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14 years ago
* Raelin the Kyrie Warrior [RotV], Blastatronsx1.75, Gladiatronsx3 Well That's Just Prime
* Knight Primus Adelbern, Nerak the Glacian Swog Rider, Death Chasers of Theskx4.67
foudzing chooses to pick their army first or second. megasilver chooses to place first or second.
Well That's Just Prime
* Knight Primus Adelbern, Nerak the Glacian Swog Rider, Death Chasers of Theskx4.67 Lizard Music
* Zelrig, Greenscale Warriorsx3, Warriors of Ashrax2.33
dok chooses to pick their army first or second. megasilver chooses to place first or second.
I played my full army, he played his -2 Deathchasers.
The map was very difficult for Nerak to cover a lot of open space and even with that giant glacier, there were a good number of sniperable locations for the Microcorp making things even harder. Mega spent a lot of the early going taking Valda and when I would successfully knock him off of it, he would be attackable but not able to reach me with Adelbern in one turn nor with the deathchasers without retaking Valda.
Round 1
-Mega won initiative, took Valda, and was attacking in my startzone before I had revealed an order marker! He attacked Tornak (blocked) and killed a MT. [He said he thought I might have an OM1 on Blades to take Valda with Tornak and deny him so was hoping for big hit on Tornak)
-I killed the 2 deathchasers in my startzone, but missed a Heavy Weapons on Valda.
-Adelbern gains the Ring of Protection, development from DCs
-I kill 2 DCs, including Valda (8 remaining)
-Nerak moves up onto my half of the board, DCs retake Valda and go 1/2 on their attacks (15 MT remaining)
-MT kill 2 DCs, including Valda (6 remaining)
Rough round for the deathchasers. They came in hot and were chopped up. The way Mega played it with development he really need to have a turn retaining Valda and outside of OM1-OM2 here, he couldn't keep it.
Round 2 - Initiative Switch
-MT kill 2 DCs (4 remaining)
-Adelbern moves up into a threatening position. DCs retreat behind glacier
-MT kill 1DC, 1W to Adelbern (3 remaining).
-Adelbern moves to my SZ to kill 2 MT. 1 of the remaining DCs hides behind the glacier, the others go 1/2 with attacking (12 MT remaining)
-MT kill 2DCs (1 remaining)
-Adelbern gets 1 MT, DC gets another (10 MT remaining)
Matchup: 10 MT, Tornak, Blades vs. 1 DC, Adelbern (7, RoP), Nerak
Round 3 - kd retains initiative
-MT kill the last DC, 1 wound to Adel (2 total)
-LOST OM (DCs)
-MT deal 3 wounds to Adelbern who burns the RoP (5 total wounds)
-Adelbern disengages (safe) to go to low ground but kills 2 Trooopers (8 remaining)
-MT deal 1 wound to Adelbern (6 total)
-Adelbern crushes a MT (7 remaining)
Matchup: 7 MT, Tornak, Blades vs. Adelbern (3), Nerak
Round 4
-MT deal 1 wound to Adelbern (1 life remaining)
-Adelbern crushes MT (6 remaining)
-MT kill Adelbern
-LOST OM (Adelbern)
-Blades/Tornak advance
-LOST OM (Adelbern)
Round 5 - initiative switch (just at the right time)
-Nerak kill MT (5 remaining)
-MT 2 wounds Nerak (1 life left)
-Nerak kills Blade Grut (3 left)
-MT all blocked
-Nerak kills Blade Grut (2 left)
-Blades/Tornak take height and Valda
Round 6 - Mega initiative
-Nerak fails glyph (safe) Blade (safe), and fails attack up at Tornak
-MT kill Nerak
Survivors: 5 Microcorp, Tornak, 2 Blades
gg Mega!
Was a fun event. Nothing fancy about my army. Looking at the map set I knew I wanted to play a 4 man ranged squad and thought Microcorp offered the best value and left enough points for a supplementary piece I liked. Blades x1, Tornak was useful as a screen in a couple of my games, were critically targeted instead of MT in a couple of my games, and won 1 of my games by taking down Mok by sending firepower at him that the MT had been unable to do.
