Bigga Battle Chronicles

[BiggaBullfrog]

Welcome to my BBC!

I like to post battle reports for our monthly throw-downs, so I figured it was about time I started a thread for it and stopped clogging up other threads with my battle report spam. This thread is primarily for me to be able to keep track of my battle reports (I guess it's my form of scrapbooking), and to possibly provide some sort of entertainment for people with enough time on their hands to actually read them. If you do read some, please enjoy them!


Man, I'm Way Behind: - Utah Monthly - March - General Wars 555
No one's played Alistair at a Monthly yet, giving me an excuse to run Knights x4

I Actually Have Some of these Written Already: Utah Monthly - February - Teams 650
I team up with my li'l bro who hasn't played in years!

Somewhat Soon: Idaho Tourney - Bring 2 450
将軍ブルフロッグが再び栄光をもたらしに行く！

I Swear These Are Actually Coming Soon Now: Utah Monthly - January - Standard 500
In which we ask: Can I grok the Groks? The Sequel!

Idaho NHSD - 600 pt RTW
Take some shortcakes for your long-range rogue cakes, add a Special thunder cake, toss in a dash of anti-range flakes, and wrap in bacon.

Utah Monthly - October - Monster Mash
Orc Horde - Beast Mode!!!

Utah Monthly - September - Dungeon Defenders
I become the Dungeon Invader with my army of snakes! (and lizard)

Utah Monthly - August - Random Teams
Deathcommander Mark 3 has much better survivability than a Deathwalker, right?

Utah Monthly - June - Hordes (Unlimited Start Zones)
Horde-crushing with ... Taelord?

Utah Monthly - May - General Wars
The ants go marching six by four, hurrah, hurrah...
I also play my 100th tournament game!

Utah Monthly - April - Half Hero Armies
After thinking of all the cool, synergistic Hero armies I could play, I decide to instead troll everyone else.

Utah Monthly - March - Playtesting
Orc Horde!!!

Idaho Tournament - Standard 530
In which we ask: Can I grok the Groks?

Utah Monthly - January - Standard 500
I start off a new year of Monthlies with Runa. And Scaperedude beats me vicariously.

Jingle Bell Bash 2017 - Bring 2
Another frenzy of 7 games! Without Deathwalker, I surely must do better, right?

Idaho NHSD 2017 - Valhallan Wastelands
I fight Gladiatrons and Blastatrons twice. Can Valguard prevail?

Utah NHSD 2017 - Bigga Bigger Battles
I embrace my villainous side and become Eternal BiggaThanos! Zehahahaha!

Utah Monthly - August - Teams
True and I team up for glory. And embrace diversity in our army composition. Oh, and Scaperedude was there.

Utah Monthly - July - GenCon Prep (Reverse-the-Whip)
I get to run my favorite army - the same one I took to my first tournament.

Utah Monthly - June - Hordes (Unlimited StartZone space) (Scroll Down)
I again embrace my love of the Japanese by running Ninjas and a Giant Robot.

Idaho Tournament - Uncharted Wellsprings (Scroll Down)
I fire up not one, but two lawnmowers for this high-point tourney.

Utah Monthly - May - Wandering Monsters
My first time taking a Marvel Hero to a tournament. And I still get beaten by Scaperedude.

Utah Monthly - April - Themed Armies
とても好きなもので、将軍ブルフロッグとしての報告でござる。

Utah Monthly - March - Tag Teams
Tons of different allies and opponents. And Scaperedude beats me again.

Utah Monthly - January - First Monthly!
I pilot the ever-famous Steamroller. Bonus game at the end with one of my favorite 'Scaping moments ever.

Jingle Bell Bash 2016 - Bring 2/Quick Games
A tournament in which I pursue the question: In how many ways can Deathwalker die?

Idaho NHSD 2016 - Ruins of Valhalla
I take Dund to a tournament, but have to use Glads/Blasts to balance him out.

Utah NHSD 2016 - Reverse-the-Whip
I get epically slaughtered by Scaperedude for the first time.

Utah NHSD 2010 - First Tournament
All bright-eyed at never having seen so much 'Scape in one place, I do my best at the first of what has become many tournaments.

 

[BiggaBullfrog]

August Monthly - Teams

True Bigga Battle Report

True’s a great player. He's grown so much this past year since he first started, and has gotten past the point where I ever need to give him advice while we’re playing, and in fact he often uses better tactics than me. However, after he went 0-4 during the NHSD prep tourney, he told me that he really wanted to play a really strong army. Preferably Nilfheim, as that was the main unit of the army he took to his first tournament, and he got second there, so he wanted them good times back. So we came up for a Nilf-centric army for him and something to complement for me.

Team Rainbow:
@TrueMurray
Nilfheim 185
Krav Maga Agents 100
Isamu 10
295 Points/5 Figures

Bigga:
Shieldsmiths of Granite Keep x3 80 (240)
Zetacron 60
300 Points/10 Figures

Our strategy overall was for True to be the firepower, using his range to his advantage and never letting the enemy get close, while I moved 5-Defense Dwarves out to hold the line and deal some damage when the opportunity arose. I also took Zetacron to help snipe opposing heroes if we ever needed to. It was a fun combination and we felt good going in.

Bonus Game

Spoiler Alert!

We had an odd number of teams, so the first round True and I got a bye. I was going to watch some games and play announcer, but then I learned that Ben was without a teammate, so I instead decided to play with him for a round. (Ben ended up getting a teammate from one of the teams who got a bye throughout the tournament, which was cool both for him and them.) So for me, Round 1 consisted of:

Ben
Omnicron Snipers x3 100 (300)

And
Bigga
Krug 120
Zombies of Morindan x3 60 (180)

VS @Saints_Wrath
Marcus Decimus Gallus 100
Roman Legionnaires x2 50 (100)
Agent Carr 100

And
Jeremy
Major Q10 150
10th Regiment of Foot x2 75 (150)

I realized partway through the game that Marcus’s Soldier Attack Enhancement affects friendly soldiers, meaning the 10th could get a bonus from him. Pretty cool army construction on SaintsWrath and Jeremy’s parts.

Ben had set up the armies and assigned me to the Zombies which were on the left flank. Fortunately for me that was where a Move Glyph was, so I started heading off towards that while trying to spread my Zombies across my side and send a couple others to screen for the Snipers. I was especially eager to get at the Romans as there weren’t enough of them to consistently keep their defense at 4 and I wanted to get at the ones with lower defense while I could. The Snipers and 10th started trading shots, doing about equal damage points-wise if I remember correctly.

The main problem, though, was that even when my Zombies got to Romans with 2 or 3 Defense, my attacks weren’t going through. Naturally, the Zombies were also attacked a lot because the last thing our opponent’s wanted were more to deal with. In the end, I think I only got about 3 Zombies to come back from the grave before they were wiped out. By this time, the Snipers were falling quickly too, as Marcus had been able to swing around and get a bunch of them and some 10th were helping him take them out steadily. So it was Krug and a couple Snipers vs Marcus, a couple 10th, and Q10 and Carr. I had hope for Krug, and he did take out a good few figures before falling to Major Q10’s Wrist Rockets, but fall he did in the end, resulting in a loss for Ben and me.

Game 1

Spoiler Alert!

VS
Cameron
Krug 120
Marro Stingers x3 60 (180)

And
Katie
Major Q10 150
Warriors of Ashra x3 50 (150)

There were a lot of threats in the opposing armies that we were wary of. We wanted to take out the ranged units especially as quickly as possible, figuring that if we did, our range could trump the enemy melee units.

Oh, I forgot to mention that True has a saying that he always abides when playing just about any game, but especially Heroscape: “Risk it for the biscuit.” So, abiding by his natural rules, first round he shot off Nilfheim towards the enemy start zone. Turn 2 he was shooting at the Stingers and was able to take 3 out. Then turn 3 he took out 3 Warriors of Ashra that had been climbing the middle ground, allowing my Dwarves to run around freely. It was a strong first move, and we figured all we had to do was hold the hill to win.

So we started trading blows. My dwarves took a Defense glyph while trying to screen for Nilf. They were able to hold of advancing Ashra and Krug well enough, but unfortunately some Stingers and Major Q10 slipped out to shoot Nilfheim and the Dragon fell sooner than we anticipated. So the Krav ran out, shooting some guys, but we lost our presence where Nilfheim had been standing and the enemy forces broke through. Since this was a slow game, time was also being called right about now. In our last round, we found that we were a little behind on points, and that to win we would have to either kill Q10 or Krug. Literally, it came down to the last turn of the game, where True was able to activate his Krav Maga Agents. His choices were either shooting Q10, who had 2 Lives left but 7 Defense due to a Jungle Tree and Shadow Space bonus, or Krug, who had 4 Lives left but was also on the Defense glyph. He went for Krug, shooting three times, inflicting first 1 Wound, then another, and then… 2 Wounds! With that we scraped by with points and took our first win.

1-0

Game 2

Spoiler Alert!

VS
Ben
Omnicron Snipers x3 100 (300)

And
@Scaperedude
Krug 120
Zombies of Morindan x3 60 (180)

Like I said, since Ben didn’t have an official partner, he had been borrowing from those on bye throughout the tourney. This time Scaperedude was on bye, and he was all too excited to join our game.

I think a little history lesson on my (friendly) rivalry is in order here. Scaperedude and I have played several times this past year. (Man, it hasn’t even been a whole year since I met the dude and we started up this whole thing with The Dewk. Weird to think about.) I have never beaten him. I’ve been close, and one game that went to time could have gone either way (though I honestly think he would have pulled out on top in the end), but he’s always beaten me fair and square. To the point that I considered making him my teammate for this tourney so that I wouldn’t have to face him and I wouldn’t have to worry about losing. So, when he came to play against True and me, my high from winning the last game left. I could take a loss, personally, but I wanted to win for True. Which brings an interesting side note: True has played Scaperedude several times as well, and I think that True said he has won the majority of them, but I’m not sure. Point is, True has won against Scaperedude and I never have. So maybe there was hope?

Anyway, lesson’s over. This game we went with plan beta, which meant that instead of Nilfheim, True would lead with the Krav. I kept doing Dwarf stuff. So True started for the high ground, shooting a couple Snipers and Zombies while I came up to support, but then a lucky shot from a Sniper killed one of the Krav. With their firepower significantly lowered (#uniquesquadproblems), we brought out Nilf. We had been reluctant to send out the Dragon too early because the Snipers love heroes to pick on, but the Krav wouldn’t have been effective enough. Luckily, Nilf was able to really wreck the Zombies (like the game I played, I think the Zombies only got 2 or 3 kills before getting annihilated), and my Dwarves were in a good enough position to engage Snipers and keep them off of the Dragon. Although there was that one time, when that one Sniper ran up, and instead of shooting the nearby Dwarf like he was supposed to, ignored it and shot Zetacron. And missed. But then he shot again and killed Zeta. Poor Zetacron, two games in a row without doing anything.

So anyway, Zombies were dying and Krug was coming up in their place. Snipers were still present but we were getting them off of their peaks. So True and I discussed tactics. I was doing Dwarf stuff as I now had no other option, but True wanted to know if he should switch to Krav since Krug was coming up. I said maybe, but do your first couple turns on Nilf so he can do some damage first and maybe get out of the area. So True revealed turn 1 on the Krav. Turns out we had a miscommunication. But I think that was what sealed the game for us, as it turned out that the Krav were in a slightly better position to take out a couple Snipers that we probably wouldn’t have gotten with Nilf, and then my next turn I killed the last one, meaning that all we had to worry about was Krug, and that we were getting 2 turns for every one of the opponents’. Krug is still scary though, and my Dwarves moved to tie him up while True shot him with Agents and Dragon. Of course, that meant that Krug was getting higher attack, and my Dwarves were falling. We were getting there, and finally had Krug at 1 Life while we still had the 2 Krav and Nilfheim with a couple lives left. Scaperedude with his almost dead Krug was considering his options, and looked like he was going to make a run for Nilf, when he realized that I only had the one Dwarf left, and said, “You know what, I’m taking out Bigga.” Pretty sure that’s verbatim. Over that big dragon, he chose the one Dwarf (and maybe an Agent too, I forget), just so that he could still beat me. And that he did, crushing the dwarf (and maybe an Agent), right before Nilf flew in to finish the Troll off.

2-0

But still
Me 0
Scaperedude 5 (I think? I might be missing one or two, but my point remains.)

Someday, Scaperedude. Someday I will rise to the lofty ‘Scape peaks where you reside with all your skill. Someday this grasshopper shall surpass you.

Game 3

Spoiler Alert!

VS
@antmarchingroves
Death Chasers of Thesk x3 55 (165)
Me-Burq-Sa 50
Kelda 80

And
@Flash_19
Eltahale 140
Rhogar Dragonspine 110
Marro Warriors 50

This was my first time seeing the Death Chasers of Thesk in person! So happy note there. I’ve proxied them plenty of times cause I like what they do, but it was neat to see them for reals.

