KBHoleN1
08-14-2005, 05:15 PM
Been a while since I've related a battle experience with you fools, so here goes:
I'm on SI Elite on Banff with a gray no-drop spread (dmw, bw, lw, 3 knights, cleric, scout, assassin, chanty) when I enter a game with an 1100+ gray, I won't mention his name. He has a corner turtle, more like a fort (2 bw, lw, chanty, cleric, 3 knights, scout). All of his units were retreated from the start, in the back 3 rows except for his lw. His bws were on either side of his cornered cleric, and I immediately realized he didn't intend to do much attacking. His slow play coupled with his all-defense strategy really began to annoy me, so I made it my personal mission to beat this fool into the ground. I began attacking his lw with my dmw, a few heals and a bw prevented his scout from killing her. He had occupied his bws early uselessly barriering his chanty who I was nowhere near attacking.
So, with some proper turn planning, I had his lw down to 20 hp (one witch burn from death) and he had barriered it. I positioned my scout inside his lw range for a double chess shot from the short side of his turtle. I had moved a knight around the same side and managed to get it between his bw (the one in front of his cleric) and the edge of the board, rendering that bw useless. He foolishly moved his knight up to attack my injured scout (lw shot, heal left my scout at 26), so I sniped his cleric, mentioned something about him finally making his mistake, and retreated inside bw range. Of course he fronthshots my scout to save him from utter demise, with only one ranged unit left on the board, his chanty seemed strong now, curse my luck.
His lw I killed with my witch, because he had unbarriered it in the previous turns. He now has 3 knights, a scout at half health, a chanty, 2 bws, and a pyro. I proceed to kill his scout, but he managed to move a knight in range of my cleric before I could, so my chanty was too vulnerable to stop the knight. Sfter killing the scout, he finished my cleric. At some point I moved a knight and assassin to pressure his chanty, keeping my knight near his bws. I killed one bw when he tried to save his scout before, and now his other one was useless.
I cornered his pyro, which he had used to lower my assassin by one hit. With only knights remaining, he was one hit on his pyro away from having an assassin that he couldn't attack. Of course he blocks, hitting my assasin again and removing the magic number. Following a slew of knight blocks coupled with hits on mine, he was down to 3 knights, 2 of which I had managed to reduce to one hit. I paralyzed one of his knights along with my bw, and finished him off with my knight. He killed my barrier instead of attacking my chanty, which made the inevitable come quicker, since his lone knight now posed no threat to my chanty.
Despite his luck and his lack of eagerness to move from his corner, I taught him a lesson :bigsmile: . He just kept saying how this was his lucky day with all the blocks, and trying to point out mistakes to me in my play. Every time he tried, I showed him that the strategy I was trying was actually better than his, by scoring another kill on a unit. He was extremely cocky, and not a bad player, just not excellent in the manners or the maturity department. A very tough win that shouldn't have been nearly as close, a good exercise for my brain.
I'm on SI Elite on Banff with a gray no-drop spread (dmw, bw, lw, 3 knights, cleric, scout, assassin, chanty) when I enter a game with an 1100+ gray, I won't mention his name. He has a corner turtle, more like a fort (2 bw, lw, chanty, cleric, 3 knights, scout). All of his units were retreated from the start, in the back 3 rows except for his lw. His bws were on either side of his cornered cleric, and I immediately realized he didn't intend to do much attacking. His slow play coupled with his all-defense strategy really began to annoy me, so I made it my personal mission to beat this fool into the ground. I began attacking his lw with my dmw, a few heals and a bw prevented his scout from killing her. He had occupied his bws early uselessly barriering his chanty who I was nowhere near attacking.
So, with some proper turn planning, I had his lw down to 20 hp (one witch burn from death) and he had barriered it. I positioned my scout inside his lw range for a double chess shot from the short side of his turtle. I had moved a knight around the same side and managed to get it between his bw (the one in front of his cleric) and the edge of the board, rendering that bw useless. He foolishly moved his knight up to attack my injured scout (lw shot, heal left my scout at 26), so I sniped his cleric, mentioned something about him finally making his mistake, and retreated inside bw range. Of course he fronthshots my scout to save him from utter demise, with only one ranged unit left on the board, his chanty seemed strong now, curse my luck.
His lw I killed with my witch, because he had unbarriered it in the previous turns. He now has 3 knights, a scout at half health, a chanty, 2 bws, and a pyro. I proceed to kill his scout, but he managed to move a knight in range of my cleric before I could, so my chanty was too vulnerable to stop the knight. Sfter killing the scout, he finished my cleric. At some point I moved a knight and assassin to pressure his chanty, keeping my knight near his bws. I killed one bw when he tried to save his scout before, and now his other one was useless.
I cornered his pyro, which he had used to lower my assassin by one hit. With only knights remaining, he was one hit on his pyro away from having an assassin that he couldn't attack. Of course he blocks, hitting my assasin again and removing the magic number. Following a slew of knight blocks coupled with hits on mine, he was down to 3 knights, 2 of which I had managed to reduce to one hit. I paralyzed one of his knights along with my bw, and finished him off with my knight. He killed my barrier instead of attacking my chanty, which made the inevitable come quicker, since his lone knight now posed no threat to my chanty.
Despite his luck and his lack of eagerness to move from his corner, I taught him a lesson :bigsmile: . He just kept saying how this was his lucky day with all the blocks, and trying to point out mistakes to me in my play. Every time he tried, I showed him that the strategy I was trying was actually better than his, by scoring another kill on a unit. He was extremely cocky, and not a bad player, just not excellent in the manners or the maturity department. A very tough win that shouldn't have been nearly as close, a good exercise for my brain.