Crazy reverse mirror match ST(yetis) v. FW(ZOMGBIES)

So you all know what a big FW player I am, and how ZOMGBIES are my favorite thing to run.... so imagine my surprise when I get matched up against it, especially since I haven't seen a FF FW in awhile.

I played yetis as a nice break, a quick lame match, and this good long one vs zombies

They are great 1 v 1 with normal champs - they had nothing to do against the SL/UD match I played 1st --- lame 7 min match, he mimic'd my yeti beserker with a DS and it was lol-gg with no spells and nothing that could kill it as it was ice eater and berserker at that point....  they also suck against ravenwraiths....

so onto the better match:

 FYI  - it is hard to control a map full of furbulls & yetis... I left a lot of ap on the map(almost cost me the game).

And i also learned that Carrion Colossus swarm zombies if you have 5 or more zombies out, not Carrionlings  - maybe its time to add one of them to the ZOMGBIES BG....

Although I did accomplish what I wanted with this yeti bg - I'm ready to go back to a  real bg with zombies and counters.....

The lame 1st game... it did start out nice with a 1st draw of totoro - extra funny since we watched the movie totoro earlier today... maybe that was why I had yetis on the brain... also cp'ing the yetis used up the rest of my gold tokens. :-(

Started out good with contesting his font early

right before he equipped an SOD... SODs can be a pain

THis yeti berserker is actually NOT totoro, its the other one

Not actually trying to win just fill up the map with traps and furbulls, or something.... This also makes me want to go back to the 1 champ bg with undead magnus....  I kept running out of time with the champs on the board and forgot to deploy, thats how i piled up so much nora... realized i prolly couldn't kill the raven near my shrine in one round(almost no magic dmg) and just kept blocking it... on the next to last turn it broke thru since i ran out of time and didn't get it blocked --- took my shrine from nearly full to 28 in one turn..... so I had to kill his shrine fast, but it was getting clogged with ZOMGBIES on his end.....

JUst before the transfigure, where will he run too?

Wow - majestic works on avas!  did not know that either....

Oh boy 12 points for the hated protectorate faction... gotta be careful I don't pass my fw points...  j/k at least it wasn't kf... they are the real blight of the poxland

Finally an epic matchup FW/IS vs. UD

The day before was bad 1-7... looks like power creep has made it even harder to run fun or theme bgs... Zombies + yetis and zombies both played badly.... seems like i faced in everything but the 1 win 2x new legendaries (FS and UD)

UD is the new FW, as most of the matches lately have been against them, with FS 2nd,.... as opposed to 2 weeks ago, when it was all FW and IS.....

I faced 1 FW/UD split, but they still were running demonologist and stiched firsts, so hardly FW themed .

 So on to the good match --- 1st of all a thank you to my opponent for surrendering when it was clear I was winnning... we were about 9 minutes away from a downtime for a patch and he could have just delayed and cost us both the match(its as if games cancelled by a reset never existed, and no gold).   The game had a lot of good back and forth and could have gone either way.... mainly because UD is the current OP faction of the moment, and even with a bg I had created specifically to beat what he had, UD can throw out so much dmg, it still took a long time to push thru.

Also - I got a new monitor, so I upped the resolution on the game and so the screen caps are even larger now.

Started out good with contesting his font and killing somthin', but he used retribution to take me out, or it could have been a quite win, cause undead magnus was already getting pumped up.

Quick, use all the "DOOMs" before the bigguns get DP'd.  VRs are no fun to fight, much better to make them not exist, via doom or something else.... 

Looks bad, but several of my champs are immune phys dmg.... he finally ended up dooming them right back

if you can keep the Dwarven MC alive, it is a force to be reconned with... it was fun watching his units scattering every turn since he didn't know where the aritllery shell was coming down.

The high warlock stands alone.... why oh why didn they have to give him 2 fire attacks, if only his base attack was magic.....  he can't kill the stupid fire ruby which almost all UD players run.   Also finally killed his Mark of Sheoul which gives his champs 5 hp.... this is a real problem when you have about 10 champs with 4 hp.... think it was the most champs I ever killed in a round.

