~D&M~ Preseason 5 Day 2

[eldaec]

Pre-Season 5 Drilling and Manliness - Day 2 of 6

Day ends at the latest 00:01 15th August GMT+2.

But if we can get it done by next Wednesday morning that would be very handy, as I'll be away Wednesday to Sunday (hence the extra day on the absolute deadline).

The Fixtures

Sissyfaced Nancies	3 - 0	Going Forth by Day
Midnight Bleat Train	0 - 4	Ermine Vermin
Emporers of the Pitch	2 - 1	Howls and Bones
Fianna Chulain	3 - 1	Festering Wounds
Pound Pound Mantrain	1 - 1	Calidor Fancypants
Aery Faery's (sic)	0 - 0	Bridgeburners
Chanson Dada	2 - 0	Stir Fry
Court of the Moon	1 - 2	Kenosha Maroons
Sons of the West	2 - 1	SPHINX
Lesser Immortals	~vs~	something crazy
The Fantasticks	2 - 1	Wrong Games
Blue Line	2 - 3	Pro Elves for Hoes

It's Day 2 and I Don't Understand the Fixtures Aaargh

Rules of the format

tl;dr

This is Day 2. Winners from day 1 are all on 1.0pts and so have matched against other winners from day 1, these are the fixtures in the top section. Day 1 losers are all on 0.0 pts and are matched up in the second section. The only pair of teams who tied are randomly matches up or down.

As with the last round, post your results in this thread so we can keep up with who has played whom.


Who Is <insert team>?!

[lamaros]

Hmm, UK time difference is a real bitch, especially now. 10pm your time is 7am here... Is it possible you can play early in the day anytime Andy? Kinda booked out on the weekends, though. Maybe Sunday?

[Ingmar]

KHEMRI MUST CRUSH ELVES

[proudft]

Maroons over Moons 2-1.   The dark elves got hilariously boned from the start with a riot that took a bunch of them out and the goblins scored first on turn 4.  Then the elves scampered merrily through my pitiful screen back to tie it up.  Both these drives were punctuated by numerous bombardier explosions, mostly effective.  Sadly, the goblins ran out of bribes and the bombardier went away for the second half.

The elves got severely thinned out in the second half and were mere feet from their second TD when the goblins swarmed around and took out the ball carrier and ran it all the way back on turn 14, taking down every elf by block or foul or chainsaw that could reach the furiously scampering ball-goblin.  A momentary pause on turn 14 to handoff the ball to a non-fucked-up goblin and the 2nd goblin TD was pogoed on turn 15.

To add insult to injury for the dark elves, the kickoff event was a blitz and goblins swarmed around where the ball was to land before it even hit the ground.  It bounced off the head of a goblin, but the approaching elves were shoved away from the goblinpile anyway and one quick goblin scooped up the ball, handed it to another brave goblin, who steeled himself to be thrown in for a TD by a troll.  Sadly the troll couldn't pick him up fast enough, and the game ended there, 2-1.

I recycled my chainsaw, who got a MNG on top of his previous -MV.  A random goblin leveled, and took Catch.

[Gruntle]

Court of the Moon lost to the Maroons.
Proudft's goblins beat my dark elves 2-1. Except for the first turn self-destruct, his bombadier was pretty effective and his trolls unblockable.
I don't know what else merits comment; he scored i responded, i tired to score he stopped me and held his final score til the 15th turn. I failed to get a needed clock rollback (blitz where he was able to box the ball behind his trolls) and that was the game.

[Ice Cream Emperor]

Okay avaia, when do you want to play? My schedule is not particularly good for casual BB these days, it seems -- I am away from the computer all weekend, and then I have Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings free. So if you can do Tuesday it sounds like that would be best. I am PST.

Edit: Or if you see this right now I should be around most of tonight as well.

[Megrim]

Pound Pound Mantrain 1 - 1 Calidor Fancypants.

[Ulysees]

Should be around most evenings UK time (GMT +0) Carnifex. Hopefully will catch you on steam to get our match played.

[Sky]

Oboy, Iain is going to be seeking vengeance for the last regular season #3 game that knocked him out of playoff contention! Will the Festering Wounds survive the weekend?

