S#4 - Game Day #7

[eldaec]

Horde 0 - 1 Beetles

Eventually.

A weird game.

Too many mistakes from my side against solid play from proudft I think. Result being we got very tied up in each other's teams.

Almost scored in the second half with a Sjofn style passing move, but a failed dodge roll and not so much.

Thog the Butcher (zerker) misses the next match loses 1AV, Fearless Arnold (lineman) misses every match forever on account of being dead. Mrs Cake (Wolf) has now managed eight matches without picking up a single SPP.

One of the Thro-Ras got badly hurt but unaccountably survived the match.

Beetles go through, Horde go out, last spot will go to the winner of Hackers vs Wrestlers, or the Mutiny snatch it if they tie.

[proudft]

The fourth time WAS the charm for our match connection.  Apparently it didn't like me winning the coin toss, 'cause once eldeac won that we were off smoothly.

Our lines got very intermixed this game.  I can't even explain it, it was bizarre.  The second half in particular - at one point a Tomb Guardian ended up with the ball after a hit on the Norse ball carrier and then he got swarmed by 4 or 5 Norse on the next turn and taken down and the ball bounced loose and away a few squares.

Then the Khemri swarmed in around the Norse swarm and it was this weird reverse-cage thing with Norse trapped inside the undead circle and a Thro-Ra running to scoop up the ball at his leisure.   Which he failed, of course, ruining the moment.

Final score 1-0 Beetles, and 1 dead level 3 Norse lineman (Fend & Tackle, I believe).

[Sjofn]

Oh! I also had a bunch of money and decided to add two throwers (yes, that's right, two of 'em). Thick McRunfast and Smoke Manmuscle! Now it'll take a little longer to make me kickoff with five dudes on the field!

[proudft]

Replay is uploaded, forgot to mention that. 

Also, we both seemed to be running low on time a LOT, probably from the weird messes we kept getting into, though I think eldeac's turn got cut off more than mine (I had a lot of 'oh 5 seconds left, eh, guess I'm done' moments instead of actual turnovers).

Also also, I was afraid of the yeti being a problem before the game, but turns out it is pretty easy to 2d block a yeti when your team is Khemri.  Not like that pain in the ass he was vs. the Pointy Hat Squad.  Though that might have been Ruvaldt's Norse, come to think of it.

[eldaec]

Yhetee would have done more if I hadn't been having half my turns cut off by time on account of being old and slow. No block means he tends to move later in the turn.

But mostly what he does is block an area of the pitch. I was a little disappointed he didn't manage a casualty though.

[HaemishM]

It was an epic case of two dicerollers going in completely different directions.

My ass hurts.

You have confirmed my place in the Failoffs. Beware my flouncing fail elves!

[Modern Angel]

Please, Reborne. Please. You must get Ogres to the playoffs.

[Falconeer]

with a Sjofn style passing move

 

What is it like, by the way?

[Ingmar]

with a Sjofn style passing move

 

What is it like, by the way?

Falc: I will be home in ~3 hours if you can stay up that late. 

[Strazos]

Slate Fistcrunch the Norse Berserker went up a level and rolled doubles and now has SIDESTEP.

Did he already have dodge?

[Sjofn]

Nope! Sidestep is an experiment.

[Ingmar]

Sidestep > dodge as a first doubles skill for a berserker, IMO - for most frenzy players, really. Means surfing is very safe to do. Berserkers also already have jump up which means the main benefit of dodge (not getting knocked down as much) is a little blunted. Plus you probably take piling on eventually on a berserker, so you don't plan to be standing up to get hit as much in the first place in the long run.

Dodge still has good arguments for it though obviously.

[Ruvaldt]

Paper Dolls 2 - 0 Ex-Presidents

The game went about as I expected, but with surprisingly little bloodshed.  I put up a spirited defense in the first half, but was eventually undone by my players getting surfed and simply couldn't keep a solid defense together anymore.  Andydavo scored on round 8.

I received in the second half, but could never put together a cage in the center of the field, as I prefer to do, and again got stuck on the sidelines.  The game ended with the Paper Dolls stalling for time at the endzone and scoring in round 16.

Richard Nixon, my fabled AGI5 Beastman died.  I had such plans for you, Tricky Dick...

On the bright side though, Millard Fillmore and Franklin Pierce, my star players, both leveled, and Harry S. Truman, a recent favorite of mine, got MVP.

See you all in the playoffs!

[AndyDavo]

IT was a good game, both of us leveling players and having no one hurt (minus the agl guy-sorry for that) - we are both going into the playoffs as strong as ever.

Roll on game day 8!

[Ice Cream Emperor]

Nobody should ever apologize for killing Richard Nixon.

[Ruvaldt]

You're going to be on Nixon 2 Electricboogaloo's enemies list, Ice Cream Emperor.

[Ice Cream Emperor]

Well in that case I might consider letting him live long enough to show me how to dance on the ceiling.

