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So first day every playing multiplayers, and I draw the second best player in the league?

I'm going to stock up on astroglide.

You're the playing the best choker in the league, So you'll be fine. :awesome_for_real:

I'm on holiday until the 10th of May and am GMT +8

I'm GMT -4, so I'm guessing a weekend Morning/Evening thing would work. I'll shoot you a suggestion time in PM.

Brocktoon, stop playing Mount and Blade and let's DO THIS.

Boo, I wanted first shot at the monkey.

Awesome, my first game of the season is against the reigning champion. Oh well, I managed to hold him to a draw before, let's see if I can do at least as well again.

I'm based in the UK Sky so might have to wait for the weekend for our game but I am connected in steam whenever I am online so if you can catch me there we can play otherwise have PM'd you and we can set a proper time.

Uly

You wait your turn, Dwarf-boy!

the burning question is - Who do you think is the best?!

I AM PAGING YOU RIGHT NOW AND YOU WILL NOT RESPOND! RANK COWARDICE!

AndyDavo and I are playing our match right now.

Ironwood and I are getting ready to fire it up.

I was StarCrafting.  We're both ready.

HERE GOES.

A satisfying, fun 2-2 tie with a 20/20 match rating. The rats got a surprise first strike thanks to a wizard and some hilarious first few turns bad rolling on my part. The rolls were capped by a two die block being rolled from a double push to double skulls.

After this, we had a half ending touchdown by Freight Train Joe (who leveled up, by the way) after some inexorable grinding by the orcs. All knotted up, 2-2, but with a decisive advantage (or so it seemed) to the orcs.

Itchers receive the second half kickoff and, while still being ground down, managed to rely on their Gutter Runners for some quick heroics. Their ball carrier got knocked down and Jerkface moved in to pick it up. This, of course, just meant that it was dropped. In turn, we had a Gutter Runner dodge and weave, pick the ball up, do a quick toss to an open receiver who ran it in nearly from mid-field.

Alas, it wasn't to last. There wasn't enough magic as a signature orc style victory unfolded with Extreme Pounding in the last few turns, capped by another orc score to tie it in the waning moments of the game.


(Yes, the orcs fucked up a short pass at least once)

What inducements did you take, Ironwood?

Wizard, Mor Medix, a Brewmaiden and as many rerolls as I could lay my hands on.

I thought it was a really good game :  Up moment for me was the scoring, which was nice ratty running style, Down moment was the ball just being there for the taking and the winning and my Ratty fell on his ass trying to get off the floor.

All in all, my rats spent most of the time on their backs.  Just no stopping power at all.

It was a perfect illustration of why skaven games are so exciting. You can get pounded to dust, shoved around rudely and your Gutter Runners are still so amazing that you're never really out of it. I was entirely confident coming into the second half and we're talking an entirely different game if my thrower hadn't fucked the pick up after I shoved Ironwood's carrier to the dirt. As it is, I'm way lucky to have not lost 2-1.

Andy won 2-1, I thougt I'd be able to hold him to a draw at the end but some bad luck with block rolls meant I couldn't follow up to put tackle zones where they mattered. We started off with me kicking into a blizzard, Andy caged up and inched the ball down the field to score with one turn remaining. I had a poor first half, despite having a team where almost every player has block, I struggled to get anything other than pushes meanwhile every time Andy threw the dice he was getting Defender Down more often than not. I took some measure of revenge by finally causing an injury in the last turn of the half.

The blizzard ended in the second half and I pushed the ball into a cage and ran down one flank. Andy fireballed the cage knocking down the ball carrier and one of the corners. A bit of a scrap developed and I managed to snatch the ball up from the sideline and throw it out to an unmarked Witch Elf. Unfortunately I wasn't in a good position to prevent Andy from piling on the ball carrier so I was forced to score rather than run the clock down for a draw. With four turns left and a full team on the pitch, Andy pushed hard and scrambled the ball into the endzone to score the winner right on the whistle. I should have done better but I simply couldn't get his players to fall over and when I did, it largely made no difference - out of 33 armour rolls I only made 6 whereas he managed to beat my armour 12 times in 29 attempts. The only consolation was that his Halfling Chef only managed to steal a single reroll in each half - not that it mattered as neither of us really used rerolls too much.

At least I got that match out of the way early in the season. It can only get better from here.

game day 1,

The all dark elf showdown. With IainC a towering 690TV over me this was always going to be the hardest game of the division. I decided to take a Chef, wizard and Mr J Freshbreeze for his hypnogase. I was lucky enough to recieve and was able to throw alot of blocks (and passes) in the first half, removing 3(i think) of Iains players before HT, sadly for me only to a KO. I was able to score on turn 8 and snuf out any chance of a reply.

Second half a melee commenced and dispite a very good wizard strike i was unable to capitalise on  popping the ball loose and 1 long bomb later i was all  squared at 1-1. With 3 turns to score for a win i was able to smash a hole in the midfield and pour thru to cage up and score on turn 16. Final score 2-1. Current deathtoll 0, serious injuries suffered 1 (he's only MNG but i'm playing under str for game day 2).  Is this going to be a repeate of last season?

lol, the same write up but from 2 different sides. it's very interesting to compare and contrast the 2.

MAKE YOUR TIME, PROUDFT

Carnifex's Cripplers trounced the Nifty-ish Helmets 2-0.
Um, not much to say about the game -- I was outplayed and outnumbered for most of the game and never even manage to make a dent in his skinks (on the plus side my only real injury would've been in the last turn when hunting for any SPP i rolled 3 dice against a skink and they all came up with the red death ... could have been a career ender for my beastman but i still had the apothecary).

