i need to talk to Jade xD

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Added on May 28, 2009, 5:41 pmbtw Aizuddin, congrats!!

beating two ex-champions in a row!! wow! impressive.

Lol, it was insane. Damien Dufresne was my first round opponent. He was running the popular Lady Vashj team. I was playing Jaina, Elendril, Phadalus. When i arrived in Singapore, i didn't even have the figures, i bought the Elendril and Phad and borrowed the Jaina and the ABCs. I'd never playtested the team, and theorycrafted its effectiveness in the plane ride over.

Damien was a real sport, being patient with me, and helping me through my first every competitive game (and my 3rd ever game of minis period). Somehow, the luck of the dice deserted him, and he lost on time by 1 VP. I was surprised that i won, most of the time i didn't know what i was doing, just rolling the dice whenever i was asked to.

1-0

Kelvin of Singapore was next, another long-time minis player. He walloped me nicely with another Lady Vashj team buffed by Rethilgore. I was getting the hang of things, but still just fumbling around mostly.

1-1

Then Pedro from the Philippines. Dont remember too many of the details, except he was running a popular build, double Harukas and Thangal. Again i just moved and rolled, moved and rolled, and.... won.

2-1

Can't remember the name of the 4th opponent, but i went to time, again... he was just too far behind to catch up. The team wasn't very good, and i remember one-shotting his figures everytime i opened fire. Not sure how he was a 2-1 team.

3-1

Ben Isgur was next. This game was actually the fastest game for me, all the other games went to time so far. The reason why it was fast: Ben was playing Minis solitaire, virtually. Every time it was his turn, he would move in a blink. Then when it was my turn, he would tell me exactly what my options were, and let me choose what to do. So i just did whatever he said i could do, then roll my dice. Dice rolls were nuts here, and everytime i hit, he seemed to miss. He was running a Kael'thas and double Hellcallers for the Heart Murmur synergy (that was truly janky, but it worked mostly). I won the game by cornering his Kael, if he went left, he would walk right into range of Elendril. If he went right, he walked right into Phadalus. Somehow my poor little Water Ele managed to kill his Hellcaller shield the turn prior. I think he was counting on my Water Ele not to roll a perfect hit + crit roll and he missing all his resist rolls. Thats what happened, his shield was gone, and left Kael to the wolves.

4-1

Corle Huffman, previous DMF champ was next. This game went to time too and it was a nailbiter. Midway through, i was down, i had no board position, his creatures had control of the VP, and my fellas were all dmged. His Lady Vashj (yes, another one) was at full health after receiving a max 5-die heal from his Troll, and one tick away from wiping out my Jaina and potentially another with some suitable rolls. But it was my turn, and i would have both my Elendril and Phadalus take their turns before his Vashj would be unleashed. So, ok, i take the shots, and the unthinkable happens.

I roll 22 hits in a row. The crowd that had gather around us went all silent. Corle's draw dropped. I clear his board.

Elendril rolls 6 dice (5+1 Jaina buff) on Lady Vashj. All hit and a couple of crits. Vashj is down to 6 health. I roll the follow up 4 dice (3+1 Jaina buff). All hit. Vashj is down to 2 health.

Phadalus doesn't have Line of Sight on Vashj, so i take the shot on his Wavecaller mage. I roll 7 dice. All hit and a couple of crits. The Wavecaller dies instantly (he was already damaged a bit). The crit effect allows me to take a follow up roll on any enemy within 2 spaces... Lady Vashj is in range. I roll 5 dice. All hit. Vashj dies. 12 VP swing at a critical time. I swarm up to the VP just in time, claim another 2 VP, netting 14 uncontested VPs.

He is never able to recover from that. Game goes to time. I run Jaina as far away from Vashj as possible, and use my Water Ele, Elendril + pet, Phadalus and a sea of totems as cover. He can't reach me in time. As a last act of defiance, he tries to finish Phadalus off who is low on health (even if Phad dies, he can't win). He rolls 5 dice. All miss. What can you say to that?

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Added on May 28, 2009, 6:11 pmbut why the coverage says otherwise? scratches head.

http://entertainment.upperdeck.com/wow/en/...eid=48&aid=5969

There were 17 players, with one playoff match to cut into Top 16.

Then it was 16-8-4-2. So, with the playoff match, the total number of rounds were 5.

what minis will you be using for the demo?

OMG that is sick rolling. No wonder they never talked about it in the official forums

Haha yep.

Woot, demo went quite well. Got a few kids interested but then again, money lies with their parents And they weren't too thrilled to know that there were boosters and stuff.

We should have a minis launch party at TB.

Do a 1-booster sealed event... everyone buys a booster, and builds a 2-figure party and we all play 2v2.

A 1-booster event will help keep the costs low for people who want to try the game for the first time...

Maybe i should apply to be take qualifications to be a minis judge...

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Added on June 1, 2009, 3:57 pm

Much as i hate to say it... but here in Malaysia, TCG/CMG is not a kid's game... its just too pricey.

Different for the game in the US/EU... where boosters are literally just a few bucks each. But for us... RM50-60 a booster... that makes the hobby firmly an adult pastime... unless your dad is some rich dude. Better to focus on marketing the game to adults...

The minis bug hit TB yesterday. A case of the minis were sold out within minutes... bring more lah... and go buy the uBases and dice from online, then resell to people lah.

http://www.warcraftgamingcenter.com sells the uBases and dice.

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Added on June 4, 2009, 12:38 pmThis weekend, i think TB got 1-booster sealed event.

This will be a great place for people to try out the game... sealed is damn fun because you just focus on playing the game, rather than having to worry about constructing a party from scratch.

But i think you guys got stiffed as far as the initial shipment of boosters go.

16 boosters, 8 from Core and 8 from Spoils, and not a single Epic from either set?

wtf man. obviously whomever sold it to you gave you boosters from a case that they already had ravaged for the epics. Each case = 2 epics guaranteed. Its very common for some unscrupulous ppl to open boosters from that case until they hit the 2 epics, then resell off the remaining boosters. Its more profitable that way coz each epic can sell for 3x the price of a single booster! (unlike the TCG, all epics in minis are actually tournament worthy, therefore are in high demand). And if they get lucky and open the 2 epics from the case after just a few boosters cracked... gg.

Anyways, whomever your supplier is, demand the other half of the cases you bought, or ask for 2 epics outright to be given to you. Otherwise its not only TB that is being shafted, its also your customers who are being shafted.