puff_maul
Sneak
165 Posts
    
Winnipeg MB
 | | 11/23/2007 9:25 PM |
| Good game tonight Jay...nice to be able to get out and play a little here and there...
I have a new favorite Rebel figure - K-3PO (aka Robo Thrawn)
That Force Push 5 ability that Vader's Apprentice has is pretty nasty too...and there's like 5 or 6 characters that have that ability (or something like it) in the new set.
Sorry I didn't have more time to hang out tonight, guys....I'll probably be there all day next Saturday.
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/24/2007 5:26 AM |
| | Yeah, that force push is nasty if you can get it off. It was good to see a few people out and playing. | | | |
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dorge
Sergeant
417 Posts
| | 11/24/2007 5:56 PM |
| | It was good today, 5 people out for Starwars. Joeseph, Scott, Bram, Devin and me. Joeseph won in the end with a superstealth Yoman Car warband. 2 out for D&D Denise and Marco. | |
SLIPKNOT-WAIT & BLEED
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/25/2007 12:14 PM |
| League resumes this week with the final 2 sessions on Thursday and Saturday. I hope to see everyone out as there is still an opertunity for everyone to make a move to the top or at least earn some prizes.
Here are the current standings.
| The Game Knight D&D Minis Ladder League | | | | | | | | Standings after Session 10 | | | | | | | | | Rank | Before | Points | Sessions | Player | Drafted Commander | | | | | | | | 1st | 1st | 155 | 7 | Richard Wiens | Cleric of Sune (17th overall) | | | | | | | | 2nd | 4th | 140 | 9 | Garret Dorge | Vlaakith, Lich Queen (2nd overall) | | | | | | | | 3rd | 5th | 140 | 5 | Brian Jajam | Werewolf Lord (19th overall) | | | | | | | | 4th | 6th | 135 | 10 | Mike Jackson | Storm Silverhand (6th overall) | | | | | | | | 5th | 2nd | 130 | 10 | Scott Tackaberry | Snig the Axe (11th overall) | | | | | | | | 6th | 3rd | 125 | 7 | Marco McDonald | Free League Ranger (20th overall) | | | | | | | | 7th | 7th | 125 | 5 | Chris Love | Cleric of Syreth (15th overall) | | | | | | | | 8th | 9th | 105 | 5 | Bram Tackaberry | Balor (9th overall) | | | | | | | | 9th | 8th | 105 | 4 | Tyler K. | Rakshasa (13th overall) | | | | | | | | 10th | 9th | 90 | 3 | Jory P. | Village Priest (18th overall) | | | | | | | | 11th | 11th | 90 | 2 | Chris Van Walleghem | Blackguard on Nightmare (1st overall) | | | | | | | | 12th | 12th | 90 | 3 | Chris Bachynski | Vampire Aristocrat (10th overall) | | | | | | | | 13th | 14th | 70 | 3 | Rob MacPherson | Eye of Gruumsh (12th overall) | | | | | | | | 14th | 13th | 70 | 2 | Paula Levesque | Lyrander Skyfire Captain (16th overall) | | | | | | | | 15th | 15th | 65 | 6 | Norm Vien | Cleric of Garl Glitergold (4th overall) | | | | | | | | 16th | 16th | 50 | 2 | Denise M. | Heirophant of the Seven Winds (21st overall) | | | | | | | | 17th | 17th | 45 | 4 | Andy Bailer | Warden of the Wood (14th overall) | | | | | | | | 18th | 18th | 40 | 3 | Nico Van Kats | Aspect of Moradin (5th overall) | | | | | | | | 19th | 19th | 35 | 1 | Jay Vermeylan | Couatl (7th overall) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Eliminated commanders: Death Slaad (replaced), Ultroloth (replaced), Cleric of Dol Arrah (cut), | | Shuluth Archvillian (cut) | | | | | | | | | | The next session is Thursday November 29th. Good luck everyone. |
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Richard II
Commander
3663 Posts
| | 11/25/2007 1:43 PM |
| Posted By dorge on 11/24/2007 5:56 PM
It was good today, 5 people out for Starwars. Joeseph, Scott, Bram, Devin and me. Joeseph won in the end with a superstealth Yoman Car warband. 2 out for D&D Denise and Marco.
how many were out for dreamblade? | |
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dorge
Sergeant
417 Posts
| | 11/25/2007 10:16 PM |
| Posted By Richard II on 11/25/2007 1:43 PM Posted By dorge on 11/24/2007 5:56 PM
It was good today, 5 people out for Starwars. Joeseph, Scott, Bram, Devin and me. Joeseph won in the end with a superstealth Yoman Car warband. 2 out for D&D Denise and Marco. how many were out for dreamblade?
