Fellow European Mech Warriors,

Let us unite in bragging, partying and otherwise merry pastimes we shall enjoy coming week. And report this in this thread.

I for one shall be staying at the IBIS Paris Bercy Village.

I shall arrive there around 16:00 local time.

And I promise to put some results in this thread as time and internet availability allow it.

May the dice roll in my favour only :devious:

Coming Friday at the con I will be testing armies left and right.

Regards
Elite130

Well, any news? Those of us not at Gencon would like to know every little sordid factoid that you can tell us. Are things going like they're supposed to go?

C'mon, someone must have some tidbits for us!

Z

Just got home after a 7 hour drive.

Errrrr I won.....

Oh Brinxter is 2nd

Rumor has it it takes a Dutchman to beat a Dutchman

Ian Pelgrim ended up 5th, beaten also by another Dutchman.

More later

Congrats, were there many faces that were at ECC last year or was majority french players with a small detachment of british, german and dutch and a couple of slovanians?

Well; I'm a little too rounded and large to be called a "small detachment" but I was one of 2 Brits playing (with my son) - we also had a UK Envoy as well. There was 1 Spanish guy, 2 Italians, not so many Germans as last time (I think). Subby is going to post the info on the German MW Site.

Not a single Twin army in sight for constructed. The 2 mech minimum build was a pain but a good leveller. High attacks and big damage seemed to be the way to go - defence was second or third priority. Very little arty. I have also just returned home and will have to go to bed - cheers and thanks to everyone who organised and ran the event and to those I met and who were such good company.

Congrats Elite!! That is great! I can't wait to hear all about it from everyone.

-Mike

The sealed was to funny... (we all got 3 Domination, and one Annihilation booster)
The person to my right opened his booster (tjpandv) and pulled the UR Black Knight.
So i was about to open my Ann. Booster , and asked "does anyone remember what the UR from Annihilation was?" (no one could remember atm)
So i opened my booster, looked inside and said "wel, it seems it was the RD Kodiak, and pulled it out"






My armies where:

Sealed:

RD Kodiak 249
- Fanjunkfare 15
- Camouflage 6
HK Jackalope 106
- Sakhara Grad. 9
Liao R10 48
- Liao Kelswa 94
WH Simian 18
Merc FP 40

PC's
- Craters
- Perfect Day


Constructed:

Kaze 202
- Stark 33 + 5
- IT 44
CJF Loki 220
- Kerensky 32 +9
2x HK ATV 26
1 CNC ATV 14
1 Liao combat Tech 15


I have pictures from everyone i played against, i'll try to type up some battle reports and post them somewhere.

Congratulations on your win again!

Hope that your trip back home was fine.

Congratulations to Ian for beating me on the 1/8 finals again too, the game was really tough and I loved it.

If Brinxter comes again with a Kodiak in a draft, confiscate it! He doesn't need any teddy bear to win :knockedou :p

Hope to fight you dutchmen trio soon again.

Thanks to Anup, Patrick, Philip and Richard for the organisation.
Thanks to all players from everywhere for their play and enthousiasm. Take that as a global buddies (From Germany, England, Canary Islands, Italy, Slovenia, France, Netherlands...) you were too numerous for me to remember all callsigns to quote there. So I'm going for big hurray and thanks to all of you. Hope to play against you all too again in the next europeans.

Heavygear.

Slovenian team came home safely ~1h ago (boldrick and spicewood). Four hours wait from 4am to 9am in Salzburg (spelling?) was hardes part of the whole travel :)

As last yeas this yeas we had a blast too, I'll try to post some more thoughs later when i get some rest.

I had a great time, these events are so great.

Indeed thanks to Anup, Patrick, Philip, the few whose names I missed and Richard for the organisation.

I am supposed to work now although I am close to being a zombie at this moment.

32 partcipants, from all over Europe.

I again met some great people who love this game, which is always great. I saw some intersting armies.

From the Draft I played.

Tony Rivera and her Zeus, a great sealed piece altough this is the glass jaw king in my book. dropping from a 10 attack to an 8 attack in 3 damage.
a SC Night stalker with 22 Decoy (inc. pilot) and 4 RD Inf. 3 WH CBA and 1 BR Inf.

I played 2 different armies.

I was undefeated in draft so decided to test Vengeance, I took 3 armies with me. I never played Vengeance before and figured I should be able to score at least 1 victory with it. Which I did.

After which I decided not to play Vengeance again.

The next day I played a ranged army.

I am trying to rmember what I played in detail but sleep deprivation is a bit..

Illl post them in a couple hours when I am at home. I also give battlereport.

Regards
Elite130

It sounds like it was fun! It sounds like we are going to see elite again this year at worlds! Go Elite Go!

We would all like to hear the battle reports but we will be patient and let you guys get a little rest first :)

Cheers all,

Ill write a report later, I had to work today and am still exhausted so ill probaly finish it wednesday the complete blow by blow report.

From the Draft
Mercy Zeus + Tony Rivera
CNC Nightstalker + att+1 def+1 gen. pilot
2x RD Undine
RD CBA
RD Gnome
2x WH CBA
BR Thunderbird BA

It should come out on 599 otherwise is missed a unit somewhere.
It was the 599 that gave me my wins. As each of my opponents had to attack me. Most of them had lower pointvalues, I do hope WK someday will change how VC 2 works and give the advantage to the lower costed player, same with FP and SA's.

I netted 3 wins with it and I brought 3 armies with me

So oj the first day I decided to field test Vengeance and Phelan ward.

Esperanzana+Inese Lassonde+IT
Vengeance+Phelan+Evade
HLigh Hadur
2 RotS Minigun
1 Merc LRM Battery.
1 CT
3 ATV's

My conclusion is that Vengeance is not a steady preformer to be used in competitive play. I got the ability of exactly once.

For the top 16 drop-off I used :
Alpha+dejesus+IT
CNC PH1+Kelly+IT
3 CNC ATV
1 ROTS Bishop
>2 HS TTL
>1 CT

I killed on range..... alot.

We had a 2 mech minimum 600 points. In my report ill show what I built in preparation and how it came together, of to more sleep.

Regards
Elite130
Runner up Dutch Nationals 2003 MW
7th Worlds 2003 MW
Dutch National Champion 2004 MW
9th Worlds 2004 MW
Runner up European Championships 2005
10th Worlds 2005 MW
European Champion 2005 MW

(Sorry Trev I coudnt resist)

I'm assuming that's the SW Alpha, not the WH Alpha, since yer tlaking about range and whatnot.

it classifies end ???