True and I were pretty wary of this match, as antmarchingroves and flash_19 had been stomping the competition all day. At the same time, we felt that if we played defensively, we could take out the Death Chasers before they did too much damage and then attrition out there rest of the figures, although respawning Marro and Eltahale with her offensive potential were scary. Still, we thought we had this.

Then we got curb stomped, and antmarchingroves and flash_19 won with only 6 dead Death Chasers and maybe 2 wounds on Eltahale.

True and I definitely made some mistakes, one of which was underestimating the offensive prowess of Death Chasers backed by Me-Burq-Sa and Marro Warriors. While fighting for map control my Dwarves died before they touched anything and Nilfheim got caught due to the Orcs getting the Movement Glyph and then got executed by Eltahale. To make things worse, the dice were completely against us this game (as even our opponent’s acknowledged), with Me-Burq-Sa succeeding with Paralyzing Stares more often than not and our best attacks being blocked by perfect defense rolls. But our loss can’t be completely blamed on the dice. Like I said, we made mistakes, and that lost us the game. The dice just made it the landslide loss that it was.

True and I thought about it a lot afterwards (not that we were bitter towards ant and flash - they played super well - but we were frustrated at ourselves and thought we could have done better), wondering what we could have done to have stood a better chance, and ultimately decided that our best bet was to do the ultimate camping strategy, using Krav and Zetacron instead of Nilf and Shieldsmiths, picking off key figures like the glyph holder and Me-Burq-Sa as well as Marro Warriors without getting tied down by Death Chasers and picking off Orcs as they advanced as well. Definitely not the first thing either of us would have thought of as neither of us like to camp that much, but it would have made the game closer. As it was, though, ant and flash played an excellent game and took a well-deserved win of the tournament, and True and I took second which was more than good enough for us.

2-1

 

[Scaperedude]

@BiggaBullfrog shame on you for stealing that last hour of my life...... I had hopes and dreams of getting some homework done, but no. You had to post all those INCREDIBLE reports, and what am I supposed to do? Not read them? For crying out loud I had to read them all, and they were MAGNIFICENT and highly entertaining. I hope you're happy.

Also reading through that first tournament report.... wow. I was a young whippersnapper then, but wish I could've been there. But not to fear, let's make our own tournaments look like that! Anyways great reports!

 

[Sir Torin Brokenshield!]

@BiggaBullfrog I love it can't wait to read it all!!

 

[BiggaBullfrog]

@BiggaBullfrog shame on you for stealing that last hour of my life...... I had hopes and dreams of getting some homework done, but no. You had to post all those INCREDIBLE reports, and what am I supposed to do? Not read them? For crying out loud I had to read them all, and they were MAGNIFICENT and highly entertaining. I hope you're happy.

So... I win?

Also reading through that first tournament report.... wow. I was a young whippersnapper then, but wish I could've been there. But not to fear, let's make our own tournaments look like that! Anyways great reports!

Haha, yeah man, I was your age back then! Crazy to think how much time has passed. But I never thought back then that we would have such an active scene 7 years in the future, so I think we're doing a great job!

@BiggaBullfrog I love it can't wait to read it all!!

Thanks man! I've got to get to writing the Utah NHSD one so I can get our battle together up!

 

[Sir Torin Brokenshield!]

It was fun but not the battle but it was fun playing you

Also the June monthly I olny used 4 squads of drones

 

[Tornado]

Always hate to see Zombies struggle.

Good read.

 

[Sir Torin Brokenshield!]

Hey @BiggaBullfrog when are the rest of the reports coming?

 

[BiggaBullfrog]

Hey @BiggaBullfrog when are the rest of the reports coming?

Soon! I'm almost done with them, but left my notes from the NHSD's in my apartment in Logan, so I want to get them in hand to double check some battles I'm a little hazy on (I waited wayyy too long to work on them). I head back tomorrow and plan on working on them the next few days, so either this weekend or early next week. Thanks for reminding me!

 

[Sir Torin Brokenshield!]

Sweet awesome!!!

 

[BiggaBullfrog]

Utah NHSD 2017

First off, I waited way too long to write this one, so I was pretty hazy on some details, and couldn’t find my notes to double-check them, so forgive me if the quality/accuracy suffers.

Bigga Battle Report

True and I are nuts about My Hero Academia, and for a while (ever since Heracles was released) we’ve been wanting to do themed armies for it. True played the good guys with Knights, the Viking Champions, and Heracles as a stand-in for the all-mighty All Might (because he really feels like All Might when playing him). I, on the other hand, took a more villainous turn with my army (mostly to embrace the memes).

VillainBullfrog’s Army:
Thanos 360
Venoc Vipers x6 40 (240)
600 Points/19 Figures

Yahahahaha. Yes, it is time for I, Eternal BiggaThanos, to come out of the shadows and lead my minions to victory. I alone will surely be the most powerful being here, and will singlehandedly destroy the competition. And even if my opponents are able to overwhelm me, my minions will swarm over them in vengeance, taking multiple turns, and by so doing, I shall quickly be able to come back from death to re-enter the fray. With my powers, I shall always have the last (evil) laugh. None shall be able to stand in my way.

Game 1

Spoiler Alert!

VS
Jonathan
Ulginesh 150
Jorhdawn 100
Chardris 90
Emiroon 80
Arkmer 50
Aubrien Archers x1 70
Warriors of Ashra x1 50

So, the first band of so-called “heroes” to stand in my way is a band of elves, huh? Shahahaha, these fragile beings are no match for me! I shall be able to singlehandedly destroy them! No need for my minions to sorry the slightest!

Ulginesh, you think you are so strong, using your Wizards to advance your army. You’re even having Emiroon, summon squad figures to have them close to the battle, moving your whole army onto the snow. That’s not a bad strategy, I must admit. But how will your little friends fair when their synergy is destroyed by your death!? Zehahahaha!

Evil Beam Attack! Oh wait, that didn’t work very well. Another Evil Beam! Why isn’t this working? You should be destroyed. Ouch, stop it with those fireballs. No, seriously. You can’t stay away from my evil beam, Ulginesh! But first this Arkmer punk who is really annoying me must die. Evil Beam! Behehehehe, the first Wizard falls. Now for you, Ulginesh! Die-

It was just dumb luck that you killed me. Curse these defense dice! I only killed a 50 point Elf. I was going to take another couple turns too… And hey, you, Jorhdawn, what do you think you’re doing running to my start zone—
MY MINIONS!! Seven gone in one strike! You shall pay!

Go, my snake-men! Swarm those Wizards and their squad friends! They have overextended themselves; they can’t fight at full capacity. Tie up those who are forward while more of you swing around the flank, climbing the snow! Uhyahyahyah, yes, you Elves aren’t so strong when you’re strung out are you? One by one you shall fall. Jorhdawn. Archers. Warriors. Oh, and by the way -

I’m back.

Zehahahaha! Yes! Your worst fear incarnate! Weakened by my minions, there is no way you can stand against me! Evil Beam! Evil Punch! Evil Flying To High Points And Exploiting Your Weakness! Greet death, Ulginesh. Your friends shall soon join you. Yes, you may have killed most of my minions, but I have now killed all of you! Zehahahaha!

1-0

Game 2

Spoiler Alert!

VS
@Sir Torin Brokenshield!
Marro Stingers x5 60 (300)
Master of the Hunt 140
Kozuke Samurai 100
Black Wyrmling x2 30 (60)

Oh, so next I am to fight Sir Torin Brokenshield, eh? Your name may be pretty doggone cool, but don’t think I shall let you get the best of me! Though you are commanding an army of notable power. Each of your units would seem to do well against me. Hiyahoho! That just means I won’t have to hold back in my destructive power!

As expected, you are leading with your Stingers. But you are spreading them out as they advance. Yahahaha! Then I shall pick them off! Your strategy may be to run past me and kill my Vipers, but your Stingers are open to attacks from me! And … well, your defense rolls are bad enough that those Stingers are dying faster than Vipers. I’m killing one with each attack. And you’re failing that Stinger Drain a few times too. But! That is clearly due to my overwhelming skill as an Evil Overlord! Zehahahaha!

Your poor, tiny, weak Stingers. Dying so quickly. Killing some of my Vipers, but they just fall to my Evil Beams! And yes, they may be taking some pot shots at me, but -

Oh wait, I died? How did that happen?

Oh well, I still killed the majority of your Stingers, and it shall be easy for my minions to clean up those remaining. Yes, see how they swarm! Sweeping away the remainder of those Marro! It’s like they were sworn enemies or something! Who shall challenge us next? Samurai? Well, those are pretty tough for my minions.

Luckily, I am back.

Jahahahaha, these Samurai are not nearly strong enough to resist my evil beams! Those wyrmlings do look dangerous, though. So I shall kill them first! And now the Master of the Hunt shall fall as well! Wahahahaha! I, Eternal BiggaThanos, am victorious again!

2-0

Game 3

Spoiler Alert!

VS
@Saints_Wrath
Raelin SotM 120
Warforged Soldiers x6 80 (480)

Warforged Soldiers! Those are my alter ego BiggaBullfrog’s favorite units in the game! They’re tough and their switch is awesome and… and I might be in trouble here.

It is tempting to just swarm those Warforged with my minions, but I doubt that their attacks will be good enough to reliably penetrate their resolve. It would be better for me to first take as many down as I can. Yes! Wiiihahaha! Of course! I shall be too strong for them to hope to overcome!

What? Hey! Stop moving me around! That Tactical Switch is so annoying. So, you’re forcing me to choose between taking leaving engagement strikes or letting you attack from the high ground, eh? Well… There’s definitely too many of you, so leaving engagement strikes it is! But - stop moving me around! Die! Die faster! Why won’t you fall? I’m not killing nearly enough of you, and I am taking too many hits. I don’t have much longer here. Even a super-awesome-evil-villain like me can tell that.

This isn’t working, I must rely on my minions, even before I die. Go my snake-men! Raelin is close to you and in ready striking range, start with her! A couple of you can flank and hit the Warforged in the back. This is a risk - you all may fall - but I will take it!

Huh. Well, turns out four successful Frenzies in a row is pretty good. Fuffuffuffuffu.

Raelin is gone! And many of those Warforged just fell! I knew it! I never doubted you, Vipers! Now, continue the assault! You may be falling quickly to the Warforged because you can’t roll defense and all, but our numbers are superior! It’s but a matter of time - Ow! Stop hitting me! Hey, minions, come clean up these Warforged that are trying to kill me before the game ends.

Good job. Thanks. Zehahahaha!

3-0

Game 4

Spoiler Alert!

VS
@Sir Heroscape
Death Chasers of Thesk x7 55 (385)
Pel 95
Nerak 50
Me-Burq-Sa 50
Marcu 20

Hey, look! He has a bunch of Orcs that you can kill, minions! That’s neat. Except for that Nerak can give them defense boosts. So he needs to die. Oh, this is an interesting one strategically. Because he can get an early board control start but that’s not very big because I will just be flying out to start picking them off and running around so they can’t pin me down but I also have to be sure to kill Nerak because if he’s there when my Vipers fight the Death Chasers then their defense will be too high to kill them fast enough and he has more numbers than I do (which is a rare occurrence) and I’ll also have to watch out for Me-Burq-Sa and Pel because they’re dangerous to me although they’re kind of redundant against my Vipers so as long as Nerak and maybe one other hero and a bunch of Orcs die before I do my first time then my Vipers should have an easy enough time cleaning up the Orcs until I come back to finish off whatever heroes remain but because he has so many numbers I won’t just be able to swarm like I usually do so my Vipers will have to be more precise in their strikes and make sure that each hit counts otherwise he’ll win with the battle of attrition which gives him a definite edge Worororo.

Anyway! Let us begin this game! As I expected, the early rush of the Orcs has given him great presence on the board, but with my speed, range, and flying I can pick them off easily with my evil beams before they can catch me, at least in this early game. But Me-Burq-Sa has me in his sights! He missed this first time, and now he’s within range of me. Evil Beam! Yes! Dead with one blow! Zehahahaha!

These Orcs are catching up now, but no matter, I can simply leave engagement (even though it hurts) to go after my true target, Nerak! That glossed-up Swog Rider may roll defense better than Me-Burq-Sa, but I don’t mind using two Evil Beams on him! Hahahh-ha! And fall he shall! Now to kill these Orcs!

Yes, keep following me! Come catch me, if you dare! You may land some hits, but that is fine! Kill me! I shall just become stronger! Kehihihihi!