[Sky]

Hey, look. The Tards actually pull out an eleventh hour victory against the resident Scot. It was a fun, pretty wild game. Tards 3-0. My perfect season ruined, no 0-7 for the Tards.

IW only made one bad mistake, really. I made a crazy GFI to get one step from teh endzone, hoping I could then knock down his only "nearby" GR but I got a stumble so his GR had enough room to blitz my blitzer. He rolled push/both down and let the timer expire to push, if he had BD the GR had wrestle. Only other thing I'd say is make sure to get your guys stood up and watch positioning.

I played a fairly consevative game except for a few bombs. Practiced setting up cages in different situations, including setting up screened cages from his strong side. Got in some passing, though I think my first score was on a player who will be cut shortly (str2 blitzer), but I wanted to get some points on the board to take off some pressure in the second half. Troll MVP! Yay Lazypuke!

[Sir T]

Vita-nogors the Pestigor gained a level to 3 and now has the Big Hands mutation. I bought a reroll and 2 more cheerleaders, and fired a rotter that had only 7 AV to bring down the team value a little, leaving me with 14 total players and a bench of 3 rotters. Not bad to be honest.

[eldaec]

Stop buying cheerleaders, they are near as damnit worthless and increase your TV.

[Ruvaldt]

I'd also consider 14 players to be excessive on a Nurgle team.  I might want a big bench on a team with low TV, but Nurgle players have decent AV and regeneration.  You can probably shave off some TV that way as well; you don't want to give your opponents a ton of inducements.

[proudft]

Stop buying cheerleaders, they are near as damnit worthless and increase your TV.

But have you SEEN the Nurgle cheerleaders? 

[drogg]

teleku's reign of terror is at an end  1-0 burnin' luv over the hippies.  mvp goes to diving tackle and teleku's terrible catch rolls!  i have to move some heavy things but i'll try and do a writeup when i return.  match uploaded

[IainC]

The last match in Stormbringer just finished. A draw would have kept things as they are while any other result would put the winners into the fourth playoff spot at Sjofn's expense.

Reborne chose to spend all of his inducement cash on the Halfling Chef which was probably a wise investment. I won the toss and elected to kick in the first half. The ball landed deep in the Ogre half and the Halfling Chef took 2 of my 3 rerolls.

Reborne got a snotling under the ball who caught it easily and almost immediately handed it off to an Ogre after a fairly ineffective scrap on the line of scrimmage. The Dark Elves came down and began their campaign of genocide against the Snotlings. Not only are they a source of cheap SPPs from casualties but they are the only things on the Ogre team who can reliably move when marked and handle the ball. Taking them out would seriously cripple Reborne's scoring potential. Seeing the Dark Elves puching Ogres and Snotlings around, Reborne sent the Ogre with the ball forwards and tried to build a screen around it with Snotlings. He only got one into place before a Snotling failed a dodge roll trying to get away from a marker with Shadowing and Tackle leaving the ball carrier exposed. I took full advantage and went in hard with my Witch Elf who knocked the Ogre over sending the ball into the waiting hands of one of the assisting Line-Elves. The Ogre rolled to his feet after burning a reroll on a failed Bonehead and blitzed the Line-Elf right back and this time the ball flew loose.

I then had a great turn where I knocked over a bunch of Ogres, picked up the ball and got it clear. The Ogres came thundering down the pitch but the hackers pulled off a typically Elven play and threw the ball to where the Ogres weren't. A particularly vicious foul led to an early bath for both the Ogre on the floor and the Line-Elf whose studs had caused the injury. The Ogres tried frantically to get back up the pitch but Dark Elf markers on Ogres with the judicious murder of all Snotlings in range meant that they couldn't get anyone on the ball. An Ogre made a series of ill-advised dodge rolls to get away from an Assassin with Shadowing and I was free and clear with a few turns to go before the end of the half. I spent a few turns mopping up random Snotlings and ganging up on the Ogres who had become hopelessly spread out before running the ball in on turn 7. I could probably have held out for another turn but I opted for the safety of putting a score on the board before the end of the half, plus I wanted my Witch Elf to have an extra chance at a KO roll.

The final drive saw the first Dark Elf casualty when an Ogre Badly Hurt a Line-Elf, in return I badly hurt another Snotling just before the whistle blew.

For the second half I was down to ten players but the Ogres were down to 9 and so I pressed my advantage with an aggressive drive into the Ogres. I knocked a few down and then lost another player when the ref noticed him fouling an Ogre. The Ogre would have been dead but the Apothecary saved him. Outraged by the despicable behaviour of the Dark Elves, the Ogres kicked the crap out of the only Witch Elf I had available for this match and smashed her hip. Out came the Dark Elf Apothecary but he'd clearly taken a few blows to the head himself as his ministrations would have killed her had he not been dragged away in time. Again though the Dark Elves sent the ball down field to a safe location and forced the Ogres to run around in circles. An Assassin got Badly Hurt trying to mark one of the lumbering Ogres but there was no way they could prevent the score and my star Line-Elf rolled the score in after blitzing down a Snotling who'd got too close without cover.

