Realizing I didn’t say before, but good game, sir!
You had me on the edge of my seat, and I felt like I was taking a huge risk that last turn. Heck, you had me half-convinced you’d play Guargum to block and another SotP or Stampede or something (though I was more worried about the Dinosize or a 2nd Charged Barbarbar).
The strength strat in general threw me for a loop (shouldn’t have; such an obvious back-up).
Well played!
I’m just glad it felt close from your end, since I never really felt like I was in a good position except the turn I took out your Tech II. Good game!
I think it was worth playing this out, fwiw. Taxman + Rook to maxband (off an overpower Sets kill) + Tech lab is 10g, Patrol Arg + Rook + Taxman. He’d have to choose between Snapping out Rook or Arg and TPoS, and you’re a good shot to draw Dinosize or Gunship. Probably was going to be very close
I’m willing to keep playing it, but since he can TPoS next turn it would be a race to see whether I can find lethal before he gets a single burn spell… Maybe surrendering was hasty, but I wasn’t optimistic about my chances.
If you want to play it out just to see what would’ve happened, I’m down. (:
Now that things have calmed down for me, here’s what would have happened if we continued…
STARTING HAND
Bombaster
Pirate Gunship
Gunpoint Taxman
WORKERS
Pillage
Bloodburn
Careless Musketeer
Scorch
Makeshift Rambaster
Bloodrage Ogre
Calypso Vystari
Dinosize
Mad Man
Nautical Dog
Bombaster
Pirate Gunship
Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid - ($10)
Summon Rook at Lv. 6 - ($3)
Arg exhausts to give Barbarbarian +2/+2a (total stats this turn: 9/9+2a)
Barbarbarian smashes Savior Monk, taking 1 damage, then overpowers through and bashes Setsuki; Rook gains 2 free levels
Build Anarchy Tech Lab - ($2)
Recruit Gunpoint Taxman - ($0)
Float ($0)
Discard 2, draw 4
[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]
[I]Squad Leader[/I]: Garus Rook Lv. 8 (4/6+a) (Two Lives)
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]: Argagarg Garg Lv. 5 (1/5)
[I]Technician[/I]: Gunpoint Taxman (3/3)
[I]Lookout[/I]:
Base HP: 11 Tech I HP: 5 Tech II HP: 5 (Strength) Tech III HP: 5 Tech Lab HP: 4 (Anarchy)[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]
That is rough. I have to gamble. Is it better for me to kill some of your patrol? I think not. Zane gives you too many possibilities… And going down on cards lowers my chance of drawing what I need. Enh. Let’s do it anyway…
Hrmm. I’m really going to get risky, I think.
P2T8
TECH
Wrecking Ball
Wrecking Ball
WORKERS
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($11)
Grave casts True Power of Storms, discarding IPN and Snapback; your base to 1 - ($8)
Grave casts Grappling Hook, swinging Rook to Elite
Aged Sensei boosts Grave
Grave safely and readily kills Arg, sparking 1 to Rook (Rook now 4/5); you get $1
Scrap Tower to build Surplus; my base takes 2 - ($3)
Skip worker
Float ($3)
Discard 1, draw 1, reshuffle, draw 2
[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]
[I]Squad Leader[/I]: Ninja Al (1/1+a) [I]Elite[/I]: Glorious Ninja (4+1/3, Haste, swift strike) [I]Scavenger[/I]: Ninja Bob (1/1)
[I]Technician[/I]: Grave Stormborne, Lv. 7 (4/4, Sparkshot, readiness) [I]Lookout[/I]: Ninja Chuck (1/1) Base HP: 16 Tech I HP: 5 Tech II HP: 5 Surplus HP: 4[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]
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Well, I saved a Ninja and drew FDSchool. He can’t build Tower, so he can’t stop the Ninja. And I might draw Wrecking Ball. I took 2 to build Surplus, which is the same as I’d have taken from Arg’s boost on BarBarBar, but now he can’t play any other spells. What if the Tech Lab was a feint and he was going Dinosize or another SotP?
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Sparkshot
When attacking a patroller, deals 1 damage to an adjacent patroller.
Sparkshot does stack. A unit with 2 instances of sparkshot will get to deal 2 damage to an adjacent patroller or 1 damage to each of 2 adjacent patrollers. — sharpo
As far as I can tell, Grave only has one Sparkshot, so do you want him to elbow Rook or Taxman?
Thanks! Rook. I don’t want Rook to be able to take on an Elite Glorious Ninja and survive to deal damage.
At least when I lose, it won’t be due to lack of effort!
Also, I think you might have forgotten about something I had on the board…
STARTING HAND
Calypso Vystari
Dinosize
Nautical Dog
Mad Man
Whitestar Grappler
WORKERS
Pillage
Bloodburn
Careless Musketeer
Scorch
Makeshift Rambaster
Bloodrage Ogre
Doubling Barbarbarian
Pirate Gunship
Entangling Vines
Charge
Colossus
Bombaster
Pirate Gunship
Mad Man
Dinosize
Nautical Dog
Calypso Vystari
Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid + scavenger - ($11)
Spirit of the Panda heals 1 damage from Doubling Barbarbarian and Rook
Gunpoint Taxman kills Ninja Al, steals $1 from your pile and takes 1 damage ($12)
Rook uses Landslide to armor through Glorious Ninja’s swift strike, taking 5 damage (shameless plug for Fantasy Strike)
Summon and max Zane; Zane shoves Bob into the newly empty Elite slot and kills him - ($5)
Zane trades with Grave, we both draw
Recruit the newly drawn Whitestar Grappler - ($2)
Barbarbarian breaks every bone in Chuck’s body as he smashes into your Tech II, destroying it and taking 1 damage - ($3)
Recruit Mad Man, who immediately bites Sensei to death as he dies from rabies or something, idk - ($2)
Waits for you to play Wrecking Ball, repeatedly saying “This is fine” with a smile on my face
Float ($2)
Discard 3, draw 5
[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]
[I]Squad Leader[/I]: Whitestar Grappler (3/5+a) [I]Elite[/I]: [I]Scavenger[/I]: [I]Technician[/I]: [I]Lookout[/I]: Base HP: 1 Tech I HP: 5 Tech II HP: 5 (Strength) Tech III HP: 5 Tech Lab HP: 4 (Anarchy)[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]
Rook should be 4/6 (1 life) because of the sparkshot. No armor in elite slot.