Wait, what? No, don’t kill my Vipers! Why are you ignoring me? Fine, Vipers! Go! Fight back! He has realized that I can only kill one of his Orcs at a time and that means he can potentially clean you up before killing me, but we won’t let him have it that easily! And luckily, because he was following me across the map, his Orcs are now scattered! You can pick them off one by one! Uhahahaha! But they can kill you too. And they actually have defense, which doesn’t always block, but when it does it hurts!

No!! How are they pushing you back! This is a catastrophe! I would run in there to engage and tank a bunch of hits, but I fear that too many of you would die in that turn I took from you. Keep pushing! But no, it is a matter of time until you fall.

Fine! I’ll do it myself! Die, Orc! Evil Beam! And an Evil Beam for you, Orc! And Pel! You are the most dangerous, but you shall-

3-1

Game 5

Spoiler Alert!

VS
John
10th Regiment of Foot x4 75 (300)
Sgt. Drake Alexander SotM 170
Krug 120
Isamu 10

My head hurts.

But no matter! We can still conquer the world from this position! Shahahaha!

So, a bunch of 10th and some heavy-hitting heroes, eh? Uhyahyahya! Well, since those heroes will die quickly to my minions, I shall bypass them and kill the 10th, the most dangerous units to my army!

It looks like John has decided to counter with Krug. But those attacks of two won’t hurt me! I’ll take the leaving engagement attack to get more Evil Beam Attacks off at those 10th! Fuffuffuffuffu! Fortunately for John, he has quickly realized that it will take him far too long to kill me with leaving engagement strikes, and he is mobilizing the 10th. Now things get interesting!

Wait Then Fire is strong, but only if they can hit me! With my mobility, I can take out one at a time and be sure that he won’t have optimal opportunities to attack me with those redcoats! Jihahahaha!

Wait, I died? How did that happen? He rarely rolled more than 2 attack against me.

Oh well, Vipers, you know what to do! By which I mean, kill them! Bide time until I return-

Oh look, I’m back. First try. Not bad. Okay, Vipers, you finish the round, then I’ll come back and help out, yeah? Worororo!

And those 10th shall fall, again, to my Evil Beams! He’s gotten some map control, but it is no concern of mine! My power shall … overpower them. Hahahh-ha!

And here comes Krug. He may be strong, but he can’t stand my attacks! I mean, he can, and it will take him a little while to die, but I can stay away from him long enough to-

Okay, dead again? Who’s idea was this?

Oh well, Vipers do well against Krug. By which I mean, they die, but they die to anything, so the extra attack doesn’t scare them, and Krug’s defense is weak. So they’ll swarm him and-

Back again! First time again! Zehahaha! You just can’t keep me out of this game! My Vipers shall finish off Krug, and then it’s on to Sgt. Drake!

Wiiihahaha! Come at me, Drake! Wait, right, Thorian Speed. Okay then, Wiiihahaha! I’ll come get you, Drake! Your attack is high, but mine is… equal! And your defense is lower! And I can fly, so I have the high ground! Usually. Anyway, you’re dead first! Behehehehe!

Now for the remaining 10th and that Ninja. It’s a simple matter, really. For none can stand against the Almighty Eternal BiggaThanos! Bam! Wap! Zap! Yes, I have conquered all! Except for those Orcs, but they were already evil, so really we were on the same side. I’ll stick to that story. Zehahaha!

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[BiggaBullfrog]

Idaho NHSD 2017 - Valhallan Wastelands

Bigga Battle Report

Unfortunately, nothing super interesting as far as army creation this time. I had a couple ideas of armies that I’ve been wanting to play that work out really well as 500 point General Wars armies, like Mariedians or Mok and Axegrinders, but in the end I went with another oldie-but-goodie army I’ve been meaning to use.

BiggaBullfrog’s Army:
Roman Legionnaires x3 50 (150)
Marcus Decimus Gallus 100
Valguard 110
Kaemon Awa 120
480 Points/15 Figures

I enjoy Romans, and have fun with Valguard, especially since I feel like a lot of my opponents underestimate him when I do get to field him. Kaemon Awa, of course, is just a good add-in for range and a special attack. I was 20 points under the limit, but I was okay with that, figuring that if a game did end up coming down to a 20-point difference I’d just kick myself in the foot then.

Game 1

Spoiler Alert!

VS
Michael
10th Regiment of Foot x3 75 (225)
Roman Legionnaires x2 50 (100)
Marcus Decimus Gallus 100
Martial LaHire 70

So 10th are uber anti-melee, right? Which meant that I was going to have to play an aggressive game here. I wanted to get control of the map and its high points, but wouldn’t have time to do so in a comfortable roll with the Romans keeping their defense bonuses at maximum because if I let the Marcus-boosted 10th take even one side I’d be in a losing position.

So I started rushing out Romans with Marcus and Valguard tailing. Unfortunately, when I was placing figures I had Marcus on one side and Valguard on the other. My hope was that Michael would go for control on both sides. If that were the case, Valguard would be able to tank one side on his own while Romans climbed the other side and took that position. Then Valguard could route and beat back any more advancing units while I secured map control with the remaining Romans.

The 10th, however, simply started advancing on one side. This meant I had to focus all my attention there, because they would beat back my Romans way too easily. And because they were on Marcus’s side, I rushed him into battle to get some early strikes on the 10th instead of wasting two turns getting Valguard across the map. Marcus did some goo damage and helped me establish a foothold, but the 10th focused their fire on him and took him out quickly.

I did push back the 10th on that side, though, and was getting into a good position, bringing Valguard across the map to help. Michael countered with his Romans to set up a screen while his 10th fired over them. Since I had the higher ground, it you would think I would have beaten them down easily, but his Romans just wouldn’t die, and I lost a lot of figures before I got through the screen. By that time, my forces were so scattered and sparse that it wasn’t worth putting OMs on Romans anymore, so I did one final turn to tie up his troops with what Romans there were and with Valguard, and brought out Kaemon. He kited a bit, using his range to force the 10th to chase him, but he still had more figures than me, and was able to get shots off, and Kaemon didn’t want to defend and died before taking out his point’s worth. The 10th then finished off the Romans to claim the win.

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Game 2

Spoiler Alert!

VS
@TrueMurray
Major Q9 180
Gladiatrons x2 80 (160)
Blastatrons x2 60 (120)
Seleena 35

Man, Glads/Blasts are so strong. It’s tough to stand against them with any melee army, but I was really worried with my Romans. Basically, I felt I had two options: either roll out with Romans and fight the battle of attrition, or, as True is apt to say, to Risk It for the Biscuit.

So I risked it and led with Kaemon. And he didn’t die too quickly. But he didn’t really do much either. Killed a couple Gladiatrons, but not enough to free up room for my Romans. And then he got caught and started taking damage. So I switched to Romans, but by then I had lost a ton of ground in map control. True took some good defensive spots and started hammering on my Romans, tearing them apart, and my attacks were not going through at all. I got a little mileage with the help of Marcus, and then Kaemon came back into play and killed one or two more Soulborgs, but it was a battle of attrition that was not going in my favor.

Time was called when I only had Valguard and a Roman or two remaining against probably 3 Gladiatrons and all but a couple Blastatrons, not to mention Q9 and Seleena, so True took the win. However, one of the other games was taking a while to finish its final round, so True and I decided to keep playing in turbo mode to see how much damage Valguard could do before the other game finished. So, how much metal can a crazy viking crush in less than five minutes?

Answer: The rest of the Gladiatrons (2, I think), the rest of the Blastatrons (5, I think), and I think 1 wound on Q9. Not bad for a final spurt. He worked really well when True’s other figures were spread out, and Q9 tried to chase Valguard down, but I just opted to take the leaving engagement attacks and kill more small guys. Eventually, though, Q9’s attacks were able to finally finish off the viking. And that other game hadn’t even finished yet. Not bad, little Valguard, not bad.

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Game 3

Spoiler Alert!

VS
@Sir Heroscape
Laglor 110
Gladiatrons x3 80 (240)
Blastatrons x2 60 (120)
Black Wyrmling x1 30

Yeah, them ‘Trons again. I was a little encouraged after seeing Valguard’s usefulness at the end of my last game, but this map was definitely against any kind of running around and smacking the spare parts out of scattered robots.

In fact, speaking of the map, it was a rough start. I started slow-rolling my army out of the start zone, knowing that a dash to try to route the ‘Trons would result in complete and utter failure. Meanwhile, Sir H got Laglor set up and then also rolled his ‘Trons into place. The Blastatrons took the high ground on his side of the tree, while the Gladiatrons formed up along the edge of the high ground on his side of the glyphs. Then, his Blastatrons started firing pot shots at my advancing army (and a lot of those 2-dice attacks were killing my 4 or 5 defense figures! Stinking robots). Basically, he had the whole map walled off, had complete control of the glyphs if I fought for them, and could shoot for days if I tried delaying at all. That was checkmate, and we both knew it.

Fortunately for me, once the checkmate was obvious, Sir H decided to give up his camping strategy in lieu of a more fun game. He started charging my Romans with his Gladiatrons and taking shots at them with the Blasts. The engagements were rough, and I was dashing spare Romans from side to side, trying to keep my defenses optimal while still getting good attacks in, with height if I could manage it. And the crazy thing was that most of my attacks were going through. Even Marcus (who usually, in my experience, just tries to attack but never does anything other than buff Romans) was slaying his share of Gladiatrons. My Romans were still dying too, of course, but soon enough Sir H was having to send in Blastatrons to engage my figures to keep his attack bonuses high.

About this time I got to activate Kaemon, and he took out a fair amount of ‘Trons as well. Then I don’t remember if he got caught by the Soulborgs or if Laglor and he dueled, but somewhere in there he died. So did Laglor, but Marcus also died, and I was almost out of Romans, so we had a similar situation to the end-game during my match against True - Valguard vs the World.

Or, at least, Valguard vs one or two Glads and some Blasts and the Black Wyrmling. And again, Valguard proved his worth against scattered robots, smashing through them one at a time while Sir H tried to tie him down. But he was soon out of Glads and the Blasts couldn’t hold him still. It finally came down to an initiative roll when there were a few Blasts and the Wyrmling remaining against Valguard. I won initiative and, seeing that there were two OM’s on the Wyrmling, disengaged from the two Blasts I was engaged with to kill the li’l dragon. That ended up buying me two turns, since Sir H wanted to go for the acid breath attacks over smaller attacks from Blasts. I killed a couple more Blasts and then time was up, giving me my first win! And only win. Cause that was the end of the tourney too.

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[Sir Torin Brokenshield!]

Awesome Bigga!!! Hey did we ever go toe to toe at the jingle bell bash?

 

[HEROSCAPERMTL]

Excellent reports! Fun, easy to follow and well worth the read.

 

[BiggaBullfrog]

Awesome Bigga!!! Hey did we ever go toe to toe at the jingle bell bash?

Yeah, we did. That report should be finished soon. I just haven't had wifi available at my apartment the past while and so uploaded these last couple really quick while I was at a friend's.

Excellent reports! Fun, easy to follow and well worth the read.

Thanks so much for that big compliment! I'm glad you're enjoying them and hope I can keep improving!

 

[Sir Torin Brokenshield!]

Can't wait to read them!

 

[BiggaBullfrog]

Jingle Bell Bash

Bigga Battle Report

I had a ton of ideas for this format (Bring Two, 320 Points), but none of them were really sticking out to me as something I wanted to play. Eventually I decided that if I wanted to play better armies, I would do Warriors of Ashra x4 and Asterios as my first army, and Goblin Cutters x3 and Sgt Drake v2 as my second army, giving me a good option against both range and melee armies, and giving me two armies that could beat each other (I think). But they just weren’t seeming fun enough to me. Instead, I went with a couple armies more on the fun side of things:

Army 1
M-43 Resistance Fighters x3 65 (195)
Jarek Guy 100
Marcu Essenwein 20
315 Points / 10 Spaces

Army 2
Kantono Daishi 120
Moriko 110
Shiori 60
Kira Jax 30
320 Points / 4 Spaces

I enjoy playing the Mariedians, even if they’re not super strong competitively. They’re easily some of my favorite figures that Custom ’Scape has produced. I also really enjoy playing the Ninjas, and ran them in a tournament earlier this year, so I was hesitant to run them again, but they’re just really fun and that’s what I really wanted to go for this time.

Game 1

Spoiler Alert!

VS Brayden

His Pick (His Army)
Major Q9 180
Deathreavers x2 40 (80)
White Wyrmling x1 30
Black Wyrmling x1 30

My Pick (His Army)
Minions of Utgar x2 110 (220)
Krava Maga Agents 100

I got first pick of the armies, and decided on the MoU/KMA as I figured it was the most solid of the available armies. Brayden took Q9, which was scary, but Minions are tough enough to tank that Soulborg usually.

