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On to Day 5 after another exciting day in the trenches.

Results from Day 4

(http://i.imgur.com/Ae62ZWe.jpg)

Fixtures for Day 5

(http://i.imgur.com/SgrSZJN.jpg)

Deadline for these games is Saturday Jan 25th.

Rankings after four game days

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Stats from BBManager below the cut.

Oh joy.

You posted the individual stats twice instead of the individual + team stats.

Only a three hour time difference, Stabby? How unusual.
I guess most nights something my early evening/your later evening might work (7p/10p?) if that's not too late, or if the weekend is better we could probably do something that is in the afternoon for both of us?
What time/day would be best for you?

Willisterman!  What times are good for you?  I'm free pretty much any afternoon - evening (CST, -6:00 GMT) except for this coming Sunday due to American football.

megrim - i'm up for the game tomorrow night (friday for me) or weekend (sat - sun)
GMT +8 Just hit me up when I'm online.

Hmm, looks like I have last place all to myself.


... Things can only get better then!   :why_so_serious:

Anyway Gruntle, as I'm guessing we're 3 hours apart (sorry,  mildly loopy atm and it's possible pluses and minuses aren't registering themselves properly) I'll let you know I've got Friday off, so I can pull a late game my time tomorrow night if we can squeeze it in then. If not, weekend is looking good as well.

Carnifex,

I'm GMT, got time this weekend?

Think it's most likely going to have to be a weekend game for us Lameros but your prayers may have been answered as my wife is due to give birth on Saturday so may not have time to play this week! Will look out for you on Steam and see if we can find a suitable time for the game.

Still not bottom!

Roxor, can't see you in the steam group, are you under a name I won't recognise?

I'm on GMT, Saturday looks pretty clear?

'sup drogg

When do you have time to play? I should be free during the day this week, after that uni starts and it might be more problematic to find a time.

Satael, let us fight with knives for that last place. My availablity is spotty over the next few days but I'm around tonight and after this weekend. I'm CET (GMT+1).

I'm available most week nights and on the weekend. Since I'm GMT+2 we shouldn't have much trouble getting the game played.

Teleku! When do we meet? I'm Eastern time. I'm mostly clear except Mondays.

Would tonight work sometime?  I'm 6 hours ahead of you, so if we started no later than 5 or 5:30 your time, that would be good.  Otherwise, I'm taking off Friday morning for temporary duty to Krakow, and wont be back till Sunday evening.

I'm Roxorowski on steam.

Saturday should be dandy, I'm p. much free all day then.

That probably won't work, I'm afraid. That's a perfect collision of picking the kid up from school + dinner right about there. We've got some time, though. Monday morning  thru midday my time would mesh with your schedule, right? Obviously my evenings are your 3am

Alright, I'll look for you tonight on steam and if not then we'll try on the weekend.

Monday could work.  Its a federal holiday, so not doing anything, and I'll be back from Krakow.  Should be able to play at some point with you in the day.  Let me know what times best for you your time, and I'll try to be available.

In a brutal wet rout, the Nifty Helmets beat the Daring Believers 2-0.

Even without their usual rerolls, the dice were all on fire for the chaos side, who didn't fail to pick up the ball in the rain even once, whereas the believers's only succeeded once (out of 8 tries). Successful blocks and a lucky run of injuries took out the believer's star player at the start of each half and neutralized one of their two flesh golems. A string of successful blocks (and KOs) continued bolstering the growing chaos numbers advantage; in the sixth turn, the necromatic team only had two players still on the field when the chaos team finally scored. The bludweiser babes restored much of the necromatic team for each successive kick off -- and chaos never managed similar domination again -- but the slippery ball and a raging minotaur (who barely wild animal'd at all) prevented Stabby's team from developing any momentum necessary to equalize the score.
But what can anyone do when their dice decide not to cooperate?

stabby time to quit and reroll amazon.  :why_so_serious:

So Ulysses, I figure the weekend will be our best bet. I'm mended enough to play: tell me when suits you best.

Most likely around 8-9pm UK (GMT) time on Saturday or Sunday as it stands at the moment - can stay up and start a game until around Midnight so how does that sit with your time zones is it workable? If not can also do fairly early around 9am GMT as a start time.

