My First Somer Tournament

[Clousseau]

He successfully avoided the top 3 on both days!

[Omenbringer]

Sorry to hear about the placing.

I am wondering though if he ran the dual Pigapults and how they worked out for him?

[CannibalBob]

Sorry to hear about the placing.

I am wondering though if he ran the dual Pigapults and how they worked out for him?

I am still learning Somer, but two pigapults seems like a very overly expensive crew given that there is only so many models you can fling a turn, and keeping just one pigapult fed with piglets for attacks takes a fair bit of resources.

[Omenbringer]

I am still learning Somer, but two pigapults seems like a very overly expensive crew given that there is only so many models you can fling a turn, and keeping just one pigapult fed with piglets for attacks takes a fair bit of resources.

With a post like that, I would say you have a pretty good grasp of Some'r.

14 SS for just the 2 Pigapults and 2 Piglets for Ammunition, 20 SS if you want to go the Stuffed Piglet route. Either way you are only getting one turn of shooting out of that.

[Adanedhel]

Good shout re the "discard two cards" had completely missed that

Yes he needs to discard 2 cards, but he also gets to draw 2 cards, (survival of the fittest), and unless I'm terribly mistaken, you could choose the order for SotF/CaGI, so you use the crow, kill the Bayou, draw 2 cards, discard 2 cards. That seems like a net gain to me? (as you cycle your worst cards away)

[magicpockets]

Quick update, sorry it's taken so long.

Day one I pretty much ran Somer all day (having stuck his avatar together during the first game) and rather than going just for the win I wanted to try out his Avatar and using the pigapult as more central to my crew.

First game my opponent played Hoffman and, as I didn't take Rami, I wasn't expecting much to say the least! Fairly uneventful game overall with the only really standout bits being Raphael killing his Peacekeeper (I love Raph) and Somer pushing Hoffman off his objective. From a learning point of view, it's the first time I've seen the downside to the pigapult as it cost me the game - I was planning on using the pult to fire three turns of models up the board, but I managed to fail EVERY defence flip I made. Hum ho...

Second game was shared Slaughter (I think??) in which I made good use of a slop hauler, skeeters and stuffed piglets from the pigapult. That amount of blast damage is insane lol

Played Dave (Clousseau) in the third game (Treasure Hunt against Hoffman). Wanted to try the pult again so built my crew around that rather than specifically for the scheme, and it went "okay". Obviously Hoffman sent a Peacekeeper up the board for the Treasure so I had to write that off, and then Ryle one shot the Pigapult with some lucky severe flips. Only redeeming aspect was Raph (again) one shotting Ryle with a Red Joker (bwhahaha).

Last game I can't recall at all at the minute....

Overall I found I was getting to grips with Somer and I could see how his avatar works, and if I replayed the tourny with a "out to win" list I think it could have laid down a lot of hurt. I'll go to an event over summer competitively and try to win

On a side, I did run Somer competitively over the weekend at the ETC and only lost shared slaughter against Dreamer/LCB by a card flip! And that was against Oshova who is one of the best LCB players in the country - so definitely starting to get it all working

Re the two pults, they're situational but I find in schemes where the opponent is coming towards you (especially slower crews) they're great for dropping a LOT of damage onto them as they advance turn one and two. Then you can sac them with skeeters to give Somer two cards and reduce your effective cost of each pult to 2ss.

I'm very much taking the foot off the gas with Malifaux now, but if I get chance to run them again at any point I'll be sure to post it up for you guys

[Oshova]

On a side, I did run Somer competitively over the weekend at the ETC and only lost shared slaughter against Dreamer/LCB by a card flip! And that was against Oshova who is one of the best LCB players in the country - so definitely starting to get it all working

Well, not many people playing LCB in UK tournies at the moment, so being in the top few isn't hard =p

But that was a hard fought game, and was pretty even despite it ending up 6-2 (or something).

I'm very much taking the foot off the gas with Malifaux now, but if I get chance to run them again at any point I'll be sure to post it up for you guys

This is a shame, but I hope you keep theorying, as it creates some interesting thoughts and ideas.

[magicpockets]

was pretty even despite it ending up 6-2 (or something).

One flip and it would have been 6-2 to you or 6-2 to me iirc - hum ho. But not bad for "the worst master in the game" in slaughter against LCB and twins

[Gruesome]

One flip and it would have been 6-2 to you or 6-2 to me iirc - hum ho. But not bad for "the worst master in the game" in slaughter against LCB and twins

Seamus next! Seamus next!

[Omenbringer]

One flip and it would have been 6-2 to you or 6-2 to me iirc - hum ho. But not bad for "the worst master in the game" in slaughter against LCB and twins

To be fair, not everyone has believed the propaganda about Some'r. A lot of us have argued that he is competitive since near the begining.

Congratulations though, it sounds like you had an enjoyable game.