[eldaec]

Pound Pound Mantrain 1 - 1 Calidor Fancypants.

What I like most about that picture is that the only upright elf is in the subs box.

[IainC]

Fianna Chulain 3 - 1 Festering Wounds.

Game was much closer than the scoreline suggests and the Necromantic team were unlucky not to draw the game. I won the toss and elected to kick. The entire Necro team was set up within a square of the line of scrimmage so I kicked it nice and deep only for the ball to scatter so far back towards the centre that, after some fumbled catches by a Fesh Golem and a zombie, it scattered into the hands of a Wood Elf. The ball was handed off to a Werewolf and the match was on. The Undead started by by caging up on one flank around the werewolf with the ball while sending players in to mark as many of my team as possible. Things were getting a bit bogged down so the Werewolf made a bold play to run out and pass to a the other Werewolf who'd run into the endzone ready. The throw was good but the catch failed. With the ball loose in my endzone, Caractacus swooped in, plucked the ball up and dodged away with it. Unfortunately he then managed to fluff his throw and the ball landed in the hands of a rather surprised Ghoul. The Ghoul dodged away from his marker and then managed to fluff a hand-off to one of the Werweolves. Once more Caractacus the thrower ran in to take the ball to safety but he failed the pick up. The Necromantic team took no chances this time, clearing away the marker before picking up the ball and running in the first touchdown on turn 4.

I set up to go forwards fast for the second drive and managed to screw things up by not getting the ball safe before making some room for runners. I suffered a turnover with the ball still open in the middle of the pitch and the Necromantic team were only too willing to take advantage. A Ghoul ran in and grabbed the ball but a failed GFI roll meant that there was only half of a cage around him. Boudicca the Wardancer blitzed him down but the ball scattered into the worst possible location and Caractacus fell over trying to dodge into the square where it fell. The ball was clear but the Necros had blood in their eyes and tried to knock my team about rather than pick up the ball and score. A bad block gave the initiative back to me and I stopped just long enough to surf a ghoul off the pitch before Boudicca pushed the Wight that was marking the ball out of the way and Caractacus leapt to his feet, grabbed the ball and threw it to safety. The following turn I put the ball well out of reach of the Necromantic team and then walked in the equaliser on the last turn of the half.

For the second half I was again set up to go forwards and, mindful of the narrow escape I'd had in the first half I went for the ball almost immediately. Unfortunately I fumbled the pick up and the ball was loose within easy range of a lot of Undead. After some pushing and shoving, a Wight swooped in and tried to pick the ball up but fumbled it as well. I made a bit of room and then ran back with Ecdicius, a Line-Elf to grab the ball. he made it out far enough to have an easy throw to two unmarked receivers but he made a terrible pass that ended up miles from its target. A Ghoul picked it up and a cage was formed around him. The Undead also got their only casualty of the game when Myrddin took a pinched nerve after being blocked by a Wight. I marked the cage and went to leap into the Ghoul with Boudicca but she fell flat on her face. The next turn I tried it again with exactly the same result. Yhe Ghoul ran out and tried to hand it off to a Werewolf who was unmarked and within range of the endzone but fumbled the pass. Line-Elf Vortimer dodged away to grab the ball, dodged away again from the Werewolf marking it and threw a perfect pass to Hengist who was waiting down pitch. Hengist caught it without fuss and rolled it in to take the lead on turn 13. Following a disastrous block that knocked down the Flesh Golem that was holding the centre, I managed to get a blitz on the ghoul who'd caught the ball from the kick. Down he went and I put a bunch of players around the ball. The Undead also surrounded the ball. With so many tackle zones on the ball, no-one wanted to dodge into the square where it was sitting or try and pick it up so I took a risky blitz on one of the Werewolves with Boudicca that not only knocked him down but also pushed the ball clear. I then made room for a gaggle of receivers on the other side of the pitch and then promptly failed the pickup. A Werewolf tried to push the Elf away from the ball, successfully moved him to safety but then rolled a skull for he follow up. Vortigern dodged clear, picked up the ball and threw it to Hengist who strolled in on the last turn for a third and final touchdown. The very last turn of the game was cut short when a Wight tried to score some cheap SPPs with a pass that went disastrously wrong.

