S#5 - Game Day #7 (of 7)

[Kail]

In the process of moving back to the UK and increasingly difficult to see me being able to play my game before the deadline. Will be online late UK on monday, but not sure what TZ Kailas is?

I'm in central, so GMT-6, I think.  If we can't make it work, no worries, you'd probably win anyway so it's no problem for me to concede again.

[Cancklebiter]

Yeah,, you guys need to watch the match between Canckle's undeads and my goblins. Yeah.... yeah.....

LLium Crushers vs. The Goblin Team 3-0 win to the undead.

Winning the coin toss the LLium crushers start their forward drive recieving the ball.  Two scary Troll line up against the wondertwin Mummies and a loan dauntless/blocking skeleton.  The lineup of secret weapons are out in force.  Round 1 both Trolls are knocked to their knee's by the skeleton and a mummy.  The second mummy scared of chainsaws breaking through their high armor goes in for a blitz and knocks the chainsaw wielder out.  And from there it just goes down hill for The Goblin Team.  In a crushing victory the LLium crushers clear the field not an opponent to be seen.  Touchdown two allows one player to stand up to attempt to block the bony machine and the Gobbo's get a .... Troll.  Two rounds later after the 3rd touchdown another brave soul is given the magic smelling salts of the Budwieser Babes and it's another Troll.  5 Injuries, 2 deaths against the Goblins (one dead ball and chain weilder and -1 armor on pogo man). 14/20 note in the match don't know what more the fans want heh.

[luckton]

Underhill Uberchefs | 3 - 1 | Reborne's Wrestlers



We now go live to Cee Lo Green for commentary on the Halflings actually winning a game.  Cee Lo?


Thanks Cee Lo.  Coach Luckton, anything you want to add?

What?!  You gonna have to speak up, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am right now!

Truly, this was a game where, should luck and the numbers work out, Halflings are the superior race.  And if Reborne had pulled off a couple more 1-turn touchdowns like he did, things would have been easily reversed.

[lamaros]

What inducements did you take? Deeproot, Zara, chef?

[luckton]

What inducements did you take? Deeproot, Zara, chef?

- Deeproot
- Morg
- 1 Reroll
- MasterChef
- 1 Keg of beer
- Wizard

EDIT: Forgot the Wizard

[lamaros]

So four STR 6+ guys? Brutal.

[luckton]

So four STR 6+ guys? Brutal.

As brutal as it sounds, the trees didn't do too much bashing.  The ogres liked to beat up the 'flings, while the midgets ran out the trees range.

The injury I inflicted was a Both Down between a midg and a 'fling, with the midg going Badly, and the 'fling KOed.

[Sir T]

The Game between Estraz and I has been hit by this port blocking message AGAIN. Seriously this is just pissing me off. I have done NOTHING to my router since and I have been able to play other BB games just fine. This is freaking stupid. Its probably something to do with our ISPs at this stage, which means there is really sod all I can do about it.

[Reborne]

Wrestlers 1 - 3 Uberchefs

Ok, want to say this first, Luckton played a good game and any complaints I have, have nothing to do with him or the game he played.

That being said, Nuffle was all behind the halflings this game.

I'm the first to say that I've been taking silly risks since I found that I can make 1 turn touchdowns but the game started with me receiving, the halflings blitzing, I knocked down Morg, snotlings failed a throw which bounced off an Ogre, off Morg and into the waiting hands of a halfling...

I thought that was hilarious until I found out that was almost going to the be the standard for the rest of the game.

A spent a quite a few turns doing the bonehead blitz and when the Ogres actually figured out how to move, they forgot how to hit...

On the other hand I stopped looking at just how many critical successes the Luckton rolled.

I look forward to playing Luckton again at some point and hope that Nuffle isn't so biased on that day.
He'll probably still win but the game will be a lot more fun

[Sir T]

2-0 to Eztraz. Yeah surprise.

First half was kinda fun. I had to burn my apoch on turn 1 to stop a blocker from dying. And I actually forced the ball up near the tourchdown line but then elven bullshit happened and He scored on turn 4. After thet I just about managed to stop him from scoring again,. but only becasue he failed a GFi and fell over. And then on the last turn for one I tried a bit of dwarf bullshit and passed the ball to one of my runners from the touchdown line, who ran up and passed it to another runner, who then ran most of the way to the enemy line before falling over.

