Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5056929-20121226233042/@comment-6834438-20131216231523

I had two really awesome games:

1) It was a mobile game and I had Engineers, Apprentices, and Boomerangs. They had Engineers, Apprentices, Mortars and Banana Farms (one of them was random). We went to a round all the way up to something like in the 30s (no ZOMGs came). He had about 7 Masters of Fire, three 3|2 Banana Farms, a bunch of 4|2 engineers, and a 3|2 mortar. I had less apprentices (only 2|3) and more Engineers and Boomerangs. The only reason the game ended in the 30s is that he disconnected due to lag or boredom.

2) A more recent PC game where my opponent had tack shooters, ninjas, apprentices and a tower I didn't see while I had Boomerangs, Bomb Towers, Mortars and Banana Farms. I slowly lost lives due to the fact that I bought an early Banana Farm and didn't have that good Boomerang placement (the map was Yin-Yang) until I had only 60 lives. Because of the fact that they had one Ring of Fire, one 3|2 tack shooter, two 2|2 apprentices and 1 3|2 ninja, I had to wait until round 18 to beat him (stupidly, I didn't send an RRoD, but it didn't matter) when I could send MOABs. Since I had around 400 income, one 1|0 and one 2|0 banana farm, I was able to afford and send the following:

1 Regrow MOAB

1 Regular MOAB

A bunch of grouped leads

Some ceramics

Other weak bloons

Because of the fact that he knew he couldn't beat the rush, he sent his own rush at me (even worse, lag was causing tension and suspense to be much higher than it should be) with many ceramics and 3 MOABs. Since I knew I couldn't beat his rush, I sold my Banana Farms and upgraded one of my Bionic Boomerangs to 2|4 (I had two Bionic Boomers) and used the power after setting it on strong. Since he had all of his towers in the front, the MOABs were moving very slowly across the map (part size, part lag). The 2|4 boomerang's power was able to destroy all of the MOABs... except one. Quick movement of my Mortar took care of the ceramics (along with my awesome 3|2 cannon) but the last MOAB was almost through my defenses. However, the MOABs on his side finally made it near the end, and when they popped the MOAB layer, the regrow ceramics were going to get through. But was it enough? YES IT WAS! The ceramics made it in less than a second before the MOAB made it through. Then I had a quick victory dance and then played another match.