Post by nax on Sept 21, 2013 21:50:16 GMT -5
... and two pots of coffee, Challenge Number Three is over. It was gruelling, but I have to say far superior to the first two. The instructions were clear, the bloody thing bloody well ran it's bloody self, and there was real strategy involved in creating a win for yourself.
I started a bit too strong, immediately taking a shot at Animal. For the next two and a half hours, while I was away beating hell out of fellow geeks with boffer swords, Animal and Woods shot back. Full salvo. Broadside. When I came back I was at -20. Within two hours, I had an arrangement with Woods - threatening retaliation for each shot he took at me as leverage - where he not only ceased hostilities but made two separate (albeit failed) attempts to win buddha heads for me. OK, that was good. For the rest of the challenge, I only took one more hit, from Quanz because he was confused as to why I hit him.
I HIT him, much like I hit everyone I did hit, to build a ladder.
At first, my alliance - which has no name, when it includes Jedda, Lexi and Brookie (I KNOW, right?) - had only the sketchiest of plans when we started this thing. We knew we wanted Fei out (because Nicole and Ricky hate her, which is... meh. Alright, I'm not opposed), and knew that Brookie was likely to wind up on the bottom. Sometime around 9pm last night, I saw the pattern forming and knew how it needed to work out:
Ricky with control of the Ganesh
Brookie at the bottom, to receive the Ganesh
And me in the middle with two of the three remaining members
Then, split Greg and Fei between those two tiers using Lexi and Jedda to pound them in the wee hours when attendance was low. That gives us an aggressively used Ganesh in the bottom with one of them, and majority in the mid for the other.
It took awhile to get that across to everyone, but by 10 am this morning, the plan was in the works. Done. Fucking. Deal.
Ricky made it happen, but I developed the plan. Brookie made herself the WAY obvious target on the bottom, and Lexi the obvious target in the mids. Nicole aced a few important weapons, Ricky REAPED the fucking buddha heads, and Jedda went fucking DERVISH on Greg's ass.
That, boys and girls, is TEAMWORK!
I started a bit too strong, immediately taking a shot at Animal. For the next two and a half hours, while I was away beating hell out of fellow geeks with boffer swords, Animal and Woods shot back. Full salvo. Broadside. When I came back I was at -20. Within two hours, I had an arrangement with Woods - threatening retaliation for each shot he took at me as leverage - where he not only ceased hostilities but made two separate (albeit failed) attempts to win buddha heads for me. OK, that was good. For the rest of the challenge, I only took one more hit, from Quanz because he was confused as to why I hit him.
I HIT him, much like I hit everyone I did hit, to build a ladder.
At first, my alliance - which has no name, when it includes Jedda, Lexi and Brookie (I KNOW, right?) - had only the sketchiest of plans when we started this thing. We knew we wanted Fei out (because Nicole and Ricky hate her, which is... meh. Alright, I'm not opposed), and knew that Brookie was likely to wind up on the bottom. Sometime around 9pm last night, I saw the pattern forming and knew how it needed to work out:
Ricky with control of the Ganesh
Brookie at the bottom, to receive the Ganesh
And me in the middle with two of the three remaining members
Then, split Greg and Fei between those two tiers using Lexi and Jedda to pound them in the wee hours when attendance was low. That gives us an aggressively used Ganesh in the bottom with one of them, and majority in the mid for the other.
It took awhile to get that across to everyone, but by 10 am this morning, the plan was in the works. Done. Fucking. Deal.
Ricky made it happen, but I developed the plan. Brookie made herself the WAY obvious target on the bottom, and Lexi the obvious target in the mids. Nicole aced a few important weapons, Ricky REAPED the fucking buddha heads, and Jedda went fucking DERVISH on Greg's ass.
That, boys and girls, is TEAMWORK!