Dumb Luck's Somer Diary

[Dumb Luck]

Over the next two months, I have dedicated myself to a mountain of a task. The UK GT is a little over two months away and it happens to be faction based. Wanting to widen my options within the Outcast faction but naturally wanting to stay green, I feel like I should give Somer a spin in a league I'm running.

I have experimented with him briefly and have a rough feel for how he plays, but I am nowhere near as confiedent with him as I am Ophelia. This is mainly because of his less straight forward playing style (amongst other things) in comparison to the Henchman. What I have enjoyed with him so far is the challenge of something different and pulling funky stunts off.

So this will function as a record of my exploits as I become either the King of the Bayou or a broken mess from missing a larger control hand. It's like Rathnard's Marcus diary, the difference being he had a good idea of what he was doing.

First game will be up Tuesday.

[Cornelious1424]

Really looking forward to this!!

To be honest, Som'er him self is really underrated. I've killed a few Coryphee with him (shooting and farting!!) in my time. Good luck though!!

[Dumb Luck]

I reckon his greatest strength is sheer diversity in lists. A decent Ophelia list will always look the same, whereas Somer has the luxury to tailor his gangs a bit more.

[Omenbringer]

I reckon his greatest strength is sheer diversity in lists. A decent Ophelia list will always look the same, whereas Somer has the luxury to tailor his gangs a bit more.

This is the reason I have enjoyed playing Somer since I started the game. Though you forgot to mention that he also has the ability to refocus his crew composition in game (a powerful ability that very few Masters possess). Good luck.

[Sliver Chocobo]

Is the game on Tuesday or are you playing Tuesday?

[Bucket Monkey]

On tuesday I'd imagine, good to see your logging your take, I look forward to playing somer again.
On a related note, I won't be at firestorm tuesday but I'm free wednesday if you'd like to get in a game or two vs various masters.

[Justin]

I reckon his greatest strength is sheer diversity in lists. A decent Ophelia list will always look the same, whereas Somer has the luxury to tailor his gangs a bit more.

I sort of disagree.

I think there is one really, really good way to play Somer. And a lot of mediocre ways to play him. I find the pigs to be mostly a red herring (unless you have treasure hunt). Hopefully his avatar and the pigapault will change that though, as I have not really used those yet. (what with no models)

But I also think he is easily a hell of a lot more competitive than Ophelia.

One bit of advice: mosquitoes, mosquitoes, mosquitoes!

They're useful for so much more than just dumping your opponent's hand and farting on him. (although those are great) They're 2 ss stones, incredibly hard to kill at 7 Df and 6 Wp (and 6 wd if you used take a swig or a dying rat to heal them) they have 10" wk and flight and you can make more of them. They're super fast, super tough, and you don't care in the least if they die. You have no idea how many games I've just camped one next to Nino or Rasputina for a few turns in Defensive Stance just to neutralize their range attacks. Or in Defensive stance within melee range of a mature nephilim. The mosquitoes Cb is equal to the nephilim's Df, so if you save some high cards (or dump your opponent's hand) you can easily beat him on those disengaging strikes. And if he just tries to hit the mosquito, the mosquito actually has a better defense, and with defensive stance (or, again, card advantage) you can just totally neutralize a 10 point model for a turn or 2 with a model you don't care in the least about.

Just thought I'd throw this out there, as I have yet to put it on the wiki.

Good luck!

[Dumb Luck]

Is the game on Tuesday or are you playing Tuesday?

Game is on Tuesday. Whereas I'd love to play her one of these days, I'm pretty sure we live on different continents.

On tuesday I'd imagine, good to see your logging your take, I look forward to playing somer again.
On a related note, I won't be at firestorm tuesday but I'm free wednesday if you'd like to get in a game or two vs various masters.

Looking forward to easy Austringer food, more like. Love to, but I'm in work literally all day.

WORDS OF WISDOM

Ah! The True Gremlin Master! *bows*

Love the Piglets in Treasure Hunt. Have a little one run up to grab the stuff (Insigificant means they just don't count for the 4vps). Have him pass it off to a Gremlin. Definitely some room for fun there.

The Avatar, McTavish, Lenny and the Pigapult will definitely shake things up. Not entirely sold on the Pult as an artillery piece (sucks up a ton of resources) but its great for - again - grabbing objectives. McTavish is good from what I've seen on the weight of his Rifle alone.

Ha. Those Skeeter tricks are genius.

As our local Gulid player is absent, expect the game to be against either Ressers, Viks or maybe even Hamelin.

[Hoyled]

I look forward to hearing about how your game goes and your thoughts on Somer. As a learning Somer player Im interested to see how things go.

Also those skeeter tricks are awesome and timely since my first pair are arriving Thursday and hitting the table Friday.

[Dumb Luck]

You need two more. They're ace.