31 Days to Mastering Monsterpocalypse Archive

  • Day 19: Morphers

    Day 19: Morphers

    “Morphers are simply unplayable.” “The benefits offered don’t make up for their… their… squishiness.” “They are just too fragile” - The Monsterpocalypse Community before GenCon 2009 “He got lucky.” “Statistically, Alex would have won the majority of masters” “Now that the game is on YouTube, their gameplay was so weak!” - The...

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  • Day 18: One Of’s

    Day 18: One Of’s

    First, welcome back to Mastering Monsterpocalypse! A combination of getting everything approved for the DVD, getting everything approved and put together for MonCon, life, and then events like BashCon, I decided to take a pause in the Mastering Monsterpocalypse series. This also gave a lot...

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  • Day 17: The Kondo Conundrum

    Day 17: The Kondo Conundrum

    In the last challenge, we talked about winning. In that challenge we looked at winning from your perspective. Today, we are going to talk about winning in black and white terms… As in your opponents monster on the ground at the end of the match....

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  • Day 16: Winning

    Day 16: Winning

    It was summer 2005. Tim sits across the table from Steven while Steven stares back with a smirk. Before too long, it’s obvious that Steven is slaughtering Tim. Steven then grabs a pen and paper and begins writing furiously. He stands up and on the...

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  • Monsterpocalypse Maps – FINALLY!

    Monsterpocalypse Maps – FINALLY!

    Although this is not a challenge, I compiled the images for all of the maps (other than the newest in the Monsterpocalypse Now Map Pack) and wanted to put them up to help with the challenges. The maps can be found below. As times goes...

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  • Day 15: P-die Generation

    Day 15: P-die Generation

    You thought I was gone… didn’t you? Well, I am. Right now it is likely I am laying on a beach somewhere south of Florida. If not there… well you can imagine where I would be. Yet, you didn’t think I would leave you without...

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  • Day 14: Disruption

    Day 14: Disruption

    Disruption is a unique topic for me. When I first really started playing Monsterpocalypse, it’s something I really did not know how to do. Let alone something that I thought was central to winning a game. Alas, here we are today and I hope that...

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  • Day 13: Synergy

    Day 13: Synergy

    Who would have ever thought we would make it to day 13 so quickly? It’s been quite a thrill ride thus far and I’m hoping you are already seeing results in your Monsterpocalypse gameplay. I want to also mention here that anyone who completes each of...

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  • Day 12: Turn 2, Going First

    Day 12: Turn 2, Going First

    For the longest time, I always thought that there was an unfair advantage leaning in favor of players who were going second. For starters, they get to choose the map. This is slightly offset because you get to place buildings first hopefully disrupting their complete...

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  • Day 11: Turn One, Going First

    Day 11: Turn One, Going First

    So we’ve gone through a lot thus far. We have talked about everything that gets a player to the first monster turn from building and map selection down to slashing units. We’re going to do something similar to the past two challenges, but from a...

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