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To allow for holidays I'm going to set a deadline of Sunday 12th April.

Iain, what's the state of your computer access?

Not sure at the moment. I may be able to borrow a Windows laptop if my PC isn't going to be delivered imminently, but I won't know if that's possible until I get home from Kiev on Saturday evening.

Heya Jasper. Easter weekend is a long one but also a busy one. I'm in Australia, so not sure which way the timezones go on this one.

Ulysees, how does the weekend look for you?  I work from home so I can be somewhat flexible as well.

I'm UTC -7, but generally have flexible hours.  Might be able to catch the match early, before the weekend?  Say early evening for you, late late night for me?

balut what is your steam name

So, 6 hours ahead a day behind. Best days for me are probably tonight (midnight probs too late?) or my sunday or monday, your sat/sunday.

Saturday night or Sunday night 8pm BST (GMT+1) are my best windows though it's a bank holiday weekend so could also do Friday and Monday during the day if that works out easier for you.

So UTC +11 then?  Midnight (UTC-7) might actually be a bit early for me; how about 1am (UTC-7), so 7pm (UTC+11)?

balut76 on Steam.

I'm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7). Weeknights after 10pm are good, and I'm pretty flexible on Saturdays and Sundays. This Sunday is probably out, though, because of Easter.

just find me online , i'll be home most of the time.

CmdrSlack, wassup!

I'm CEST (+2), so arranging a match may get tricky. Weekdays I'm available between 17:00 and 21:00 (UTC). On the weekend I can be a bit more flexible -- I can make a ~2-hour timeslot free anywhere between 5:00 UTC and 21:00 UTC. Easter Sunday is probably out, but Easter Monday is a holiday over here, so I can make myself available at any time, food coma permitting.

Looks like we may have to shoot for the weekend. I am on vacation, but my body needs to stay on mostly regular sleeping hours.

5:00 UTC is midnight my time, so perhaps Saturday morning is a good plan. We could shoot for a late morning time on UTC time...that puts me up pretty early, but I don't really sleep in. I also suck at time zone math, so please let me know if I just totally failed the concept.

Sounds like a plan! I'll make sure I'm available at that time. I'm Zetor on steam (in f13 group), btw.

Looks like last night didn't pan out.  I was pretty damn beat anyway, so I don't mind.

How about Saturday midnight (PST), i.e. 16 hours from now?  Which I think should be Sunday 6pm for you?

You're off by a day it looks like to me.

I'm afraid that won't work :( I'll be out all Sunday now. Maybe Monday for me?

Sure, that's fine.  Sunday midnight for me, Monday 6pm for you?

rk47 and I had our match:

(http://i.imgur.com/qB3BdsL.png)

Was a pretty slow slugfest of a match, with Doujin and Dragons KO'ing several of my guys, and my guys injuring his Amazons in turn. I made an early break for the goal with my Pestigor, Zhar, who was quickly run down, but rk47 made an unfortunate decision to hand off in range of 3 Disturbing Presences, and my Beast and Nurgle Warriors were strong enough to eventually break the defense up enough for Zhar to pick the ball back up and score a TD on my last turn of the first half.

D&D exploited my team's lack of speed in the second half, forcing an opening down a sideline and running straight down. I had one shot to stop him, requiring a Nurgle Warrior to knock down an Amazon catcher, creating an opening for my Pestigor to dodge away from a Blitzer and in turn blitzing his ballcarrier. The Nurgle Warrior did his part, but Zhar the Pestigor failed to dodge away, then critical failed the reroll. D&D decided to go for the draw, and with 3 turns left and no chance for my players to catch up, it turned into a straight-up brawl in the center of the field.

On the last turn, rk47 decided to go for the SPPs and got the draw score by passing the ball into the endzone. I tried to get a Nurgle Warrior or two into Disturbing Presence range in time, but the first one failed his GFI, and that was that.

My personal MVP was the Beast of Nurgle, Yog-Sothoth, who once again proved his worth by routinely tying up 2-3 players with Tentacles. Seriously, Tentacles triggered a good 5 or so times this match, although Foul Appearance never triggered.

Grudge Eternal vs Punk's Not Dead: 1-0

CmdrSlack and I played... something that looked like a game on the surface, but actually it was an elaborate ritual to appease Nuffle (currently in his Easter Bunny aspect, giving out suspiciously skull-shaped eggs to all), which is I assume all bash vs bash games in rain look like. The end result was an absolutely brutal grind that almost destroyed the entire Undead pitch (a mummy included) thanks to a lot of lucky block dice. The Undead tried to give it their best, but the dwarves just wouldn't go down (they were probably still pissed about that one match against the lizards).

