BattleCON G21 - Accountant (Seth) vs. Zorblag (Mikhail)

[Zorblag]

Spoiler: Beat 8 Attack Pair

Transcendent Burst!

Spoiler: Reaction Ante

Seal Token. Thought it's tempting to say that I'm waiting.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

[Accountant]

Yes, that sounds right. I should've started off with Cadenza or someone easier to play

Spoiler: Beat 8 Attack Pair

Fool's Burst

[Accountant]

ante Drive.

[Zorblag]

I like the idea of maining Seth, but I suspect it's going to take lots of play to get used to him. Like I said a bit ago, this matchup is worse for Seth than I realized before I picked Mikhail, so it wouldn't be a matchup I'd want to play again right away. If you're up for another game I'll switch to another character and you can either stick with Seth or switch yourself.

KingdomAces would also probably be happy to play you (probably with Lixis, though that's something that can be decided by players other than me.)

Pass on ante.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

[Accountant]

To be honest, Zorblag, despite my doom and gloom posts in the thread, I really enjoyed this, as much or more so than any mafia game I've played. I'd be more than happy to keep playing BattleCON matches in order to slowly master Seth.

I'll ante soak, though that's more of a last hurah than anything.

[Zorblag]

Power +1.

I think that BattleCON should appeal to mafia players in general as the bluffing translates nicely. I don't know how easy it is to get new players into the game on a forum basis though. In any case, I'm glad you're enjoying it! I'm always down for games if you're not in a hurry to get them done quickly.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

[Accountant]

I'm very new to this game, probably less than 10 games played - I suspect it's why 'm getting trounced by you so badly.

Pass.

[Zorblag]

Well, this matchup doesn't favor you at all I don't think (I say even though it's my first time playing Mikhail,) so that's probably a big part of this result. I'm glad you're enjoying it though!

Pass.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

[Zorblag]

And it looks like I have priority. I'll retreat 1 which puts us at range 4 which will let me hit and do 2 damage which is what I need to end the game.

Good game!

You asked about my thoughts after the game, but I think that the only two mistakes that I saw you make from my skill level were as follows:
In beat 3 on the first clash, given the options I had, I almost had to play Drive, and I think you could have clashed that to avoid the damage and cost me a Seal Token.

When you dodged past me and I had no Seal Tokens you put us at a distance with the ability to hit me with Shot, but not much else. I expected you to do that and so I turtled for a couple turns to get my Seal Tokens back and then could launch my offensive at will. Given that I had the life advantage that I did and no Seal Token I suspect you would have been better served by agressively going after me (especially as I've got so much range if I have the Seal Tokens.)

In any case, I'd like to play Cesar against you next (though I haven't looked at his kit to see what he can do well.) If you want to play again you're welcome to play Seth or someone else. I'll need to wait to set the game up in any case.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

[Accountant]

Sure! Thank you for the game, even though I was a very poor opponent.

[Accountant]

I'd like to play Malandrax next, if you don't mind. I have a thing for scheming predictors.

[Zorblag]

Malandrax looks super interesting (somehow all the Gesselheim characters seem to thematically.) I'll go ahead and set that game up sometime tomorrow!

-Zorblag R`Lyeh