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April 19th, 2009, 09:32 AM
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Battle at the Border II - Battle Reports
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BatB II
Standings
Rank Player Note Wins Ties Losses Matches Winner Points Loser Points
1 RobertDD 5 0 0 1.1 nyphot 550 tiffany 105
2 Monkeyclops 4 0 1 1.2 I like Pi 550 son of loborocket 212
3 Bengi 4 0 1 1.3 curseyoukhan 550 Tina 490
4 I Like Pi 4 0 1 1.4 kildawabit 550 Pilgrim 475
5 Bob Lucido Cleon's Dad 4 0 1 1.5 arp12 550 fil 513
6 Cleon 4 0 1 1.6 Bob Lucido 550 N/A 510
7 Darkmage7a 3 0 2 1.7 RobertDD 550 Snake 113
8 arp12 3 0 2 1.8 Ollie 550 Harvard 270
9 TomCollins2000 3 0 2 1.9 Darkmage7a 550 theGuru 369
10 super esenwein 3 0 2 1.10 Cleon 550 Will 350
11 Jotun's Blacksmith 3 0 2 1.11 nyys 550 Chris 236
12 Ollie 3 0 2 1.12 super esenwein 550 loborocket 335
13 tehfattestninja 3 0 2 1.13 TomCollins2000 550 tehfattestninja 335
14 Pilgrim 3 0 2 1.14 Bengi 550 Kelly 190
15 curseyoukhan dropped out 4th rd 3 0 1 1.15 Monkeyclops 550 Jotun's Blacksmith 414
16 nyys 2 0 3 2.1 Monkeyclops 490 super esenwein 453
17 N/A 2 0 3 2.2 I like Pi 550 Ollie 470
18 kildawabit 2 0 3 2.3 RobertDD 550 TomCollins2000 236
19 Will son of Pilgrim 2 0 3 2.4 nyys 550 Cleon 273
20 Harvard non-scaper 2 0 3 2.5 arp12 550 kildawabit 260
21 fil 2 0 3 2.6 Bengi 550 curseyoukhan 263
22 nyphot 2 0 3 2.7 Darkmage7a 510 Bob Lucido 276
23 theGuru 2 0 3 2.8 Will 550 nyphot 366
24 son of loborocket 1 0 4 2.9 Jotun's Blacksmith 550 fil 302
25 Kelly 1 0 4 2.10 Snake 550 Tina 515
26 loborocket 1 0 4 2.11 son of loborocket 550 tiffany 260
27 Snake non-scaper, dropped 4th 1 0 3 2.12 Harvard 550 Chris 183
28 tiffany 1 0 4 2.13 Pilgrim 550 N/A 265
29 Tina nyphot's wife 1 0 4 2.14 tehfattestninja 550 theGuru 111
30 Chris 0 0 5 2.15 loborocket 550 Kelly 455
3.1 Bengi 550 nyys 430
3.2 Monkeyclops 550 I Like Pi 367
3.3 RobertDD 478 Darkmage7a 478
3.4 arp12 550 Will 430
3.5 curseyoukhan 550 Snake 220
3.6 kildawabit 550 son of loborocket 394
3.7 TomCollins2000 550 loborocket 400
3.8 Cleon 550 tehfattestninja 170
3.9 super esenwein 550 Pilgrim 263
3.10 Jotun's Blacksmith 482 nyphot 472
3.11 Bob Lucido 550 Harvard 297
3.12 Ollie 550 tiffany 225
3.13 Kelly 550 theGuru 338
3.14 N/A 550 Tina 303
3.15 fil 550 Chris 408
4.1 Bengi 550 Monkeyclops 336
4.2 RobertDD 455 arp12 195
4.3 curseyoukhan 550 Ollie 280
4.4 Bob Lucido 550 Jotun's Blacksmith 241
4.5 TomCollins2000 550 kildawabit 448
4.6 I like Pi 530 Darkmage7a 443
4.7 super esenwein 550 nyys 423
4.8 Cleon 550 son of loborocket 200
4.9 tehfattestninja 550 Kelly 140
4.10 N/A 550 loborocket 378
4.11 Will 550 Snake 337
4.12 Harvard 323 nyphot 237
4.13 Pilgrim 550 fil 299
4.14 theGuru 550 Chris 450
4.15 tiffany 550 Tina 419
5.1 RobertDD 550 Bengi 175
5.2 Bob Lucido 550 arp12 316
5.3 Cleon 415 super esenwein 244
5.4 I like Pi 550 TomCollins2000 257
5.5 Monkeyclops 550 N/A 199
5.6 Ollie 550 nyys 276
5.7 Pilgrim 550 Will 60
5.8 tehfattestninja 550 kildawabit 166
5.9 Jotun's Blacksmith 550 Harvard 217
5.10 Darkmage7a 415 Kelly 351
5.11 theGuru 550 tiffany 85
5.12 nyphot 550 loborocket 210
5.13 fil 550 son of loborocket 521
5.14 Tina 550 Chris 510
My day started great and ended horribly... I'll elaborate when I get a chance. Also, if you guys wouldn't mind, map feedback on your matches would be greatly appreciated (even if you filled out one of the sheets at the tourney already). -insert signature here- Last edited by nyys; April 22nd, 2009 at 08:43 AM. 
