What! There was a wipe!?

[Azer]

So I haven't been playing TAO for the last 3 weeks (just visiting the forums on and off) due to school issue. I try logging on and kept getting the hated "Invalid username or password." So I visit the home page and sure enough, there was a wipe.

I create my account (thankfully no one had stolen my name) and decide to test out the form Pun. had put up in the grey form thread. First game up against decent player from Crazy Army, won by 8. Second game, killed some noob.

Third game, I get jumped by a gold. Being thoroughly pissed off that I got jumped testing out a set meant for grey turtles, I impolitely start off our conversation with "you grey jumper! >:-(." On closer examination, I realized that this was indeed a true grey jumper, seeing as his form would never last in a gold-gold match. It was the classic grey turtle (actually, the one i usually use) with BR in for sassy, frost for chanty, and DT instead of DW and BW. A knight was also replaced with a back row mud.

I get first move. Seeing all of the LOS to his cleric, I decide not to move the knight in LW range and move a flanking knight instead. His move, LW's the knight. I move my scout down 1 right and 3 south (from where it currently is, and where it started the game) and shoot his cleric. He freezes it (!). I barrier. He assumes his cleric is safe, so he heals and stays put (!). I move my left pyro down and burn his frost. He moves his scout up to shoot the knight (!). I kill his cleric and move back to the original position, hoping to lure out his BR. He attacks the pyro w/ knight and surrenders.

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Altogether not a glorious battle against probably a newly crowned gold. But a gold is a gold.

Against any experience player that wouldn't of worked, as the LW would have been saved. The scout would shoot the barrier. And then DT/Mud/Knigh/LW and my scout would've died. (But I DO lure the scout out so I DO get to chanty it...)

*(!) means I'm thinking in my head WTF?

[death of humans]

gg Azer, like you siad he prob was a newish gold and unlucky about being jumped by a gold but you won so thats all that counts :)

[Army Of One]

Awesome win! i like it! Id like to see that set too, i play on banff also, whenever you see me on, just say somthin to me. Thanks -AOO

[The Wild]

Yeah, you can play me anytime, too. Look for me in banff under the name TeH WilD. (You should play me first, though, since AOO has yet to pwn me in grey. ;D Jokes, AOO ;P)

[Tugnus]

Awesome win! i like it! Id like to see that set too, i play on banff also, whenever you see me on, just say somthin to me. Thanks -AOO

LOL. I ask you for games all the time and you turn me down EVERYTIME.

[Azer]

Another win with a modification of pun's dropless grey set (witch in for no-sassy side pyro). And this one is actually BR worthy.

I'm off against at 1132 grey w/ a center LW form, default units except LW instead of chanty.

First turn, he LW's my scout. I retreat to back. He follows with a side scout frontal shot that misses. I move my chanty toward the scout. He moves pyro up. I attack the scout w/ my left knight. He heals. I chanty the scout. He can't pyro it because if he were to, then he would also pyro the scout, and next turn, scout would die. He moves out a witch.

Eventually I kill the frozen scout, but sacrifice my witch. He has a knight, pyro, witch, and assassin in my face. I injure the assassin. He moves back. I heal. He pyros it to 3HP. The assassin has +40 blocking and the possibility to bomb 2 knights. The only shots I have on it are frontals (-10% chance of hit :( ). I move an injured knight diagonal to the scout, hoping to entice the sassy to move up 1. He takes the bait. The sassy goes to +37, 53.5% side blocking. I have a side shot w/ my knight an I figure to take it, being that its a new TAO season and last season (wipe) my luck was crap. My luck pulls through and the sassy dies. From there, the game pretty much went downwards for him. I trick his pyro into attacking so I get a freeze off on the knight. The pyro and witch die to creative movements putting knight in offensive positions AND protecting the scout and cleric from witchburns. He loses track of wait turns and moves another knight into chanty range. The result:

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/2702/07banffrp0214go2.jpg

[celdem2]

heh nice win azer i am such a nooby at the formons so i'll play safe and hopefully not encounter you :)

[Azer]

I think I'll turn this thread into a list of all the close/good/BR worthy games I've had.

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So we start off w/ my patented dropless grey turtle vs his not-so-patented one. He moves his assassin up, i move my LW knight across.

For the first few moves, I initiate a pincer flanking maneuver with knight assassin scout from the side and knight from his LW side, while he blocks it off and leaves his assassin stranded. I manage to wound his scout. He retreats it into the turtle. I pursure and kill a witch. He LW's my assassin. I heal, hoping he will set me up for a bomb. Instead, he traps me off and assassin/scouts me to death.

I then see that I can move my scout b/c if he freezes, hell get my scout/knight but he'll also freeze his own 3 knights. I make the move, and he freezes. I move my other two knights to eliminate his movable forces. He barriers. I move my own chanty up. He moves his scout around. I attack it with knights. He moves it around and attacks my frozen units. I move my witch out. Eventually we get into a stalemate sort of situation. My witch is barriered, so he cant free his own knights or else ill just blast the chanty when it re-freezes. My own chanty is injured but has his assassin frozen. He move his scout out. I move a knight up. He ends. I burn his scout. He can't do anything w/ his chanty, except move and re-freeze my scout. He has thus freed up his knights. I realize I can't save my scout, so I think ahead and hope to uber chanty him later. I move knights around to setup a blockade for when my chanty's wait turns end. In the meantime, he LWs a knight and kills my scout. I move my chanty down and freeze his chanty and knight. He moves his other knight. 3 turns later, it gets frozen too. He charges his last knight and surrenders.

It was a great game until he made his biggest mistake and turned into a really sore loser. Before, we were having a great convo, but he ends with some unappetizing statements.

All in all though, this was one of the most satisfying games I have fought. And I plan on giving him his rematch.

BTW, anyone know how to stat him? I know the crosses are alt + 0134, but somehow, it didn't work...

[C4nt t0uch th1s]

Yo Azer how do you get to that hit caculator can you send me a link.

[The Wild]

Hehe, me is beat Azer's dual chanty set by 8. :D

( No s/s, though. I don't obsess over wins that much. )

[Azer]

I bet you couldn't beat my dual chanty dual cleric set though xP

Not that I'll be getting that anytime soon...