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President Weasel

17-11-2011, 07:52 PM

An absorbing and actually quite enjoyable match for me against Zoraster today, despite the result being in very little doubt after half time. 2-0 to the dark elves was the score at the end of the first half, and 2-0 to the dark elves the game finished; with me kicking to him in turn 9 and then being unable to lay a fist on his ball carrier for most of the second half there was very little I could do to alter the result.
Zoraster marshalled his elves really well; he pretty much plays them exactly the way I'd always wanted to but never quite could.

The game played out like this:

he kicks, I receive, I make a half cage on the left sideline, he fireballs the ball carrier and misses but knocks over a cage corner, this lets him get an elf in and blitz the ball off the pitch. Decent throw in for the elves, TOUCHDOWN.

I receive, I push my goblin with catch up the pitch, dodge away from the marker, hit the touchline and await the pass from my highly skilled thrower. The (rerolled despite only needing 3+) throw lands nicely in the goblin's arms, spills out again as the little git 1s the catch and 1s the reroll, and bounces off the pitch. Decent throw in for the elves, couple of turns of running and passing, TOUCHDOWN. I did manage to badly hurt Eldril Sideways in there somewhere, but Azlop still couldn't find his mojo so Zoraster had a full team going into the second half.

Got some consolation injuries in the second half, but Zoraster screened his ball carriers like a boss and let the clock run down while I failed to get the ball.

That marks the second loss this season for the Storm Boyz, but we're still doing better than last season and I am sure we will bounce back. Well played, Zoraster, you thoroughly deserved the points!

Jiiiiim

18-11-2011, 07:14 AM

Ultimate Maths Squad (Jim, human) vs Stikky Fingerz (Screwie, goblin)
I may have strayed off my initial idea here.

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/2214/goblina.jpg

Footnote: Screwie rolled about 60% ones and twos according to his program thingy. Cor.

Screwie

18-11-2011, 07:33 AM

Awesome report. A+!

And no kidding, here's the BBManager dice chart from our match:

379

Jiiiiim

18-11-2011, 07:57 AM

HOT GRAPH ACTION, ONLY ON RPS

let me use capslock damn you forum

imirk

18-11-2011, 05:11 PM

oof that is a dice nuffling.

grinn

19-11-2011, 09:40 AM

Very well played mr vision! I had the tough choice of scoring in the second half or holding on till the last few turns. I was down to 8 players and so were the dark elves, but they had budweiser hotties to bring them back to their senses and my orcs had a grumpy goblin in a stolen wig. With miss s4 ag4 leaping blodge nightmare it would be pointless trying to stop her so I held onto the ball and planned to slam the dark elves into the turf and roll up to the touch down. But nuffle wouldnt have it. For every elf out an Orc followed. The mobility and agility of elves means that with dwindled numbers the orcs are always worse off so all I could do then is stop the dancers from scoring.

The game started terribly for the orcs with their head black Orc knocked out in the first block and the killer orc Gonzi out from a lucky block in the first turns that saw him badly hurt. A tough and frustrating game for the orcs who desperately needed a win to crawl up to the top spots. Alas ni amount of mighty blows tackles guards and grunts gave them numerical advantage.

To the next opponent: the Gears are hungry for blood!

We made the match, though grinn was probably hoping for a replay.

The Doomsday Dancers were outclassed, outvalued, and utterly outplayed - there was very little my Dark Elves could do against the Guard, Tackle, Block, Green Horde descending down on my team.

Nothing apart from utterly suicidal blocks, dodges and passes that ended in a 1-1 with few injuries on either side, which could have been either a 2-1 or 1-2 in turn 16.

Nuffle was definitely on my side with rolls, but grinn's excellently played and scary Orcs stopped more attempts than Nuffle allowed me.

So, an exhausting 1-1 which was hard fought for on either side.

Jolima

19-11-2011, 08:37 PM

Ian!

We should be playing! When!?!

(Tomorrow would have to be on short notice, any evening next week should also work.)

HughTower

20-11-2011, 09:35 AM

Nulkigan and I ground out a 1-1 draw last night.

Lowlights were him failing to take account of the turn clock properly and not running in an assured T8 touchdown; an attritional casualty rate against my poor rats; my best linerat being hit by a rock two kick-offs in a row; and a singular failure of the Vivisectionists to steal the ball from him in attack. As it was, he held the ball for 14 turns, I for 1.

Well played, Nulkigan - I think, given the stats, you can claim the moral victory on this one. I, on the other hand, need to work on rounding out my team a little more...

potatoedoughnut

21-11-2011, 03:48 AM

Hey Duffin - I think we're supposed to have played by now, but if we can get an extension are you available sometime in the next couple days?

duff

21-11-2011, 04:54 AM

Hey potatoedoughnot - sorry about the lateness of my reply, family member is in hospital so been travelling forwards and backwards all week. I should be able to play the following fo definite:

- Monday night after 9pm GMT
- Tuesday and Wednesday I have off so barring anything coming up I should be able to play from 12-6pm GMT. I can also play a late night game like 00.00 GMT if that will help with the time difference?

potatoedoughnut

21-11-2011, 07:05 AM

No worries Duff, hope everything is going ok.

I have all this week off so scheduling shouldn't be too much trouble for me. I can do Monday at 9 GMT if that works for you. If something else is more convenient I can do after ~4PM GMT on Tues or Wed.

Ian

21-11-2011, 08:30 AM

Ian!

We should be playing! When!?!

(Tomorrow would have to be on short notice, any evening next week should also work.)

Oh balls, in amongst all the loafing about off work I'd got my scheduled FUMBBL matches played and entirely forgotten to check whether the Open had moved on. Sorry! Can do any night this week I think so tell me what night/time suits you.

Jolima

21-11-2011, 09:13 AM

Today? At 8pm?

Ian

21-11-2011, 09:27 AM

That works. I shall see you then. :)

I'll hang about on Steam from whenever I'm available before then so if you see me on and you're good to go early too feel free to gimme a nudge.

Ian

21-11-2011, 08:16 PM

Not sure I deserved the slapping I got there. Not that the game was important for me anymore (I don't think), and Jolima didn't have especially excellent dice. Just the sort of relentlessly average dice that are more than enough for elves with some skills.

EDIT: My team'd be helped a bit if my fucking skinks would stop taking all the MVPs and bloating my team.

In my last 6 games my sauri and krox have four times as many touchdowns as they do MVPs. ¬_¬

duff

22-11-2011, 07:03 AM

potatoedoughnut - Sorry, it's only about a 50:50 chance I will be able to play tonight now. If you have other things to do then I wouldn't wait around. But if you will be at the computer anyway I may get back around 20.15 to half past. If I'm not on Steam by 20.30 GMT then I probably won't be at all. If you have a change of plan and end up with sometime free on Wed or Thur let me know, otherwise Friday is equally good (and probably the most convenient) for me, anytime from about 4pm GMT.

Ian - I feel your pain with the lizzies. It feels like depending on your luck getting SPP on Saurii lizzies can go from a very competitive team to almost a 'tier 2' team. Inevitably when your Saurii do get a MVP it always goes to the same bloody one! And with no block and the need to take break tackle, mighty blow is a luxury you can't afford, which further delays any SPP gain.

Ian

22-11-2011, 09:54 AM

Inevitably when your Saurii do get a MVP it always goes to the same bloody one!

Too true. On my FUMBBL lizards I've had really good luck. From 15 games something like 12 MVPs have gone to the big fellas..... with one saurus getting FIVE of them. The greedy shit. :D

groovychainsaw

22-11-2011, 12:32 PM

Me and Chainsawhands played our dreaded chainsaw vs chainsaw match last night, my suffering necros versus his uber-levelled chaosmens. I was dreading this game after 4 straight defeats against well-matched teams, I was giving up 490TV to chainsawhands, meaning inducements for me, but I felt they would do little to even up the teams. Still I picked up Ramtut III and an Igor and set about what i felt would be a slog.

First 4 turns went pretty much as expected. Chainsawhand's chaos warriors all have block,dodge and guard (apart from the one with mighty blow and +1ag, of course!) and he also has 2 +Str Beastmen too, so I was massively outstrengthed form the start. I opted to receive to try and use my mighty blow, bashing the line but getting pushes, unfortunately. The ball had gone deep and i failed to collect it. Chainsaw began to tie up my players, killed a wolf (who regenned!), I made the pickup and began to approach something like a cage, holding off the chaos. The following turn a wight went down badly hurt and another was pushed off the pitch, and my cage was in tatters. By turn 4 I'd had to run right into my own half, leaving a fairly easy hit to take down the ball carrier, make the pick and run in for the score. Urgh. About the worst start I could imagine, I'd got nowhere against the chaos fellas and was starting to feel like i have done for the last 4 games, hopeless.

Receiving again, the ball once again goes deep. I use my mighty blow line to start bashing. First hit, smashed hip, chaos warrior, second hit, badly hurt, chaos warrior, third hit, KO chaos warrior. Wha? I did a little victory dance. The teams were suddenly much more even (maybe even back in my favour, as I obviously had my team at full strength). It was on. I stretched his team with some runners, trying to get in range for a touchdown whilst keeping the ball in my half. I never quite broke free in those 3 turns, but came close with a pass that fialed in turn 8. Nearly got punished with an opportunistic pass by hands, but the half ended 1-0 to hands.

Second half, I'm kicking off, hands with a full team, but missing the chaos warriors meant we were about equal on strength. I use my kicker to put the ball deep, get to reorganise my lines at kickoff and look to break through with the wolves. Which I have minor success with. Hands sends his minotaur after my kicker in my half along with one runner who I mark up. The rest of his line I tie up as much as possible, leaving only 2 men on the ball. For my trouble, some creative blocking gets a ghoul pushed off the pitch, but generally my large reserves of block hold up and leave hands tied up in his half This goes on for a few turns, hands trying to break free whilst I get players onto his ball carrier (which would never have worked with more chaos warriors with guard present, i might add!). I keep the pressure on until turn 13 when hands makes a break for the left side and tries a pass which fails, leaving the ball open. I get a wolf over the ball, but my attempted blitzer fails his dodge to get away. Other players are closing in now. Hand blitzes my wolf, picks the ball up and runs downfield, still in range of players (including the mighty Ramtut). But then he throws it. Bugger. That'll be hard. Its right next to my TD line, and I have 2 turns. I have a gang of players in his half, and a handful towards the ball. I attack with my wolf, scoring a KO to clear my half mostly, then approach the ball with a ghoul and ramtut. Next turn, Hands marks up my players in my half to prevent me getting clear. My 15, Ramtut breaks tackle, clears space from a ghoul, who runs down, picks the ball, runs back and flings it as far as he can throw into the other half. Its accurate, but goes to ground. Hands spends his last turn getting one player onto the ball and tying up the rest. I make a couple of hits, then go for it. I have rerolls left, but need a pickup (4+), dodge (3+) and 2 GFIs to score. It all works... perfectly, and my wight runs in to draw the game, turn 16. What a fight!