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#2
April 19th, 2009, 10:22 AM
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Re: Battle at the Border II - Battle Reports
Okay here's my quick overview:
My army: Nilfheim, 3x TSA, Isamu, Realin, Krav, Marro Warriors, 2x Deathreavers. I wanted to make a competetive army with the Samurai Archers. Game 1 vs fil on the lava and jungle map by Dignan. His army was Zelrig, Nilfheim, and SotM Drake, with Sonlen sidebarred. Basically, he brought out Zelrig first, and I fought him with Nilfheim, then he flew over his Nilf. I eventually took him down, and then it was some TSA and MWs against Drake. I took advantage of the fact that he could only destroy 1 marro per turn so I kept running away and cloning them. After a while I had whittled his Sergeant down to death. It was really close; I had 3 Warriors left. 1-0 Game 2 vs kildawabit on Igneous Intrusion. His army was Ornak, Brunak, Marcu, Cyprien, and Mimring, with Krug and Sonya sidebarred. He used all his heros to try to kill my rats and Nilfheim, who I had started out with. Nilfheim went crazy and destroyed a lot. Once he finally died I moved out the Krav to finish th killing. They all survived at the end of a round on lava, which helped. So once I finished off Ornak it was the end of the game. I think he would have been able to destroy Nilfheim more easily had he put in Krug, who also would have been less affected by the lava. 2-0 More to come, I can't type the whole thing at once. Last edited by arp12; April 19th, 2009 at 11:43 AM.
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April 19th, 2009, 10:51 AM
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Re: Battle at the Border II - Battle Reports
I'll try not to be too verbose. It was great to celebrate my one year wedding anniversary with all of you.
 My wife was playing too, but neither of us had a great outing this time around... sigh.I brought a 500 pt army that I've always thought was chool, but never got to play, plus 50 points: 3x Knights, Gilbert, Nilf, Marro Warriors. Sidebar was AE and Guilty. The 2 games I won were as much due to luck as any good playing. Good matchup for my army and really unfortunate rolling on the other side. Both players TheWriter and loborocket were extremely good sports though. 1st loss vs. Braxas, Q9, Krav, Deadeye on Normandy Beach. I swapped in AE + Guilty for 2 Knights. Lessons learned: Taking the low side (won my choice, but thought it would be sporting to give my younger opponent the high side) proved to be a challenge. Part of that was just not thinking when placing units... I put some figures unnecessarily in the second row of water forgetting that they would move up so slowly. Part of it was the seeming uselessness of the Intercept Order glyph... Didn't work the first time and I THOUGHT it stuck around until it worked so I sent another guy for it again... but then realized that it doesn't. Oops. I think it's possible to win this from the low side, but I'm not convinced it's balanced... I'd have to play a few more times before I really get a feel for it. Anyway, my AE did a great job on Braxas, but as Nilf flew to take down Q9, the Krav shot him up from height... Without Nilf, Q9 slowly took out everyone else. Oh well. 2nd loss vs. Legionnaires, 10th, Marcus, Ne-Gok-Sa, Me-Burq-Sa, Isamu. Lessons learned: I don't like to be rushed when I'm playing. I deliberately slowed my movement, but my concentration was still rattled and probably led to poor choices. :P No reason at all to try to kill a Ne-Gok-Sa who is pinned in place by 2 KoW. I kept trying to kill him. Of course, he never died. I could easily have "won" this game had I not tried to take him down. In the end, I lost on points by 10 points. Alas. My stupidity. Other than trying to kill Ne-Gok-Sa, I think I played this game reasonably well... but that was really stupid. 