Played in an 8-man tourney last night. I mostly got stomped, but my third round opponent had disconnected, meaning I came away with one match win and a prize of a booster.
I was there too, man. My first match was pretty epic - I spent about 16 minutes winning the first game, before getting a factoryless hand in game two, which I surrendered quickly to save time. I managed to win game 3 with just 3 minutes to spare at the end.
Things went downhill in match two - I was up against the eventual winner, and despite quickly racking up 6 vps, I made a boneheaded mistake at a crucial moment, discarding my only cheap infantry card when my hand was full. I had one unpinned factory available at the time - playing the infantry would have allowed me an additional attack that turn, keeping the pressure up and possibly killing his last defender, a pinned engineer. He drew more infantry next turn to stabilise his position, with the lethal engineer unit acting as a powerful bulwark. Before long he was able to take control of the battlefield and win with his stronger cards. I lost game two pretty quickly, being short of time once again.
If match two was hellish, match three was more like purgatory. A mirror match up, I was playing another deck full of cheap infantry but low on lethal damage, meaning the game would be very long and drawn out. I managed to win the first game, but spending 18 minutes to do so was fatal. My opponent had a 5 minute advantage going into game two, and I would end up forfeiting the match on time, whilst on 6 vps, in the attack phase with a guaranteed win on the board - with a few more minutes available I would have been able to send over 3 attacks, the first two knocking out his defenders, the third going through unopposed and giving me the win. But not to be, about three minutes on the clock was the difference between gaining one booster and four boosters.
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Topic: Hearts of Iron the Card Game (Read 4718 times)