It all came down to one turn, really, taking out 3 Chaos Warriors in one go was a pretty epic hit and turned the game for me, I was never going to compete without taking down some strong players and taking 2 out got me back into contention for the rest of the game. Ramtut was essential to give me back a small strength advantage, and was pretty reliable, thanks to str6 , mighty blow, break tackle and wrestle. Mighty blow possibly was the difference between us, with me having it on a handful of players whilst hands had his focus on the blodge/guard warriors. It helped that regen worked for me on my 2 injuries I received, of course. Other than that, dice were remarkably even throughout, both teams negating any block advantage and rolling a good number of skulls.

So finally, a draw for my necros. That's a start at least. Next up, screwie's gobbo's. MUST NOT UNDERESTIMATE THEM. I fancy my mighty blow tackle wight to have a good day however ;-).

Screwie

22-11-2011, 12:56 PM

So finally, a draw for my necros. That's a start at least. Next up, screwie's gobbo's. MUST NOT UNDERESTIMATE THEM. I fancy my mighty blow tackle wight to have a good day however ;-).

We'll be fighting it out for the bottom position on the table too :)

President Weasel

22-11-2011, 01:45 PM

Please tell me 'Hands managed to apoc the smashed hip? I'd hate to have a 3 skills chaos warrior reduced to jogging pace.

ChainsawHands

22-11-2011, 03:25 PM

It was a MNG injury, not a -MV injury.

That or I horribly misread the injury result and will be hiring a new warrior.

President Weasel

22-11-2011, 05:05 PM

If it was a smashed hip then it's -1 MA for your dude. Then again, perhaps Groovy misremembers and it was just a smashed hand, which is MNG with no other effect.

Jiiiiim

22-11-2011, 06:53 PM

well done chainsaw, I was beginning to think those goats were invincible.

Now if they could just lose two more times, I can overtake them by merely winning every game remaining.

Yeeessss.

potatoedoughnut

23-11-2011, 05:49 AM

potatoedoughnut - Sorry, it's only about a 50:50 chance I will be able to play tonight now. If you have other things to do then I wouldn't wait around. But if you will be at the computer anyway I may get back around 20.15 to half past. If I'm not on Steam by 20.30 GMT then I probably won't be at all. If you have a change of plan and end up with sometime free on Wed or Thur let me know, otherwise Friday is equally good (and probably the most convenient) for me, anytime from about 4pm GMT.

Hey duff, it looks like I'm going to have to make a run to the airport and play taxi around noon on Friday. Is there a chance we could start our game around 9am (my time/4pm your time)? If not I could probably play later that evening (like 5+ish my time/0000+ your time), but that may be too late for you.

Turns out I'll also be around tomorrow (Wednesday) if that works and Friday doesn't. I'll see if I can catch you on Steam again. Sorry for the trouble with scheduling.

ChainsawHands

23-11-2011, 05:43 PM

If it was a smashed hip then it's -1 MA for your dude. Then again, perhaps Groovy misremembers and it was just a smashed hand, which is MNG with no other effect.Just checked, no -MA so not a smashed hip - I only ever look at the effect not the name, so might well have been smashed hand.

Jolima

23-11-2011, 06:53 PM

I've marked up the next set of matches in the spreadsheet. The league will move on in time for Saturday games at the latest so I would encourage people to start planning the next set of matches. Next round only lasts until next Saturday. Duff and potatoe, I hope you manage to play in time.

I also had a request about taking a break with the league over Christmas. Are a lot of you going to be away from computers over the holidays?

HughTower

23-11-2011, 08:08 PM

Re Xmas - I'll be near a PC for most of it.

President Weasel

23-11-2011, 08:37 PM

I'll be afk from about the 23rd through til about the 27th; as for the league taking a break I am easy either way. Whatever makes the most folks happy.

Vexing Vision

23-11-2011, 08:53 PM

I also had a request about taking a break with the league over Christmas. Are a lot of you going to be away from computers over the holidays?

Quite the opposite. I welcome the few free days (bloody weekend Christmasses!) to get some serious gaming done to clear my massive backlog.

I am happy to take a break though if this makes things easier for most participants. I want to play matches, not get assigned draws. :)

drawlien

23-11-2011, 09:02 PM

I will be away from the 24th until about the 29th. I should be free to play on either side of that though so a break may not be necessary for me.

Ian

24-11-2011, 08:21 AM

It's currently looking like I'll be away from a connection where I could play BB from the 23rd or 24th to... I'd guess the 4th.

LowKey

24-11-2011, 08:41 AM

Ill be away from the 24th to the 27th but shouldn't have a problem fitting in a game either side of that, also when would you like to play our game Mr President?

President Weasel

24-11-2011, 08:50 AM

Ill be away from the 24th to the 27th but shouldn't have a problem fitting in a game either side of that, also when would you like to play our game Mr President?

this evening, Friday evening, some time at the weekend? My schedule is pleasantly clear for the next few days.

Screwie

24-11-2011, 08:53 AM

I will be away from the 23rd Dec tot he 9th Jan. Yay me! Unfortunately I don't yet know what kind of net connection I'll have at that time, whether its only forum-capable or mildly gaming-capable.

ChainsawHands

24-11-2011, 09:36 AM

I'll be mostly near a computer over Christmas.

Ian

24-11-2011, 09:43 AM

Oooh, it's me vs. Laneford this round.

Time for an EPIC DRAW. I'm not sure how my lizards will manage that against his I'm-assuming-quite-good helves, but that'll just make it all the more epic. Logic rarely reigns in our matches.

Screwie

24-11-2011, 09:58 AM

Hey Groovy, any chance you could fit our game in tonight or tomorrow night, after 8pm say?

Indefatigible Snoozer

24-11-2011, 09:58 AM

I'll be down under from the 21st to the 9th. I should have decent net capability, but time-zoning is an issue. But I would vote for no hiatus to the season, or maybe just ensure that 24 -27 December (when a few people have already indicated they're not available) are included as non-play days and the relevant round extended accordingly.

And to the next round - Vexing, when are you available for out TOP OF THE TABLE CLASH? My Saturday is pretty free - I prefer mornings, but evening may also work. Sunday is similar.

Jolima

24-11-2011, 11:13 AM

Keep in mind that the round hasn't actually changed yet, so don't schedule anything until Saturday.

Screwie

24-11-2011, 11:24 AM

Oh whoops, okay then.

LowKey

24-11-2011, 12:18 PM

Keep in mind that the round hasn't actually changed yet, so don't schedule anything until Saturday.

ah well I couldn't play tonight or tomorrow anyway, saturday and sunday evenings I can do so just buzz me when you fancy blood bowling

President Weasel

24-11-2011, 12:36 PM

Let's aim for Saturday around 7pm then, unless either of us gets in touch to change that before then.

Zoraster

24-11-2011, 12:57 PM

'Hands when do you want our table topping clash? Late afternoon/early evening Sunday would be ideal for me, but at the time of writing I could do pretty much whenever next week. I've been out of action sick for the several days so have an extreme amount of work and BB stuff to arrange so I won't be able to be flexible for long.

ChainsawHands

24-11-2011, 01:03 PM

Sunday afternoon should be fine.

Zoraster

24-11-2011, 02:04 PM

Shall we say 16:00 then?

ChainsawHands

24-11-2011, 02:06 PM

"16:00 then."

groovychainsaw

24-11-2011, 07:58 PM

Hey Screwie, 10/10 for enthusiasm. I'm away all weekend and monday, but I'm back as of tuesday, I'm free all day or most evenings, just let me know when you want to play :-)

LowKey

25-11-2011, 06:52 AM

ah I actually cant do saturday now either sorry, how about sunday evening?

President Weasel

25-11-2011, 08:16 AM

all righty, Sunday at 7pm then.

drawlien

25-11-2011, 08:31 AM

Hi Nullkigan, when would you like to play our match? I can do tomorrow late afternoon/evening or Monday,Thursday or Friday at around 8pm. Let me know which would suit you best.

Nullkigan

25-11-2011, 11:13 AM

Hi Nullkigan, when would you like to play our match? I can do tomorrow late afternoon/evening or Monday,Thursday or Friday at around 8pm. Let me know which would suit you best.

Any of those work well. If we try for tomorrow we can fall back on the others if needed?

duff

25-11-2011, 12:31 PM

potatoedoughnut - will be ready and waiting at 4!

potatoedoughnut

25-11-2011, 04:48 PM

Duff and I got our match in and they day has rolled on.

Duffs lizards won out 2-0 over my undeads in a very bloody match. There were a total of 9 cas and 7 KO for both sides combined, but this is the first match of the season where no one on my team died (thank you regen!!).

The game mostly came down to a bash grind which swung back and forth a couple times, but in the end Duff was able to get more of my players off the pitch than I was of his and got the well deserved win. A very close and well played game Duff, glad we were able to get the match in.

duff

25-11-2011, 07:32 PM

Thanks for the game potatoedoughnut. It was a close match that looked like it was heading for a draw with your drive slowly grinding upfield. Thankfully the double skull turnover allowed me to counterblock with my saurii and get some pressure on the ball carrier, who promptly panicked and fell flat on his arse, allowing a ninja skink to retrieve the ball and fly down the pitch on his moped.

grinn

25-11-2011, 11:17 PM

Ola Senor Pier, when do you wanna play? I need to play before Saturday morning as I ll be flying out then. Best days would be Sunday night (10pm Copenhagen time), Monday night or Tuesday night.

Thanks!

potatoedoughnut

26-11-2011, 06:14 AM

laneford

27-11-2011, 01:50 PM

Welby! Epic Draw this week? I think I'm free most evenings...

edit excluding football, should that be occurring.

President Weasel

27-11-2011, 07:51 PM

Mid table respectability for the Storm Boyz! We're up to 5th in the table after defeating the germ ridden mutants of It's Catching 1-0.

I won the toss and elected to kick, and a green wave of frenzied orcs crashed into Lowkey's defences, stalling Lowkey on the halfway line with his ball carrier running back and forth looking for a way through. Eventually a chink in the defence was enough to let an orc through, and a 2-dice hit left the ball on the ground.
The ball changed hands a few times in the next couple of turns, but it was eventually scooped up and handed off to a black orc (incidentally, great job Cyanide on showing the area of effect of the disturbing presence... you French buffoons). The black orc ran it in in turn 8 to give me a 1-0 lead going into half time.

My orcs had 2100 TV to Lowkey's 1700-odd. He used his wizard early, stunning a blitzer who was making for the touchline with the ball. It didn't help much in the end.
The two babes he bought were amazingly helpful though- I went into halftime with 1 injured, 1 KOd. I started the second half with 1 injured, 1 KOd. Lowkey had 3 KOd and I watched them all bounce up again like weebles.

I lined up 9 orcs and a goblin against 11 assorted Germy Chaos Mans. It didn't look good for me so I went for a quick touchdown, passing to a blitzer and running him up the sideline on his own, with most of Lowkey's team occupied. The ball carrier had dodge and sidestep, so I was taking a bet on him not getting a POW on two dice - anything less kept the ball in my hands and moved my guy one square closer to victory.

