Strong Gaming

vs Jordan Bollin Scenario:  Bunkers This week I setup a friendly game with Jordan.  He is one of the Skorne players in the local meta, which made me automatically assume I would see Zaal2.  From what I can see, unless I have a list specifically designed to deal with Zaal2, he is pretty much always what I end up playing against.  We approached this as if it was a Steamroller game and each brought a list pairing.  We sent the lists ahead of time, with me playing the Coven / Denny2 pairing that I am trying to commit to as my primary pairing for the year. Jordan and I exchanged some messages where we discussed the different matchups.  I know that he is generally tired of playing Zaal2 and he briefly considered dropping his Xerxis2 list instead, but thought that Denny2 was such a hard counter that he couldn't take that chance.  I know that I saw Denny2 played into Zaal2 in the past, but it was before carapace lost the bonus to freestrikes and it generally played as an assassination

I am back and hoping to start posting a little more consistently.  I will be aiming for a post every other week and see if I can make time to keep up with that pace. In January, we started a new scrum (29 players, the local meta is strong).  I had decided I wanted to play Venethrax in Black Industries.  I wasn't really sure what to pair with it.  When I mentioned this to the local group, Brad Park asked if he could build my second list.  He ended up creating a Coven list in Scourge.  When I first saw that list, I really wasn't sure what to think or how it would play out, but I ended up playing it in 3 of my 5 games and went 2-1 with it.  Considering I was still learning what the list is meant to do, I am pretty happy with this result.  I will also say, my appreciation for this list has deepened with every game I played with it. [Coven 1] The Witch Coven of Garlghast [+26] - Scourge of the Broken Coast  - Barathrum [15]  - Deathripper [6]  - Scavenger [7]  - Scavenger [7

vs Derek Sennstrom Scenario:  Recon 2 Coming into this game, the January scrum had just completed and I was super pleased with the Coven list I ran.  After some discussions, I had decided on Denny2 as my complementary list.  I had several reps with the Coven list by now and wanted to get Denny2 back on the table.  I knew that whoever I ended up playing this week, I was going to drop Denny2 and just start seeing how the list operates on the table. Derek agreed to a game and brought his Crucible Guard.  Normally Syvestro is part of his pair and that's his drop into Cryx.  However, he told me he wanted to run this Mackay list as a potentially better Cryx drop.  He hasn't been super pleased with how Syvestro plays into Black Industries, specifically, and wanted to explore some other options.  Here are the lists. Me: [Deneghra 2] Wraith Witch Deneghra [+28] - Black Industries  - Barathrum [15]  - Deathjack [23]  - Deathripper [6]  - Deathripper [6]  - Slayer [10]  - S

Last week I wrote up my experiences in the Big Base Brawl, which took place on the first day of the Bokur Brawl.  Today I will attempt to recall my games in the Team Event.  I started playing in the Team Event last year and had such a great time I came back.  This year, I was playing on Team Meat with Mark Howard, Keith Baker, Kat Royer and Mike Ireland.  I was listed on the paper as the team captain, but I was really just handling the paperwork between rounds.  Mike Ireland took care of the pairing process for us.  We were bringing Menoth (Mark), Retribution (Kat), Mercs (Mike), Cygnar (Keith) and Cryx (myself). My own lists consisted of the same Skarre3 list I brought to the Big Base Brawl and a slightly different Skarre1 list than what I had run in the Big Base Brawl.  I entered the event believing that Skarre3 would be my primary drop due to her strength as a generalist caster as well as my overall comfort after playing her as my primary for much of the last 18 months.  The Skarr