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Scores and Standings after Game Day #6



Scores:

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Standings (6 played out of 7):


Battletech Division

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Cthulhu Division

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Stormbringer Division

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Twilight 2000 Division

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Player stats:

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Team stats:

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Let's go with the last day of Regular Season! Next week, Playoffs/Failoffs  :heart:

I...I already played Avaia?

Yes... you did?

Oh sure, update the OP with the correct picture  :oh_i_see: :why_so_serious:

I'm not sure even if I win and avaia loses that I can make the playoffs.  :?

I love that my RAT OGRE is the league's top interceptor.

Megrim, when is good for you to play our game?

You're next, Drogg!   :drill:

When is good for you?  This weekend would be great for me; I'm off all the time.

Celar, steam is being useless. Message me when you can play our decider!

Your Sunday, my Monday should be good, if you're around then.

Falc catch me on steam when you want to play. Last time I tried to get you, you were inside the deeply addictice skyrim. hopefully it will randomly crash and you will see my messages.

Carnifex, we're the same time zone but opposite work shifts I think - and I'm out Sunday.

Still in the hospital.  MIGHT be home on Tues. if everything goes well with the angiogram.

Beardstorm! ensures a spot in the playoffs with a 1-0 victory over the Cripplers. The weather played a big role in this game as it was snowing for 31/32 turns, and the lizards fell down on GFIs at least 3 times. (I managed to make my one really important one.)

Pretty bloodless game, I think there were only two injuries, one to a skink on a failed dodge and one badly hurt to a saurus.


EDIT: I think this clinches first place for me due to head to head being the first tiebreaker?

Yep.

Beardstorm! 1-0 Carnifex's Cripplers, making the playoff race for the division at little less interesting.  Me and Ingmar both make it to the playoffs, as does the winner between Celer and Comstar.  Then it all depends of Sjofn, if she wins, she makes the playoffs, if she loses Celer and Comstar both make it.  So I believe it goes:

1. Ingmar
2. Carnifex27
3. Winner of Celer v. Comstar
4. Sjofn or loser of Celer v. Comstar

I think if Celer loses Sjofn is in regardless as she beat him head to head.

Like a drum.

The Chemical Elvers chose to accept a bid into the Failoffs, and threw their game 5-0 against Comstar's Cripplers.  The elves had nothing but bad luck, as they had at least 3 turnovers due to failed dodges (with reroll) and were only 2/6 picking up the ball.  But the key stat would be the number of times the elves left their ball carrier uncovered and open to ladyblitzes; namely, too damn many!

You are correct good sir and madam, all apologies. Now that the critical matches have been played, it should be:

1. Ingmar
2. Carnifex27
3. Comstar
4. Sjofn

edit: updated data

NEARLY!

That game....did not go as expected. The result was a complete surprise to me.

F13 Catfighters | 5 - 0 | The Chemical Elvers

A 5-0 whitewash! 3 Amazons level up- my Star Thrower, a Level 4 catcher and my +1ST Blitzer of doom. One High Elf Linesman gains a skill. 2 badly hurt Elves and 1 badly hurt Amazon gives me a full strength skilled up team to go to the playoffs.

Celar seemed distracted by out of game events, with several turnovers in the first half resulting when he ran out of time. With no tackle at all, and a shortfall in guard, the Elves couldn't use their Agility advantage, and when they tried to dodge, only succeeded when it didn't count. In the mean time the Amazons were able to go after the ball carrier with ease, often with a +1ST Blitzer when the ball or ball carrier was left strangely alone, dodging away from the Elves whenever they wanted.

It didn't help that one of the ST 4 High Elves was KO'ed for most of the game, though it was not till the last touchdown that the Amazons outnumbered the Elves on the pitch. Even pouring rain couldn't stop the Amazons from picking up the ball when the Elves could not. A complete contrast to my previous games all season, I was finally able to show off the skills and luck of nuffle like I haven't been able to since season 3. Who am I playing in the playoffs now that I've finally found some form?


What should I get my +1ST Blodge Dodge Mighty Blow Sidestep Tackling -1MV star blitzer? Frenzy? Juggernaut? Guard?

Frenzy.

God, don't you have enough guard?

NO SUCH THING

Okay, well, don't hurry home on my account! I'm busy Tuesday evening in any case, but will keep an eye out on Steam.

I hope Falconner can approve the matches so I can decide. The waiting to decide is killing me, though I am thinking I'll get Frenzy - it's a skill my team lacks quite badly.

My first (and probably last) level 5 player awaits a skillup (my star runner Nar.)

I'll approve the games as soon as we'll have the results of this poll.

Do you think that Comstar mangles everyone's name:

- for he's old and confused, and played too many boardgames and now his head is full of numbers, not letters.
- for he loves, you know... Henry Gondorff style (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfB-ZG_nvbo), to subtly irritate the opposition. All opposition. Everyone's an opponent. Or will some day.

Everyone mangles MY name, so I don't even notice when other people's names are mangled. Sfojn is the most common, I think.  :awesome_for_real:

heh, I've been carnfiex27 enough places I made an email account for it

As I remember it, Comstar has a legit excuse to misspell names so I've always let it slide.

The Ex-Presidents 2 - 1 Hunqua Hunqua Burninluv

Drogg had some inducements and took Sigli, a good choice as I figure he was expecting to have some bench trouble with my claw/mb guys on the field.  Drogg chose to receive and knocked my beastmen around a bit, and left me few opportunities to claw up his lizards, but after his second turn he grabbed the ball and left himself open to a surprise blitz by Franklin Pierce.  By my fourth turn I had the ball in my possession and was lumbering up the field, but Drogg managed to make some fairly serious hits on the Ex-Presidents and gave Thomas Jefferson a lingering knee injury.  I scored, and Drogg had two turns to retort, but wasn't able to put together a drive.

Drogg kicked to me in the second half, but I was down three players due to more KOs than I'm used to and a casualty.  The ball went off the field so I gave it to Abe Lincoln, my STR 5 blodging chaos warrior.  It looked like I was going to have trouble moving the ball, but maanged to KO two HHB members and I moved a little farther to the side than I think Drogg was anticipating, and moved the ball upfield.  After a little work I was able to score my second TD.  I kicked off to Drogg again and was severely short-handed as none of my KOs were coming back and I had two casualties.  I got a blitz kickoff event, but it really didn't do anything; Drogg scored a TD after a pass and a hand-off.  Drogg kicked off to me and I snatched up the ball and caged up at the LoS until the end of the game, ending the game 2-1.

It was a good game, but it reminded me why I hate playing against lizards: it takes a lot of work to get 2-die rolls on blocks, especially when they have guard, and they are prone to beating the hell out of you if they make contact.  I'm lucky only Thomas Jefferson got wounded, and he'll be paying for it for the rest of his career.  Drogg managed to score the first TD against the Ex-Presidents since game day 2, and this was one of the toughest matches I've played this season.  That said:

Woooohoooooo!!  Perfect regular season, 7-0-0!!!!!  Go Chaos!!  Even if I get knocked out in the first round of the playoffs I'll be happy with this achievement.

I'm looking forward to our rematch, Sjofn.   :drill:

It's sad, half my team will die to proudft, the other half will be crushed by Millard Filmore. It was a good run, Mutiny!  :why_so_serious:


Still, considering everyone went "Sjofn is going to dieeee" at the beginning of the season, I can't be too disappointed with this season.  :drillf:

Bah, I never said you were going to die.  I said that you were a great ringer.  Actually, I would have predicted you to make the playoffs in Stormbringer or Cthulu divisions; I just thought Battletech looked tough for a Norse team.  I stand corrected, however.

Also, Millard Fillmore and Truman's claws are useless against you!   :cry2:

A perfect season is very very impressive, what is also impressive is you have the tightest defence, only 2TD's against. Smart money on you to make the final tbh.

Well, I essentially won the games I had a chance in (I am good at punching elves and Paelos isn't dangerous ... yet), and had awesome Norse bullshit versus Ingmar.  :why_so_serious:  It actually helped, I think, that the entire division is/was/whatever good, so I actually stayed in the running even though I lost to both Carnifex and Comstar. And possibly proudft (I am shooting for a tie  :ye_gods:).

And yes, I do enjoy that most of my team gets to go "lol what claw." WHY they get to do that, we'll ... just ignore.

ben.skelly is who?

I can go today any time, I think. We're doing Xmas tree shortly but after that I'm totally open.

Ben.skelly is Cancklebiter.

Where's IainC?

COME TO YOUR DOOM CANKLEBITER

Hey there Bashing Bann,

I'm in GMT +9 hell so weekends are the best... sadly I'm on holidays this weekend so internet access will be sporadic but I can try Sunday night sometime/(Your Sunday morning) otherwise I'll wake up early or stay up ridiculously late for the game.

Let me know!  :awesome_for_real:

He's usually in the UK.


EDIT: I lied, he's in Germany or something. Fucking Europe.

That's going to make things tougher then.

Yeah I played him at like 1pm my time or so. Being an unemployed stagehand has its perks, I guess.

Well you certainly helped bring the curtain down... on his playoff chances.

/sunglasses  :awesome_for_real:

I'm not looking forward to playing Bann with the most kills and one of the biggest bashers in the league  :ye_gods:

I'm in Germany (GMT+1). Let me know when would be a good time for you to play Paelos. I work office hours and am usually around after 7pm or so my time and all day on weekends.

Even after my win against him, Bann's team seriously scares the bajeezus out of me.

:awesome_for_real:

 :heartbreak:

I'm GMT -5. I think 7PM your time on Saturday would work best since that's 1PM my time. Otherwise I'm at work.

Getting my procedure done tommorow morning.  If all goes well I'll be home Wed. but I probably won't be able to play until the weekend.

So, can somebody tell me who Krummi is on Steam/F13?

Love Truncheon

Weekend should be fine. Hope everything goes well!

Saturday evening is out for me as I'll be at a Rammstein concert. I can play earlier in the day (before around 3-4 my time) or I can play Sunday.

Falc- at some point can I get your attention on Steam?

Sunday it is. I don't play Bloodbowl before noon if I can help it. 7PM your time on Sunday.

Zellar Dwellerz and Insatiable finishes at two apiece.

Haem went 2-0 up early, not giving me much of a chance to set anything up due to his GR pressure. On top of that, attrition was compounding the game, but luckily my double Apothecaries, Babe, and two instances of Regeneration kept me in it all the way until the end (took something like five injuries and eight KOs all-up). I also scored a lucky break by charting one of Haem's Guard rats early on. Conversely, multiple MB blitzes and fouls against his AV6 GR did nothing but stun repeatedly. Grr.

The second half saw a reversal of momentum, with the rats attempting some (questionable) passing plays to try and secure their lead. However, a fumbled pass in the the first instance and a well-aimed Lightning Bolt in the second put a stop to both of these, letting Vampires back into the game - finishing with a 2-2 tie.

Sorry i haven't been in touch with my opponent. Ezrast, I should be able to play any time this weekend, so let me know when is a good time for you.

Oh Haem, you were so close to the playoffs!

Only Falc and Andy left to play who can influence the playoffs in our group. The thing on the line is who will come in the top three, as I managed to pick up a win over the nurgle. Andy needs to win. If he loses he will come third, while a draw will see him in second place.

It could have been worse for Avaia, after some bullshit GR play and so forth, but I failed a 3+ pass (w/ reroll) to make it 2-0 in the first, then couldn't hold off the charge of Nurgle after some typically hilarious GR action (dogeing through his lines with my dauntless runner, taking down the carrier with wrestle, then leaping over with the block guy to pick up the loose ball).

In the final couple of turns it could have been either 3-1 or 2-2, but I tried to level a linerat and failed, and Avaia just couldn't clear enough rats away to get the ball free.

I was lucky with the armor rolls (a massive 11 from 23) and Avaia was unable to hit me hard at all, so I took no injuries all game!


Llyse: My star GR scored again and got MVP, pushing him to 95SP and reclaiming the title as most experienced rat in the league. Calvin needs to lift!

Edit: An undefeated regular season, a first for me, which is pretty nice. Now to see who the playoff will be against. (Elves or Norse, either is bad luck).

Myself and Kailias have been missing each other steam, and I'm realising I don't have much time to play this.

