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Maryland NHSD 11/9 Post Tourney thread
Greetings, all.
Another NHSD tournament in the books, marking my anniversary, of sorts, as a Heroscape tournament director. Sunday, November 7, 2010, I co-directed Heroes Gauntlet Run with drewcula as my first TD adventure. It remains the most demanding format I've run, but (like all of them) it was hella fun. And I came in second, which was icing on the cake. Go Crixus! For National Heroscape Day 2013 I ran a straight 400 point, 18 hex format. I was curious to see what my local buddies would do with an unrestrained format, and it turns out the answer was (as Ollie, Jexik, and others have always argued) this format encourages variety at least as much as any other. The Pokemon tournament in our reserved game space filled every table for most of what would have been our first round, so we wrapped after 4 rounds instead of the 5 I was planning. Here are the final results, my tournament report will be forthcoming in the next couple of days: 1. Drewcula WWWW 1600 (TKN, Nagrubs x4, Marro Warriors, Isamu) 2. DS 1367 WWWL 1367 (Cathar Spearmen x4, Count Raymond) 3. Bassist of Doom W*WWL 932 (Cyprien, Sonya, AE, MW, Eldgrim) 4. KidScaper WWLW 1553 (Zelrig, Phantom Knights x3) 5. Stephen WLWW 1440 (Zombies x5, Zombie Hulk, Siiv) 6. Gurei Ornery LWWW 1575 (Quahon, Spiders x4, MW) 7. Akden LWWW 1550 (Marcus, 10th x4) 8. JohnGee LW*WW 925 (Arktos, Darkclaws, Quickblades, Swiftfangs) 9. Bill WWLL 1219 (Cyprien, Sonya, Atlaga, AE) 10. Hivelord #4 WWLL 1150 (Torin, Stingers x3, Raelin RotV) 11. Twinkie WLWL 1308 (Major Q9, Krav, Kaemon Awa) 12. Robber WLWL 1045 (Some kind of cheese. I forget what.) 13. 10th Reg. WLLW 1325 (Zombies x5, Zombie Hulk, Earth Elemental) 14. Big Boa WLLW 1224 (Cathar Spearmen x2, Marro Gnids x2, Q10) 15. Clancampbell LWLW 1294 (Romans x2, Marcus, Raelin RotV, AE) 16. Kyle LLWW 1304 (10th x3, Red Wyrmlings x3, Raelin RotV) 17. kldonnelly WLLL 1326 (10th x4, Marcus) 18. Fayth the Unstoppable LWLL (Nakitas, Wyvern, Estivara, Otonashi, Isamu, Spiders x2) 19. Zach LWLL 952 (Phantom Knights x4, Hydra) 20. The Minute Men LLW*L (Zetacron, Wyrmlings Black x3, White x1, Blue x2, 4th Mass. x2) 21. Xanth LLWL 1301 (Cyprien, Sonya, Marro Drones x4) 22. Connor LLLW 984 (Sybarris, Vulcanmech Incendiborgs, MBS, PK's x1) 23. Gary LLLW* 509 (Romans x4, NGS, Marcus) * ~ Bye (counts as a win with no partial card scoring) So many interesting things in here, as usual, but the most striking thing for me is that 3 years, almost to the day, after I ran my first tournament with drewcula, I came in second to him at another NHSD event, the same final position I had then. Second most interesting thing: In a completely open format, we had as many Zombie Hulks as we did Raelins. I'll have more in the next couple of days. Thanks all for coming, and thanks to those who brought maps and/or traveled great distances to join us. You know who you are! |
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Re: Maryland NHSD 11/9 Post Tourney thread
Thanks for running it! I had a lot of fun, even if Zelrig did chew through my 10th on the first turn.
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Re: Maryland NHSD 11/9 Post Tourney thread
I had a blast! When's the next one
Round 1 vs Akden (10th Regiment x4, Marcus Decimus Gallus) on Draugur by Mad_Wookiee (modified slightly by JohnGee) I led out with the Krav, who took down a squad of 10th in the first round. I probably could have played them better by saving them for the endgame, but they were alright this match. I didn't have a decent run with the krav all tournament, which I was a bit disappointed by, but I enjoyed using them. The 10th and Stingers fought for the majority of the battle, always on my side of the glaciers. I'm not sure a figure crossed into Akden's territory. I killed off the 16th (whew!) tenth reg with one stinger left and a life left on the Hydra. The hydra perched on height and finished off a full-life marcus for the win. 1-0 Round 2 vs Drewcula (Nagrubs x4, Tor-Kul-Na, Isamu, Marro Warriors. Drop a Grub) on Dance of the Dryads by Typhon2222. I felt confident going into the game, but I overlooked the fact that Tor-Kul-Na could reach my starting zone in two turns. And he did. I positioned my stingers on the heights to the sides of the roads and drained every turn, (As opposed to once during my entire last game) trying to punish Tor-Kul-Na before he could do much damage. Crap rolls and a failed drain two rounds later, my starting zone was emptied of just about everything. I bet a round's worth of Order markers on the hydra in the third round after losing most of the squad figures. TKN one-shotted him. I lost after halving TKN's life and killing a handful of grubs. 1-1 Round 3 vs Andrew? (Zombies x5, Zombie Hulk, Earth Elemental) on Road Rampage by Ch1can0 I felt like I wanted to open with the krav again, mostly due to their superior range. I went for the hydra, though, for the pure pleasure of chewing through a horde. I forgot about the zombie's 6-attack ability, and his life was halved in the first turn of attacks. I took out maybe 4 zombies with the hydra before switching to the krav the next round. They perched on the height to the right of the bridge and began sniping off zombies as the road took them uncomfortably near the starting zone. I blocked off a road point near the river so that they couldn't hit my starting zone and start making babby zombies out of my deactivated stingers. In total, I killed off another 7 or 8 (though about half popped up again due to the krav dying). The stingers cleaned up the rest of the wave, leaving 3 in his starting zone along with the elemental and the hulk. I finished the rest off with ease and spent about 3 rounds keeping my stingers out of the way of the hulk while putting a couple bullets here and there into him. Win, 2-1 Round 4 vs Gueri Ornery (Spiders x4, Quahon, Marro Warriors) on the Borogroves by Typhon2222 Gueri had a really fun army in the fact that he could engage just about every one of my figures before I could snipe them off. He was also in my starting zone by the end of round 1 and was wiping everything out with Quahon. My dice sucked and he had height. After the stingers and Krav became a losing cause, I tried protecting my hydra for later but Gueri positioned the dragon out of reach (heh, reach ) This one was just as short as round 2, and just as brutal. I finished the tournament 2-2 with two major losses and two fun wins. Themes: -Tons of common squads. -I lost against armies made of cheapo commons and bonding huge heroes -I won against unbonding (but still synergising) medium-point common squads making up the majority of the army. -I suck at playing on Typhon's maps :P |
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Re: Maryland NHSD 11/9 Post Tourney thread
That, sir, is a superior tournament report! Excellent job.
Here's mine: Quote:
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