Previous Round Battle Reports
Spoiler Alert!
Round 1 vs. SkyWhale (Marcus Decimus Gallus, Parmenio, Valguard, Sacred Bandx4.5)
Survivors: 2 MT, Tornak (2 life), 1 Blade Grut
Spoiler Alert!
Good map for the range in this matchup. I got 14 attacks off before the Band army was able to engage me. (7 dead Sacred Band, 3w Valguard).
Valguard did make it to me and started making strides killing on each attack (taking some disengages to do it. Some concentrated fire against Valguard also helped the Band to get some traction moving up.
Valguard eventually took Dagmar and Parmenio and the remaining band were eventually able to roll up together into my pod breaking it down.
I started up 7 Sacred Band and by end of Round 4 though it was 13 dead Band to 10 dead Micros, with Parmenio and full squad attacking me.
A critical order marker with Tornak and The Blade gruts tied up all the encroaching Einar units getting a few hits as well. The Band then had to chew through the gruts allowing Microcorp to get key attacks through while screened off.
The endgame turned into 4 Micros, Tornak, 1 Blade vs. Marcus and Valguard (3 life). Valguard only got one attack of 2v3 before the sustained Micro fire took him down. Marcus tanked awhile even getting an initiative switch kill, but wasn't enough.
Round 2 vs. knight of scape (Mok, Shieldsmiths of Granite Keepx5.33)
Survivors: 2 MT, Tornak, 2 Blade Grut
Spoiler Alert!
This was another map that really helped me going into melee. The opportunity for safe first shots was pretty high. That would be the case except for Valda. However my exchange rate was really good for 2v6 and 3v6 and even with Valda, KoS had a tough time engaging my Micros.
KoS led all Dwarves saving Mok for the endgame, but the Micros held strong even with Dwarves mostly holding both glyphs (Move, Sola Astrid). The Micros won that first battle killing 13 dwarves, while losing 7 Troopers. 2 Dwarves hopped onto Mok leaving the endgame as:
Mok vs. 10 Microcorp Troopers and Tornak/Blades
Seems fine right? well.... I get first strike but my 4 attacks of 3 and 4 are all blocked (2 attacks of 4 as I'm holding Astrid). Mok kills 3 Troopers (7 left). 2 attacks of 4 do 1 wound to Mok. Mok kills 2 troopers (5 left)
I'm pretty much in panic mode now. 4 attacks of 4 and 2 of 3 have only done 1 wound and Mok is 5/5 on kills. While I still have 5 troopers left, they are all in my startzone or on the glyph so mok will now only be seeing low ground attacks....
-Mok wins initiative and kills 2 more Troopers (3 left. Mok is 7/7 on kills vs. MT, with only 2 of those his normal attack).
-The Micros get another wound (Mok 6 life left).
-Mok kills a trooper, and then gets his first miss (8/9). (2 troopers left)
-Blade Gruts/Tornak move out conservatively into threat range where Mok could only get Gunner Attacks
-Mok moves closer, killing a Blade Grut
-1 Blade Grut takes SA, and Tornak and Blade Gruts do 3 wounds to Mok (3 life left).
*Initiative Switch
-Tornak and Blades do 1 more wound to Mok (2 life left)
-KoS spends a lot of time thinking about this move and decides to try and take out the Order Marker (instead of big hit on Tornak). 7v3 kills a Blade Grut....but both 3v2s from the Gunners are blocked.
-Tornak's 5v4 is blocked, but the Blade Gruts (leaving Astrid) get 2 attacks of 3v4 that kill the Giant. gg
Round 3 vs. quozl (Bol, Marro Hive, Marro Dronesx4, Marro Stingersx2.33)
Survivors: 1 Drone, Bol
Spoiler Alert!
Whew this was another tight one. The Hive build wants to grind this out and was succesful. quozl opened with a mix of his squads waiting for the micros to develop before jumping on them with the stingers.
