I am three rounds into the Warhammer 40,000: Conquest World Championships and we are on our lunch break. Well, the rest of the field is grabbing lunch. I ate earlier after a quick loss against another Kith deck in the second round. I decided that I didn’t want to rush around during the break so ordered some food before the crowd.
I’m currently sitting at 2-1. My goal was not to be eliminated before lunch, so I’ve managed that, even if I would have felt a lot better at 3-0. My strength of schedule isn’t looking great so far, so I’m going to focus on winning my remaining games. I faced Cato in the first and third rounds and lost against Kith in the second. I made a lot of mistakes in my first game and only one space mistake in the third. I’m not sure there was much I could have done in the second round against my opponent’s hand. I don’t want to take anything away from my opponent, because he played it perfectly, but it left with me no opening to claw my way back in.
As for the other Toronto players, Victor and John are also sitting at 2-1. I know that Jon is disappointed that he dropped his last game of the morning session, but I have faith that he can make his way through the afternoon.
A few of my opponents and nearby players have recognized the Tactical Squad playmat and said nice things. My second opponent said it was an honour to play someone from the podcast. I corrected him; it was an honour to demolish someone from the podcast. But no one has tried to claim the prize yet.
Anyways, I don’t want to spend my entire break writing, so I’m going to head back over to the Fantasy Flight Games Event Center.
PS. The player who beat me yesterday in Armada went on to win the event, so I can say that my only lost in Armada came against the eventual World Champion.
Travis is flying out to the FFG World Championships in Minnesota next week to play in the Star Wars: Armada, Warhammer 40,000: Conquest and Android: Netunner events. Conquest is his primary focus and he is going to share some of his thoughts leading up to and during the event here on The Tactical Squad blog.