S#4 - Game Day #3

[Comstar]

Kick has been something I have been missing in my team for a while. This guy is level 4 now and due to his +1 agi I tend to use him as a thrower. This means he's almost always deployed as my back marker so that he can swoop in and grab the ball if it goes loose in my half and lob it upfield for a quick return. Because he is always kept out of trouble and because I couldn't give him Pass or Safe Throw (which would have been my preference) I decided to give him the skill that the team as a whole is missing. Sure Hands or Dodge were also considered but I figured that Kick would be more useful overall.

I would have given him leap - the ability to jump into any so called cage, hit the ball carrier with block, and walk out again. Or Sure Hands to walk into how many tacklezones and get the ball. Or Dodge to walk around through any defense line. The things I can do with a +5 AG Amazon...sob.

[Falconeer]

Did my abortion of a game get voided yet ?

Ah, yes of course. 2 days ago.

[Ironwood]

Cheers much.  We'll get replaying that one asap then.

[AndyDavo]

can i  have my game validated please?

[Ulysees]

The Minizilla's 3 - Ironwood's Itchers 1

Ironwood and I got our match replayed after my turn 1 crashing shenanigan's on Saturday with a 3-1 win for the lizards. Odd game not played how I was expecting but having never played a skaven team I don't know if Ironwood was just super aggresive or if pure running plays and always trying to score in 2 turns is how Skaven work. Nuffle kicked Ironwood in the nuts though for the first half and non of his plays came off and having low AV linerats meant I was able to punch some holes and score a couple of touchdowns in the first half and inflict a KO and an injury to boot for no reply. Skink hand offs were amazingly reliable this half so even though all re-rolls were burned early when I needed it the dice played nice and things looked comfortable.

Second half kicks off with a rock thrown from a crown KO'ing a Saurus evening up the numbers on the pitch and I form a standard cage, punch some rats for a couple of turns and run in the third touchdown on turn 12, however not before Ironwood managed to badly hurt 2 of my skinks meaning I was very low on field cover for the 4th kick off. Then the fast running play showed what it can do as Ironwood scoops the ball, plays a pass to a gutter runner for some SPP then leaps over my defence and advances far down the left side of the field, marking up all my players in the process. Some more punching ensues but the only thing I can get free is a lone skink and with no defensive skills Ironwood leaps over him and runs in for the score. I receive on turn 14, make a safe pickup and form my cage but the only thing I want to try and do now is build some SPP so I try to protect my skinks smash as many rat faces as possible, I do badly hurt a couple of rats and suffer a KO'd saurus and 1 more badly hurt skink but the game ends with a final score of 3-1 for the Minizilla's.

Match is submitted in BBmanager but falc can you confirm if you can see it, seems to be behaving odd tonight with lots of timeouts and I am not sure if it went through properly since it doesn't list my match in the overall stats, though that might be because you need to validate it first.

[Ironwood]

 I don't know if Ironwood was just super aggresive

That's probably because you only have 19 posts.

 

[Ulysees]

Yeah got a little bit of catching up to do with your count, but hey if this F13 league keeps running for about 20 years I may get to half your total! 

[Sky]

Spelling, punctuation and a grasp of UTC goes a long way, too. 

[Paelos]

Random profain material never seems to hurt either.

[Ironwood]

The point; I fear it was missed.

[Paelos]

The point; I fear it was missed.

That's you're a cuddly teddy bear now? We know. It's adorable. 

[Ironwood]

I wish.  Christine was worried about a infarction last night, I was screaming at the monitor so much.  Fucking awful game.  Fucking AWFUL.

You should all be aware that in future, in any lizardman engagement, it's going to be my strategy just to kill Skinks.  I'm not going to worry about winning, losing or even having fun.  I'm just going to kill skinks.

Stupid fucking dice.

[Strazos]

Good thing I have no skinks to kill.   

[IainC]

To be fair if you do kill all the Skinks then you will probably win on the basis that nothing else on a Lizardman team can pick up the ball.

[HaemishM]

Yeah, and you likely will not be able to affect the Sauruses with anything other than a goddamn juiced up Rat Ogre. Might as well go after the little shits anyway.

[Ironwood]

Strangely, I manage to fuck up one of them.

I am in love with Leap on Skaven though.  Just an awesome skill.

[Ingmar]

Killing skinks is always my goal, that's what they're there for.

[Paelos]

Why aren't we playing Day 4 yet?

