Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5056929-20121226233042/@comment-6834438-20140105203700

Just had ANOTHER amazing victory against Poppy XL (is he famous or something? because I recognize his name for some reason) with over 15 or 16k battle score. We both started out with tack shooters in the center, and then I got a 2|2 boomerang once I had 300 income and he got another tack shooter. Then, at 400 income, I saved up for a 2|3 boomerang, and in that time he got a 2|2 mortar. By round 10, he had upgraded his mortar to 2|3 and gotten another one. I was saving up my money to prepare for an RRoD from him, and if he did send it (which he didn't), then I would get the RoF and have him waste his money. However, when he didn't send it, I bought the RoF and got 3 more 3|0 tack shooters for regrow ceramic popping power (believe me, it works well). Then, at around round 16 (I had 900 income exactly; gotta hate that OCD-like instinct to get an even number), I started spamming 0|3 bomb shooters (I was going to get them to 2|3 later). He had two MOAB Maulers then, and I had 4. At one point, (I wasn't paying attention), he upgraded his tack shooter to 4|x and got another 3|x tack shooter next to it. Then, he got a 3|2 ninja (a little weird, don't you think?) and I asked him what his income was. He said it was around 357 (I can't remember well), and I told him mine was around 1607 (which is understandable since he was not sending many bloons the entire game and I was). It turns out that when round 23 came, he was able to pop the MOAB, but he didn't have enough popping power and some bloons got through (he only lost around 30 lives since his 3|2 ninja popped and sent some bloons back). I decided that instead of sending a regrow BFB rush (which I was considering for a while), that I could outlast him and he would probably die on round 25 (if he didn't, I would have sent the rush or waited for round 30). It turns out that when round 25 came, he lost to the bloons that leaked from the MOABs (the final MOAB's children killed him; that is why it says round 26) and I had officially beat a person with 15 or 16k battle score (I had a party in my head). Then again, a lot of people with high battle scores aren't that good at the game.