Day number 2, after a good time spent going at the fermented beverages and screaming a lot. I'm told I talked to a bunch of people, I even remember some of them.
Our opening round in this horrible morning thing was into the undefeated NSWalians, who had a grid that was pretty awful for us. I'd already resigned myself to either getting Dinged or Frawltatored (Note that at this point the Frawltatorship had fallen to the rising tide of Simmerism).
I ended up going into Simmerland, with some filthy Ret.
This was meant to be one of my few Bart drops, but the scenario was Destruction which seduced me to Gorten. I then stuffed it harder than a Canadian making an ornamental Moose for the hallway.
I won the roll and picked second for that sweet scenario scoringness, he dropped Issyria which sadly meant a Colossal to contest.
Deployments happened, nothing to shocking, had a painful forest that my Earthrbeaker lined up to go through.
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Ret 1: It all moves up, Assassins go across from the Earthbreaker, other stuff is just around.
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Merc 1: Press Gangers all ran up and waited for death. No worries.
Gun Mages hung around in the back. So far so good.
That's the pair of things I did properly, now onto the rest.
The Earthbreaker didn't go as far as it normally does, trying to pointlessly keep out of threat of the Mage Hunter Assassins (I thought they threatened 14, forgetting Crusaders Call makes it 16 anyway).
Gorten charged up and put a wall at the front of the zone, it was either contest with the Hyper one or shoot the Starburst cannon.
Gorman smoked some weed way out on the left, for some reason I was terrified of him dying to electrical leaps even though it doesn't matter if he dies, so long as a LoS blocking cloud is in front of Gorten.
So yeah. Basically didn't think about the matchup, decided it was better to go for the turn 2 auto scenario win (Score three, feat push, giggle, score again).
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Ret 2: Issyria feats. Electromancers butcher the Press Gangers, Hyperion moves up, Crits Gorten to suck up Alexia, little guns shoot down Gorten.
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Dispirited me on the left.
Just utter foolishness on my part. I was pre-set in my head about what I would play into, and just didn't shift gears for what I actually had to do. Simmerone did exactly what he should have, but I am very thankful we had more games after this to try to redeem myself in MK 2.
NSW kicked us in the jimmies, aside from the Antarctic Frawl, who continued to make the rest of us look like chumps as he Rahned his way through Denny.