Lowkey got POW.
The ball spent the rest of the game within a few squares of where it landed, while an almighty punchup surrounded it. The orcs got the worst of it, ending the game with two MNGs and another 3 in the injury box.
In the second last turn I tried a dodge into two tackle zones with my AG4 orc to try to pick up the ball, planning to pass to a blitzer in scoring position (or at least move the ball a lot further from my touchline). The dodge failed, the elforc took a MNG, and the ball bounced into a nurgle warrior's hands. I had no safety in place - all Lowkey needed to do was to handoff to a pestigor and run for the line, and barring a failed GFI he had a nailed on touchdown.

I felt sick. Once again I had turned a pretty safe win into a draw by making a bad deci- wait, the pestigor dropped it!

1-0 to the orcs. 300 TV wiped off the team for the next match; those germ warriors are feisty.

LowKey

27-11-2011, 08:06 PM

it was a fun game, I didn't really know what tactic to employ as our strength and movement was so similar, my hesitation with the ball carrier might have cost me but overall I dont think I would have done much different, the Storm Boys have a great mix of skills on them (that sidestep blitzer being a particular pain)

Ian

27-11-2011, 09:59 PM

I think I just had the shittest, fruitless amazing luck ever.

laneford

27-11-2011, 10:11 PM

Ian got Elfed.

Arnisarus

28-11-2011, 07:30 AM

Arnisarus / Ark - When would you like to play? I should be around this weekend and next weekend. I'm back to the usual crazy/unpredictable schedule this week so a weekday game is a bit hard to schedule, but if you're unavailable on the weekends we can work something out. (Note - I'm GMT-7, just to make things interesting).

Honestly im going to have no time at all to finish most of my last games unless some run over into January, most of my time over the next few weeks will be spent in hotels around the country, Thankfully skyrim runs on my laptop without much of an issue as long as everything is cranked down to minecraft level :) oddly enough bloodbowl does not run well at all on my laptop, infact the 2 times i tried to play against people ended with it crashing everytime (suprise suprise, go cyanide) This is my last day at my house for the month, the missus would castrate me with my own teeth if i spent it playing bloodbowl heh. Sorry guys will have to duck out of the tourny now. I did try to leave the league a while back when my team got smashed, knowing that this would be coming up but the responses made me feel epic guilty, so i figured i'd try fit some games in. Again sorry to those who are getting a free win, though saying that every game bar 1 has been a free win for people agaisnt my elveses :)

Laters and enjoy the league.

Ian

28-11-2011, 08:36 AM

To expand a bit more regarding my 2-1 defeat to Laneford, it was just one of them games you have against much advanced elves sometimes. I've still not managed to give myself any actually good players. So even though Laneford's luck was frequently ropey and I had, at an estimate, 498 successful knockdowns on his elves I didn't manage to actually hurt any of them in any helpful way. I'd gambled, and it almost worked, on throwing everything forward when I received the ball to try and a) make sure I could keep the ball swamped in a mound of lizard and b) get Laneford to pile back to cover. If he had less/no guard that might've worked, as it was he managed enough shoves and punches (and skinkicide) to work the ball free and elf me right in the face.

I finally got a skill on the last unskilled saurus but I'm in desperate need of some second skills on the strength players, and causing an injury or two with my relentless avalanche of knockdowns would've been quite helpful.

Vexing Vision

30-11-2011, 09:19 AM

After Snoozer and me were unable to connect to each other last Friday we are going for a replay tonight, hopefully sorting out the ultimate temporary leadership issue in Group #2.

ULTIMATE.

Screwie

30-11-2011, 09:24 AM

Hey Groovy, what are the chances of playing our game tonight?

groovychainsaw

30-11-2011, 01:06 PM

Good, I'd say - about 8pm-ish?

Screwie

30-11-2011, 01:10 PM

Awesome. See you then.

Vexing Vision

30-11-2011, 09:41 PM

As we can't get the match to run, which is probably my fault, I'll concede the match to Indefatigible Snoozer, who not only flew over to a hotel in Amsterdam to see if we could it running, but then also hooked up in a seedy Amsterdam cybercafe and totally deserves the win.

Bit anticlimatic, but the lead's yours. :)

Screwie

01-12-2011, 08:46 AM

A gruelling 4-0 defeat to Groovychainsaw last night as once again Nuffle did as much damage to my team as Groovy's necromantics. Although I didn't roll as as disastrously as my last game, the low numbers were in all the wrong places. Groovy was a fair sport as my patience was wearing thin, and played a good game to the end. Enjoy those SPPs man :D

I can now look forward to rounding off the season with three elf teams in a row :P

ChainsawHands

01-12-2011, 09:07 AM

I can now look forward to rounding off the season with three elf teams in a row :PWipe them out... all of them.

groovychainsaw

01-12-2011, 09:12 AM

Yup, a bit of a turnabout for my necros, with pretty solid performances all round. Finally I had an opportunity to unleash both wolves and took it, bashing down the gobbos with my mighty blow players whilst running in TDs with the wolves. It all went remarkably smoothly for once. End of the game, I'd picked a good number of points for my chaps and levelled both wolves, so my new guy has block and my other new guy has gained +1ag to go with his block, which should be handy... Thanks for the game screwie, you need good dice for a stunty team to perform and you never really got them, but you were a good sport throughout.

Highlight of the match:

Screwie, 4-0 down, turn 16, receiving a kickoff to finish the game. Sets up for a TTM touchdown. I kick, and it goes long. Kickoff event is a pitch invasion that sees all of his players knocked down bar the player near the ball. Sums up his game, really. He scored a 'safety' by getting the ball and running it into his own endzone :-).

mrpier

01-12-2011, 03:34 PM

Need some admin-help on this I think. Me and grinn tried to play our match today but it dropped the connection in the middle of the second half, and it dropped it at different times for each of us! I was 2-nil after grinn had had some atrocious luck in the first half, I had the ball with a catcher 9 squares from the endzone, this is when the game dropped the connection on grinn. I got to run in the ball to 3-0 after a dodge and a GFI and in the setup on turn 13 it dropped connection on me too. The game had been laggy from the start and there had been many connection dropped count-downs already when this happened.

grinn

01-12-2011, 03:49 PM

The game was 2-0 on my side when the game dropped the connection (for the record) with the ball at Mrpier's player.

Jolima

01-12-2011, 05:31 PM

Since mrpier seems to have had a pretty clear lead, I'd say he gets the win and we can leave the result at 3-0 as Cyanide seems to have judged it. Hopefully that will at least give grinn any injury SPP he may have earned. If mrpier wants to give grinn a second chance you can replay it instead.

grinn

01-12-2011, 06:34 PM

As I said, on my end it was still 2-0 when the game dropped but mrpier was in scoring range with some rolls. Still nuffle s fickle and one never knows.
I'd be happier replaying of course. Losing 4 turns like that when mrpier had used the inducements already kinda sucks.

Jolima

01-12-2011, 07:02 PM

So did mrpier see you skipping a turn? I had assumed it was his turn and he just walked it in before the game caught up to the lost connection.

grinn

01-12-2011, 07:11 PM

I didnt skip a turn as far as I know. Situation is this: His ball carrier is touching two of my players but he needs a dodge and two GFIs to make the it. I have a thrower near my endzone so a fail could have him recover and pass the ball up (have a blitzer near his endzone). Slim but possible if the dice fail.

That's when the game drops. It seems like on his end he actually scored. Not sure how that happened. The lagginess throughout the game was staggering - clicking on a piece and then not seeing the green thing for 20 secs or so, most movement in stutters etc. We had a few lost connections with timers too so the connection was all over the place throughout the thing. Mrpier had the advantage for sure but Nuffle's will is fickle and the game was a good 4 turns from done.

mrpier

02-12-2011, 05:48 AM

I'd rather not replay a game I think I would have won anyway, and I'm not confident my team could do it again against all that MB/PO and tackle. :-) Timing wise it's iffy, tonight I have a Div. of death match and saturday is not going to work for me.

Here's the replay for those who are interested:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2821948/Replay_2011-12-01_15-53-04.db

grinn

02-12-2011, 07:04 AM

It makes sense we re split on the call so I'll abide with whatever Jolima decides.
I can make the 5-8pm slot you had suggested yesterday.

President Weasel

02-12-2011, 08:58 AM

2-0 with 4 turns to go, he has the ball, and you'd be kicking off even if you did miraculously score in a single turn to make it 2-1 when he was in scoring range to make it 3-0?
I admire your optimism, but that does look like a loss.

grinn

02-12-2011, 09:19 AM

It's not optimism, it's Orc-Headedness :p

Jolima

02-12-2011, 09:09 PM

Looks like Duffin vs HughTower is the only match remaining. A quick browse through the last few pages didn't show anything written about it and the deadline is tomorrow. Are you getting it played?

HughTower

03-12-2011, 10:22 AM

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Looks like Duffin vs HughTower is the only match remaining. A quick browse through the last few pages didn't show anything written about it and the deadline is tomorrow. Are you getting it played?

Good point, well made.

Today any good, Duffin. Say 3pm?

duff

03-12-2011, 10:30 AM

That should be fine, or atleast sometime close to that, I'll be around on Steam most of the afternoon.

Just need to go out for some milk, will be back at the computer in 10 mins!

duff

03-12-2011, 04:10 PM

Don't you want me baby!? :p

HughTower

04-12-2011, 07:58 AM

duff

04-12-2011, 10:04 AM

Nah, give us a draw, as we both forgot to arrange something until the last day!

Jolima

04-12-2011, 10:19 AM

I set it to a draw and moved the league on. The next set of matches are marked up in the spreadsheet with a deadline of next Sunday (but with some leniency allowed this time).

Zoraster, time for a top-of-the-table clash between us. When suits?

Jiiiiim

04-12-2011, 10:55 AM

Ian when do you want to battle to be the 5th-bottom of the group?

groovychainsaw

04-12-2011, 02:48 PM

Lowkey, I think we're up next! I have a good opportunity on weds night, about 8pm if that works for you? If not, when would be good?

drawlien

04-12-2011, 04:10 PM

Hi Grinn - when would you like to play? Currently I have Tuesday to Thursday evening starting between 7.30 and 8.30pm GMT free. Any of those suitable?

President Weasel

04-12-2011, 06:14 PM

'HANDS! I must play you again!
Pick a time.

potatoedoughnut

04-12-2011, 06:21 PM

Hey mrpier, I probably won't be able to play until next weekend. This week is shaping up to be a busy one. Are you available next weekend? I can do either day, and for added fun I'm GMT-7 so typically my morning/afternoon (your evening) seems to work best.

Ian

04-12-2011, 06:25 PM

Ian when do you want to battle to be the 5th-bottom of the group?

Tomorrow (Monday) night?

I'll probably be good to go about 9ish.

mrpier

04-12-2011, 07:09 PM

potato - Maybe, I'll know closer to the weekend though.

grinn

05-12-2011, 03:48 AM

Hi Drawlien, I m in Thailand at the moment and am free most times but need to go to a net cafe to connect my laptop. Since it's 7 hours ahead of British time 7 or 8 will be too late. Any other day you can make it earlier in the day?