In the early game I ran out the Krav, wanting to assassinate the Black Wyrmling (which could bypass Stealth Dodge Agents and 6-Defense Minions), figuring my units could take Q9 easily enough and it was the figure that could swing the game with a key roll. It died quickly and so I took a couple potshots at Q9 and … well two blanks on defense in a row meant Q9 was dead round one.

Since all Brayden had remaining were Rats and a White Wyrmling, it was an unfortunately easy game to clean them all up. He did get me to blank defense a couple times and killed 2 Krav and 1 Minion, but after Q9 died so early I was never worried. I felt really bad for Brayden since he was new to our tourneys, and I had no control over his dice blanking twice, but that’s just how it goes sometimes. (In happier news, after this unfortunate first game, Brayden went on to do really well overall, going something like 4-3, I think, and placing really well for his first tournament, especially since he’s a younger kid.)

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Game 2

Spoiler Alert!

VS Jonah

His Pick (His Army)
Venoc Warlord 120
Venoc Vipers x5 40 (200)

My Pick (His Army)
Warforged Soldiers x4

Jonah got the first pick here and went with the Vipers, since he’s newer tot he scene and he was more familiar with them. I chose the Warforged Soldier army that he brought for the pure and simple reason that Warforged Soldiers are my favorite unit, and when I see them, I pick them.

With 9 move, Jonah was able to take early map control easily. With Tactical Switch, I was able to take advantage of that control, including switching onto a Defense Glyph that the Vipers had taken. With +1 Defense and Warforged Resolved, his Vipers began having a hard time killing off my Warforged. Midway into the game the Warlord came out to play, using his superior attack to try to get me off of the Defense Glyph. Unfortunately he rolled a couple of low attacks, giving me time to take out the forward Venoc Vipers and get to work hammering on the Warlord.

That was probably the point of no return for the Vipers. Without crazy Frenzy rolls (he was hitting it about on average, as far as I remember, but nothing crazy) and with me holding the Defense Glyph, he just wasn’t able to do enough damage. He had me down to about one squad of Warforged in the end, so it was close, but I ended up pulling off the win.

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Game 3

Spoiler Alert!

VS @Sir Torin Brokenshield!

His Pick (My Army)
M-43 Resistance Fighters x3 65 (195)
Jarek Guy 100
Marcu Essenwein 20

My Pick (His Army)
10th Regiment of Foot 75 (225)
Crixus 90

(His Other Army: Death Chasers of These x4, Ogre Pulverizer)

I picked first this go around, and picked the army with the 10th partly because I’ve never played with them, and partly because they seemed to be the strongest army. Sir Torin Brokenshield chose the Mariedians, which was a decent choice due to their ability to combat the 10th at range, probably their biggest weakness. However, having more squaddies was big for me.

I used my first OM to move Crixus towards the middle of the map, hiding him by a bush to keep him covered, and intending to leave him there until the endgame when he would be more relevant. However, he ended up being a good distraction as well, as Sir TB began moving M-43 Fighters into position to shoot the Gladiator. To do this, a lot of his M-43 were on higher ground than Crixus, but not the highest levels, meaning my 10th were able to counterattack from higher places than them. This resulted in a lot of quick kills for me early game, and a big advantage.

Sir TB ran up Jarek Guy to try to kill Crixus as well. While he did so, I secured my position on the high ground on either side of the map, continuing to shoot M-43 and largely ignoring Jarek. Soon there was only one squad of M-43 remaining, and I took a couple turns hammering on Jarek Guy to finish him off (by this time he had finally killed Crixus, who had been defending like a champ). Jarek got off one Plasma Grenade Special Attack before going down, but unfortunately it didn’t kill any of my 10th.

At this point my remaining 10th were in good enough position that it was easy to pick off the remaining M-43. Sir TB tried to use Marcu, but the one turn he took, Marcu turned on him, and I took a turn to put him on low ground within range of four 10th, and then Wait Then Fired for the win. In the end I had just over one squad of 10th remaining; a good game from Sir Torin Brokenshield, especially as outnumbered as he was with squad power.

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Game 4

Spoiler Alert!

VS @The Dewk

His Pick (His Army)
Airborne Elite 110
Marrden Hounds x2 90 (180)
Kira Jax 30

My Pick (My Army)
M-43 Resistance Fighters x3 65 (195)
Jarek Guy 100
Marcu Essenwein 20

(His Other Army: Marro Dividers x4, Kaemon Awa)

The Dewk chose his pet army of Hounds first, and I had a tough choice of what to use against him. I chose M-43, hoping that being able to pick targets with Priority Targeting and having Jarek Guy to take out key figures on glyphs would be enough to sway the game in my favor.

The game started and I was reminded how easily Hounds can take control of a map. The Dewk had both glyphs (Defense and Initiative) under his control on turn one, and my M-43 were struggling to respond. Without being able to reliably take high ground, and with 6 Defense Hounds, I was in a pickle, and the Hounds were engaging my figures and killing them with Plague and normal attacks. I got Jarek Guy next to the Hound on the Defense Glyph to try to kill it, but it took three attacks to do so, and by that time my forces had been decimated. The Airborne Elite dropped about that time and finished me off. A quick, clean win for The Dewk. In hindsight, the army I picked was probably the worst to take on Hounds, without attack high enough to reliably pierce 5 defense.

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Game 5

Spoiler Alert!

VS @Sir Heroscape

His Pick (His Army)
Zombies of Morindan x5 60 (300)
Marcu Essenwein 20

My Pick (My Army)
Kantono Daishi 120
Moriko 110
Shiori 60
Kira Jax 30

(His Other Army: Arrow Gruts x3, Swog Rider x3, Krug)

This was probably one of the most fun drafting picks I had. Sir H had the first pick and it took him a while to choose as the best pick wasn’t obvious. He went with Zombies, meaning I had to try to counter them which was also tough. First I ruled out my Ninjas, and then while trying to decide whether Arrow Gruts or M-43 would be better, I decided to go with Ninjas.

The change in my decision mainly had to do with fun - I just really wanted to play Ninjas vs Zombies, and Ninjas are one of my favorite armies to run. The more strategic reasons were that having only 4 figures meant a limit on how many Zombies would respawn. I would also be able to control the battlefield with the Ninjas due to their Phantom Walk - if they got in a hairy situation they could ghost out of there, and I would also be able to choose places where the Zombie Onslaught Special Attack would be impossible to pull off.

I figured the biggest issue would be glyphs - I wouldn’t have the presence to contest both, so I decided I’d have to put myself into a position to fight for the strongest glyph, making his figures come to me. Of course, in the early game, Sir H had the map control and went quickly to each glyph. When we found them to be D20 +1 and Unique Attack +1, however, it quickly became apparent that this wouldn’t be a battle for glyph control - neither benefited him and Unique Attack wasn’t good enough for my Ninjas who would be relying on their Special Attacks. That was actually a huge help to me, because if one of the glyphs had been, say Defense +1, it would have been a harder battle for me since Sir H would have had an easier time holding them.

That meant that most of the game I was able to jump from position to position to take out Zombies one at a time (or two at a time, with two activations per OM). With only 4 Move, the Zombies weren’t able to get enough around me to do any Special Attacks, much less attack my Ninjas normally. That said, the first few attacks that Sir H did manage to make were met with blanks on my defense, and in the matter of a few turns both Moriko and Shirori were at 1 Life.

Things were looking really good for me, but finally the Zombies were able to get Shirori, turning her into one of them. Moriko was engaged too, meaning I had to start thinking about a transition. I shifted to Kira, taking shots at Zombies as Moriko fell to a couple. Kira was able to kill a couple more Zombies, but by this time they were able to run up to her and surround her for an Onslaught attack, killing her in one go.

At this point I had Kantono remaining against 5 Zombies and Marcu. We were about to hit time for our game, and the points were tied up at 120 for both of us, meaning the game was nice and close. I note this because it doesn’t seem as close after that - Kantono killed one Zombie, but they got their Onslaught attack on him twice, rolling 5 skulls both times. Pretty good. I rolled 3 shields both times, also pretty darn good, but not good enough, and Kantono took his honorable death.

Sir Heroscape got the battle on video and uploaded it to his channel. Check it out:
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(Our battle is roughly the 3 minute mark, but the whole video is great fun, of course!) (And yes, unfortunately that is indeed what my voice sounds like.)

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Game 6

Spoiler Alert!

VS Cameron

His Pick (My Army)
Kantono Daishi 120
Moriko 110
Shiori 60
Kira Jax 30

My Pick (His Army)
Nottingham Brigand x7 35 (245)
Cormin the Dark 75

(His Other Army: Granite Guardians x2, Raelin (SotM))

Cameron got first pick and went with the Ninjas. I chose his Brigand army. I’d never played them and figured they’d do a good job against Ninjas if I could snipe across the board and do a lot of damage before they got close.

And that’s about how the early game was. Cameron focused on trying to throw shurikens with Shiori back at my Brigands, but with superior range and more consistent attacks, I was able to take out first Shiori, and then Kantono Daishi, losing only three Brigands while doing so. I also sniped out Kira Jax at one point when he moved her up and I had a Brigand halfway across the board.

In the end it came down to Moriko, who booked it across the board to Cormin, trying to kill the elf. I regrouped my Brigands and killed the ninja first, and that was game.

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Game 7

Spoiler Alert!

VS @DewNoHarm

His Pick (His Army)
Blastatrons x2 60 (120)
Gladiatrons x2 80 (160)
Kira Jax 30
Isamu 10

My Pick (His Army)
4th Massachusetts Line x3 70 (210)
Ulfrid Hornwrangler 100

I got first pick here, and went with 4th, figuring that in a vacuum they would beat the ‘Trons. Dew picked ‘Trons, of course, since either of my armies would have been suicide.

What my pre-game thoughts didn’t take into account was how much the map would favor the flexibility of the ‘Trons as opposed to the 4th. In the early game, I was able to move up 4th into position across my side of the high ground, taking a couple small hills and positioning them where they would be able to shoot glyph holders. And they were doing a good job in the first few turns, keeping the ‘Tron forces at bay. But what Dew had on his side was flexibility, and he was able to reroute his forces as needed, where mine wanted to camp in good positions. He also had the defense glyph, and while I was able to get him off of it once, the second time he took it he held it for the game.

With that extra defense, his ‘Trons decided that they just didn’t want to die anymore, and despite plenty of Wait Then Fire turns, he kept pushing his advantage over me, slowly grinding away my 4th even if he didn’t have Gladiatrons next to them. Soon I didn’t have any left (well, it wasn’t soon - it was a couple rounds, but it was just shooting back and forth), and so I ran in Ulfrid. He killed a couple Gladiatrons before going down, but down he went, and that was game.

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[BiggaBullfrog]

Utah Monthly - January 2018 - Standard 500

A new year, a new season of Monthlies, and I was ready to start things off strong with some of the worst units out there: the Grok Riders! I was first thinking of running:

Roman Legionnaires x3
Ne-Gok-Sa
Me-Burq-Sa
Raelin RotV
Grok Riders x1

I thought this one would be decent, using Romans to move up the Warlords while plodding forward in Raelin’s aura. NGS grabs a glyph, MBS shoots stuff, and Groks are ready to flank and strike at a key target when needed. But I also didn’t want to play so campy (and had plans for another Roman army I want to use later). So I decided on:

Grok Riders x2
Ne-Gok-Sa
Me-Burq-Sa
Krav Maga Agents

Not something I was ecstatic about, but it looked fun, even if it didn’t feel like it would win anything. But then Sir Heroscape announced a tournament and looking at its maps and point total, I decided that Groks would work much better there. So we’ll table that battle report. For now, we have the runner up!

BiggaBullfrog’s Army:
Runa 120
Minions of Utgar x2 110 (220)
Airborne Elite 110
Marro Warriors 50
500 Points/15 Figures

I’ve been poking around the old Unit Strategy Reviews (an awesome resource if you haven’t read them - check them out!) and one that has always stuck out to me is Runa’s. The army that killercactus recommended for her came out to exactly 500 points (the one above), so I decided to give it a run. Simple as that. Note: this was my first time playing Runa probably ever. I may have played her once when I first got her, which would be about 10 years ago. But hey, I’d never played Thanos before I took him to NHSD, so what could go wrong?

Game 1

Spoiler Alert!

Moisture Farms (couldn't find a working image)

VS
@Isak
Raelin 80
Eltahale 140
Sir Denrik 100
Knights of Weston x1 70
Me-Burq-Sa 50
Warriors of Ashra x1 50
Otonashi 10

This was the game where I learned that there is a “may” clause in the Helm of Mitonsoul power. Like I said, it had been years.

I started out by bumping up Runa to a Treasure Glyph (Attack +1!) and advancing a squad of Minions, and then focused on bringing up my Marro Warriors too (AE didn’t drop in the early game). I saw Isak bringing up the Warriors of Ashra and definitely did not want them hindering my Minons, so I started shooting them with the Marro Warriors, taking them out before they did any damage.