None out for Dreamblade, I didn't even know there was supposed to be a tournament? | |
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marcoco
Sneak
80 Posts
| | 11/26/2007 8:24 AM |
| | Only 2 showed up for D&D on Saturday. Denise bought a case, so we decided to play with her new toys. We cracked opened 4 boosters at a time and played 3 sealed games. It was fun. | | | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
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| 11/26/2007 9:02 AM |
| Under the heading of thoughts on the new League that will be starting in January the current thinking is it will be 8-9 sessions, running about 3 sessions a month with the finals being either the last Saturday in March or the first Saturday in April.
We will once again institute a Comander draft but this time to help keep things a little fresh for those tired of playing the same commander over and over again there will be a little twist. Players will draft 2 commanders and be free to use either one in their warbands or both should they be of the same faction.
The draft will more or less work as the last one did with the order being determined at random and players being assigned commanders in order of the preferences of the sheets they submit. The draft will work from the top to the bottom of the list and then back up again until each player has been assigned 2 commanders. | | | | |
The Beer Baron
Underboss
1548 Posts
"Champion of the Centaur Commander. Knight of the Gnoll Druid. Vindicated Champion of the Dragon Wrought Kobold!
| | 11/26/2007 1:44 PM |
| | Can they be 2 different factions? If so, can you switch factions during league depending on which commander you have? | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/26/2007 3:22 PM |
| | For sure they can be 2 different factions. | | | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/26/2007 3:45 PM |
| My Force unleashed case arrived from Wizards finally. I pulled a Golan Arms AIB, Tie Crawler, White Knobby Spider, Telosian Tank Droid, Junk Golem, and Uggernaut as my huges. My rares went down as Luke Skywalker Hoth Pilot Unleashed, K-3PO, Vader's Aprentice Redeemed, and Master Kota.
Not too shabby.
The very rares on the other hand were Boba Fett and Darth Vader which is pretty wicked. I already had the Fett so I have one up for trade if anyone in interested. | | | |
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Richard II
Commander
3663 Posts
| | 11/27/2007 6:45 AM |
| | Stupid cars not starting. | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/27/2007 8:11 AM |
| | Winter is here again and all of a sudden. I suppose the snow couldn't stay away for ever.... | | | |
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The Beer Baron
Underboss
1548 Posts
"Champion of the Centaur Commander. Knight of the Gnoll Druid. Vindicated Champion of the Dragon Wrought Kobold!
| | 11/27/2007 9:57 AM |
| Posted By Richard II on 11/27/2007 6:45 AM
Stupid cars not starting.
My stupid truck didn't start this morning either.
C'mon scientists, I wanna teleporter............ | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/27/2007 4:45 PM |
| They're still working on your clone machine.  | | | |
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The Beer Baron
Underboss
1548 Posts
"Champion of the Centaur Commander. Knight of the Gnoll Druid. Vindicated Champion of the Dragon Wrought Kobold!
| | 11/28/2007 9:27 AM |
| | Oh, yeah....I need a few more of me to help me get get caught up around here. | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/28/2007 9:41 AM |
| | So Dreamblade in January.... is anyone interested in tournaments being scheduled? | | | |
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marcoco
Sneak
80 Posts
| | 11/28/2007 9:47 AM |
| Here's my idea for a league shake-up. Instead of having 2 commanders each:
If you win a match, then you have the option of "stealing" the other person's commander. The commander would become yours at the next league meeting. Your previous commander would go back to the pool, and the person who's had his commander stolen can replace his commander with any commander that is currently not being played, including the one that just beat him. If a person loses more than one game in a session, two people would have the option to steal his commander. If the first winner steals the commander, subsequent winners in that session do not have the option to steal the same commander.
This might be an administrative nightmare because commanders may be jumping around... It would also mean that players who are using multiple commanders in their warband will have to keep tabs on any commander changes to ensure that they arent using one that has been enlisted. | | | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/28/2007 10:00 AM |
| It's an interesting concept but like you said a potential nightmare to keep track of. Another drawback might be what commanders are in play, some of the more rare commanders might not be in a lot of player's collections making them effectively unstealable.
Today I was thinking that perhaps as a part of players having 2 commanders available they would have the opertunity to use 2 different warbands (one for each commander) and switch them between sessions, perhaps even forcing them to alternate between bands after each round. Another option would be to have players draft three commanders each and play a different warband based around each commander every round of the tournamnet. That could be fun but needlessly complicated and perhaps less fair to those with smaller collections. | | | |
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Richard II
Commander
3663 Posts
| | 11/28/2007 11:31 AM |
| Posted By jacksonm on 11/28/2007 9:41 AM
So Dreamblade in January.... is anyone interested in tournaments being scheduled?
I'll play dreamblade if others will.
I'm not sure if I'll be out for league tomorrow. I'm hoping to be there, but acquiring a new vehicle may preclude my being there. In some ways it's ok though, I'd been planning on getting a new vehicle before winter struck, I just procrastinated a bit too much. | |
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Richard II
Commander
3663 Posts
| | 11/28/2007 11:39 AM |
| There's still a typo in the league standings. Rob's ahead of paula with fewer points.