I hate playing Lizardmen so much. I'm awful against them.

Bring back Slaan teams!

Everything is validated.

Me and Gruntle are done with a 2-0 win for the Cripplers.  The match got off to a very lucky start for me.  I kicked and the ball landed in the tackle zones of my krox and one of my saurai.  Gruntle managed to recover quite well and pulled the ball to the sideline.  The superior speed of my lizardmen let me bog him down until a botched block on his part gave me a shot at the ball carrier.  I rerolled and still managed to push him with my 2 die with block hit, but managed to swarm around his ball carrier.  Then ha got another unlucky block at the begining of his next turn (thank God I thought to grease the bottom of his chaos warriors boots before the game), allowing me to knock him down and run in an easy turn 5 td.  The last 3 round saw one of his three warriors badly hurt himself, my Krox ko his str4 beastman (who would remain out until the 16th turn) and his claw beastman puttin a saurus out for this game and next.

The 2nd half started with a deep kick to my side wich I eventually ran up the right sideline after one of my skinks actually picked it up in rd 10.  He did a good job tying me up for a few rounds until my ball carrier could try a hand off to another skink wich would have almost garunteed me a score the next round if it had been succesful.......if.  The result was the ball laying in the middle of the pitch while we both took turns bashing each other and failing pickup and catch rolls.  Eventually a CRAZY dodge attempt (into 3 tzs and -1 from prehensile tail) went horribly wrong for him and popped the ball into the open where a skink managed to pick it up and roll in for the closing td.  Gruntle had terrible blocking dice through out the match, so it was only fitting that the match ended with his str4 beastman getting 3 skulls agains my skink, breaking armor and earning what would have been a niggling injury without his apothecary.

Burrowing Beetles tied the Mutiny 1-1.  The Beetles nearly lost, mainly due to the rain and wasting the first four turns (and 3 rerolls) failing to pick up the ball, but the mummies managed to knock the ball loose from the Norse deathgrip one turn from the end of the game and in shambling range of the endzone and somehow actually picked up the ball.   I hope I never play another raining game with the Khemri.   :ye_gods:

No Beetle casualties, and heavy Norse carnage, the worst of which was a dead level 2 werewolf.

Match has been submitted to the thinger.

So I learned a few things.

a) Rainy games versus the khemri are HILARIOUS
b) Tomb Guardian killing my level 2 werewolf (he had dodge!) is not
c) I have already scored a touchdown, the rest of the season is a bonus as far as I'm concerned
d) Rainy games versus the khemri are REALLY HILARIOUS
e) Rainy games as the Norse could be less annoying
f) Lady Luck can't decide how she feels about me
g) Rainy games against the khemri are REALLY REALLY HILARIOUS

The Mutiny ties the Burrowing Beetles, 1-1!


EDIT: By the way, my touchdown? Totally bullshit. I knocked the ball out of a skeleton's hands, picked the bitch up, flung it towards my runner. My runner didn't catch it ... but my berserker standing next to him did, and then merrily made his go for it roll to get in the end zone on the next, final turn of the half. <3

My team value stands at 870, the lowest in the league, and two of my players will miss the next match.  In addition, those players have a broken back and a smashed collarbone.  I'm also church-mouse poor, which is ironic for Skaven, and can't afford to do anything about it.

In Hindsight, I did not get off as lightly as I thought.

Yeah, I don't know how far I've dropped, but losing that werewolf is pretty terrible. Team Noob is off to a roaring start.  :why_so_serious:

Will have to see if I can keep the run of team devalueing going when me and sky get our match done - not looking forward to orc bashing skink goodness!

Well my first match is going to be interesting. Nurgle vs Chaos.  :awesome_for_real:

1-0 Bashtards lose to Ulysees' lizards. While I certainly can't say much for my opening performance without playing any games since last season (kinda busy getting certified), my love of ringers in this league continues.  :oh_i_see:

Looking forward to losing to people I know instead of random Internet strangers.

Also really tired of Lineorcs getting MVP, ffs.

Me and Sky just played our game and I scraped a 1-0 win so can take the rest of the season easy now that the main aim of scoring a touchdown has been acheived, getting a win is just a bonus.

Quite a bashy match with my main plan of trying to build some spp on my saurus's so i can get block in the team asap and the dice were not unkind to me with the main culprit of bashy turnovers the star player saurus who funny enough was the only guy who had block!.

First half didn't start to plan with me receiving the kick and in the first few moves trying to form my cage I run a saurus over the ball who promptly fails the pickup and I waste a reroll trying to recover that for the first turnover but it happened so early there were no really exploitable holes for Sky to rush his orcs through and I successsfully make my cage on the next turn and then the bashing and shuffling starts. Turn 4 I get a skink hand off and run him to the endzone hoping to burn some time but Sky gets some defence back forcing me to score on turn 5 but nuffle smiled on the kickoff with a riot pushing the turn clock forward so with only 2 turns to score and a decent kick to the back of the field the half ends 1-0 to me.

The kick-off for the second half begins with Sky getting a free move for all his players of 1 square allowing him to move a little into my half and mark one of my gaurding Saurus's and he forms his cage on the right side fo the field but after a couple of turns the drive is bogged down and I have a couple of players getting near to the ball carrier thinking with a little luck I can pop the ball loose soon and rush in a skink to run with it Sky proceeds to dump my marking Saurus's on their backsides and then moves his cage across the other side of the field with my Saurus's either marked or down my only cover is provided by our cute little useless for blocking shit skinks and I prepare for a can of skink whooping goodness to be unleashed.