Hmm that's pretty much middle of the night for me, so a little later on (9am my Sunday is 10pm your sat I think?) might be the best bet?

Vibrant Filling won the toss and elected to receive. Though aided by the mighty Morg n' Thorg and with a Wizard secreted in the stands the Bleatings looked mightily intimidating. However it appeared their bark was worse than their bite with two KO's on the very first turn. Vibrant Filling began to roll the ball up the side looking to score a late half touchdown. Alas it was not to be Bleatings recovered from their original shock and were able to stymie the drive and the half ended with the score at 0-0 but things looking positive for Vibrant Filling with the Beast of Nurgle beaten into submission by Morg.

The half time chat for Nurgle was clearly inspiring as they collected the ball, and KO'd two beastmen in payment for the start of the match. A pestigor broke through the chaos lines but the wizard happily picked him off allowing a chaos warrior the time to scoop up the ball and make a run for the line. He almost made it but in his haste tripped over his own feet at the touchline, looking back he could see the rest of his team strewn about the pitch groaning. Bleatings made one desperate run but time was called before the touchdown was made.

(http://bbm.jcmag.fr/BloodBowlManager.WebSite/ImageMatchReport.aspx?Id=267384&lang=en)

Dice were against both of us, just couldn't quite cross that touchline!

(http://bbm.jcmag.fr/BloodBowlManager.WebSite/ImageMatchReport.aspx?Id=267401&lang=en)

The rats failed at almost every dice roll and I had very little to do with the outcome of the game.  :oh_i_see:

Yeah, between the mounting rat casualties and failing every action that mattered, whether it was a throw, a GfI, a Dodge, KO rolls or whatever, I wasn't really able to contest the game. So many times I stood my remaining guys up then immediately turned over on the first action of the turn. Satael played a solid game but he didn't need to. I had no players on the pitch to contest with by about turn 12 or so and Nuffle wasn't letting me complete any kind of play anyhow.

I actually can't. I was reminded that my little girl is marching in the MLK parade on Monday morning (oops) so I've no idea when I'm going to be in and out.

How's Tuesday my midday/your afternoon or evening look?

During the weekdays, any time after about 6 my time (noon your time) works.

That's definitely workable. If you can give me til 1pm my time on Tuesday that would be rad.

should be around most of the weekend - sorry for the radio silence during the week, i managed to brick two routers in a row, whoops!

i'll keep an eye out for you on steam.  GMT-8, for reference

Secret Unicorns - 2
Sidekick Storm - 0

Really tense game. Possibly something a Pyrrhic victory for the humans, who took 4 or 5 injuries, none of them badly hurts.

At 1-0 a few turns into the second half, the game was decided when seeing the humans were down to 6 players on the pitch, the halflings saw an opportunity for a win that would be pivotal given the state of the league table. But they overextended, the Unicorns got on the ball and were able to turn around what should have been at least a tie for the Storm.

Well played Roxor.

OK looking like I will be home around 10pm tonight so will look out for you.

(http://bbm.jcmag.fr/BloodBowlManager.WebSite/ImageMatchReport.aspx?Id=267520&lang=en&bg=orca)

Jesus Christ, Denton, this game left me on the edge of my seat.

First half I chose to receive, and it was a fairly easy touchdown at 8th turn. BUT I still lost a catcher to a niggling injury, a lino to a MNG and another lino after an 8-man foul on Zara that only got a stun.

Second half, I notice that a treeman gets taken off the field because of sweltering heat, and with the auspicious previous half in mind, I think "I got this". Then suddenly I found myself with only 6 dudes left on the pitch after the second turn as 2 of my folks got KO'd, and then a MB blitzer got deadened, fortunately apothed into MNG. Queue absolutely frantic attempts at smacking down Zara the carrier, surrounded tightly by halflings like some goddamned Snow White, which only resulted in my blokes getting smacked down instead.