3rd loss vs. Minions x2, Anubian Wolves x2, Raelin, Krav. Lessons learned: This is a tough match-up for my army, I think. I threw my Knights at the glyphs, but they got spread out and away from Gilbert. The Krav rolled well from height and killed a bunch. By that time, Raelin had set up the Krav under their aura. I still thought that Knights on even ground and engaged with the Krav could take them out. I was wrong. I think the way I had to do this was to throw Nilf across the board to destroy Raelin and as much else as he could. My opponent would be ahead on points, but I think I could have had a coin flip chance against the remaining forces, especially if I could hold the Wound Glyph on the board... but the way the game ended, I don't think I could have won... Lost on points, but I think I would have lost the game if I'd run it out. All in all, it was a really fun day for us, though long. Thanks again to our great hosts. I'm missing the Beatdown (which is why my wife allowed us to celebrate our anniversary at the BatB. So yeah... in the end, I'm really still a big winner.
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#4
April 19th, 2009, 02:05 PM
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Re: Battle at the Border II - Battle Reports
GREAT tournament. As one who's led them before, I really appreciated the organization and attention to detail. Let's just say there's a reason I'm subcontracting nyys and Benji for the upcoming Beantown Beatdown 5....
Maps - I loved overlord and highways and dieways, mainly because I felt melee had a chance on the roads to rush range. Found the map interesting where start zones are scattered around each half (it's the one I played against fil). Below is my battle report already posted in the other thread, but thought I'd put it here in the right spot . . . Knights x2 10th x2 Finn and Thorgrim KMA Sidebar - Krug and Elgrim I went 3/2 on the day. Game 1 - Lost to Kildawabit, but scored 475 at end of the day so not too shabby. He played well, I rolled fairly poorly. His Brunak had on some nano-armor or something. Many a knight ruined his blade against Brunak's hide. It finally came down to his Ornac vs. my Finn. Orcs: 1, Humans: 0. Game 2 - Victory against N/A. Played on "overlord" map. He got first round AE drop and initiative, and grenaded 4 of my figs. But then the knights rushed up the road and were able to overwhelm his rear forces. Game 3 - Loss to Superessenwein. Not to sound like a sore loser, but seriously, I don't think I've rolled that badly in a LONG time. A string of like 8-10 wiffs/1 shield against his consistent 2-4 skulls. And the more failures I rolled, and the more of my figures died, the faster Super's speech patterns became. He's a great kid and a very precise player.Game 4 - Victory against fil. Played on a funny board where start zones were scattered throughout. He had Nelph, new drake and Sonlen. I switched in Krug from my sideboard. His fury plus the knights on a +2 move glyph made for a fast game. Always great to catch up with a former parishoner. Game 5 - Victory against my son! He had Braxis, Q9, Krav and deadeye. I marched Krug quickly down roads of "highways and dieways" map and killed his entire army while only sustaining four wounds. Game was over in just 5 minutes. Freakish - never seen anything like it. I guess it made up for the bad rolling against superessenwein. We then played a friendly follow up game, and he proceeded to crush me. Good trades: Hogg, Grimfang, Onacara, Sleightofhand, 'Scaper94, orec, Snappleman, Rÿchean, lefton4ya, odbo255
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April 20th, 2009, 08:34 AM
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Re: Battle at the Border II - Battle Reports
Great job Nyys, Bengi, Monkey and it was great to see everyone again and meet some new faces. I went with my Obsidian army:
Obsidians x2: 200 Major Q9: 180 Warden 816: 90 Rats x2: 80 Raelin (RotV): 80 Izumi Samurai: 60 Isamu: 10 My typical build dropped the Samurai (as expected, never used---they were in case I was lucky enough to face an all normal-attacking melee opponent), Isamu and one of Rats/Raelin. The strategy was to have the Obsidians guard Q9; the whole army staying in a tight little pod (thanks to Killercactus, I think, for persuading me that this would be a fun and viable army-style in another thread). I got better at playing it as the day went on (I didn't do any testing) and it worked perfectly in the last game against nyys. I'll post more details later, including some map feedback, but the short version is that I went 3-2 and finished 12th.