Sky obliges and takes 2 skinks out of the game but I manage to free some of my Saurus's with lucky 1d block rolls that come off and bog him down very close to my endzone and with time running out and the route to the endzone now pretty well guarded Sky tries a pass/handoff that fails and the ball falls loose. I use my saurus's to bash up any orc near the ball and a skink picks it up and scurries up the pitch thereby securing the victory but not having enough time to score another touchdown I decide to spend the last 2 turns trying to build some SPP and bash anything standing though I don't cause any injuries in the final 2 turns.

So now I DO know how far I dropped, and I'm sitting at 850 with one of my berserkers out in my game against IainC.  :awesome_for_real:  Thank God I got my goal of scoring a touchdown out of the way.

On the bright side though you'll have a ~900k gold piece shopping spree before our match.

JUST GIVE ME ONE OF EVERYTHING GUYS, I'M FEELING SPENDY

2-0 to the Forces of Chaos. Once again my luck was horrid. Including charging my beast at someone and rolling double skulls, rerolling and rolling double skulls and having it not get up for the rest of the half.

As expected there was skin, hair and tenticles flying left at a rate of knots. 2 or 3 of his players were injured I think and one of my warriors is out next game. Aside from the luck it was a pretty even game, more than the score indicated. It didn;t help that it started raining in the second half and I could not make a ball handling roll to save myself, and I don't think ruvalt missed one.

Good game though. Fun.  :pedobear:

The Ex-Presidents of Doom 2 - 0 Harbingers of Homeopathy

The Harbingers elected to receive for the first half, and managed to pick up the ball.  I blitzed the ball carrier and played pretty aggressively...maybe too aggressively as my one reroll was spent pretty quickly.  I did manage to wrangle the ball from the Harbingers, however, and we went several rounds of doing very little after double red-skulls ended our turns.  I had a touch of bad luck and got a few injuries, but engineered a knock-down of his resurgent Nurgle Warrior ball carrier on turn 6, picked up the ball, and was able to run it in for a TD with Jimmy Carter on turn 8.

Though I was receiving in the second half I was pretty worried.  Due to my team cuts from the feeder league I had no bench, and both of my primary ball carriers were badly injured.  I also got rid of most of my rerolls slimming down to TV1250; the plan was to buy them with inducements because a lot of the teams in the league would have a higher TV than me, but that wasn't the case with this game and so I only had one reroll.  To make matters worse it started raining.  Still, I got off to a good start in the second half, moved the ball up the field, and took advantage of some very good luck on my ball pick-ups along with some very bad luck on Sir T's ball pick-ups.  I scored a TD on my fifth turn of the half, and settled in to defend against a TD at the end of the game, trying my best to avoid further injuries.

In the end, no deaths on either side, but I have one out for the next game, and I think Sir T is in the same boat.  It was a good game, and challenging; Sir T had some bad luck, and I was pretty fortunate several times, especially when picking up the ball.  It very easily could have ended up being 1 - 0 and that would have been a justified score.  Nasty game, and nothing artful about it.  I enjoyed it, and Stormbringer is living up to its reputation already.

As i was a ringer last season but now i am a F13 member this, to whom are you refering?

Not to ruin the fun but pro tip for people who want Sky to like them: post outside just the BB subforum. Of course he may still not like you even then.  :awesome_for_real:

I don't want people to like me or not, that is their choice. I try not to be a complete retard however, so most people do tend to get on with me. I guess its not always possible to not rub everyone up the wrong way, but i didnt start being an arse. Did i?

If you post a sentence in another forum, it means Sky knows you. It's internet tribalism of a low form.

Yeah people that post in one forum here pretty much get ignored as crazy.

Or, if you agree with Nerf.

No way, Nerf is our hero, his crazy dog our mascot.

...right? :why_so_serious:

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RARROOO??! SKY BE MY FRIEND?

God, do I love that pictures like that exist in this universe.

It was to be a handoff, and I would have had a decent half cage and should have had enough of your guys marked to make it an interesting last couple turns, I was really hoping for a tie. I don't know how the heck I wasn't able to take advantage of your 'skink defense'. Just not quite enough guys that were just out of position. Rain wasn't helping.

I forgot about the riot, so didn't expect the first half to end that turn, woops.

To everyone who thought I'd end up in the playoffs: heh.

An addendum to my leveling Lineorcs: Wrestle is about useless. I've had it on a guy forever, thinking I'd have some flavor on the team, really wish I had taken block instead. I've never once had a call for wrestle, and block would've been useful almost every game.

I find wrestle to be more of a defensive skill. Probably why I don't have it.

It's a good skill for players that are meant to blitz a ball carrier because it overcomes the possible defense of block, increasing the odds of knocking a ball out.  I always put it on blitzer gutter runners.

Wrestle has its good points, but orcs don't need it much since they're so strong on the line already. It can still be nice for stripping the ball carrier in situations where block would just get you one of those both-down bounces but a lineorc isn't really the ideal spot for that probably.

A goblin with wrestle and dauntless maybe?  That'd be interesting (and annoying) on an Orc team.  Otherwise I can't see Orcs using wrestle all that much.  The blitzers already have block.

The original intention was to have him be a ball hog, but I'm not a good enough player to allow for specialized players outside maybe my thrower. Chuck got Block late in the season and that's the only reason it wasn't 2-0 when Ulysees pulled that awesome blitz on my pocket that forced me to shift to the far side of the field. My actual goal this season is to get block on my Black Orcs and hopefully ding a couple Blitzers. So frustrating to have my Lineorcs hogging my spp, heh.