Eltahale was the next big player coming out from his army (he was also advancing Knights and Otonashi, but Eltahale was the big one), so I decided it was time to put that killercatctus’s advice to work, flying in Runa for the assassinate! I definitely didn’t roll a 20, but 4 attack isn’t bad and put a wound on her. From there I just used Minions so I didn’t lose map control, catching up to Eltahale and landing some heavy hits on her. She took out a couple Minions before going down, but down she went in the end.

Hereabouts the Knights were starting to engage, and Me-Burq-Sa was taking shots as well. This was also pretty close to Isak’s start zone, so most of his units were in Raelin’s aura. I tried to take out Raelin with Runa but failed (the attack even missed), but about this time the Airborne dropped. With their 8 range I was able to shoot pretty much anywhere I wanted, taking out Raelin and a couple Knights, and then used Minions and Airborne to finish off the remaining figures in his army. A solid win, due in no small part to the really bad dice that Isak was rolling (like really bad), but he was a good sport about those rolls and was fun to play against.

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Game 2

Spoiler Alert!

VS
Cannon
Marro Hive 160
Marro Stingers x5 60 (300)
Deathreavers x1 40

Cannon is Scaperedude’s little brother. Yeah, the Scaperedude I’ve never won against, even when my teammate did. I’ve beat Cannon before, but that was because I had an army that heavily countered his. This time I wasn’t so sure against the horde of Stingers sitting across from me.

Starting out I ran up Runa and then started moving Minions. Cannon first moved up the Deathreavers, but I figured I could ignore them and be just fine (foreshadowing?). Then came the Stingers and they shot down Runa in two turns (she blanked her rolls). Fine. I just wouldn’t use her awesome power to win the game this time. (Actually, serving as a distraction/meat shield for the Minions is a strategy mentioned by killercactus in his review. I was nailing this.)

Here’s the thing, though. Two squads of Minions against 5 squads of Stingers (which are constantly being rebirthed by the Hive, mind you) is pretty bad odds. So two rounds in after losing a couple Minions and not really getting to where I could get solid attacks at the Stingers, I went for my Hail Mary, putting one Minion on the Initiative glyph and another on the Unique Attack glyph. And then I rolled for The Drop.

And got it.

My Airborne Elite dropped behind my Minions and I snagged the initiative switch with the glyph I was on. That meant I was getting four attacks of 5 with my Airborne, and I started burning through the Stingers. My range also meant I could just focus on specific Stingers and keep his ability to counterattack the Airborne minimum. The Stingers were able to keep shooting Minions and took out a couple more, but I swept through the Stingers and pushed them back to the Hive without losing one Airborne. Ha, checkmate!

Except for I had that bit of foreshadowing earlier.

I mean, I hadn’t forgotten about the Deathreavers, and I knew I would have to kill them, and it really wasn’t a big surprise when Cannon revealed an Order Marker on them to engage my guys. What was a surprise was when two rounds later he had killed my Airborne and all but one of my Minions, and I still hadn’t killed a single Rat! The only benefit was that he had been putting a decent amount of OMs on them which meant only a few Stingers were back. But at this point it was up to my Marro Warriors and one Minion on a Unique Attack glyph.

A turn later, it was up to my Marro Warriors.

Not that I hadn’t been using them, but those Rats just wouldn’t die! Until finally I got rid of them in two successive turns. At this point I was scrambling to keep the Stingers away and somehow managed to swing it back, killing the few Stingers that had come back and then finishing off the Hive for the win.

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Game 3

Spoiler Alert!

VS
@Sir Torin Brokenshield!
Quahon 190
10th Regiment of Foot x4 75 (300)
Isamu

So yeah … 10th kind of murder melee like Minions … and Marro Warriors can’t outrange them … and AE can get lucky, but with only 2 defense they don’t last long against other range … I figured a good strategy and some luck could make this close, but I wasn’t really hoping to win.

Which meant he was just adding insult to injury when Sir TB e-mailed Scaperedude and got his blessing for the game. Now there was no way I would win.

The Minions held out better than I expected. They tanked some hits to take out some 10th, though not nearly their points worth. But that they had done damage was good enough for me. The Airborne dropped as my Minions were fizzling out, and I spotted a great opportunity to grenade Sir TB’s start zone, since a bunch of 10th were still there calling.

But I didn’t have the Initiative glyph this time, and Sir TB won the roll and moved to prevent me from throwing grenades. So I opted to shoot and pick off 10th instead. That would have worked too, if the 10th didn’t kill my Airborne so easily. A round later they were dead - which was to be expected, of course. I just wanted to hope.

At this time I only had one or two Minions remaining, but Runa was basically unscathed, so I rushed her forward for my game-winning move, running her to Sir TB’s start zone to kill a couple of 10th and then Mitonsoul Quahon in the face!

Except in my notes I wrote “Runa did nothing.” None of her attacks, let alone Mitonsoul, got through.

And so it was up to the Marro Warriors to win the game. They did finish off the 10th, but Quahon was too strong and killed them before they wounded her.

Dang it Scaperedude. You too, Sir TB. You had to go and get him involved.

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Game 4

Spoiler Alert!

Moisture Farms (couldn't find a working image)

VS
Brayden
Mimring 150
Major Q10 150
Syvarris 100
Marro Warriors 50
Tarn Viking Warriors 50

You may remember Brayden from the last Jingle Bell Bash, when I killed his Q9 in two attacks due to his blanking both defense rolls. He was back for blood, and this time I wouldn’t have such an easy time. Or at least we both hoped.

Like my first game, I ran out Runa to snag a Treasure Glyph (Attack +1 again!) and then started moving up Minions. Brayden opened using Mimring’s Fire Line to hit my guys before they even got close, wounding Runa severely and taking out some Minions. I responded by flying up Runa to take out Mimring, but only did one wound to him, but I did engage him and got Runa to serve as the distraction I needed to advance my Minions and Marro a bit more.

The Airborne dropped about here, and they coordinated their fire on the dragon to take it down. Syvarris was next to play, and he started taking long-range shots at my figures. (Runa died somewhere around this point - either right before or right after Mimring died). The Airborne Elite, though, also have great range and were able to respond to Syvarris rather easily, killing him before he did too much damage. It was a similar story with Major Q10, who also did some damage but had some bad rolls and fell, and I still had a couple Airborne Elite, a couple of Minions, and my Marro Warriors against his Vikings and Marro.

The Vikings ran up and killed a Minion and an Airborne, but the other Airborne dispatched most of them quickly. His Marro then started killing my Airborne, and also defended rather well against my attacks. Soon it was a fight between one Minion, one Viking, and two Marro Warriors for both of us. It was a pretty classic battle where we kept skirmishing and running around to clone and bring back Marro to try to overwhelm the other guy. In the end, I think Brayden got a little desperate and opted to shoot my Marro that were on high ground instead of clone in a safer spot, and his misses meant my Marro took out his and then finished of the Viking for the win.

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I was pretty pleased with this little army in the end. None of my opponents were as afraid of Runa as I thought they would be, but that’s probably because they had never been exposed to her (I don’t think any of them knew what she did) and thus didn’t have any nightmare games where she decimated an army to refer to. But it was fun to use a figure I hadn’t for a long time, if at all (I really have no recollection if I’d played her before). It’s a nice, flexible army I’d recommend to anyone looking for a few fun games.

 

[BiggaBullfrog]

It’s been a while! I’ve been keeping notes for battle reports and have been putting them together here and there for a while, but I’ve finally found the time to actually start to finish them. It’s been a while since this first one happened, though, so forgive any hazy details!

Idaho Tourney - Standard 530

I’ve been on a kick of wanting to try different units out. I’d already decided last month to use Grok Riders to see if I can grok them, but when the format and maps for this tournament were announced, I decided they would probably have a better showing here.

BiggaBullfrog’s Army:
Grok Riders x2 130 (260)
Ne-Gok-Sa 90
Me-Burq-Sa 50
Raelin RotV 80
Marro Warriors 50
530 Points/13 Figures

Basically, as I was getting ready for the tourney and I was thinking about the army, I could not see myself winning any battles unless something weird happened. Raelin makes everything better but Groks just cost so much per figure. But I was committed. I figured I could bring opponents in with Marro Warriors and MBS until I was ready to hit them hard with Groks still in Raelin’s aura. I hate campy tactics like that but that’s all I had with this army, so I was willing to try.

Best part, though, was when we played some practice games the night before at Sir Heroscape’s house. When I pulled out my army, the looks on @antmarchinggroves , @Flash_19 , and @Sir Heroscape ’s faces were priceless. The best “wut?” faces. It was worth it just for that.

Game 1

Spoiler Alert!

VS
@dart48
Nilfheim
Greenscale Warriors x2
Raelin RotV
Krav Maga Agents
Deathreavers x1

Game one and I was already facing a strong army combination, against a really good opponent (this was my first time playing him, but I know he’s won his fair share of tourneys up in potato land). But this was just the challenge I needed to put myself to the test, which was exactly what I wanted! (Also, it meant if I lost I could blame the matchup and not my own skill. )

The game started and we both opened by sending out our Raelins a bit, me to shelter by a tree to hide from Krav/Nilf and him to the center of the map. I followed with my Marro Warriors, who killed his Raelin by the end of round 1. Meanwhile, his big lizards came up, quickly eating through my Marro Warriors.

I started bringing up my Groks, first using them to screen around Raelin while I positioned them for a charge, as well as took shots with MBS, killing some Greenies and a Krav, I think (I really don’t remember exactly what the Krav did this game, but I know they were there). I was hitting Paralyzing Stare a lot and things were looking pretty good, but there was no stopping the Blue Eyes White Dragon as he took the central high ground and started moving closer and closer, whittling through my Groks while remaining surrounded by Greenscales to block a Warlord-led charge.

In the end, the slow advance of the lizards overwhelmed me, as they got in more attacks per turn against me and each Grok lost was huge. Eventually Nilf went in to finish off Raelin with melee attacks, and I ran up Ne-Gok-Sa to try to Mindshackle him. I missed about three times as he continued to hammer on my units with lizards, and soon enough the last of my figures had fallen. I killed a good amount of his army (more than I expected, at least), but it was still a landslide victory for dart.

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Game 2

Spoiler Alert!

VS
@TREX
Zelrig
Greenscale Warriors x2
Raelin RotV
Krav Maga Agents
Siiv

This next one saw me sitting across the table from a very similar army to the first one — just switch out Nilfheim for Zelrig and the Deathreavers for Siiv. Another good army I wasn’t sure I could take.

I began the game with my first two OMs on Marro Warriors, expecting TREX to begin by moving up Raelin and then Greenscales/Zelrig, and figuring I could again shoot down Raelin and then start to thin the Greenscales in preparation for my Groks to charge Zelrig. I then had OM 3 on Raelin to buff my Marro Warriors and help cover the rest of my units as they advanced, figuring I would want her in my start zone to protect my Groks who were otherwise defenseless against Zelrig.

This opening round, however, blew up in my face, as TREX had gone all in on Krav Maga in an aggressive ranged assault. My Marro Warriors were no match for them and I lost three of them, throwing the last one on a glyph (I don’t even remember how helpful that was). On my third turn, since I had it on Raelin, I decided that with my first two turns meaning essentially nothing (I hadn’t killed any Krav while he had killed most of my Marro and put wounds on Raelin), I decided it was all or nothing and flew her forward to engage and attack a Krav. I missed.

At that point I figured I could at least get some mileage out of the Grok Riders, especially against the forward Krav. No such luck. TREX took initiative with Zelrig, flew forward, and was able to kill all of my Groks before I could get next to anything, leaving me only with a wounded Raelin and Me-Burq-Sa, along with Ne-Gok-Sa. It was not the best first two rounds for me.

So with everything else pretty much dead, I went with my only remaining strategy: run forward with Ne-Gok-Sa and pray for a Mindshackle! Unfortunately, NGS quickly got pinned down by Greenscales and one of the two remaining Krav Maga (one died sometime, I don’t remember when). 6 Defense and 5 Life is tanky, though, and I was able to slowly take out Greenscales while trying to Mindshackle the Krav. Finally I was down to 2 remaining Greenscales, when I rolled a 20! The Krav were mine!

Obviously, this was a turning point in the game, and TREX was scrambling to kill Ne-Gok-Sa before he could get next to Zelrig for any amount of time, but with the Krav as friendlies I was able to move through them and engage the dragon. Dice started rolling again and Ne-Gok-Sa was low on health, not really hurting Zelrig much (I was focusing on the Greenscales while saying I didn’t want to hurt my future dragon) when I got my second 20! I took control of the dragon as TREX’s nightmares came true. From there, I just used Zelrig to finish off the Greenscales and then fight Raelin and Siiv (his early aggression had left Raelin in the start zone and he never really needed her aura as my only real attack force most of the game was Ne-Gok-Sa). We rolled some more dice, and I think Siiv did kill the Krav, but at the end having a sudden Dragon in my army was too much and I took the win. It was a super fun game that we both really enjoyed.

