Easter Weekend Gaming at Connections – part 2

This post is more than a little late, so I will keep it brief. The start of the Shattered Grounds league as well as other types of gaming (and work too) kept me from finishing this post up in a timely manner. The group of six or so that showed up on the Friday holiday was outdone by the larger group that showed up on Saturday, April 3rd.  There were gamers there that I had not seen in quite a long while, as well as some I had never met.  Connection Games 2 filled up throughout the day, which was cool to see.  I took a few notes on other games but am not sure the results of most, so I’ll stick to the games I played.
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Subhedgehog’s Salute 2010 Steamroller Report – part 2

So in the first part of my tournament battle reports I managed a couple of quick wins due to the always impertinent Titan Gladiator and some poor positioning on the part of my opponents.  This put me ahead of the curve in the swiss pairing system – my next opponent had also won his first two matches.  His two lists, he explained to me, were exactly the same with the exception of the caster.  As he spent a few moments refreshing my memory as to how bad epic Sorscha’s feat was going to hurt me, I figured (correctly, it would turn out) that this would be his caster of choice.  I considered my options.  I thought that the Cetrati brick would be quickly shattered under eSorscha’s feat, so I went with my titan herd, hoping the three heavies would weather the icy assault and that Morghoul’s higher defense would give me a chance to do some damage.
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Subhedgehog’s Salute 2010 Steamroller report – part 1

I’d like to start off this post by re-iterating what a good time I had at the Trumpeter Salute WarmaHordesMachine event.  I had such a good time that the finer details of what happened in some of my games may have escaped my recollection and subsequent documentation.  So, if any of my opponents would like to speak up and correct me I will edit this post to contain the correct information I will have been right all along. Nothing to see here.  Move along.

From the conversations I had with the various other upstanding citizens who participated in the tournament there was one idea that was unanimously expressed:  Mark II makes everything move along more smoothly.  Obviously paying attention to the online conversations surrounding the new rules for Warmachine and Hordes, recently reading Warmachine Prime and obsessively poring over the Hordes field test cards will have helped my comprehension of the rules, but still…  It seemed to me that a lot of the messiness, for lack of a better term, from the previous incarnation of the rules had been cleaned up.  I could quickly understand interactions of abilities I had not previously seen in relation to others, particularly with respect to timing.  So, thumbs up from the Vanmachine crowd.
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Subhedgehog’s Salute 2010 Steamroller report – Army Lists

Hello.  My name is Paul and I play Skorne. *whew*  Now that I’ve got that admission off my chest, I feel better already. :)  I go by the name Subhedgehog on most of the public forums I frequent, including the Privateer Press forum and Vancouver Gamers , so I’ll be posting under than moniker to keep it clear in everyone’s mind who I am.  Until they meet me in person and forget whom I am online.

I participated in the Trumpeter Salute 2010 tournament run by PG Geist.  This was my second time at this particular con, last year being my first Warmachine / Hordes tourney ever.  At twenty players, this was the largest event I have participated in and it was a blast.  I was also pleasantly surprised by my performance in the standings.  That’s me in 4th, or as I like to put it, first place in the no-trophy-competition.
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