I think the lineorc that got mvp in that game may have dinged...and he's a new guy. I think the last two lineorcs I added dinged within two games, and I still have level 1 Blitzers and Black Orcs. Blah. So I'll probably fire the guy with Wrestle.

Pretty sure you can get Morg, a wizard, and a chef.

Should make for an interesting match...

I love wrestle on non ball carrier skinks, mainly against slower bashy teams.  If a big guy is on the pitch they basically can't go anywhere their next turn, effectively taking them out of play.

on the flip side to that, the floowing turn the skink won't be going anywhere, since your asking for a 3 dice block against you, using someone with MB against your Av7 stunty who has a double skill roll.  Not generally a good idea!

Is Helm "Der Helm"? He hasn't replied to my PM and I don't know/can't find his email address. If he's reading this, please reply to my PM.

1 - 0 win for the HHB over Norse.

Giving up massive TV, HHB gets ~500k in inducements, buying Morg and some bloodweiser. The lizards win the flip and elect to recieve, and Morg immediately pays off, KOing a 5 STR Wolfrunner (which would last the entire game). Shortly thereafter my star lineman (stand firm, guard) is also knocked KOed for the game. There was a lot of pushing and tripping in the middle, and eventually my star runner makes a break for the ball carrying skink, bringing him down. Norse manage to pick the ball up and keep ahold of it for a good while. Late in the half they make a break for it, but are somehow caught by the lizards and brought down. A last-second desperation pass play fails, and the first half ends in a 0-0 tie.

Second half the Norse receive, and appear to be making good progress when they run into a wall of scaled ones. With multiple norsemen taking a nap on the sidelines, a runner and beserker are quickly surrounded. Desperate to at least get the ball further from their own endzone, the norse runner throws up a brick...which is intercepted by a soaring skink. The skink makes a break for it, but is run down and blasted from the field by a beserker, who is then beset upon, and the skinks walk one in late. The norse set up for a late 2-turn TD attempt, and get a decent kick...which is eventually for naught, and the norse thrower (who has never actually been asked to throw the ball) promptly flubs the pass, taking away any chance of a last-turn TD.

HHB eventually started to suffer some injuries, but it was too little too late for the norse.

nuffle didn't so much smile on me this round as she spat on poor strazos, whose passing was just about as terrible as possible, including an interception opportunity that a skink somehow managed and at least two fumbled handoffs, including one with a pass reroll.

morg, just like every other game in which i've been able to afford him, really earned his pay here -- taking out strazos' str 5 ulfwerner straight out of the gate and planting his massive bulk in a variety of inopportune spots.  between him and my trusty krox Drogg, i kept the norse to one die blocks and kept runners pretty trapped behind lines.  had strazos a few less KO recovery issues, i probably would've been in trouble, but taking out the fend/guard and the mega-ulfwernner early meant he couldn't muster the muscle necessary to stop the saurus party.

a couple badly hurts, but nothing huhnqua hasn't dealt with before -- now we just need to continue the streak of no-whammies :geezer:

You.  Me.  Day 7.  Fucking Be There.   :why_so_serious:

I'm impressed with the level of smack-talk from the rest of you, but the hussle needs work :  Get those fucking games played and let's GET ON with this.   :awesome_for_real:

Also, BBManager seems to suck quite badly. 

If Falc can tear himself away from Rift long enough to validate the games already played...

I believe Teleku is out of town until 5/11, and I will be out of town 5/10 to 5/12, so hopefully we'll be able to meet up next Friday or Saturday.  Nothing like a slow start to the season, am I right?  :grin:

I wanted to play right now, but Calvin the Menace left town until the 10th and lives 12 hours away from me.  :oh_i_see:

Silver Horde will face Reborne's Wrestlers at 2200 Gmt tomorrow.

Running down Reborne's roster, they don't look like the same side the Horde faced last season...

Take out some Ogres for me.   :heart:

Leave some snotlings for me.   :heart:

I've been recruiting!
Still, time will tell if anyone has practiced actually picking up the ball over the break...

There are always more snotlings!  :awesome_for_real:
Should I ever win a match I'm fairly sure my opponent will still get more SPP because of that fact  :uhrr:

Due to some awesome timing by my ISP, I am out of an internet connection since last thursday. They are "looking into it". I hope to get this fixed today or tomorow, public university terminals suck (and don't have BB installed)

Get ready for your lifetime subscription to PAIN.

I'm READY. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFgXsXK_gK8)


 :oh_i_see:

Reborne's Wrestlers 0 - 3 Silver Horde

Was closer than the score suggests in the first half at least, but then Reborne's team suffered catastrophic armor failure at the start of the second half. 6 casualties in all among the Wrestlers,  one ogre will miss next game.

Possibly I'll do a fuller match report tomorrow but late and tired now.

Stormbringer is done for day 1 btw. Battletech and Cthulu not so much...

Ezrast and I should be able to hook up in the next day or two.

In today's Bonehead fueled extravaganza...

Wrestlers 0 - 3 Silver Hoard

Let me just say, ouch!

This was a late, jet lag impeded game for Eldaec and I rolled out of bed to play, so neither of us was really awake (I hate mornings)

Kick offs either hate me or love him.
Rock stuns my block Ogre straight off the bat, could be worse but still.

Game was going well, most of the first half was a big pile on just on my side of the field.
We both got our apothacaries out of the way in the first few turns because of this then proceed to not need them for the rest of the game.
The main break came when my cage collapsed because of 3 boneheads in one turn and the following turns had enough to make things hard.
The norse barreled through and eventually the ball came loose, leaving them to score on the last turn of the first half.

