Yeah -- too long, and boring, with about an hour of really good scenes that are wasted in the mire.

XmasCon Battle Report

Mike and Dave Defeat came by for a game tonight and it was awesome. We played a king of the hill game which Dave pwned, followed by an epic 1000-point battle that actually didn't take that long -- about 3.5 hours. Dave fielded 1000 points of Khador and Mike and I were a team with 500 points each, me with Cryx and him with Protectorate. I'm not quite sure how such a situation would arise. For those of you who don't follow the game, this is basically the Pope teaming up with Satan to fight Stalin. I guess it could happen.

In the first few rounds things looked grim for Mike and I. I was holed up in a forest feeling useless and Mike had a big wall of warjacks and infantry coming at him. Our attacks were plinking off the big 'jacks doing almost nothing and it seemed completely hopeless. Around turn three things started coming together. I started unloading sneaky bastard tricks at Karchev, and over two turns managed to whittle him down and take him out (and his battlegroup). In turn four, Dave made a kind of a big tactical error with Sorscha where he forgot to use her feat before sending in a jack to charge Mike's caster. If he'd remembered, he had a good shot at killing or seriously weakening Mike's caster and the next couple of turns would have looked a lot different. Anyway, Mike put up a strong counteroffensive and killed Sorscha to win the game.

It was my first time fighting Khador and it was pretty interesting. You cannot take on those warjacks mano-a-mano and hope to survive. You need to be a bastard about trying to knock them down and getting around them to expose the warcasters. In fact, when Cryx is fighting Khador, I think the more small jacks you have the better. Some of those power attacks are really helpful in gumming up the big jacks, and the more arc nodes the better.

Anyway it was cool! I was really surprised that it went so quickly. It didn't take a lot longer than a 500-point game. It was sure cool to see all that metal on the tahle, too.