OHS Season 53 - Delta Coalition Wars - Play-In until 9/26

[vegietarian18]

I defeated Ryguy's Ashigaru/Raelin/Shurrak/Tarn to bring my Romans to 4-0 in the regular season. Really tight game. The Romans got second round initiative switch to lay into the Harquebus and put me in the lead, but it was a narrow lead because it cost me a lot of Romans and the Azurite. Ryguy's Tarn came out next, and killed three Romans very quickly, setting up a solid cleanup situation for his Shurrak. I used the Yngvild glyph to flee his Raelin's aura with my final three Romans and MBS. Landed some crazy Paralyzing Stares to kill Raelin once she advanced, as well as two Tarn, and then hit initiative switch to lay into Shurrak from height and blow him up with a big four skull roll from the last two Romans. Good game.

[Viideosayg]

My game vs Grey Waves is starting now

[Grey Waves]

Originally Posted by superfrog

Round 4 is on Viney Pines.
The grey waves (2-1) v. viideosayg (2-1) armies are:

Cut to the Chase
* Breach, Otonashi, Goblin Cuttersx4, Nottingham Brigandx7 (drop 2)

* Eldgrim the Viking Champion, Major Q10, Raelin the Kyrie Warrior [RotV], Deathreaversx3

I defeated Viideosayg in one of the most one-sided games I've ever been involved in. My attack and defence rolls were both on fire (57% and 50% respectively), while his were both very subpar (29% and 23%). I won initiative and opened Brigands, who were able to kill Raelin in just 3 hits. From there, I retreated the Brigands while sniping the developing rats. Q10 moved up on Viideosayg's OM3, who killed nothing, and I was able to leave engagement with the rats on my corresponding OM3 and put a wound on the Soulborg. Disengage made it difficult for Viideosayg to adequately screen off Q10 the following round, and I was able to kill the Major on my OM3, at which point Viideosayg conceded. gg man, there's not much you can do when the dice are that atrocious.

Before this game, I was wondering whether I would have been better off running Aubrien Archers x2 this season instead of Nottingham Brigands x7. After this game however, I can definitely say that Nottingham Brigands were not a wrong choice. Disengage on a ranged figure is useful, and the base 3 attack makes them noticeably better at wounding opposing heroes than Aubriens. Frenzy means that the Aubriens do have higher potential to run away with a game, but I'm satisfied that they weren't a clear better choice than Brigands for this event.

It feels good to make playoffs for the first time since January. Fingers crossed this doesn't end in the quarterfinals.

[kevindola]

The Play-in is on Canary.

The grey waves (3-1) v. vegie dad (3-1) armies are:

Cut to the Chase
* Breach, Otonashi, Goblin Cuttersx4, Nottingham Brigandx7 (drop 2)
Friends, Romans, Countrymen
* Akumaken, Azurite Warlord, Me-Burq-Sa, Roman Legionnairesx3

grey waves chooses who places first.

[kevindola]

The Quarterfinals are on Apocalypse Now.



vegietarian18 (4-0) {3} will play the winner of the Play-In Game




The kevindola (4-0) {1} v. og-blaha (3-1) armies are:

* Bol, Kha, Taelord the Kyrie Warrior, Nottingham Brigandx6, Red Ants of Aunstromx4 (drop 1)
Warden's Undead Honor Guard
* Warden 816, Crypt Guardianx3, Drow Chainfighterx3, Tomb Skeletonsx6 (drop 1)

og-blaha chooses who places first.

The superfrog (3-1) v. arrow grut (3-1) armies are:

Battle Masters
* Azurite Warlord, Me-Burq-Sa, Ne-Gok-Sa, Roman Legionnairesx3
District IX
* Azurite Warlord, Me-Burq-Sa, Ne-Gok-Sa, Roman Legionnairesx3

superfrog chooses who places first.

The shiftrex (3-1) {9} v. ryguy266 (3-1) {5} armies are:

* Eldgrim the Viking Champion, Moltenclaw, Raelin the Kyrie Warrior [RotV], Greenscale Warriorsx3
Shurrak Around the Clock
* Raelin the Kyrie Warrior [RotV], Shurrak, Tarn Viking Warriors, Ashigaru Harquebusx3

shiftrex chooses who places first.

[Sir Heroscape]

lol SF and AG's game...a game where Mindshackle is completely useless :P

[kevindola]

Congrats to og-bla.

I rolled twice the attack dice he did (199 vs. 105) including several attacks of 5 and even 6, but my skull distribution was not good enough to take down the Crypt Guardians/Drow fast enough to prevent them from getting significant damage done.

I did have an alternate win condition late if I had popped Warden and removed the +1 move to be in a very strong kite position, I got the attack chances from height needed, but his defense held.

2nd time I've run a Taelord based range/melee spam in Delta, and both times it's performed strong in regular season (7-1) only to get taken down first round of playoffs by a unit core that was prone to special attacking I didn't have (Crypts, Mantii...also regular season loss to Cutters) So probably time to rethink the build! Good Luck og!

[Grey Waves]

Vegie's Dad and I are having our Round 2 rematch at 8pm EST on Wednesday.