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Re: Shadespire

Post by Jye Nicolson » Sat Jan 11, 2020 12:12 am

I *probably* won't bother to proxy myself, but 100% happy to play against proxied cards.

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Re: Shadespire

Post by The Other Dave » Sun Jan 12, 2020 12:41 pm

Continuing deck-building chat, I had some success with Magore's this past Saturday, admittedly against a couple not-very-meta-tuned decks (but on the other hand against Ochiai-san, who has been honing his Thorns skills for a solid year and is not to be trifled with), and jiggered my deck to look like this. (I was in Sakae this afternoon and had enough Yodobashi points to get Magore's for no money, so there's a couple cards from there in there now.)

I think that's pretty much where I want it for a bit (although of course I'm sure there will be one or two cards in the Ogor set I'll want) - there are only one or maybe two cards that my Mournflight deck has claim to that I might want to add (Sitting Target is particularly juicy), and there are a couple upgrades in the deck very much on a trial basis. Ghartok, who cannot be knocked back, plus Earthing Stone seems like it could be especially annoying for my opponent, and it might be more efficient to use a more reliable push upgrade like Duellist's Speed - push one after an attack - instead of Blessing of Hydragos - push two after a successful attack - but I just kind of want to see how those two cards work.

Overall, though, I think I might like playing Magore's more than the banshees, if only because they're just a very straightforward aggro warband and the Mournflight sometimes require some galaxy-brain planning-for-the-whole-turn-in-advance stuff I'm not very good at.
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Re: Shadespire

Post by The Other Dave » Thu Jan 23, 2020 10:41 pm

A few people have been showing interest in the game recently, and one of the big UW blogs also just put up a nice article about how to get started in the game (which can be a bit daunting). Interested parties might give it a read!

https://canyourollacrit.com/2020/01/23/ ... derworlds/
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Re: Shadespire

Post by The Other Dave » Thu Jan 30, 2020 2:28 pm

Preview is up for the Wurmspat: very interesting! Their nurgle resilience mechanic is taking one less damage for every block rolled on their defence roll, and their inspire mechanic (having 3 enemies either out or wounded) isn't *super* difficult. The two blight kings are otherwise fairly vanilla (one *ridiculously* accurate one and one with a spear for the same range 2 and option of a scything attack Stikkit has), and the sorceress is pretty typical for a mage as well. They have a minor but interesting gambit mechanic, and lots of gambits that remain in play, so that's neat, but aside from that nothing too groundbreaking. Still, though, solid and non-flashy pretty much fits the bill for a 3-model tanky warband I guess, and helps ensure they won't Grymwatch up the meta. Mostly it'll be interesting to see how a slow 3-model warband, however durable, fares in the current objective-heavy meta. I'll get 'em though, if only because they look sweet.
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Re: Shadespire

Post by The Other Dave » Sun Feb 23, 2020 1:07 pm

Another "Dave ponders decks" post, heh. I think, after today's game day, that I may be a Rippas guy for a bit. They were good fun to play, and the lack of accuracy is something I'm kind of used to from playing a bunch with the banshees. I threw a deck together tonight, and while it has a lot of the issues most aggro decks do (in particular, relying in the end on rolling hits) I think it could work.

Linky here

(It also has a singular lack of push tech, but again that's sort of an aggro thing.)

I tried to put a Wurmspat deck together, but while I think it's definitely doable, they really do have to fight against their not-really-good in-faction objectives, and I didn't feel quite up to that. So I'll put them on the back burner and play around with wolf riders for a bit and see what happens.
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Re: Shadespire

Post by Jye Nicolson » Thu Mar 12, 2020 8:01 am

@The Other Dave - where do you go for your theorycraft? I can find winning decks very easily but I'm iffier on why they're so good or how to drive them well.

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Re: Shadespire

Post by The Other Dave » Thu Mar 12, 2020 11:00 am

I forget which of these I've mentioned, but they're all solid in their own way.

Mostly, because of how I commute these days, I just listen to a lot of podcasts about the game.

Chatting Crit is probably the most "hardcore" podcast I listen to - the Steel City guys are big contenders in the UK UW scene. Really good, really in-depth analysis, if possibly aimed a bit higher than I'm really looking at in terms of going out and winning Grand Clashes. Very good for things like "should I choose boards or tokens?" and other "higher-level" decisions. What the Hex and The Battle for Salvation are both really solid as well, and a bit more on my wavelength in terms of fun vs seriousness. Battlemallet is pretty casual as well, and suffers from Too Many Hosts, but has some good discussion. I used to listen to Path to Glory - Aman Khusro is probably one of the top 5 players in the world - but he spends a lot of time bitching about how the only reason he ever loses is luck or his opponent using a broken warband. Solid discussion, though, if you can get past all the sour grapes about Grymwatch.

On YouTube I watch the Battlecast, a very chill Canadian dude mostly doing battle reports with occasional interviews with tournament winners and discussion of their decks, breakdowns of warbands, and that sort of thing. Agents of Sigmar is likewise a couple of chill English guys who do weekly battle reports and also occasionally discuss how they're constructing their decks. Both these are really good for me as they're pretty much aimed directly at me in terms of "how serious do you want to be about the game" - namely, they want to have fun but also go to organized play events and, if possible, do well in them, but the fun is the overriding concern.

Can You Roll a Crit? is the only blog I'm reading much these days, mostly for his breakdowns of the cards in each set, although there's the occasional article on strategery.
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Re: Shadespire

Post by me_in_japan » Thu Mar 12, 2020 11:18 am

I’m not as into Shadespire as Dave, and most of my hobby research goes into MtG (which is a bottomless pit of information) but I second his mention of Can You Roll a Crit as being a great resource.

Also, on a separate note, my son and I played a game of SS today. Wurmspat vs Eyes, using only the cards they came with.

It finished 1-0 with 1 casualty (the Tzaangor) and my son throwing a strop because his warband (the eyes) couldn’t get anything done. Good god but those warbands are booooring outta the box. So much incompetence and dead objective cards it’s just not funny. They may be workable with a bunch of other cards, but it takes a better player than me, lemme tell you.
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Re: Shadespire

Post by The Other Dave » Thu Mar 12, 2020 11:59 am

The Eyes are kind of famously, er, not reaching their full potential. :lol: Any number of little tweaks would have made them competitive - if anybody should have a mage level 3 it’s a Tzeenchian sorcerer, just to pick one - but they’re just not quite there. The Wurmspat’s native Supremacy in a 3-model warband takes the cake though.
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Re: Shadespire

Post by me_in_japan » Thu Mar 12, 2020 1:27 pm

Yeah, I nearly scored that Tri-Lobe objective. In fact, I nearly scored it 3 turns in a row. But that dastardly lad kept, y’know, hitting my warband. Which had the totally unpredictable side effect of knocking them off the objectives. :roll: Never woulda guessed that might happen... :?
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