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Game 3

Spoiler Alert!

VS
@Leaf_It
Wyvern x3
Fyorlag Spiders x4
Water Elemental x2

Pssh, spiders are so wimpy. All I had to do was run out my Marro Warriors and kill them before they engaged anything of mine, and then finish off the Wyverns with Groks and Warlords.

Of course, I made my main mistake by moving out Raelin a bit the first turn. Not much, just behind a ruin to give a little extra defense to my Marro Warriors. But that plus Leafy winning initiative meant there were Spiders attacking down on my Marro and a Wyvern stealing Raelin away by the end of the round. I hammered through those Spiders and scrambled Groks and Me-Burq-Sa to deal with the Wyvern, and that was the game in a nutshell. Each time I beat off a wave of Spiders or a Wyvern there was another wave on its way. And Leafy’s attacks were nuts — he rolled full skulls with Wyverns several times, killing Raelin, Ne-Gok-Sa and a few Groks with them. I was able to use Me-Burq-Sa to pick off a lot of figures, and it came down to a couple of Groks against Spiders in the end, but Leafy pulled off the victory. A less exciting report, I know, but it all kind of blurs when it’s an endless drove of Spiders/Predators, even if it was a good game (and it’s been a couple of months).

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Game 4

Spoiler Alert!

VS
@antmarchingroves
Charos
Krav Maga Agents
Thorgrim
Knights of Weston x2

In the end, this is the only game that went according to plan.

I began with Marro Warriors to take shots at Knights and Thorgrim as they advanced. I was able to pick off a good amount of Knights before retreating and running up Raelin to prepare a save zone, screening around her with Groks. The map really helped with only three paths through the center, all of which were easily blocked by Raelin-covered Groks. As I shielded Raelin and prepared to charge in an opening, Me-Burq-Sa picked off more Knights, and I was able to use Ne-Gok-Sa to engage Thorgrim and get big attacks on him with the Groks. The Krav started running up and shooting at me at that point, and I shot back with Me-Burq-Sa and ran out with Groks once they were close enough, killing them off. Then came Charos, who I engaged with Ne-Gok-Sa and hammered on with Groks, threatening death if he didn’t let him get Mindshackled. My 20 never came, though, so death it was. It was another good game, and the only time my Marro Warriors -> Raelin/Groks while MBS shoots strategy actually worked. I just don’t remember a ton of the more fun details due to how long it’s been.

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[TREX]

It was indeed an epic game. My favorite one of the evening. Im glad you posted a play by play.

 

[BiggaBullfrog]

Utah Monthly - March 2018 - Playtesting 440

This Monthly was unique for two reasons, both having to do with playtesting. First off, we were playing on maps that had made the Top 10 in the most recent ARV map contest. Second, we were allowing units in the C3V’s Public Playtesting forum to be used. Now, I playtest a bunch, and I’m a fan, but since there were so many other players signing up for playtesting units, I decided to instead play an army good to playtest against, and good to get a feel for maps with.

BiggaBullfrog’s Army:
Tornak 100
Hrognak 65
Nerak 50
Blade Gruts x4 40 (160)
Brute Gruts 65
435 Points/23 Figures

Orcs! I’m a big fan of orcs, and Heavy Gruts are my second favorite squad. But I’ve played those guys in a tournament twice already, so I sacrificed their solid stats for mobility with Blade Gruts, which are really fun in their own right. Then I just piled on Champions and some Brute Gruts (who I play tested during their time and thus knew their high power level) for good measure, and I had a solid, mostly melee army that would make for some fun games. I knew I would have numbers and mobility on my side in most if not every game, which leads to good map control, and that’s how I usually like to win my games, so I was ready to rumble.

Game 1

Spoiler Alert!

VS
Tanner
Raelin 80
Major Q10 150
Krav Maga Agents 100
Marro Warriors 50
Tarn Viking Warriors 50
Otonashi 10

Facing down a Raelin and Range army in my first game. Luckily there wouldn’t be a screen to hack through (though disengage would get me through anyway), but I wasn’t looking forward to trying to beat down Raelin-backed figures. In an ideal world, I’d be able to get up to her quickly with a bunch of figures and take her out.

Raelin moved up on the first turn of Round 1, and I ran out my Brute Gruts on my first turn to get them near the action for later in the game. Then I brought out Blades with Nerak moving up too to help keep them safe from enemy fire. Turn 3 of Round 1, Q10 took some high ground near Raelin and shot Nerak, killing him in one go. Not the way I was hoping to start.

Round 2 I had enough Orcs out of my start zone to start attacking Raelin’s position with a few at a time. First I ran in Tornak, taking even ground against her, and I Missed. Every. Attack. Well, technically she was blocking them, but still. And though I could bring in a couple of Blade Gruts at a time to get in attacks, they weren’t cutting through either. Lots of me rolling dice and not inflicting wounds going on for that full round and a little into the next one.

The one wound I did inflict was on a Krav, because as I was trying to focus down Raelin, Tanner had brought out the Krav to secure the high ground, switching between them and Q10 to kill Orcs. One Krav ventured out of Raelin’s aura and that was the last thing it did, but that’s all I had to show for my efforts while my Blade Gruts kept dying (fortunately Tornak was defending well, and the Blades were keeping him from getting shot too much). I did also take the Wannok glyph a couple times, which resulted in a couple of Marro Warrior deaths.

Finally after a round of next to no progress on my end, I started putting hits in on Raelin. First a couple wounds, one at a time, and then finally I got the final three wounds in on her in one turn to take her out. Then I killed another Krav and started focusing on a three-hex hill where Q10 and the final Krav were holed up, and started rolling more attacks doing nothing.

Also, at this point, my Blade Gruts were all but spent. I had a squad or less left, so I engaged Q10 with all the ones I had and started bringing up my Brute Gruts while the Blades kept the Brutes from being picked off. The Brute Gruts ran in and engaged, and I got a full turn of attacks on Q10, rolling really well. But Q10 rolled better and took no wounds, so I Berserker Frenzied for another round of attacks. And still did nothing except for kill the last Krav with a lucky attack (I wanted to take its spot to have even ground against Q10). Q10 retaliated, luckily only killing one Brute, and then I went again. Three more attacks doing nothing against Q10, then finally I got some good attacks and he got low defense and I killed the Soulborg in one final go of attacks, which was a huge relief.

Even more fortunately, there were a couple of Order Markers on Q10, which meant I got two free turns with the Brutes, who charged into the enemy start zone, taking swings at Vikings. The Vikings unfortunately blocked most of my early attacks, and we had a really key initiative roll, which I won, and I got in and engaged with all of my Brutes and swung, killing nothing, and then swung again with my third and final Berserker Frenzy, and killed a couple of guys. Tanner replied with Vikings and Otonashi, and a general brawl began. As my Brutes fell I ran in with Tornak and my last Blade Grut. Blows were traded, I don’t remember specifics, but at the end of the day when the dust settled, only one figure remained:

Tornak, with a single wound on his card. (And also Hrognak back in my start zone, untouched.)

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Game 2

Spoiler Alert!

VS
@Sir Heroscape
Krav Maga Agents 100
Banshees of Durgeth Swamp x3 70 (210)
Deathreavers x3 40 (120)
Isamu 10

As most people know, sometimes in Heroscape you just run into your natural predator. Luckily, in this game that predator was me. When your whole army has Disengage, you don’t really care about Deathreavers very much. And when you have 16 Common figures in your army, you don’t mind if some Banshees scream them to death because you have more to take their place, and the low attack of the Blade Gruts can penetrate the low defense of the Banshees. And while Krav are always scary, my army was fast enough to keep up with them and could get into their low defense (which is a lot easier when Raelin isn’t around). And Isamu is only 10 points - barely better than a single Blade Grut, as we all know.

Sir H began by running out Deathreavers, and fortunately for him he won the initiative roll which meant he got to take both glyphs. So, with Deathereavers filling the board, Orcs did what Orcs do to Rats and ignored them, looking for the juicier Krav that were venturing out fo the start zone. The Krav got a couple good shots in on Nerak, putting two wounds on him quickly, but then Sir H had a decision to make.

If he kept his Krav where they were, they might kill Nerak with 3 attacks of 3 against Nerak’s 5 Defense (Jungle and height), but they would be very exposed to a Tornak/Blade Grut counter attack. He could have withdrawn into his Start Zone, but I would have then ignored the start zone figures and went to town on Rats, killing them slowly but surely until I took the Wound glyph, and then would have sat on that to make him come out. So, Sir H did his only other option that he saw.

He sent his Krav into hand-to-hand combat with Nerak and Tornak.

He got two attacks on Nerak, trying to take him out to lessen my overall defense. But I blocked him perfectly, first 1 Skull to 1 Shield, then 2 Skulls to 2 Shields. That wasn’t what he wanted at all. So he used his final attack on Tornak (the last Krav wasn’t able to get next to Nerak). 3 Skulls. I rolled 6 Dice — 0 Shields! Tornak gone in one go. That wasn’t what I wanted, but I was okay trading Tornak for Nerak.

From there I retaliated by starting to kill the Krav, and Sir H brought out the Banshees to play, killing a decent amount of Blade Gruts, but not enough due to Nerak’s defense bonus, and I took out most of the Banshees pretty quickly. Soon enough, it was down to Orcs vs Deathreavers.

Deathreavers do pretty decently against Blade Gruts, and Blade Gruts don’t have the attack power to get through them very reliably, so I brought out the Brutes instead. From there we had a slow game of him trying to kill Nerak with Rats (eventually doing so) and me picking off Rats one at a time due to Scatter. It took a while, but I had the upper hand and was careful to not let him get height on the Brutes (okay, that’s a lie, I did at one point to try to get a better kill, and it resulted in a Brute dying). Eventually the Rats fizzled off, I killed the last Banshee, and Isamu came out to play. He killed a few guys before falling, but die he did, like every 10-Pointer does, giving me the win with Hrognak and a few Brutes and Blades remaining.

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Game 3

Spoiler Alert!

VS @antmarchingroves
Tor-Kul-Na 220
Marrden Nagrubs x4 30 (120)
Me-Burq-Sa 50
Marro Warriors 50

This map is really flat, and there’s a good amount of room for TKN to do his stompy thingy. And I had plenty of guys for him to do that to. Basically, keeping TKN occupied with the guys he couldn’t stomp was priority number one this game.

Unfortunately for antsmarchingroves, that was easier than anticipated. Early game consisted of some skirmishing as we developed our boards. Some Nagrubs and Blade Gruts died, but nothing huge. I was accomplishing my goal of keeping TKN away by keeping the middle of the road clogged with Nerak and Tornak but still surrounded by Blades so he couldn’t just murder them. Then ants went for a big play, jumping TKN into some swamp water to get his 6 Attack dice thrown at Tornak. Tornak, however blocked the attack perfectly.

You can probably imagine how it went from there. I swarmed TKN with Blades, and they and Tornak worked together to kill the Hivelord, doing so before Nagrubs could catch up to him (I had also put some Blades in their path to make things difficult). After a few turns of back and forth with TKN and Tornak, the Hivelord went down, and he never got a hit in on Tornak. From there, I took advantage of the Order Markers on the now almost-useless Nagrubs by running into ant’s start zone and cleaning up MBS and the Marro Warriors. Then it was fighting the Nagrubs for the win.

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Game 4

Spoiler Alert!

VS
Tyler
4th Massachusetts Line x4 70 (280)
Raelin RotV 80
Kumiko 80

Final boss time, and if there’s a matchup my army struggles with, it’s 4th. Luckily, my opponent’s 4th were nerfed by having Raelin in the army (one of the few times I’ve been happy to see Raelin across from me). It was still going to be an uphill fight, but my mobility was good enough, and the start zones were wide enough, that I figured that if I could catch enough 4th outside of Raelin’s aura I would stand a decent chance.

I began by moving my Brute Gruts one move out of the Start Zone, again preparing them to charge in for the late game so I wouldn’t have to waste turns bringing them up while they were getting shot at. Tyler was moving Kumiko up to take the Defense Glyph in the middle, and I retaliated by bringing up my Blades, positioning Nerak into a defensive position across from the side of the map Raelin was on so my Orcs would have an easier time attacking her position. Then I ran in Tornak to start attacking Kumiko from height while I started preparing to take control of the map with the Blades.

