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Title: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: hainkarga on November 27, 2011, 07:55:51 pm
I made a quick vault edit to see how it would look like with phoenix, deflag, charger, momentum salvages. Gonna change after discussion.

Salvage pile:
Salvage 6 from Higurashi's win.
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Salvage 6 from mrpaper's win
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Salvage 6 from Evaria's win
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Matchups:
Battles
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1:death ralouf1vs:aether UTAlan
3:entropy Bonestormvs:aether Gen. Higurashi
4:time Gen. 10 menvs:aether EvaRia
5:earth Lt. Mithcairionvs:aether Lt. mrpaper
Decks for round 8:
Higurashi vs :entropy
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mrpaper vs :earth
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UTAlan vs :death
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Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: hainkarga on November 27, 2011, 08:55:43 pm
On round 8, we do 4 matches. Assuming we use graboid and  14 pillars per the other 3 decks on average, we need around 49 pillars.
We have 12 pillars and 27 pendulums. Need around 10 more, 6 comes from Emerald pillar conversions and 4 from the other two decks we won against.

What we could use from salvages are creatures. The available in order of usefulness are;
- 6 Phoenix (Can support double fractix. And these serve another purpose; in case fractix loses, we will have the room to save 6 non-phoenix cards from the losing deck, like fractals. So they would also a be served as backup)
- 4 Charger (We kept losing with fractal chargers, but perhaps can make a PU chargers with these)
- 2 Pharaoh (Well, they spawn creatures)
- 5 Abomination (Don't have entropy cards to support an entropy duo. But they are the average joe cards for fractaling anyways. Or we make a fractal minor abomination deck with these fellas)
- 2 Ghost of the past (Only useful if we salvage all of the time creatures.)
- 1 Devonain Dragon (Only useful if we salvage all of the time creatures.)

Salvage of spells would depend on the creature salvage. At a first glance, we can take 3-4x phoenix, 1-2 deflag, 3-4 chargers OR 3-4 abominations and convert 3-4 more of the salvage from higs & mrpaper's wins.

Then what we will have are;
- Graboid
- Fractix
- Bonebolt (with or wo mummies)
- MA
- Fractal frogs

Plus, depending on the salvage;
- fractal or pu chargers
- fractal abominations
- second fractix
- Some :time duo
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: mrpaper on November 27, 2011, 09:36:16 pm
I would say we go with having 2 fractix deck which are better then fractal chargers since faster and can crash through walls with deflags.  So we salvage a combo of 6 deflags/phoenix from my salvage an duse most of higs to convert.

I believe it is time to bring back bonebolt, our opponents will prolly not think we still have this left so it's a great bet for us.

 
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: hainkarga on November 27, 2011, 10:12:10 pm
I would say we go with having 2 fractix deck which are better then fractal chargers since faster and can crash through walls with deflags.  So we salvage a combo of 6 deflags/phoenix from my salvage an duse most of higs to convert.

I believe it is time to bring back bonebolt, our opponents will prolly not think we still have this left so it's a great bet for us.
Current salvage & conversion i made have both extra phoenixes and chargers while having sufficient pillars / pendulums for 4 decks (assuming one of them is graboid). Click this (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqCh8-BfWOzYdGd5YU9TMkhMM0xwRGVnTUlyZ19YTlE&hl=en_US#gid=35)

Right now i'm trying to figure out how to plan the future salvage / discards.

For example;
- if graboid deck loses what are we going to save ?
Surely we can't save graboids and novas together if we don't win against a deck either with novas or graboids. So it would just die out. In the past we managed to revive this deck because either we had multiple graboid decks or we had good salvage. We could just save aether cards in it, but we better not be pigeonholed into mono aethers. So stuff like chargers could give us the room to make a deck with PU saves from a losing graboid or we can save nova cards and make a deck with gravity mark with stuff like deflags or some cards from some supporting salvage. Losing the graboid potentially would result massive conversions if we will have to field 4 decks again which could mean we not only lose graboids but some other support cards.

