Resurgence Followup

So, a quick followup from our Resurgence tournament yesterday:

Went two and two. Quick recaps of each game:

Round 1: Brutal beatdown of a Haley list. A friend of mine pretty much devastated my army with a rain of Chain Lightnings, and then stood Haley too close to Junior with no Focus on her. BoC, BoC, feat, BoC, dead.

Round 2: Versus Garryth. This was the most frustrating game of the tournament. Didn't do anything wrong, but got diced out. My dice were not hot. My opponent's were. Did the best that I could, but no go. I conceded when it became clear the game would come down to Garryth slowly whittling down my army until Gaspy got himself re-perished. Oh well. For the record, Garryth has an absolutely obnoxious Feat against Cryx. No spending Focus in his control area AND no casting would be fine. But no channeling, either? Ugh. Wouldn't have mattered either way - I couldn't roll damage to save my life, while my opponent couldn't miss and couldn't help but kill everything.

Round 3: Versus Reznik. I stole this one from myself, frankly. Fairly early my opponent sent up his TFG in old-school classic shield wall formation. Big mistake. Gaspy moved up and dropped Soul Reaper on top of the squad, then hit them with Death Knell cast by the Deathjack. Got all of them but two. Foosh. Ten souls, one activation. Can I express for a moment the raw sense of power when your caster gets seventeen Focus in one round? It's amazing. Anyway, couldn't capitalize much on it - I made a noob mistake and thought that Fire of Salvation's imprint was still Dispel. Oops. Deathjack got pounded flat. My Satyxis did surprisingly well here - did almost half the Avatar of Menoth's grid, and some not-insignificant damage to Bastions. The Cankerworm ended up finishing the Avatar off - and then grabbed his sword. Oh, what a feeling that was. So, the game was going pretty well for me, but I panicked with the random round time and hung Gaspy out to dry on an ill-advised Feat turn rather than hanging back, waiting until Reznik was out of a forest, and casting Parasite on him, or going after my opponent's zone to win by scenario, or something. I failed to kill him because he was camping a lot of Focus, Reznik cast EoD, and was in range of Gaspy(even with Hellbound up). I didn't make my opponent roll it out.

Round 4, versus Cryx: Barely worth talking about. My opponent threw his Deathjack away first turn (Max AD and ran it as far as he could), I used my Deathjack to kill his Deathjack. Second turn, he moved Terminus up, cast Annihilation, charged with a bunch of stuff, leaves Terminus with no Focus. Boom, six dead Satyxis. Only, Terminus is in 9" of the Deathjack with a nice fat landing zone. My turn, I clear out some Bane Knights, trample through, buy four attacks and rip Terminus in half. That'll learn him.

So, what did I learn? I was basically out of the running after getting diced out (overall winner played Cryx and went 4-0 - VERY impressive with Warwitch Deneghra). I learned that I might be in love with eGaspy. He's utterly fantastic - one of the deepest casters in our faction. LOTS to him. Great spell list, fun to play, I might end up maining him. I have a lot to learn, though. I have to learn when to pop his Feat, mainly. It's such a potent Feat but you have to do it at the right time, and both times it mattered I used it incorrectly. I had some slight issues with casting spells at the right time but overall I did okay for playing a complex caster the first time.

Also, I -hate- the scenario. It's not a good scenario at all. The first time someone gets points for the middle, they win. If you don't have some kind of AD, you lose instantly. And I was right - shooting was -crucial-.

Overall, a fun if frustrating event. I'll have a chance to redeem myself sometime in March when we're running another one at a different store. I'm thinking about taking the Coven. We'll see what happens.