While Tornak was stabbing away in the middle, we started to have skirmishes on the side of Blades against 4th. The 4th were climbing to take height, but my Orcs were fast enough that they could hover just out of range and then rush in to attack. Not that they didn’t die — I was losing a good amount — but most importantly I was able to intercept lone 4th before they got onto good positions. This was most important on my right side, the side without Raelin. Once Kumiko was killed by Tornak, I was able to kill the first few 4th there easily due to their having only 2 Defense. Unfortunately, on the left the 4th were in Raelin’s aura, and right after Kumiko was killed by Tornak, Tornak was killed in one shot from a 4th.

From here, it was a matter of slowly closing in on the position around Raelin. I was able to control the Defense glyph from that point, fortunately, jumping off at the end of each round. This combined with Nerak gave me decent defense while attacking the position on the left, and I was able to knock 4th off of the good high spots, forcing them to choose between moving back onto height or taking Wait Then Fire shots from lower ground (of course, it was often the latter).

I was switching off between using Hrognak for potshots and Nerak to advance the aura and get in a stronger attack, though I was always careful to keep Nerak out of view of the majority of the 4th, and that’s what ended up being key. With him on height he was able to block attacks that did come at him, and he was hidden from even ground attacks. I also had Blade Gruts engaged with most 4th that could kill Nerak, and making them focus on the small guys helped me stay in the game. My Orcs from the other side finished cleaning up the 4th over there outside of Raelin’s aura as well, and they came to join the party for the final showdown.

The last of the 4th were huddled around Raelin, and I came swarming around a pillar for the last clash. I killed most of the 4th easily, then started putting wounds on Raelin once there was less than a squad of the bluecoats left and his Order Marker efficiency was dropping (though I still focused on them when I could, because they were more dangerous). I took some hits, but in the end my Orc horde finished them off, and I won with Hrognak, Nerak, one squad of Blades and my Brutes remaining (I never had to use the Brutes, but they were always there for insurance which was comforting).

4-0

 

[superfrog]

Huh. I didn't realize one of my maps had been used at the Idaho tournament. Cool!

(also I love reading your reports in general, so keep it up )

 

[BiggaBullfrog]

It was indeed an epic game. My favorite one of the evening. Im glad you posted a play by play.

It was my favorite too! One of the swingiest and most fun games I've played!

Huh. I didn't realize one of my maps had been used at the Idaho tournament. Cool!

(also I love reading your reports in general, so keep it up )

It was a fun map! I've got several more of yours on my list of maps to try out between ARV tests. And thanks for the compliment, it means a lot!

 

[BiggaBullfrog]

Utah Monthly - April 2018 - Half Heroes 500

This month gave me a good chance to try out the monks, a hero army (I like the challenge of hero armies) that I’d been looking forward to using. However, once I realized that everyone else would be guaranteed to have at least 250 points of unique heroes in their army, I decided to troll them all with one of my favorite figures instead.

BiggaBullfrog’s Army:
Werewolf Lord x2 140 (280)
Wolves of Badru x2 80 (160)
Samuel Brown 60
Total: 500 Points/9 Figures

The Werewolf Lord is just a fun figure. Why worry about making my own synergistic army when I can just focus on ruining everybody else’s? Monks, Ninjas, Elf Wizards, Bonding Armies, all ruined by Lycanthropy, and any strong heroes become secret agents I use to destroy their own armies. It’s not a very competitive army, but I just wanted to mess with my opponent’s armies a bunch, have fun, and that would be a win in my book.

Game 1

Spoiler Alert!

VS
Eliza
Charos
Greenscale Warriors x2
Marro Stingers x2
Yi Feng

This was Eliza’s first tournament ever, and her third game ever, if I remember correctly. Which of course meant that I got to explain the Werewolf Lord’s powers to her, which is always fun. I like to see the look on people’s face when I tell them that just one wound can ruin their synergies and let me take turns with their heroes. (I actually got to do that with all of my opponents today — it was great fun.)

She led out with a Stinger and Greenscale/Charos mix as I of course led with Wolves and a Werewolf. I set to pouncing Stingers on one side of the map, determined to keep them away from my Werewolf. Meanwhile she started taking a hill with Greenscales, trying to keep Charos away from my Werewolf, but I just rushed past the Greenies, taking a couple of disengagement strikes, to try to get a good attack in on Charos. My first swing missed (luckily no Counterstrike) but the second swing hit, inflicting Lycanthropy and turning the Dragon into a Hybrid!

It should be noted, though, that while Lycanthropy will ruin most bonding armies, it doesn’t hurt the Greenscales, as they pick a Dragon at the beginning of the game and that’s their King for the rest of it. Their bonding and attack/defense bonuses remain, so this army wasn’t too hurt by it. That also means that even if I took control of Charos for a turn, her Greenscales would still get the defense bonus if I attacked one with him, since he’s still the chosen King. This game is pretty fun.

Anyway, with Charos infected I ran the Werewolf further into her army to infect her other hero, Yi Feng. Unfortunately my Werewolf Lord turned into the Werewolf Pup, and missed his attacks, meaning that he took wounds from the Monk’s Iron Shirt. This combined with attacks from Greenscales and Charos (who I had moved back to attack with) finished off my first Werewolf.

Fortunately the fight against the Stingers had gone well, and I had them mostly cleaned up with my Wolves. Charos flew over to fight my wolves as my second Werewolf took some high ground by Greenies and started to work on them. Yi Feng moved his way up to combat the Werewolf, but this one decided to put some wounds on him, creating a second Hybrid!

Then, as the Werewolf finished off the Greenscales, Eliza and I began a tug-of-war with Charos as she tried to move him to attack Samuel Brown in my start zone and I tried to bring him to the middle to fight Yi Feng. In the end she won out (tuns out Order Markers are more consistent than a D20 roll) and engaged Samuel Brown. TrueMurray was spectating at this point and said “Oh no, you’re in trouble,” to which I replied “Nah, it will take a couple turns to kill him.”

At the end of that turn, I took Sam off the board.

So there we were, a wounded Charos against a somewhat less wounded Werewolf Lord (and Yi Feng, but the Werewolf killed him quickly so it was down to the two huge figures). The Werewolf started grabbing the Treasure Glyphs (+4 Speed first, which it used to get to the other glyph, Healing, which it used as soon as possible) and the two met on even ground and duked it out. It went a little like this:

Charos attacks, Werewolf gets hurt.
Roll the D20 for Moon Frenzy (to move Charos to lower ground), not high enough.
Werewolf attacks, Werewolf gets hurt.
Charos attacks, Werewolf gets hurt.
Moon Frenzy, not high enough.
Werewolf attacks, Werewolf gets hurt.

Adjust the length a little to make up for the wounds healed with the Treasure Glyph, and that’s the fight. Charos was the last figures standing with more than half his life remaining. Eliza played well for her first tournament. And man, Counterstrike hurts.

0-1

Game 2

Spoiler Alert!

VS
Idaho John
Grimnak
Ornak
Nerak
Marcu
Heavy Gruts x3

This was also John’s first tournament ever, and one of his first games ever too, IIRC. And his army, unlike the first one, had plenty of bonding options for me to ruin.

John started out a little aggressive, using Ornak’s first turn to swing Marcu and Nerak out towards glyphs. A couple of Wolves started taking attacks on Marcu while a Werewolf Lord went for Nerak, ready to grab my first sometimes friend.

However, really good attack rolls with my wolves and really bad defense rolls for Marcu/Nerak meant dead figures instead of friends (Nerak died in one blow).

After that devastating first couple of turns, John did a really good job of more defensive play. Since he was new to the game, I was ready to help and point out ways my Werewolves could get to his meaty heroes, but each time he caught any holes in his defense before I needed to bring them up. He was able to keep my Werewolf Lords occupied and swing back pretty well.

Unfortunately, without Nerak the defense of his Heavies was pretty low, and my Wolves of Badru were able to pounce on those Heavies at the edge of the army, steadily thinning his forces. Good defense rolls on my part kept my wolves alive, and the Heavies weren’t able to take out the Werewolf Lord I had in the middle of the action. Basically the game became a steady push as I thinned Heavies out of the way, then made it to Grimnak and Ornak behind the lines. Again, the heroes had poor defense rolls, and I killed them before I got to take many turns with them, then just cleaned up the remaining Heavies for the win. It was a landslide in my favor, despite John’s excellent play with only a couple of pointers from me. The dice just really hated him.

1-1

Game 3

Spoiler Alert!

VS
@Starling
Captain America
Marro Stingers x4
Guilty McCreech
Otonashi

This is a good example of how to not play a Werewolf Lord/Wolves of Badru army if you want to win. I, however, did not want to win. I just wanted to take control of Captain America. That was life goal number one, and I only had one life goal.

If I wanted to win, then I would have taken more advantage of how spread out my opponent was due to the start zones on this map, pouncing on Stingers and using the threat of the Werewolf Lord to draw out his units and force him into bad positions by trying to keep the Werewolf away from Cap, and also focusing more on Stingers. Once the squaddies were dead, I’d have ample time to focus on the superhero.

Of course, a lot of that is hindsight speaking, though I was playing the game a lot more aggressively than I usually do anyway, knowing it wouldn’t win the game without a lot of luck. Why, you ask?


Because I just wanted to kill Stingers with Captain America. I mean, what more do you need in life? It would be a whole new Civil War for good ol’ Cap.

I did pounce on plenty of Stingers, of course, and was taking them out quickly enough to scare Starling. And he was busy trying to hide Cap from my Werewolf and trying to murderize it with Stingers. Which he did. I left the Werewolf exposed and it got shot up in less than two full rounds of attacks. So number two started coming up while I continued to harass with my Wolves (who were quickly dying), wanting to get next to Cap, but knowing I had already lost since my first Werewolf had died without doing anything.

In the end, I did get next to Cap. And Counterstrike hurts.

Really, it was like my first game taking tons of wounds from Charos and Yi Feng all over again. So it was pretty downhill, and I never got to take a turn with Cap. Life goal lost.

Oh yeah, Sam tried to do stuff. And didn’t.

1-2

Game 4

Spoiler Alert!

VS
Brayden
Sgt. Drake Alexander RotV
Brunak
Krav Maga Agents
Marro Warriors
Tarn Viking Warriors
Sahuagin Raider
Drow Chainfighter

Drake is pretty cool. Rolling 6 attack dice is a nice feeling. Yeah, I wanted to make him a hybrid homey.

I began, of course, by again running up my Wolves of Badru and a Werewolf Lord, and Krav Maga along with Brunak were coming to meet me. This game I opted for a more map-control based approach, securing both glyphs (one was Defense, the best glyph in the pool). This gave the Krav a bit of free time to run around, but with ruins blocking my glyph holders and jungle/glyph defense bonuses, I was doing okay. I caught up to a couple of the Krav on one side while running into Brunak on the other, and we started swinging at each other. And missing. A lot. A good couple turns of that good ol’ “Lots of dice rolling, lots of nothing happening” action.

Eventually I started to break through the Krav, whose 3 defense had lasted way too long, and a lucky blank in Brunak’s defense took him out in a short couple of turns. I had lost a couple of wolves, and now Tarn Viking Warriors were coming to engage. My wolves started working on them while I ran the Werewolf Lord past them to where Drake was trying to leave his start zone. A quick attack on him put three wounds on him, and he became my newest sometimes friend. This, of course, got Brayden worried, so he started focusing heavily on killing my Werewolf Lord, which he did.

I only had a couple Wolves remaining on the front (one behind on the defense glyph), so I used a turn to get them to tie up the remaining enemy figures, and started booking it in with my other Werewolf Lord. My primary goal with this last one (and the turns with Drake, when I got them) was to kill the Marro Warriors since they would be the hardest figures for Samuel Brown to kill. There were still a couple of Vikings in the way, but I killed one and ignored the other to get my Werewolf in the start zone, and after a few turns (only one with Sgt. Drake ) I had taken care of the Marro Warriors, but also take heavy damage myself. I managed to kill Drake before my Werewolf Lord and the last of my wolves (including the one on the glyph) went down, so it was down to my Sam Brown against the Chainfighter, Sahuagin Raider, and Guilty.

Yeah, this was right down to it.

Luckily, I had the ease of Order Marker management on my side, and with 7 Range I sniped the Raider quickly, and took out the Chainfighter before it got any wounds on me. In a shootout between Guilty and Sam, Sam blocked both attacks from the cowboy and then returned fire with a one-hit kill on him, winning me the game.

