LVO 2020

[Paddywhack]

Any Ressurs go to LVO this year? Care to share your experiences? and or photos? 

[ShinChan]

30 minutes ago, Paddywhack said:

Any Ressurs go to LVO this year? Care to share your experiences? and or photos? 

Top 2, 5 and 14 out of 17 players.

https://www.bestcoastpairings.com/r/hcw8xxhr

[Pergli]

Sure! I'll post tomorrow, anything in particular you're interested in hearing? 

[Paddywhack]

13 hours ago, Pergli said:

Sure! I'll post tomorrow, anything in particular you're interested in hearing? 

Just overall how it went, what worked well for you or any big 'gotcha' moments from opponents you aren't used to seeing. I saw that Resurrs did pretty well overall, but I'm curious what lists/masters those high ranking players used. 

[Gnomezilla]

13 hours ago, Pergli said:

Sure! I'll post tomorrow, anything in particular you're interested in hearing? 

If you were one of the Yan Los, I’d love details. For all that he has been played around me, I rarely get to spectate those games (and then I’m usually cooing over a stunning paint job by the 10T Yan Lo) so I know less than I should about it on the table.

[Pergli]

So, LVO was an absolute blast. The people were great, there were solid games, the tables/terrain were phenomenal... just a good time!

I placed 2nd so I had some good things going for me even though I made alot of mistakes. I can't really speak of the Meta of the area because 4/5 of my games were against the people from Texas in my own conference. Just lining up after game 1 with differential and wins set it up that way.  I'll likely go into more details on the upcoming 3rd floor wars podcast but i'll give a brief run down of the experience

Game 1: Reva (me) vs Molly - Plant Explosives 6-4

I really like Reva into Plant and against a fellow resser, she's pretty good. Also the terrain was great for her, there were train tracks along the middle so her and Wanyudo with being unimpeded were great with kill zones for her pyre marker spam. I ended up not doing the Pyre Marker spam because Molly would murder Reva for trying and they mostly stayed to the flanks. Reva and Archie played in the middle where they would do a bunch of damage only to heal it all back up. I didn't want to invest the resources in killing archie since it wasn't scoring points and they didn't want Reva to run away since she had 2 bombs on her.  I ended up getting 3 points from plant because Archie picked up a 4th bomb but I was able to get hold up twice and dig their graves pt 2 but not pt 1. Biggest play was I was able to use my Grave Digger to harass the necrotic machine in my deployment zone to prevent break through.

Game 2: Jack Daw vs Misaki - Turf war 8-4

Played against my buddy Nick who had never played against Jack Daw before. I gave him a tip to bring Ruthless models so he brought... Fujatsu of course. Unfortunately for him, nothing when his way in our game. I was able to dive Daw into Toto and Fujatsu at the end of turn 1, give them slow and his upgrade to give them staggered and made them unusable all game. I was able to slowly pull ahead on activations as I picked off the rest of his crew. This was critical as I needed to remove as many shadow markers as possible due to having assassinate on Misaki. The goal was to box her into an area so I could have Jack pounce on her and ruin her day. Paid off in turn 4, she popped out to hit my hanged (claim jump target) to try to bring him to half and whiffed hard. Daw gave her an upgrade and brought her down to less than half life. Turn 5, I killed 2 models giving me activation control and just waited for her to pop out and then killed her. The Shadow emmisary (popped out of a the effigy) was able to get away with 2 life and finish getting power ritual.

Game 3: Von Schtook vs Nekima - Corrupted Idols 4-6

This was the game I was dreading. It was against one of our top players that i haven't been able to beat before. His list is gross but ontop of that, he is a fantastic player and causes all sorts of headaches. I had plans for him with Daw but the pool was awful for Daw. I also had some ideas for Von Schtook but I ended up having an awful hand turn 1 which ruined everything. I drew 1 severe and the rest were weak. Stoned for cards, drew 2 weak cards. Went with schtook as first activation (whisper), intuition showed me a 5/5/1 on my deck. Thankfully, he didn't dive on me turn 1 like I feared but I wasn't able to ramp the way I needed with focus and fast. Top of turn 3 it looked like it was going to be an 4-8 loss or worse, was tempted to call it but stuck it out and ended at 4-6 loss. Differential matters! 

Game 4: Von Schtook vs Ophelia 6-4 Reckoning

Played against another guy from my meta, Philip Travis. We had actually been hashing out our theory for day 2 a few days earlier so we had an idea of what we were bringing to the game. This game went awful for me but I got really lucky on turn 5 to pull out the win. I dove across the table with the valedictorian to try to remove an 8 cost enforcer from the table. Goal was to hit it hard, then teleport a fast undergrad with the summon upgrade to him to get a big summon turn 1... that didn't happen. Valedictorian bounced off of him because of Flinch and the lucky effigy's cheat off the top of the deck aura. I couldn't tell you how many times he would flip weak only to reflip to a severe. I brought the undergrad anyway because I had strength of numbers... didn't matter. He then shot one of my scheme runners, red jokered damage and removed it. From there, it was just a brutal slug match. I ran Schtook up the board to get within 6 of ophelia to counter her upgrades and do some blasts which was helpful but put him in a vulnerable spot. Lost him a turn later but was able to put me in a good position. Anna Lovelace was MVP, I was finally able to get the combo i've always wanted with her.. Kill a living model, turn it into a zombie and then detonate it. Also brought Ophelia down to half on turn 4 for pt 1 of assassinate (I know I know, not a great move). I then got initiative, used focus to hit her for severe which she discarded all upgrades and a stone to reduce to 0. Hit her again and then Red Jokered damage killing her outright! Lucky! Had that not happened, It would have been a tie as that was 2 points. 

Game 5: Jack Daw vs Lucius (NB) Turf War 6-4

Final game was against Rob who I was actually rooming with. Lucius is ridiculous and super annoying when he has beaters to obey around the board. We both made some major mistakes that game due to sleep deprivation and just long days in general. Betrayal from the totem was amazing on my part and caused some major headaches to him. I was able to slowly pick up points while denying him his. Vendetta with the hanged on Agent 46, was able to remove him early in turn 3 to prevent his nonsense was a huge swing to me and denied him as he had vendetta from the Agent onto Montressor. The Black Joker was also coming out quite often on him at critical times. I think he flipped it 5 times in 4 turns, granted he also used the Red Joker almost 7 times in that game because tools for the job. 

Overall, they were great games with swings that could have gone in anyone's favor had a couple of flips just gone the opposite way.  No real gotcha moments even though I had only played Misaki once and never Ophelia or Lucius. Definitely made mistakes and would do some of my games differently but I think most of my gambles paid off!

[Gwyliam]

Hey Pergli, 

 

Thanks for the report. Can you tell us the list you played in the Reva game and what the scheme pool was? 

[Passenty]

Could you post your lists with some insight why you used what? What your opponent used against you in Nekima list?

[Adran]

40 minutes ago, Passenty said:

Could you post your lists with some insight why you used what? What your opponent used against you in Nekima list?

The nekima list is discussed in almost all the other LVO threads, and in several nekema threads in the neverborn. It was piloted by kharnage and is 2 mature, heyridden and a black blood shamen.