LowKey

05-12-2011, 07:15 AM

myself and groovy clashed yesterday resulting in a 1-1, I was fairly fortunate to draw with my warriors holding up under a barrage of blocks to successfully stall half of groovy's team, injuries were thankfully few but my -1MV rotter got MVP :(

ChainsawHands

05-12-2011, 08:51 AM

'HANDS! I must play you again!
Pick a time.Green Greasy Weasel! Not tonight or tomorrow, but Wednesday or Thursday night should be OK. Wednesday at 8pm?

Vexing Vision

05-12-2011, 09:02 AM

I do, baby, I do. It's just that my router has decided to fall over for the weekend.

Please accept my most sincere apologies. I'll have to take the loss I imagine, giving that the league needs to move on and I don't know when I'll be able to play

So when will you be able to play for our match, oh Tower of Hugh? (I doublechecked the spelling this time.) Tuesday is off, and Thursday is a Stuntycup-day, but I'd be willing and able to spend an hour or two tonight (if it's not too late) or on Friday or even the weekend if necessary.

President Weasel

05-12-2011, 10:06 AM

Green Greasy Weasel! Not tonight or tomorrow, but Wednesday or Thursday night should be OK. Wednesday at 8pm?

You're on like a scone, Handsy.

Indefatigible Snoozer

05-12-2011, 11:07 AM

Nullkigan - I could do tonight after 9pm GMT, or probably Wednesday or Thursday at the same time.

Nullkigan

05-12-2011, 11:09 AM

Tonight, then?

Indefatigible Snoozer

05-12-2011, 11:10 AM

Tonight it is!

Zoraster

05-12-2011, 04:21 PM

Zoraster, time for a top-of-the-table clash between us. When suits?
Thursday at 19:00 GMT suit you boss? Hopefully this is the second and last week of table top clashes... don't want you vs Hands to be a third next week :)

President Weasel

05-12-2011, 04:43 PM

Don't worry, I am sure my orcs will crush his terrifying chaos mans like bugs. Bugs!
(Christ, he has 2 +str beastmans and a +agi chaos warrior, and I am down two of my better players)

Jolima

05-12-2011, 05:15 PM

Thursday at 19:00 GMT suit you boss? Hopefully this is the second and last week of table top clashes... don't want you vs Hands to be a third next week :)

Looks like PW will take care of that, so you don't mind me winning this one I hope. :-)

Thursday at 19 it is.

drawlien

05-12-2011, 06:24 PM

Ian

05-12-2011, 09:27 PM

I think I just had the shittest, fruitless amazing luck ever.

To expand a bit more regarding my 2-1 defeat to Laneford, it was just one of them games you have against much advanced elves sometimes. I've still not managed to give myself any actually good players. So even though Laneford's luck was frequently ropey and I had, at an estimate, 498 successful knockdowns on his elves I didn't manage to actually hurt any of them in any helpful way. I'd gambled, and it almost worked, on throwing everything forward when I received the ball to try and a) make sure I could keep the ball swamped in a mound of lizard and b) get Laneford to pile back to cover. If he had less/no guard that might've worked, as it was he managed enough shoves and punches (and skinkicide) to work the ball free and elf me right in the face.

I finally got a skill on the last unskilled saurus but I'm in desperate need of some second skills on the strength players, and causing an injury or two with my relentless avalanche of knockdowns would've been quite helpful.

Take all that and change any references from elves to humans and read as a match report for my match against Jim. Relentless knockdowns and one worthwhile punch to show for it, combined with Jim having shit blocking luck but near perfect luck on anything ball-related, largely ignoring tackle zones and the rain.

It's becoming increasingly clear that against better sides than mine (not that Jim's is that much better, TV wise) I'm just no use with lizards.

Jiiiiim

05-12-2011, 11:07 PM

The luck in that game when it came to picking stuff up was ridiculous, it must be said. Pouring rain throughout, Ian had no guys with sure hands, I just had the one, yet every single thing that involved picking up the ball or passing it, worked. Every single thing. It was bizarre.

My thrower Pythagoras wins man of the match for somehow repeatedly managing 5+ or 6+ pickups, dodges and then ridiculous passes to twice get a touchdown on the last turn of the half. It's fair to say that without him I would not have had a chance at winning.

Nullkigan

05-12-2011, 11:29 PM

Beer, Balls, Brawn and Bullheadedness let me pull a last turn 1-1 draw against Snoozer's Khemri. I count it as a moral (3-1 casualties!) victory as I managed to kill the level 6 Tomb Guardian with Frenzy. Instrumental in my avoidance of failure was badly hurting the Throw-Ra of vauge competence (still a Throw-Ra) and the Dirty Player before fouls got too common.

Thanks for the game, Snoozer.

grinn

06-12-2011, 12:34 AM

Wednesday at 12 sounds good. See you in game.

potatoedoughnut

06-12-2011, 04:58 AM

President Weasel

06-12-2011, 09:54 AM

Take all that and change any references from elves to humans and read as a match report for my match against Jim. Relentless knockdowns and one worthwhile punch to show for it, combined with Jim having shit blocking luck but near perfect luck on anything ball-related, largely ignoring tackle zones and the rain.

It's becoming increasingly clear that against better sides than mine (not that Jim's is that much better, TV wise) I'm just no use with lizards.

Or else you've been having really bad luck, or you haven't got skills on your sauruses yet?
Get some skinks with diving tackle and fire the overlevelled ones.

Ian

06-12-2011, 09:56 AM

Jim is correct, I think the only ball-handling thing that failed was my desperate attempt* at a one-turner being scuppered by a failed.... 5+ (I think) handoff. But prior to that I'd done a short pass with the skinks, which is trickier than a pass on normal AG3 in several ways.

* Was gutted this didn't work. Did all the required pushing to get my sprint'n' skink into position, but couldn't manage the handoff. Had I succeeded there I'd have needed to make two dodges and three GFIs.

On the plus side, MVP actually went to a strength player, so my krox now has break tackle.

EDIT: Dunno, PW. The sauri all have block and it seems like trying to too hard to find a reason to moan to complain that my near-perfect blocking luck of the past two games (seriously, it's been the stuff of dreams) isn't enough because I've not been hurting things. But all my sauri have block, the krox has MVP'd his way to guard/break tackle.

I already binned an injured/skilled skink, not got rid of any more yet as they're not dragging my TV up too much (I've got two with DT/sidestep, one with sprint/sidestep as a runner, a catch-er to receive handoffs and a vanilla one.)

President Weasel

06-12-2011, 11:28 AM

hmm, that sounds like a decent team then, though from several clobberings when playing against lizards what I think you need is break tackle on your saurii. Maybe that's just my stupid habit of assigning a disposable player to mark them and then blithely assuming I don't need to worry about them any more, but saurii who don't stay where they are put have destroyed my teams on several occasions. Of course, you also need mighty blow so you can get points to spend on break tackle...

Jiiiiim

06-12-2011, 11:33 AM

For the sake of completion, here's what I'm going to call the Pythagorean Breakfast Triple, three ridiculous passing plays that won me the game (in pouring rain). Look at the befores and try and guess what you would do!

PROBLEM 1. Difficulty: Novice - Turn 8, first half, 0-1 down, 1 reroll left. Ball safely in Pythagoras' hands but he's boxed in by two lizards and my ogre. Everyone else is man-marked.
http://i479.photobucket.com/albums/rr151/Jiiiiim/lizardplaya.jpg

SOLUTION - move ogre out of the way, blitz through skink with blitzer and run to touchline, dodge Pythagoras out of his self-inflicted cage and pass to the blitzer, who catches on the reroll. 1-1 going into half-time
http://i479.photobucket.com/albums/rr151/Jiiiiim/lizardplay1.jpg

PROBLEM 2. Difficulty: Medium - Turn 15, second half, three rerolls left. Ball in the midst of a scrum of sauruses and humans. One blitzer has blocked his way free already
http://i479.photobucket.com/albums/rr151/Jiiiiim/lizardplayb.jpg

SOLUTION - Ogre knock the saurus out of the way, lineman knock the skink out of the way, then Pythagoras run into a huddle of three sauruses, pick up the rain-slicked ball, dodge back out of there, run back around the now on-the-floor skink, and sink a long pass perfectly into that free blitzer's hand. With luck, the blitzer will score in the next and final turn
http://i479.photobucket.com/albums/rr151/Jiiiiim/lizardplay3.jpg

(Have to split this into two posts cos you're only allowed four images)

Jiiiiim

06-12-2011, 11:34 AM

PROBLEM 3. Difficulty: Expert - Turn 16, second half, two rerolls left. Said blitzer got blitzed and the ball is safely contained by saurus and skink, blitzer stood back up and there's another one quite near the ball who can still move.
http://i479.photobucket.com/albums/rr151/Jiiiiim/lizardplayc.jpg

SOLUTION - Dodge that blitzer free and send him to the touchline to await the pass. One-dice-block the saurus out of the way so the blitzer near Pythagoras can run up to the cage and blitz the saurus out of the way (one dice). Send Pythagoras in to pick up the ball from under the nose of the skink still guarding it, dodge away and around the skink, then send a perfect long pass into the hands of the blitzer on the touchline. 2-1, game won. Ridiculous.
http://i479.photobucket.com/albums/rr151/Jiiiiim/lizardplay4.jpg

Ian

06-12-2011, 11:58 AM

Allowing for a small (I hope) margin of error for if I muff up, Samba Action Calculator (http://elyoukey2.phpnet.org/sac/) has the success of those as (rounded):

Problem 1: (not sure if the skink who got blitzed had sidestep or not, don't think it did)
With re-roll: 28%
Without re-roll: 10%

Problem 2:
With re-roll: 7%
Without re-roll: 3%

Problem 3:
With re-roll: 9%
Without re-roll: 3%

That's not calculating that all of the blocks where you got knockdowns had to be knockdowns as on some of them all you needed to do was shove the player you were hitting.

The first one I'd just plain missed the possibility that you went for, planning for you blitzing with the ogre rather than just getting him out of the way to give you an easier dodge.

Screwie

06-12-2011, 12:24 PM

I really like the top-down play-by-play. I might pinch that idea for a match report if I ever see something remarkable/geometrically-pleasing happen.

Jiiiiim

06-12-2011, 01:38 PM

Had a look at those probabilities Ian. Problem 1 was actually as high as 22% (48% with a reroll) as a bothdown would also have done on the block I think

Problem 2 was 5% (12% with a reroll) allowing that pushes would also have worked for me.

Problem 3 was 3% (9% with a reroll) and it is truely ridiculous that it worked I am sorry.

laneford

06-12-2011, 03:40 PM

Screwie! We're up. Best day for me this week is Thursday, or Sunday.

Screwie

06-12-2011, 04:12 PM

I might be able to fit you in on Thursday, although it might have to be before/after my stunty league game. Regardless, Saturday is very doable.

