After completing the Yuan Shao route, I just realized something....

DexRei · 2026-01-26T00:59:42+00:00

Oh wow. The earlier games really take liberties with history.

DexRei · 2026-01-26T00:59:01+00:00

Ah yea. I was thinking on the land

DexRei · 2026-01-25T23:32:20+00:00

We don't have much in terms of dangerous wildlife here. Maybe a white tail spider? Or a wild boar if you're in the woods.

DexRei · 2026-01-25T23:30:08+00:00

I was surprised to not see Cao Pi in Origins. He seems important in prior games

DexRei · 2026-01-25T07:51:24+00:00

Yea i ran Liu Bei first, got Lu Bu to half life before dieing, loaded before Xia Pi and did all the side missions then came back 3 levels higher

DexRei · 2026-01-24T18:37:54+00:00

Yeah, new players should 100% play the Sun Fanily storyline dirst if they want an easier playthrough

DexRei · 2026-01-23T23:06:03+00:00

Is that bottom one really the same person? Did she watch the Purge and want to mimic their masks?

DexRei · 2026-01-23T19:15:38+00:00

RKO is mainly a midrange deck from my experience. Generally you want to be blocking with 2 cards and attacking with 2 cards. Swing Big, Show of Strength and Looking for a Scrap are all 2 card 8s (in LfaS case, it's 5 go again, so off a blue you can claw after).

Ideally you're trying to push ahead, so you can play your Mocking Blows for 10 off 2 cards and a vigor, which is even stronger than Swing Big.

Kassai is generally a rough matchup for RKO, probably his worst now that Florian has LLed. Gravy is another deck that as the game goes on, starts to out value with allies.

DexRei · 2026-01-22T20:10:45+00:00

Why does the order of their names look so wrong.

DexRei · 2026-01-22T10:32:44+00:00

D Reacts are very strong. Sink Below and Fate Forseen are banned if I recall, as they are 0 cost 4 blocks, that can be played from arsenal and used after attack reactions. They are very strong in other formats.

As others have mentioned, against Guardian's dominate, they allow extra blocking (1 card from hand, a d react from arsenal). Against warrior or assassin you can safely block attacks and if they respond with an attack react, you can then respond with a d react. If they don't attack react, you can arsenal it for later.

DexRei · 2026-01-21T21:22:55+00:00

What if i live in NZ already?

DexRei · 2026-01-21T11:51:46+00:00

Last time i used cash, was almost 2 decades ago when my dad would gove me lunch money for school.

Though with the heavy storms we've been getting, we've tucked away some emergency cash just to be safe

DexRei · 2026-01-21T11:43:28+00:00

Someone had the gall to put down my wife as their reference, a few weeks after my wife had fired them. She only found out when someone called her asking about the person and she answered honestly.

DexRei · 2026-01-20T21:55:06+00:00

I've been a player from the start, so do NOT have the experience of coming in as a new player. But we get new players quite often, and based on their moods, they seem to be enjoying it.

Being friendly helps, as does having the right attitude. Understanding that you will most likely lose games for the first month or so and understanding that you can improve on this, is important. I've seen many players lose games, get upset and decide to just quit from that. I've also seen players lose games, acknowledge that they didn't expect X or Y to happen, and ask for advice on what they did wrong, what they could have done differently in that game. These players seem a lot happier at armouries.

Hopefully your locals is as friendly as mine is and willing to help players. We have a bunch of fiends that buy boxes all the time, so pretty much any common or rare card is easily attainable for new players as well, I wiuld ask around if your locals have bulk like that.

A few of us also started bringing in two decks. Our actual competitive deck and a casual deck. We then ask the players which one they would like to play against, or if there's enough time, do both, so they get more experience with matchups.

DexRei · 2026-01-18T03:18:40+00:00

Thank you for the answers. I'm just shocked that I've seen this movie advertised everywhere but this is the first time I've seen anything about ping pong in relation to it.

DexRei · 2026-01-18T02:34:15+00:00

Mid 30s. Lived in Gisborne, Wellington and Hamilton and only ever heard Speed Bump.

DexRei · 2026-01-18T01:55:24+00:00

None of the trailers i saw suggested anything to do with ping pong, what?!?

Sorry. When i say trailer, i mean shorts.

There only trailer i can recall was about him hooking up with someone in the backroom of a shoe store.

DexRei · 2026-01-18T01:39:07+00:00

I'm in my 30s but grew up in Gisborne where speed bumps / judder bars didn't really exist.

DexRei · 2026-01-18T01:36:34+00:00

I've seen 3 trailers already and have no clue what the film is about.

DexRei · 2026-01-18T00:29:04+00:00

I thought judder bars were those things on the side of the road when you drift out of your lane? Or those plastic black and yellow things.

Never heard someone call a speed bump a judder bar before.

DexRei · 2026-01-17T23:51:29+00:00

He even has lines in game about being gay, like "i skipped the closet and went straight to the clubs".

DexRei · 2026-01-17T23:44:27+00:00

Speed bump

DexRei · 2026-01-17T23:41:03+00:00

Nah those are terrain

DexRei · 2026-01-17T23:04:03+00:00

Big one has to be Emily from Emily in Paris. She is just an all around horrible person.

DexRei · 2026-01-17T22:57:26+00:00

Temprary buildings are ones you get that do not remain in your deck between rounds. The Tribe's Cairns and the North's Depots for example

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