The start of the second half heralded a much worse fate for the Ogres as Norsemen hit them in the squishy bits and I was left with only 2 Ogres on the field.
Eldaec played it safe, mainly blitzing my snotlings to great effect (Didn't manage to get all of them though) while he ran down the field.

I believe he said that he got 3 levels out of the match.

All in all another fun game that has helped me toward the bottom of the loser bowl  :awesome_for_real:

So, who is pulping my snotlings next?

P.S. Game uploaded, Eldaec had some issues so I tried, may be there twice now.

My ISP fucked me the same way since last Thursday night. I didn't get Internet access until just now. If I have til the 15th to get the game done, looks like it'll be this weekend before I can play.

Negative Capability 3 Slann the Mann 0.  Playing a low TV Lizardman team is harder than I thought it would be.  Having some skills, esp. block on my Saurus, would have helped, as would having my skinks learn to pick up the ball but I doubt I would have won anyway.  Ice Cream Emperor played a good game and more than deserved to win.  On an up note, none of my players were injured or killed and I may have been able to level up a Saurus.  

Negative Capability 3 - 0 Slann the Mann.

The Necromantic team controlled the game throughout, thanks to a large TV (and more importantly, skills-on-players) gap that a single star Saurus could not manage to make up and -- equally crucially -- a fairly thorough blessing from Nuffle. I didn't have to spend a reroll on a single d6 roll the entire game, and Ginaz' lizards managed to roll mostly pushes all game. Ginaz played fairly well but the dice did him no favours, and exaggerated a few order-of-operation mistakes -- he also suffered more due to the 2 minute turn length, due to the more comparably difficult task of figuring out how to get decent blocks in on my 3-guard team.

And of course, despite being in control of the game, smashing skinks into the ground left and right, and applying numerous werewolf claws to various lizard scales, Negative Capability continues to be nearly-incapable of injuring anyone, except when the crowd is involved. I snuck in a late-turn injury to the Star Player but other than that it was 1 KO and a dozen stuns, with the only early-game injury delivered via sideline push-out (a badly hurt skink.) I did manage to get one of my ghouls a skill-up, finally, but as usual a zombie snagged the MVP. Hopefully this won't be another season of winning early, failing to develop at a decent rate, and getting consequently stomped due to a lack of crucial skills (hello Tackle? anyone? anywhere?) later in the season.

So is there a way to cut money that is contributing to TV? I have like 60k I don't need, and I would rather not have it inflating my TV even more. I even cut down on coaches and cheerleaders! If I didn't cut anything, I would be over 2k TV.  :oh_i_see:

Hire and fire someone?

I don't think cash on hand contributes to TV.  If you still want to get rid of it though, use it as petty cash in an upcoming match.

Cash doesn't add to TV.

Of you want to lower TV, fire people.

Beardstorm! 2 - 7 Deadly 0 in the rematch of our opening match last season.

Very bloody game, with 3 injured dwarves and 6 injured lizards of various sizes. Don't think any permanent harm was done. I am sure Ezrast is tired of the dwarf passing game ( :awesome_for_real:), as I managed to score on a blitzer to blitzer pass late in the first half after wrestling the ball away from a skink for something like the 3rd time, which is awfully similar to how I squeaked a tie out with him at the end of the game last season. Dwarves were helped greatly by at least two double skull/double skull type rerolls by sauri in the first half (some of those were both downs vs. dwarves with block).

3 dwarves level I believe, a lineman to 2, a runner to 3, and a troll slayer to 3.

Replay uploaded.

Actually, you gave -1 AV to my only player with a doubles skill.

First half, as Ingmar says, I got hit by Nuffle pretty hard, with the very first move of the game resulting in a turnover on a 2d block. Things did not go uphill from there. The way the second half turned out was mostly my fault though; I let Ingmar tie up my sauruses on one side of the pitch with my skinks and the ball on the other side. Then it became skinks vs. dwarves fighting for the ball, and that's not a fight that goes to the lizards. I'm sure I could have handled my sauruses better (I started the half with 10 players to Ingmar's 9) but I let the game get too bashy and just got slowly crushed. So I can't really blame the dice for this one.

Oh. Fuck.  :ye_gods:

Skabine 2 - Necco 0.

This was a good game for the most, with a sour turn in the end. The replay is up on BB Manager.

I kicked after Avaia won the toss and got it nice and long. He hit back hard, taking one of my guys off with a KO before working his way down the field, moving from one side to the other. I went all in with a bit of a bust, blocking his advance, and he followed up by surfing one of my rats, with a KO from the crowd. I followed up by pushing a Wight off the side but the crowd couldn't hurt him for me.

With the players bunched Avaia's ball carrying wolf decided to make a run for the line, sprinting to the open side. Unfortunatly for Avaia I had a Wizard and - FINALLLY! - he delivered, knocking the wolf down and spilling the ball. I then unleashed the power of the runners, marking the ball with one, running high on the other side with another, and picking it up and throwing it down field with a third. Avaia made an attempt to get him, but the coverage on the rats was too much and I ran it in to score just before the half to make it 1 - 0.

Meanwhile I had sent the other wolf out for the game with my Rat Ogre, and surfed a Zombie (no injury sustained).

Two of my rats woke at the kickoff to help me out, but my dodging linerat had decided to sit the rest of the game out and didn't stir again.

