Painful games on Sunday!

[baw]

I drive an hour on Sunday to go and play Sealed.

We are running a few minutes later than usual (I like being early to everything).

there were about 6 people there so my son and my bring the total up to 8.

I see everyone opening boosters already.. (its okay with me I see lots of Firepower and AOD boosters and a couple of FP boosters. I go over to pick out boosters.. Then only ones left are 3 FP and some Liao Incursion and Dark Age. My son says.. he doesn't want to play but I haven't got to play enough so I decide to play.

I look around I see Heckstar's and Assault mechs.. I am a little concerned.. I sit down across from someone. He pulled Jiyu CHistu and a Kelswa out of his FP booster. I thought hmm I could pull something decent...

My first booster

Mech.. Koshi.. JF style
Skanda Republic
Flamer Team HL
Flamer team SC

I looked.. It wasn't great but it wasn't as bad as it could be

Second booster

Opening hoping...

Mech: Spider JF
Hasek Mechanized Combat (SC)
ROTS Trackbike
Elemental (HL)

Wow! My spirits are low at this point.. It also had a Blank Dossier card.

Last booster.. Has Dossier! HOPEFUL beyond belief.

Mech: Caria Gordon (blecho.. A pitiful unique)
Nacon Armored Scout (SH)
Merc sniper
Elemental (JF)

Ok.. I am going to ask what you would play.. The thing is.. It isn't too hard to decide you are playing 450 and you need to get close. I didn't get too close with my points much farther away than I care to be.

One new player come over and asked me.. where are your pilot cards.. (Groan) I saw a Unique Cyclops. heckstars, Jiyu chistu and a ROTS Kelswa. One guy bought a booster of LIAO. he gets HL Donar and a Liao Zahn!

Awaiting your response.

[Zxqueb]

So what did you end up running and how did it go. I can see SC hasek + Trackbike + a couple of mechs... Maybe run the elementals + the trackbike for a formation instead.

Z

[baw]

I was going to give people a little bit of time to try and come up with better than I did.
The good news is that results are posted already and I didn't lose my winning streak

[baw]

Sorry.. I saw that I mistyped my last unit on the list. It was a JF elemental not a HL

[Zxqueb]

I'd play everything except Clara and the Nacon. Gets to 434 by my count.

Z

[baw]

Thats one reason why I said it would be easy to build an army. You have to take most of the units..

[baw]

Here is what I took...

(9 figures at 444 points)
ID Name Points
FP115 Unique Dragon's Fury Caria Gordon 135
FP101 Green Clan Jade Falcon Koshi 108
FP056 Elite Republic of the Sphere Skanda Light Tank 50
FP005 Green Highlanders Flamer Team 12
FP049 Green Spirit Cats Hasek Mechanized Combat Vehicle 61
FP027 Elite Highlanders Elemental Battle Armor 20
FP009 Green Republic of the Sphere TrackBike 14
FP016 Elite Mercenary Sniper Team 24
FP028 Elite Clan Jade Falcon Elemental Battle Armor 20

Guess who was MVP of the team?

[Zxqueb]

HL Flamers?!

[baw]

no sir.. although given the force there isn't a lot to choose from I can tell you who took the most shots in all my games.. The Merc Sniper team... although not the MVP

[baw]

The MVP was the JF Koshi.. Him and his impressive 16 defense. He did the most damage in the games. He did get captured the second game by a lone damaged infantry but Caria came to his rescue. Wow 16 defense on a mech. It was pretty unbelievable.

[baw]

Hmm it is pretty quiet here. I am still remembering more minutes of this game.. The most unfortunate was another new player. (I didn't play against him) He got a couple FP boosters also. I was there last but built my army first. He saw my army and tried to copy it.. He got a Koshi also.. unfortunately it was a SSW Koshi.

He often tries to mimic what I have played

[warlord1985]

There are alot of new players that have that mentallity. Unfortunately, they can mimic armies because they either don't have the pieces or skill level to play a hardcore army. Thats what one of the new players around here tried to do, and he got destroyed because he couldn't play it right. Trying to help our new guys out is a chore, the one new guy plays Jade Falcon, and as much as we'd love to trade him pieces I don't have any JF pieces. Sucks sometimes.

-W

[baw]

The one new guy loves JF. He has traded away almost all of his pieces except for JF. I watched him play a game. He never DFA'ed once. I sat down and discussed at length about how to play JF. During the next event he crushed his first couple of opponents due to getting a better idea of how to utilize his pieces.

But I guess we were all new to the game at one time and had to learn

[X-Sythe]

So why didn't they mix the boosters and try to disperse the newer product more fair.

[vicidin69]

Hey ,

Im a newb at my venue , and if someone gives me a tip everyone else gets all butt-hurt Lolerskates.

Thankfully i have u guys !


today im playing

:Hellstar
w/
enrico
reflective

:thunder launchers
x2
some inf to back them up incase of basers
2 lrm battery
w/ a
:Gunnest

j/f
:Kelswa

w/
:Garrot
for a drop

and a republic
:Shamash
to base my first pulse victim with!!

Not sure how it will go!
my hopes is to move the hellstar into cover wait for a mech to assualt and miss~!
then pulse it and not heat up!

while i move kelswa up for a killshot drop!
and use the thunders for heat management on my oponinents mechs

if anyone hase any strats for this army or any feedback as to how to tweak it , pls @ do so

thanks friends