Ian

06-12-2011, 04:14 PM

Had a look at those probabilities Ian. Problem 1 was actually as high as 22% (48% with a reroll) as a bothdown would also have done on the block I think

Couldn't quite work out how many squares, would a both-down have required a GFI to get in the end-zone? In fact, a non-pow might have done too (or no GFI and a dodge.) Hard to work out the distances in squares. :P Not sure how I had that one so far out... was it purely that block that made the difference? :-/ I must've got something else wrong...

Problem 2 was 5% (12% with a reroll) allowing that pushes would also have worked for me.

Ahh, I wasn't taking into account that with just a shove you'd have followed it up and run your thrower between your players rather than around them. Or at least that's where I think I've got it wrong. Wasn't far out there anyway, well within my unspecified "beware I may muff this up" margin. :D

Problem 3 was 3% (9% with a reroll) and it is truely ridiculous that it worked I am sorry.

Well, I got that one on the money anyway. You complete git.

President Weasel

06-12-2011, 05:19 PM

Nuffle loves him for his amusing match reports.

Jolima

06-12-2011, 05:32 PM

Thursday at 19:00 GMT suit you boss? Hopefully this is the second and last week of table top clashes... don't want you vs Hands to be a third next week :)

Zoraster, I just realised I'm busy on Thursday. Can you do sometime in the weekend instead perhaps?

Zoraster

06-12-2011, 06:42 PM

I'll have to consult with she who must be obeyed so I'll get back to you tomorrow Jol. I expect we'll be looking at something around Sunday afternoon if it is possible though.

Indefatigible Snoozer

06-12-2011, 06:55 PM

NECROPÖLIS TIMES - OBITUARIES

The Bloodbowl world is in (re)mourning this evening after the (second) death of the game's oldest (un)living player.

Man pointing in two directions (Two-point to his friends) was (re)killed today by a Snow Troll. At 7541 years of (un)age, Two-point had just finished what he loved doing most (blitzing a player into the crowd) when he was set upon by the norse big guy. The troll's blow was so mighty that Two-point was both killed and badly hurt (although experts are debating whether both his arms coming off post-(re)mortem technically counts as badly hurt). Nevertheless, commentators were quick to point out that Two-point stood firm until the very end.

Two-point's wife, Woman pouring grain from an amphora, issued the following statement:
"I am very proud of my husband's achievements. Although he has not been passionate to me in over 5000 years (those are first bits to falls off, doncha know) his passion for the game remained long after most of the rest of him had rotted away. We are going to rebury him with all his finery, and hopefully another damn necromancer won't disturb what's left of him."

In honour of his memory, his team scored a decisive draw against the nasty norse, continuing the Mommy's Boy's unbeaten record. The coach set about installing a replacement immediately, and Two-point's great, great, great, great, great grandson (a mere 4000 years of age), Man pointing in three directions (Three-point), has stepped into the breach. Three-point acknowledged the long road ahead of him: 'I don't have block, frenzy, stand firm, mighty blow or guard like great great great great great granddad, but I can still hit things really hard.'

Two point is survived by his wife, and three nation-states full of descendants.

President Weasel

06-12-2011, 08:44 PM

Man pointing in two directions was a terrifying force for fear, panic and injuries.
His absence makes Mommy's Boys noticeably less terrifying, and in a way it lessens every team in the division (although in another way it increases their players' chances of surviving the season).

Goodbye, Man Pointing In Two Directions, you terrifying shambling undead husk, and may you find happiness in the next life.

drawlien

07-12-2011, 12:59 PM

Grinn really sorry about that - my cat jumped on the keyboard and brought up a "gui_submit" window which stopped me from doing anything and I couldn't get rid of it.

I saw you score the TD in the 13/14th turn and then quit because I didn't have time to sit around watching the clock run down for the rest of the game. I don't think there's a chance I can do a middle of the day game again before the end of the round so are you O.K. to leave it as a draw? It was a pretty close fought game so I think it would be a fair result.

Vexing Vision

07-12-2011, 01:00 PM

Grinn really sorry about that - my cat jumped on the keyboard and brought up a "gui_submit" window which stopped me from doing anything and I couldn't get rid of it.

It's toggled by the Windows key.

Don't ask me how I found this out, especially since I physically remove all Windows-keys from any keyboard I own.

grinn

07-12-2011, 01:01 PM

Hey Drawlien, I was wondering what happened. I did score and were 1-1. I guess it makes sense to keep it that way if you can't play.

Well played!!

Zoraster

07-12-2011, 01:02 PM

Jol: the ball and chain has rather helpfully declared that I might be free on Sunday. I can certainly do 15:00 GMT but any later than that is pending a potential sister-in-law visit. Hints about getting a pass this weekend as I'm having her whole family descending on my home in a couple of weeks got short shrift and led to comments about the two brick method of birth control coming back into fashion...

grinn

07-12-2011, 01:02 PM

PS - if you can play though I dont mind doing it again :) I m on holiday so not much else to do but lie on the beach, eat x hundred thai curries a day and ponder the universe while floating on a water mattress :p

drawlien

07-12-2011, 01:03 PM

It's toggled by the Windows key.

Don't ask me how I found this out, especially since I physically remove all Windows-keys from any keyboard I own.

Not for me it isn't. I've also seen someone say it was the right Ctrl key but that didn't work either. I literally tried every key and couldn't get rid of it. :(

Vexing Vision

07-12-2011, 01:04 PM

In related news, has anyone seen or heard of Mr. Towers? I believe we have a match of sorts, and the scoundrel is probably still afraid of me after what has happened in the Divisions.

drawlien

07-12-2011, 01:06 PM

Hey Drawlien, I was wondering what happened. I did score and were 1-1. I guess it makes sense to keep it that way if you can't play.

Well played!!

Well played you too! It was a real shame to leave it that way - a very exciting match - but as I said I won't really have time in the foreseeable future. Good luck for the remainder of the league, it was a pleasure to play you. And I hope the rest of the holiday goes well!

Zoraster

07-12-2011, 01:07 PM

Not for me it isn't. I've also seen someone say it was the right Ctrl key but that didn't work either. I literally tried every key and couldn't get rid of it. :(

It is the key just to the left of the right control button, the one that brings up the right click menu.

Jolima

07-12-2011, 06:59 PM

Zoraster

07-12-2011, 07:55 PM

Nope, I have assigned tasks earlier in the day. Well unless you fancy an 05:00 game, but I tend not to offer that option to European coaches... they tend to react in horror at the very thought :) 15:00 will be grand if you can do it.

President Weasel

07-12-2011, 10:32 PM

Storm Boyz (President Weasel, Orcs) vs The Horny Goats (Chainsawhands)

A game 'Hands probably deserved to win, but the mighty Nuffle had other ideas. All praise Mighty Nuffle, who is definitely not a made up deity in any way. Last week I sacrificed two halflings to Nuffle and got two more badly hurt as part of my "trip them up on your corpses" coaching strategy in the Stunty Cup. This appears to have pleased Nuffle the All Powerful and Capricious (who is absolutely real and definitely exists, praise be his Holy Name)

So here is what happened. Two of my more pricey players were out of the game (incidentally, I am once again tempted to fire my AG4 thrower; we lose far more often when he's conscious for the start of the match) and this gave me a 460,000 inducement gap with 'Hands's ridiculously levelled up Chaosmans team. (He has two (TWO!) beastmans with Str4 and one of those has frenzy!)
I hired Morg n Thorg for the match, figuring a non-stupid STR6 big guy with mighty blow might be helpful against all those AV8 mutants. That used up 430,000 of my inducements, but I wasn't in the mood to mess around with finely calculated inducements like Ripper and a wizard and a babe. None of that pussy-footing around, just spend all my cash on the biggest, meanest, least incompetent guy I could hire.

I elected to receive, knowing this gave 'Hands the opportunity to 2-1 grind me, but hoping to use the initial drive to get some momentum, put some of his mans on the ground, and maybe stamp on his minotaur.
There was a bit of scuffling, Morg charged the mino and put him on his back but failed to wound him. My goblin made a foul but with no assists it was more in hope than expectation. The mino shrugged it off.
That's about the last time anything went right for 'Hands.

There was a general melee around the ball, but I got my ball carrier free and into the loosest of "cages" up the side of the pitch. By cage, I mean a couple of guys standing where hands would have to run quite a long way to get round them and reach the ball carrier.

Hands did manage to get one guy into blitzing range of the ball carrier, but had to reroll (a GFI I think, but it could have been a dodge?) to do so. He then got something like skull/both down on his block dice, and my ball carrier was the only one out of the two of them who had bothered to learn how to block. Hands's chaosman had wasted his time with fripperies like dodge and tackle, and he went down like a sack of, erm, mutant things that come in a sack? That's a really bad simile.

I ran in a quick touchdown after that. Hands had a man injured and another KO'd. I watched the KO'd man wake up, but the injured chaosman stayed injured.
Hands then set off to score an equaliser, and things were looking pretty good for him in turn 7, which started with me making one go for it with my first move, part of my plan to close up the big gap in the middle of my formation. I double-oned it, so the gap stayed and Hand's ran his man through it and into a scoring position a couple of squares from the line.

He then cunningly placed his mans so that my best chance of taking out the scorer was by Azlop making three dodges through tackle zones before making a 2 dicer on the ball carrier. This looked like a long shot even before I set everything up and then bothered to read the skills of the chaosman I was planning to waltz past. WHAT DO YOU MEAN "DIVING TACKLE", that's for skinks! You're not a skink!
This changed the likelihood of success from very unlikely to nigh impossible. I think I would have needed to roll an 8 on a d6 for the dodge to work. I tried it anyway.

Azlop dodged through the tackle zones with the grace of the world's meanest, ugliest, ballerina, laughed in the face of the diving tackle chaos man, trundled up to the ball carrier, and broke his arm like a green stick.

All praise Mighty Nuffle!

I knocked over the two or three other guys that could have reached my endzone, and that was it for the half.

In the second half, due to Mighty Nuffle's Entirely Fair Injury Dice, 'Hands started off down 4 players including his minotaur, who had taken a punch to the head from the mighty arm of Einstein the Troll, (tough as rocks and twice as stupid) and who was still seeing stars. He'd started the match with two subs, so it was 9 against 11 at the start. This was soon reduced to 8 against 11. A failed dodge near the start of his turn left his ball carrier open, and a successful go for it and block left his ball carrier on his back. 'Hands couldn't keep the ball away from me and a turn later I managed to scoop and pass for a TD.

Hands second drive went better, partly because Einstein had rememberd he was supposed to be stupid and started failing his idiot rolls. Also partly because Hands's luck had stopped being entirely terrible - right up until his last turn, when he made a very nice hole in my lines (helped by Einstein having another attack of the stupids) and threw a pass towards his lightly marked chaos man who needed to catch, make a single dodge, and walk the ball in.

The marker plucked the ball from the air with a perfect 6.

All praise mighty Nuffle, who is not a figment of anybody's imagination and surely had his Holy Reasons for persecuting Chainsawhands.