Also, Gunpoint should’ve stolen 1 of my floats. (: Would you want to do anything else with the extra cash?
…Rook started your Turn 8 with 6 HP, took exactly 1 damage from Sparkshot, then was healed by Spirit of the Panda, as I noted at the start of Turn 9, returning him to 6 HP. That’s what I was referring to when I said I thought you’d forgotten something.
No, if I’d wanted to play anything more $1 wouldn’t have made a difference with what was in my hand.
Thanks! Don’t know how I missed that!
@Hobusu
Also, my base should have been at 16 after the Tower replacement. Would that have changed anything?
Funny enough, the only difference is that Rook technically still has 2 lives because he was healed. Two Lives means that he would have survived taking lethal damage, meaning he could still hit through swift strike regardless.
No, I feel that denying Tech II is more important than straight Base damage at the moment. If only I had Snapback to let me kill Troq too… 
The Tech II choice was good on your part. If you hadn’t broken it, Ninja Dave would have been invisible and taken you out. As it is, I did not get lucky.
P2T9
WORKERS
Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($14)
Daylight robbery - ($13)
Draw from Technician
Draw from Surplus
Summon Setsuki, to max - ($6)
Recruit Savior Monk - ($4)
Recruit Morningstar Flagbearer - ($1)
Skip worker
Rebuild Tech II
Float ($1)
Discard 3, draw 5
[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]
[I]Squad Leader[/I]: Setsuki Hiruki, Lv. 6 (3/4+a) [I]Elite[/I]: Ninja Dave (1+1/1) [I]Scavenger[/I]: Savior Monk (2/2, Healing 1) [I]Technician[/I]: Morningstar Flagbearer (2/2, Flagbearer) [I]Lookout[/I]:[B]Buildings:[/B]
Base HP: 14 Tech I HP: 5 Tech II HP: 5 Surplus HP: 4[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]
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I think this is the closest game I’ve ever played!
STARTING HAND
Pirate Gunship
Doubling Barbarbarian
Colossus
Charge
Entangling Vines
WORKERS
Pillage
Bloodburn
Careless Musketeer
Scorch
Makeshift Rambaster
Bloodrage Ogre
Colossus
Dinosize
Calypso Vystari
Entangling Vines
Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($12)
Spirit of the Panda heals 1 HP for Rook, Taxman and Barbarbarian
Deploy a Pirate Gunship! - ($6)
Whitestar Grappler suplexes Flagbearer out of the patrol zone, killing him without taking damage or giving you a card
Pirate Gunship obliterates Dave and Monk as it bombards your Base for 7 damage (7 HP remains)
Barbarbarian kills Setsuki and overpowers 2 damage to your Base (5 HP remains) - ($7)
Rook and Taxman attack your Base for 5 damage (0 HP remains)
Recruit a second Barbarbarian - ($4)
Rook casts Charge on Barbarbarian #2, giving it haste and +2 ATK this turn - ($1)
Barbarbarian #2 smashes your Base for 5 damage (-5 HP remains)
Float ($1)
Discard 2, draw 1, reshuffle, draw 3
[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]
[I]Squad Leader[/I]: [I]Elite[/I]: [I]Scavenger[/I]: [I]Technician[/I]: [I]Lookout[/I]: Base HP: 1 Tech I HP: 5 Tech II HP: 5 (Strength) Tech III HP: 5 Tech Lab HP: 4 (Anarchy)[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]
Good game!
Called it! game was a lot closer than ya thought 
I haven’t looked to see what cards he’d teched, but drawing a Wrecking Ball there would have been an unavoidable loss… But yes, it doesn’t get closer than 1 HP base damage!
I had it in my next hand.
I maybe should not have killed Arg that turn, to increase my chances of drawing… but looking at your hand now, I’m still glad I did, because you had a Dinosize in hand, and Zane, Mad Man, and Dinosize together meant (I think) you could have just taken out my base otherwise. (:
Doing the math, yeah:
Zane ($8), takes out Al.
Rook takes out GN.
Arg boosts Taxman, who trades with Grave, 2 levels to Zane.
Zane to max ($5), killing Bob, probably shoving him to technician and drawing.
Mad Man ($4) kills Chuck.
Dinosize Barbarbar ($0): 19 damage to base.
That was a great match!
Yeah, I would be lying if I said I don’t regret surrendering, but that win just now required enough luck that I suspect you would have had it if we played it out at the time (different day, different RNG seeds). You can at least see why I gave up, right? It was even worse than I suspected at the time, since I thought you’d need Setsuki to stealth past my patrol… Well, you still kind of did, but TPoS made it so if you had ever found a way to get even ONE damage past, I would lose. So while I do regret the hasty decision, I stand by it being reasonable and don’t mind how things turned out (you officially winning and me… morally…? winning).
But yes, that was a fantastic match! Well played!