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  1. Posted

    Not to turn this into a discussion about melee (for the 400th time), but I never said Melee doesn't take some skill.  I see who makes the top tables. 

    It is just a different skillset than I enjoy using, and barring the last couple of tables, there is still a decent chance that you lose entirely despite your skill.  If I end up with a table with 3 guys from Portland, OR...I hate those guys with a passion and really they are d-heads so I lose... (BTW, that needs a ~ since for those who don't know the Portland guys rock). 

    And yes, it looks like I won't be there.  I even tried to guilt my wife a tad about it.  I would put my chances at 25%.  She is very protective about her b-day regardless, and GC always seems to fall on it...and next year is a big one. 

    To be honest though, I think I am more sad about missing the first Warhammer Worlds!  I have had a good run at aGoT...

  3. Posted

    How I understand it is that putting a resource token on it doesn't take away from your resources for the turn...so there is no negative to putting more than 3 resources on the card.  The only reason they put resource tokens on is that they don't want to make quest tokens :)  And maybe open up a gameplay mechanic (a future card that moves tokens from a quest to your resource pool someday?)

  6. Posted

    Better get my GenCon run-down before I forget everything.  Don't worry, it will be brief since I am getting old...and there are wolves after me (Simpson's reference #1).

    Took the red-eye and got in at about 9.30am (3 hour time difference from Seattle is always...fun).  Jesse (Wyndwalker) and I happened to be getting in at the same time so took the cab in. Got to my hotel (the Conrad) and found out it was WAY too nice for a couple of slobs like us. 

    Went to the hall and...hell, I don't know  :)  Ended up play Legacy Highlander and had one loss to Luke's deck in Eric's hands.  Really bad draw, but his deck was good as well.  I was about to come back when he made 3 people Kingsguard and won it instantly :) 

    The highlight though was being decked 2nd turn by Dobbler's combo deck...and winning.  Dobbs, but a reset in buddy!  :)

    Was supposed to have a Standard tourney, that everyone complained that they didn't have...and then no one showed.  Well, four of us.  So played a couple of games and had fun.  Was going to get some good sleep but ended up drinking a good amount and staying up fairly late (3am, about as early as I can expect there).  We 'hired' a panhandler (why so many in Indy...?) to show us where the liquour store was...he took us on a 'shortcut' which wasn't really one to earn a $5.  Still, way cheaper than the bars! 

    Friday I really didn't want to Melee (reason #8 I will never win the combined), so tried to defend my World Championship in Full Metal Alchemist.  Unluckily, got 3rd.  Huh...that is a bit of a foreshadowing!

    Also, picked up my playset of the new Warhammer LCG.  Let me tell you, it ROCKS.  Eric Lang strikes again. It was good enough I almost skipped aGoT worlds for the very first WH tourney ever.  I will be playing that game for sure!  They sold out of it by Friday afternoon though (along with BSG Pegasus, which was gone Thursday). 

    This ended up being the big night of drinking.  Long story short, I saw way more of Luke than I ever needed to, ended up writing all over him with Erin's magic marker.  After Jesse took Luke back to his room after he passed out (luckily, he...um...made himself feel better outside the hotel) it was 5.15am or so.  Then the best decision ever came to us - let's just stay up until 6.00am when the hotel's pool opened back up!  The pool was VERY nice, and had a HUGE hot tub.  Anyways, it was very refreshing...but very stupid to stay up until 7.30 the night before Worlds.  At least I had a built in excuse.

    Anyways, obviously I didn't work on a deck very much.  Or at all.  I looked at putting together a GJ deck since I thought that was a great meta-game decision against a Lanni field (valar w/ saves, location control, a bit of rush, etc.)...foreshadowing #2!  But, I didn't bring all the cards I wanted to put into the deck...so took it apart and just stayed with my Lanni Build.  I was going to make it a Shadows deck...but again got lazy.  Obviously I was very excited about the current meta-game and card pool ;)  j/k, I think the game is in a very good place really...all the houses are viable as the tourney showed.

    Round 1.  Dobbler.  Really.  Really...really.  Anyways, it starts out great, I basically clear his side of the board of all characters turn one and two (Seductive FTW).  But got some pretty crappy draws after that, and he slowly started coming back...the LIV was his MVP as well (which is why I was plannign on playing 3).  I got to 13 power (could have went to 14, but defended instead) and knew it was getting away from me.  He ended up winning 15-12 in a close game.  0-1

    Really, I can't remember the other all that well due to lack of sleep.  I won 3 vs. Lanni I believe.  Once 15-14.  Once with a first turn Valar.  I beat Bara due to a play mistake by my opponent (he knelt a Street, I used Payne to execute Robert, then he showed me a bodyguard that he could have put out first action...Robert had 6 power on him, and he would have easily won that turn despite me being in control the whole game - that is Bara these days).  All were very close games. 

    Anyways, I won the next 4 games and got into the top 4. 

