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Pre-Season 5 Drilling and Manliness - Round 4 of 6

Half way stage, current standings...

1	Emporers of the Pitch	:drill: :drill: :drill:
2	Ermine Vermin	:drill: :drill: :drill:
3	Pound Pound Mantrain	:drill: :drill: (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/318368/halfd%26m.gif)
4	Calidor Fancypants	:drill: :drill:
5	Sissyfaced Nancies	:drill: :drill:
6	Chanson Dada	:drill: :drill:
7	Lesser Immortals	:drill: :drill:
8	Going Forth By Day	:drill: :drill:
9	Fianna Chulain	:drill: :drill:
10	Howls and Bones	:drill: (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/318368/halfd%26m.gif)
11	Bridgeburners	:drill: (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/318368/halfd%26m.gif)
12	Aery Faery's (sic)	:drill: (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/318368/halfd%26m.gif)
13	Pro Elves for Hoes	:drill: (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/318368/halfd%26m.gif)
14	Kenosha Maroons	:drill: (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/318368/halfd%26m.gif)
15	Midnight Bleat Train	:drill:
16	Festering Wounds	:drill: :drillf:
17	Stir Fry	:drill:
18	Sons of the West	:drill:
19	Blue Line	:drill:
20	The Fantasticks	:drill: :drillf:
21	Wrong Games	(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/318368/halfd%26m.gif)
22	Court of the Moon	(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/318368/halfd%26m.gif)
23	SPHINX

Festering Wounds and The Fantasticks still need to play their round 3 match, for the purposes of pairing round 4 they are treated as having both won. 'something crazy' haven't been seen for a fortnight, so I'm considering their matches to be BYEs at this point.

So, here are your round 4 fixtures....

:drill:	:drill:	:drill:
Emporers of the Pitch	2 - 1	Ermine Vermin
Pound Pound Mantrain	0 - 2	Fianna Chulain
Calidor Fancypants	0 - 1	Lesser Immortals
Festering Wounds	0 - 1	Chanson Dada
Sissyfaced Nancies	1 - 5	Pro Elves for Hoes
The Fantasticks	0 - 1	Going Forth By Day
Howls and Bones	0 - 2	Bridgeburners
Kenosha Maroons	~vs~	Stir Fry
Aery Faery's (sic)	~vs~	Wrong Games
Blue Line	2 - 0	Sons of the West
Midnight Bleat Train	2 - 1	SPHINX
Court of the Moon		BYE
:drill:	:drill:	:drill:

TO BE PLAYED BY 1st SEPTEMBER 00:01 GMT+2

WTF, I don't even...



Who Is <insert team>?!

Fuck, I don't want to play Ingmar!  :ye_gods:

At least scheduling will be easy.

Comstar, let me know when you want to steamroll my Fail Elves.

Check your PM. I hope we can play a bit early, so afterwards I can go pick up Deus Ex.

Sky, whenyawannaplay?

I'm leaving town on Saturday and my schedule prior to that is kind of messy, but I am hoping we can figure out a time before I go, since I will then be largely computerless for the next two weeks, and consequently unable to play any Blood Bowl.

Tonight (Wednesday) or Friday evening seem like the two best windows for me. I am PST. Let me know if either of those work -- I will also be on Steam at various hours, so we might be able to arrange something that way.

There can be only one!   :drill:

Comstar and I just got our game done. Pretty much a repeat of my last game, in that my elves refuse to do anything productive for most of the game. Except for a single fortuitous turn, they pretty much failed at whatever they tried:

1+ catch with catch skill - 1 1 = fail
1+ dodges with dodge - 1 1 = fail
Blocks that only need something other than a skull to come up - skull = fail

Comstar played well, not that there was a whole lot I could do to stop him, especially when he's allowed to dodge at will and I am not.

Edit: Oh yeah, a simple GFI - 1 = dead thrower
And only 1 KO roll succeeded the whole game, after I bought an ale.

Sissyfaced Nancies 1 ~vs~  Pro Elves for Hoes 5

The lower skilled team seemingly couldn't do ANYTHING right. A GFI ended in a death. Simple passes are flubbed. The Bloodwiser Babes never woke anyone up. Jordell Freshbrezze can't throw the ball, pick up the ball, hit the ball or do anything useful. I think I failed one roll (A pass) and everything else worked when I needed it. Having 4 rerolls to 1 also helped. Princess Luna, my AG 5 Dodging Leaping Catching Nerves of Steel star player, got 4 TD's out of 5, and gained block.