- Fractix deck losing: We could cover this by the extra phoenix salvage this round. They allow us to ditch a losing fractix deck's phoenixes and save critical cards like fractal while still preserving another fractix deck.

- Fielding mono aether is very dangerous for our vault, when you think about discards. It is also stressing to choose between fractals and parallel universe discards when we don't know what the future salvage will bring us. Dragons & graboids we want to PU, rest we want to fractal.

- Bonebolt losing: Like graboid deck, it is hard to save a losing bonebolt deck with mummies. We could get 3 mummy + 3 bonewall in which case we lose our precious and limited fractals. So I think this is another reason to salvage a few more creatures to fractal. So if bonebolt loses we can save aether cards to make another fractal deck. Another alternative could be saving bonewalls only, to make a stall deck combined with DS.

- It is important not to have too similar decks, otherwise our opponents chances to counter us would increase dramatically. Our opponents should be forced to leave it on luck. More variety, the better. For example, graboid, bonebolt, fractix, mono aether have sufficiently different playstyles.
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: mrpaper on November 27, 2011, 11:49:00 pm
All you said is true, but we must deal with whatever is left and other teams are at the same point too. 
If graboid deck loses it is likely out unless we salvages from similar decks once or twice in rounds 8-9.  It is really unlikely we will need 4 decks anymore if we are to lose some decks in the future so I wouldn't worry much about that.  Chargers won't make good duo by themselves and as said before are not as strong as phonixes, plus they cost too many quanta to be in a nova deck.  Same could be said about pharaoh and devonian dragon.  If you really want to keep cards from higs salvage for a future nova, why not keep momentum and chaos power?
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: UTAlan on November 28, 2011, 07:01:45 pm
Sorry I wasn't around much for Round 7 - the holiday week had me running around all over town. I'll be much more available this week.

Salvages look pretty straightforward:
Higs - Maybe 1 momentum, the rest conversions.
mrpaper - Between 1 and 3 Phoenix's (enough to field 2 Fractix decks), the rest conversion. We have 6 deflags in the vault - I doubt we need more than that.
Eva - Conversion.

I agree with mrpaper that Chargers aren't going to do us any good in the long run. We have 5-6 viable decks right now, so we're in decent shape. If we have to resort to throwing a random deck together, we're probably not going to win anyway, so I say we focus on strengthening the decks we do have and try to make some great mindgates once matchups are posted.
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: hainkarga on November 29, 2011, 12:17:56 am
After seeing the current standings, we are in good shape right now. Only 57 card difference with the #1 team! At the end of this round it is very possible to sit on their seat. Still waiting to see who our opponents will be. The reason i'd like to salvage more deflags has the same reason why we would salvage phoenixes: Backup. We would have graboid and two fractix decks which all use multiple deflags and in case one or more of those decks lose we will have a room to revive them by saving 6 cards and those 6 cards can hardly be deflags. Salvaging deflags now, would give us the room to discard them. Since we will be fielding 2-3 decks that use it, there is a high chance for that.

About the non-phoenix creature salvage; think of them as choosing between frogs. Like; we can now either convert frogs or chargers or abominations. The reason why i consider abominations a possibility is the high chances of looting entropy cards for future duo, because team :entropy still has a huge vault and we will likely salvage them more. Get a few purple dragons / discords next round, we have some sweet-er abominations.

* The reason we would want to convert everything but phoenixes now; would only be the future possibility of having to convert more than 24 cards to make non-suicide decks. Otherwise no need to convert anything more than what we need to field 4 decks this round.

* Worst case scenerio is we lose with all 4 duels which would leave us with 51 cards: 1 deck. 24 card conversion would be much more than enough to field a deck. Or we win all and have to field 5 players. Again, 14-15 conversions will be enough. Plus, if we convert now we will have the drama of having to choose between saving stuff like fractals or stuff like creatures. So the more creatures, the more aether we can save.

