My 0.22 Tournament report
Posted: Wednesday, 29th August 2018, 05:57
My pre-tournament goal was to win 5 games (with different species / backgrounds), completing the Gelatinous Body III banner. Also, win a 15-runer if possible.
I went into the tournament with a 7-game streak going on (my personal best so far, all with gnolls), so I felt good.
Day 1-3: The streak goes on until it doesn't
Secret tech: I don't start with a MiBe. Everyone does that, but my trick is to win a CeBe as a start and with some luck nobody will win another in the whole tournament so I'll have a high score in the end. I guess people don't like CeBe, I dunno why.
I always start with polearms, and kite dangerous melee dudes in the early game. The I pick up a shortbow and train it, thus nudging Trog to gimme a longbow. When he does, it is a huge jump in character power.
Win Nr 1: Cebe (of Trog)
https://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/m ... 080018.txt
Next game: a DD of Makhleb. Again, I tried to pick a combo that is not entirely obvious, so it wasn't won before and maybe never will be. So I picked a hunter with a crossbow. I bought an early artefact arbalest in a shop to upgrade the weapon. The main issue was bolt shortage: I tried to conserve bolts, fighting with an axe as much as possible, but still I was constantly running low, finally going down to 6 bolts after the first rune. (It would have been okay if I had the Snake Pits, but this game had Spider instead.). So after the first rune I was pretty much forced to go to Vaults to refill. On V:1 I found 300 bolts and after V:4 I had over 1000. The distribution of bolts is just atrocious.
Win Nr 2: DD of Makhleb
https://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/m ... 153920.txt
Next game: a minotaur of Gozag. I was going well, then I got banished, used up all my resources and died. Oh well. Anyway, life goes on, it's time to go for a 15-rune run.
I went into the tournament with a 7-game streak going on (my personal best so far, all with gnolls), so I felt good.
Day 1-3: The streak goes on until it doesn't
Secret tech: I don't start with a MiBe. Everyone does that, but my trick is to win a CeBe as a start and with some luck nobody will win another in the whole tournament so I'll have a high score in the end. I guess people don't like CeBe, I dunno why.
I always start with polearms, and kite dangerous melee dudes in the early game. The I pick up a shortbow and train it, thus nudging Trog to gimme a longbow. When he does, it is a huge jump in character power.
Win Nr 1: Cebe (of Trog)
https://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/m ... 080018.txt
Next game: a DD of Makhleb. Again, I tried to pick a combo that is not entirely obvious, so it wasn't won before and maybe never will be. So I picked a hunter with a crossbow. I bought an early artefact arbalest in a shop to upgrade the weapon. The main issue was bolt shortage: I tried to conserve bolts, fighting with an axe as much as possible, but still I was constantly running low, finally going down to 6 bolts after the first rune. (It would have been okay if I had the Snake Pits, but this game had Spider instead.). So after the first rune I was pretty much forced to go to Vaults to refill. On V:1 I found 300 bolts and after V:4 I had over 1000. The distribution of bolts is just atrocious.
Win Nr 2: DD of Makhleb
https://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/m ... 153920.txt
Next game: a minotaur of Gozag. I was going well, then I got banished, used up all my resources and died. Oh well. Anyway, life goes on, it's time to go for a 15-rune run.