Elf Bullshit wins the day.

I'm still a elf down for my next game, but at least I have 11 players now.

Alright lamaros. Come take you whuppin

I'll be home in about an hour then free for a fair while if you're about.

Yep. Just nab me on Steam

At least you got a game to play.

Let's shoot for Friday night, I'm EDT and generally available for gaming after 10pm.

The number of 1s I'm rolling is  :ye_gods:

Honest to god, we're talking four and five rolls at a stretch. 1s.

You should check my replay - I can't imagine what Comstar was feeling, seeing all those gifts (granted, his team and play with elves is better anyway, but still).

I have never, ever seen anything like that. I've never been truly frustrated by my rolls but it finally happened. It's the first time I've ever felt like there were bugs in the game's dice roller.

Overall, 25% of my rolls were 1s. That includes rerolls. This is pretty high. But the insane thing is that I had a stretch where 9 of 12 rolls were 1s. That's statistically improbable.

Lesser Immortals v The Number 1 ended in a win for the Immortals.

The Fancypants rolled 9 1s from 12 during the middle of the game. A bizzare stretch. They rolled double 1s on 5 occasions.

A rotter was killed. I just stalled all day long and took it 1-0 in my final turn.

Aw, I'm sure Ingmar would play you TOO.

Hey if Ingmar wants to, I'd be up for playing him. As I understand it he's also been shorted a game with a de facto "Something Crazy" bye the previous week.
So yeah, Ingmar, let me know.

-G

Maybe we could also put Lamaros (who got skipped in the 2nd week) up against whoever gets next week's bye (if Lamaros is willing to play two games in a week).

Hmm... 470k inducements and 160k in the treasury.

Rat Ogres, Chefs, Wizards, so many options....

I don't think there's any rule about playing outside games during this, since it's all still the feeder league, so sure.

Theoretically, I could still play my game against Sjofn  :grin:

Not just theoretically, that is what you should do, this is why you have a :drillf: above.

The only reason my goblins have been not playing extra games is my TV is already too damn high and playing without bribes is getting really annoying. 

Level up faster, you slacker other teams!

I am resigned to my overvaluedness. Stupid expensive mummies.

Whether or not it counts for anything, I thought I'd report it here that Ingmar's Going Forth By Day met my Court of the Moon on the bloodbowl pitch to determine the supremacy between the cycles of the sun and the moon -- and it resolved in a 1-1 tie.

I'd love to catch up with your TV value Proudft, however my last 2 games against Norse teams have lost me 500 points in TV!! They certainly got the name right with this game.

Pound Pound Mantrain 0 - 2 Fianna Chulain

Damned elves replaced the ball with a live pig! Could barely hold onto the thing in the first half, and didn't even manage to make it out of my side of the pitch in the second.  :argh:

Fianna Chulain 2 - 0 Pound Pound Mantrain.

Megrim won the toss and elected to kick. The ball goes high and is easily caught by my thrower who finds himself closer than he'd like to the line of scrimmage. He scrambles back to safety while the elves on the line push the sweaty manlings away. A handful of brave Elves run forwards between the outstretched arms of the humans ready to receive a pass. The Norse respond in their usual, direct manner and an elf hits the floor before the Yehtee decides it wants part of the action and trips over itself trying to devour a second Elf. The Elves push forwards again and Caractacus sees a good target for a pass but fumbles the ball. The Norse try to capitalise on this (not very) rare display of Elvish ineptitude but are so excited at the prospect of maybe getting to touch the ball that one of them overextends on a blitz and ends up planting himself face first in the pitch. The Elves push the ball out of the scrum using the head of a handy Norseman and then clear away a couple of other markers before Caractacus calmly scoops the ball and throws it (accurately this time) to Horsa who is clear down pitch. Horsa walks in the first score on turn 3 and there's now a game on.

For the second drive, the ball is kicked very deep into the Norse half and the Norse busy themselves with bringing down the slight numerical superiority of the Elves.Two pointy-eared salad-munchers are wheeled off the pitch from the initial round of blocks but Mab the Wardancer takes down a Norseman in turn to keep things equal. The Norse cage up as they generally do and the Elves start to try and surround them. The Yehtee bodyslams my catcher but the Norse are still hemmed in by angry fairies. I intended my Wardancer to make a leap and blitz but I forgot to click Blitz before doing the pathing for her and she ended up wasting her move. The Norse grind down the pitch and the Yehtee surfs a Line-Elf off the pitch and then a Norseman stuns himself trying to dodge away to help with the scrum. This time I get the Wardancer into the fray but she only manages a push. I move a couple of unengaged Elves into the way of the human with the ball and hope that he can't break through. The Norse push a Line-Elf over but Mab is too slippery for the Yehtee and he falls over trying to blitz her down. This time Mab manages to get the ball carrier down, he goes flying off the pitch while the fans throw the ball back on not far from where it went out of bounds. I try and get an Elf to it but he trips over trying to dodge away. In the last turn of the half, the Norse surf two more Elves off the pitch (both just stunned by the crowd) but fail to pick up the ball and the whistle blows for a 1-0 Elvish lead at half time.