* Conclusion; no need to convert anything more than what we need for 4 decks this round. We can just salvage abominations, chargers, more deflags, or whatever we like. Maybe even emerald pillars seeing we have a possible frog deck :p
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: Shaliyah on November 29, 2011, 11:55:54 pm
Sorry for not being around much either, I was busy with interviews and applications. I will catch up asap though! =)
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: mrpaper on November 30, 2011, 12:15:49 am
with the new event card on... It seems obvious to me we must the option of having more upgraded cards with monos.  We don't have marks left so this is useless ( I doubt many still do)  and converting to get more aether cards i not that useful since our leftovers becomes more pillars/pends anyway.  Let's try to build two MA if possible, we will think if its the best option, but I could use 24 upgraded cards while higs could use up to 36 (so a full upped deck).  I could use it well against earth, keeping 6 unnupped pends/pillars in case of eq and fully upped for the rest.  I should beat a mono earth if they went that way (even with SS to heals) and grabs deck too with lightnings + tons of DS.
I'd like somthing like this:
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Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: mrpaper on November 30, 2011, 04:28:53 am
** also, the new rule of 0 salvage from now on (mostly to end war faster of course) means taking those chargers is really useless now, we can't really hope to build on that piece + something else that would come later.
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: Odii Odsen on November 30, 2011, 03:38:04 pm
I like mrpaper's idea. But on the other side, our opponents, could expect that. Monoaether is one of the most strongest mono decks.
It protects our creatures, plus we have maybe the best defense (lightnings+dim shield)
Nevertheless, this idea seems to me to be the best.
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: mrpaper on December 01, 2011, 02:05:15 pm
My only fears with my deck is if they come with pulvy to destroy shields (I hope lightning will be enough then) or if they we're to bring 6 DS also and try to stall me, is it worth taking like 32 cards to make him run out of shields?

We better hurry for other decks too... where is the best pllace to run the other MA?

time? we face the general and it would give us the upper hand and mono time is useless against mono aether, but I just beated time last round with MA, so it is more then expected from em and everyone (which is making MA safer against others).  They could save deflags from a loss of last round to get deflags back (though it worked bad against me) or stalled with DS also.

death? mono death would lose to us unless they use diss shield and 20 pillars... would be really bold, arsenic becoming soon useless when the shield is on and bonewalls getting destroyed fast by dragons.  They could also use DS to stall (run 32 cards again), or a grabs deck with 2 deflags and a steal (steal would hurt a lot if they poison us).

entropy? mono entropy would lose also to us and it allows us to use a full upped deck.  They could bring DS to stall (so we could bring more cards and still upped em all), they might save chargers, but it just lost against Higs so I doubt it, or bring they're steal/lycan deck which seems like the best bet for em.  To counter that, I'd be sure to have 6 lightnings ( 1 ready everytime a lycan pops in play!) and maybe less DS (around 3) since they are better not played if they steals em from us.  maybe fractal spiders to overrun em?
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: hainkarga on December 01, 2011, 09:18:22 pm
Let's explore possibilities.

First card:
A meta game card. Not this round but on the rounds after that, stuff like extra fractals helps us cover phoenix / mummy / frog saves. As in we save the non-aether cards knowing that we have extra fractals stocked. It also helps us support extra phase dragons in case we run multiple MA or if our MA loses. We can't save any cards this round, so stocking up some phase dragons & fractals can be a good idea. Unless we run MA this round, this seems to be the only choice.

Second card: We can choose this one and make two decks with extra upgrades .
Think simple. Its fast, also can replace lightnings with dimensional shields.
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MA lt deck.
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Third card: Like mrpaper says. We can run double MA decks. One he posted;
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And another like this one;
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My vouch is event card #1. Get 3 fractals and 3 phase dragons while preserving enough decks or salvage some silences to surprise our opponents. If not, #2 with the decks i posted above. But then again, i won't probably get to play anymore till the end, so its only fair your say so has a higher weight.

Against :entropy this round; Surprise attack (edited for more pillars)
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Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: Higurashi on December 01, 2011, 10:11:31 pm
Hm.. looking at the 18 crappy (except Fenix+Deflag, but we already have that) cards we can salvage, Event Card #1 could be incredible if we won most our duels this Round, keeping our duos intact, and got a ton of Dim Shields with the Event Card. PC is starting to run low in several teams, and this is a gamble that could give us a gigantic edge.

