Board Thread:Current Episode Discussion/@comment-9890645-20140805230125/@comment-9890645-20140805234919

Due to... well, me screwing up (I'll describe below), my alt placed one tier higher than my main. Main is still on left as always though.

Final Rank: 7874 // 3277

Final Score: 887,321 // 2,347,715

Deck Power (Pre/Begining/End/Post): 54817/up to 66763/54951 // 38k/up to 50780/398xx (Note both "up to"s were achieved shortly before episode end as I didn't need the higher DP on either account.)

Money Spent (and currency): Zero dollars on either, wallet is still on strike.

Coins Spent: 100: Warpath weapon, first try! // 0

Battle Cubes: +232, and +10 fulls from chips // +100ish

Energon Cubes: -61 // I think I'm up a bit. I don't have an inventory shot after last ep

Nets: +40 // have 2 left

Chains: +2 // -2

Medals: Nothing relevant on either account except for the now-ubiquitous chips.

Rubies: Enough to score the second half of Hoist after making it to the last chip spot before I would have gotten it that way... but I was short 285 chips // Enough to score the second half of Hoist after having to chain 4 Rumbles (see in other)

Liked: Campaigns should be short. Hoist. Cool dragon artwork on Warpath's card. Chips for medals!

Disliked: Let's see... This episode should have been called "Autobot Raiders in King Arthur's Urban Sprawl of Desolation." Hard to get into the feel of the (G1 series) episode when looking at the same old distressed-building backgrounds while running missions with Medieval-themed names... especially with some of the nice forest-y backgrounds in the regular missions. The minuscule change to the Battle Chest bridge is just plain old not enough. Having to pull 1 medal at a time early in the ep. The art on a lot of the Decepticon cards, ESPECIALLY R6 Starscream, is pathetic.

Other: It was my intention to farm both accounts equally for a Hoist each, then fall back to normal farming... and run my farmers a little too, to build up some EC and BC there. After one day of this, I got ridiculously bored and ignored the farmers... then started ignoring the alt... and then the main. As the final day in episode began, I knew I was in trouble... then I went to sleep and things were looking bleaker in the morning. At least I had played my main enough, and set it up to be about equidistant from completing Hoist via rubies or chips (as noted above, I finished with rubies because I nearly finished the chips). I finished up my main's Hoist (I didn't NEED it, but Hoist is a fave of mine and I missed the last one) at Starbucks at lunch... but didn't get to my alt until home from work. This gave me less than 4 hours, and I was at maybe 600 chips on the first board! I came to terms with the reality that a Hoist would cost me EC and chains and, as T-minus 2h came and went, I started dropping chains and finished up Hoist soon after. Also managed to level a few others on the alt (notably Stranglehold)... but having to use the chains was my own fault and I am kicking myself for it.