Off-Topic General Discussion - Page 1713

On April 19 2014 07:13 Eppa! wrote:
My friend gave up on P:M, I suck at sandbagging as even if i SD 2-3 times a game I still win.

Is there a guide to MTG drafting, I have done it a couple of times but its going to take like 20 times to wrap my head around it since I can't remember shit and generally I play HS, Chess and Smash with strategy rather than tactics.


3rd time I played I got second. 3 of the people I played had played it for 3+ years.

On April 19 2014 07:52 ketchup wrote:
If people here are interested in watching DotA2, they should give that Starladder LAN Finals Game 2 of Alliance vs EG a watch. It was a fun game to watch. It was entertaining, and pretty tense even if not all of it could be said to be the "perfect" play.

On April 19 2014 07:58 Crusnik wrote:


I'll probably end up watching those tonight with my buddies since we all bought tickets lol, 2ez4rtz4lyfe

I need an EG shirt, TL not winning doto makes the jersey kinda meh

On April 19 2014 08:00 Gahlo wrote:

Whenever dealing with a new cardset ahead of time, I like to use this to just power through a bunch of drafts.

http://draft.bestiaire.org/index.php

White is stupid strong in Theros block.

On April 19 2014 07:02 Requizen wrote:

Well, that's not entirely true. Aside from the reeeeally old codexes (Sisters of Battles, Orks, and Blood Angels), most everything can be competitive if you build it right and play smart, it's just that certain codexes have an easier time. Heck, even Space Wolves, who are still using an old 5th ed Codex, are fairly competitive with the right units and allies. The Space Marine codex and Tyranid codex (both the newest aside from supplements) are considered balanced middle tier.

Certain armies just mesh better with the ruleset. BA, Orks, and Tyranids are hurting right now because 6th ed really messed with Close Combat style armies, while Tau, Eldar, and Astra Militarium are shooting-focused armies that never did well with CC, so they're flourishing. The introduction of Allies made Eldar great because they can ally in units and then buff them with their amazing psychic powers (hello Jetbike Council with DE allies).

Daemons are fucking broken because of a gimmick that gives a Daemon Prince a 2++ invulnerable save that's rerollable, so basically you can't kill the fucker and have to tarpit it. Hopefully that gets fixed in the next edition, tournaments are already saying 2+ and 3+ rerolls are defaulted down to 4+ on the reroll because they're so annoying.

That last one sounds kinda sketchy. You might have been barred for trying to proxy an old model as a new one (which is one of their sticking points), but I see plenty of people playing with old pewter models. Hell, Sisters don't actually have any new models made in the last ~5 years or so.

On April 19 2014 08:00 TheYango wrote:
Starladder makes me wish LCS/LPL didn't basically kill all those secondary events because only non-LCS/LPL teams can participate in them.

The list of teams for Starladder's League portion looks depressing as hell (only team of note to be in it was NiP, and they ff-ed all their matches).

On April 19 2014 08:01 gtrsrs wrote:


get the 2ez4rtz one, it looks awesome in person imo

On April 19 2014 08:05 .AK wrote:

As your number one fanboi (and a Daemon player) I feel that I need to correct you on ScreamerStar. For starters, that list has never, and never will, win any major tournaments. It is a cheestastic list that does very well against bad to medium skill players but a high level player with a solid list will win a large majority of the time (provided it isn't kill points but fuck kill points). There is plenty of shit that is broken in this game that you can bitch about but please don't complain about ScreamerStar. It's trash and detracts from the actual Daemon lists that have placed high and require quite a bit of skill to play. The most recent GT (Adepticon) had Daemons placing top three. All three of them were playing Flying Circus in a missions and matchups that were pretty horrendously favored towards that list. Not a single SceamerStar in sight.

I am going to a local tournament this weekend that is a pretty straightforward list that is very similar to the list here.
http://daemons40k.blogspot.com/2014/02/wanna-see-my-lvo-list.html
He played at the top table and eventually took top 20 in the tournament (going 4 and 1).

Here's a look a the Flying Circus that are a little less fun to play IMO but still aren't "broken".
http://www.frontlinegaming.org/2014/01/27/belakor-doing-work-a-battle-report/
http://www.torrentoffire.com/4339/how-the-win-went-down

Seriously, fuck ScearmerStar. Trash list that gives Daemons a bad name.

On April 19 2014 08:44 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
Warlock Arena... Faceless or Mountain Giant?

On April 19 2014 07:52 caelym wrote:
if you do enough reading, you can get a sense of general archtypes (they're usually 2 color pairs like UW, UG, RW, UB, RG, etc). With those general strategies in mind, you can then go for one of them depending on what powerful cards you see. This isn't the "right" way to draft, but it's the easiest way to go about it without A LOT of practice.