This tournament used the same format as the first, a timed five round Swiss with points based on surviving squads at battles end. To ensure fair match ups and act as arbitrators, two veteran H-scape players acted as Judges.



Judges Nate and Jake.


I'd never played with bonding or Gruts and I didn't feel comfortable handling my army yet. I barely got past Nate.

In the second round I faced off against the tournament organizer, Brandon aka Bloodthorn. Brandon fielded an army of mostly unique heroes including Master Wu with a squad of Shaolin Monks against my Grut army (120 Krug, 120 Arrow Gruts x 3, 120 Grimnak, 140 Heavy Gruts x 2)




Bloodthorn smiles an awful lot to be known as Bloodthorn


In this battle his Major Q9 or 10 got ganged up on by Krug and Grimnak in the center of the map. The Awa dude dueled my Grut archers and the Heavy Gruts split up. One squad more or less heading for Q9 and the other the Samurai champion.
His Soulborg fell as did Awa, Wu and Krug and Chompy. Once again I eeked out a narrow victory. I was still unsure I was handling the troops right. I was winning battles but not earning many points.


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SIDEBAR: Brady commented that Pet Shop Comics looked like a great place to play and meet gamers. During the All Day and Night Games day, the last Saturday of each month, Rick, the owner, usually fires up the grill and provides burgers, hot dogs or brats for a voluntary donation.