If there’s one thing I learned from all those matches with Shadow, it’s that trading an early tempo advantage for a tech advantage gets the job done a lot of the time.
Fading Argonaut has 2 time runes
Question- Can we see each others cards if we click on “starting hand” or “next hand”? I know I can click on mine and see them but I didn’t want to click on yours, I feel like that’s cheating.
You are technically able to, though you are correct that doing so would be cheating. It’s there in case tournament organizers and/or spectators need to be able to confirm everything is legal, with the side benefit that after the game is over players can discuss what happened in the game with complete information.
STARTING HAND
Bloodburn
Nautical Dog
Careless Musketeer
Mad Man
Scorch
WORKERS
Pillage
Bloodburn
NextHand
Charge
Bloodrage Ogre
Bombaster
Gunpoint Taxman
Mad Man
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($6)
Worker - ($5)
Build Tech I - ($4)
Midband and heal Drakk - ($1)
Mad Man - ($0) BROgre trades with FArgo Mad Man hits Geiger to 1 HP Drakk kills Geiger, maxbands and heals, you draw
Float ($0)
Discard 3, reshuffle, draw 5
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout:
In Play:
Drakk L6 3/4
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 5
Deck: 5
Disc: 0
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 7
Thoughts
I’m literally just copying Shadow here. Worst case Purple goes T3 Prynn and Origin Story, but at least he wouldn’t be able to use the extra technician draw. I don’t really see another better line since BROgre must attack.
Well, I messed up the spreadsheet. I added the Fading Argonaut that you killed to my draw deck instead of putting it in my discard pile. When I clicked on “Draw a Card” to replace my Technician, I drew Fade Argo back into my hand. I thought the solution would be to add F. Argo to my discard pile manually and redraw. Unfortunately, I had Teched my two cards for the turn before I did this. My Teched cards disappeared when I clicked on Draw a Card. Also, I had typed in an action for Nullcraft before I ended the turn, but what I typed did not carry over to the generated report. I don’t know why. So, do you think my spreadsheet is fixable, or shall we start a new game? I’ll go ahead and post it below…
If something weird happens with the spreadsheet, you can always use the version history to revert to an earlier version. You can go ahead and redo your turn if you wish.
STARTING HAND
Hardened Mox
Tinkerer
Battle Suits
Time Spiral
Stewardess of the Undone
Argonaut
WORKERS
Plasmodium
Temporal Research
Tinkerer
NextHand
Battle Suits
Argonaut
Neo Plexus
Forgotten Fighter
Hardened Mox
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($6)
Worker - ($5)
Argonaut - ($2)
Vir Garbarean - ($0)
Used Vir 's ability to Peek at top card
Nullcraft hits Tech 1 Building for 1
STARTING HAND
Bombaster
Charge
Mad Man
Gunpoint Taxman
Bloodrage Ogre
WORKERS
Pillage
Bloodburn
Bombaster
NextHand
Scorch
Gunpoint Taxman
Discard
Bloodrage Ogre
Charge
Desperation
Desperation
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($7)
Worker - ($6)
Hasty Gunpoint Taxman - ($4)
Bloodrage Ogre - ($2)
Cast Charge! on the BROgre - ($0) BROgre trades with Argo GPT kills Vir, I steal your scav gold - ($1) Drakk deals 3 to your Tech I
Mad Man - ($0) Mad Man breaks Tech I, your base to 18
Float ($0)
Discard 0, draw 2
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout:
In Play:
Drakk L6 3/4
Gunpoint Taxman 3/1
Mad Man 1/1
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 4
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 2
Deck: 3
Disc: 4
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 8
Thoughts
This is where it gets different. Unfortunately because all of my units died I’m going to miss a reshuffle on T4, so there’s no point in building Tech II. Problem with going all in is I’m going to cycle ridiculously slowly and my deck will be so bloated from skipping workers. Wonder why Purple played Vir instead of another unit like the other version of T3, since even if I can’t get free levels it still loses the technician draw. Even if Purple has Prynn and Origin Story, I can play Zane in revenge. But Nullcraft is just such a pain to deal with.
Shoddy Glider
Careless Musketeer
Makeshift Rambaster
Nautical Dog
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($8)
Skip Worker
Build Tech II Blood - ($4)
Float ($4)
Discard 2, draw 3, reshuffle, draw 1
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger: Mad Man 1/1
Technician: Drakk L6 3/4
Lookout:
In Play:
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 4
Tech II HP: 5 (Blood)
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 4
Deck: 8
Disc: 0
Gold:
Gold: 4
Workers: 8
Thoughts
Need to get the reshuffle, so can’t help skipping a worker. Maybe should have skipped last turn? It’s -1 gold but then I at least can play cards. Question is how to patrol, really hard to play around Stewardess and Origin Story.
Ooh, topdecked a Glider. Desperation would have been the nuts though.
Not sure how I screwed up my gold. Still learning how to work this spreadsheet. I started with 9, spent 2 on Prynn, 3 on Origin Story, and 4 to build Tech 2 (Present). No worker, no float.
Shoddy Glider
Nautical Dog
Makeshift Rambaster
Crashbarrow
Crashbarrow
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($12)
Worker - ($11)
Zane - ($9)
Shoddy Glider - ($8) Shoddy Glider trades with Prynn, Zane to L3
Maxband Zane, shove Mox to Elite and sideline it - ($5) Zane kills Neo Plexus, we both get a gold - ($6)
Float ($6)
Discard 2, draw 4
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger: Mad Man 1/1
Technician:
Lookout:
In Play:
Zane L6 4/2
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 4
Tech II HP: 5 (Blood)
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 4
Deck: 4
Disc: 5
Gold:
Gold: 6
Workers: 9
Thoughts
Well, there’s the Origin Story. That Shoddy Glider topdeck turned out really sick though. Depending on how many Desperations I draw I might cycle before I can use Gunships. Curious as to which Tech II Unit Purple went with.
STARTING HAND
Origin Story
Stewardess of the Undone
Argonaut
Tricycloid
Fading Argonaut
WORKERS
Plasmodium
Temporal Research
Tinkerer
Forgotten Fighter
Fading Argonaut
NextHand
Battle Suits
Nullcraft
Time Spiral
Hyperion
Neo Plexus
Discard
Origin Story
Argonaut
Stewardess of the Undone
Void Star
Xenostalker
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($8)
Worker - ($7)
Scavenger Gold - ($8)
Hardened Mox trades with Madman (You get 1 gold)
Tricycloid - ($3)
Mox is Trashed due to Tricy being Tech 2
Max Geiger - ($1)
Tricycloid spends 2 Runes to Kill Zane
Geiger gains two levels
Build Tech Lab (Future) - ($0)
Neo Plexus ended up in my “Draw” pile instead of the “Discard” pile after being eliminated last turn. I only noticed because I drew him for my upcoming turn. I think it would be easy enough to cut him from my hand and put him in the discard pile where he belongs, but is there a way to randomly pick one of the three cards remaining in my “Draw” pile to replace him once I do that?