Re: Greater Binghamton Area - Card Group
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 12:22 am
It has been a long time since we played L5R, but this past week MadVlat and I managed three games.
I built a new deck finally so that was good and managed to tweak my others decks a bit with some new cards. MV hasn't made anything new but he did tweak his deck to an Open format putting in guys currently not legal in the Emperor Edition format (which my decks are). Good theme for his deck, bad manners for a samurai
Game 1 - Me: Mantis Kitsune Shugenja who summon spirits vs MV: Dragon Fire Monks
My new deck worked well, it put out plenty of guys fast, each one was a shugenja that put out a spirit when it came into play. So I built fast, and had lots of spells that were cheap. He had monks, but waited and didn't attack early. I was able to build my army and my honor. I honor bombed for 11 at the end, and could have done 14 but didn't need to. He hadn't taken any provinces, game over. I won.
Game 2 - Me: Unicorn Tacticans vs MV Same Dragon Monks
Slow start for me, really slow, high cost guys and not enough gold. He took an early province and things just got worse as I lost guys trying to keep my provinces alive. During this game I sliced my hand wide open and was utterly distracted by the bleeding hand I had to use the rest of the day. Lucky for my my wife works in the ER and could treat my hand without me having to go the hospital. MV wins.
Game 3 - Me: Phoenix Inquisitor Shugenja vs MV Same Dragons
Good start for me, decent for him. I play by dishonoring him by explosing that all his tattoos are made from blood and are Maho! He attacks mid game and I block. The war goes poorly for me, apparently half his deck is unbow cards which works wonders for him as he can keep countering my lawful questioning of his maho using monks! The game starts to turn there. I manage to drop him to double digits dishonor (-11ish) but the loss of some key shugenja spells my doom. MV wins.
This was a sad day for me, loosing 2 out of 3 to MV, but every now and then you have to be nice to the elderly and let them have a pity win
I built a new deck finally so that was good and managed to tweak my others decks a bit with some new cards. MV hasn't made anything new but he did tweak his deck to an Open format putting in guys currently not legal in the Emperor Edition format (which my decks are). Good theme for his deck, bad manners for a samurai
Game 1 - Me: Mantis Kitsune Shugenja who summon spirits vs MV: Dragon Fire Monks
My new deck worked well, it put out plenty of guys fast, each one was a shugenja that put out a spirit when it came into play. So I built fast, and had lots of spells that were cheap. He had monks, but waited and didn't attack early. I was able to build my army and my honor. I honor bombed for 11 at the end, and could have done 14 but didn't need to. He hadn't taken any provinces, game over. I won.
Slow start for me, really slow, high cost guys and not enough gold. He took an early province and things just got worse as I lost guys trying to keep my provinces alive. During this game I sliced my hand wide open and was utterly distracted by the bleeding hand I had to use the rest of the day. Lucky for my my wife works in the ER and could treat my hand without me having to go the hospital. MV wins.
Good start for me, decent for him. I play by dishonoring him by explosing that all his tattoos are made from blood and are Maho! He attacks mid game and I block. The war goes poorly for me, apparently half his deck is unbow cards which works wonders for him as he can keep countering my lawful questioning of his maho using monks! The game starts to turn there. I manage to drop him to double digits dishonor (-11ish) but the loss of some key shugenja spells my doom. MV wins.
This was a sad day for me, loosing 2 out of 3 to MV, but every now and then you have to be nice to the elderly and let them have a pity win