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Classic League XI - Random Draft - CONGRATS EARTHLING

Re: It's Over

Finished up with OG-Blaha today.

Interesting draft pool. Here's how the draft went:

Code:
No strikes
SirH           OG
              Syvarris
Templar X1
              Eldgrim
Templar X1
              Retiarius
Templar X1
              Stingers X1
Templar X1
              Stingers X1
Ice Troll 
              Stingers X1
Rhogar
              Stingers X1

I knew this game would largely be decided within the first Round, and more specifically the 1st initiative and who won it.

That is, if he wins he can hit my SZ from height on Turn 1 and likely get 2 kills on Templar before I get a turn...then follow it up with a Turn 2 getting 2 more shots off in my SZ. On the flip side...if I win, I get my Templar out in front, onto height/shadow and limit the damage he can deal, and if I survive chase him down with my charging assault.

I won Initiative.

This was massive. It's not game decisive as the dice still have to go your way, but getting my Templar out in front meant that I for sure would get at least 1 attack off at Syv if he took shots at me. And OG went all in on Syv. So, I got into position, lost only 1 Templar and sent in 2. I decided at this point Syv's value had just gotten a bit lower since I'd be able to keep him engaged while I reinforced...so I decided to just keep 1 Templar attacking Syv while the others charged into the Startzone and began smashing Stingers. Considering Round 1 was all Syv...I figured it'd be a good thing to get into the SZ and start tying up the Stingers before they could develop into the map. Additionally, I get extra defense when attacked from Adjacent squad figures...so I felt it was necessary to engage as many stingers as possible to keep him busy while I continued to reinforce. And it worked. I was trading 2:1 most of the time which really gave me a solid lead. I was able to stay on height and defend a LOT of attacks which allowed reinforcements to develop and then crash in throwing 6 attack dice on stingers. problem was that his final squad did work and cleared out a whole squad of Templar before the end of the Round. So in the endgame it was 2 Stingers, Retiarius, Eldgrim vs 3 Templar, Ice Troll, Rhogar. Overall I felt pretty comfortable, but I really needed to win initiative to avoid the Stingers just clearing up the templar and then potentially blowing up my heroes before they could activate. Luckily, I won that initiative switch which killed the stingers (stealing an OM) and then charging down Retiarius before he could get a turn.

It ended up not looking as close considering I had both heroes full health and a whole squad of templar left...but it was a super close game and very narrow margins for error. Great game OG!
 
Re: Classic League XI - Random Draft (Delta)-Quarters thru 1

The Earthling (4-0) v. Chris Perkins (3-1) pool of armies is
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Earthling wins the diceoff to pick first OR pick second and strike.

Playing today @ 1 pm Eastern.

Draft:
Earthling chooses to pick 1st.
Chris chooses to ban Greenscales.
Code:
[B]Earthling             Chris[/B]
Krug (375 / 17)
                        Q9 (240 / 17)
Drones x4 (155 / 5)
                        Tarn
                        Vipers x4 (15 / 1)
Moriko
Iron Golem (10 / 3)
 
Re: Classic League XI - Random Draft (Delta) - Championship!

Congrats to the Finalists!!! Been a fun event to participate in and observe!

Reminder: Army creation restrictions
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The Finals are on Nightfall. (Dagmar, Unique, TG x2)

The Earthling (5-0) v. Sir Heroscape (5-1) pool of armies is
Spoiler Alert!

Sir Heroscape wins the diceoff to pick first OR pick second and strike.
 
Re: Classic League XI - Random Draft (Delta) - Championship!

I know not everyone has finished their first bonus game, but I wanted to get that out here no later than the Finals game announcement. Finish at your leisure!

Bonus Games-2

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Re: Classic League XI - Random Draft (Delta) - Championship!

If there's another round of bonus games I'm in :)
 
Re: Classic League XI - Random Draft (Delta) - Championship!

Championship Game is scheduled for 9pm CDT on Wednesday the 24th.
 
Consolation Game

No strikes

Code:
[B]Dysole                  Shurrig
[/B]Zombies
                        Jotun
Zombies
                        Romans
Zombies
                        Romans
Eltahale
                        Romans
Red Wyrm
                        Major X17
Red Wyrm
                        Pelloth
Drow Chainfighter

I put my OMs all on Zombies while he led Romans. I quickly set up a pod in the center of the map and while he tried to make some inroads to me I was able to bring back zombies pretty much as fast as he killed them. Jotun came out to play while I had two zombies down and three engaged with his last three Romans. Jotun only ever got one Throw the entire game and got onslaughted pretty hard. He took 4 disengages to grab Kelda (only got 1 of the 3 I needed) and finally got a throw with 1 life remaining but one of the Zombies blocked and moved to high ground before finishing off Jotun and the last bunch of Romans. Pelloth danced around a little bit but was eventually caught by zombies and killed via normal attacks while I engaged X17 before he had OMs put on him. After killing Pelloth it was just a game of Onslaughts and I took out X17 with 4 zombies remaining and everybody else in my start zone.

~Dysole, appreciative for the game with Shurrig
 
Congrats to @Earthling on winning the first random draft event.

It was definitely a unique Finals match. A lot of cat and mouse in the early rounds until Kaemon went down.
 
How did the draft go?



Code:
Earthling - Strike [s]Marro Drudge[/s]

Sir Heroscape		Earthling

Kaemon Awa
			Obsidian Guards x4
Kyntela Gwyn
Shades of Bleakwoode x4	
			Ninjas of the Northern Wind
			Mika Connour
			Evar Scarcarver

Undrafted
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That's unexpected!

You should take a look at the Sir Heroscape live rerun, the reaction of the Drudge ban is kinda priceless. That's like when in chess when you prep for an opening that your opponnent usually plays, you spend one hour memorizing best lines and traps and then your opponnent start with another move lol.
 
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