There were four turns each left to play and the Elves were showing the strain from the bruising they'd received at the hands of the Ogres. With two players sent off, two KOd who didn't recover and 3 injuries, they were only able to put 6 Elves on the pitch. The Ogres fared little better with only 8 match-worthy players but they had the advantage in strength. I kicked to the back corner but the bounce was bad and it ended up close to the line of scrimmage. A Snotling picked it up and passed it to an Ogre who promptly dropped it. I saw an opportunity for a bullshit Elfy play and it almost worked, I ran in a Line-Elf to the ball which was covered by a Snotling and an Ogre and my intention was to blitz the Snotling away and then dodge clear however I failed the GfI roll I needed to throw the (2 dice) Blitz after successfully dodging in and picking up the ball. This time, the Ogre picked the ball up himself and began lumbering down the pitch to the Dark Elf endzone. I had precious few players left to stop him so I opted to move my remaining players to safety and console myself with smacking Snotlings around. Finally, on the last turn Reborne Badly Hurt another Elf before his Ogre scored a consolation touchdown and the match was over.

2-1 to the Hackers and that means that I'm now on 10 points in the group and have just squeaked past Sjofn into fourth place.

Going into the playoffs I will probably fire the Witch Elf despite the fact that she was +1 str, Block and Leap. She's carrying a couple of niggling injuries and the -1 MA she took in that match might be the final straw. All three of the other injuries were just Badly Hurt so they will be back for the next match.

[Modern Angel]

Dammit, Reborne. You let the entire Ogre race down.

[Ingmar]

We should be playing Beardstorm! vs. Bell Jar sometime in the next couple hours. Once we're done I believe Helm vs. Ginaz is the last match pending, and the playoff picture will already be set.

[Sjofn]

Yesssssssss, into the failoffs for meeeeee!

Maybe I'll have a rematch against Reborne! 

[Ingmar]

After a couple false starts, Beardstorm! beats The Bell Jar 2-1, sending Falconeer to the failoffs and ezrast to the playoffs. Another bullshit dwarf pass was involved. I think I also solidified my grasp on the knockdown/injury categories. Thorgrim I and Nar both hit level 4.

The Bell Jar Utd. | 1 - 2 | Beardstorm!

Teams

	The Bell Jar Utd.	Beardstorm!
Race :	Amazon	Dwarf
TV :	1560	1760
Treasury :	120000	90000
Rerolls :	5	4
Apothecary :	1	1
Fan Factor :	6	6
Cheerleaders :	0	0

Match Report

	The Bell Jar Utd.	Beardstorm!
Score :	1	2
Touchdowns inflicted :	1	2
Touchdowns sustained :	2	1
Passes :	2	1
Catches :	2	1
Interceptions :	0	0
Knockdowns inflicted :	3	22
KOs inflicted :	0	4
Injuries inflicted :	2	5
Deaths inflicted :	0	0
Tackles inflicted :	1	5
Yards gained passing :	28	16
Yards gained running :	42	82
Ball Possession (%) :	46	34
Own occupation:	35	64
Opponent occupation :	64	35

Note of the match: 19/20
Spectators: 30000

[IainC]

I figured you'd won because I saw you both ingame and I wanted to try and mug Falc on the way out to validate my game and accept the two teams I put into the feeder league, however he logged out of the game and then immediately logged out of Steam before I could collar him. 

[Ingmar]

I figured you'd won because I saw you both ingame and I wanted to try and mug Falc on the way out to validate my game and accept the two teams I put into the feeder league, however he logged out of the game and then immediately logged out of Steam before I could collar him. 

That may have been during one of his computer explosions actually.

I also just realized he has now joined the Forgot To Use His Wizard Club.

[IainC]

He was on Steam for a brief moment after logging out of Bloodbowl then he disappeared from there while I was typing at him.

[Modern Angel]

Obviously he was raging hard.

[Reborne]

Dammit, Reborne. You let the entire Ogre race down.

I've been playing this team for so long, sometimes I bonehead too 

It was a fun game and I actually scored against Delves, which I don't think I've managed to do before.

Yesssssssss, into the failoffs for meeeeee!

Maybe I'll have a rematch against Reborne! 

I'll be there, snotlings lied to and Ogres still there because they never thought to leave the pitch! 

[IainC]

Dammit, Reborne. You let the entire Ogre race down.

I've been playing this team for so long, sometimes I bonehead too 

It was a fun game and I actually scored against Delves, which I don't think I've managed to do before.

You had a lot of bonehead rolls at bad times to be fair. I tried to stop your score by putting a couple of guys around the Ogre with the ball. I think I had enough Elves in range to get a 2d block against him or at the very least put enough guys marking him to keep him in place but I failed the first Dodge roll of that turn so that plan was dead before it started.

[Strazos]

Anyone know the status of the Helm/Ginaz game? Looks to be the only remaining game before we roll into our playoff brackets.