What I learned last night

I played two games last night and learned a few things I’d like to share.  First,  I learned that when you are answering a bunch of new players’ questions it is very easy to lose track of what turn it is.  I was playing No Man’s Land and I could have sworn it was turn two and it was actually turn three and I was not in the zone, so I lost.   Below is a picture of the turn I lost.  The sad part is I thought I was going to kill his caster next turn.  The next game I kept a die off to the side so I would not lose track.  It didn’t make a whit of difference because of what I learned in that game. 

My second lesson is that at 25 points, Bane Thralls are broken.  With the AU there is no way to kill enough of them before they get to you and kill everything you have on the table.  I killed three Thralls with an AOE and they made three tough rolls and just got up and trashed a heavy the next turn.  Not fun to play against.  Bellow are both of my heavies trashed by about two hits from the indestructible Thralls.

My final bit of learning in the thrashing I took last night was that pDenny everything is awesome.  This lady is the ultimate turd polisher.  When you can make everyone else’s models  crap, yours work a lot better.  Seriously, her feat and then Crippling Grasp?  There is no way to avoid it with three arc nodes on the table at 25 points. 

I have to say that I am having a lot of trouble getting Retribution to work at these low points levels.  I don’t know if that is my hack abilities as a player or the faction itself ( I do make a lot of stupid mistakes).  I do know that I have only won two games in this league so far and it is quickly getting taxing to have my poop pushed in weekly.  Oh well, I’ll see what Kaelyssa can do to turn around my fortunes.