Match is uploaded to BBManager. Three of my players levelled - Caractacus went to level 3 and got Leader (he already had Sure Hands), Hengist also hit level 3 and I gave him Fend while Myrddin who'd spent almost the entire match in the injury pen and will be sitting out of the next one too got the MVP and advanced to level 2. He got Dodge in the slim hope that he might stay out of trouble in future. I also earned enough to replace the Wardancer who'd been killed by AndyDavo in day one and to hire an Apothecary.

[Sky]

My usual kind of game, a few critical mistakes and of course the usual bad dice at bad times fun. My passing game works better on my orcs, heh. I miss having a dedicated thrower!

I really botched that frenzy at the end, I'm still not used to planning for it and blitzed my werewolf, who was in perfect position to scoop it even with a push, then use his superior mobility to get into a decent pass range of the wight I had set to run in for the TD.

Still, it was a fun game and right up until the end I felt I had a chance to at least tie it up. I also had three guys level up, including the MVP zombie   Who rolled double 5s   I can't see putting armor or MV on a zombie, or really any doubles skills (though I thought about Mighty Blow for a laugh). So he got boring old block. My wolf leveled and a wight also rolled double 5s. Again, I didn't see mobility helping a ton and armor seemed overkill on an av8 piece with regen so after toying with the idea of making him a passer I took advantage of the double to give him dodge. Thought being he would be a nice piece with blodge, and maybe grab mighty blow since he has strength access.

Shit, now that I'm thinking about it I should have given the zombie kick. Ah, well. I'm sure I'll get a zombie MVP next game!

[Comstar]

Pro Elves 3 over Chaos 2.

Typical elf bullshit. All 3 TDs were by my star +5AG/Dodge/Nerves of Steel/Catch/Leap star player who simply jumped/dodged and nerved his way around the Chaos players as though they weren't there.

The rest of the team spent a lot of the game face down on the pitch, and if Elf Bullshit hadn't won the day the Chaos team would have got an easy victory otherwise. I had to fire Rarity after she lost some armour, and got no skills out of it as my star player is hogging all the points. The Chaos took block on a warrior and a beastmen.

[lamaros]

Hmm, UK time difference is a real bitch, especially now. 10pm your time is 7am here... Is it possible you can play early in the day anytime Andy? Kinda booked out on the weekends, though. Maybe Sunday?

Andy you out there?

[Sky]

Typical elf bullshit.

That's one thing I like about the Necros over the Orcs, they're not as bashy or even specialized (no throwers), but the ghoul and werewolves are nice for at least having some hope against elfy bullshit with some movement...."+5AG/Dodge/Nerves of Steel/Catch/Leap star player"...but yeah fuck elves.

[HaemishM]

Howls and Bones 1 - Emperors of the Pitch 2

This was a pretty even game, despite Ruvaldt's dice going against him most of the first half. It didn't help that I had 540k in inducements which gave me a wizard and a halfling chef, which stole 2 rerolls in the first half and 1 in the second. He spent much of the first half fumbling pickups, failing blocks and generally not being able to do shit. He did manage to badly hurt both my dodgy werewolf and my flesh golem, however. One fantastic interception by one of my ghouls and a few lucky dodges got me a 1-0 lead in the 5th turn. His first drive was stopped by some bad dice on a 2D block against a ghoul, followed by that ghoul knocking his thrower down and taking the ball from him, but without enough time to manage a score before halftime. The second half saw me waste my wizard on a fireball aimed at a bunch of blockers. Two were knocked down but with no permanent scars. Some missteps on my part left my backside open and he passed his way to a TD for the equalizer. His second TD came partly because I was down 2 men and partly for being a dumbass. I tried two 1D blocks but only one was successful, which let him get markers on my ball carrier deep in my end. He had very fast catchers in my backfield able to pick up the ball and run it in for a score. My 15th turn saw me try a hail mary pass from one ghoul to the other, but it was intercepted which sealed the game for him.

