Post by baw on Aug 27, 2005 22:51:58 GMT -5
1st day.. 3 wins, 1 loss
First off, I have never been through such a series of stressful, high tension games and to put on top of that the last day.. I cracked. I couldn't take it anymore. I need more practice playing games like that! I was about sick by the third day and ready to swear MW off forever. I am not sure why I encountered such stress but it definitely took my off my games. On my opponents side they managed to keep it together while I did not on the last day. I lost my last 3 games by a handful of points.. I must say Kudo's to everyone who played. The good news is that I have made some great friends and met great people!
Ok First day Drafting.. I haven't ever done a draft like this. It was rather interesting. We ended up with Tons of Goshawks (most HL) and Jaguar's on the tables.. My last booster I said that I always open from the top and my kids tell me to open from the bottom. So I opened from the bottom and got Black Rose! The weird thing was you got the pilot and equipment when you chose the mech. That made all the LE's/ Uniques quite powerful!
Ok First day First game
I drafted ok.. but I couldn't get formations. That hurt me some. I would have liked to get formations.
I haven't played black rose much before but I thought it would be good for sealed.
I played against Hiroto from Japan.
He had a jaguar and some other units.. it went pretty fast. I managed to kill his mech and then it was over.
My second game was against.... Scrapheap?
I am drawing a blank here. I remember playing him (#2 in the worlds tournament) I know no memories of his forces but they were unremarkable. My biggest memory from this game was towards the end of the game I roll 3 consecutive Critical misses. Fortunately had the game at this point but it was portent of how bad I will roll over the next couple of days!
My third game was against Elite130.. A player I was very concerned about playing. He had a HL Goshawk (he recruited at my table) and a Rukoroubi. I managed force him to a bad position and was able to destroy him. he got vc 3. Elite is a great guy! I really liked hanging out with him!
My fourth game was against Mizerama. He had drafted a great Army. two mars assault tanks and a couple of arty and a JF Goshawk. We maneuvered for a while and then they called 5-7 minues. He had 450 pt army. I had a 447. I realized I had to do something. I assaulted with Blackrose. Killed an infantry.. I figured I would run away then.. Well I failed my heat roll. 1 Tank could fire on me and The Goshawk dfa'ed me. The failed heat roll cost me the game ... He played it well but I didn't roll well enough.