Second half began 11 v 10 with the rats getting the kick, but a loose field and a player down bit me hard when avaia's brilliant short kick was followed up with a blitz. He ran half his team in, caged up and caught the ball with his ghoul. He then made a series of hits, running down to my endzone while I scrambled a few runners back. I got caught with my Rat Ogre at halfway with a blitzer, but managed to have enough of a defence to slow him.

And slow him I did, my wrestle runners taking down a wight attack and thinning him out, before nuffle decided to join the game and lend a hand. Avaia attacked a runner with his tackle zombie but failed to get a DD or DP result so he rerolled it... in to double skulls.

I took the turnover and made him pay hitting with some runners to clear a way before taking the ball past halfway with another. My Rat Ogre fell in with a protective screen and that was all she wrote. Ghoul and Wight down close to my endzone, with the remaining wolf down on halfway with my Rat Ogre marking him left Avaia with no chance to stop the score, and I ran it in with three turns to go.

Nuffle then had a bit of a laugh, double skulls in to double skulls after the kick-off gave me another sniff at the ball, but this time the runners couldn't make it count. Re-rolls were gone an Avaia got a nice spill from the ball when I moved my ss runner on it, while a scatter launch found its way in to his wights arms for a last attempt at a score. I manned him up well with my 10mv runner coming from half a pitch away to push the wight back and making it very hard.

Nuffle had a few more giggles, killing my SS rat momentarily before my apoth saved him, followed up by a failed dodge death to avaia's ball carrying wight as he attempted to get clear to the line. Regen failed and that was all she wrote.

I have my accurate thrower out next match but otherwise made it through. Avaia has a dead wight and a wolf to miss next match.

Dice doesn't say much. I had worse block dice, but better injury rolls, otherwise it was pretty even. Avaia just got a few of skulls at a nasty time.

banked money does, in NO WAY, affect TV. it is made up of the following:

total player cost - base cost plus skills (20tv for a normal, 30tv for a double or Av increase, 40tv for agl increase and 50tv for a str increase)
fan factor at  1 ff for 10tv
Rerolls - their base cost (what u pay for them at team creation)
Apoth @50k if you have one
any cheerleaders or assistant coaches at 10tv per 1 hired

Some days I dream that 28 Days Later comes true.

Rolled 80k cash, recieved 40k.  :heartbreak:

I really hate that bug. This time it told me I only won 20k, I didn't reroll, and it gave me 40k. Mysterious!

What are you talking about ?

The amount it tells you you win at the end of multiplayer games is a lie, basically.

Could be wrong, but I think the game is rerolling everyone's winnings when your match gets validated.

I'm more into books, since i  can actually read. I prefer : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Sky-Tami-Hoag/dp/0752841270

That dig would work better if you got the punctuation and capitalization right.  :why_so_serious:

Nice to get block on another lineorc. On the other hand, it's block on another lineorc. My goal for this season is to level up my remaining two 1st level Black Orcs (block) and I think three level 1 Blitzers (tackle x 1 and offensive skills on the other 2). At this rate, maybe I'll just build the tards around lineorcs.

On the other hand, next week is the Snooze slaughter...so I guess I'm hoping to survive the bashfest.

Now that we're done cleaning all the bits of skink out of our beards, make sure to try and have enough players survive against Llyse to make it to Day 2, since you have me next.  :heart:

I believe that honor goes to me.  RA RA RA!

Looks like none of my guys leveled up after all. :ye_gods: 

No level ups, and I only got 30k in the end, not the 60k promised :(

Just played with Bann: bleargh.

That good eh?

I am pretty worried about that team myself, as much as I don't really like playing as humans.

Dandies 1 - 1 Bell Jar

This was an odd match. We actually had to restart after 1.5 turns, as my computer was lagging like a giant piece of shit in some snowy weather (15ish second lag from a click to an action) and Falc was kind enough to go for a restart. Second time around, the opening event is a rock to Sylvia Plath, I believe his most developed player. I could hear his teeth grinding from the other side of the Atlantic.

I received and caged up just on my half of the pitch, doing a little bashing and sneaking a catcher downfield. Falc managed to pop my a few turns in, but the ball bounced into the hands of one of my blitzers right in the middle of the field, who was uncovered. I walked the blitzer upfield, stalled a turn, and scored. On my kick, I believe Falc had 4 amazons on the sideline. I popped a kick short right and lucked into a blitz. I knocked a linegirl back and put 2 people up around the ball, and marked every player he had except for his one deep amazon. We scuffled along the right side with me holding the ball for a few turns. In retrospect, I should have been more aggressive about moving the ball upfield here. On turn 7 Falc popped my ball carrier to see it bounce out of bounds... only to be deep into my half of the pitch at the feet of one of his Amazons! He scored and we finished the half, 1-1.

The second half I don't remember as much. He stared very light on players. He got the ball deepish in my pitch solo, and was snuffed out by 3 humans. I advanced up the left sideline to about midfield, and sent some more girls off. The time was getting late, so I reversed and took the ball up field. I had it maybe 5 squares from the endzone, when a supernice double block GFI 1 dice blitz sent the ball loose. I began to panic around here. I cleared the squares around the ball, and should have picked up and moved to score with 1 reroll left. Instead, I went for a 2d block on one of his girls that I thought was covering the balll, but actually wasn't. Of course, dbl skull, burning my last reroll to make it a push. I obviously fail my pickup. Falc's last turn saw 1 failed dodge attempt. He had one girl near the ball, who was pushed away. One of my blitzers scooped up the ball and ran for the endzone, needing to make one GFI roll to win. Of course he failed.  :drill:

I sent most of the girls off at one point or another, but only one Badly Hurt, the rest were just KO's. I had one catcher get KO'd. Both squads should be at full strength next match. No levelups for me not sure about Falc.

