Monday 9 March 2009

[DoW2] WAAR vs FinalV - VICTORY!

My first tale to tell is one of glory and victory. Our opponent, who Random referred to as "The Germans" was a bit slow in getting in contact and getting the game together, but before long our first round would begin on Typhon Arena. Scientifically termed Mappus Gargantuos. 

Despite Random's loathing of the map he managed to solo the two northern victory points fighting against a Space Marine player who.. well, I never saw much of in the game. But suffice to say he heard the cry of OM NOM NOM enough to decide to switch race to Eldar next map. Me and Manesni together battled for the bottom point against an Eldar and Tyranid player. I found my forces, despite getting munched early on were more than able to contest the bottom point with Manesni while Random's domination of the so called 'Emperors Finest' sapped away their points.

Twenty points from the end of the game their already laggy leader finally bit the bullet and crashed. The game ended literally ten seconds later in our favour. No debates to be found here. GG.

Round two on our home map (Argus Desert Gate) was simply hilarious.  It started off pretty rough as my sluggas ran head first into Grav platforms up top and Random's gaunts ran head first into an enemy 'Green Tide' of Sluggas, but things improved once me and Random reversed roles. Being lord of the Slugga that I am I drove off the Ork wannabes from the middle with Manesni while Random took his sweet time claiming Top away from Eldar suppression guns. However the game was still very much in the air. They held two points long enough to sap us down to 150ish points while they had a strong 340ish. Manesni had just pushed through the middle and claimed back ground we sorely needed while me and Random battled to keep hold of the northern Victory Point.

Disaster then strikes. Or so you'd think. Manesni falls off the internet, blissfully unaware ofcourse as he continues to play in some parallel universe rendition of the very same game while all we get is an AI that decides to spam pings on Req points and throw his troops aimlessly into the enemy. We asked the enemy team if they wanted to Restart.

Their response? Here it is in it's entirety:

"jasaad: LOL"

Random seemed concerned with their less than polite response but with my third squad of Nobs heading to join the fray I was personally of the opinion "Fine. Screw em. We'll kill em without Manesni."

The game ended ~140 - 0 in our favour. GG.

That's not even the best part. When their score dropped to 40 and we held the entire map using Nobz, Zoanthrobes and a suicidal AI they said: 

"Ok then let's restart?"

Amazing. They had their chance and blew it in exchange for a humiliating defeat.

20 league points for us! Onwards to glory!

-Greyfox