The Conservative Zone

Real life buddy Mike and I get together on Wednesdays and beat the snot out of each other in Epic:Armageddon. We played a 6,000 point game last night, just about every thing in both of our inventories.

The game opened with me being fairly strung out, while Mike was stepping all over himself, being tightly packed in a corner. I acted out of character and played aggressively, putting Mike off his plan a little. Normally I don't play so aggressive, which is exactly why I played so.

I swept my left flank around to his forces, and kept him from half of the board, including control of my objectives. My blitzkrieg was guarded by both my Whirlwinds and a detachment of Tactical Marines. His Blitzkrieg was protected by a single tactical detachment. I pounded one tactical detachment, his biggest point unit. I broke it, then wiped it out with a Thunderhawk strike.

Turn two opened with both of us teleporting Terminators onto the others Blitzkrieg. He wiped out my Whirlwinds, I killed a couple of Land Raiders. Both of our Terminator detachments died gloriously. I tried to break his left flank, but a Thunderhawk strike all but wiped out one tactical detachment, while a set of tanks rushed to support another detachment under fire. My forces continued to drive back his right flank, compressing his forces further and limiting his ability to maneuver. My assault Marines from the Thunderhawk strike managed to wipe out his Whirlwinds, but were mortally wounded from all of the supporting fire from all of the other units in the area from his tight formation.

Turn three saw more teleportations, both of us descending on the others Blitzkrieg objective. I got to assault first, but he beat me off. I got to activate my titan before he could assault and managed to almost wipe out his Terminators, keeping my Blitzkrieg safe and intact.

It was down hill from there, both of us had control of the objectives on our side of the board, but I had forces on his side of the board and I killed his biggest point unit, giving me a 3-1 point win.

Mike had a short, tight line, and a lot of depth in his formations, leading to his being a tough nut to crack, but he could not maneuver because of his tightly packed formation. He learned Napoleons maxim, "All defensive warfare ultimately leads to defeat." He had no right flank to speak of, but other than my titan I had nothing to continue the push. His left flank was moderately secure, but I had the ability to at least try and push him off the objective he was guarding. But with two full strength tactical units nearby, I wouldn't have made too much of an inroads.

All-in-all, a fun game with lots of thinking and good natured ribbing both ways. I would love to see more people play Epic, but Wednesday night is just not the night to see a lot of players. That will change as you have already read from the prior post.

Thanks for reading.