The more I think about it, the more I'm in favour of some sort of loser playoff.  The best of the worst! :grin:

And the Dancing monkies lose to Eternal chokers Alive not Dead, after having to leave on turn 14 for work.

Not much to report, Paelos did well to pressure the ball in the first half, but the Calvin's honed and jetlagged claws make the difference turfing key players giving the Necromantic team a numbers advantage.

Replay uploaded

Yep it was a good game. I played better than I thought I would completing a ridiculous pass to my lineman at one point to get out of jail. However, I can't block or dodge at this point so my team sorta sucks! Ah well, I'd like to play again with a slightly more advanced squad and no time commits.

Overall, not a bad start for a game I expected to lose.

I hope Calvin enjoys the 2 more games he gets to play before he goes to join Hobbes in the pet cemetary.

You didn't resign I hope. If you resign you don't get points and money!

No it was a time out surrender so that Paelos got his MVP

I only take credit for giving up 1.5 of the TDs. The third was just the gravy shot after I left.

Acherontic Welkin 2 - 0 Peace Dogs.

Game featured hawt elf on elf akshun. Someone's neck got broken. Balls got tossed.

 * Edit: also, just got hit by the money bug. Won 60 grand, ended up with 30. Hahahaha, fuck the programmers.

Worst fucking game ever. My dice... my dice were the worst I have ever seen. And on the flip side, Megrim's dice were the best I've ever seen. Looking at the match stats, on block dice alone, out of 107 rolls, he got either a defender down or defender stumbles roll over 40 times. I got about half that. It was sick. It's a wonder I didn't get more than the 1 lingering casualty that I got - which happened to be a -1 AG on a leveled up lineelf. Fuck me. It was horrible.

How we looking for day 2 ?

I'm off to Amsterdam this weekend, but dying to get out and rat again...

I'm back from the land of baguettes and horribly over priced shit.  We should be able to knock our game out tomorrow or Saturday.

You were in San Francisco?   :grin:

He would have mentioned bums somewhere in that if he was  :awesome_for_real:

2 games to go.

Damm.  :ye_gods:

Ok, PM sent.

Hurry up you lazy fuckers.

I swear, you're all worthless and weak.  Now drop and give me 20.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12021422/Photos/d20_black_350.jpg)

Note to everyone: when you say your time to play, please mention what time zone you are referring to? Der Helm has his connection fixed, but we're running out of time to play and I don't know what 8am his time means compared to my 8am (Australian AEST GMT +10 btw). I hope we can play tomorrow.  

A team of 1 Minotaur and nothing but Beastmen is an interesting play, should be hilarious to watch his ball handling if we can get a game running.

No, there was actually a lot of those in Paris as well.   :awesome_for_real:

Sorry, again. I thought everyone knew I was German.  :awesome_for_real:

What is this "ball" you are talking about ?  :awesome_for_real:

Be careful, it's something they throw on the field to trip you up on your way to BASH!

But.... thats CRAZY... someone could get hurt...  :ye_gods:

Game's set for tomorrow sometime hopefully - An entire team with no skills vs high skilled Amazons half of whom have block. However, I'm giving away enough inducements for the Chaos team to hire a full line up of Chaos Warriors and a wizard or two. The game is going to come down to if the inducement's work.

Hurry up! Even I played my match, and my opponent was out of town and in Asia!

 :mob:

Didn't we start a league or something about a month ago? Whatever happened to that?



JESUS FUCK PLAY SOME BLOOD BOWL.

Also remember that if you have a northern/southern hemisphere split you will probably fuck up any allowance for daylight savings.

(Smart people realise that GMT ignores daylight savings, even smarter people confirm current local time in pms because the opponent might be dumb)

Are you in that much of a hurry for day 2?  :awesome_for_real:

The fast we do this the faster my team gets block!

The faster we play the quicker I get to the playofgfs to chocke  :awesome_for_real:

If I make the playoffs I'll make you pay for that garbage third TD  :grin:

3 points closer to the playoffs BABY  :drill:

 :awesome_for_real:

Assuming Der Helm is right in him being GMT+1, our game will be 7pm Melbourne AUS time tonight.

I'm sure as hell not, I don't care how much in inducements I get.  :ye_gods:

The internet told me that the new(ish) term for gmt is UTC. And all evidence points me to Cologne being the same as Berlin which would be +1.

Finishing up work right now, kicking *OUT a few WAY to drunk guests  (fuck hen/stag nights  :grin: ) should put me in the right mood.

edit: I don't just kick people, I kick them OUT   :ye_gods: :awesome_for_real: :drill:

UTC and GMT are up to 0.9 seconds different at any particular time. GMT is way cooler.

Home now, setting up some coffee, gonna be ready in 10 minutes or so.

edit: Login in, excited.  :grin:

edit2: Oh ? According to Comstars post I have to wait one more hour ? Too tired to follow who's math is wrong.  :grin: More coffee.

Match played. We're still waiting on one more game.

4-1 Amazons over Chaos. The chaos gods were not with them in this game. One niggling injury on a star lineswomen. The last turn of the game ended in a pitch invasion that stunned half of the chaos team, that about sums up their match.

Chaos took 2 merc Chaos Warriors, who were worth it and held up throughout the game. The halfling chef did not, only giving one reroll in the first half, and two in the second, that didn't make a difference. A beastmen did make a perfect pass inside a tacklezone to allow a single score for another beastmen which I hadn't thought he'd be able to do, but sadly no skills came the Chaos team way. One of my star catchers got a skill up to level 5. Sidestep again proved quite the annoyance, though not in a touchdown winning way.

