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[Hero Academy] Now on Steam with the TF2 Team! (PA League now actually works!)
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Nintendo Network ID: MNC.Dover
XBL Gamertag: MNC Dover
Starcraft II: MNCDover.235
3DS: 1934-0659-5183
Hero Academy: MNC_Dover
@MNC Dover, I like that screenshot. Full wraith and 3 healers backing him up... only thing that's really going to threaten you is a sword-upgraded archer or ninja with a scroll, followed up by a nova.
"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."
See how nice?
No more eye strain!
3DS FC : 4270-0980-2372
Listen to this guy... if there's a way to wreck your amazing plans, he'll pull it off!
Shows how much I use/know about my own technology. I literally only use my iPod to listen to music and play this game. I'm actually glad it's only Wi-Fi or I'd never get anything done.
Nintendo Network ID: MNC.Dover
XBL Gamertag: MNC Dover
Starcraft II: MNCDover.235
3DS: 1934-0659-5183
Hero Academy: MNC_Dover
It's okay, Dover, I was in the same boat until recently. I had to desperately google it after a friend started publicly shaming me with game screencaps on facebook
I'm also going to do some editing on the League instructions page. I'll have to add a "how to take screenshots" tip.
Edit: Done! I used code tags to put the join, challenge and result messages into something you can just copy/paste. Should make things a little easier. Also, I added the tip on making screenshots.
PA Hero Academy League Commissioner and Head Fight Instigator - Come join us!
Magic Cards with Googly Eyes
I can't seem to get the game to send you a match, maybe try sending one to me?
Man, as a new player going up against Dark Elves is rough. All their units having life leech plus them having a ranged stomp... giving me all sorts of headaches.
Wait until you face the Dwarves and Tribe. You'll be wishing for the Dark Elves back.
Nintendo Network ID: MNC.Dover
XBL Gamertag: MNC Dover
Starcraft II: MNCDover.235
3DS: 1934-0659-5183
Hero Academy: MNC_Dover
Sounds like a plan to me!
My enemy gets three healers.
No healer out: I can knock out (not stomp) or even just injure an enemy unit to fish out a healer. If he doesn't bring out out, then the injured unit either stays vulnerable or has to pop a potion. I either get an easy kill or get my enemy to waste a potion.
First healer out: Now I can knock out or injure that healer, and unless a second healer is in-hand that first healer is going to be in trouble. Potion gets popped, retreats, suicides, or desperate scrolls can happen at this point.
First two healers out: Well now I have to either stomp one entirely, or if they're far from each other, I can make my opponent spend so much time making their healer hike over to the other that it makes the rescue futile, as I just did with you. You both popped a potion and used a scroll to save that cleric, and all I lost was an impaler without upgrades. This is a good trade for me, and sets me up for a stronger mid and end game position against you.
First healer dead: Now we're back to the first two situations, only there's just one other healer in reserve. This leads to one of my favorite situations...
Two healers dead: My enemy only has one healer left. If she's on the field, she has no way to heal or resurrect herself (barring special abilities and items). This results in many desperate measures. I can just take some non-upgraded unit and throw it that last healer for a few hits of damage. Kill off my unit? Now I only need a slight breeze to take the healer out the rest of the way. Use lots of special items to rescue her? Now you've used up those special items on my lowly non-upgraded unit and I can throw another one at you. And (assuming I'm not hurting in the unit count) I can just throw another unit at your poor healer the very next turn.
tl;dr version: that's why my impaler made a kamikaze early bee-line to knock out your cleric. Our scenario: I've lost an impaler and you've lost a scroll and a potion. Good trade for me. Alternate scenario: I could've lost my impaler and made you lose a cleric. Good trade for me. Alternate alternate scenario if you tried to rescue her with your cleric down below and thought you could get away without stomping my impaler: chance I could have used a soul harvest and a scroll to somehow take out both clerics. I've just won the game (possibly).
Dwarves.
LoL - Renon DeSaxous
Good game! I tend to underestimate crystal damage, and you took good advantage of it
I crystal rushed as the tribe on the teleporter map. First crystal got smashed with some axethrower and warrior bromanship, then started throwing units at the back crystals. The typhoon spell is seriously ridiculous for crystal rushing; I can't believe they get three of them. Or is it four? Schmads started locking down his back crystal down with a pretty-upgraded squad of his elves, but the wave allowed me to push them off and continue to suicide bomb.
Edit to remove the double mention and: a good game indeed, @schmads! I wish I could offer some good advice to defeat Tribe, but I don't have much aside from saying that Shamans should be terminated with extreme prejudice. That was definitely a race against time at the end there; without the tribe's ability to execute the crystals, I probably wouldn't have been able to get enough damage on them before being entirely overrun by that force of yours.
Shamans and witch doctors (the range 3 mages with corpse explosion, if I got the name wrong) are definitely my higher priority targets. I've underestimated corpse explosion before, and been punished by a good chain, where I killed an enemy, but didn't stomp him. They then blew their own guy up, which downed another one of my guys, who he then exploded, who downed another of my guys. I recently used Typhoon to pull that on someone else, too
I think I've only got one league game going now, so I'm open for challengers! FallenKwisatz on HA. I'm also up for non-league games too, as I've gotten myself back on track and am not taking 24 hours to make moves any more (sorry about that).