Zara runs down the pitch, a 2d blitz with gfis involved fortunately takes her down. Thrower snatches the ball, I do one gfi for a handoff, of course it has to be rerolled. Handoff fails, ball bounces back from catcher into the thrower's hands. WUT. Another Zara blitz, thrower is down, Zara tries to go for the ball, trips and stuns on a failed dodge. After that I managed a pickup and handoff (REROLL) to a strategically placed blitzer who ran off into safety and would later score for 2:0.

I want to thank the halfling master chef who found it reasonable to steal none of my rerolls during the 2nd half, which dramatically saved my ass. GG Eldaec, that was a really cool game.

Would be really good if we could play today or tomorrow, I'm GMT+1. Added you on steam

I'll be around for the next hour Lamaros otherwise will see if you are around my tomorrow morning your evening. Not sure when I will be free to play tomorrow though.

Huitzilopochtli's Gift 2 - 1 Knights of Codexia.

Rep uploaded.

(http://bbm.jcmag.fr/BloodBowlManager.WebSite/ImageMatchReport.aspx?Id=267611&lang=en)

Really sorry, completely lost track of time today. Still a bit sick and the GF is also, so a bit distracted.

Looks like your morning my evening is the best go. Will log on to my computer so I hopefully don't miss you again.

Carnifex,

Not sure we'll get our game in if not today. I'll be around if you want to poke me on steam.

Ok no worries I am online now will be around for a couple of hours at least I hope so fingers crossed we have times that match up :)

Me and drogg played. I scored 2 touchdowns in first half, then the khornates did a 2-1 grind trying to hurt my players. Thankfully nuffle blessed me and the only serious injury got apothed away. Pretty boring game in general, I really need a strip ball gunner.

(http://bbm.jcmag.fr/BloodBowlManager.WebSite/ImageMatchReport.aspx?Id=267623&lang=en)

The Minizilla's 3 - Best With the Mess 1

Really good first half where the claw skaven blitzer did a good job of taking off my Saurus players and the bash didn't go all my way forcing a scrambled score in turn 5 and then holding firm to run the timer out and go into the second half 1-0 up.

Second half and Lameros got a proper nuffle fucking. Don't think any play he made bar 1 (a 1 turn goblin throw touchdown) came off the entire half. I got 2 Blitzes and scored off one of them and whereas in the first half while he didn't injure any Saurus he did KO 3 of them in the second half all their armour held and he could only KO skinks who woke up after each of my scores so never got a numbers advantage either.

Was a good match, just wish the luck could be a little more even cos I have had games like this but been on the receiving end and it is very frustrating but I suppose that's the way the Nuffle crumbles!

There was a bit of muffling but to be honest I always needed it to screw Ulysses to even have a sniff against his very solid side. In the first half I got a good run, but I couldn't convert that to a score and in the second my luck turned a little and Ulysses made me pay full price. I only scored because he was nice enough not to put the hammer down, and given no one died this time I can actually consider myself a bit lucky in the end. Those skinks of his seemed near immortal against my one tackle team, it was a miracle I actually injured any of them!

Keep Rolling 1 - First Ladies 0

After the last match, Keep Rolling were fearing the worst, firing 3 levelled players, but it looks like luck was in their favour this match.  Within a few turns, The First Ladies were down a centaur and a minotaur, and that give us the strength advantage needed to slowly move the ball down the pitch, scoring on turn 8.  A well timed bribe of the ref kept the Deathroller on in the second half,and the ref still seemed to be on Keep Rolling's side, running the clock on, giving The First Ladies even less time to complete a drive.  They began to make headway, removing a few players, but were unable to capitalise on that, and the drive ended.

(http://bbm.jcmag.fr/BloodBowlManager.WebSite/ImageMatchReport.aspx?Id=267657&lang=en&bg=orca)

Thanks for the match Ruvaldt :)

Fun game with Carnifex resulting in a 2-2 draw (4th draw in a row for me!).

Was pleased with the start, he elected for me to receive which is my favoured play anyway since it gives me a chance to lay some smackdown on his line and a chance at gaining an early lead. All went very much to plan with 1 injury and 2 KOs ealrly on allowing me a slow advance to an ultimate 1-0 lead on turn 4. Unfortunately I failed some armour rolls myself and and ended up a few players hort whereas his babes kept most of his players in the game and his regenerate kept his injured players in.