Available about 10-4 GMT tomorrow, and possibly late GMT on Monday.

Might be a dead rubber anyhow.

I blame you.  :awesome_for_real: I bought a goddamn thrower who has been in two games, made one successful fucking pass and has been useless as tits on a bull in every other instance. Statistically, having a thrower is a good thing, but apparently he fucks my mojo. He was so bad last night he tried a risky pass (I think it was a 4+ but with a path clear of interceptors), fumbled it and then CAUGHT the goddamn bounce back. His initial fuckup made me decide to play him conservatively the next time he had a chance to throw and he got blitzed and dropped the ball to the guy who would later make the tying TD.

Skaven throwers are curses to my team.

On a good note, the team did actually perform pretty well in the first half, with lots of block and guard and such. The Failoffs should be a positive experience for me. There was one chain of good then horrible dice results in multiple turns at the start of the second half that let Megrim score too quickly that probably fucked me as much as the thrower.

Gents 2 - 0 Hippies

Elf upset special, nuffle punished the hippies pretty badly. The game was pretty entertaining for me to play, as everything seemed to click; even got an interception! The Hippies rolled ones all over the place, while every single of my blocks connected.

I had been up all night (it was 6am or something when we played) so I cant really remember any super-specifics. But there was plenty of action to go around.

The only good thing Teleku can take from this match is probably that his bad-luck was probably used up on this pointless match.

Plus, look at it this way, Haemish. By not making the playoffs you trade a game against Beardstorm! for a game against goblins.

Well, that was bloody, although only one Norse guy (permanently) died, my tackle lineman FLINT IRONSTAG. Goodbye, Flint, you will be missed. But since I elected NOT to save you, it meant GRISTLE MCTHORNBODY, shitty werewolf, lived through the Curse of the Second Werewolf and rerolled HIS death to badly hurt. One of my berserkers (Butch Deadlift, I think) will be missing my playoff game, along with one of my throwers (I forget which one, but he broke his leg). My sidestep berserker whose name I forget went up a level. I also inflicted a surprising amount of harm myself, even murdering a blitz-ra.


Mutiny wins 2-0, and will stagger into the playoffs a little less robust than I would like.

In the process of moving back to the UK and increasingly difficult to see me being able to play my game before the deadline. Will be online late UK on monday, but not sure what TZ Kailas is?

Yeah,, you guys need to watch the match between Canckle's undeads and my goblins. Yeah.... yeah.....

Steam tells me his in game but won't let me message him. Tell him to message me when gets out if he has time for another game (For Horns and Hooves).

I'm in central, so GMT-6, I think.  If we can't make it work, no worries, you'd probably win anyway so it's no problem for me to concede again.

LLium Crushers vs. The Goblin Team 3-0 win to the undead.

Winning the coin toss the LLium crushers start their forward drive recieving the ball.  Two scary Troll line up against the wondertwin Mummies and a loan dauntless/blocking skeleton.  The lineup of secret weapons are out in force.  Round 1 both Trolls are knocked to their knee's by the skeleton and a mummy.  The second mummy scared of chainsaws breaking through their high armor goes in for a blitz and knocks the chainsaw wielder out.  And from there it just goes down hill for The Goblin Team.  In a crushing victory the LLium crushers clear the field not an opponent to be seen.  Touchdown two allows one player to stand up to attempt to block the bony machine and the Gobbo's get a .... Troll.  Two rounds later after the 3rd touchdown another brave soul is given the magic smelling salts of the Budwieser Babes and it's another Troll.  5 Injuries, 2 deaths against the Goblins (one dead ball and chain weilder and -1 armor on pogo man). 14/20 note in the match don't know what more the fans want heh.

Underhill Uberchefs | 3 - 1 | Reborne's Wrestlers

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We now go live to Cee Lo Green for commentary on the Halflings actually winning a game.  Cee Lo?


Thanks Cee Lo.  Coach Luckton, anything you want to add?


Truly, this was a game where, should luck and the numbers work out, Halflings are the superior race.  And if Reborne had pulled off a couple more 1-turn touchdowns like he did, things would have been easily reversed.

What inducements did you take? Deeproot, Zara, chef?

- Deeproot
- Morg
- 1 Reroll
- MasterChef
- 1 Keg of beer
- Wizard

EDIT: Forgot the Wizard

So four STR 6+ guys? Brutal.

As brutal as it sounds, the trees didn't do too much bashing.  The ogres liked to beat up the 'flings, while the midgets ran out the trees range.

The injury I inflicted was a Both Down between a midg and a 'fling, with the midg going Badly, and the 'fling KOed.

The Game between Estraz and I has been hit by this port blocking message AGAIN. Seriously this is just pissing me off. I have done NOTHING to my router since and I have been able to play other BB games just fine. This is freaking stupid. Its probably something to do with our ISPs at this stage, which means there is really sod all I can do about it.

Wrestlers 1 - 3 Uberchefs

Ok, want to say this first, Luckton played a good game and any complaints I have, have nothing to do with him or the game he played.

That being said, Nuffle was all behind the halflings this game.

I'm the first to say that I've been taking silly risks since I found that I can make 1 turn touchdowns but the game started with me receiving, the halflings blitzing, I knocked down Morg, snotlings failed a throw which bounced off an Ogre, off Morg and into the waiting hands of a halfling...

I thought that was hilarious until I found out that was almost going to the be the standard for the rest of the game.

A spent a quite a few turns doing the bonehead blitz and when the Ogres actually figured out how to move, they forgot how to hit...

On the other hand I stopped looking at just how many critical successes the Luckton rolled.

I look forward to playing Luckton again at some point and hope that Nuffle isn't so biased on that day.
He'll probably still win but the game will be a lot more fun

2-0 to Eztraz. Yeah surprise.

First half was kinda fun. I had to burn my apoch on turn 1 to stop a blocker from dying. And I actually forced the ball up near the tourchdown line but then elven bullshit happened and He scored on turn 4. After thet I just about managed to stop him from scoring again,. but only becasue he failed a GFi and fell over. And then on the last turn for one I tried a bit of dwarf bullshit and passed the ball to one of my runners from the touchdown line, who ran up and passed it to another runner, who then ran most of the way to the enemy line before falling over.