But that relies on keeping most of our duos this Round, and the other two Event cards can be used to increase deck power instead, so they work opposite in a way.


Silence Fractal Frogs doesn't seem to be able to beat anything but Entropy's Fire duo. Last round they used Wings Duo, Nightmare in their Dark duo, TADAbow (even stronger if they go with Marked event card), Pandebonium and Monocards (Pande).

We need either stamina to beat most their decks, i.e. BoneBolt or Monoaether,
or we go on the counter-offense with NovaGrabby. Since we've sent that against them several times, they might go Wings or Pandebonium if they can save that one (it lost in R7). MA will definitely beat Wings, but it will be luck-based vs. Pandebonium. BoneBolt will struggle with Wings since we have to Fractal Mummies on top of the 4 Poisons and all their attackers are above 5 HP, but it should win against Pandebonium.
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: hainkarga on December 01, 2011, 11:15:30 pm
I suppose we can get to dispose of frogs along with most of the salvage for more aether cards if we choose event card #1. Phoenixes are better fractal target anyway and we have enough. About the silence deck, it can have phoenixes instead of frogs ofc, which gets through wings and cc.  i posted that deck just to be more colorful.
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: mrpaper on December 02, 2011, 01:31:18 am
convert the few cards left that we can to make more MA?? we already can make 2 of those... Heck we could do 3 if we we're to make crappy ones, so why would we want more aether cards?  we will get stuck with little options and become 100% predictable.  On the other hand, 2 MA are almost 100% wins with the tons of upgrades we can get.  Also remember with the new 30-0 rule, the decks will be really easy to predict next round so we want to keep options open!
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: Higurashi on December 02, 2011, 01:32:49 am
Um, no. I said we could convert most of the crappy salvage.
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: mrpaper on December 02, 2011, 02:19:26 am
crappy salvage is less then 10 cards if we don't count the converting we already do anyway.  Not worth avoiding the bonus... and don't forget people will come at us with tons of uppeds cards too.. so it will be real hard to  win for us if don't do the same
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: Higurashi on December 02, 2011, 02:20:05 am
Yes, I've mentioned that.
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: mrpaper on December 02, 2011, 02:22:52 pm
Btw, more reasons NOT to go for option #1 if everyone ain't convinced yet... Our few remaining crappy cards will be used to be converted into pillars/pends as soon as we get a loss because we won't have enough so we need a few of those.  Also, warmasters have been clear that war ends 2 rounds from now, so don't be surprise if round #9 says something like "flooding in the basement" every team loses 25 cards or 25% of what's left.  That, or having a match that you lose 10 card extra for every match loss ( you win 3-1, you still lose 10 cards... you lose 3-1, you lose 60 cards).  Whatever it will be, it will be a way to make teams lose tons of cards so lets be sure we keep as many decks alive till then.  That way is with 2 almost automatic wins MA power!  Oh and I believe we will be one of the few able to field 2 monos since there are so many duos and rainbow lefts in other teams.. but that we will see soon!
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: hainkarga on December 03, 2011, 12:28:24 am
Option 1:
We have 9 fractals and 4 creature packs to fractal. What i mean is we have sufficient creatures (3 mummies, 4 frogs, 9 phoenixes) to field 4 fractal decks but can barely support 3 fractal decks (3 for each 3 deck = 9 fractal). So we have useless frogs at hand because we rather fractal the other stuff.
Besides that, right now the vault with a sensible initial salvage (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqCh8-BfWOzYdGd5YU9TMkhMM0xwRGVnTUlyZ19YTlE&hl=en_US#gid=35) holds 51 pillars / pendulums. Assuming we use 13-14 pillars for 3 decks and 7 pillars for graboid, we can damn 4-5 pillars, even a single phoenix.

Conclusion: If we are to choose this event card, we have 7 to 9 cards that we can convert to aether cards without losing any one of the graboid / bonebolt with fractal mummies / double fractix / MA decks at all. Those 8 cards can be any combination of fractals / dimensional shields or silences to surprise our opponents.


