31 Days to Mastering Monsterpocalypse Archive

“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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