Second half was the usual. Number of turns missed due to rulling a skull on the first roll of the half, 4. Number of crowd surfs inflicted on me, 2. Lets just say I really didnt enjoy it much.

Estraz played a good fun game, but I guess I wont be in next season. This constant never in danger of scoring and constant bad luck BS is pretty depressing.

[lamaros]

Yo Falc, validate matches!  

Is Strazos going to be able to play? Because if not that leaves the group as:

Ice - 14
Teleku - 13
Ulysses- 13
Strazos - 12

[Ice Cream Emperor]

Cloudpunks triumph elegantly over Slann the Man, 2-0, and are now doomed to almost certain playoff death.

This was a strange game, with dice swinging this way and that but generally almost entirely in my favour. The lizards managed to injure the very first elf they knocked over on the very first block of the game -- and had a 100% knockdown rate until somewhere in turn 3 -- but didn't manage another casualty until midway through the second half, by which point they were barely managing to get any elves on the ground at all. They did however manage to both KO AND then Badly Hurt my tree, of all things. Meanwhile my d6 rolls bordered on perfect, which for a Wood Elf team makes it very difficult to lose. I failed one dodge all game, on turn 14 or something. (Well, more accurately I failed 8, but only one resulted in a turnover and no rerolls were harmed on the other 7.)

For the lizards, ball-handling and dodging were not going so well; despite having his Sure Hands skink on the job for most of the game, Ginaz started off struggling to pick up the ball (5 out of 13 on the day) -- and to protect his poor skinks once they finally managed to get it in-hand. After an extremely drawn-out defense by the Wood Elves in the first half, I strung together yet another series of not-that-unlikely-but-cumulatively-kind-of-getting-absurd d6 rolls and scored on turn 8. I then received in the second half and scored relatively quickly to go up 2-0.

Meanwhile my mighty blow Wardancer, who before this game had basically proven incapable of anything more substantial than a KO, vented an entire season's worth of violent frustration on Slann's poor skinks, stringing together an impressive five casualties in a single game and capping it off with a skink-murder and KO that left the lizards skink-less halfway through their final drive. While the saurii did somehow manage to fumble the ball into one of their hands, the elves knocked it loose -- but a tiny bit of dice-karma finally caught up with them on the last turn, as a 1 -> 1 catch on the handoff left my newer Wardancer unable to grab the third TD.

Aaaand of course my Loner got the MVP (having been injured on literally the first block of the game), and another linesman picked up a Pinched Nerve, so it looks like the elves are holding steady at 10 active players at any given moment.

[ezrast]

Yay! The Rouge Rogues pull out a 2-0 consolation victory over Sir T's Pimpernels.

It was nice to meet a team almost as undeveloped as I was; I kept clicking around on the dwarves to figure out who had Guard and being surprised to find that none of them did. So I actually managed to get some multiple die blocks off and open enough holes in the short ones' defenses to score a TD in each half. I would have scored another in the first half if it weren't for a heartbreaking GFI failure (with reroll!) that would have Badly Hurt my Blitzer if my apothecary hadn't pumped him full of painkillers.

Sorry you didn't enjoy it, Sir T. From one last-place finisher to another, going up against better-developed teams with veteran coaches as a newb is really rough. Enough that I may change my stance on mixing newb teams/coaches with 1800+ TVs right away. Out of curiosity, have you done much experimenting against the AI?

[Sjofn]

Sorry you didn't enjoy it, Sir T. From one last-place finisher to another, going up against better-developed teams with veteran coaches as a newb is really rough. Enough that I may change my stance on mixing newb teams/coaches with 1800+ TVs right away.

I know I'm a ringer, but I think part of my ringerness was due to picking the right team (and tasty, tasty inducements). Norse play alright out of the box (although I was generally short dudes until I finally got enough money to have a bench!), and I know there are some other teams like that. On the other hand, teams like pro elf suck more than anything has the right to suck.

[Strazos]

On whether I'll be able to play:

Internet was hooked up friday (apparently more work will be done on the line next week as the connection is a bit slow), but I still don't have my pc. I have to start hassling our shipping folks monday to see if my stuff is still in transit or just hanging out in customs waiting for someone to shake it loose.

