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[Chaos] CitOW game 28 - Newbies and host-training
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Summon seductress from reserves to the Empire.
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Warpstone Discovery (draw a card if present with a Warpstone) will apparently never go away
Spell effects:
Bretonnia: Cry (no corruption) and Lies (noble each give +2 to domination)
Tilea: Cry (no corruption)
The Border Princes: Changer (second slot blank)
Slaanesh is active
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Summon final seductress to the Empire and rest.
Warpstone Discovery (draw a card if present with a Warpstone) will apparently never go away
Spell effects:
Bretonnia: Cry (no corruption) and Lies (noble each give +2 to domination)
Tilea: Cry (no corruption)
The Border Princes: Changer (second slot blank)
Roll 'em in order:
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Kislev: 2 hits. Plaguebearer dies.
Bretonnia: 0 hits.
Tilea: 2 hits. 2 Peasants die.
The Border Princes: 2 hits. Acolyte & 1 peasant die.
3 dial ticks total.
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I think Slaanesh & Nurgle tie on points & Slaanesh wins by higher threat.
Edit: Nope I think you're right.
More beer please!
But I think Nurgle comes in second.
Edit 2: I think you win by tie with Nurgle @ 51 and higher threat!
EDIT 3: Check next post on my lame math skills!
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No. Nurgle is going to be #1 ruiner in The Empire, but Slaanesh and I will be splitting #2. This means Slaanesh will end up having more VPs than me in the long run because he dominated Bretonnia this turn.
Nurgle having #1 ruiner and dominating The Empire won't give him enough of a point lead to make up an 11 point difference.
I think it goes like this:
Nurgle: 5 dom Empire + 5 ruining Empire + 12 first ruiner Empire + 3 dial VP's + 29 = 54.
Slaanesh: 5 dom Bret + 5 ruining Emp + 40 = 50.
Tzeentch: 5 ruining Emp + 6 second ruiner Empire + 39 = 50.
I think Nurgle wins with flat out VP's, the little scamp!
I think...
Anyway, I'm in last...
:-(
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He couldn't ruin it himself and, if it did get ruined, he got big VP's.
Thought you guys would have hidden out in The Badlands.
Less combat dice and just you 2 to get VP's, esp Slaanesh with those 2 defense cultists.
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I'm surprised too Khorne. I thought I had NO chance.
"I'm no threat."
Yeah, right.
Has anyone seen Nurgle win a dial victory, ever?
I haven't.
He usually doesn't even try for it.
Man that Warpstone Discovery being thru the whole game was weird.
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Estalia: 2 dice
I'm not going to wait on that for the end of round stuff, though.
Domination step:
The Empire: +5 VP
Bretonnia: +5 VP
Tilea: +3 VP
The Border Princes: +2 VP
Corruption step:
The Empire: +3, +5, +5
Bretonnia: lamentation of the women
Tilea: battle rages
The Border Princes: +1
Great Foul Consumption: remove 6 figures, +3 corruption
Check for ruination: The Empire is the fourth region ruined (7 + 5 + 5 + 5); +5 VP, +5 VP, +5 VP
Nurgle receives +3 VP for Provender of Ruin
Updated VP:
Khorne: 23 + 5 = 28
Nurgle: 29 + 13 = 42
Tzeentch: 39 + 5 = 44
Slaanesh: 40 + 10 = 50
Board at the start of the end phase:
1. Remove Chaos Cards from the Board - no effects
2. Hero Tokens are resolved - none (ever!)
3. Resolve Old World cards - Everyone draws a card for Warpstone Discovery
4. Score Ruined Regions - The Empire: +12 VP, +3 VP, +3 VP
5. Advance Threat Dials - Khorne has the most tokens and ticks twice; Nurgle and Tzeentch each tick once
Khorne:
28 - Upgrade
31 - Draw 2 Cards
Nurgle:
18 - Score 3 VP
Tzeentch:
21 - Place 2 Warpstones
Updated VP:
Khorne: 28
Nurgle: 42 + 15 = 57
Tzeentch: 44 + 3 = 47
Slaanesh: 50 + 3 = 53
6. Check for Game end - No DIAL victory; at least one player is over 50 VP. The game ends!
Nurgle secures a VP Victory!
I can't help but feel that I left VP hanging while I focused early on dialing, and thus let victory slip through my fingers.
edit: to sum up, damn you tzeentch!
edit pt2: even looking back at the round with corrected math, i would have had to drop KoS + 2 warriors for 4 dice in the Empire, and then score 6+ hits on those dice to prevent ruination, which was only a 2% chance. Furthermore, I wouldn't have had any seductresses in place to get a dial tick for the next round.
I should have filled that slot in Tilea 1st thing before going for the +5 VP in Bretonnia.
This! Particularly if you had a Field of Ecstasy.
I did not. My 2 remaining cards were Dark Influence and Soporific Musk.
I was concerned that slot would be taken in Bretonnia though and 1 PP for 5 VP was hard to pass up.
I had hoped that if Khorne had a battle cry, he would drop it in the Border Princes first.
Fantastic game everyone, close game all the way through!
When Khorne played that Battle Cry in Bretonnia (which was a fantastic play since it took options from both me AND Slaanesh), I was pretty sure I was done. The entire game left my control: there was no region I could ruin alone, and any region that looked like it was going to ruin was one in which I was going to be donating points to Tzeentch or Slaanesh (whoever ended up winning their placement battle). The ONLY reason I loaded the Empire up like that was because I wanted to stay out of kingmaking.
The Influenza was just to get some domination at first ("at least I'll get SOME points on this round"). It got back around to me and the second slot was free, and looking at a hand of Plague Aura, All Things Decay, Plague Touch, Final Rotting and Consumption (that's another thing: interestingly enough, I NEVER got a Rain of Pus, so I was never able to boost my own defense in battle even though I was presenting targets to Khorne), I decided that I'd just load down a region with as many corruption tokens as I could. Consumption isn't often a card that does something that interesting, after all. Then Khorne went out of pp with no Warriors there (he, like I, probably thought there was no way anyone would play into the Empire), and I thought "gee, I'm going to get 6 corruption in one turn, cool!", but while I thought maybe it looked like a pretty "corrupt me!" target for you, I thought nobody would actually take me up on it.
Once you guys started loading in, Darian can probably tell you about the sudden explosion of math in my google doc: I went from "well, that's GG" to "holy effin' cow." I forgot about the 5VP in Bretonnia, but the only way one of you could have taken majority was by playing a warrior, which would likely have given the OTHER majority. If Slaanesh managed to take second alone, I thought he'd beat me on tie (but he would have beaten me with the Bretonnia 5VP) so one hit would have gone to the peasant if I had only scored one. I was really floored, but happy!
I was going to call it a great finish to the game when I thought it was a Tzeentch vs. Slaanesh battle to the end, but I'm glad to have been a surprise twist ending... You guys were really fun to play with!
Not my favorite at all.
Khorne is my new favorite.
So I decided to let Nurgle play kingmaker, and he ended up choosing himself. Which I'm fine with. Slaanesh had too many power points and low cost cards for me to prevent him from winning in that last round. I had the slimmest of chances in The Empire, and even worse chances in The Border Princes, and zero chance in The Badlands.
Oh, well. Great game everyone!
Yep, your google-doc was fun to watch this round. My own comments below were not made until after Nurgle was out of PP for the round.
Present for you all:
Nice slow-play to victory!
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