Second half was the usual. Number of turns missed due to rulling a skull on the first roll of the half, 4. Number of crowd surfs inflicted on me, 2. Lets just say I really didnt enjoy it much.

Estraz played a good fun game, but I guess I wont be in next season. This constant never in danger of scoring and constant bad luck BS is pretty depressing.

Yo Falc, validate matches!  :heart:

Is Strazos going to be able to play? Because if not that leaves the group as:

Ice - 14
Teleku - 13
Ulysses- 13
Strazos - 12

Cloudpunks triumph elegantly over Slann the Man, 2-0, and are now doomed to almost certain playoff death.

This was a strange game, with dice swinging this way and that but generally almost entirely in my favour. The lizards managed to injure the very first elf they knocked over on the very first block of the game -- and had a 100% knockdown rate until somewhere in turn 3 -- but didn't manage another casualty until midway through the second half, by which point they were barely managing to get any elves on the ground at all. They did however manage to both KO AND then Badly Hurt my tree, of all things. Meanwhile my d6 rolls bordered on perfect, which for a Wood Elf team makes it very difficult to lose. I failed one dodge all game, on turn 14 or something. (Well, more accurately I failed 8, but only one resulted in a turnover and no rerolls were harmed on the other 7.)

For the lizards, ball-handling and dodging were not going so well; despite having his Sure Hands skink on the job for most of the game, Ginaz started off struggling to pick up the ball (5 out of 13 on the day) -- and to protect his poor skinks once they finally managed to get it in-hand. After an extremely drawn-out defense by the Wood Elves in the first half, I strung together yet another series of not-that-unlikely-but-cumulatively-kind-of-getting-absurd d6 rolls and scored on turn 8. I then received in the second half and scored relatively quickly to go up 2-0.

Meanwhile my mighty blow Wardancer, who before this game had basically proven incapable of anything more substantial than a KO, vented an entire season's worth of violent frustration on Slann's poor skinks, stringing together an impressive five casualties in a single game and capping it off with a skink-murder and KO that left the lizards skink-less halfway through their final drive. While the saurii did somehow manage to fumble the ball into one of their hands, the elves knocked it loose -- but a tiny bit of dice-karma finally caught up with them on the last turn, as a 1 -> 1 catch on the handoff left my newer Wardancer unable to grab the third TD.

Aaaand of course my Loner got the MVP (having been injured on literally the first block of the game), and another linesman picked up a Pinched Nerve, so it looks like the elves are holding steady at 10 active players at any given moment.

Yay! The Rouge Rogues pull out a 2-0 consolation victory over Sir T's Pimpernels.

It was nice to meet a team almost as undeveloped as I was; I kept clicking around on the dwarves to figure out who had Guard and being surprised to find that none of them did. So I actually managed to get some multiple die blocks off and open enough holes in the short ones' defenses to score a TD in each half. I would have scored another in the first half if it weren't for a heartbreaking GFI failure (with reroll!) that would have Badly Hurt my Blitzer if my apothecary hadn't pumped him full of painkillers.

Sorry you didn't enjoy it, Sir T. From one last-place finisher to another, going up against better-developed teams with veteran coaches as a newb is really rough. Enough that I may change my stance on mixing newb teams/coaches with 1800+ TVs right away. Out of curiosity, have you done much experimenting against the AI?

I know I'm a ringer, but I think part of my ringerness was due to picking the right team (and tasty, tasty inducements). Norse play alright out of the box (although I was generally short dudes until I finally got enough money to have a bench!), and I know there are some other teams like that. On the other hand, teams like pro elf suck more than anything has the right to suck.

On whether I'll be able to play:

Internet was hooked up friday (apparently more work will be done on the line next week as the connection is a bit slow), but I still don't have my pc. I have to start hassling our shipping folks monday to see if my stuff is still in transit or just hanging out in customs waiting for someone to shake it loose.

Also, is that list correct - am I in by default? :)

Eldaec hasn't played yet afaik but I think you have the tiebreaker over him.

You are through regardless of whether you play or not. If you don't play then Ulysees is also automatically through as he needs 3 points to make the cut.

If Ulysees goes through then Ramas is automatically out, otherwise Ramas is through if he beats Kailas (likely) and you don't lose to Ulysees (also likely).

Hey Bann, I have a Christmas dinner but I can stay up late for a game Sunday night your time!

Ok sounds like we really need to try to get this game in. I wonder if people would mind if we got a one-time extension, just to give me the possibility of using the next weekend to get the game in. :)

I'd rather make the playoffs on merit rather than by default so I have no objection to an extension.

Ill be around all day. shoot me a msg on steam when you get free.

Sometimes the dice just bend you over and go at you sans lube. Those games are fairly rare though. Most of the time you can at least mitigate the effects of luck to some extent. View every single roll as something to be avoided where possible (especially with a team like Dwarfs who don't have a lot of reroll skills), make sure your order of operations is solid so you still get people in position even if the first dice roll ends your turn. Assume that any given dice roll will fail - especially where the ball is concerned - and position players to guard against the consequences of failure. Don't throw random blocks until you've done important stuff, play as though you have no rerolls left even when you have.

I've played hundreds of games, those where the dice meant that I might as well have not bothered showing up for rank in the single digits, the rest I've lost through my own poor choices and giving away chances.

I don't have a problem with an extension (I'm out of the playoffs anyway so I'm just waiting for the failoffs). As long as someone validates the matches already played so I can do some level ups. HINT HINT.

Also there is the question of finding the right team for your own playstyle, in MP the only team I feel like I am moderatlely good with is the lizards, but if you follow Iain's advice and play a bunch of feeder games to find something that fits then this is a remakably good game for such a simple execution and the f13 group of players have really transformed this game for me so I doubt you will struggle for takers if you wanted to get some more practice in the feeder league.

The issue of course is that it is another new team that you start with, though you can mitigate that somewhat with the TV allowance for the start of a new season if you do find something you enjoy playing with but in my opinion that is half the battle, I doubt I will stop playing the lizards for as long as the league stays alive.

