from height, and then he mopped up all the squad figures. Finally he got caught engaged with both X-17 and Retiarius (I think). I was hoping to get one of them knocked out before Braxas went down (had 1 life left), but I ended up getting both of them with the special.

Never got the chance to face the zombies. They looked overwhelming when I would get a look at those games. I had to say ouch when I took a look at the other map and saw an Orc army and Krug is carrying a negation marker. I still haven't played Ortimus after three game days. We had a great time, thanks everyone.

Agent Minivann
February 18th, 2007, 01:34 AM
And I forgot to mention that I'll post a picture of my neighbor's dice tower real soon.

yagyuninja
February 18th, 2007, 01:52 AM
(his army was 8 squads of zombies)

I want to hear how this went!

Agent Minivann
February 18th, 2007, 07:25 PM
(his army was 8 squads of zombies)

I want to hear how this went!

I didn't play against that army, but it looked scary. I think he did really well. I know the first game ended with a d20 roll to determine the winner. It was X17 vs a bunch of Zombies, but X17 wouldn't come out of his perch to allow the zombies to special attack, and the zombies wouldn't advance to attack as they would get slaughtered by X17. I don't know about the second game. I remember hearing opponents say things along the line of there's just so many of them.

UtahScott
February 21st, 2007, 06:21 PM
Here's my addition.

I hosted this time, but was sick. Among the things I forgot was my wife's camera, and special bridge instructions for the forest map. It was Cory's first game, so I was trying to get him set up, and forgot other stuff, too.

Our game went long, we only got in one while the others got in two. Part of that may have been that ortimus used two TT packs to make a huge map, and all the ice was slippery.

Picture a long, thin triangular map. there is a thin icy lake in the center, constricted by glaciers on the north and south, as well as high bluffs on the north.

Young Mr. Harker started on the left corner.
Marro Warriors
Morsbane
Sudema
Charos.

On the opposite corner, in his first game ever, betterthanslayer!
2x Arrow Gruts
Tornak
Ornak
2x Swogs
Nerak
Krug

And I'm at the apex, behind the bluffs.
Syvarris
Morsbane
Venoc Warlord
1x Venoc Vipers
2x Aubrien Archers

I move the Venocs up the bluffs, followed by archers, going after glyphs.
YMH flies Charos to a nearby hill, and Sudema heads out towards the center of the map.
slayer moves up archers and swogs. We tell him about Ornak.

My venocs get killed by YMH's marros, then (only) I lose some archers to the Mitonsoul glyph. Sudema gets pounced on by Nerak, and YMH's Morsbane is headed off by Tornak. slayer has everybody in play except Ornak.

After Nerak kills Sudema, Charos taps him on the shoulder.
My elves trade arrows with the orcs, and the swogs fall.
YMH Morsbane eventually negates Krug before Tornak kills him.

I negate the arrow gruts, and Syvarris on the left takes out the marros.
Orcish arrows only leave Morsbane alive.
Charos joins the orcish fray.


At this point, it's down to:
Tornak and a negated Charos in mortal combat at lower right.
At upper right, the Venoc Warlord and Morsbane are whiffing at Krug. Ornak is still at the rear, and Syvarris is circling towards Krug's rear.

Coolest point of the game: Charos with 8 wounds disengages from Tornak, desparately trying to reach the Sturla glyph. He makes it, then returns to kill Tornak with full health!

My Morsbane and Venoc Warlord die in a three-way battle between Charos and Krug. Charos kills Syvarris, who couldn't quite get in range of Krug, then takes out Krug.

The final battle: Charos (with two life) against Ornak (with two life). I was putting stuff away and missed the whole thing.

betterthanslayer
February 23rd, 2007, 07:31 PM
Scott did a great job hosting. My first Heroscape experience went very well, I think I was a little sick too but not as bad as Scott sounded by the end of it, haha. Thanks again to everyone that was there, hope to have many more Heroscape games under my belt as soon as possible.