[Ruvaldt]

Emperors of the Pitch 2 - 1 Howls and Bones

After the first half I really felt like this was going to be a tie or a loss for the Emperors.  Though I scored two key injuries in the half by knocking both a flesh golem and a werewolf out of the game with injuries, Haemish scored on his fifth round after pulling off a tremendous blitz and dodge with his ghoul that left me staring agape at my screen.  I tried to pull off a score with what was left of the half, and after some poor luck on a blitz nearly pulled off an amazing pass across the field for a possible TD, but was intercepted and ended the half scoreless.

The second half I thought my poor luck would continue when I failed a ball pick-up with my thrower on my second round after doing very little, but caught a lucky break when Haemish's block dice took a nosedive.  I was able to put together a pass and a TD pretty quickly and kicked off to Haemish.  His drive was cut short and I managed to knock the ball loose and pass for another TD on my 15th round.  Haemish still had a shot at tying the game up by channeling some Elven bullshit, but couldn't quite pull it off when my star lineman pulled off an interception, and the game ended with a failed ghoul blitz by Haemish.

This was a fun game which honestly felt very even.  My luck was awful in the first half but Haemish just couldn't get a block in the second, and his wizard didn't pay off at all.  The two injuries early in the game really swung the balance and I think this game could have easily ended as a tie, or as an Emperor loss, if Haemish had been at full strength throughout the game.  I have a feeling Howl and Bones is going to be a tough opponent in the future; their werewolf got mvp and is almost third level, and another werewolf just joined the squad.  Looking forward to more matches against them.

[Ice Cream Emperor]

(Whoops, Avaia and I played awhile ago but I forgot to post a writeup/upload a replay.)

Chanson Dada win 2-0 over Stir Fry. I don't remember many of the details, except that the kick-offs kept giving me rerolls and I sure as hell needed them. Neither team had any Block, though my Minotaur was sporting shiny new claws -- which failed to result in any injuries, but did contribute to the significant KO advantage that I carried through the game. I think both my TDs were in the second half -- the second coming on the last turn after the Nurgle committed hard to an unlikely scoring opportunity and (predictably, as they had run out of rerolls) could not manage to pull off the dodge 'n pass routine.

My first beastman levelled and received the glorious, all-powerful Block skill.

[AndyDavo]

Hmm, UK time difference is a real bitch, especially now. 10pm your time is 7am here... Is it possible you can play early in the day anytime Andy? Kinda booked out on the weekends, though. Maybe Sunday?

I'm not sure whenwe are going to play this, i'm available for the remainder of my sunday but have been away for a few days now. next few days i  only have a real short window to play in - 9pm -12midnight mon/tues/wed. Are you available?

[Celer]

Hoax: not sure if you've got my Steam msg or PM the other day, but I should be around most of today (Sunday) if you want to get this party started.  Otherwise it will have to be Tuesday or Wednesday evening (Pacific time).

[eldaec]

Midnight Bleat Train  0 - 4  Ermine Vermin

Oh my god those poor goats.


Chaos kicked off, Gutter runners rushed about half way down the line, Crazy Eye Jim picked up and tossed a pass to Neville the Nose, a scatter launch threatened to derail the drive, but in a piece of sheer skaven bullshittery Zapp Brannigan caught the ball despite being nowhere near the action. Zapp handed off to Neville, who ran in on turn 2.

Next two drives followed the same pattern, the Vermin kicked off to the right, but before the Bleat train could cage, Pinkeye Perkins sacked the ball carrier and ran in TDs on turns 4 and 7.

Second half was a bit more conventional, rats held the goats up on the LoS until the ball came loose for Pinkeye Perkins to complete his hat trick on turn 16.

Drogg seemed to have hired a faulty mercenary minotaur, who was literally incapable of knocking over rats.

[eldaec]

More than half way through - it would be awesome if we can get these done by Wednesday morning, so I can draw the 3rd round before the weekend.

[lamaros]

Hmm, UK time difference is a real bitch, especially now. 10pm your time is 7am here... Is it possible you can play early in the day anytime Andy? Kinda booked out on the weekends, though. Maybe Sunday?

I'm not sure whenwe are going to play this, i'm available for the remainder of my sunday but have been away for a few days now. next few days i  only have a real short window to play in - 9pm -12midnight mon/tues/wed. Are you available?

Hmm. We could try for tuesday night your time? 10:30pm for you is 7:30am (Wednesday) for me, which could be doable. Early, but doable.