Yeah, finding the right team is a big deal. The Elves were fun but something just clicked when I played Skaven in the More Dave (or was it Eddie) league. I'll play other teams in other leagues but unless they get decimated, the Zellar Dwellarz are my main team from now on.

i rolled a double! for the first time in the history of Huhnqua on a guy that wasn't strength 1!  now that he has block he's doubtless going to get killed in the first round of the playoffs, but at last! :rock:

I'm not sure IanC and I are going to get the game in. I'm not sure if we're the only ones left, but the time difference and schedules aren't working out.

Given the fact we're both at the bottom of our division and largely irrelevant, I don't really mind just passing and going to the failoffs.

I have no objections to this.
I'm generally a fan of people playing their matches as I like interacting with the people here.

Leveled up my sidestep berserker, Slate Fistcrunch, he got mighty blow to no one's surprise. Also replaced poor dead Flint Ironstag with TOUCH RUSTROD. Now I am pondering if I want to add another lineman so I don't go into my first (only) playoff game with only 11 dudes.

What's the count on your positionals? I think typically, Norse shouldn't run win less than 12, so if you figure x2 Blitzer, x2 Runner, x2 Ulf, x1 Wendigo, x1 Thrower - that leaves room for up to about five Linemen. Having said that however, depending on how much you want to metagame your TV (and if you know who your first round opponent is going to be), you may consider sitting at 11 or 12.

Her first round opponent is the Ex-Presidents of DOOM!

You should have some decent inducements.  You could always pick up a 12th with that.

I have 13 normally, but proudft inflicted MNG injuries on one of my berserkers (QQ) and one of my throwers (whatevs) in addition to killing poor Flint. I don't have a yhetee, nor can I afford one even if I wanted one (which I don't in particular). I'll have one berserker, two runners, two wolves, one thrower, and five linemen.

Generally I prefer to avoid picking up dudes with inducements, because they without fail blow a loner roll or pick up my MVP or whatever. Morg is probably my one exception. <3

If anything, I would at least consider inducing a Big Guy just to see if you'll like him. But yea, keep a little bit of a bench.

I would like to play the game because I would like the opportunity to develop my team and I don't want to take a default result based on one failure to meet up - especially as I was there at the time we agreed. Our time difference isn't insurmountable and I'll be there if you can commit to an new time that's reasonable.

Like I said, I can't afford him even if I wanted him (I have 120k gold right now, he's something obnoxious like 170k), so that's sort of moot either way. Linemen are cheap, I could grab two more if I reeeeally wanted and just fire a guy afterwards if I feel too fat (it would carry me up to 15 once everyone was healthy, which seems like a lot).

I mean, induce as in use your Inducements cash pool, to at some point hire an Wendigo for a single game.

Got around to promoting the two 'flings that leveled from my last match.

WE HAVE ACHIEVED HALFLING BLOCK  :drill: :drill: :drill:

Yeah, inducing big guys is great.  They already have loner and I'm pretty sure it's just an extra 50k to give them a regular access skill, like guard or break tackle.

I can't. I leave tomorrow for a funeral, and I cannot play in the mornings due to work. I would like to make this work as well, but when I showed up 40m late to our agreed time at 1:40 my time, you suggested another time 3 hours later (where I was on steam for 8 hours straight) and that didn't work. When I suggested Saturday you were at a concert. Face it, I'm not willing to get up at 6AM my time to play a game, and you are in bed by the time I get home. I don't think it's feasible, nor do I care enough to bother with all the other personal shit I'm dealing with right now.

Falc - when we going to get this played? I'm hoping that monday evening 9pm GMT onwards you will be around and online? hit me on steam.

I made sure I had enough time clear to play our game if we'd started on time. When you turned up nearly an hour later it wouldn't have been possible. I don't mind playing late at night or early in the morning as long as you're actually going to turn up when you say you will.

In my _first turn_ of the game with AndyDavo.. I kick off... Pitch Invasion. 6 of my players are on the floor stunned. 1 of his. Nice.

Fuck do I hate pitch invasion.


Ah, I see. Eh, maybe. I will ponder it, at least.

Next kickoff. Blitz Perfect Defense event for him. My best player-thrower is out for "select player" bug.

Uberhacks

You'll have 330 in inducements because I just picked up Lyndon Baynes "The Pain" Johnson to fill in for Thomas Jefferson this match.  Not enough for Morg, but exactly enough for Icepelt Hammerblow.  He doesn't have block though, which if you ask me is a huge liability.  Yhetee mercs are 170 so if you got one of those you'd still have 160 left over, but it's a merc so Loner and no block either.

You can spend an additional 50k on a merc to give it a skill it could get on a normal levelup, so for a yheetee you could add guard or something.

Icepelt Hammerblow is the same as a regular yheetee with +1 str, thick skull, and no wild animal. Not sure that is worth the difference in price, but no wild animal is a pretty big advantage.

It's also worth pointing out that in most cases a Wandering Apothecary (100k inducement) is equivalent to an extra player on the bench. Not guaranteed, of course, because you need at least one of the casualty results to be a Badly Hurt, but I am guessing that over the course of a game against Ruvaldt you will have plenty of opportunities to use apothecaries. The key is to use the WA with that intention in mind, rather than the usual apothecary mentality of saving it for a serious injury or high-value player.

Ok, I lost 5 - 0 to AndyDavo in a game that felt ridiculous since the get go. Strangely enough, I got a lot of POW and the d6 has been totally in my favour. Still, I managed to get 1 CAS/KO in the whole game, which means that no matter how pounded his players were always there. Even more so if you consider that he has lots of Sidestep. Anyway, no excuses for a terribly played game the moment he went up 2-0. I lost any concentration and just wanted it to end as soon as possible, which led me to stupid "Both Down" choices with the only player in my team without Block, or a silly last turn without realizing he still had one to score. On my first drive I actually had one weird chance to score, I had to pick up and do a simple handoff, but the pickup with rerolls failed and his player picked up the scatter ball (and scored).

At least Sylvia Plath earned the 6th level and became a superstar (despite a pathetic failed 3+ pass with rerolls that really killed my mood).

Llyse, you should upload your replay of the match with Bann. Also, we should set up the match for H&H. Contact me on Steam.

