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Good morning, good evening wherever you may be!

Here is my third #brawlreport as part of the @hive.pizza B team. They call us The Deep Dish.

I was part of fray #4, Novice League, Alpha/Beta.

My strategy was to continue using my gladiator cards, no rentals. As you all know that can be devastating if it goes wrong.

My strategy to just roll with gladiator cards served me well during my last campaign. Why not go with it again, right?

RESULTS

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As a team we had a successful campaign and came in third place out of ten teams total. Seems like when we are on we are usually in third place.

Soon hopefully we will start making a run at first place. We just need to continue stacking gladiator cards, and leveling up our buildings. In no time we will be dishing out deep dishings.

On a personal level I had an atrocious campaign. I had a bad run where I couldn't use my Gladiator cards. And when I did I made crucial mistakes with positioning. This week was just not my week.

Not sure what it was. I know I started playing poker again. Maybe my mental neurons got rewired which affected my decision making. Who knows.

MY BATTLES

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Battle 1

For this battle I had a lot of issues deciding on what lineup to choose. I was so used to playing life splinter that when the rule set said no life splinter my mind went blank.

I finally went with Earth splinter knowing that out of the few gladiator cards I did have, a few were Earth.

However, after finally figuring out my splinter, I had already lost precious time on the time clock. Knowing blast was part of the rule set I wanted to get a high health Monster in position two. Rushing to decide and the time clock running out, in haste I put Palidon Rakk in position two since he had +13 health.

This turned out to be a terrible decision. Although he had high health I could not attack, and his blood lust ability went to waste. As a result, my opponent completely obliterated me. I had zero chance.

Man position, position, position. Still kicking myself on this one.

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Battle 2

Another bad loss. Once again being unable to use Life Splinter, I had trouble deciding on what line up to use. As the time clock quickly ran down in haste I went with Death splinter.

My lineup looked odd because in haste I tried to go with a strong sneak attack while I sought protection from the front and back. Unfortunately this strategy was terrible and quickly backfired.

My opponent completely destroyed me. It didn't help that they also had a Gladiator and I did not.

That's ok next time I'll be able to decide on a better line up. I'll use this one as a learning experience.

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Battle 3

Earlier I mentioned, I did not rent cards. But that's not true. I forgot that I rented cards at season start in effort to get out of bronze ASAP.

Anyway for this battle I ran with Peakrider who is a legendary summoner with plus three shield and minus one range.

I went with a heavy melee attack, using inspire from Silver Shield Knight combined with sneak. To top it off I put Marisol for extra reinforcements.

My lineup looked formidable and then I got introduced to a nasty nasty card, Quora Towershead. This beast of a card has plus 2 magic, and plus 2 melee. Needless to say, my opponent completely decimated me. That card was simply too overpowering.

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Battle 4

Finally a win. This one was nice, as I was able to leverage the few strengths I did have.

Of course I went with Peakrider as my summoner. And although Marisol, has the reach ability I put her in as my tank because of her speed and bloodlust.

This combination was too strong and I quickly won my battle.

If you want to see these two cards in action check out a video of the battle below.

Battle Showcase

SUMMARY

This was fun. I hope you enjoyed my #brawlreport.

My strategy of rolling with mainly gladiator cards kind of backfired. It might of gone differently if I had positioned my cards a little bit better. But that's ok, as time goes on, along with my team I will be stakcing more and more Gladitors. So when battle arrives we will be ready for destruction.

With that said, a big thank you to @kennysgaminglife, @hive.pizza, and The Abundance Tribe.

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