2-2

 

[BiggaBullfrog]

Utah Monthly - May 2018 - General Wars 525

Both of the Ant squads that VC has put out have always intrigued me, so a couple months ago I went and bought a bag of the Xualtica Fire Ants from Amazon, landing a total of 192 ants (no idea why they couldn’t just go up to an even 200, but oh well). More than I needed for myself, of course, but I figured that I could keep six squads for myself and then have 42 squads left over to use as prizes at our Monthlies (4 or 5 squads at a time — I feel like it would be nice for players to be able to leave with half of a new army). So I picked 24 of the most unique Ants that connected with me personally, and created my Ant family (being Ringo, John, Paul, George, Antony, Bryant, Jordant, sAnta, Timothy, Edward, Dimitri, Wallace, Julianne, Heather, Shoshauna, Jill, Stephanie, Heather, Jackie, Sharon, Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo). Then, when I saw the point limit for this format, I had to use them since the army fit perfectly:

BiggaBullfrog’s Army:
Xualtica Fire Ants x6 55 (330)
Quahon 190
Total: 520 Points/25 Figures (Drop one ant)

Boy oh boy was I ready for some stinging/swarming map control action. Although, in a game I played with the Ants before the tourney (against True’s Arrow Grut army), I tried stinging everything I could and felt that it wasn’t working well enough. So I did some research and looked up AliasQTip’s Dice Probability Chart. Turns out, often attacks of 2 are going to have as good or better odds of inflicting a wound on a figure (when that figure has 3 or 4 defense), so I printed off a copy to use during my games. Basically in gameplay that meant that I would usually make normal attacks with my Ants until I was engaged with at least 5, preferably 6 different enemy figures, at which I would start rolling for stinging damage. High defense figures changed things, of course, and Heroes I would almost always normally attack (especially with height) unless they were almost completely surrounded (as you’re more likely to get multiple sounds off of attacks than rolling a D20 where if you miss the first roll, you’re done for the turn).

Basically, there were a lot of decision points with this army, and I loved it.

Game 1

Spoiler Alert!

VS
@Starling
Quahon
Wyvern
Fyorlag Spiders x5
Kira Jax

Aquilla civil war! Both armies using Quahon supported by a bunch of creepy crawlies! Plus a Wyvern and Kira Jax.

Obviously, both of us were scared of the other army’s Quahon, who is more than capable of burning through 2-defense squaddies. So priority number 1 was enemy Quahon, and I had to use mine to get her since my Ants would just get wiped away. Problem was that his Quahon had bonding friends.

I used my first OM to bump up some Ants to have a couple within striking distance when my Quahon went down, as well as to try to bait the enemy Quahon into an aggressive attack. The Quahon took the bait (poor Edward and John … ), and my Quahon moved up to meet her. Cue a battle between Quahons on the high ground in the middle of the map (with some Spiders running around too). Luckily I got the first attack as well as some good rolls, and by the end of round two his Quahon went down while mine had only taken two wounds.

Next his Wyvern came to avenge Quahon, while Spiders surrounded my Quahon seeking for revenge. Not wanting to lose any OMs, I only took one turn with Quahon before bringing up Ants to start taking control of the whole board, expecting my Quahon to die fairly quickly (I still had some PTSD after getting wrecked by Leaf_It’s Wyverns in a tourney earlier this year). I doubted too much, though, as my Quahon survived repeated attacks from the Wyvern and some Spiders (ones that weren’t going for my Ants) for two more rounds, often blocking every attack rolled against her.

That said, my Ants were doing pretty well too. My bugs crashed with his arachnids, and soon I was swarming all over the place (that power is nuts!). Attacks of 2 are good enough against 2 defense that I used normal attacks for the first bit, but soon I was engaging so many Spiders each turn that I just rolled the D20 about 10 times a turn to see how it went (I had so many Ants engaged that I ran out of available ones to activate with Swarming). I also was able to fight over and claim Lodin for an extra bump to my roll, and I took chunk after chunk out of the Spider army. Even the Wyvern got hit after it finally killed Quahon. Once I had cleaned up those units, I ran my remaining Ants to the enemy Start Zone to take out Kira Jax for the win.

Great fun game with so many little Spiders and Ants running around. My early luck with killing the enemy Quahon and my Quahon tanking so many attacks definitely swung it.

2-0

Game 2

Spoiler Alert!

VS
Jonathan
Sir Dupuis
Templar Cavalry x3

Sometimes when you go to a tourney, you just run into your natural predator. In this case, the predator was the map. Not for me — Quahon loves being able to fly up high and shoot lightning at stuff, and my Ants are fast enough to be okay. But for an army full of expensive double-spaced figures that’s already tough to pilot, this map wasn’t going to help.

It started out alright. I led with my Ants and we fought over the glyphs, mainly Astrid since I really wanted that extra attack against the Templar Cavalry (I had a better chance of killing one with a normal attack of 3 than a D20 roll). Despite holding the glyphs consistently, though, I wasn’t killing the Templar quickly enough, and at the end of the second round I had only managed to kill 2 of them while they had killed two squads of my Ants (even Julianne! she’s usually my rally point!).

So, with a good few Knights engaged on the low ground with a bunch of Ants, I switched to Quahon.

Two rounds later, Quahon had taken two wounds. All the Knights were dead, including Sir Dupuis despite his valiant charge up the castle walkways to take Quahon toe-to-toe. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much a bunch of double-spacers could do against a Dragon flying up to the top wall area, but Jonathan played well nonetheless.

2-0

Game 3

Spoiler Alert!

VS
@Sir Heroscape
Nhah Scirh Cultists x4
Mezzodemon Warmongers x3

I made it onto Sir H’s livestream! If you want to see the video you can here:
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This matchup was definitely uphill. Sure, I had plenty of ways around the Warmongers, but Sir H had a lot of Cultists, who not only slay Quahon, but are strong enough in both numbers and stats individually to keep my Ants from reliably out valuing them.

We both started out pretty cautious, developing our boards. We had some initial skirmishing between Ants and Cultists, and I found that my Ants weren’t doing enough individually to be able to reliably kill enough Cultists. I initially planned to keep with the map control battle, trying to take out individual Cultists while trying to keep the high ground, but at one point there were enough vulnerable Cultists coming across the board and my Ants were doing poorly enough on the hit-for-hit game that I decided to risk it and go for stings (partially also because he had a lot of high ground, but the D20 would ignore his bonus defense). Basically a little good luck would help me immensely with this plan, and a little bad would pretty much ruin me.

So a bit of average luck later (I wasn’t doing terrible, usually killing a couple of Cultists a turn) I ended up overextended and there were Cultists knocking on my Start Zone door. I still had enough Ants to keep them from tackling Big Blue, but they were burning out.

Then, as I was going through my turns too quickly (and with almost all of my Ants engaged anyway), I forgot to move for Swarming, and missed a single chokepoint that was keeping the Cultists off of my Dragon, and accidentally threw the game.

The Nhah Scirh jumped on Quahon like toddlers on a big blue teddy bear dragon, and in a couple of turns she was gone. That was basically game. I had a few Ants left, but not enough to match the Mezzodemons at this point even if I was able to get rid of the remaining Cultists. sAnta did come to town and almost managed to finish off the last of the Cultists, but it was a lost cause.

2-1

Game 4

Spoiler Alert!

VS
Holden
Su-Bak-Na
Marrden Nagrubs x2
Marrden Hounds x2
Marro Stingers x2

This was Holden’s first tournament! I love playing against first timers! Especially when they turn out to be really solid players like Holden is.

Expecting to be rushed by Hounds, I used my first turn to run out some Ants to do some light screening. As the met the expected Wulsinu, Quahon took some high ground and started shooting some lightning. At one point I got a really cool shot where I was able to get a shot of lightning completely around the central glacier by linking Hounds. Killed two of them, too. It was looking good.

But then the Hounds stopped dying, and started plaguing my Ants (literally). He got both he Beatles and most of the Ninja Turtles before I was able to clean the Hounds up. Then Su-Bak-Na came to play with his Nagrub friends. Well, Nagrubs die to Lightning Breath rather easily, but Su-Bak-Na’s hefty attack put some serious hurt on Quahon. I don’t remember if my Dragon died first or if his Hivelord did, but they both went down, and my Ants started cleaning up Nagrubs while the Stingers came out to play.

Here’s where it got tricky. At this point, I had enough Ants to take out the Stingers comfortably if it was a fair fight, but there’s a moat in front of the Start Zone and a Nagrub that wouldn’t die blocking the main entrance in. I caught a couple Stingers that advanced too far, but then had to start massing Ants for a charge while the Stingers continued to shoot at my friends. However, I was hitting a good streak with defense rolls, and I was able to block a good amount of attacks while claiming high ground (but still lost Dimitri, Donatello, and Jordant). This got Holden desperate to take out some Ants before they rushed in, so he started rolling for Stinger Drain. The first one had no effect either way, then Holden got an initiative switch and rolled for it again. And hit a 1.

That was a huge relief to me, of course, as he lost a Stinger and his attacks for the turn. Then, with the aforementioned Nagrub out of the way, I ran in with my remaining Ants to start attacking Stingers. I only had a squad remaining at that time, but the Stinger Drain fail had put him down to one squad as well, and getting the first set of attacks for the round helped a bunch, and after a bit of a struggle, my Ants and I pulled out victorious in what was easily my closest game of the day.

3-1

Great fun tournament! Xualtica Fire Ants come highly recommended as a fun (and surprisingly powerful) army to run.



In other news, after updating my tournament lists (I keep track of the Utah meta, what units have been played, as well as my own tournament lists of units played and win/loss record) I realized that, with this tournament, I have played 100 tournament games (in 23 tournaments), which is pretty neat! (Or at least I think it is.) So, for those who want to indulge in myself with me, I’m posting here some snapshot statistics for funzies (and so I can come back and look at where I was).

Probably most interesting to people is my win/loss record, which is 69/31. That means I have a 69% win rate. I have a soft goal of bumping that up to 75%, as that’s where I’d ideally like to be, but 69% isn’t half bad (in fact, it’s only 31% bad). (EDIT - Forgot to mention probably the other most interesting thing here: I've played in 23 tournaments and won 3 of them, a significantly lower statistic than my overall win rate.)

This goal does take a back seat to my goal of seeing every unit in both Classic and VC played at a Utah Monthly, though, which may affect my win rate (Groks only do so well, but I enjoy the challenge of that goal more than the winning one). This year I have played at least one unplayed figure in each army, and still have some units from last year that I’m the only one to have played (Ashigaru/Kato probably being my favorites from last year). I’ll keep playing unplayed units until they’ve all seen play at a Monthly.

Speaking of units that I’ve played, I have a running list of those in addition to the one I keep for the Utah Monthlies as a whole. The numbers work like this: Number of armies/Unit/Total amount played (for commons/uncommons). So 3 Warforged (x8 ) means I’ve played Warforged in 3 armies, with 8 squads played total (in this case, two armies with three squads and one with two).

Spoiler Alert!

3 Hydra (x4)
3 Marro Warriors
3 Warforged (x8 )

2 Guilty McCreech
2 Heriloom
2 Heavy Gruts (x6)
2 Kantono Daishi
2 Me-Burq-Sa
2 Moriko
2 Nerak
2 Shiori
2 Venoc Vipers (x11)

Agent Skahen
Airborne Elite
Anubian Wolves (x3)
Ashigaru Harquebus (x2)
Ashigaru Yari (x3)
Blade Gruts (x4)
Blastatrons (x2)
Brave Arrow
Brute Gruts
Capuan Gladiators (x3)
Crixus
Deathwalker 9000
Dund
Eldgrim
Gladiatrons (x2)
Goblin Cutters (x4)
Grimnak
Grok Riders (x2)
Hoplitrons (x5)
Hrognak
Iron Man
Isamu (x0)
Jarek Guy
Kaemon Awa
Kato Katsuro
Khosumet
Kira Jax
Kozuke Samurai
Kursus
M-43 Resistance Fighters (x3)
Major J15
Major Q9
Major Q10
Marcu Essenwein
Marcus Decimus Gallus
Marrden Hounds (x2)
Marrden Nagrubs (x3)
Minions of Utgar (x2)
Mohican River Tribe (x3)
Ne-Gok-Sa
Ornak
Otonashi
Quahon
Raelin the Kyrie Warrior (RotV)
Roman Legionnaires (x3)
Runa
Samuel Brown
Shieldsmiths of Granite Keep (x3)
Spartacus
Syvarris
Thanos
Tor-Kul-Na
Tornak
Valguard
Venoc Warlord
Werewolf Lord (x2)
Wolves of Badru (x2)
Xualitica Fire Ants (x6)
Zetacron

Most of the individual army lists can be found in my battle reports, with the exceptions of Utah NHSD 2014 where I played Grimnak, Nerak, Heavies x3, Syvarris, and Eldgrim (going 2-2), and the Goblin Throw Down 2016 in Idaho where I ran Venoc Warlord, Venoc Vipers x5, and Q9 (going 2-1).

All in all, it’s been a gas, and I’m super lucky to live where Heroscape is played so much, and with such a variety of people (I regularly get to play against new players as well as experienced ones). Here’s looking forward to the next 100 games! (In a tournament. Including playtesting, I’d hit that pretty quickly … )