Re: OHS Special Event: Bring the VCheese - R3 thru 05/08/20
WOW! What. A. GAME.
That was easily one of the best games of heroscape I've ever played...in a long time. And I don't just mean I feel like I played it well, Vegi was incredible as well. We were both on point tonight and it came down to the wire!
Vegi started out with Marutuk jumping up onto that back hex, just flaunting the dragon skull, biding her time for activation while I ran out early with MW's to try and either get early wounds on Marutuk if she charged or Cathar if they slow rolled. Cathar slow rolled, but LOS blockers made it tough to get a view so I only got off a couple shots, but was able to take out 1 Cathar so that was nice. The next round MW's activated again and were able to get another kill on Cathar after being a little more aggressive, but then they speared back and killed 1. I still went MW's who knocked off a couple more cathar in the process...after which Marutuk finished her taunting and came up to Vegi's side 7-hexer just to play with my mind. And play he did. Over the course of the next round or two he switched back and forth between Cathar and Marutuk, forcing me to have to position myself with Greenies and Nilf to always deny Marutuk an engagement. it was tough, but meticulous placement allowed me to force Marutuk to keep dancing around the edges of my screen Swiping away loyal warrior after warrior. I think she was 6 or 7 out of 8 swipes in the whole game and it made it really tough to plan for when she kept swiping them away. While she danced, I was also able to dance around the map a bit with Nilf and shard Cathar slowly but surely...whittling them down in the hopes of an eventual kill on Marutuk and then cleaning up a few straggling Cathar. But I couldn't count my chickens just yet, I had to deal with the "God Slayer". Nearing the end of the game when I only had 3-4 Greenies left, I was in a precarious situation where even with Dagmar I lost initiative with Marutuk within striking distance...BUT she had to get the swipe. She was unable to and that allowed me to take a more optimal position with Nilf, and Attck with him and the greenies. Unfortunatey I didn't have enough left to completely deny the attack on Nilf...but i did force some disengagements. Then, Marutuk charged. She had 5 wounds on her, but with 8 attack on Nilf she could easily one-shot me. She rolled 6/8. I blocked 3/5 which was incredible. I got to then attack down on Marutuk, rolling 5/7 and she blocked 3/4! so she had 2 life left! i had to kill her or likely lose Nilf next turn. I swarmed with Greenies, all buffed by Nilf and one on height. She blocked the first 2 attacks, then the last attack came in with a 2/4 skulls...and Mara WHIFFED!!! She went down! But it wasn't over yet. I only had Nilf (half life), Raelin (full), 3 Greenies and 1 MW vs about 6 Cathar. Luckily he went all in on Marutuk, so I stole his last 2 OM's and knocked off a couple Cathar, but they weren't finished yet. I went on Dagmar, lost initiative again and he was able to get his Cathar out of the SZ and into position. I used OM 1 to fly Raelin mid-map to catchup, but then he was able to knock off a blocking Greenie and put 2 wounds on Nilf (who was on height and covered by raelin). So I had 1 life Nilf and 2 Greenies. Which, fortunately was just enough. I didn't take any more attacks as I was able to retreat and attack and position Greenies well enough to keep Cathar from reaching Nilf...but it was still tough.
It was an incredible game and felt great to win...but also masterful play by Vegi down to the very end. We kept dancing around each other, poking here and there before the final show down and I was able to just roll 1 skull more to take the kill on Marutuk.
Great game Vegi!