Only nine players from each team climb out of the dugouts for the second half. Again the kick is very long and again, the Norse start by pushing Elves around - although not with very much success. Once again the Norse prove to be bad at picking up the ball so I put some pressure on them by pouring a lot of players into their half. Focused by the fierce looking Elves bearing down on them, the Humans grab the ball and manage to successfully hand it off. Immediately Mab leaps in and mugs him, scattering the ball into a heavily contested area of the pitch. Hengist the catcher picks it up and starts to wish he had a few more friendly bodies close by. The Norse take him down with ease and the ball scatters around three different Elven players who all fail to catch it, mostly due to the Disturbing Presence of the Yehtee. The Norse push over a couple more Elves then once again fail to pick the ball up. By now there's a big scrum of players around it and no-one really likes the idea of reaching in and trying to grab it. Mab pushes a Norseman into the ball in an attempt to knock it clear but it bounces into the hands of a Line-Elf who has already thrown a block this turn. Some space is made but there's neither the room nor the bodies available to make a proper cage. As expected the Norse push the ball carrier over again and also take down a couple more while they are at it. They try the same trick as the Elves, using the face of a nearby Elf to bat the ball clear. The ball bounces crazily about for a while slipping through the grasp of three different Norsemen before coming to rest pretty much where it started. A Line Elf gets the ball after a flying Elf lands on it and is then promptly mugged in turn. The Norse manage to clear a bit of space and finally a Werewolf grabs the ball and a cage forms around him. The Elves are emboldened and start to chip away at the cage, scoring the first actual injury of the match when a Lineman has his ribs broken. The Apothecary sorts him out however and he's fine after a bit of a lie down. The Norse start to push forwards and are in the centre of the pitch again when a heroic block from a Line-ELf takes down the Werewolf and scatters the ball. Hengist the catcher grabs it and carries it out of the melee. Unfortunately for him, the Yehtee can reach him and it contemptuously bats him aside, scoring the second injury of the game in the process. An Elf grabs the ball and, despite the nearby Yehtee, throws it perfectly to a Line-Elf stood nearby. Unfortunately, the second Elf doesn't manage to keep his eyes on the ball and fluffs the catch. The Norse once again grab the ball but again, fail to throw it accurately. The ball bounces around before landing in the hands of Vercingetorix who promptly dodges away from his markers and makes two GfI rolls to score the second Elven TD on the last turn of the game.

I earned enough gold to replace the missing Wardancer that Ruvaldt killed and two Elves ranked up - Horsa the Catcher is now Agi 5 and Vercingetorix learned to Dodge.

I should be back home by 10ish your time, maybe a bit later, will look for you on Steam then.

Blue line 2 - 0 Sons of the West

Early 1st half concession by the Sons of the West. I believe Hoax just isn't that into his team, and they took a few injuries early. Eh, lifes to short to play games you dont wanna play, so I believe we are both in LOL now as I type this.

1 beastman leveled to 3 for me, took sure hands.

I agree, but I also think that if someone doesn't want to play the game then they shouldn't sign up.

Who is Carnifex on f13? I haven't been able to find him on Steam and I want to give him a PM.

Chanson Dada squeak out a 1-0 win over Festering Wounds with a final turn pickup-handoff-GFI TD.

Kind of a weird game. Sky's Necro squad took a fairly risk-positive approach to the game, with lots of 1d blocks and Dodging about, but their huge Block and Dodge advantage made this a pretty good idea. The Chaos team could barely get anyone on the ground for most of the first half, though they managed to break their ball carrier free for an end-run around the line -- getting him free and clear only to run up against two straight turns of double-skull reroll double-skull (some of which were skull/pows, but see previous lack of Block.) In the end Sky was able to force the beastman into a reroll-less dodge towards the endzone, which he failed miserably.