Some random moments:

• a few turns where a mummy was the ball carrier of the Undead team thanks to a series of failed pickups
• saving a reroll for a single tile of GFI with my runner to the endzone, only to roll 1 both on the GFI and the reroll... on turn 8
• double skulls followed by a reroll to another set of double skulls!
• a wight mangling himself on a GFI

Fuck a bunch of rain. What makes it worse is that I got 0 SPP this match. I think my MVP didn't get enough to level up, so it just means that I have loads of guys ready to level. Just none leveled yet.

The end of the match was literally 11 v 3 and then 11 v 2.

Excuse me sir, will you sign our petition?  It's called "We Hates Dwarves"; here, let me give you a brochure.

Gah that's not gong to work, its just been arranged for a family birthday celebration.

How about the same time later in the week?

My Thursday your Wednesday?

Let's aim for your Wednesday. 6pm for you, midnight for me.

K.

Ramas, I don't think I've seen a post from you in this thread? What time suits you to get our game in?

Avaia we didn't catch each other over this weekend which might well make things more difficult now to play within the deadline - are there any days this week you can be free around 8pm GMT+1?

Ramas is Eldaec on the forums.

Ingmar, I have obtained a windows laptop and am installing Steam on it as we speak. What times are good for you? I can do pretty much any time you like except my Thursday evening.

Ah, cheers Iain.

I'm in UK time, my evenings tomorrow/Friday would be perfect, or daytime Saturday is good too.

I think I'm free all day Saturday, unless I'm forgetting about something. Thurs/Fri night are booked already.

Saturday works for me. Pick a time. I'm CET so 9 hours ahead of you.

Noon my time, 9 pm yours work?

Should be good. See you Saturday then.

"The Nuffle giveth, and the Nuffle taketh away"  :why_so_serious:

An interesting game between Beards, Beards, Beards and The Necrealistis ended up in a 1-1 tie. The first half Nuffle favored the undead culminating in a mercenary zombie killing a level 2 blitzer all by itself on turn 3 (another dwarf managed to die a few turns later). The second half Nuffle decided to reverse the flow and it was time for some undead injuries (and repeated double skulls for the golem).

Contract from Below v Wooden Shelf played, match submitted. 2 - 0 to the Necro.

I've validated all matches played so far. Get it done people.

Ingmar and I played this evening. The Daemons kicked and the Vampires formed up and scored from a solid cage push down the pitch. There were turns left to equalise before the end of the half but some failed pickup rolls and unfortunate turnovers killed that hope. For the second half, the Daemons caged up and started pushing forwards but quickly found themselves under a lot of pressure. I tried to break out and make a run but time pressure and frustration from dealing with a not-very responsive trackpad led to a miscalculation letting the Vampires get a blitz on the ball carrier. The ball went free and the rest of the game was basically a fight over possession. I got the ball and threw it across the pitch where Ingmar pushed it out of bounds. It came back on not far from where it went out and the Vampires got it briefly and ran it into my half. They dropped it there after a failed dodge and I cleared away the marker from the only Cultist in scoring range, ran my Bloodletter over to pick it up and pass it - it would have been a 3+ throw, a 3+ catch and a single GfI to score with no rerolls but the pickup failed and that was the end of the match. 1-0 to the Vamps.

Ingmar uploaded the game and validated it. No levels for either of us, we both have an MNG (mine with -1MV) and Ingmar had a dead Thrall.

Rerolls were probably the story of this game in general. Iain's team only had 2 and they were burned early in both halves.

McKnight and I just played.

First half was... interesting, zombies just kept knocking over my brains trust, and although I might have been able to hold on to 0-0 despite kicking in the first half, was looking at a second half with 2 badly hurt and 4 KOs.

Then my PC failed, for the second time - as had dropped out once already during setup.

Going to give this one to McKnight.... and go order a new PC!


This just leaves the Avaia vs Ulysees match, as we're already past the date I'm going to give this one 24 hours to get played or confirm schedule, then we'll move it on tomorrow night.

I think just move the day on Avaia must be busy cos he didn't reply to my messages on steam over the bank holiday weekend and hasn't replied in the thread asking about a free time to play our match so no point in holding the season up - plus I need to play my next match before friday this week which may be problematic depending who it is against as I am on holiday for 10 days from friday with no PC access.