Also, is that list correct - am I in by default? :)

[Ingmar]

Eldaec hasn't played yet afaik but I think you have the tiebreaker over him.

[IainC]

Also, is that list correct - am I in by default? :)

You are through regardless of whether you play or not. If you don't play then Ulysees is also automatically through as he needs 3 points to make the cut.

If Ulysees goes through then Ramas is automatically out, otherwise Ramas is through if he beats Kailas (likely) and you don't lose to Ulysees (also likely).

[Llyse]

Hey Bann, I have a Christmas dinner but I can stay up late for a game Sunday night your time!

[Strazos]

Ok sounds like we really need to try to get this game in. I wonder if people would mind if we got a one-time extension, just to give me the possibility of using the next weekend to get the game in. :)

[Ulysees]

I'd rather make the playoffs on merit rather than by default so I have no objection to an extension.

[Bann]

Hey Bann, I have a Christmas dinner but I can stay up late for a game Sunday night your time!

Ill be around all day. shoot me a msg on steam when you get free.

[IainC]

This constant never in danger of scoring and constant bad luck BS is pretty depressing.

Sometimes the dice just bend you over and go at you sans lube. Those games are fairly rare though. Most of the time you can at least mitigate the effects of luck to some extent. View every single roll as something to be avoided where possible (especially with a team like Dwarfs who don't have a lot of reroll skills), make sure your order of operations is solid so you still get people in position even if the first dice roll ends your turn. Assume that any given dice roll will fail - especially where the ball is concerned - and position players to guard against the consequences of failure. Don't throw random blocks until you've done important stuff, play as though you have no rerolls left even when you have.

I've played hundreds of games, those where the dice meant that I might as well have not bothered showing up for rank in the single digits, the rest I've lost through my own poor choices and giving away chances.

[HaemishM]

Ok sounds like we really need to try to get this game in. I wonder if people would mind if we got a one-time extension, just to give me the possibility of using the next weekend to get the game in. :)

I don't have a problem with an extension (I'm out of the playoffs anyway so I'm just waiting for the failoffs). As long as someone validates the matches already played so I can do some level ups. HINT HINT.

[Ulysees]

Also there is the question of finding the right team for your own playstyle, in MP the only team I feel like I am moderatlely good with is the lizards, but if you follow Iain's advice and play a bunch of feeder games to find something that fits then this is a remakably good game for such a simple execution and the f13 group of players have really transformed this game for me so I doubt you will struggle for takers if you wanted to get some more practice in the feeder league.

The issue of course is that it is another new team that you start with, though you can mitigate that somewhat with the TV allowance for the start of a new season if you do find something you enjoy playing with but in my opinion that is half the battle, I doubt I will stop playing the lizards for as long as the league stays alive.

[HaemishM]

Yeah, finding the right team is a big deal. The Elves were fun but something just clicked when I played Skaven in the More Dave (or was it Eddie) league. I'll play other teams in other leagues but unless they get decimated, the Zellar Dwellarz are my main team from now on.

[drogg]

i rolled a double! for the first time in the history of Huhnqua on a guy that wasn't strength 1!  now that he has block he's doubtless going to get killed in the first round of the playoffs, but at last!

[Paelos]

I'm not sure IanC and I are going to get the game in. I'm not sure if we're the only ones left, but the time difference and schedules aren't working out.

Given the fact we're both at the bottom of our division and largely irrelevant, I don't really mind just passing and going to the failoffs.

[Reborne]

I wonder if people would mind if we got a one-time extension, just to give me the possibility of using the next weekend to get the game in. :)

I have no objections to this.
I'm generally a fan of people playing their matches as I like interacting with the people here.

[Sjofn]

Leveled up my sidestep berserker, Slate Fistcrunch, he got mighty blow to no one's surprise. Also replaced poor dead Flint Ironstag with TOUCH RUSTROD. Now I am pondering if I want to add another lineman so I don't go into my first (only) playoff game with only 11 dudes.

[Megrim]

Leveled up my sidestep berserker, Slate Fistcrunch, he got mighty blow to no one's surprise. Also replaced poor dead Flint Ironstag with TOUCH RUSTROD. Now I am pondering if I want to add another lineman so I don't go into my first (only) playoff game with only 11 dudes.

