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  3. Posted

    17 minutes ago, phillos said:

    The more I see of the Scorpion clan the more I'm convinced they are not a Dishonor win clan.  They seem to always want to be less honorable than their opponent.  This effect just seems like a throttle to keep your opponent from rocketing too far ahead in honor.  They've certainly gone all in on the I Can Swim theme for the Scorpion out of core.

     

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  8. Posted

    On 7/21/2017 at 2:00 AM, Ide Yoshiya said:

     Why is he wearing the colors of the Phoenix's chief rival, the Crane? Isn't that against some kind of Phoenix religious code?

    I don't know but the carapace, claws and multiple number of flaying tails do seem a bit showy for a Phoenix.

    I don't think the Crane's Genki-Ball technique will save him though.

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  9. Posted · Edited by Bayushi Bajie

    23 hours ago, BordOne said:

    To be honest kisada's ability gave him close to nothing as he mostly denied some Daimyos favour triggers that Brad didn't really need. It is still annoying to play against though I guess and hopefully more useful against opponent that doesn't draw a hand of 3 Dimyos Favour

    To be honest, Crab didnt punish his opponent after the negation as he mostly just pass. He oft to with card advantage than capitalize on tempo loss.

    But a Sneak Attack on offense and a Double Action on defense seems to be close to nothing when playing LCGs.

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  12. Posted

    2 hours ago, Ide Yoshiya said:

    I suppose that makes sense. Oddly enough, though, my only complaint about the art was that, as the great scholar of anime and manga that I am, I was hoping that such a cute name like Shuichi would go on a more bishōnen character. But then I guess prettyboy types aren't really in the Crab Clan style guide. :P

    No pretty boys in Crablands, only muscled grizzly men with an odd habit of forgetting to put shirts on.

    and side burns. Can't forget about sideburns.

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  14. Posted

    37 minutes ago, Ultimatecalibur said:

    Please remember that Brad admittedly made a lot of play mistakes and Erik made very few. If Brad had not been greedy on the first attack things would have played out very differently.

    Thats how most games played are won or lost. In hindsight, we could have done this or done that but the fact is Kisada's presence in the game, made the dragon use suboptimal actions and decisions that will very much likely happen on tournaments specially on early stages.

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  16. Posted · Edited by Bayushi Bajie

    2 hours ago, Kitsu Seinosuke said:

    Unless I'm missing something, Levy is a dead card.

    Let's say you draw 3 cards (one of which is Levy) and your opponent draws 2. This means you give your opponent 1 Honour. When you play Levy they just give that one Honour back, and then you both have 2 cards. It's exactly equivalent to you just having drawn 2 cards in the first place.

    As for Fate, I can't see your opponent being willing to give you Fate unless they're down to their last point of Honour. A 2-point Fate swing is just too big to allow.

    Drop this on a fateless opponent and force them to lose 1 honor. Crane just needs that Honored courtier to go away before she wins via honor, Levy will take care of that. Your opponent at 3 honor and no fate..drop 3 and win.

    also if you playing dishonor, I'm pretty sure you'd want to draw 1 every turn.

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  17. Posted

    2 hours ago, Casanunda said:

    Neat card, although I'm not sure how useful it really is. 

    As an aside, has anyone noticed that the honor losses are almost always a choice?  Watch Commander, Intimidating Hida, and this card all give your opponent control over whether or not they lose honor.  Seems like a conscious design choice to me. 

    It has always been a choice even in old L5R, granted earliest honorloss mechanic needs a dishonor target but "choose or loss" has been the template for much of old L5R. Early incarnation was to make someone dishonored first then make them eat the honorloss, but being able to seppuku makes dishonor very weak or when it dishonor a non samurai (can't seppuku),  3 Shame ( loss 7 honor ) makes it very powerful. The choice is a balance of having no setup targets but less powerful honor loss/standard action effects.

    And its why most opponents hate dishonor, they are force to choose between two evil and yes both are still bad but somehow the fact that they decided on it leaves a very bitter taste on their tongue.

  18. Posted

    4 hours ago, YasukiKaito said:

    How would you easily play around his ability? Even if you use a throw away action as your first move it is still delaying your first impact to the battle, like a built in sneak attack or going twice as defender.  Is there something I'm not seeing here? (I mean this as a legitimate question - not meant to come off as snarky at all :))

    I'm meant to come as snarky with all these "could be played around" and "neutralized by winning conflict".

    I mean c'mon we're playing a card game.. doesnt tempo, card advantage, negation mean anyting anymore when translated to LCG?

    want to neuter Kisada and win a conflict? Guess what, Kisada always does his thing on then first conflict each round while all every other Clan Champ is OPT.

    end snark. Want coffee. ^_^

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  19. Posted

    35 minutes ago, shosuko said:

    Is there a link to Intimidating Hida?  I don't see it in the forum here.

