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I think mox will be good for this matchup. It’s unfortunate that Battle Suits doesn’t work on FRIENDLY units, otherwise we could play this pairing like a souped-up Purple Peace plan! As it stands though, we CAN still do the Boot Camp + Mox shenanigans, and Nullcraft + Drill Sergeant. So I think our Blue player is definitely well-served going for Peace tech 2. We can balance that slow build-up by playing purple more around tech 1 and early aggro, utilizing Geiger’s spells and perhaps an Unphase?
What are peoples initial strategy thoughts, before we jump into our first turns?
Pillage: You target a base (there is only 1 opposing base) and steal from either deck’s gold supply. Damage and amount of gold are unchanged from single player games.
Do you want a list of names on the opposing team? I can add it to the top post.
Our Purple Turn 2 is going to be pretty brutal, it looks like. Forgotten Fighter, Time Spiral, Temporal Research, Plasmodium, Tinkerer. At least it won’t be too difficult to find something to worker
I’ve been thinking about strategy, but I admit I’m really having a hard time. Still trying to wrap my head around how 2HD is likely to play out.
I agree with you on the Mox. Purple certainly has some good Tier 1 units; Glaxxes are interesting but might be vulnerable to Pillage. Prynn’s spells could be used to stall to Peace 2, and potentially clear any flying blockers that might get in the way of a Drill Sergeant + Nullcraft when we’re ready to go in.
If we get Purple to Tech 2, Peace + Present certainly sounds like fearsome combo to me. Nothing too creative there…just pounding them with big units.
I recently had a casual in person game with a friend of mine who managed to stabilise as mono-purple into a tech lab past / present build that revolved around getting a Slow Time Generator and cheating units into play with Warp Gate Disciple and Rememberer. That kind of mid-late game soft lock could be made even more obnoxious by Free Speech and Injunction and would also synergize with Overeager Cadet, and other low cost units we might want to play as part of the Peace engine. The difficulty would be in actually getting to a point where we can afford to take turns off playing units with purple to put those expensive combo enablers into play.
So is Jail here better or worse than in 1V1? On the one hand, we’ve got another player to spend resources on units for defense, but likewise, it’s less crippling for the enemy team since they have two different resource pools to get around it with.
I would start newsman worker for blue, blocking 2.
I wouldn’t mind jail either, but I’m more afraid of our hero mismatch.
Reason for newsman on 2 is against black and charge. StW is going to be disgusting in this match, and charge is annoying, and archery is nothing fun either. As someone who has played a lot of black vs blue, given that we don’t have a 1 drop and are p1, I’m ok floating 1g on turn 1 against red to get StW off the table and have a little defense to help us tech up
So my vote is
Blue
Newsman (2)
Worker (1)
Float 1g, newsie in SQL
Newsie on 2 sounds reasonable, I can agree to that. It can still be killed by Zane -> Mad Man + Hero -> Deteriorate, but that’s a lot of resources to dedicate and requires some specific cards from both players.
Mox is also solid, because as stated, Boot Camp with twice the resources is going to be really good. Is there merit to playing Fargo instead? Purple and Blue each have relatively soft turn 2 hands, so we can’t really get good bodies out until at least turn 3. Is a Mox, Tower, Newsie, and Blue 1-drop good enough to stay comfortable? Probably, but I wanted to throw it out there.
Unless someone has a good argument for Fargo over Mox, I agree with Frozenstorm’s turn. Worker thoughts? Nullcraft and Bluecoat?
Sorry, I missed this thread when it was created. Is it still possible to join the almighty forces of Vortoss (and their Flagstone feals) ?
I didn’t look at the red/black team - and won’t anyway.
I agree with Frozenstorm’s turn 1. I’d prefer keeping Nullcraft, maybe Neo Plexus won’t be that useful if we agree on teching solid tech I units for Purple ? Nulcraft is very unique and workering it away cuts us off some strategies, including Peace madness.
As for the mid-term, I think we should abuse of Quince and Manufacturing Truth. Quince’s midband copying Gilded Glaxx is probably our best option, but some Cadet manufacturing into Glaxx (for example) is nearly as frightening.
How does the Tower works on 2HD ? I’m not sure it’s worth the cost if it activates only when your things, and not friendly things, are attacked.