What's the count on your positionals? I think typically, Norse shouldn't run win less than 12, so if you figure x2 Blitzer, x2 Runner, x2 Ulf, x1 Wendigo, x1 Thrower - that leaves room for up to about five Linemen. Having said that however, depending on how much you want to metagame your TV (and if you know who your first round opponent is going to be), you may consider sitting at 11 or 12.

[Ruvaldt]

Her first round opponent is the Ex-Presidents of DOOM!

You should have some decent inducements.  You could always pick up a 12th with that.

[Sjofn]

Leveled up my sidestep berserker, Slate Fistcrunch, he got mighty blow to no one's surprise. Also replaced poor dead Flint Ironstag with TOUCH RUSTROD. Now I am pondering if I want to add another lineman so I don't go into my first (only) playoff game with only 11 dudes.

What's the count on your positionals? I think typically, Norse shouldn't run win less than 12, so if you figure x2 Blitzer, x2 Runner, x2 Ulf, x1 Wendigo, x1 Thrower - that leaves room for up to about five Linemen. Having said that however, depending on how much you want to metagame your TV (and if you know who your first round opponent is going to be), you may consider sitting at 11 or 12.

I have 13 normally, but proudft inflicted MNG injuries on one of my berserkers (QQ) and one of my throwers (whatevs) in addition to killing poor Flint. I don't have a yhetee, nor can I afford one even if I wanted one (which I don't in particular). I'll have one berserker, two runners, two wolves, one thrower, and five linemen.

Generally I prefer to avoid picking up dudes with inducements, because they without fail blow a loner roll or pick up my MVP or whatever. Morg is probably my one exception. <3

[Megrim]

Leveled up my sidestep berserker, Slate Fistcrunch, he got mighty blow to no one's surprise. Also replaced poor dead Flint Ironstag with TOUCH RUSTROD. Now I am pondering if I want to add another lineman so I don't go into my first (only) playoff game with only 11 dudes.

What's the count on your positionals? I think typically, Norse shouldn't run win less than 12, so if you figure x2 Blitzer, x2 Runner, x2 Ulf, x1 Wendigo, x1 Thrower - that leaves room for up to about five Linemen. Having said that however, depending on how much you want to metagame your TV (and if you know who your first round opponent is going to be), you may consider sitting at 11 or 12.

I have 13 normally, but proudft inflicted MNG injuries on one of my berserkers (QQ) and one of my throwers (whatevs) in addition to killing poor Flint. I don't have a yhetee, nor can I afford one even if I wanted one (which I don't in particular). I'll have one berserker, two runners, two wolves, one thrower, and five linemen.

Generally I prefer to avoid picking up dudes with inducements, because they without fail blow a loner roll or pick up my MVP or whatever. Morg is probably my one exception. <3

If anything, I would at least consider inducing a Big Guy just to see if you'll like him. But yea, keep a little bit of a bench.

[IainC]

I'm not sure IanC and I are going to get the game in. I'm not sure if we're the only ones left, but the time difference and schedules aren't working out.

Given the fact we're both at the bottom of our division and largely irrelevant, I don't really mind just passing and going to the failoffs.

I would like to play the game because I would like the opportunity to develop my team and I don't want to take a default result based on one failure to meet up - especially as I was there at the time we agreed. Our time difference isn't insurmountable and I'll be there if you can commit to an new time that's reasonable.

[Sjofn]

I have 13 normally, but proudft inflicted MNG injuries on one of my berserkers (QQ) and one of my throwers (whatevs) in addition to killing poor Flint. I don't have a yhetee, nor can I afford one even if I wanted one (which I don't in particular). I'll have one berserker, two runners, two wolves, one thrower, and five linemen.

Generally I prefer to avoid picking up dudes with inducements, because they without fail blow a loner roll or pick up my MVP or whatever. Morg is probably my one exception. <3

If anything, I would at least consider inducing a Big Guy just to see if you'll like him. But yea, keep a little bit of a bench.

Like I said, I can't afford him even if I wanted him (I have 120k gold right now, he's something obnoxious like 170k), so that's sort of moot either way. Linemen are cheap, I could grab two more if I reeeeally wanted and just fire a guy afterwards if I feel too fat (it would carry me up to 15 once everyone was healthy, which seems like a lot).