I'd moved my +agi black orc into scoring range the previous turn, so I set off to try for an entirely undeserved third touchdown.
I blocked the chaosman away from the ball carrier, who then ran and made a short pass to Morg, who caught the ball. Morg then ran and made a handoff to the lightly marked black orc, who caught it.
All the black orc had to do now was make a dodge, with ag3 and a reroll in my pocket, and stroll over the line. Could it be possible? from 3 squares from my own touchline to a touchdown at the other end of the pitch, with orcs?

I tried the dodge. "you received a 1. you needed 4. 1 is less than that".
Reroll.
Black Orc falls over, game ends.

Even Mighty Nuffle has his limits. 2-0 to the orcs despite 'Hands playing better for most of the match was already a ridiculously undeserved scoreline.

Unbelievably, after last season's long unbroken string of draws and losses, with the top of the table match still to play this week and only two more games to go, the spreadsheet says it is mathematically possible for the Storm Boyz to come top of this half of the league. Vanishingly unlikely, true, but mathematically possible nonetheless. All Praise Mighty Nuffle, Best God Ever.

ChainsawHands

08-12-2011, 09:20 AM

Nuffle giveth, and Nuffle taketh away: his will be done!

President Weasel

08-12-2011, 09:40 AM

Nuffle gave Azlop a well-deserved MVP and on top of the injury that levelled him up to level 6 Super Star, with block, dodge, tackle, mighty blow, piling on, and jump up.

Screwie

08-12-2011, 10:13 AM

...with block, dodge, tackle, mighty blow, piling on, and jump up.

Kind of terrified now...

laneford

08-12-2011, 02:57 PM

I might be able to fit you in on Thursday, although it might have to be before/after my stunty league game. Regardless, Saturday is very doable.

What time is your stunty game screwy? I'm around from now onwards. (Steam link in sig)

If you want to play saturday, I might be able to fit in an afternoon game?

Screwie

08-12-2011, 03:22 PM

My stunty game will be 8pm at the earliest as I'm rarely home from work before then. We'll have to see.

I'd rather play tonight, but Saturday is fine too (and a lot easier to schedule).

laneford

08-12-2011, 03:31 PM

Hrmm. Depends when your game finishes I guess. I could start any time up to 11pm, but no later.

Jiiiiim

08-12-2011, 06:20 PM

oh god I'm playing the orcs next aren't I

READY THE FOUL BOOTS

President Weasel

08-12-2011, 07:49 PM

oh, the foul boots are already laced onto my foul goblin.

laneford

08-12-2011, 09:10 PM

I just got absolutely battered by Screwies (Invincible Super Wonder) goblins. Somehow emerged with a 2-2 draw.

Hope Screwie can do a match report because I dare not revisit that particular replay. Ever Again.

Screwie

09-12-2011, 08:27 AM

Meanwhile I am quite excited to go back over that replay and write the report for my Invincible Super Wonder goblins (who have yet to win a game) - funny that :D

Vexing Vision

10-12-2011, 12:49 PM

Aha! I thought. I will play against HughTower's Skavenhorde next match! This is good. They are weak. Little, tasty pockets of SPP ripe for the plucking, I thought. How tasty. How weak. How ripe. And I have a couple of girls with tackle! This will be a cake. A ripe cake.... wait, girls? No, that's the other RPS league, isn't it? Oh, alright.... wait, I don't have any tackle yet? What? Hmm. That'll be fine though, I have the strength advantage. And the better armor. Those tasty little pockets of SPP will be mine. Oho! And I have enough inducements to afford a bribe! Yes, yes, this will be fun.

Little did I know that HughTower would use his most suspicious recent absence to cheat. Instead of Skaven, Towers hired a team of dwarf mercenaries and dressed them in Skaven-cloaks. They did not dodge, but their armor was impenetrable and foul-resilient. Of the five fouls, one resulted.... in a stun. And the only injury was by a self-inflicted failed dodge, and promptly healed.

The only injury on the Dwarf/Skaven-side, that is.

Despite some crucial turn-overs from the Skaven, my Doomsday Dancers were completely unable to prevent a result of three to one touchdowns, and two to zero injuries.

Cheating, I tell you. Replacing Skaven with dwarfs is illegal!

mrpier

10-12-2011, 01:08 PM

Potatoe - We should play a match I think, sometime after 6 pm gmt today would work, or anytime tomorrow really.

potatoedoughnut

10-12-2011, 09:24 PM

Mrpier - we should (and did).

1-1 final score between mrpier's HElves and my Undeads. Mrpier got a load of inducements and picked up a wizard, an apo, and some babes and elected to kick. The wizard was an excellent buy as he fireballed my cage and made 4/5 of the knockdown rolls (why don't my wizards do that?) and made off with the ball for a quick score on turn 2.

For the rest of the half I ground a cage up the pitch and despite putting significant pressure on the cage and ball I was able to block a path free for a handoff and GFI into touchdown on turn 8 to tie things up.

The second half started with a pouring rain change of weather as the elves received. The elf thrower hung back with the ball as some catchers and linemen moved forward looking for a hole. The undeads were able to form a pretty effective wall and prevent any breakthroughs as a ghoul ran into the backfield. The ghoul managed to sack the elf thrower, but he got back up and made to pass the ball to an elf at midfield. The catch failed and the next ~5 or so turns was a comedy of errors with my players blocking the ball free, setting up for a breakaway, then failing the pickup. Followed by an elf coming in and making the pickup and then either failing a catch roll or getting punched in the face. The game ended 1-1 with my undeads unable to pick up the ball.

In the end I made 2/9 catch rolls and 2/11 pick up rolls all game long, thanks in part to rolling a grand total of one 6 all game long (mrpier made 5/10 catches and 5/7 pick ups, which isn't too good for elves either). Mrpier also got the better of the armour dice breaking 8/15 rolls (compared to my 10/44 rolls, with 3 MB players to 0). About the only decent dice I had were the block dice which were adequately average.

GG mrpier, very well played. GL with the rest of your matches.

Jolima

11-12-2011, 04:09 PM

Outcome of today's match:
Lvl 5 Elf Guard Catcher - Smashed Collar Bone (-ST rerolled from Dead)
Lvl 4 Elf Guard Catcher - Smashed Ankle (-MA)
Lvl 4 Elf Lineman - Smashed Hand (MNG)
Lvl 3 Elf ST4 Thrower - Fractured Arm (MNG)
Lvl 1 Elf Lineman - Badly Hurt

Lvl 3 Dark Elf ST4 lineman - Serious Concussion (-AV rerolled from Dead)
Lvl 3 Dark Elf Lineman - Groin Strain (MNG)
Lvl 3 Dark Elf Lineman - Dead
Lvl 2 Dark Elf Witch Elf - Dead

The match was riddled with double skulls and double 1's for both of us.

Also, I scored thrice and Zoraster once.

ChainsawHands

11-12-2011, 04:16 PM

Jiiiiim

11-12-2011, 04:25 PM

Ahahahahahahhaaaa

Jolima

11-12-2011, 04:25 PM

So many mangled elfs! *sniff* It's so beautiful.
And next match is against your chaos with their elf murdering ways. Leave one or two of the ones who show up alive for next season will you?

Zoraster

11-12-2011, 04:31 PM

The big difference between the sides was Jolima getting by far the best of the armour and block dice meaning they were always in control. The only thing keeping me in the game was the injury dice; generally when a key elf went down it went down hard. So much so in fact that despite going into the game with the intention of fouling those key players to get them off the park I finished the game with zero fouls.

The little lady was most amused by my cursing and suggested it was karma for decorating the house with humbugs when she ordered me to put some xmas decorations up. Maybe Nuffle is a woman... would explain why he is such a cruel master.

Zoraster

11-12-2011, 04:35 PM

Isn't that the end of the round? Arni has dropped now hasn't he?

Jolima

11-12-2011, 04:37 PM

Oh, right. I'll roll it on to next round.

Edit: Done. The new matches are marked up in the spreadsheet.

duff

11-12-2011, 06:55 PM

Hi Mrpier, when is good for you? Tuesday or Wednesday (most of the day + night) are best for me.

potatoedoughnut

11-12-2011, 07:36 PM

mrpier

11-12-2011, 08:05 PM

I'd love to duff, but I think I'm playing HughTower next :)

Edit: HughTower - Holy crap, level 6 rat ogre, what a beast!

duff

11-12-2011, 08:11 PM

I mean Nulks! We play last game mrpier, sorry about that!

Nullkigan

11-12-2011, 08:45 PM

Busy Weds until about 1pm, but otherwise free. Whenever we see each other on steam? I still have nightmares about last time...

President Weasel

11-12-2011, 10:12 PM

My faint mathematical possibility of winning the Open was snuffed out - by Jim's team of mathematical geniuses.
Oh, cruel irony.

Jim bought a wizard and a wandering apoc, so while I managed to injure 4 of his math mans, 2 of them got apoced back to health including the one I killed just after typing "if he dies, he dies". Boo!
He also had a seemingly countless number of grad students on the sidelines waiting to step in, so I was never able to get a numerical superiority. His wizard managed to badly hurt my thrower, and somewhat later my troll took a badly hurt and failed his regen roll, and since I only roll with one sub I ended up outnumbered by the maths whizzes.
I scored at the end of the first half, and Jim scored an equaliser early on in the second half, then scored a second when he knocked down a corner of my cage and badly hurt him. My attempts to clear a path for the ball carrier came to nothing, and Jiim took the ball and ran away. Later on he scored a third, just to rub it in.

Looks like it's mid table mediocrity for the Storm Boyz this season.

Jiiiiim

11-12-2011, 11:36 PM

ULTIMATE MATH SQUAD (Jim, Human) vs STORM BOYZ (President Weasel, orcs)

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/7842/stormboyz.jpg

FINAL SCORE: Jim 3-1 President Weasel

President Weasel

11-12-2011, 11:44 PM

I would like to point out that in order to do his two winning touchdowns, Jiim rolled 6,6, 4, 6, 6 for the 2-1, and 6,6, 4, 5 for 3-1, (or something very similar, as by his third touchdown I could only dimly see the dice through a fog of existential despair)

Jiiiiim

11-12-2011, 11:46 PM

EAT MY SIXES

dammit caps lock filter

Ian

12-12-2011, 08:08 AM

So basically Jim has managed to procure the fabled Nuffle's Dice of Never Fail (Until They Do In Gruesome and Hilarious Fashion.)

Last two games Jim has been to stupid dice what I have been to punching the snot out of people without causing so much as a bruise.

Speaking of which up next I have.... nurgle.

When works for you, LowKey? I dunno if I can tonight and I can't do Friday, but Tuesday-to-Thursday nights I should be good for. Failing that, weekend.

Indefatigible Snoozer

12-12-2011, 09:46 AM

Ah, so Arni has dropped, which is why I've got a default win?

President Weasel

12-12-2011, 09:54 AM

Ah well, Nuffle giveth, and Nuffle taketh away.

Tom OBedlam

12-12-2011, 11:02 AM

Is it possible to move a team from single player to multi or would I need to build a team up to 1500 in one off games in the public leagues?

Ian

12-12-2011, 11:20 AM

Needs to be built up in multiplayer to make it harder (or at least more time-consuming) for people to farm ridiculously over-powered teams.