The risky approach didn't work quite as well for the Necros in the second half -- they tried a very elfy drive, using werewolves as receivers, but the long pass attempt from the ghoul was fumbled and one of the werewolves ended up bloody for his troubles and will miss the next game. After a whole lot of standing-around-the-ball-unwilling-to-try-a-pickup from both teams, the Chaos squad eventually got a decent bounce and were able to gain possession, slowly moving upfield. The skulls made a brief reappearance, however, turning another relatively straightforward drive into a desperate dash for the endzone -- which the Necros stopped with a dodgerrific mark-and-blitz from the remaining werewolf. Unfortunately the same wolf overextended trying to pick up the ball, falling over and giving the Dadaists one final shot at victory. A pickup, handoff, and GFI later, and Nuffle blessed them with the win.

Picabia! picked up his second MVP and so I finally have a Chaos Warrior with Block. The team also christened their designated ball carrier, with the first level 3 Beastman picking up Sure Hands.

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Unfortunately it seems likely I will miss the next round (if there is a next round -- how long is this going for?), though if this week extends long enough I might make it back in time for the end of the next one.

[F13] Bridgeburners 2 - Howls and Bones 0

This wasn't as bad a romp as the score appears. I inflicted plenty of injuries, but continuously shot myself in the foot by being unable to pick up or pass the ball even on easy opportunities. I could have had a touchdown late in the 2nd half, but went for a nothing 2D block and ended up with a both down result on a guy without block. I still had the opportunity to score with a ghoul on the last turn, but he failed the pickup roll. Carnifex played a good game, despite not really being able to get many armor breaks.

I leveled a werewolf and ghoul to 2 and got a 2nd flesh golem afterwards. I think that 2nd big guy will help.

Emperors of the Pitch  2
Ermine Vermin             1

Oh god I hate tackle.

The Emperors of the Pitch 2 - 1 Ermine Vermin

The only Humans in the tournament continue to do their people proud, winning a 2 - 1 grind against the worthy Ermine Vermin.  The first half began with a bang as the Vermin scored a daring touchdown on their third turn, and I took over after.  Though there were some frightening moments on my way to the endzone, Maximinus Thrax trundled up the pitch to score in the final round of the half after following a cage nearly the entirety of the field.

The first pair of turns of the second half were quite exciting.  Maximinus Thrax, my thrower, failed a sure hands pick-up and Eldaec strode across my territory to claim the ball with his star gutter runner, but after some blitzing and dodging I was able to wrest control of the ball away from the Vermin and succeed on a pick-up.  Through the course of the half, in which I ground down the pitch, the Vermin were mostly undone by several injuries and kos, which Skaven are renowned for.  At the end I handed off the ball to a catcher, stalled for two rounds, and walked in for the second TD.  The last round was taken up by the Vermin punching my players.

Good match.  The dice were pretty even.  I won because I made Eldaec roll a lot, and roll into unfavorable conditions, and my two tackling blitzers were the key to that, as Eldaec alluded to.  Though Eldaec didn't do a lot of blocking, he still permanently injured two of my linemen, one of which is rather important to my team, and both will be absent from my next game.

4 matches left in this round, plus I think we still need a Wounds vs Sticks result from round 3.

How is scheduling going guys?

I will be playing ONE of my matches tonight, one way or the other. I'd rather it be with Sky (you can message me even if I'm in another game, Sky, I won't mind!) but worst case I can get my elves killed versus Ingmar's khemri instead. :P

Khemri win a horrifyingly violent game 1-0. Two players died and were saved this game (a blitzer saved by an apothecary and a blitz-ra saved by regen.) It rained for the whole first half, and snowed for the whole 2nd. The rain plus a wizard stopped the khemri drive in the first half, but eventually in the 2nd half a thro-ra managed to pick up the ball and run it in with 2 elves left on the pitch.

The thro-ra got the ball near my end zone because I decided to gamble, which didn't pay off. Basically, I had three dudes, so I wasn't going to be punching my way out of the khemri swarm, so I let them shove my ball carrier out of bounds in the hopes the ball would get thrown back in someplace in their half. Alas, it was not to be.


EDIT: Oh, and one of my blitzers and one of my linemen (I think) will be missing my next game, which hopefully will be against Sky.

Also: I sux @ elf.

3+1 games left, hopefully these are all scheduled tonight so we can let everyone start round 5 some time tomorrow.

