Way to go!

Online bud Mike Reed got a chance to participate in Battleground: Fantasy Warfare tournament sponsored by YOUMOVE games at ORIGINS recently.


(Andrew Goss (left) versus Mike Reed (right))

Mike Skyped in a battle report:

[2:09:24 PM] Mike Reed says: hey - I played in the 'Battleground-Fantasy Warfare' tourney at Origins
[2:07:25 PM] Walt O'Hara says: You likee?
[2:09:24 PM] Mike Reed says: finished in second with my all-goblin army (5 crazed, 2 bomb-chuckers, 1 wolfrider, 3 spearmen, 2 bowmen)
[2:09:41 PM] Walt O'Hara says: I like the Gobbos
[2:09:46 PM] Walt O'Hara says: better than the Undead
[2:09:55 PM] Walt O'Hara says: I'm not crazy about the Elves
[2:09:56 PM] Mike Reed says: won a dagger, got my pics on the battlegroundhq.net site
[2:10:06 PM] Walt O'Hara says: but the Hoomans are all around great
[2:10:12 PM] Walt O'Hara says: I'll visit there!
[2:10:24 PM] Mike Reed says: traded in the dagger on new product (now have all the armies, they'll be sending me the dwarves early!)
[2:10:32 PM] Mike Reed says: agree about the gobbos - my fave
[2:11:02 PM] Mike Reed says: humans seem ok - was taken down (barely) by the undead dude (frickin giant catapults!), the elves seem like pansies
[2:11:42 PM] Walt O'Hara says: Humans have staying power, and the longest range on teh board
[2:12:50 PM] Mike Reed says: tried a quick game against my son last night
[2:13:10 PM] Walt O'Hara says: Not many of their troops are spectacular but they have many low cost units
[2:13:15 PM] Mike Reed says: he had an undead force of 4 skeleton hordes, 4 skelly bowmen, 2 skelly trolls, and 6! command cards.
[2:13:41 PM] Mike Reed says: I had 2 bowmen, 2 wolfkin, 2 wolf packs, 2 centaurs, 1 brownies, 1 command card...
[2:13:41 PM] Walt O'Hara says: He cleaned your clock?
[2:13:44 PM] Mike Reed says: you bet
[2:13:52 PM] Mike Reed says: big ol' pincusion
[2:14:10 PM] Mike Reed says: I think that missile fire is a bit deadly in this game
[2:14:24 PM] Walt O'Hara says: agreed
[2:14:50 PM] Mike Reed says: I'm sending an email to the guys suggesting that at the very least, there should be a +1 to courage if you're not currently engaged. Too many units rout from missile fire alone
[2:15:37 PM] Walt O'Hara says: That's the saving grace of the human army
[2:15:43 PM] Mike Reed says: also, I got a bit screwed on the finals scoring. I had completely turned his right flank, and was in his setup area there.
[2:16:24 PM] Walt O'Hara says: Ha, I see you now
[2:16:24 PM] Mike Reed says: problem was, I only got credit for his table quarter, the one _behind my lines_ that I had left to turn his flank, and had never been occupied by him, I didn't get!
[2:16:51 PM] Walt O'Hara says: He pulled of a first place?
[2:17:15 PM] Mike Reed says: yeah, my dice sucked in the end. bomb-chucker had 3 doubles...only needed a couple
[2:17:48 PM] Walt O'Hara says: This was versus Andrew Gross?
[2:18:13 PM] Mike Reed says: hits...my misfire put my chucker into yellow (-25% pts), and couldn't put his catapult into the red (another -25% swing)...
[2:18:20 PM] Mike Reed says: then I failed a pansy morale check.
[2:18:41 PM] Mike Reed says: yes - you can see the situation. Had I had even dice, it would have been a slaughter, imo.
[2:18:52 PM] Mike Reed says: from reading his game report, you'd think otherwise..
[2:19:03 PM] Mike Reed says: going to have to put in my own 'rebuttal' ;)
[2:19:07 PM] Walt O'Hara says: Where's that?
[2:19:19 PM] Mike Reed says: on the bgfw yahoo group
[2:20:28 PM] Mike Reed says: I had beat my son in an earlier round. His army was 4 militia, 4 hvy swordsmen, 2 or 3 bowmen, command card

All hail the conquering heros..

Well done, Mike! Wish I could have been there to take a stab at it!