Vexing Vision

12-12-2011, 11:36 AM

Screwie

12-12-2011, 11:42 AM

Is it possible to move a team from single player to multi or would I need to build a team up to 1500 in one off games in the public leagues?

I don't believe it is possible to transfer a team from SP to MP. But in any case, it doesn't have to be public leagues - you are free to use the RPS Challenge League to build up your team against other members of this forum. That's exclusively how I developed my goblin team.

President Weasel

12-12-2011, 12:51 PM

Screwie

12-12-2011, 01:22 PM

"Take a 1000TV team and just endure it" is not advised for all races, though!

duff

12-12-2011, 02:50 PM

Nulks - sometime on Wednesday afternoon sounds doable, I'll look out for you on ye olde steame.

Jiiiiim

12-12-2011, 05:32 PM

You might as well join with a TV1000 team and just abuse the inducements. It'll be quicker and simpler, although your team may well find it takes a severe kicking in its first season. There's some controversy about "development" matches and the standard of opposition, although this is mostly about the frowned-upon practice of taking development matches between seasons.

Speaking of which, is that banned now?

I think the idea is just that the games you play to develop to join the league should be competitive ones. I wouldn't recommend starting with a 1000 TV team against a load of developed teams, though. It's even been frustrating using my semi-skilled humans against godlike elves, I can't think what it'd be like to start from scratch.

drawlien

12-12-2011, 05:39 PM

So. Drawlien! I believe I have the pleasure of facing some Amazons myself this time. Of course, I still don't have tackle (unless there was a surprise level-up I didn't see yet).

This will be fun for one of us at least. When then shall this happen?

Currently I can do Wednesday, Friday or Monday starting between 7.30 and 8.30pm if any of them are suitable? My preference would be Monday.

Jolima

12-12-2011, 05:48 PM

I guess it's time to open up that discussion again. The idea I had was, besides only allowing competitive games, to put a TV limit on it. I.e. any current team is allowed to remain, but if you take it out to perform training games or are a new joiner you must be below TV 1700 to apply. Let me know what you think and we should have a rule ready for next season's start.

Kudos to mrpier, who did start with a new team last season and has managed to stay in the middle of the table.

President Weasel

12-12-2011, 05:57 PM

Personally I am perfectly happy with a new joiner playing competitive games to get their TV up a bit before they join.
I am considerably less happy with the idea of playing training games between seasons; I believe the knowledge that if a team gets wrecked it stays wrecked will make people play more defensively with fragile fancy-dan teams, and maybe get more defensive skills while levelling.

However I am not a fanatic about this, and I think the 1700 limit will still make people think twice about sticking their elves into the mixer during the season while letting them be competitive enough not to rage quit for the following season if, for example, Azlop kills both of their wardancers and makes a fancy hat out of their scalps. As long as they are genuine competitive games against people who are trying to win, I'm happy enough.

Indefatigible Snoozer

12-12-2011, 06:21 PM

Ah, so Arni has dropped, which is why I've got a default win?

Sorry to harp on about this - Someone has put 2-0 in the spreadsheet for my game against Arni. Is this correct for a default win? If so, do I have the hivemind's permission to validate the game at 2-0?

Vexing Vision

12-12-2011, 06:22 PM

Currently I can do Wednesday, Friday or Monday starting between 7.30 and 8.30pm if any of them are suitable? My preference would be Monday.

Ho hum, I cannot guarantee I'll be online by 8:30 pm next Monday, but I should be able to make 9pm.

We are talking about next monday, not today, right?

Re: Training. I think you should just bite the apple and level up your team competetively. Of course, I'll bow to Jolima's decision.

Ian

12-12-2011, 06:33 PM

I'm happy with whatever re; training. I couldn't give much of a toss as long as the person isn't using their training for horrible min-maxing or farming stat-ups or whatever. So yeah, I'll go with the flow.

mrpier

12-12-2011, 06:59 PM

Starting out with a 1000TV high elves team hasn't been so bad actually (so far, praise nuffle!). I might have been a little bit lucky on the damage rolls though, two apoths in every game also helps a bit. The inducement that has helped me the most is without a doubt the wizard, I've been lucking out with him and he has all but guaranteed me one goal in each of my matches. Elves of course being extra good at capitalizing on dropped balls in their vicinity. :)

drawlien

12-12-2011, 06:59 PM

Ho hum, I cannot guarantee I'll be online by 8:30 pm next Monday, but I should be able to make 9pm.

We are talking about next monday, not today, right?

Yes next Monday and 9pm GMT should be O.K. - after all I will be on holiday the following day!

Jolima

12-12-2011, 07:37 PM

Sorry to harp on about this - Someone has put 2-0 in the spreadsheet for my game against Arni. Is this correct for a default win? If so, do I have the hivemind's permission to validate the game at 2-0?

Yes, go ahead.

Zoraster

12-12-2011, 07:57 PM

grinn

13-12-2011, 12:50 AM

Mmmmm, maimed elves.

Speaking of maiming, Grinn when would you like to murder my Undeads? I can't play anything until this Friday, but can do pretty much any time Friday onwards (fun fact: I'm GMT-7).

Hey potatoman, my orcs are hungry to break the spell of pooluck on some undeadmans. I'm at GMT +7 (Thailand) and have BB installed at a machine on another island (no net cafes on the one I m on now) - it's a 2 hour boat ride but am dying for a bit of bloodbowling :) sooo, how about we have a game my Saturday at 10am (your Friday 8pm?) or same time the next day. I m on holiday so any time up to 8pm here (net place closes at 11) is fine for me :)

potatoedoughnut

13-12-2011, 02:30 AM

Hey potatoman, my orcs are hungry to break the spell of pooluck on some undeadmans. I'm at GMT +7 (Thailand) and have BB installed at a machine on another island (no net cafes on the one I m on now) - it's a 2 hour boat ride but am dying for a bit of bloodbowling :) sooo, how about we have a game my Saturday at 10am (your Friday 8pm?) or same time the next day. I m on holiday so any time up to 8pm here (net place closes at 11) is fine for me :)

Your Sun at 10 am/my Sat at 8pm would work well for me. I'll also be on holiday after Thursday so if another day or time works better I'm flexible.

LowKey

13-12-2011, 06:55 AM

Hullo Ian, I can do any evening this week so which ever is preferable for you, perhaps 8 tonight?

HughTower

13-12-2011, 07:34 AM

@mrpier

Hello there sweetcheeks! Will this be the time I actually get to beat you I wonder...?

I'm off work as it happens from Thursday afternoon this week so have more flex than usual, and can't do lunchtime on Sat or Sunday. How bout any time from 9am on Friday till 4pm, or post 10pm. failing that, early starts at the weekend work.

Ian

13-12-2011, 08:36 AM

Hullo Ian, I can do any evening this week so which ever is preferable for you, perhaps 8 tonight?

Let's go for that. :)

mrpier

13-12-2011, 09:06 AM

HughTower - I might be able to start 4 pm on friday, otherwise an early start saturday or sunday sounds ok.

HughTower

13-12-2011, 07:01 PM

HughTower - I might be able to start 4 pm on friday, otherwise an early start saturday or sunday sounds ok.

Sooper dooper. I'll watch this space.

Ian

13-12-2011, 08:20 PM

On the plus side, a 2-0 win, the lion's share of the luck again and finally a level two saurus.

On the down side, no sooner does my kroxigor hit level two than my apothecary works his "magic" on him. Insert my stock apothecaries moan in here, you know the drill.

(We also had sweltering hit, but thankfully it didn't complete shag the game.)

Screwie

14-12-2011, 10:56 AM

Screwie when do you wish to make hay against my battered squad? I've got umpteen deadlines over the next week or so so ideally I'd like to leave it until shortly before Christmas (doubly so as the in-law will be swarming into my home next week so I'll be seeking any excuse to hide in my study 'working'). Wednesday 21st onwards would be my choice, but if you need to do it sooner I should be able to work something out.

Hi Zoraster, sorry I missed this post earlier. I positively relish the prospect of facing dark elves :(

Literally the only time I could manage from Web 21st is the evening of Thurs 22nd, so if its okay with you perhaps we can try for an earlier time and save that date as our backup appointment?

My time between the 15th and 20th however is pretty much open, after 8pm on weeknights or any time at the weekend. If you can fit a game in during that period suggest a time and I'll be there.

Zoraster

14-12-2011, 02:56 PM

Okay Screwie, I'm leaning towards Saturday afternoon, say around 16:00ish GMT? There is a chance I may have to cancel but I think it is the best bet over the next week... well unless you fancy an early hours match :) Before 06:00 is my only reliable free time at the moment.

Screwie

14-12-2011, 03:09 PM

Okay Saturday it is. Hopefully see you then.

mrpier

16-12-2011, 10:20 AM

hughtower - friday is looking unlikely, How about 10 am on saturday?

HughTower

16-12-2011, 11:05 AM

hughtower - friday is looking unlikely, How about 10 am on saturday?

You're on. See you in the game lobby.

HughTower

17-12-2011, 09:02 AM

You're on. See you in the game lobby.

MrPier, apologies I had to do a clean install of Windows yesterday and I'm struggling to get it all back. Hopefully I'll be ready in the next 30 mins. I'll drop a note here and on Steam when I am.

mrpier

17-12-2011, 09:06 AM

Ah, ok :)

I'll just be wandering around in skyrim for a bit then.

mrpier

17-12-2011, 12:10 PM

Experienced admins, how do I reset a match so it can be replayed? Me and Hughtower got a paused match, where the pause-dialog hid behind a turnover-sign, so we just had to abandon the match at 1-1 (with a huge numerical advantage to HughTower).

Jiiiiim

17-12-2011, 12:14 PM

I think you should just be able to start it again? Until you validate a result, any result is temporary and will be overwritten by playing it again in the same way taht you first played it.

Jolima

17-12-2011, 12:16 PM

Seems like it's been reset already.

To reset it you press the little dice symbol next to a result and select "Reset match".

mrpier

17-12-2011, 12:21 PM

Ah, goodie, thanks a bunch.

grinn

17-12-2011, 12:40 PM

HughTower

17-12-2011, 02:21 PM

Ah, goodie, thanks a bunch.

Dude, I'll be free tomorrow to start before 11am if you can make it. Just let me know here.

Zoraster

17-12-2011, 03:16 PM

So after running around like a blue arsed fly trying to manufacture time for a game Screwie hasn’t shown up anyway. Marvellous.

Screwie

17-12-2011, 03:35 PM

Erm, I've been available on Steam all afternoon?

potatoedoughnut

17-12-2011, 06:27 PM

Dear Herr Potato, are we all good for tomorrow, Thailand 10am time (GMT +7)? Just confirming since it's a boat ride away...

Went over today to check game and connection with a test match. All good...

Hey Grinn,

Unfortunately I was just informed this morning by the lady friend that I'm hosting a dinner part tonight, so I probably can't do BB tonight. If it's a PITA to reschedule I might be able to disappear for a bit, otherwise I can play late tonight after everyone leaves (maybe 0100 GMT-7) or I'm on holiday so I can play any time this week (except Wed).