    Dishonor could be right around Scorpion clan reveal - Crab + Scorpion or Scorpion + Crab may well BOTH be able to play to dishonor.

    Someone spoiled it pages back.

    Also though I love the Crab (my first clan actually starting), the last arc of the old l5r where the Yasuki were better than the Scorpion at slander, leaves me a bitter feeling.

    The Pincer Alliance might be a thing again, but hey I can swim ^_^

     

    a dedicated dishonor deck is made ready straight up to an arc launch or in these case, product launch might be a bad idea..no matter how i expertly manuever it or explain the concept, people just tend to go NPE on dishonor. Last it did was when Unfortunate Incident, Share the Blame,etc was on starter deck and sad to say, I was on a receiving end of a lot of verbal assault from my playgroup ^^

  21. Posted · Edited by Bayushi Bajie

    20 minutes ago, Ultimatecalibur said:

    It will cost 1 honor to Let Go the Watch Commander but Miya Mystic can still sacrifice herself to remove the WC without losing honor.

    Kisada can be played around sacrificing by a minor/useless Action to pop the bubble.

    Hiruma Ambusher can shutdown the Miya Mystic.

    Yep, Kisada could be played around but the tempo loss for the opponent could be costly. And its for both conflict type on your both defense and offense and if the opponent cant win one, thats four actions negated..

    and if Kisada just sits a home..well, you know how it goes.

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  22. Posted

    With Border Defender, Hiruma Yojimbo, that Witch Hunter, Intimidating Hida, the shirtless Berserker and Kisada, Good Omens could be a staple in Crab Decks.

    Reprieve also has its value shot up.

    I see these 3+ fate costed Crab not caring about Mono no whatever. Their are the wall, and should be constant.

    People complaining that these are expensive guys to be sacrificed but they shouldn't be. Eager scout or the 1/1 Hida and the conflict dudes are there for that reason. The beefy guys need to be fate-invested and stay for at least another turn.

    While other clans deck is most likely to shift dramatically every turn, I see Crab slowly building to a point where they have either Kisada heavily fated or protected that they could counter-attack effortlessly. Though I could understand the initial thought of being to heavy-reliant on BigK, i would argue that is not the case.

    Lion could be the best splash with the all bushi-gets-fate thing and their unbow tech.

    Also Kuni+Cloud the Mind while always an option defensively, can be a thing offensively with the Yojimbo. Might want to add a Mystic though for consistency.

    also Yasuki Dishonor Loyalist should be happy with Intimidating Hida and Watch Commander, it might not be right off the gates but dishonor could be right around the next dynasty pack.

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  24. Posted

    Its bid > reveal > +/- honor > draw

    as a Scorpion dishonor, I'd always want to bid lowest (1).

    Its first turn shenanigans, most opponent would want to either:

    a. draw Max, f the honor loss. This is the ideal choice for us, they lose 4 honor but draws 5. BM can just hang loose or if your are pretty scared, he can bump so you can draw a few more and choose how many honor loss the opponents gets.

    b. knows you're bidding one so he tries to ties. We reveal both 1s and draws remains equal, BM can be used so you are now ahead on cards in hand, sure it gives a honor to your opponent but making your opponent draw minimum is a win itself.

    c. knows your bidding one so he budgets his honor loss this turn to 1 or 2 honor loss..this is iffy situation ( and probably the most common one) they dont lose much honor and they get to draw more cards than you. BM allows you to manage both that. Mitigating opponent's card advantage versus sacrificing honor hits is the balancing act you have to make.

    in short, BM makes bidding 1 not so risky.

     

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  25. Posted

    1 hour ago, Mandalore525 said:

    Being an L5R noob, I hadn't realized that the Crab were able to go for dishonor victories. Or is this a new development? It seems to fit thematically--it's the duty of the other clans to support the Crab in protecting Rokugan, yet the Crab still seem to struggle to get the help they need. Maybe their dishonoring is themed as guilting the other clans into backing down from a conflict?

    So just to make sure I've got the different clans' strategies right: The Dragon were Enlightenment and a balance of the others in Old5R, and in new5R are an even mix of military and political conflicts, the Lion are military and honor, the Crane are political and honor, the Scorpion are political and dishonor, the Crab are military and dishonor, the Unicorn are straight military, and the Pheonix are...I don't actually know, I'd think all that magic would lend itself to military but the fiction says they're pacifists? So political, then?

    Their subtheme is economic dishonor..its like give me money or you are dishonored. Its thematic that they actually needs other clans resources to maintain defense in the south.

    you almost got everything right except Unicorn can switch to honor ( battlemaidens ) and Phoenix can honor out too.

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