I think Llyse may be some place w/ very poor internet. I know when we played our game last night, the "lost connection, attempting to reconnect" thing came up every 3rd turn or so, and alot of his prompts during my turns (asking about wrestle, fend, etc) ended up timing out. I ended up conceding mainly because I didn't see a way to win the game (down 2 scores mid 2nd half, 6 players left on pitch vs. 10), it was taking for-e-ver, and I wanted to get back to Terraia. I can confirm that Llyse deserves his 4-0 win with my abandoning the match.

edit- Wrong thread. Posted into playoff thread.

EDIT: FINE

Sjofn - if it were me going into this match up I would do the following....

-Kick number 10 and rehire a new lino.
- Hire 1 more lino, to take you to 12 players.

This will give a TV difference of 280. Since he only has 11 players a valid tactic would be to aim for player removal, Fouling would be your best bet. Hire a merc lineman and give him DP (cost 50k +30k +50k = 130k), then get a bribe +100k, then get a babe 50k. This would give you a team of 13 with some hitting power, and some recovery vs his 11. It would also make him think twice about using Piling On further keepign your players safe.

Norse are actually one of three teams i may reroll to.  Khemri and Amazon being the other 2.

I apologize for being late. As I explained, I was on a date with a young lady, who turned out to be very interesting, that I couldn't just up and leave to go play Blood Bowl in the middle of the afternoon. When I showed up and you were still on, you told me to be there in 3 hours, and then never came back. Now, I have a funeral for my best friend's mother tomorrow that I have to get on a plane to Dallas TX for, and I'm a little on edge about things.

So frankly, take the win. I don't care. Life has dealt me some odd hands right now, and the game is last on my list.

If nothing else, I totally forgot that dude had a niggling, so thanks for that.  :awesome_for_real: I did fire him and hire another lineman (FIST ROCKBONE and ... Beat Punchbeef, I think? Now I forget.), I got enough "yeeeeah, 11 players would be bad" feedback to totally convince me I wasn't being a noob when I was considering adding at least one other dude.  :heart:

Replay uploaded 2-0 win to Alive not Dead.

Match report to follow:

I said I'd try to be around later and I'd ping you if I saw you online. Missing an arranged time happens, shit comes up and I'm not saying you should have cut your date short. Refusing to play at all though regardless (as there's already an extension for Strazos and Ulysees) is the issue.

I now have a blodging Wright, Frenzy/Mighty Blow Wright, Sure Hands Ghoul, Kicking Skeleton, and bought a 3rd Ghoul as well.  Was a successful lastgame of the normal season.

Here's the problem. I am on a plane in 4 hours, I go to a funeral on Wednesday. I fly back Thursday. I get on a plane Friday morning, I fly down for early Christmas in Florida. I'm there until Sunday night.

So, if you want to try to play Thursday at 7PM EST, we can try, otherwise I'm literally not going to be around a computer until Monday the 19th again.

This is not me ducking you. This is literally life getting in the way.

Mr Falconeer, how long is the extension for the Strazos/Ulysees match?

If it's ok with Falc to hold off for another 48 hours I will be around at 7pm EST on Thursday.

Is there an extension for Strazos?   :uhrr:

Heh, my pc gear is literally sitting in customs at the airport. Hopefully our shipping staff can get it out and I can start setting up.

Friday night my time would be super. Saturday will be tough as I have to go hang out at an orphanage during the day, with a function at night. Sunday may be more possible but hard to say.

Appreciate folks giving us a shot at fitting this in.

What time are you looking at friday night? Since you are - gmt that might be possible as I have the day off. Saturday day is out for me though will be around evening GMT and have a christmas function on Sunday so again will be available but only in the evening GMT.

People, tell me. What should I do? I'd never wait this long for a normal game, but it's playoff worthy stuff. Should we move on or wait?

I'm away from a computer this friday through to next tuesday, so I don't really mind. Let them play the games if they can get them in.

Even though the default win to Ulysses would be my prefered playoff option.  :awesome_for_real:

EDIT: If the games can't be played I do think you have to give the win to Ulysses though. Everyone else Strazos wasn't able to play got the win against him, and that impacted the final standings just as much.

I don't know either Falc. I don't like just forcing a draw or a loss for someone because it affects Eldaec who isn't involved in the game. You could always just rule Strazos out of the playoffs by fiat.  :why_so_serious:

The Representative of the Halfling Coalition decrees that since we actually won a game, we've automatically won the entire season by default.  We care not for who all wishes to fight for second and third places.  :why_so_serious: :drill:

Pure awesome, I personally don't mind waiting either since I almost needed an extension  :awesome_for_real:

Just make Strazos play Andy in a play in, problem solved.  Maybe Sky can be a commentator.

That only happened last week, as far as I am aware, and Ginaz is not in playoff contention, so 'everyone else' is not really much of a precedent.

Oh, was Strazos beaten? I thought he hadn't lost a game he played. Serves me right for not checking.

Strazos played Teleku in day 5 just before he left and lost 2-1, Ginaz was the day 6 opponent and that was the only default result so far.

I have no problems whatsoever with extending the time. After all, it's the holidays and EVERYBODY has shit to do that isn't Blood Bowl. We're running a global operation here on what... 4 continents? Should be a little lee way in play times among friends, especially on the last day of the season when playoff matchups can be affected (or failoffs).

I think it is 5 continents, the only one we're missing is South America AFAIK.

...so, who's playing from Antarctica?

Yeah, I had the joy of beating him, while he broke three of my elves scrawny necks.  So I definitely didn't get a walk on by for that one.

Appreciate the understanding. My air baggage just arrived today, so once I get it cracked open tomorrow I'll be able to give it a shot.

Ulysees - I have a short day friday, and as I'm now gmt +1 (actually ahead of paris, which makes no sense) we might actually be ok assuming everything gets up and running ok. Have a whole new vpn/router to contend with, so I'll do my best to get it sorted thursday for attempts on friday. Saturday is going to likely be completely undoable for me as I have a work trip. Sunday before the evening should be doable.

Let's aim for Friday at some point then, Sunday might be dodgy since I have a football match in the morning and then going out for a team christmas drink which will likely end in carnage and me being in no fit state to play Sunday night.

Sounds good. Of course, if I'm not able to make things work I am prepared to eat the loss.

I should be solid to play IainC at 7EST tonight. I'm sure since it doesn't affect the playoffs at all, nobody cares except us.  :grin:

 :oh_i_see:

Oh HAI.