Fairly even figure to figure exchanges over the course of the first 3 rounds, with the Troopers slowly gaining numbers advantage and positioning advantage. (I was able to do 2 hits to the Hive during these skirmishes) However the Drones really started to turn it back around once the stingers were knocked out, and while they were shifting the tide, Stingers were regenerating. The board state was 6 Drones, 2 Stingers, Hive vs. 3 Troopers and Tornak/Blades when I shifted to Tornak. And wow were the gruts effective. Tornak and the Blades took out 5 Drones and a Stinger before a full squad or regenerated Stingers killed 2 Blades.
Tornak and the 2 Blades hit all 3 of their attacks though (4v3 and 2x 3v3) to kill the last squad of stingers.......This leaves Hive and 1 Drone on glyph. This should be gg right?
-Drone moves off of glyph, Drone rebirth (2 left now)
-Hive takes 3 wounds from the 4v2 and 2x 3v2 (1 life Hive). This was a likely mistake by me as I think I should have gone after the Squad figures, even if the Hive attack was soooo tempting.
-Drones kill 1 Blade Grut (1 left), and Drone rebirth (3 left now)
*New Round
I win a huge initiative, and in another mistake I put the OM on Tornak. I could have shifted Tornak so the Blade Grut would only have attacked by the Hive (1v3), so I give up that attack of 3
-Tornak kills Hive
-Drones get 3 attacks of 3v5 that kill the full health Tornak
-No TURN (Tornak)
-Drones move
-Microcorp move up and 3 attack get a kill on a Drone (2 left)
-Drones can only get 1 attack but it hits (3v2) (2 Microcorp left)
*New Round
Another huge Init. We tie, and quozl wins the reroll
-2 Drone attacks kill 1 Micro (1 left)
-Heavy Weapon kills a Drone (1 left)
-Last Drone 3v2 kills the last Micro.
wild finish!
Round 4 vs. superfrog (Beorn Boltcutter, Darrak Ambershard, Omegacron, Axegrinders of Burning Forgex2.75)
Survivors: 7 MT, Blades/Tornak
Spoiler Alert!
Another really good map for Microcorp. I won initiative and really jumped on frog early. Omega got upgraded and moved out but only killed 1 Microcorp in 4 attacks in Round 1. While taking 3 wounds.
That effectively ended the possibility of Omega seeing order markers, so while frog shifted to dwarves I shifted to attacking dwarves and pinging at Omega. I killed 4 axegrinders and Omega before the dwarves got an attack.
Darrak got into my base and was a real pain, but I was able to keep slowly killing the dwarves as they moved in and eventually sf ran out of them. I was able to concentrate down the heroes after that.
Playoffs: Round of 16 vs. I Hate Atlaga (Raelin the Kyrie Warrior [RotV], Blastatronsx2, Gladiatronsx2.75)
-Me playing his army full
-IHA playing my army full
Survivors: 7 Glads, 5 Blasts
Spoiler Alert!
Rough dice luck for IHA in this one. No matter which army you think is better, everyone could agree the final survior discrepancy is warped.