Option 2:
The only non-MA deck with aether mark we can build is frogtal. I tried to use entropy pendulums and time pendulums but they have no support at all. So any other choice than fielding a MA along with Frogtal is a bad choice compared to option 3. What we can do is fielding double MA and a frogtal to maximize upgraded cards while using decent decks. And in order to maximize benefit, Gen & Lie could use two of these decks. Not judging if they are suitable decks against our current opponents.

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Option 3:
To maximize the benefit, we should take both of the MA (with dragons) & MA (with PU phase recluse & double dragons) plus two of [Bonebolt - Fractix - Another fractix - Graboid - Frogtal]

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**Decks fielding single MA are same as above minus the recluse deck, plus one of the other decks. Fielding only one MA means increasing the chances of 1 / 4 of the matches to win by sacrificing new deckbuilding / vault polishing advantage of option 1.

** The decks i posted in opt2 and opt3 have same amount of upgrades in total. The difference is option two is  spreaded among three decks and uses some odd deck in an attempt to make use of the event card, and the balance changes if non-lie non-gen members take those decks. Again, I'm not judging here the efficiency of the decks nor if they are suitable counters.

My analysis:
- If we choose Event card #1: we get new 7 to 9 aether cards without losing any deck we used on round7  while having enough pillars for 4 decks in round8. The only condition is using graboid this round.
- If we choose Event card #2: we need to field fractal frogs or it wouldn't make much sense. Any other case makes option 3 better.
- If we choose Event card #3: we better field double MA. Single MA increase winning chance of only one of the matches in which case option 1 is better.

My personal choice:
Event card #1
 
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: mrpaper on December 03, 2011, 12:40:25 am
good analysis... but the picture still seems cryastal clear to me that option 3 remains the best.  Option 2 will be just like option 3 but a bit weaker and option 1 doesn't bring many victories to the table!  And it is time we make choices and enter em
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: Higurashi on December 03, 2011, 12:48:43 am
While Event Card #1 is still tempting, objectively speaking getting a few more Aether cards is nothing compared to getting a loss, especially at this point in time. War has fully become about losing as little as possible rather than winning. With that in mind, I won't be surprised to see a scenario where a team gets a bye and rides to victory on that when the other teams are low.

So, assuming we focus 100% on not losing, Event Card 3 is the best one. But the most important question remains: who should we send MA against? Thanks to the combination of Lightnings and Dims, PC won't doom us into getting OTK'd by the likes of Graboid or denial decks, and it actually looks like we can send MA against Entropy with a build like that.

Unfortunately we haven't been keeping a record of other vaults, so for me it looks like a toss-up with the rest.
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: hainkarga on December 03, 2011, 12:56:30 am
Option 3 it is! Next question is two MA or one MA ?

I sometimes check out all of the rounds for this or that team attempting to understand what they have, but i don't much make notes of it. I wanted to keep up my initial thread but its very exhausting at work since a while. Its friday so i'll have a look at their vaults but i'm tired too :S
Don't have much time left, we better make some decks already now that we finally chose an event card.

Ps: I still rather damn the frogs and take chargers for future since we are free to choose between them atm. The fractals versus fractalable creature card balance issue still stands. Not enough fractals and we can PU chargers.
Other alternatives to frogs are momentum and chaos seed. Or we can keep them. What do you think ?
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: mrpaper on December 03, 2011, 06:01:08 am
My call would be to take 2 Ma, 1 for me, 1 for Higs.  As for the other 2 deck, we need a grabs deck, and I would go bonebolt with mummies for the other one.
I suggest grabs for death and bonebolt for time
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: Higurashi on December 03, 2011, 02:51:27 pm
Aye, that sounds best. Notes:
Entropy MA will need as many Lightnings as can be spared. 4-5 Dims.

Earth MA will be rushier, probably still needs some Lightnings. Haven't looked thoroughly at what they have left yet.

