* f13 MatchMaking Feeder League *

[Ruvaldt]

That was a fun game which turned out to be more challenging than I thought it would be.  I had a terrible time landing blocks, and lost the ball on my second turn after two double attacker-down dice; nearly gave up a TD in the aftermath until Luckton took one too many gfis trying to get away from me.

What really killed me was the weather in the second half.  I lost three players to the heat while the Halflings lost none, and Luckton managed an amazing ball pickup/two-gfi TD to end his 16th turn.  The trees were amazingly active also.  I don't think any of them took root in the entire game and they ran all over the place!  Luckton played really well and deserved that tie, for sure.  Looking forward to more games.

[luckton]

I did have one Take Root near the end...tried to fling a 'fling at the mosh so he could assist in that 11th hour ball pickup, but the tree fumbled the 'fling.  Fortunately he wasn't needed    I'm also disappointed that my Master Chef didn't come through for me as well as I'd hoped.

I think I may revise the team one last time before S5 takes off.  It'll raise my TV a little, but it should make my Master Chef a little more worthwhile along with really irking off some people 

[Ruvaldt]

The successful halfling toss on your round ten was pretty awesome.  I don't think I had ever seen a fully successful one done before.

[Llyse]

Should be up for a game or two in 4 hours if all goes well

[eldaec]

Looking for some games on my feeder league lizards and nurgle if anyone is around. Bug me on steam or join the f13 bloodbowlers group chat.

[eldaec]

My halflings have just provided further evidence of short person superiority, tying 0-0 with Iain's amped up chaos side.

PC crashed just seconds after completing the game, providing further evidence that halflings are indeed Nuffle's chosen ones.

[IainC]

'Amped up' is being a bit kind to them. They have about four players who have levelled up so they aren't as terrible as most Chaos sides are. Was a fun game though and you did well to prevent me from scoring twice in the second half.

[Llyse]

Frantic packing procastination starts now.

Blood bowl is included 

[luckton]

Between taking care of my 11-month old and playing LotRO, I'm available today until 1600 EST for matches with my Human and off-season Halfling teams.  Hit me up if interested.

[luckton]

C'mon...I know 'everyone' out there isn't working 

[luckton]

Alright, I guess everyone is working...so I took my 'flings on the road the Auld League Matchmaking circuit.  After four games, my stat was 1-1-2, got a Treeman to level 2 with +1MA and a 'fling to level 2 with Dive Tackle.

Not a bad run 

[Strazos]

Um...you know that F13 teams can only ever play in the Feeder and Season leagues...right?

[Ingmar]

It isn't his Season 5 halflings, those are already apped to the regular league.

[luckton]

Aye, I rolled out a new 'fling team just for the Matchmaking public hell

[eldaec]

Feeder league action available today - ping me on steam, will randomly harrass people a bit later for matches.

[eldaec]

Seems like luckton's halflings are more of a threat than you'd think. Just beat them 1-0 with my lizards, but luckton had a loose fling in possession just yards from the end zone more than once, a successful short pass on turn 16 would have turned the game into a tie. Tricky little buggers.

[luckton]

Aye, a couple of good matches.  The first one with my Human team was complete clownshoes, as I didn't have a lot of games played as Human, let alone that team (was their first game in the Feeder).  A broken collarbone on my Ogre and a consistent string of bad rolls for me and good roles for Eld made that game their last, as I fired the lot of them for their utter failure and bad luck of the dice. 

I was much more satisfied with the Halflng rematch against the Lizards.  The Lizards brought the pain again, sending a number of 'flings off the field, but my treemen lead by Deeproot brought the pain right back at 'em, and we finished the game with about the same number of players in the injury box.

Got a Treeman to level 2 and gave him Guard.  Good times 

For those wondering, my first match in S5 with Falc goes down this Wednesday.   

[Ruvaldt]

Yeah, Luckton tied with my Nurgles a while back.  Like I said in the prediction thread, I think people disregard his team at their own peril.  They could at least be a spoiler.

[AndyDavo]

Well i'm looking forwards to playing him. Even if I will be giving away 1100-1400 in inducements.

1 Chef,
1 Wiz,
2 Babes,
1 Bribe,
Deeproot,
Morg,
Zara,

Will be interesting!

[Ingmar]

If anyone can choke that game away it is Falconeer.   

[AndyDavo]

i was talking about playing luckton. i duno what i will be giving away vs falc. somehow my tv is currently the highest in my div!

[Ingmar]

Yeah, Falc is who luckton plays this week.

[eldaec]

Pretty sure Ingmar was talking about Falc choking vs Luckton.

Suspect your high TV might be down to having 5 level 4s and 4 stat ups.

[Ingmar]

I'm just giving up on TV management personally, I could do it but I'd have to fire my precious deathroller to do so. Now watch as I tie/lose the next 6 games and miss the playoffs due to wizards.

[eldaec]

Currently luckton has 950k inducements.

He can dump cheerleaders, coaches (both are worthless), the apothecary (who are you going to use it on? Indestructable trees or worthless halflings?) and one reroll (your good players all have loner) to take that to 1100k.

Deeproot : 300k
Morg : 430k
Zara : 270k
Chef : 100k

Total : 1100k

[luckton]

Currently luckton has 950k inducements.

He can dump cheerleaders, coaches (both are worthless), the apothecary (who are you going to use it on? Indestructable trees or worthless halflings?) and one reroll (your good players all have loner) to take that to 1100k.

It's been my experience thus far that the Masterchef is really only effective if I can get 'and' deny my opponent his rerolls.  While the MC is cool, if a kickoff event does a FAME check, I loose unless I have the proper counters.  Thus why when I found that Falc was my first opponent, I invested into max artificial FAME and picked up the Cheerleaders and Coaches, to which I don't believe Falc has either. 

I'll drop the Apoc, sure, but when the opportunity to exploit my opponent comes knocking, I don't just answer, I'll kick down the damn door for it to enter.  All for the sake of putting the random factors of this game in my favor.  'That' is how Halflings roll, motherfracker. 

[eldaec]

I guess that would see you swap in Zara for a wizard, but I think you'd really miss a potential str4 blodging ball carrier, a wizard plus maybe a reroll doesn't seem as exciting.

[Strazos]

Wait, are we colluding to help the new meat win games?

[Ice Cream Emperor]

If so we're doing a terrible job. Wizards > star players, and an in-house apothecary is surely worth a single bloodweiser babe.

[Ingmar]

Yeah I think it is worth having around just for trees, or to keep star players on the pitch.

[Strazos]

No way, star players > wizards - wizards only help you once a game...maybe.

[Ingmar]

Well I hereby encourage every single person I play for the rest of the season to load up on star players and under no circumstances to buy wizards. Please?

[Sjofn]

I'd buy TWO if I could, you bastard. Just to hear you cry. It will bring me comfort as you slaughter my poor dudes.

[lamaros]

Deal ingmar!

Oh wait, none of the Skaven star players are actually in the game, apart from the over priced RO. Looks like it's a wizard for me.

[Ingmar]

Had a very Pyrrhic victory against IainC in the feeder league just now - my thrower took a -1 agi, a lineman died, and my super wardancer is now 6 AV. 

Going to take some real doing to get this team to a 1300-playable-in-main-league state now.