Sorry, wasn't feeling up to an hour commitment on a Monday night :) Jumped into Just Cause 2 for a quick bit of the ultraviolence and while racing a sports car, I flipped it near the end of the race. Grabbed the nearest car to finish the race and ended up in a compact station wagon, which ran off the road and I got stuck in it and couldn't climb out. I can take a hint, turned off the computer and played guitar for a while.

I should have time tonight and tomorrow night, the old battleaxe works late both nights.

I'm going to be in the US from Thursday and for the next three weeks or so. I will have internet access but not sure if the father-in-law's PC will run Bloodbowl. If I can't get the game to run then I'll post and concede any games so as not to hold the rest of the league up.

Drop in on a fellow f13er and use their pc  :drill:

Midnight Bleat Train 2 - 1 over S.P.H.I.N.X. (SPHINX!)

Just your typical Khemri game... I was 6/9 on dodges (including a TG dodge) but could not stave off a final dramatic goat TD from the ashes.  My only regret is not getting the chance to use my skele-catchers!

Other stat of note was the Khemri's astounding 66% success rate on blocking and 19 armor breaks... which only resulted in 2 injuries and 3 KOs.  The goats managed 4 casualties (including a TG death!) on half as many breaks.  DECAY!  :uhrr:

The first half was a solid goat drive that had me mostly pulled out of position upfield.  The second half was a good old fashioned Khemri beat down, aided by not one but TWO Minotaur failed GFIs.  In Turn 14, with pretty much every single goat stunned on the field, I could have stalled a turn but was scared of a wizard bolt so I ran it in.  In the end it came down to a ridiculous goat dodge/short pass/catch for the win.

I'm going to make the draw early thus evening so that Iain has a chance to play round 5.

If any of the remaining 3 matches are likely to happen before the deadline, let me know.

avaia and I are re-re-rescheduled for tonight.

This is pretty much right!  I only have one goat missing his next game, which is a Christmas miracle given how many times my AV of 8 was paper (kind of like last round...but I digress).  Got a couple more guys block, and the closest thing I have to a vet got +1 MV to go with his block, lucky me.  Now if he'll only last long enough to get strip ball...

Stir-frying Nurgles win over Kenosha Marooning Goblins 1-0.  Nurgle are sort of weird for Goblins to play - you can scamper around fairly freely but all the various goblin-passing hijinxs are Disturbing Presenced out of the game.  This was definitely winnable, though, in another world where my chainsaw guy lasted more than one turn and I didn't GFI without a reroll. 

Stir Fry 1, Kenosha (not Wauwautosa) Maroons 0.  Lot of stupid in this match, although my beast carried the ball for a bit at the end until a failed (questionable) GFI.

Ezrast and I got out game played out - sorry for the delay, had a really busy week.

Aery Faery's 3 - Wrong Games 2

Match was dominated by sweltering heat after the initial kick off that lasted the entire match after the first score. I defended doggedly for 4 turns and though I popped the ball free a couple of times I was unable to do anything with it and Ezrast opened the scoring on turn 5, then the sweltering heat kicked in and I found my near full team facing only 6 players for Ezrast meaning I got an easy reply in turn 8 to go in half time at 1-1.

Second half the weather stayed the same and again I outnumbered ezrast on the kickoff leading to a 2 turn touchdown to take the lead. Ezrast had better luck on the next play but his ball handling vamp suffered a bloodlust and though it was the same play he was going to attempt anyway a fumbled catch let me scoop up the ball and throw it to the far side of the pitch and run away from any cover to score my third touchdown on turn 14.

Ezrast managed a reply on the last turn of the game when I misjudged my cover but the heat had taken it's toll on the vamp's in this match and strongly influenced the outcome much more than any play on my part I feel.

Ezrast said he would sort out the upload since BBmanager crashed as I exited Bloodbowl.

Don't know if it counts at this point, but Ulysees and I got our belated game in. 3-2 to Aery Faery's as I continue to struggle with figuring out what Vampires are supposed to do.

Ulysees elected to start off kicking, and despite a slip-up or two involving Strip Ball I managed to work a Vampire up the field, through the elven screen, and score on turn 6. This left the Faery's with three turns to score, and after rolling five ones out of eleven Sweltering Heat rolls I had pretty much no defense against the elves' plays and the score was easily tied 1-1.

The Sweltering Heat rolls were much more even in the second half, and in some cases helped me make up for having hurt players, but Bloodlust and my lack of a bench made it very difficult to form any sort of defense against the Aery Wardancers. The Faery's secured the game with two more TDs, though I was able to make a consolation TD in the last two turns of the game thanks to a High Kick and some good rolls.