    Semi's I played Lanni.  He played 3 traitors (two discard and one location kill) on me first turn.  Enough said.  No offense to him, I just hate traitors - the whole logic behind him.  God i hate traitors. End rant.

    Played a Bara speed deck and just came out really fast.  I had the board cleared 2nd turn again I believe.  Unluckily, the same thing happened as before, and he got to 12 before i knew it (stupid Robert standing 100X a turn).  Luckily he had already burned his Fury so I went first and won. 

    So, for those of you scoring at home:

    2006 - 1st

    2007 - 3rd

    2008 - 2nd

    2009 - 3rd

    Four straight top 3's.  I might be more proud of that than winning in 2006.  But, enough about me... :)

    Anyways, we went out to celebrate Dobbs well-deserved win (I thought I didn't care who won, until someone played 3 traitors on me first turn...I liked Eric - very good player, but seeing him play Traitors and hit his own hand made me smile).  Alcatraz as usual.  Bought some drinks...even some crap Will and Jesse thought up.  Decided to go back to the hall and play some games (kingsmoot for them, WH for me and Jesse).  Then I made my big mistake.  Instead of pre-mixing our alchohol, we just brought it into the hall.  I mean, we are not harming anyone right?  Mixed a few for people before the fuzz came.  They made us throw everything away, and I was painfully sober the rest of the night.  Maybe good for me?

    Had a great time as always.  It is very probable i won't make it next year, and that makes me sad (my wife's 40th birthday - yes, she is Asian so tricked me into believing she was younger than me when we met :) ). 

    Thanks to every one of my opponents, in all games.  Thanks to Erin and Luke and Jesse for hanging with me, and having a good time when we were not flopping cards.  Thanks to all the different metas for showing.  Thanks to FFG for making the great game!  Thanks to everyone I have forgotten. 

  7. Posted

    Congrats man - I have to admit, I never thought that anyone but you or Bruno would win the 2nd one.  You say you are a better deck-builder than player, but i disagree totally.  ~the deck sucked.

    Still can't believe I lost to you first round after basically wiping your board 2nd turn.  :) 

    Congrats again...~and don't have another kid celebrating your victory!

  11. Posted

    Hey guys, I am bringing my cube draft for s's and giggles - maybe a drunk draft, whatever.

    However, I need a bunch of plots to finish it off. 

    Basically I need 7X of the following:

     

    Winter Storm

    Wildfire Assault

    Building Orders

    Summons

    Alliance

     

    Any help on all/part of this would really be appreciated!

     

     

  14. Posted

    It is also a bit of a cost structure.  FFG feels a major expansion needs to be packaged a certain way (I tend to agree, to get new customers), especially considering their target market (i.e. look how board game expansions are done, like for aGoT board game). 

    That size has more materials, way more shipping (to FFG, then on from there), etc.

    I don't think comparing it to either the base set, chapter packs, or the old CCG product really works.  And trust me, you are still fully paying less in a year than you would to get a playset in the old format if that is even close to be in discussion (like Ktom I found the price per card comparison rather funny when compared to the CCG model).

    Of course I am buying 3 :)

  15. Posted

    I agree that I am none too happy about the main reprints.  I play this game because I love the characters, and would love to stick as many of them into my decks as possible. 

    Someone brought up rotation...I am sorry to say, they won't rotate until they do another base set (hopefully, some major time from now) and then - just trust me on this one - they will be printing the main characters in the new core set :)

    Absolutely no reason to print them when a very playable version is already available.  As people have said, I could understand if it was something to bring in a major card mechanic (like a Shadows version)...but another kneeling card for Lanni? 

    I guess it is hard to define - but new Cercei (playable )or Tyrion/Tywin (shadow card) I can understand.  But if I see another Arya (effectively 3 of already) in the next 2 years I might puke :)  And I don't know who has such a boner for GMP over there, always seems to be two versions playable of him when we don't have a version of a ton of people just as important. 

    Good to see Arryn!

  20. Posted

    The cards look amazing, and Eric Lang never disappoints (IMHO) on basic rules.  I just hope they keep the feel of the world with the gameplay...something I have been a tad disappointed with in the last year on aGoT (although the set before that was amazing).

    I was actually a pretty big Warcry fan.  I enjoyed the extra layer of deckbuilding (the rolls), and they had some really fun cards.  The factions felt like the factions for sure. 

  22. Posted

    Wow...it just looks beautiful.  ~No white borders or anything!  As someone who has played it (can I say that?  oh well...), it is a pretty interesting game.  Nothing touches the gameplay that Eric/Spainard made in aGoT to me on gameplay, but this has some places to go I think. 

    I love Warhammer Fantasy world, so will be all in. 

  25. Posted

    Well, you know one guy that will be playing Lanni :) 

    I am seriously scared of Stark (first turn can just go ballistic) and Targ (if you let them hang around, they can just go crazy with good attachments)...but a little less so now that there is viable location control.

    Should be interesting, as always!

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