The Gathering - Albany NY - 8/24/13

[The CEE]

Originally Posted by OrcElfArmyOne

Well, I've come up with almost 50 armies... The hard part is choosing which one!

Wow, now that's some serious dedication! And I thought my 8 potential army ideas were a lot! I'm really on the fence too, I just can't decide what I want to bring.

[ollie]

I'm trying hard not to think about armies; it'll just make me more unhappy if I can't come. But armies for other people... count me in.

What units do you enjoy playing most Alex? I think that's always the most important first question for building an army that you're going to play five times on the trot.

My money is on the Varks to cause a stir at a tournament soon, and they're beautiful figures as well as being fun to play. At 510pts,

Vark squads x4: 410
Arktos: 95
Total 505pts, 15 hexes.

[Joseph Sweeney]

Alright folks, we're going to have five rounds, and we're going to use glyphs.

Random Glyph pool is this:
Move +2
Wannok (Wound)
D20+1
Initiative +8
Unique Attack +1
Common Attack +1

Maps that have particular glyphs already assigned will just use those.

...this is nothing like what Ollie suggested...why would you think that?

And we'll probably need everyone to help contribute to the glyph pool.

@Dankarabinhatesyou: I speak with actions.

[The CEE]

Originally Posted by Joseph Sweeney

Alright folks, we're going to have five rounds, and we're going to use glyphs.

Random Glyph pool is this:
Move +2
Wannok (Wound)
D20+1
Initiative +8
Unique Attack +1
Common Attack +1

Thanks for getting this information out there Joseph! I think you decided on a balanced pool of glyphs to choose from. Now I'm going to pester you for even more details.

After glyphs have been randomly determined for a map, will they be placed symbol-side up (unknown) or power-side up (know which glyph is which)? Personally, I much prefer the latter so that players don't waste valuable turns chasing after a glyph only to discover it's useless for their particular army. I'd like to know your feelings on the subject.

[Kinseth]

I'd recommend assigning glyphs to each map and placing them face up from the start.

On my phone for the rest of the day, will post more details later on my thoughts.

[Alex Karasavidis]

@ everyone those glyphs are nice, should I bring any to go with my board?

@Ollie I like krav, MagorQ9 I like all Heroscape the list is endless. I got to continue thinking.

[Joseph Sweeney]

Originally Posted by The CEE

Thanks for getting this information out there Joseph! I think you decided on a balanced pool of glyphs to choose from. Now I'm going to pester you for even more details.

After glyphs have been randomly determined for a map, will they be placed symbol-side up (unknown) or power-side up (know which glyph is which)? Personally, I much prefer the latter so that players don't waste valuable turns chasing after a glyph only to discover it's useless for their particular army. I'd like to know your feelings on the subject.

Hey, no bother at all, it's good that we work out the details.

Power-side up makes sense, so as long as there are no objections, that's what we'll do.

Change of plans though, after talking to Kinseth, I'm going to assign specific glyphs to specific maps, just because getting enough glyphs to have a random glyph pool for every map will be quite a pain.

[ollie]

Originally Posted by Alex Karasavidis

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@Ollie I like krav, MagorQ9 I like all Heroscape the list is endless. I got to continue thinking.

Q9, Nakitas, Krav Maga, Laglor (510pts, 9 hexes)? Thematic. Strong, but hard to play well given the lack of a screen and multiple uniques.

[ollie]

Grrr. I've started thinking about armes.

I've never used Valkrill units in a tournament before, and Morgoloth is in the mail. So:

Morgoloth: 140
Wolves of Badru x3: 240
Mezzodemons x2: 130
510 points, 14 hexes.

Not sure just two squads of Mezzos is the best way to play them though.

Samurai maybe? They're a lovely fit at 510pts.

Kaemon Awa: 120
Tomoe Gozen: 110
Tagawa Samurai: 120
Kozuke Samurai: 100
Izumi Samurai: 60
Total: 510pts, 11 hexes.

Or, because I'm a sucker for the D20,

Kee-Mo-Shi: 130
Myrddin: 90
Kelda: 80
Aubriens x3: 210
Total: 510pts, 12 hexes.

Hmm, I liked it better before I realised that Myrddin couldn't boost Braxas's roll. (Edit. I know he doesn't boost Aubriens either, but I feel a bit more secure with some ranged commons around. Given that Myrddin is Valiant (or, I suppose, even if he weren't) the 4th Mass are probably a better choice. Or Q10 and Deadeye Dan for another D20 hero and a good healing target for Kelda.)

[Dankarabinhatesyou]

So what are we going to do on the off chance that we have an odd number of players?

[Dankarabinhatesyou]

Ollie, do you have Tomoe Gozen? If so, where'd you get it. Pretty awesome custom. Second best I've ever seem, after the Omegacron or whatever it was called.

[Joseph Sweeney]

Originally Posted by Dankarabinhatesyou

So what are we going to do on the off chance that we have an odd number of players?

Send you home.

In the past, the staff there has been nice enough to come and play if we were short a player, so we should be set.

~JS