Hey Tim,

I'd LOVE to come but I'm unfortunately out of town that weekend. Matt text me about the event some time ago and I tried to see if he could push it back a week or two so Druid/Necro could get some face time but it wasn't going to work out for the shop. He said he would do another real soon, and I'll make the next one for sure.

Honestly, with the number of people in our combined areas we could get a league going that met something like one weekend a month. I'd make the drive for that. Kick that around at the shop next week and maybe see how many ppl you can get on board. Good luck next weekend brother, and I'll probably make the casual trip up to Indi just to get a few pickup games in. I'll let you know ahead of time to see if your free.

I very much like the book! I played against Hanma's variant and that game went on forever.  After a time, with no path to victory I did concede as we would have tacked on another hour before a proper resolution. Also, a quick aside on OCTGN. I have not used it, but I feel that some of tension in the bluffing element and on those critical die rolls could be lost when playing over the web. Does anyone who plays get that sense?

Onward!

In the future, against a build like the Grizard or a similar book I will prioritize the destruction of battle forge to end the free actions for all the cheap equipment. From there I solider forward with what attacks are available to threaten the wizard in such a way that each upkeep it is near mandated that the shields come on. In conjunction, I begin cursing and/or attempting to stun-lock with air attack spells. Successful stuns cripple any book build, but they especially diminish the potency of builds that maintain so many high cost creatures. If you opt to exclusively go the curse route, that will also hinder the ability to get larger creatures on the board in the event the opponent chooses to dispel (Wardstone's are also a fantastic addition for this tactic to make each nullify sting a bit more).

In early rounds you may perhaps take a few boulders on the chin while targeting the forge, however without means to make those large attack spells unavoidable (i.e. Sniper Shot, Seeking Dispel), well placed blocks (or better reverse attack) may sway tempo in your favor. In my opinion you simply need to play fast (aggressive) to win, if the game drags on into rounds 4 or 5 without you presenting the threat of serious damage it becomes an uphill battle. My close buddy Andy aka The Dude has a spell book fine tuned to get the fast damage on (Love that book too!).

In any case, its an awesome spellbook - job well done! I only wanted to post some of my snap reactions to the read and give a few thoughts on how players could begin to take advantage of where this book might be punctured. If there is one thing I love about MW, it is that every spellbook under level inspection has a weakness that can be exploited. However, this book has minimized them in good form.

LOVE the card! It's just BEAST! However, the consensus (at least among those I have spoken and played with) seems to be that it should be unique and/or have the attack reduced to 4 dice with pierce +2. In either case, absolutely War Mage only.

In the end, Ballista is simply too effective when stacked as it is and if I were a betting man I would go all in on the prospect of the card being altered at some point before general release, but for now - as mentioned earlier...It's just BEAST!

Hey You!

Were you at GenCon 2013 this year?! If yes, post your real name followed by your forum name (and I do realize that it's not just kind of redundant) so everyone knows who everyone is. I'd love to PM you guys my contact info so we can talk tactics. I'll kick us off.


Jerome M. - Dijirati


Also, congrats to all the tournament winners and tournament qualifiers! You guys are awesome! I appreciate you guys allowing me to play a few pick up games with you - next years Con season is going to be no joke.

Special shout out to the Official Rules Archmage, Shadow, for clarifying the most difficult of rule conflicts and steering the tournament ship.

Quick aside...

...If you haven't heard, Mage Wars successfully surpassed Lords of Waterdeep on BGG and is ranked 30th overall! In less than two months this community made it look EeeeeeZ!

It'll certainly be a difficult position to maintain but at this moment, today - Mage Wars Mission Accomplished!

Shout out the the Mage Wars community... lets go crack top 25. See you @ GenCon!

Yea, it's disappointing that we didn't make the top 50 list for July.

That said, I'm confident that this years GenCon will get this game in the hands of many new players and I'm excited about that.

Also, what a leap on BGG! I look away for one second and WE ASCEND FROM 35 TO 32! Like. A. Boss.

Oh, and here's the thing - why did the collective whole rest on AmeriTrash as a descriptive reference for board games in the first place? Even if its not meant to be malicious, if I called someone's mothers cooking MamaTrash (say it with a smile) then I don't know how anyone could take that as not offensive in a small way. Jussayn!

Quote from: Dijirati on July 22, 2013, 06:20:41 PM

but I'd love a new casual sparring partner.

Very happy to walk through the system.

Awesome!

I must confess, I have not yet ventured into the Mage Wars OCTGN circuit, but I'd love a new casual sparring partner. I will download the components later this evening and PM you my cell so we can set something up later this week. You'll have to slow walk me through the OCTGN mechanics , but I look forward to it!

I’m sure that we will have some wild books to test between the two of us! No doubt that together we will work out some crazy synergies - and with some luck, before GenCon.