Online. Still plenty of things to fix (maintenance needs to fix this damn DSL line and increase speed) but I'll be trying my damnedest to play.

Decided to try to launch the game for shits and giggles...

Any idea why Steam would tell me the game is not available? The error message isn't terribly helpful or specific. Could it be a speed thing? I'm hoping it's not a geo-lock issue.

It isn't a location issue, it is just shit that happens.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4595-wexn-6831

Most common fix is deleting/renaming the .blob file and downloading it again (the blob file, not all of steam).

Found that earlier, seems to have worked.

Going to do some testing via feeder league tonight. :grin:

So....it's not particularly fast, but African Internetz actually work for this. Ulysees and I played a full feeder match with no problems.

 :grin:

So, you guys played a mess around game, but didn't actually play your pending match?   :oh_i_see:

It was for testing purposes. Also didn't think we'd have time - thought my turns would take ages due to lag, but...  :oh_i_see:

Paelos and I played our game just now. Final score was 3-2 to me.

I was 2-0 up by turn 6 thanks to some Elven bullshit going my way for once. I scored my first after blitzing a goat that was in scoring range, pushed him to the sidelines and the ball bounced out and was then thrown back in to a clear square. A nearby Elf grabbed it and threw it down-pitch to a waiting line-elf who ran in the first on turn 4. The second was me blitzing the ball carrier after a short kick and knocking the ball free again, it bounced through the line of scrimmage and was picked up by an Elf who passed it backwards out of the reach of the Chaos team. I then pushed some receivers downfield and the next turn was as inevitable as an inevitable thing.

The Smackdown bounced back however and made a risky pass to a goat who ran unsupported into my half of the pitch. I put a marker on him and then went for a blitz but failed a dodge into a clear square leaving the way clear for a last-turn score by the Chaos team. For good measure, they also injured one of my wardancers - she had a smashed hand (MNG) so I apothed it but the apoth couldn't fix the hand without killing her so she was out. A line-Elf also suffered a -1 str injury too.

Second half opened with one player from each team succumbing to sweltering heat. I scored a standard 2 turn TD and the next drive saw 3 of the Chaos team decide to stay in the dugout due to the heat while all of the Elves that weren't injured took to the pitch. Again I kicked short and managed to blitz down the ball carrier quickly to put the Chaos team on the back foot. The Smackdown landed hard on my remaining wardancer who was carrying the ball, she was KOd but the Sure Hands goat was unable to get the loose ball out of the Elven tacklezones. I put my catcher in the endzone (burning a reroll to Leap him out of the Chaos team that had him surrounded), picked up the ball and needed a 3+ pass to make it 4-1 but fumbled it.

The ball was grabbed by a nearby goat and a cage was formed. The Chaos team were loath to risk dropping the ball with so many Elves in their backfield so they played very cautiously which suited me fine. If the Chaos team wanted to keep the ball in a stationary cage while I was 3-1 up, that was cool with me. There was one goat in scoring range who was double marked him, I threw a block with each of the markers against him but only managed to get pushes. The next turn, the goat with the ball broke free, threw the ball down the field and the marked goat caught it, dodged clear, made 2 GFIs and scored.

With two turns left I decided to see if a fourth TD could be had. I kept the ball back and pushed a lot of receivers forwards. I was heartened to see all the Chaos team run backwards to mark the Elves meaning that no matter what happened they would have no-one in range to score if I messed up and lost the ball. On my last turn I ran forwards and took two GFIs to make a 4+ throw into a 3+ throw. I failed the first and rerolled it then failed the second. The Chaos team bashed everything they could reach to no significant effect and then that was the game.

I have two players missing the next game but my catcher reached level 5 and a line-Elf levelled to 2. Paelos took no injuries and levelled a Warrior and a Beastman.

It was a fun game where I took a lot of risks to counter some of the elven bullshit. It worked to a degree, but I just couldn't press hard enough and fast enough to catch back up with only 2 turns left.

So I tried to murder the other wardancer with surrounded dirty player fouls, but she escaped twice.  :awesome_for_real:

The Minizilla's 2 - Diplomatic immunity 1

Me and Strazos just got our game played and I book my place in this season's playoff with a hard fought win.

Strazos gave away 260k in inducements so I took Slibli the Saurus star player.  Straz won the toss, electing to receive and formed a sideline cage however I quickly got that bogged down and with some scuffling I pin the carrier against the sideline, however I couldn't find the bash and with sidestep his carrier moved away from the sideline and on the 3rd turn he managed to get free and made a dash for the goal line, needing 2 GFi's for the first touchdown, of course Nuffle hates GFI's so he falls on his ass spilling the ball on the second GFI. I picked up the ball but I could not get myself safe and have to leave my skink fairly open 5 squares from the endzone. Straz blitzes me but comes up dodge on a non tackle blitzer and moves another marker onto my skink but now I have a path to safety, I just need to dodge away and run up a sideline to the waiting escort of Saurus' however I fail to check the skills of the player marking my skink and he goes down to a dive tackle that I could have prevented had I blitzed him clear. Kicking myself Straz picks up the ball and scores with a handoff on his turn 6 giving me 3 turns to score which is reasonable until the kick-off event putting the clock forward a turn.

I setup for a sideline cage of my own but Straz has kick and launches it deep forcing me to pickup and hand-off with no re-rolls but for once my skink handling was fine today and I make the catch and move the skink into position on the sideline. I bash and mark but Straz still gets 2 players back to block the path to the goal line, one being the damn dive tackler, however I blitz him and score the required pow so now all I need is 2 dodges and 2 GFI's with no re-rolls to tie the score but today is the day of the skink and I make all the required rolls to equalise on the half.

By this time I have killed 1 player though Straz's KO's both wake up for the second half, Straz in return has hurt 2 of my skinks but I have a full lineup due to my bench. I receive the kickoff and form my cage which over the course of the half I shuffle up the pitch putting my skink in scoring range while gradually taking more and more of the Norse off the field of play with injuries and KO's and Straz has to try and break my cage before he is too outnumbered so blitzs in with his Str 5 wolf but can't get any more support in without opening a hole for me to score so I knock the wolf down and then gang foul him breaking his neck which makes the cage now pretty safe until in turn 15 I screw up and while trying to manouver myself into a position to score I force a Saurus to attempt a dodge which he fails leaving my ball carrier open! Straz accepts the gift but nuffle is smiling on me tonight as he scores a stumble again with no tackle so my skink doesn't go down and on the final turn I clear a path and run in the score to make it 2-1.