Thanks for typing this all out for me, it really does help. I get the feeling I'll be getting a LOT of learning in this game.
PA Hero Academy League Commissioner and Head Fight Instigator - Come join us!
Magic Cards with Googly Eyes
!Result for @Jacoby: @Golf153 defeated @schmads (FallenKwisatz).
I thought that I had evened things out pretty well, and would have a chance as long as I could draw out a healer or his rocketman (Dwarven superunit) and kill it. Instead, he stuck his healer on the bonus square and used a scrolled rocket to get my crystal down to 90HP. Good game and well won!
Edit: The dwarven paladin ends up being ridiculously hard to kill when upgraded, and Golf used engineering shields to keep me from being able to down any units without sacrifices I didn't want to make. I tried to use a fully upgraded void monk to make something happen, because he can be surprisingly useful, given his mobility, but I was never given a good opportunity, especially with the abrupt (almost) finishing blow.
I have myself in some sticky situations in each of my three remaining games, though
You know of the epic struggle between Paladin and Wizard
and my game with @DesertChicken in particular just changed from "incredibly tense standoff" to "crash landing"
@schmads That was a great game! Also literally my first perfect game with Dwarves. Got a good starting setup, which is so vital. Never over played a unit. Kept trying to AOE the crystals while forcing you to keep healing a dead unit. I figured once I got the first crystal you might suicide a unit for the "rocket man" but you went after my crystals instead. I knew I would only get one turn on that bonus square so I made it count. GG!
Just one more game to finish before I'm rated!
!Result Brew(loser) vs Grillaface(winner)
What a great game. We were playing on the teleport map. I was tribe. I put a warrior on crystal tile and moved shaman onto teleport. Grilla put his grenadier and paladin in a same configuration on his side. I figured I could use a typhoon to sweep him off the teleport tile, move my shaman over to his crystal tile and get two good whacks for 900 on his back crystal.
But alas, nope! He moved the grenadier down to the middle attack boost tile and bombarded my team dead. I didn't have a shaman in store to revive...
Once I recovered enough to take out that grenadier, his next attack came from a Annihilator and I didn't have good offense to clear him out permanently for few turns. Those few turns were wisely used by Grilla to get way ahead in the crystal destruction race to the point where I could not recover.
GG!
"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."
@Jacoby, I !challenge @Sploozoo!
@Jacoby, I !challenge @initiatefailure!
@Jacoby, I !challenge @schmads!
@Jacoby, I !challenge @DesertChicken!
Nintendo Network ID: MNC.Dover
XBL Gamertag: MNC Dover
Starcraft II: MNCDover.235
3DS: 1934-0659-5183
Hero Academy: MNC_Dover
So, what's polite conduct when it comes to finishing a league game and re-challenging? Is the loser supposed to challenge the winner to another game, or it just doesn't matter?
GLHF!
No hard rule that I know of, but I'd let other people take a shot at the person you just played before asking a rematch. Plenty of others awaiting in the list anyways.
Nintendo Network ID: MNC.Dover
XBL Gamertag: MNC Dover
Starcraft II: MNCDover.235
3DS: 1934-0659-5183
Hero Academy: MNC_Dover
Just a heads up though to you as well as the people I'm already in games with, sorry for my sporadic play schedule. it's my last week of university classes ever so it's a bit hectic around here.
Behance Portfolio I Amazonian I PSN- Subtle_Ties | 3DS: 3840-5210-2008 (Subtle)
No problem. I typically have ~20 games going at a time so it's no big deal. And I know how you feel, school will become hell for me in about 3 weeks.
Nintendo Network ID: MNC.Dover
XBL Gamertag: MNC Dover
Starcraft II: MNCDover.235
3DS: 1934-0659-5183
Hero Academy: MNC_Dover
(not to rub it in or anything that I'm already done
Boy, was that an interesting match. I did not get healers for a long time and I was quite sure that I was going to lose this game. Ninja helped to turn it around by just looking so mean!
"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."
@Jacoby, I !challenge @Cmdr_Keen
and
!challenge @initiatefailure
"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."
I'd say if you are going to re-challenge, that's okay, but make sure to post the challenge when you report the game. Too much of that might be dickish, and we all know the Prime Directive of the forum.
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Magic Cards with Googly Eyes
LoL - Renon DeSaxous
!result brew wins vs ToddJewel.
Woot down to 5 games.
"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."
GG! I hate you!
A triple kill by a fully upgraded Dwarven Gunner using a scroll on two Bombers w/attack upgrades and an Engineer. No Paladins to be seen anywhere for healing. No defense against it and no coming back either. One of those perfect situations you only get once every couple of games. Why did I have to be on the receiving end?
Nintendo Network ID: MNC.Dover
XBL Gamertag: MNC Dover
Starcraft II: MNCDover.235
3DS: 1934-0659-5183
Hero Academy: MNC_Dover
@Jacoby, I !challenge @ToddJewell!
@Jacoby, I !challenge @corin7!
@Jacoby, I !challenge @Golf153!
@Jacoby, I !challenge @rockmonkey!
aka Grillaface
aka Grillaface