19 hours ago, shmitty said:Definitely appreciate Justin's dedication to making Garm great again.
In all honesty I created it from scratch and didn't have any idea someone used it before @shmitty. I was basing it off my experiences of old Wave 2 with the obvious Ashoka and VCX's we get in Wave 5. I didn't know about your scheme to skew the data lol!
Do I believe Garm can work on a Worlds competitive scale? mmmmmm! Not the list I was flying. I do feel there is something there though with Ashoka and Garm Bucks. Lots of flexibility and adaptability potential.
I really just had good luck and fairly good matchups where my opponents made some vital mistakes that I was able to take advantage of. I mean rolling 7 blue dice with wedge on Bossk and rolling 6 hits and an accuracy was just fun, and having initiative so that I double arced the front of an ISD 1 at close range for two turns with Paragon and got away was just awesome.
Cory's double ISD list actually beat me by 21 points it was 82-61 by turn 6 in round 3. We had one of those circle jerks where neither one of us would commit to the other until turn 5 where I said "screw this let's see what happens when I attack Cory's squadrons." When it was all said and done I had 2 VCX's left on the board and all my ships, while Cory had Cienna Rae and Valen (douchbag) Rudor with his ISDs. Those two turns of squadron battles were so much fun and I felt that either of us could have possibly come out on top as our squadrons felt evenly matched. If it were a real tournament I would probably would not have committed my squadrons and just force him to come at my GH protected squadrons. The result would have been a 0-0 6-5 in my favor because of initiative. And that would have been no way to send Cory (Ard) off.
Honestly ACFC is going to be losing a very competent, valuable, and skilled member of its community soon. @GhostOfArdaedhel has been an amazing friend and blessing to have played with. I can tell you that was a fluke that he was not in at least the top 8 at Worlds. He has always been that competitor (along with @Vergilius) that gives me a run for my money every single time we play. Cory God speed man and I look forward to seeing you in some Washington regionals!
@Vergilius great event and great job getting people there. Looks like the Austin crowd is growing and there is a lot of untapped potential. Honestly, 12 players for just a store champ (13 with Vergilius)! You can't DL tell me Armada is dead in our neck of the woods!! It was nice just to let loose and play some anti-meta lists for a change. I am excited to see wave 6 so I can stop hearing the Imp players whine about Armada being broken!! ?
(FYI I am creating the videos as we speak but there were things I wanted to edit in and out so it will take time. )