This one had a lot to do with a risky Raelin placement by me, not punished quick enough combined by really effective 2v2 and 2v3 rolling
Round 1 - kd initiatve
-Blasts/Micros
-Blats 4x 1v3 all blocked
-Micros attacks into Raelin/Jungle soulborgs all blocked
-Raelin moves to level 4 perch (I really had to debate this, but winning initiative like I did I felt I had to be aggressive with Raelin
-Raelin takes 1 wound (she saw 2x 2v4, 1x 2v3, 1x 4v4)
Round 2 - Initiative switch to IHA
-All firing at Raelin (3x 2v4, 1x4v3) deals 2 wounds (2 life left)
-Soulborgs all in, each blast attack getting boosted gets 2 kills (15 MT left)
-Troopers all in against Raelin again, but just do 1 wound (1 life left). This was really the big one, absorbing all 4 MT attacks when the soulborgs all over the central area
-Soulborgs are a little cold only killing 1 MT with their 4 attacks (14 MT left)
-Raelin goes down (of course from a 4 skull vs. 0 shield attack with 1 life), and the first bot goes down. A Blast
-The advancing soulborge grind through 2 more MT (12 MT left)
Round 3 - Initiative switch to kd
-4/4 kills from the Blasts, making 6 over the last two turns is brutal for IHA (8 MT left)
-Troopers go 0/4 on return fire. Agruably ending the game with these last 4 turns (where I kill 6 MT take all the positioning and only 1 soulborg dies)
-I only go 3/4 this time, killing 3 Troopers (5 MT left)
-Finally another soulborg dies as MT kill 2 Gladiatrons
-Borgs go 2/4 on attacks (3 MT left)
-MT kill 2 borgs
Wannok: Blade Grut
Round 4 - kd retains intiaitve
-1/4 (i went down every order marker over the last 4). (2 MT left)
-MT kill 2 borgs (12 left, a mix)
-Blasts kill 1 MT (1 left)
-MT misses
-Blasts kill 1 Blade (2 left)
-Tornak/Blades all blocked
Wannok: Kills last MT
That's it. I win initiave and kill the last 2 Blades and IHA concedes. gg Really awful stretch of luck in the mid 2nd-3rd round.
Playoffs: Quarterfinals vs. #1 Cleon (Koggo, Raelin the Kyrie Warrior [RotV], Bugbear Basherx2, Goblin Slashersx4.5)
-Me playing his army full
-Cleon playing my army -1 Blade Grut, -2 Microcorp Troopers
Survivors: 6 Slashers, 1 Basher (2 life), Raelin (3 life)
Spoiler Alert!
Intense game with a lot of maneuvering and posturing. Cleon made the comment he would have bid down 5 or 6 Microcorp with blade gruts and I could see why with how the game progressed and with the awful luck Cleon had.
I'll steal this from dok, but he alluded this was a 2 ACT game. ACT 1 was with Koggo on the board and ACT 2 without.
While Koggo was on the board I could take 2v2 attacks at the Microcorp from my side of the board within Raelin while slow rolling, once Koggo was gone, I had a lot more urgency to be aggressive.
Round 1
I kill 4 Microcorp. 3 with Kogg and 1 with a cutter I stretched far. And Cleon killed.....nothing. Not even that cutter who was outside Raelin's aura. Wild. (11 MT left)
Round 2
-cleon gets a kill. Taking out 2 slashers (16 left)
-Koggo Misses
-cleon gets a hit on Koggo (1)
-Koggo drops another Trooper (10 left)
-MT kill a Gobbo (15 left)
-Unsure of thie play but I take Sola Astrid, and Koggo moves out of Rae's aura for the first time to get a 3v2 against the only figure you could, if survives and Initiative win, could hit me back with HW. Koggo - 0/3
Round 3 - cleon init
-HW does 1 wound to Koggo (2 total), but he blocks a 3v3 to cower back to Raelin. Sola Astrid Slasher killed (14 left)
-Koggo misses
-1 Slasher killed (13 left), also Dagmar taken
-Raelin makes an appearnce moving to lava for a lot more coverage
-MT do 1 wound to Raelin
-I take SA again, and Koggo kills a MT on Dagmar (9 left)
lava: Raelin (miss)
Round 4 - cleon init
-cleon has a big turn, klling Koggo and 2 Slashers pushing up to attack SZ slasher outside of Rae (11 Slashers left)
-Slasher get 1 Trooper (8 left)
-MT get a Slasher (10 left)
-Slashers get a trooper (7 left)
-Trooper moves way up to engage and kill Sola Astrid. All other attacks miss (9 slashers left)
-All 4 slasher attacks fail AND prevents Basher attack.
Lava: Raelin (miss), Basher (wound)
Round 5 - Initiative switch to kd
-All 4 slasher attacks fail AND prevents Basher attack. I thought this was a game breaker. 8 straigh attacks blocked and it prevented 2 Basher turns while they were within attack range. I suppose it was a misplay on my part to engage all 4 slashers, but I was confident, especially with Sola Astrid, I could get one kill every 4 attacks.