Oh right, because the Commish is slacking.   

[Comstar]

When you play lizardmen, you are required to blitz a skink every turn. It's the law. Same with snotlings.

[Ice Cream Emperor]

Spoken like someone without claw blitzers on their team.

[Ruvaldt]

I always save my claw players for AV8 or 9 opponents.  They're wasted on skinks and their ilk.

[Ingmar]

I think he means use claw on the sauri, but the stunty still makes the skinks better for smooshin'.

[Der Helm]

If somebody sees Avaia on steam, tell him/her that I am getting delayed at work and won't be able to go home a little longer.And my laptop can't play BB.

[avaia]

If somebody sees Avaia on steam, tell him/her that I am getting delayed at work and won't be able to go home a little longer.And my laptop can't play BB.

Damn.

[Ingmar]

What, it's only 2 am your time, you're just getting warmed up.

[avaia]

What, it's only 2 am your time, you're just getting warmed up.

Please, I'm 40 now.  Time to start keeping normal hours.   

[Ingmar]

What, it's only 2 am your time, you're just getting warmed up.

Please, I'm 40 now.  Time to start keeping normal hours.   

And you don't look a day over 45.

Wait, why am I trash talking someone I won't even see in the playoffs?

[Llyse]

Please, I'm 40 now.  Time to start keeping normal hours.   

And you don't look a day over 45.

Wait, why am I trash talking someone I won't even see in the playoffs?

Glasshouses something something, idioms are for old people anyway 

[Der Helm]

Came home and almost immediatly passed out.  I am getting old too.

If Avaia is online today, I am just gonna grab him on Steam later on.

[Paelos]

No, no. Take your time. It's not like there have been only two games left to play for 3 days now.

 

[Sjofn]

Settle down, skippy, this is going to happen every "day," if last season was any indication. It's rough when you have people from all over the world, we can't all be unemployed stagehands like me!

It would be easier to deal with if someone would approve my feeder teams to the feeder league though.

/sniffle

[Paelos]

I got my first level up on a beastman and got all excited!

[ezrast]

A crushing 3-0 victory for 7 Deadly over The Bell Jar Utd. First half my sauruses elected to receive and then went on a rampage, sending most of the amazons off the pitch while my skinks ran the ball back and forth, foiling any opposing defense. Lizards have the best fans; they even went so far as to deal mortal injuries to one of the Ball Jar's linewomen, whom Falc heartlessly refused proper medical treatment. Sonneillon almost forgot to actually score a touchdown on turn 8 as the team went about its rampage, but fortunately I thought to check the timer and run the ball in before doing too many risky things.

In the second half, the amazons received and sent some receivers through my line of scrimmage, of whom Virginia Woolf managed to make a catch and run the ball dangerously close to my endzone. Fortunately, I had remembered to keep up a screen for once and she was quickly surrounded and her grip on the ball rescinded. She tried picking it up, failed thanks to being in 3 TZs, and knocked the ball into the stands, whereupon the crowd chucked it into the hands of Mammon, a saurus on the line of scrimmage. Best fans, I'm telling you. Magaera promptly kicked Woolf off the pitch - the crowd didn't throw her back in, although an apothecary saved her from missing the next game - and Mammon led a merry charge up the field, scoring with three turns left.

Drive three began with eleven lizards to six amazons. Half the lizards surged ahead to recover their wildly off-pitch kick, which had been placed into the hands of star thrower Sylvia Plath and then tossed to Virginia Woolf, while the other half prevented the amazon line of scrimmage from advancing. Woolf tried to prevent a score by throwing away the ball as the lizards backed her and her cohorts against the amazon endzone, but Pruflas intercepted the toss and ran the ball in on the last turn.

Actually having skills on my players is nice. This must be what other teams feel like all the time! Now I just need to figure out what goes with Catch.

edit: Also what to do with 220k cash. I could take a krox but I'd rather not have to deal with the reliability issues that come with Loner and Bone-head, especially now that Diving Tackle is obviating the need for Prehensile Tail. More likely I'll buy a fifth reroll and a seventh skink and then never spend money again except for replacements.

[Ingmar]

Krox is probably the best Big Guy IMO, I would probably grab one.

[Sky]

I just played my first game with a troll and he was nice to just have controlling the middle of the field, only spent maybe three turns of the game being really stupid. Unless you've got +STR Sauri, it's nice to have the anchor for the line.