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April 20th, 2009, 08:47 AM
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April 20th, 2009, 11:26 AM
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Great tournament!
My army was: Deathreavers * 2 RotV Raelin Laglor Krav Maga Agents Major Q9 No side bar, for 550 points. It did very well, although I had the luck of the dice in a few situations. I came up against an army with Q10 and Cyprien Esenwein, and I managed to get Q10 of the table rather quickly. Cyprien Esenwein disengaged my rats with his stealth flying and feasted on my Kravs, all three of them if I remember correctly. Also, on the Normandy map, a map with a lower and a higher side, I managed to grab the high side, which is very important with a shooting army like mine. Many people brought units with special attacks just to have something to counter the rat's scatter ability, which was good because many others brought rats. At the end of the day a loose rat was found and there must've been a dozen people checking their figures. The 550 points was actually very nice, as it allowed for a little more availability of bigger units. I managed to take both Raelin and Laglor, and still have points to add some fire power and rats, and that would've been tough at 500. In the championship dual against Bengi I was able to position my troops so they had range to the other side of a "lava mountain range" and kept taking long range Krav Maga shots at Sir Gilbert until I was engaged by Brunak. With a couple of bad defense throws, Brunak left the field rather quikly, then I finished off the already crippled Sir Gilbert, and the advancing knights were canon fodder. There also was a Kaemon Awa who did not manage to stay alive long. The map we played on combined the Marvel grey and black with the lava set, and it looked absolutely amazing. They are done! Version 1.00 is out: Books of HeroScape in pdf format
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April 21st, 2009, 03:19 PM
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Re: Battle at the Border II - Battle Reports
So what were the offical top ten armies used in this crazed 700pt sideboard mayhem?
And did anyone ever actually use their board? 1 RobertDD - no board - rats(x2), Rotv Raelin, laglor, Krav, Q9 2 Monkeyclops 3 Bengi 4 I Like Pie 5 Bob Lucido 6 Cleon 7 Darkmage7a - microcorp(x2), sentinals(x2), laglor, marcu, nakita,otonashi 8 arp12 - Nilfheim, TSA(x3), Isamu, Realin, Krav, Marro Warriors, 2x rats 9 TomCollins2000 10 super eissenwein Last edited by Darkmage7a; April 21st, 2009 at 03:59 PM.
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April 21st, 2009, 03:38 PM
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Re: Battle at the Border II - Battle Reports
I ran the same army on all of my matches and never actually used my alternate. I'm interested to find out if this is also true for the majority of games. Here's my army.
Main 2x microcorp 200pts 2x sentinals 220pts 1x laglor 110pts 1x marcu 20pts Side 1x Nakita agents 120pts 1x Otonashi 10pts Marcu served as a multi-purpose tool; point filler, glyph grabber and he soaks damage from the wound glyph like a pro. As you can see I had my choice of about 4 different armies using this combination for a total yet I kept using the same team every game, moslty because I felt they were the best suited combination each each game. Did anyone have a similar experience?
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April 21st, 2009, 04:00 PM
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They are done! Version 1.00 is out: Books of HeroScape in pdf format
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April 21st, 2009, 04:06 PM
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April 21st, 2009, 04:12 PM
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 But I did use it. I had a core of Obsidians x2 and Major Q9 that I used in every game. I meant to use Warden 816 in every game but had a brainfart and decided he wasn't doing much and so left him out---I lost that one. My principal switches were Raelin and Rats x2---I planned to use one of those depending on opposing army and the map and they had three games each (they both featured in the Warden-free version). Finally I had Izumi and Isamu as a counterdraft option (instead of either rats/Raelin or Warden) in case I got lucky and faced a melee normal-attacker---I didn't and so they sat on the side.
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