On the final turn I leave 3 players for Straz to bash and finally his injury dice wake up as he KO's one and injures another Saurus, unfortunately it is far too late to matter and the match ends with the Minizilla's picking up the required win to book their place in the playoffs.

Was a good match though Straz came off the worse on the injury front with 1 dead, the str 5 wolf with a broken neck and a BH runner, I had 3 injuries as well but all were only BH's so will be back for the next match. Bring on some tasty rat flesh!

Match is uploaded.

What's going on with the Ramas v Kailas game? It's the only one still outstanding and, while it's not so vital now that Ramas is out of playoff contention, a win for either player will change the failoff rankings.

Since the match wasn't played I assume it isn't going to be?

*edit* scrolled through and there are no further posts regarding the match between Eldaec and Kailias

Yeah, that match seems to have fallen off the radar and not brought up at all.  Given how long we've already extended this, unless they play very very soon, I say just have Falc decide the game and advance the day.

Ulysees' summary is a fair assessment. The first half went well enough for me (a bit short on KOs/BHs), though I probably could have prevented his TD if I had switched some of my runner positions on the scoring turn.

By the time we were deep in the second half, Ulysees significant MB was taking a toll and I just didn't have the power to both cover against skinkly nonsense and attempt cage busting. This one was also probably preventable if I hadn't made a senseless -2d block with my wolf that was occupying his big guy, which unsurprisingly failed and allowed the big lizard to waltz over and spoil whatever pressure I was looking to put on.

By the time next season rolls around, I may have to seriously consider switching squads, as the diminishing returns on Norse at higher TVs is starting to be painfully clear as I have very few tricks to play.

To be honest the thing that did you was the lack of a bench - if you had 13 players not 11 the second half would likely have been different since you only had 9 to face my 11 after your first score and 10 for the second half. Also checking the stats I was twice the average for number of POW's that would be expected so you got a bit of a nuffling there too.

I suspect you might have to do some thinking about TV management and sack off some of your more skilled linemen so you can field a bench and focus on only really building up a few key positionals so you don't have a run away TV in future matchs, least that's where I think I am headed. I will aim for 4 saurus with just block and guard then build 2 that have MB, block, tackle, frenzy and break tackle plus 2 super skinks with the rest just having side step and diving tackle. If you have a full team of level 3 and 4's then you are just heading for inducement hell in this league with the way that we are allowed to enter new teams and with others joining in the fun. Least that's how it looks to me, having said that I'd rather face the inducements with a well developed team against a newbie one personally.

Precisely the reason I let a level 3 lineman die off. It's getting to the point where if I don't roll good doubles by level 3 I'll have to sack them - block + tackle should mostly do it for a Norse lineman it's looking like.

Bah, screw the TV values!  I'm going to level up every elf I have as much as possible, and get a bench!

Of course, I've been trying to do that for 4 seasons now, but the amount of elves that die on me has left me still hanging on to several level 1's and no bench still after all this time.  But someday!

Ah but that's Darwin taking care of your TV for you Teleku - Survival of the fittest!  :grin:

Yeah, seems unlikely.  I'm not running in to him online.

Good advice in general but I have to point out that "just having side step and diving tackle" on all your skinks is in fact "a full team of level 3 and 4's". Skinks tend to sort themselves out, of course, but I'm skeptical that the fifth/sixth sidestep/diving tackle Skink on a lizard team is really worth 110 TV.

Also, does this really mean that I somehow won my division?  :ye_gods:

Someday I'm going to get a wardancer with +str, and you will all rue the day!  RUE IT!

See you in the semis?  :grin:

Yes, This. or we're going to find Christmas getting rather in the way. If we can get the rounds of 16 set up and played we may just get this season done by the first 2 weeks of Jan.

Whee! Lizards v Rats! Welcome to speeed town! No around for the next few, but looking forward to the matchup.

Pity about straz's injuries, sounds like he will be under strength for his playoff game.

I am going to move on the Day in a few hours. Playoffs/Failoffs starting.

I have a very small bit of a problem about the Kail - Eldaec game. Seems to me like neither of them was so interested, or had the time, to play it. I do not intend AT ALL to scold anyone or to make a big deal out of this, I mean it. I just think, based on the little communication we have witnessed in this thread, that they don't deserve a fixed draw, nor they deserve 1 point for it.

Now, if Eldaec takes one point he's going to be 5th in his Division, but if he gets zero he ends up 6th. All in all a very small difference, only changing his (and Scadente's) failoff opponent, so as I said a very small deal, but I am a bit worried about the recent wave of unplayed matches, so I think it might be a good idea to consider 0 points awarded to both teams when it looks like nobody really cared to play, or made a point of stating the perduring difficulties. I also want to observe that I am writing this 5 days past the deadline, meaning there has been a full 14 days to play.

What do you think? Opinions and comments on the matter please, not personal attacks of any sort.

0 points each sounds fair.  14 days is a long time.

You are the referee on this Falc. I'm happy with what you decide either way. I will say though that even in my most BB hating moments I've always made an effort to get my game in.

This time of year is a bitch to get games in, as I had with IainC. However, I would have accepted a zero for not getting it done with little qualm. Then again, I suck at this game.

No objection here.

Standard fare for all other leagues i  play in is if no one looks to have made an effort then both teams get a loss or a 0-0 draw. I think a loss on both sides if no one has made an effort is fair play, if there has been some effort then a no score/score draw is appropriate. From what you have posted around this game specifically then a 0-0 or double loss is right, however, your the league admin and I would fully accept your choice, as echoed above.

Haven't really had time to play anything as I'm in the process of moving back to the UK - if time is up don't mind what result you record as nothing is ideal.

On a side note - SirT where did you get your forum avatar? It looks like something out of Neocron.

Unless I am very much mistaken, it is an EVE portrait.

Your suggestion sounds perfect, so 0 in this case