Vicarious Competition

Hey guys, better late than never!  Here with a Lock and Load recap for everyone.  I had the lovely Katheryn Royer updating my local meta with the play by play, so I’m sharing them with all of you as pseudo battle reports.  The only event I participated in was the Iron Gauntlet itself. I wanted to take a step back to hang out with all the cool people at Lock and Load and spend more time socializing rather than playing.  We had an amazing time and it was a really nice change of pace to not get caught in a weekend long tournament grind. My pairing was Elara2 dudespam paired with a variant on Fancy Ryan’s Vyros2 in Shadows. Round 1 was vs Kraig (Canada) who had Baldur1 Baldur2.  No Woldwrath in either pair and a really solid player, but I felt like his lists had too much overlap.  Unfortunate luck for him to draw me right out of the gate as I felt like Elara2 was really favorable into both flavors of armor skew. Mike is bringing Elara2 in Defenders, and Vyros2 in Shadows. Ro

Necrotyr18 asks: What do you think of allowing cross house unit or solo choices similar to other factions allowing one merc/minion unit and solo in their lists? Would that allow for the flexibility needed in Ret while still staying flavorful? This is a change I’ve been preaching for a long time and I hope we get to have a discussion with the devs about it in CiD.  A big problem with the fundamentals of Ret Themes is the lack of Merc options that the rest of the factions allow for. Limited Release Factions were built with a specific direction in mind and don’t need to worry about this restriction as much.  Ret was built to have access to all of its options available at once and Theme Forces just don’t appropriately account for that. My favorite example is Cygnar’s Son’s of the Tempest Theme as a direct comparison to Shadows of the Retribution. Both themes have a large amount of low POW, low ARM models that perform in specialized roles.  Cygnar has the option to bring a unit of Forg