Another gentleman - Mark if I recall correctly - from our growing mailing list showed up to play/learn and he and Blake played while I was away at baseball. Not sure what happened in that game but I think Mark beat Blake for his first game. Upon my return, Grant had showed up and was playing Mark, Grant with his brand-spanking new (and kick-a**) AT-43 UNA force. Mark was playing with my Elves. Mark hampered his deployment by attempting to send all 3 mtd elements THROUGH a bog in column, hoping to get out of it before the slow foot of the UNA force could close. Well Grant used a wonderful strategy with the flyers essentially locking the column in the bog with ZOCs. The mtd never recovered to be effective, and Grant won on units destroyed.

I then played Grant, my Elves vs his UNA. He was very upbeat that his flyers had been so effective, and going into our game figured they were going to win the game for him again. He flew them across the board to try and lock the Elven Knights again, but he didnt realize the Elven Hero General was one move away from ZOCing HIM! He freaked and didnt get the pips to fly the first Flyer out of harm's way. The Hero promptly dispatched the jump troops, and for whatever reason, Grant decided not to use 2 of his 4 pips to get the second Flyer out of range of my Hero, who on my bound hit him in the flank. Much wailing and lamenting started at this point as Grant began crying that the game was "(f***ing) over, it's over"... On and on he went, as he paced the game store, the D&Ders on the next table began mocking him under their breath. Blake and I tried to tell him that the game was faaaaaar from over, and, in hindsight, hopefully he learned how this game can sway back and forth. When we rolled the combat, a 6-1 roll took place - in Grant's favor!!! The Hero whiffed!!! Man I knew I had missed the opportunity to take care of his last Flyer, and it DID come back to haunt me. I recoiled and Grant flew them out on his bound. I pressed my attacks where I could, lost more advantaged combats, and would eventually be whittled down as the Flyer hampered my movement of reserve troops that could have been used elsewhere. Oh, and my Sneaker got into combat with his Blade General - TWICE - and both times I had double overlaps. But I just couldnt win those dice rolls. It was a very very tense game and lasted close to 2 hours IIRC. We were both drained at the end of the game, and both talked about adding new and different elements to ea of our armies.

Here are a couple images from our game:

Our next scheduled event is at Chimaeracon on Saturday night, April 10, an open scale tournament in which you can change your armies each round, and change scales as long as there are opposing armies available. Hope to see you there.

The weekend following that will be our HotT-Hammer tournament at Dragons Lair, 11am-5pm. Hope to see you there as well...

Take care all,

chip