Sunday morning:
I plan to play my mediums today … so my average is about to tank, big-time.
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I think I might be averaging the highest in Hard so far… with a monster 500/3 average 
rest of the easy bunch:
with NeoJungle (HQ 18) vs Doomsday Machine (HQ 5)
for 2400 points.
with Doomsday Machine (HQ 18) vs Steel Police (HQ destroyed) for 3700 points.
total on easy: 600+2400+3700= 6700 points.
could still take my mulligan for the 600, but i have the feeling i will need it more on medium and hard.
one thing is for sure: we really need this wonderful game back as async!
should NHex 3.0 come out without async we must pester Portal as long as needed to bring it on.
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Got a pretty solid win in my first Medium.
One problem, though — I’ve been cherry-picking my favorite armies to play. I’m about to enter a zone of being less familiar with my choices. Probably not the optimal strategy.
This one was New York. The Rocket Launcher was the difference. It remains my single favorite NH unit ever.
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Game 5: Went old-school with Borgo and got a fairly A-to-B win.
I’ve now played the five factions I’m most familiar with. Uh oh.
Wednesday evening:
on medium with Smart vs Mississippi [13:12] for 2700 points.
helluvagame.
i had board control and killed more units but only in the final battle i got the upper hand in HQ hitpoints.
i didn’t manage to play all the games. sorry for that 
just not enough time in the last week.
real-life and too many already running games which had priority, of course.
so kick me out of the competition, Duke.
many thanks for bringing me back to NHex though!
think i will keep playing a solo game every now and then.
my last competition game was Outpost vs Dancer (not finished yet) and Dancer gave me some serious headaches (and headbutts). what a crazy faction!?
No, we’ll just keep going. I’m not done yet, either. Play out your games, @JammaTal.
I’ll update standings tonight and see where we’re at.
The two-week thing was just a guess, and I mostly put it in place in the unlikely event that we got like 25 players or so. I wanted to have a limit set so that we had some structure.
But there’s only a few of us; let’s just keep playing.
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Dancer must be the most thankless task for achieving a good score!
first problem was i hadn’t read the Dancer special rules (only unit descriptions) and was totally taken by surprise by their Dance Ability.
second problem is that you can’t really avoid to lose some/many units,
which brings the score down.
third problem is that Dancer can teleport a heavily wounded Object out of the hot zone so it’s hard to kill an Object.
i managed to WIN…but…for ZERO points 
2nd medium game: Outpost [18/20] vs Dancer [17/30].
could bring one of the Objects down to 1 HP, another down to 6.
but only a kill of one of those HQ-Units would have earned me points.
no enemy modules or other units which could be killed.
so it was 2x zero = 0.
i can only hope that randomizer won’t throw Dancer at me again.
no idea how to get a GREAT score against this genetic research project 
even killing one Object wouldn’t generate a really good score, and the game would be instantly over then.
ok, the best way to avoid Dancer as random opponent is to play with Dancer.
random A.I. opponent was again Steel Police.
what can i say? Dancer is a flexible death machine.
3rd medium game: Dancer [21/30] destroyed Steel Police [0] for whopping 5100 points.
would love to play with Dancer again. but using a different faction in each match has priority.
Hello @TheDukester, wanted to start my first game on hard (with NY) and the randomizer threw Steel Police at me…AGAIN! for the third time.
no problem with that, my best results were against Steel Police, but it feels worn out (for this challenge).
so my question: would it be ok to create a new game instead when we have already played the randomized opponent? or let’s say have played him already twice?
Yep, create a new game. I’d rather see variety for all of us.
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After a 0 point outing in my third easy game, I’ll take my mulligan … will try again later.
… and another 0 point outing in my fourth easy game. Not sure I’ll even try the higher difficulties.
So I read up on Mississippi … and the advice was “poison the other HQ as quickly as you can.”
Which I did. And still barely won.
This wraps up my Mediums. I’ll try for a scoresheet tonight.
3rd game on hard: with Sharrash vs Borgo [0:16] defeat for 0 points
ouch, that really hurt.
took my Mulligan for the second game on medium [0 pts vs Dancer]:
won the mulligan game on medium with Borgo vs NeoJungle [15:0] for 3200 points
