* f13 MatchMaking Feeder League *

[Ginaz]

getting a Gutter Runner to level 3, where he promptly got a +1 STR to go with wrestle and dodge. Fear Nightcrawler, motherfuckers.

That's a GR worthy of fouling.  Get him Side Step or maybe Tackle or Strip Ball...he'll be a menace.

I can confirm that that GR is a pain in the ass with wrestle.  He was about the only one on Haemish's team that I didn't either KO or injure with my necro team.  On a brighter note, I won 3-1 and my werewolf is now lvl 3 with block and +1 str.

[HaemishM]

He spent the next game against Ginaz getting knocked on his ass, but he wasn't alone in that. I did get a new rat ogre and leveled another gutter runner, who also got wrestle. 

[Paelos]

Applied the South Park Smackdown, my new Chaos team, to the Feeder League. Now I need approval and I'll play you goons in some games this weekend.

[Ginaz]

Available again tonight for another game or two.

[Ginaz]

After tonight's game, my necro team has reached the 1250 TV limit.  I was able to get another werewolf (to go along with my +5 str/block one) and my ghoul now has sure hands.  We'll see how things go in the Failoffs with my lizardman team, but I'm starting to like the necros quite a bit and I'm thinking about using them in season 5.

Edit:  I meant +4 str werewolf.  I must have been thinking of my +5 str Saurus.

[Llyse]

Let's hope I win the cup so I can retire Alive not Dead and let you take over mate 

[Sky]

I like the necros, too. They seem to support the way I'm trying to play the orcs. Enough armor to take some punishment, but some decent passing options.

[Hoax]

I'll take games today, hit me up.

[eldaec]

Will also be online for some pre-pre-season blood bowl in euro prime.

[lamaros]

I gotta warm up the nurgles. Hit me up on steam.

[lamaros]

I had a game with Ginaz. My nurgle did nearly as well as they did again Megrim's humans. Got him down to only one player on the pitch!

Still no fun skillups. I haven't had a decent roll on any player in any of my teams for a long long time now.

[IainC]

Played Carnifex in back to back matches using my rookie Wood Elves. First match against his Vampires was carnage and I beat him like a red-headed stepchild 3-1. Second one against his Necro team went the other way and I lost that 2-0. Had fun with the Woodies and they might be replacing the Hackers in a future season.

Ran into a BBManager issue when trying to upload the games afterwards. I fired up BBManager and it auto-detected the last game I played (vs the Necro team) no problem so I uploaded that. Then, I went to upload the Vampires game and even when I selected the correct replay file the uploader insisted that it was the Necro match. I uploaded it anyway and, sure enough the match statistics etc were all from the Necro match. How do I fix that?

[lamaros]

BB Manager only works for last game played.

Sometimes you can fix by viewing the replay, in full, of the other game you want to upload. Then try BB Manager.

[lamaros]

Ready for another game, if anyone is awake!

[carnifex27]

Sometimes you can fix by viewing the replay, in full, of the other game you want to upload. Then try BB Manager.

If you do this, remember that the + button speeds up time during the replays.  IIRC it takes less than 5 minutes at max speed.

[Ice Cream Emperor]

If you do this, remember that the + button speeds up time during the replays.  IIRC it takes less than 5 minutes at max speed.

Even better, you can just load the replay and then immediately abandon the game, and BBManager will still detect it as the last game played.

[Celer]

If you do that, it won't generate the end-of-game match report, which messes the stats up. Use  +++++, it's the only way to be sure!

[eldaec]

Free for one last pre-pre-season warmup if anyone is interested.

[Hoax]

I'm looking for a game today, hit me up.

[AndyDavo]

I like the necros, too. They seem to support the way I'm trying to play the orcs. Enough armor to take some punishment, but some decent passing options.

Sky - you may like 'developed' dark elves. they are a total pain in the ass to start but with AV8 all round (if you hide the Av7 pieces carefully) they can generally take a small beating.

Wierdly humans are also a more passy-middle-of-the-road version of orcs. Look them up.

Both teams don't play great to start but are decent when slightly developed.

[HaemishM]

Humans are a fun, well-balanced team to play. They have a big guy, start with two guys with block, their catchers start out decent, they can get a thrower. They are a good team to learn the game with, IMO, because while they aren't great at anything, they can be good at lots of things.

[Ruvaldt]

Now that my humans have a lot of guard I see their potential.  I dislike their catchers as they feel like slower gutter runners without access to mutations, and, to be honest, the Ogre is a liability until he gets block.  Getting four blitzers is awesome though and are pretty clearly the heart of the team unless you develop a really amazing thrower, and even that can be risky as my now retired Thrower Augustus can testify due to a career ending -MA injury.

[Sky]

I think my toughest transition from orcs is going to be getting used to guys with less than av9 :) I do tend to play a pretty passy game and this season my bashing sucked ass (I was at the top of s#3 kills regular season). Maybe it's a sign, Chuck was in the top ten passers S#3 and I think top 3 S#4...

On the big guy thing, my Troll was barely useful and I did buy him late. I put Guard on him rather than Block when he got MVP late last season (last S#4 game, iirc), thinking he might do better as a fulcrum for flanking Black Orcs (especially the str5 BO, guaranteed str6 block off the LoS. One reason I want to keep playing the orcs, I picked up a lot of guard toward the end of last season, my cages should be a lot tougher in S#5 if the Tards continue.

[Ingmar]

I feel like humans would probably be a pretty frustrating starter team, personally. I've never been a fan, their catchers with the strength 2 but none of the agility of the other strength 2 pieces really annoy me.

[Ruvaldt]

With dauntless or a lucky +STR level up the catchers can make good blitzers/ball strippers akin to a gutter runner.  I've developed one as a straight up catcher and scorer and he is pretty disappointing, though he did have a 3 TD game this weekend.  I started without any catchers and did just fine, but having at least one player with 8 MA does help, even if it is from a STR 2 player.

[carnifex27]

I'm looking for a game or two this morning, please hit me up on steam if you're available.

[eldaec]

Be careful when Carnifex offers up his 'crappy vampire team'. Played them with my rats, and won 3-2 but lost 270k of gutter runner and rat ogre in the process.

Fuck all useless apothecaries.

[Ruvaldt]

I miss the old apothecary rules.  Honestly, I haven't had an apothecary roll that made a difference in 7+ games.

I'll offer to play his vampires with the Emperors though...

[Sky]

I believe one of Festering Wound's two losses (with the pre-season league win we're 2-1-2, iirc) was to those Vamps.

[lamaros]

Anyone up for a game please msg me on steam!

[AndyDavo]

I'm looking to play a brand new chaos team in feeder. anyone around?

[lamaros]

Anyone up for a game?

[Paelos]

I will be looking for a feeder game tonight around 7 EDT if anybody wants to shoot me a message.

[lamaros]

There be teams needing authorisation! Darn commishes!

[lamaros]

Anyone up for a game please msg me on steam!