Ok.. So I played in a sealed yesterday.

[baw]

Vanguard is awful for sealed..

My first booster... HK Goshawk
HK Transport
Towed Gauss Liao
Clan battle Armor

HD Goshawk
Liao Huey
HD Towed Gauss
Liao LRM battery

RHD Thor
JF Huey
two other infantry

My RHD mech came with a JF PILOT!!

I had only one formation ... but it included a zero movement Towed guass rifle.

I did what I had to .. I built to 450 exactly (One blessing of this army) with the Huey's and RHD. I also took the LRM battery and a couple of infantry.. The only thing that saved me was I had 450.. making opponent come to me.. I also rolled really well so that also helped

[tjpandv]

Yep, building to 450 seems to be about the only viable tactic with Va sealed. I'm pretty sure that only the Uniques come with the proper pilots/gear (there is a very limited choice of common pilots in this set - and certatainly not enough commons to fit in every class of mech).

I just hope that WS sealed has better support in terms of CECs - playing with just 2 boosters and getting 4 mechs, 2 vehicles and 4 inf to choose from is going to make life tough enough. Poorly matched CECs will make matters worse.

Good job on the win - did everyone have such good luck with their pulls?

[baw]

The guy sitting across from me (a very good player) pulled two uniques and an osiris.. He pulled Preacher, Liao Breath of Fire and a HD ocelot.


I only rolll good against him I need to get him to come to worlds and sit across the table from me

I rolled when I needed it.. Which is great. He rolls poorly against me but decent against everyone else He missed his preacher attack on the jf Huey and liao huey! needed like only 9's..

[elite130]

Well last time i played vanguard sealed went like this. 6 players 4 players had thors, me I had 2 lights and a medium and NO matching pilots. I had to face those thors with matching pilot.

It wasnt nice and my tactics resorted to running away as my point total was 600 exact.

I agree Vanguard is more than horrible in Sealed and Draft.

prey we have wolf strike at worlds but I wont count on it.

Regards
E130

[tjpandv]

I'm really not convinced that WS will make drafts and sealed any easier. With just 2 boosters each in a pod of 4, there will be 16 mechs, 8 vehicles and 16 infantry. That is jsut up on the number of mechs but way down on vehicles and inf. All well and good if the mechs all come with the correct gear but finding the support will be a big problem.

I think we all agree that making the points total exactly is a big part of this type of play- it forces your opponent to attack. That will surely be harder to do if you have fewer "fillers" to choose from.

Another worry I have over WS is that by representing every faction, the chance to pull troops that can make formations will be reduced.

I just hope that no one who contributes to this site falls victim to a cr**py pull at the Worlds.

[baw]

I think we will not be getting wolfstrike. I have been begging to the people I can beg to..

The advantage of Wolfstrike is that there will be more mechs to choose from and a lot more heavy mechs. So perhaps in draft you won't be quite so hosed.

[elite130]

It would help if WK rethinks their draft policy.

I stated on more places.

WK Draft.
4 players.
All players open 1 booster put in the middle.
player 1 opens his 2nd booster and picks form 5 boosters.
player 2 opens his and picks from his 2nd booster minus that so important first pick.

I would like the follow draft system.
Player 1 opens all his boosters and picks 2 pieces.
Player 2 picks a piece
player 3 until all pieces are gone
player 2 opens all his boosters and picks 2 pieces
player 3 picks a piece
etc.

The offcial method is a disaster if you take in account the distribution of good pieces.

I hope WK will write all the player 1 of drafting then correlate their results for the draft rounds, you will find that the players 1 will mass the top rankings.

[baw]

Send an email to Southpaw about it Elite! It does sound interesting. THe current draft does seem to heavily favor player 1.

[elite130]

Ill consider writing a very elobarate email anyone else who support the idea ? If plenty of people feel that it is unfair an cnab improved upon pls let me know.

[brinxter]

You have my support Elite

[baw]

I wouldn't expect a super fast email about it. They are all at Origins (MW Nats and Worlds Fellowship). I have been begging for Wolf Strike from the PTB hopefully we can get that. I just hope that someone picks up your plan or else I roll well for the Draft (going first).

[brinxter]

To quote a local player "there is no luck, only loaded dice"

[baw]

I have loaded dice.. Unfortunately they are loaded the wrong way I just need to change the loading so they roll high instead of low !

[brinxter]

i'm gonna keep on using SP13's dice, seriously my average is like 15 with those

[baw]

Lol... I rolled pretty pitiful with mine! Actually during the game with Xyberbratt, we used his dice. He said they were rolling good. My first roll was a crit miss with them and they never rolled good again that day He then wrote me an email later telling me they had finally recovered.