Sorry for being such a pain and the late notice.

grinn

18-12-2011, 12:34 AM

Hey potato, the only cock up is that I saw this now (limited Internet on the island I m staying) and have made the harrowing hangover 2 hour boat trip to come to the net shop and play. I can do it later if you want but it means I m hanging out here waiting. What is the soonest you can make it this evening/morning?

potatoedoughnut

18-12-2011, 01:04 AM

Hey Grinn, sorry but it will probably be about 4 or 5 hours from now. I can post again here when I am free, but I don't want you to have to wait around on me. Is it easier for you to wait around or plate tomorrow/later this week? Really sorry about the change of plans.

If it's not possible to schedule something else I will take the default. Sorry again :(

grinn

18-12-2011, 01:19 AM

I d rather try and make it. Last two games I lost most of a half due to (a) bad connection (b) cat assaulting Drawlien. Would be nice to get a full game in :).

I could play tomorrow evening but it will take another boat ride here and back and leaving the partner alone again so it's probably better if I hang around here till you're done. I need a firm time so I make a booking at the net cafe for the bloodbowl machine though. Let's say 4.40 hours from now, so my 14.00, your... midnight?

grinn

18-12-2011, 01:25 AM

Ok sorted for a post dinner-party, you drunk me-hungover and sun-bashed, midnight match.

groovychainsaw

18-12-2011, 08:58 AM

Laneford! I think we're supposed to be playing this week... when's good for you? I got a free slot monday night (8pm?).

laneford

18-12-2011, 09:07 AM

Oh balls. I thought my goblin mauling was this week's game. I can do TODAY, but then I'm going away until the 23rd, and then going away 24th -27th...

Unless cyanide can release an iPad version.

groovychainsaw

18-12-2011, 11:28 AM

I'll see what free time I can get tonight. I can't guarantee I'll be free, but I'll look you up on steam if I manage it!

ChainsawHands

18-12-2011, 12:18 PM

Jolima, it's you and me. Monday night?

laneford

18-12-2011, 01:20 PM

I'll see what free time I can get tonight. I can't guarantee I'll be free, but I'll look you up on steam if I manage it!

Ok I'll be on from 6pm. I'll keep checking every now and then.

Sorry!

mrpier

18-12-2011, 04:41 PM

Me and HughTower played our game today which HughTower won 3-2. He's got a very offensive skaven team, with a really terrible rat ogre, that has claw, pro, guard, break tackle and I think he had stand firm also and two 10 mv gutter runners. Almost impossible to stop him scoring, and I didn't have the skills to manage all that speed and mobility.

I got Zara, a reroll and an extra apoth as inducements, my plan was to use zara and her stab to maybe get a numerical superiority, and also her 4ST and dauntless could help if I needed to block the rat ogre. The stab didn't really do much, I think they gave me 1 KO and some stuns, and wasn't really worth it.

A entertaining game and well played by HughTower, hopefully next season I'll have some tackle, sidestep and diving tackle players to foul up his game. :)

Jolima

18-12-2011, 06:23 PM

Jolima, it's you and me. Monday night?

Sounds like a plan.

potatoedoughnut

18-12-2011, 07:49 PM

Grinn and I played our game last night. He manged my Undead mans pretty well with his Orcs and the end result was a 1-1 draw.

I had ~400 in inducements and bough Mr Vampire man and an Igor. The Igor went unused all game (can't Igor a Ghoul, stupid ghouls) and the Vampire was a mixed bag. He was big and scary with str5 and agi4 and he managed to injury an orc at one point, but he failed hypno gaze all the time (he only made 2/7, wtf), dashing all my plans of fancy pants plays.

Grinn won the toss and elected to kick. After a lot of punching and a big mess I was able to get a couple players free and scored on my turn 8. 2nd half there was more punching, and Grinn was able to score on turn 13. I almost was able to put in a quick equalizer, but a failed handoff dashed those plans and there were a few more turns of punching and fumbling the ball around (and a BO interception -_-) before the end of the match.

Grinn was able to keep up a steady stream of KO and cas (5 KO and 4 cas), I think the only thing that kept me in the game was I was able to get a few critical cas of my own (3 cas and 1 KO), including MNG on his agi 4 blitzer (you're welcome whoever he plays next :D). As usual my ball handling was atrocious, 4/7 pickups and 1/5 catches, really preventing me from dong a whole lot score wise.

Thanks for the game Grinn, and sorry again about the delay.

laneford

18-12-2011, 09:30 PM

oof. The (pointy) wheels have finally come off my High Elf bandwagon.

After the mauling by screwies (super wonder) goblins, I had only 11 fit players, but still gave up 150k in inducements (which, it turned out Groovy didn't need). Very quickly those 11 players ended up down to 6, and I basically couldn't compete, not so much with the ball, but without it, (and without a wardancer or super powered witchelf), so my game quickly devolved into throwing a series of increasingly ludicrous blitzes against Necromantic cages, to little effect.

I have had remarkable luck with injuries so far against this high elf team, (with the exception of Blitzer position #2, lost another today) so this is probably just nuffle trimming my team back to a stastical average number of alive, skilled elves, but unless I can work out how to play without the ball, I think I'm in big trouble in the future.

GG Groovy.

Ian

19-12-2011, 09:26 AM

Are we still on whichever week it is (penultimate one?) where I played LowKey? Just checking 'cause I'm away home for Christmas on Friday morning and not back until the 5th, and there's no chance my parents ruralwebs are handling Blood Bowl.

Jiiiiim

19-12-2011, 09:34 AM

still on the penultimate week yeah. Need Screwie-Zorro and Jolima-Hands

Screwie

19-12-2011, 09:46 AM

Well since Z and me somehow missed each other at the weekend, we'll have to fall back on the original Thursday night plan. I will be online on Thursday night from 8pm UK time until late. If that changes I'll post in this thread ahead of time.

groovychainsaw

19-12-2011, 10:46 AM

Yeah, gave Laneford's already slightly crippled elves a bit of a kicking last night, to the point where i felt properly evil by the end. Fitting for a necromantic team, but somewhat cruel, really :-(. I went into it knowing he only had 11 players and nearly half of them were AV7 (one AV6!). I bought a wizard just in case he got on the ball, and went to work. After Laneford kicked off to me, I caged up and began bashing. Although my cage wasn't perfect (I left a corner open turn 1! Doh!), Laneford could only get one dice blocks and his leaping blitzer didnt do the business for several turns. Eventually he did, but the ball rolled into the hands of a waiting wight. It was that sort of game really. Between me stamping on players (thanks to the 'bribe' event from kickoff) and using mighty blow and claw to good effect, Laneford was swiftly down to just 6, and I walked it in. At kickoff, one of his KOs came back, but a rock was thrown and another went off badly hurt, summing up Laneford's entire game, really. The second half laneford made a valiant attempt at a pass and catch from the kickoff, but as soon as it failed he was doomed, and I tied up his remaining players and ran the clock down until turn 16. The last 2 turns Laneford left his players on the floor, and I kindly didnt stamp on him. I did push one of his other chaps off the pitch, which with hindsight was pretty cruel at the point (sorry again!), although I was suspicious of an elf catcher standing in my endzone, even though I was a keeping the ball a good 12 squares away from any of his players...
Anyway, brutal match for laneford, some good SPPs for me, and my other flesh golem gained mighty blow to keep the bashy nature of the team working for me. A bit of a recovery over the last couple of games after a terrible start to the season. Maybe they're not so bad after all, these necros ;-), a good final game and I could get into the top half of my half of the open.

President Weasel

19-12-2011, 11:54 AM

a good final game and I could get into the top half of my half of the open.

Unfortunately for you your final game is against my Orcs and we shall crush your feeble undeads into a fine paste.

potatoedoughnut

19-12-2011, 02:41 PM

Vexing Vision

19-12-2011, 03:03 PM

Hi drawlien,

I realize we had a All Girl's Date planned for tonight, but work interferes in the most unpleasant of ways, and is likely to do so tomorrow as well.

I would like to offer Thursday at any time (me being on what passes as "holidays" around here then) as an appeasement, or Friday (same deal).

What sez you?

drawlien

19-12-2011, 04:43 PM

Hi drawlien....

...HOT Date planned for tonight .... likely tomorrow as well.

I would like to offer Thursday at any time (me being on what passes as "holidays" around here then) as an appeasement, or Friday (same deal).

What sez you?

I sez "O.K".... Shall I just catch you on Steam or would you rather have a specific time (I've got a similar deal going with Groovy in the stunty league so you might have to fight over me)?

Vexing Vision

19-12-2011, 06:14 PM

Oh, this "we let the fates decide when our pathes shall cross" worked extremely well with Jolima and me. I'll be around in one form or another all day, but if you prefer a specific time, now's the time to say so so I can plan my non-Steam-gaming around it. ;) (BATMAN.)

Jolima

22-12-2011, 04:28 PM

I fear they have gotten to 'Hands. We were set to play yesterday (after I had missed the time the day before), but the very minute that the match was supposed to begin, he disappeared offline on Steam. I can only surmise that as he started the game Cyanide revealed the true purpose of their game as turning your computer into an Eldritch Gateway through which they'll pull your soul in sacrifice to Nuffle.

Beware!

'Hands, should you escape their evil scheme, we still have a match to finish. When are you ready to return to the fray?

Screwie

22-12-2011, 09:10 PM

Just had a tense and exciting game against Zoraster. It was very nearly a 3-3 draw, then a 4-3 to Z's dark elves, then nearly a 4-4 draw... but for a Really Stupid roll. So 4-3 to the elves it is.

ChainsawHands

22-12-2011, 11:23 PM

Sorry about that! Some point tomorrow should be OK, I'll look for you on Steam.

Jolima

23-12-2011, 04:10 PM

Playing 'Hands chaos went surprisingly well. I only had 10 players available after the big elf-massacre of last match, but 'Hands only had 11 players himself. I also started out with an additional apoth, 2 babes and a wizard in inducements. First round one level 4 CW ends up dead (despite medical attention). Second round another CW goes out Badly Hurt. Soon my Frenzy elf also dies, but the elven apothecaries prove better than their chaos colleagues, and brings him back without a scratch.

I have a decent chance to score at one point with a pass to a catcher who only had to shake of one marker (with tackle). I decide to stall a little more though and the chaos men knock my thrower down so that the ball falls out of bounds and the crowd tosses it back in the middle of the chaotics. I have a few chances to reclaim it but get double 1's for two or three turns in a row so 'Hands can walk it in without much opposition in the last turn.

Next half and 'Hands is receiving with 9 players against my 10. He forms a cage and... boom goes a fireball, KO'ing two of the corners and stunning a third. An elven counter score is soon a fact and on the next lineup there are only 6 chaotics left against my elves. They struggle valiantly, but eventually the ball bounces into the hands of a catcher who runs it out of the melee and in for another touchdown. 2-1 to the elves and the match is over.

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This also concludes the round and the final round is ready to be started. This time I've got Screwies gobbos and a full team of 14 to face them with. Sometime between Christmas and New Years perhaps Screwie? I'm off from work all week.