In preparation for Saturday’s tournament, I brought my Alkemy stuff to Games To Die For for our weekly gaming get-together. Joel and Jim were the only ones there and they started playing a game since I needed to wait for a call from my (awesome) wife. I watched their game for a bit while I waited. It was Kingdom of Avalon, featuring Deacon Leodegarius, vs. Khaliman Republic, featuring Sheik Araoui Ibn Khalid (or Ma-Sheik-gun). They played the default “Jin Posts” scenario. I didn’t pay attention to every turn or action, but it seems that the Avalonians having 9 figures while the Khaliman only having 6 is a real problem in this game at this point level. In the end, the use of the Deacon’s “Corruptive Bonding” formula caused Joel to call the end of the game. There was much discussion of the “brokenness” of this formula. Personally, at the 200 point level it is very powerful and only slightly less so at larger point levels. However, Kraken Editions has not posted errata or an FAQ about the formula, so it seems that it works as intended.
After that, Joel and I sat down to a game. I played my tournament list:
- Tamel’Seh Far Eye
- Auroch Totem Warrior
- Auroch Totem Warrior
- Toad Medicine Shaman
- Wolf Thunder Warrior
- Crow Thunder Warrior
I was thinking that based on my last few games that I haven’t been gathering all the components I should be and I haven’t been using the Toad Medicine Shaman to his fullest potential.
He played:
- Sheik Araoui Ibn Khalid
- Oracle of the Sornha Family
- Ghulam of the Suleman Family
- Jaraya of the Malikh Family
- Jaraya of the Malikh Family
- Malik Tuareg
This was a really good game. Not really a close game, though, since he jumped on two of the Jin Posts before I did and got an early lead. He and I controlled one of the Jin Posts on either end of the table easily and quickly while we fought back and forth for the middle one. My one big mistake was not running everyone closer to the Posts on the first turn. Instead, I moved the Toad Medicine Shaman slowly and behind everyone to benefit from his “Empathy” ability and to build the setup for his “Animal Fury” formula. I did end up getting the formula to work, but it failed to killl anyone. All in all, I think that was my big and really the only game-changing mistake I made. In the end it was 3-0 in Joel’s favor. In the end all of his remaining figures were in the red while the figures I had were mostly pretty well off health wise. A very fun and good game.
I have all my minis painted for my army and I feel like I can run it pretty well now, so let’s see how the tournament goes.
