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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 genera...

Round Five:  vs Kat Royer Scenario:  Breakdown So, before we get started I am going to go ahead and say that I once again failed to take pictures.  However, this time it was on purpose!  This game was recorded by Forget Flashing Blade, a new battle report You Tube channel that is recording games from our scrum.  They have each player review their list choice and then narrate over the recording of the game.  The game is played at 4x speed, so if the game goes its max of 2 hours it's only 30 minutes to watch.  I think the format works really well, so please head on over and check it out.  Here is the link to the game that I played against Kat:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN4ZCKizJU0&feature=youtu.be Coming into this round, I have not had much experience with Retribution.  In fact, my only game against them may have been round two of this scrum.  I hit up Conflict Chamber to see Kat's lists and really only looked at one ...