Felt ok for the next part of the first half as I caged him in quite well, but I hadn't accounted for the speed on werewolves and a handoff between the two allowed a long running touchdown on turn 8.

Seciod half left me short on players, but I still felt ok as the ball changed hands a bit, but then he broke it clear of my line and protected the ball carrier very well (despite my bullshit dodge past two guys which ended up with my guy down!). He sat on my end zone for 3 turns just out of reach, I did mange to mark him with a guy with tackle, but this wizard's lightning bolt sorted out that little issue for him and he scored with 2 turns left leaving him 2-1 up.

With so few players I had no choice, but to make a risky play. So far my orcs had played pretty well as elves, making some special dodges and some throws, I decided to charge my 2 blitzers down field. the first he surrounded with 4 players, the second he managed to knock down. It was all or nothing. i tried to blitz one of the guys off him, but that failed. So, I went for the bullshit dodge roll followed by 2 GFIs and got him into the end zone! Unbelievable! Then I GFIed my throwed to be in long range and took the shot... Crazily it worked, successful throw and the equalising point of turn 16!

Another game I was sure I'd lose, but Nuffle seems to want me to draw all games and he was not disappointed. 20/20 match rating did not surprise me, no long term injuries either side.

Hey Modern, I'm around now for the rest of the evening (another 4 or 5 hours).  Just message me on steam when every your around.

Well, that escalated quickly.

(http://bbm.jcmag.fr/BloodBowlManager.WebSite/ImageMatchReport.aspx?Id=268018&lang=en)

I thought this was going to be a rough game after some bad rolls and one of my war dancers getting a permanent injury and re rolling to something equally shitty (ended up with niggling injury).

Then Modern proceded to get dice fucked.  Had tons of really bad rolls (lots of double skulls and the such), and I proceeded to make most of what I wanted, all the while pushing Elven bullshit to the limit.  Poor dwarves.

This was an exceedingly frustrating game. I was completely hapless. Nothing I did worked. I couldn't hem his elves in. He passed into multiple TZs with no issues. I couldn't break his armor. He danced around my dwarves with ease. I kept getting double skulls.

It was, and this isn't Teleku's fault, possibly the least fun BB match I've ever played.

The dice decided a final kick in the nuts was appropriate and gave my MVP to Morg. I've now gone three games without a skill up.

A 1-0 win in a very tight game against Reborne's Wrestlers for The Banned. This one really came down to just a few rolls and could have gone either way. If it hadn't been for a riot on the final kickoff I think I would have had a very hard time keeping him from scoring to even it up; it was basically down to one werewolf trying to stop the marching ogres at my end of the field.

(http://bbm.jcmag.fr/BloodBowlManager.WebSite/ImageMatchReport.aspx?Id=268078&lang=en&bg=orca)

Strazos, come back and play!   :heartbreak:

Unfortunately, I didn't notice that I was offline on Steam most of the evening. I was on yesterday but did not hear from you.

I have plans Friday evening, but should be around most of Saturday.

But I heard from you yesterday!

(http://www.proudft.com/straz2.png)

Oh well... I guess Saturday it is.

Somebody approve our match, god damnit!  I had some level ups!   :drill:

Dziękuję!

Oh, I didn't get that message on my end - you appeared offline to me. Weird.

Beetles lose 0-3 to Elves.

The first elf score was helped by a blitz on the kickoff.  They were nice enough to score quickly so it looked like just a minor bump in the road.  On the next drive, though, I made one huge, huge mistake with a skeleton near the cage and clicked on the wrong damn button for a Both Down instead of a Push, which not only freed up a dark elf blitzer w/block without making him dodge on the next turn, but to add insult to injury, it KOed my dude.  Next turn that blitzer swept in and took down the ball carrier as punishment for my mistake.

I suppose he could have made the dodge anyway, but ugh, I hate clicking on the wrong thing.

Matters were not helped by ol' Butterfingers thro-ra, who failed at least three pickups.  But, that happens.  Mainly it was just the elves hanging on with enough bodies to do their dancing and prancing and dodging and throwing and catching as elves do, and Strazos led them to a fine victory.  

Edit: stats would be nice, I suppose: