Final round going in I found out I was in 3rd place despite the loss, mainly on the strength of the first win. Top scores were 28, 26 and my 25. (My3rd round opponent may have been at 25 or 26 as well - I'm actually not sure.)

The scenario was a new one, Secure the Flanks, which has an interesting corner deployment area, and both objectives and focal points. I was playing against Scourge (again), but this was a more experienced player, and he was running double Desolators. Yikes. I really thought I was toast.

But, if I learned nothing else in those games against Larry and his PHR it was the value of target acquisition and saturation, and early on his risked his Desolators against my small AA bubble. I managed to take out one Desolator before they could both fire on me (which is good, because I was still bunched up from deployment - they move FAST) and then the next turn killed the other Desalotor after it fired a salvo. Huge turning point, especially since one was his commander.

And after all my complaining about the Dreamsnare, it made it points back and more, as a shot magnet and save multiplier. Two of three opponents spent a lot of shots on trying to kill it, and my save ratio was ridiculous. I think I played pretty well, but my saves bailed me out repeatedly.

So, the long and the short of the last game was that we each got an objective off the board, and he snagged the third objective, but my Braves tar pitted his Destroyers (who are SICK!) in the building so he couldn't get them off the board. I had units on both focal points and controlled both focal points, while he only had units on one. I had over 1000 kill points to his 400, so I got bonus points for that.

Soil got 16 points total (12 for VPs, 4 for KPs), which gave me 41.


And the win! The previous first place won 12-8, and so despite narrowly losing he second round, I came in 1st!


Most importantly, it was a lot of fun, and people were really cool, and Hawk was great. Simon ran the event, and things were really smooth, minimal kvetching, no douchebags, just a good event.