I just wanted to use this outlet to express how freaking awesome it is that today is April 15th.

Now, maybe I can finally get back to playing some serious Scape and Summoner Wars, getting ready to host my May tournament, and most importantly, hanging out with my wife and son on the evenings and weekends.

WOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

As some of you that know me (or know of me) might be aware, I'm a CPA. For the non-business literate, that means Certified Public Accountant.

It also means this time of year sucks for me.

I've been working 10-11 hour days, and am now here on Saturday morning at 8:30, having already worked for 45 minutes.

That's normal for me this time of year, but what's not normal is the 13" of snow that Hubbard, OH has on the ground. What's also apparently not normal is that I actually drove to work in it.

Yesterday before I left, I talked to many of my co-workers in my "new" firm (I've been with this firm for about 9 months - since just after last tax season, so this is my first busy season), whether they were coming in today. Everyone said yes. Everyone also told each other "see you tomorrow!" when they left.

I, having a 30 minute drive normally and a connection from home, had planned to work from home...

The Aubrien Archers - now here's a unit that looks like it has a lot of potential. 7 range is really nice, especially with all of the 6 range WTF units that see play. Frenzy is an awesome ability. But, the whole 3 attacks of 2 thing just seems to hold them back, and if Frenzy lets you down, then they just don't pack enough punch. Finally, no special attack and a weak normal attack = Deathreavers wreck you.

However - here's the thing I think most people miss about the Aubrien Archers: they're a high-variance unit, not a reliable bread-and-butter squad. Their stats and point cost seem to suggest that they're like the 4th Mass and Stingers and 10th Regiment, etc., but they aren't. They need Frenzy to work to be truly competitive, and that makes then high-variance.

(In case anyone doesn't know what I mean by high-variance - I mean that they either do really good or really bad).

So, how you do swing that variance over to the good side, where they're...

It seems like it's been far overdue, but I'm finally a Site Supporter. I almost feel like I owe truth and co. an apology for how much I've used this site without supporting it. Thanks to everyone that makes our conversations possible!

I'm sitting here at my desk with absolutely nothing to do, so I thought I'd finally throw up a blog. I like to talk about Scape strategy, especially involving units that I feel haven't met their full potential. Sudema is one such unit.

Sudema has always been a weird kind of unit to me. First of all, her allegiance with Vydar makes very little sense. I know there's some backstory there involving Khosumet and Morsbane, but it just never sat well with me.

Anyway, in Heroscape she seems extremely weak. Her stats are straight-up terrible for her points, and Stare of Stone only hits one figure at a time. For 70 more points, Braxas can hit 3 figures with virtually the same reliability, and her stats are twice as good. It's almost like
Braxas is what Sudema was meant to be.

However, Sudema does have the ability to one-hit-kill Large and Huge figures just by rolling a 17 or higher. That's a 20% chance to kill Q9 in one Order Marker - I didn't crunch...