BoneBolt for Time needs the Poisons upped and 2 Mummy/2 Fractal, probably 12 pends. Fill up with Arsenics after BW's and Lightnings. Needs to withstand Discord duo, Dim Shield duo and Sanctuary duo. Poisondial will be big trouble. Fractix might be able to deal with all.

NovaGrabby for Death will probably go full on rush, using all the support cards we have for it (Fog, Momentum, etc.). Focus on PU's and more Pends (no more than 5 needed, then Pillars) rather than Lightnings.

Gotta host tourney now, so please cook these up.
The decks we can consider switching are Earth MA and Death NovaGrabby.
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: hainkarga on December 03, 2011, 06:08:58 pm
Not using any fractal deck is pushing pressure on parallel universes. And when i try to replace a parallel universe, can't find anything to put in its place so i put an extra pillar which results extra conversions. I had to convert the frogs to achieve the decks in OP. I suggest we switch one of the decks with fractix which will leave a better vault and get rid of the extra needless pillars we put in our decks this round. Another option is placing some fractals in MA / graboid. mrpaper's deck isn't much rushy without parallel universes.

Other than that, i updated the deck compliance / salvage / conversions. Check the OP of this topic to see the decks.

Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: Higurashi on December 03, 2011, 06:20:52 pm
As I posted, if we want to send Fractix, it's a decent match against Time. The Mummytal, as also mentioned, needs 4 Poisons to have any chance against Dimstall/Poisondial.
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: mrpaper on December 03, 2011, 06:29:59 pm
I'd like to remove 2 upped pends and an upped pillar to upped lightnings to get a better control over earthquakes
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: hainkarga on December 03, 2011, 07:11:51 pm
I'd like to remove 2 upped pends and an upped pillar to upped lightnings to get a better control over earthquakes
Done. Updated deck compliance and OP.
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: hainkarga on December 03, 2011, 07:22:40 pm
As I posted, if we want to send Fractix, it's a decent match against Time. The Mummytal, as also mentioned, needs 4 Poisons to have any chance against Dimstall/Poisondial.
I updated the vault and OP again to replace mummytal with fractix. This enabled the graboid deck to be more offensive: added 2 more lightnings and replaced poison with arsenic. Tho, we can steal some lightnings from graboid deck to support other decks. Switched 3 frogs with 3 chargers. Please have a quick look.
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: Higurashi on December 03, 2011, 08:06:22 pm
Hm, lesse.. I can see another Deflag in that Fractix for a Lightning, and a Giant Frog instead of one Momentum in the NovaGrabby. Also, the Deflag needs to be upped there.
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: hainkarga on December 03, 2011, 08:10:38 pm
Hm, lesse.. I can see another Deflag in that Fractix for a Lightning, and a Giant Frog instead of one Momentum in the NovaGrabby. Also, the Deflag needs to be upped there.
Done
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: mrpaper on December 03, 2011, 08:26:45 pm
please switch 1 upped pends for 1 upped pillars so I have even of each (eq prevent)
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: Higurashi on December 03, 2011, 08:30:59 pm
You have 5 towers and 6 upped pends. Replacing a pend for a tower results in the same split.
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: mrpaper on December 03, 2011, 08:32:45 pm
nvm last post, ma page didn't refresh, the update was done earlier By haink when asked in chat earlier I assume
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: Higurashi on December 03, 2011, 10:01:14 pm
Looks like my PM didn't go through to the Warmasters, but don't worry yet. I've talked to kev, and he'll talk to dd and SG. So don't play any matches yet.

Aight, we get a penalty for my tab not loading while sending other PM's during a tourney. But we do get to use the Event Card, so that's all good. You can play matches now.
Title: Re: Round 8 - Main Topic
Post by: Higurashi on December 05, 2011, 07:35:23 pm
10 men's gonna be busy tomorrow, so he wants to get the Eva match over with tonight. I'm pretty busy, so I'd appreciate if someone could do it. 10 men will definitely be around until 21 GMT, and might be on more. He's sporadically afk, so don't worry if he's not responding right away. So am I, btw.
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