[Ulysees]

Carnifex I didn't spot you over the weekend, what times are good for you at the minute? I am GMT +1

*Corrected timezone - cheers Eldaec

[eldaec]

Carnifex I didn't spot you over the weekend, what times are good for you at the minute? I am GMT +0

At this time of year, unless you live in Monrovia or Reykjavik it is unlikely that you are +0.

[Ulysees]

Aery Faery's 0 - Bridgeburners 0

Not much to report in this match to be honest, I got caught on my drive, managed to wrestle the ball back but failed my long pass to a deep runner so failed to score in the first half where the only notable event was the death of my thrower who was already carrying a niggling injury but apart from that I got off lightly in the first half.

Second half Carnifex chose to stall out after decimating my pointy eared acrobats, scoring a couple of KO's and breaking the neck of one of my lineman but a leaping wardancer popped the ball loose on turn 15 but I forgot that you can't pass or hand off after a blitz so was stuck in the corner with a lot of angry necromantic players slavering to tear her pointy ears off. Carnifex duly obliges with a POW but the ball fall out of bounds and is thrown in close to half way and with one turn an no one near to pickup a pass or a running play Carnifex fails an agi 2 pickup with a zombie to bring the match to an end.

Would have lost if Carnifex hadn't stalled but I guess the elves were too tempting a target for SPP gain the way they were falling over so dodged a bullet on this one.

[AndyDavo]

Hmm, UK time difference is a real bitch, especially now. 10pm your time is 7am here... Is it possible you can play early in the day anytime Andy? Kinda booked out on the weekends, though. Maybe Sunday?

I'm not sure whenwe are going to play this, i'm available for the remainder of my sunday but have been away for a few days now. next few days i  only have a real short window to play in - 9pm -12midnight mon/tues/wed. Are you available?

Hmm. We could try for tuesday night your time? 10:30pm for you is 7:30am (Wednesday) for me, which could be doable. Early, but doable.

Sold  - I will be there

[Ingmar]

Strazos is having some kind of storm-related internet problems at home, so our game is on hold for now.

[eldaec]

No problem - looks like we'll be using the full period, so expect the round 3 draw on Sunday.

[AndyDavo]

Lameros not about :(

[lamaros]

Sorry Andy, my bad. I was up much later than I thought id be last night and with my cold just couldn't make it this morning. Sorry
I should have found the time to put a msg up on here.

We can try again next week, if you like. If you're unable to do that then you'll just have to take the admin win. Going away for the weekend so won't be available until next Monday my time.

[ezrast]

The elfy Fantasticks eke out an incredibly close 2-1 victory over the vampiric Wrong Games.

Haha, no, just kidding, Sjofn clobbered me, and my turn 16 TD was some bullshit that would make a Wardancer proud. I had 6 players off the pitch by turn 3. I also rolled a 1 on gold afterwards and need 30,000 more to replace the Thrall she killed. It was epic.

edit: I rolled over four times (!) as many D6's as Sjofn. With 5 failed dodges, 6 turnovers on blocks, and 8 failed bloodlusts, I'm not sure whose team did more damage to mine this match! Still had great fun though. And next match I will totally remember to use Hypnotic Gaze once or twice, no kidding, for real.

[Sjofn]

The Fantasticks beat Wrong Games, 2-1. The score makes it sound closer than it probably felt to poor ezrast, whose vampires decided to be GIANT FAT PIGS and fail bloodlust rolls right and left. He had shitty luck in other areas too, but that was the one I marveled at most, really.

Jean Valjean, feeling pressure to keep a step ahead of Javert, not only scored a touchdown but grabbed the MVP (away from the loaner guy, no doubt) and now has the most SPP on the team. He took dodge when he leveled. I also would like to give a round of applause to my new thrower, The Emcee, who hopefully won't immediately take a -agi injury like his predecessor.


EDIT: By the way, I continue to play my poor elves like they're Norse ... and I think they're starting to get into it, because they beat the shit out of ezrast's team. One of them even killed a man, just to watch him die.

[Strazos]

I'm back, so whoever I need to play, please try to hit me up this weekend.

[Ingmar]

It's me, I should be around all weekend more or less.