At this point the Stitched librarian has about 60 charges and is severely depleting his nora each turn with nora hex....and I have 2 miners and 2 mines out = a huge nora advantage... There were a few rounds I had as much as 400 nora and nothing to spend it on.... 

Game went over 1:30 and would have run longer if not for the looming outage

Win

Loss

Type

Ranked?

Map

Rounds

Date

Duration

quorthon

Volgora

1v1

Yes

Underdepths

0

Jun 26, 2011 2:53:42 AM

1h 38m

All 8 avatars = level 50

Mainly leveled up thru switching bg for the dailies each time one reached level 50, as I almost always use FW ava for ranked and it has been 50 for awhile.....

Wow - I can see how FW gets a bad name if our top players are like this

Playing against one of the better FW players, but he was running SP so it wasn't a mirror match

Started out nice, he figured he'd school a low ranked FW player.... but then he started losing and his friendliness took a turn for the worse... easily one of the foulest players I've played against....   Although he did call me kid, so I have to wonder just how old he is to call me kid....  I think the last person to call me kid was my grandma, but she calls anyone under 50 kid(she's 90something).  ;-)

Also - I should say... my bg has 7 spells, so hardly a spell bg, but there is a combo in there I have never seen anyone else run or heard of on the forums... so I think he was frustrated by that.  Oh and his strategy of hiding in the corner didn't seem so good either.

And to top it off - he could have transfigured his shrine and survived some more rounds.....

Oh, and first win against a limited player in awhile....

Warning - there is swearing in some of the screen caps, so don't click on them if your are offended by that. 

started out good

Not sure what his plan was with this guy

A little skirmish in the middle

HW are too expensive now - I never seem to be able to get them out, never even did a repurpose and the DG went away

He tried to swarm me with recruiter, but left hp on my zombie, so i swarmed his recruiter

Going in for the kill

Here comes the combo

Shoot guys, or shoot shrine?  Can it be killed in time?

Chatting and shooting

Not getting any more pleasant

I know I said gg - but it wasn't really a gg, actually one of the more unpleasant games I played... I'd hate to see what he would have said if I was running a ST frost EA spell bg or an IS/xx last stand bg and not a bg that runs 7 spells

Droppin an f-bomb and wishing me health, wealth, and long life.  ;-)

I suck at UD... but lost due to a bug so not happy

Right before my guy got drowned with dark pact on him(which should have caused the spell to fizzle).  I could easily have lost anyways as I was up against a good player, and I was just trying out an UD bg to play my new maxx I got in a sale pack.  :-(  Maxx never got deployed.  At least he pwned the computer A.I. opponent earlier. 

At least my opponent knew about my blog, and he didn't seem aware of the bug, so he wasn't exploiting.

More FW hate, and a victory for the alterna FW crue vs. the META IS/SL split

Watch everything decay and burn!

He almost came back from having a nora advantage with the middle font the whole game... you can't see it, but my E. REaper is buried until his relic, surprised I overcame that huge early deficit

Here comes the shrine... and he even transfigured it while decay was active, that sure helped when he did a bunch of dmg to his own guys.

People are not shy about hating on FW.... but some of the toughest bgs I have faced are SL/xx......  Its not really my fault IS players think they can run up to you and go impervious and be all good....

Extra! Extra! Cat loses match!

   HitcherNoi suicides his lizard wizard , chat below...........

quorthon: ouch
HitcherNoi: damn.  cat stepped on the button

thats pretty much all you need, pics below.  ;-)

The Lolcats screen cap.... I bet the cat just wanted to play too.  You can see the nora globe on the cliff....

He fought to the bitter end... no quit in this cat.

Finish him!  The cat comeback was not meant to be.

Epic come from behind win against a high ranking player

He had all the big bad dragons and was killing my poor lumbering ZOGMbies.  :-(

He used the ranged Skeezick sniper to get my base down to 8 hp, and would have lost at the end of the turn if not for dropping the ToH.  Luckily his bg ran lots of healing and the comeback happened, but it was the win that was closest to a loss ever for me.... except for maybe a disconnect or 2.

See his rank!

finally played the almighty hashinshin!

Started out ok....  even got an early UT --- but the mighty mouth of the forums backs up his words with an uber tight META moga bg

Towards the end... got even worse before I surrendered he had the whole map full of Mogas