1681

Honestly I think DDM is harder to beat… Dancer is vulnerable because once you fill the board with units they can’t escape. DDM sweeps the board every battle and almost always has surviving units. Armies crazy.

1682

Great game, Joe. Effing move tile.

1683

Last few turns I was thinking to myself how great a move tile would be for me. :) Great game Dave!

Game is still waiting to end though, is yours finished?

1684

So, if you lose the game by having your HQ reduced to 0, do you not get the chance to view your opponent’s game-ending move? My options were Resign and Review. I tapped Review, but all that did was display the state of the game after my last move. Is that normal? If so, laaaaaaaaaaaaame.

1685

Unfortunately, if you catch it too late, that is what happens. For our game, Mysterio, I drew an action tile (able to activate a single side of a unit) and a combat tile for Dancer. I was able to do the final 6 damage on your HQ and finish it off. Dancer is going to be tough to beat this month for sure. They are so new and start with some serious advantages.

jaygittings > Mysterio

1686

Have I said I think DDM is OP yet?

1687

What, did you just kill my Steel Police HQ in one go?

1688

lol no no not at all. It’s your turn isn’t it?

I’ve been playing against the DDM AI and lose nearly 3/4 of the time. Why just now, it took me down from 20 to 0 in ONE FRIGGEN TURN ARE YOU KIDDING ME

… Apparently if the change trajectory units make a loop, and that loop crosses your base, and they play hot potato with a gauss cannon’s shot… It doesn’t end until you are dead. So… Yep.

1689

I’ll never forgive you for choosing Dancers in my very first NH game.

1690

My reasoning for this was my ignorance in how to play them. I figured it would be a learning game for both of us. Also, I didn’t realize the 10 pt hq advantage until after I picked them.

1691

Hello hello!

I’m a friend of Clyves. I realize that I’ve missed my chance to sneak in the tournament but
I’m definitely up for playing anyone who wants too.

Let me know!
Thanks

1692

Remember that each team gets an advantage in some way. These guys get that bonus but have the disadvantage of losing if only one if them is destroyed. Most of the armies get something big, like Borgo’s net fighters or a crazy base ability like smart.

I think these new armies just take a different strategy to defeat… I remember when Steal Police was first released Portal did a blog post about testing. The test group kept losing to Steel Police and had no idea how to beat it. Michal Oracz was called and they told him the army wasn’t balanced… He went to their office and played against the army as Hegemony and won both matches easily. Hopefully that’s the case here… We just need to learn how to play :P

Also, think I’ve got a pretty solid idea for stopping DDM… Come at me bro.

1693

Hey Potts! Welcome to the party

1694

You still made me cry.

1695

prolix (borgo) over opkopk (steel police) – opk didn’t get his judges until it was too late.

1696

I keep meaning to say yes to this! So, yes! Also I’d like a rematch of our current game, just for fun, when we’ve finished.

1697

Great to have you! I suspect that once we have finished round one, we will start a concurrent second bracket. So stay tuned.

1698

Sounds good to me. I’ll try and record the next one from start to finish. It should be easy to splice all the bits together… I won’t add sound unless we manage to play it live.

1699

Thanks man! That would be awesome! Glad to be here :)

1700

Dave, in regards to our in-game chat: A) i am jailbroken, so I can use display recorder b) What did you learn from our game?! I must know!!!