And it looks like we might end up getting a gargantuan dracolich, although not for quite a while. | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/28/2007 11:43 AM |
| Posted By Richard II on 11/28/2007 11:39 AM
There's still a typo in the league standings. Rob's ahead of paula with fewer points.
I think that's because I coppied and pasted from an old file. The updated working copy is correct.
Corrected above as well.
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The Beer Baron
Underboss
1548 Posts
"Champion of the Centaur Commander. Knight of the Gnoll Druid. Vindicated Champion of the Dragon Wrought Kobold!
| | 11/28/2007 12:55 PM |
| Posted By jacksonm on 11/28/2007 10:00 AM
It's an interesting concept but like you said a potential nightmare to keep track of. Another drawback might be what commanders are in play, some of the more rare commanders might not be in a lot of player's collections making them effectively unstealable.
Today I was thinking that perhaps as a part of players having 2 commanders available they would have the opertunity to use 2 different warbands (one for each commander) and switch them between sessions, perhaps even forcing them to alternate between bands after each round. Another option would be to have players draft three commanders each and play a different warband based around each commander every round of the tournamnet. That could be fun but needlessly complicated and perhaps less fair to those with smaller collections.
I like the 3 commanders idea. Players get to put 3 warbands together, and can play only 1 game per night with them. That shakes things up a little. Do you use your best one early in the night, or save it for last when you face a better opponent.
I have another idea. How about 4 commanders (this is now sounding like an ad for a new type of razor), one of each faction. You still play 3 games a night, not using the same band twice, so even if one warband is crappy, you don't have to play it.
Because somebody may have a smaller collection, we could allow duplicates commanders to be drafted. If you didn't want duplicate commanders, a draft could still be done, but the first person to pick only picks 1 figure, then it drops down to the next guy and so on. When the bottom is reached, it starts over there for commander #2 and comes back up.
This could complicate things too, so maybe we do 4 drafts, one for each faction. Sigh.....
Oh, and the November retail kits showed up today!!!!!
Carnage Demons in a lighter shade of red (harken back to the Bluespawn Shovelpusher), and Epic Archmage cards (uh....didn't we have these already.....). New module, same poster and tokens. | |
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puff_maul
Sneak
165 Posts
Winnipeg MB
| | 11/29/2007 6:39 AM |
| | Who's coming out for SWM on Saturday? I know I will....as long as I don't drink too much the night before... | | | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/29/2007 7:29 AM |
| I'll be there Andy. Hopefully you'll stick around later for the last session of the Ladder League.
And speaking of the Ladder League it resumes tonight for the 11th session. I hope to see you all there for some minis fun since I'll be missing the Packers vs Cowboys game for it. | | | |
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Richard II
Commander
3663 Posts
| | 11/29/2007 7:33 AM |
| I'll be there tonight.
Some of these 3 or 4 commander ideas for the next league are a little out there imo. | |
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marcoco
Sneak
80 Posts
| | 11/29/2007 8:19 AM |
| Seems to me they're getting lazy with their repaints. Oooh. this one color mini is now a different tone.. Come on Wizards, give us some cool repaints that require more than one can of spraypaint!
As for commander choices, I vote for good vs evil. Each person gets one good and one evil commander. I think if we each take 4, then it makes it harder for newcomers to pick commanders after the league has already started unless we allow duplicate commanders. I also think building 4 warbands every week will drive me nuts. I'm already rethinking, and re-arranging my one warband far too often :D | | | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/29/2007 8:21 AM |
| I've pretty much decided to stick with the 2 drafted commanders system. I've worked up a draft sheet with all 143 available commanders we have at this point. I'll have the sheets available for those interested as well as a League sign up sheet.
After the 5th League session every player will have the opertunity to trade their 2 commanders in for any single undrafted commander that remains.
Players will be allowed to bring a warband for each of their commanders to every League session. They must declare which warband they will use before the pairings are announced. After a loss the player has the option of switching their warband for their other one but then must use that warband for the rest of the league session. The decision to switch commanders and warbands must be made before pairings for the next round are announced.
Players only earn the bonus 2 points for a theme warband if they play all three games with the same commander. | | | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/29/2007 8:29 AM |
| | I'm also going to institue a rule in the draft that a player's second commander will be a different faction than their first. Selection will drop down to the highest ranked mini from another faction they have on their list. This rule won't be applied if their first mini happens to be a multi-faction commander. | | | |
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Richard II
Commander
3663 Posts
| | 11/29/2007 9:09 AM |
| Posted By jacksonm on 11/29/2007 8:29 AM
I'm also going to institue a rule in the draft that a player's second commander will be a different faction than their first. Selection will drop down to the highest ranked mini from another faction they have on their list. T |
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