Battle Hymn - 26-02-2011

26th of February, in the year of our King 0001, Games Garage.

This will be my first battle report for an AGOT game, and since most of the characters and cards are still far away images that I think I vaguely know, this will probably be a little hazy. I'm sure as time goes by and I get killed more often by the more common and popular personalities in Westeros, I'll most probably tend to remember them a lot better.

Nevertheless, here goes my rite of passage with my very first constructed Greyjoy Deep Fear deck.

It was about 8 when I manage to get into a game at GG, my opponents were Bann, G1, and (apologies) Fad's sister (I'll nick her FS for the moment). In the first game, my Greyjoys went up against Bann's Targaryen Dothraki, G1's Martell Red Viper, and FS's Lannister Kneel.

My deck started off with a very sad series of mistakes. A Herald of the Sea brought me the Euron Crow's Eye that I need, put it on the top of my deck, and then I made s silly deal with Bann for him not to attack me and promise him the Summoning Season, which of course means the search was pointless. After that, FS promptly Intrigued me to drop that same Euron into the discard pile. Saddest day for Euron.

The game was obviously in the pace of the Martell. G1 controlled the game with The Red Viper and other random warm bodies to absorb the attacks that we sent his way. I think the Martell tech at the moment is head and shoulders above the rest, with too many events that can remove attack claims and remove threats, even with all 3 of us attacking him, a good draw of events decimated us rather than him.

The Dothrakis did their best, but could not do enough damage to him. My Greyjoys soon come with a good number of Ironborns and finally have Euron on the table, giving me the Stealth to go through G1 occasionally. Wex was discarded by G1's Martell character, and FS contributed nicely to thwart my effort to go after G1 by kneeling my Sea Raiders.

Eventually The Red Viper grabbed enough Power to win G1 the game.

The second game was a 3 player game after FS left, with my Greyjoy vs G1's Baratheon Brothers vs Bann's Dothraki.

Again G1 controlled the pace of the game. Setup Renly, Summoning Robert, came out with Royal Entourage and triple stack Renly and a Refugee.

That's pretty much it for the game. Though I Fishnet Renly early, G1 could just bully Bann straight with Stannis since Bann doesn't have a Lord character. I tried my best to go after G1, attacking him quite persistently, but even my high Intimidate Euron's Enforcers didn't do enough damage fast enough for G1 to claim a lot of Power for his House.

The last turn ended in a flurry of attacks, with Bann and me going full force into the attempt to thwart G1 from claiming the game. We did got rid of a lot of his characters, but wasn't able to eliminate the 3 brothers. Needless to say, G1 did the standard bullying and claimed victory again.

Till next time, G1, till next time!

(o.o)