-MT kill another Slasher (8 Slashers left)
-Slashers turn it around with a vengeance getting 3 kills in 3 attacks. Basher misses (4 MT left)
-MT kill a Slasher (7 left) and wound the Basher (1 life left)
-Slashers/Bashers kill 2 MT (2 left)
-Troopers kill the first Basher
Lava: Raelin (wound, #2)
Matchup
Raelin (3 life), 1 Basher (in startzone), 7 slashers vs. Tornak, 3 Blades, 2 MT
Round 6
-Blades move out as a screen, but 2 attacks blocked
-Slashers blocked
-MT go 0/4
-Slashers get 1 of the Blades (2 left)
-Troopers get a Slasher (6 left)
-Slashers get another Blade (1 left), and the lazy Basher Finally makes it across the map. His attack is blocked though
Round 7 - cleon init
-Troopers get 1 wound on Basher
-Slashers wound Tornak and Big Bash from Basher kills MT (1 left)
-Tornak blocked
-Last Micro and Last Blade Grut killed
-Tornak retreat to height
-A slasher gets a 2 hit 3v5 to end the game
Playoffs: Semifinals vs. kobeaster (Count Raymond, Raelin the Kyrie Warrior [SotM], Cathar Spearmenx3.25, Sahuagin Raider)
Me playing my full army
kobeaster playing his army -Sahuagin
Survivors: 4 Microcorp Troopers, Tornak
Spoiler Alert!
Interesting matchup that seemed it was going to be about how many pings got through from the Micros and how well the 6/7 defense of the Cathar held up on their approach.
Round 1
I was able to get 8 attacks off against the Cathar, mostly 2v5 and 3v5 and was able to drop 2 Cathar while they developed. On OM3 kobe moved Raeling up to an agressive position on lava. I retreated and had planned on taking a Heavy Weapons attack on Cathar but after my attacks of 2 did 3 wounds I sent the 4v4 up at her for a 4th wound. (LAVA: Miss)
Round 2 -kobe initiative
-Cathar advance but are still well away from an attack
-My heavy weapons kill Raelin (she rolled 3/24 on defense in 6 defense rolls...wayyyy different than my Raelin against IHA). And I snipe a 3rd Cathar (10 Cathar)
-Cathar finally reach me and get 1 kill in 3 attacks (16 MT)
-MT attacks all blocked
-Cathar get 2 kills (14 MT)
-MT get 1 Cathar (9 Cathar)
My kills slow down and the Cathar advance gaining position, nearing my SZ.
Round 3
Interesting battle at my startzone on the level 2 ground where I try to push him into attack from lava or low ground and he engages to try and force me back but gives up the attack die. Really interesting interplay around the bush across from the swamp river as well.
At then end of this round we have
5 Cathar, Raymond vs. 10 MT, Gruts
I win initiative and we swap a pair of squad member (3 Cathar vs. 8 MT) The next 2 OMs I go 0/8 attacking 2v4 and 2x Heavy Weapons, while Cathars kill 3 MT and a Blade, fearing a Blade OM.
3 Cathar Raymond vs. 7 MT, 3 Blades, Tornak
Really tough deceisions. The Blade Grut attack was a deceision point as it meant that only 2 Cathar were attacking into MT instead of 3. Not sure the right answer but it hurt this round, but maybe I would have had that Blade OM if I had all 4 left.
-kobe wins init, kills a 2nd Blade Grut and another MT (6 left)
-MT starts retreating out of the SZ south and finally get another Cathar kill (2 left)
-Cathar go opposite of the MT and kill 2 Blades (Cathar went 4/4 on 3v3 kills on Blade Gruts, if those attacks went at Microcorp (which only 3 could have been, this game is way different in the end)
-Microcops attacks kill 1 Cathar (1 left)
-Cathar kills MT (4 left)
-Lost OM (Blades)
I win initiative and kill the last Cathar. Leaving Raymond against 4 Microcorp. We do a couple rounds of me kiting and him unable to get an attack and we call it over. gg