4-1 for the blodgy little bitches. But who'd have thought that Chaos can play an awesome passing game ?  :awesome_for_real:

Sorry if I appeared to be more tha  a little bit passive-aggressive the whole game, but it is REALLY frustrating if you can't do shit against your opponents team the whole game.

The game went as expected, my beastman could not really touch the Amazons because ALL of them seemed to have dodge/block. I tried to get tome spp on my Mino and I think he managed ONE single injury (broke the back of an amazon or something, +1 to further injury rolls I think) and thats all she wrote.

Don't remember many details of the game except for one single play that worked exactly as I intended. I recieved the kick off, caged up, Comstar proceeded to pummel his way into my cage. I have one free beastman in his half (from a failed crowd surfing attempt I think). There are 2 or 3 Amazons blocking the pass, making it a 6+ roll. I manage to tackle 1 of them and to push another out of the way (more or less. FUCK sidestep  :why_so_serious: ). Then my Lvl1 0spp BEASTMAN (Agi3) goes for the 5+ pass. I roll a 1. Use up a reroll. PERFECT launch. 2nd beastman doozing in the backfield actually catches the ball and strolls down the pitch. Turnover. Comstar manages (easily) to break 2 players out of my tackle zones. 1 player makes 2 gfis to mark my single beastman. 2nd player fails the gfi (I think). Turnover. Aforementioned beastman calculates the odds of either blitzing the single  Amazon and decides against it, instead he makes the 3+ dodge roll and runs into the endzone. TOUCHDOWN.

That one play was worth the price of admission of being totally outclassed and humiliated by a well skilled  team.

Comstar did not play bad as well.

The bastard.

 :heart: :awesome_for_real: :heart:

I tried to kill that woman, I really really tried. Multiple times.  :grin:

The part that sucks is that the game HAS to be played today, or... what? Who's gonna take the loss? I got no word from any couch about availability or unavailability yet.

Coin toss!

We should be doing it this morning now that Celar is back in town.  When ever he messages me, we can probably start it.

Yeah we both spent some time out of town, so I don't know who you would blame!  But not to worry, we should have something going shortly...

 :awesome_for_real: :awesome_for_real: :awesome_for_real: :awesome_for_real: :awesome_for_real:

Game over:  Hippies 2, Elvers 1.  Replay uploaded.

.....Just watch the replay.  Nuffle enjoyed kicking us both in the balls the ENTIRE game.  Comedy all around for two elven teams.  Came complete with my annual dead elf in the first game as well (though it was a loner, which is why I let him die).

Oh, and thats it for Game Day 1.  Everybody can start Day 2 as soon as Falc validates the match.

Final game of the day was won by the Hippies, 2-1 over the Elvers.  In a word, ridiculous.  I spent most of the first half distracted by wives and in-laws and searching for printer paper and then printer toner (both of which were causing dialogs to surface and minimize my game).  And phone calls and chats from other friends and family.  Excuses excuses! :oh_i_see:

I took the Chef and stole all the Hippie rerolls in the first half (save a leader).  The Hippies very first block was a double-skull into a double-both down, which set the tone for the game.  This did not slow them down any, as they managed a quick 2-turn score and got a fresh reroll on the kickoff event.  My guys farted around, mostly doing nothing and leaving the ball carrier out in the open, waiting for the Hippies to kill themselves (one loner obliged on a failed dodge!)  The ball was popped out to a lineman only one reroll-less GFI from the end zone.  Of course, this failed, and the ball bounced out of the end zone and was deposited at the feet of my thrower.  I failed a block, leaving myself open to attack, but a 5 AGI elf failed his dodge and saved me.  This left me one GFI from the end zone, which of course I failed and failed again on the reroll.  The Hippies scooped up the ball in Turn 8 and had to choose between a desperation pass and just holding the ball in the end zone and hoping I failed my rolls.  Fate was tempted and answered with an Interception, which I promptly ran in for a TD.  The ensuing halftime kickoff had all 4 of my KOed guys wake up.  That is the kind of luck the Hippies were dealing with all game!

I gave up a defensive TD early in the second half due to a revenge Interception.  I had a much tighter march down the field on my second possession, keeping the ball caged tightly and shifting around the field, benefiting greatly from some failed Leaps and Dodges.  At turn 14, I attempted to hand off to a player 2 GFIs from a TD, but had to waste my reroll on the handoff.  I decided to play it "safe" and stop short, and was promptly beat down on the goal line.  The ball flitted back and forth (at one point my ball carrier failed a GFI and the UI didn't leave me time to reroll), and was eventually scattered to midfield on Turn 16... in range of my thrower.  The LP was an inaccurate lob that bounced into a crowd at the goal line, there were rolls for FOUR ELVERS and one Hippy as it bounced around, finally falling to the turf and ending the game.

It must have been very frustrating for Teleku, but luckily the bad luck ended up pounding us both.  I was 4/13 on catches, 4/7 on GFI.  He was 15/23 on dodges and 3/6 on Take Root (his tree was a non-factor), in addition to the earlier antics.  My Passer and Blitzer gained a skill, so things are looking up!

Oh yes, and my MVP went to my 1 surviving loner elf, who was also badly injured during the game.   :oh_i_see:

Game Day #2 starting in a few hours. Just wake up, elaborating stats and shit in a short while. Thanks everyone for a great, smooth Day #1.

Happy to play you in 2 hours Falc  :awesome_for_real: