RPS Blood Bowl League - The RPS Open [Archive] - Page 6

grinn

26-12-2011, 01:08 AM

I'm not sure? If you can grab me on steam when you want to play, I should be able to give an instant yes/no (do this even if I'm in another game).

The problem is that I'm at the whim of others for the next couple of days, so I can't guarentee availability as usual. I'd hate for you to waste a boat ride/day sitting around because I've been dragged off to endure The aunts
I'm happy to wait until you get back from Thailand if that makes things easier.

I m back on the same island as the hallowed bloodbowl machine. It's just 2mins up the road from my hut thing so can hop there any time. I ll try to catch you on steam today (your morning/afternoon). I can play any time as I m just plopping around being post christmasy Thai curry heavy.

HughTower

26-12-2011, 10:56 AM

HT - Can you do 11am on the 29th?

Yep, see you in the game lobby, chap.

Indefatigible Snoozer

26-12-2011, 04:20 PM

Yep, see you in the game lobby, chap.

Alternatively, if you're available to start in the next hour, it's 4am in Australia land and I am up and bloodbowl ready.

HughTower

27-12-2011, 10:57 AM

Alternatively, if you're available to start in the next hour, it's 4am in Australia land and I am up and bloodbowl ready.

Obviously missed this, but will keep a closer eye on it just in case.

Jiiiiim

27-12-2011, 04:44 PM

Alright Lowkey I believe I have added you on Steam, poke me when and if you are about even if I'm in-game.

President Weasel

27-12-2011, 05:33 PM

Is it next week yet? It looks like it's next week; I see a - for the match between me and that Groovy Chainsaw fella. So, Groovy, when is most convenient for your team to get CRUSHINATED by my orcs?

laneford

27-12-2011, 08:42 PM

Hands! When would you like to finish my Elves off for good and put them out of their wretched pointy eared misery? I'm around from now until New Year basically.

LowKey

27-12-2011, 09:42 PM

very sorry Jiiiim! Couldn't get away in the end, I think I wont be able to play until the new year, probably the second, really sorry and I understand if this is too late and ill accept the lose

Jiiiiim

27-12-2011, 10:58 PM

nah it's fine. See you then.

Nullkigan

29-12-2011, 01:10 PM

MY SPLEEN!11

The Only Card You Need lost a devastating 2-0 to the unholy Pombadiers of Grinn's Gears of Mork. We averaged a cas and a KO each for the first half dozen turns, but as I was taking the casualties rather than KOs it just didn't work out. My #1 player twice rolled all skulls on the most critical of blocks, with rerolls. He was not able to fail me a third time as the second time killed him.

It's time to shuffle the deck.

There are only 3-4 players I'm going to keep into next season. I have too many instances of Dauntless/Tackle on linesmen and not enough actual skills on Ulfs/Zerks. My TV being equal to Grinn's despite him having multiple level 6 players (to my two level fours) scuppered any chance I had of keeping up with the POMB-train.

grinn

29-12-2011, 01:34 PM

Exciting first half there Nullkigan! Was down to 7 players from KOs in the first half with Nullki's angry-naked-mans stalling the TD since they had numerical and positional advantage. A doppel coconuts from the late Number 1 saw my desperate orcs salvage a blitz, ball retrieval a few squares off the endzone and an impressive pass by Zeppi Il Hafi to Gonzi, who managed to pick himself up from a happy piling elbow in mid pitch and caught the ball with his recently mangled hand. Nullki's men were just out of running distance and Gonzi trotted up to the endzone.

The second half the cards were down a few men and although they managed to Knock Out some more orcs the evil greens got the better of them, turning the rest of the game into a wack-an-angry-man.

Sadly, the valiant Mintoff, who's saved me quite a few games recently is going to miss the first game of next season.

ChainsawHands

29-12-2011, 01:38 PM

Hands! When would you like to finish my Elves off for good and put them out of their wretched pointy eared misery? I'm around from now until New Year basically.Tomorrow afternoon, maybe?

laneford

29-12-2011, 05:53 PM

Tomorrow afternoon, maybe?

Sure thing. What kind of time were you thinking?

ChainsawHands

29-12-2011, 09:09 PM

Say 3pm? I'll try to be on Steam, send me a message.

laneford

29-12-2011, 09:25 PM

Yeah no worries. Just wanted to know a vague time incase I need to go out to buy coffee, food, supplies, elves. That sort of thing.

drawlien

30-12-2011, 09:35 AM

Hi potatoedoughnut - when would you like to play our game? I can do today up to around 1.30pm GMT, Sat/Sun up to 4pm GMT or Monday up to 8pm GMT if any of those are suitable?

Jolima

30-12-2011, 10:11 AM

Since there are a lot of matches remaining because of the holidays, I just extended this round with a week. Try to get it played by Sunday the 8th, but Friday the 13th is the final deadline. (You don't want to tempt Nuffle by playing on that particular day, do you? Best get it played earlier.)

After that we have the finals, which is just one match, so that can hopefully be a short round.

Then there's next season... Please mark up in the spreadsheet if you're staying with us or not. Depending on how many remain, we may merge the divisions together again.

We'll enforce this rule for next season unless anyone objects:
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. All training games must be played against an opponent who's trying to win.

Anything else that anyone wants changed for the next season?

HughTower

30-12-2011, 01:50 PM

Since there are a lot of matches remaining because of the holidays, I just extended this round with a week. Try to get it played by Sunday the 8th, but Friday the 13th is the final deadline. (You don't want to tempt Nuffle by playing on that particular day, do you? Best get it played earlier.)

After that we have the finals, which is just one match, so that can hopefully be a short round.

Then there's next season... Please mark up in the spreadsheet if you're staying with us or not. Depending on how many remain, we may merge the divisions together again.

We'll enforce this rule for next season unless anyone objects:

Anything else that anyone wants changed for the next season?

Sounds fine by me, J-dawg.

If we remain at 2 divisions, will it remain randomly distributed as per this initial season or are we moving to an results based tiering?

President Weasel

30-12-2011, 02:06 PM

Since Groovychainsaw has not responded to my post and has sneakily only sneaked onto Steam occasionally and when I wasn't looking I can only assume he is ducking me because he is a big coward and fears my orcs.

groovychainsaw

30-12-2011, 02:34 PM

Hi Pw, I'm back from most of my adventures now, should be around over the next couple of days, but at unknown times, b'cos, you know, holidays. I'll try to catch you when I'm free, if not we'll set up a formal scrap one evening next week.

President Weasel

30-12-2011, 02:46 PM

Oho! There he is!
I'll be around the next few days, give me a shout on Steam :)

President Weasel

30-12-2011, 04:10 PM

Wow. Just wow.

my level 2 goblin got EATEN
my level 4 thrower (leader, kickoff return, block) got KILLED
Srifak, my level 5 blitzer (dodge, mighty blow, side step, tackle, block) got KILLED
four others got badly hurt (at least two from failing go for its)
one got a gouged eye in the first turn which I apoced because "these are orcs, they'll probably not get many injuries"
Oh, and my troll was KO'd for most of the second half, possibly sleeping off his meal of goblin.

Ironically, a few days before the match I had been a bit concerned by my high TV and sacked my ag4 thrower for having two niggles and being injury prone.
Now my level 4 thrower and a level 5 blitzer are dead so my TV is nice and low, and half my team got injured despite having no niggles. Nuffle loves a good laugh.

In the first half my troll double skulled and lonered the reroll at the exact wrong moment leaving Groovy with a free run at my ball carrier. He took the ball and went on to score.
In the second half with the casualties piling up things were looking bleak when groovy tried a short pass, which scattered off the pitch. The crowd threw it back on way up near his touchline. One of my blitzers was closest and set off, then a ghoul got a hand to him. A wolf charged in, got a push/skull, took the push, frenzied, and failed his go for it, stunning himself.
I tried to get a player in for an assist, he failed his go for it and went off badly hurt.
The ghoul tried to dodge away and grab the ball, failed his roll, and stunned himself.

This left two small knots of players near the halfway line, and my blitzer and the ball near groovy's touchline. I had no rerolls left.
The entire match would be decided by a 3+ pickup roll...

... which succeeded. It was quite difficult to use the mouse with my fingers crossed, but it was worth it. Either that or even Nuffle takes pity on the afflicted now and again.

edit: P.S. It was a (wholly undeserved) draw, 1-1.

ChainsawHands

30-12-2011, 08:47 PM

potatoedoughnut

30-12-2011, 09:36 PM

Hi potatoedoughnut - when would you like to play our game? I can do today up to around 1.30pm GMT, Sat/Sun up to 4pm GMT or Monday up to 8pm GMT if any of those are suitable?

Hey Drawlien - I just now got my computer working again (PSU failed), but I am on holiday so I should be free whenever. I'll keep an eye out for you on steam. There is a good chance I will be busy tomorrow (Sat) morning and sleeping/hungover Sun morning, so I don't know if I can make a game before 4pm GMT (I'm GMT -7), but Monday should be doable all day.

laneford

31-12-2011, 01:10 AM

After their tragic loss (of a chaos warrior) against an elf team last time, The Horny Goats redeemed themselves somewhat with a win via a fairly standard 2-1 grind against Laneford's high elfs. I don't think much permanent harm was done.

My favourite moment was the winning touchdown, where there was an elf in the end zone, in the square right of front of the ball-carrying beastman - one 3 dice blitz later, there was a badly hurt elf in the crowd, and a 2nd chaos touchdown.

Thanks to Laneford for the match.

It was a hell of a game, I had 9 fit elves, and they put up a decent fight. I got a number of good blitzes and broke a few chaos cages, but could never quite recover the ball to put me two scores ahead, and in the end I got ground down by good play from 'hands. A deserved victory for him but I feel at least, my boys can keep their heads held high.

Not sure whether to keep this team or try someone new next season. Getting a bit sick of only having the ball for 2 turns against bashy teams, and not really knowing what to do when I don't have the ball.

Zoraster

31-12-2011, 02:08 AM

Ian: due to a death in the family plus my caving in and taking on an extra job when a stubborn executive kept shouting bigger and bigger figures at my agent until I caved I'm going to struggle to play this one. Let me know what you can do and I'll try and free up time but I think there is a fair chance I'll have to concede.

The 9th is out for sure due to the funeral, and I'll probably be tied up with transport duties on the 8th. Assuming you don't respond until returning on the 5th we'll be running into my usual issue with short notice games ruling out anything before the 10th.

Ian

31-12-2011, 02:50 PM

That's fine provided we're not holding everyone else back. After I'm back on the 5th I don't think I have anything planned any time soon so I'm good whenever, provided I'm not at work.

duff

01-01-2012, 11:39 AM

Hi mrpier, I've just got home after the holidays so apologies if you've been trying to catch me (I can't see anything in this thread). I have this next week off work so should have alot of free time to play, though you might need to tell me a little in advance to work around family stuff.

Jiiiiim

02-01-2012, 12:06 AM

Well, just smashed Lowkey's Nurgle into the ground 4-1 to end the season on a high. The Mathematicians have turned it around in style in the second half of the season, having been 0/1/2 after three games, they've ended up 5/1/3

Sorry to Lowkey for the pain inflicted, my guys casualtied two nurgle warriors, three rotters and a pestigor. Only the pestigor regenerated. My own casualty suffered was a catcher who fell over trying to dodge >_>

mrpier

02-01-2012, 09:31 AM

duff - No worries, I just assume everyone is unavailable during the holidays. How about a match tomorrow (tuesday), 7 pm maybe?

duff

02-01-2012, 11:58 AM

duff - No worries, I just assume everyone is unavailable during the holidays. How about a match tomorrow (tuesday), 7 pm maybe?

That sounds good, catch you then!

LowKey

02-01-2012, 12:30 PM

I think my boys had been eating a few too many mince pies over the holidays with the amount of injuries they were taking, however I was lucky dodging on a number of occasions and I dont think my beast failed a really stupid all game, overall Jiiiim outplayed me for a well earned win

Screwie

02-01-2012, 01:26 PM

Jolima, the earliest I amy be available to play our game is the 9th in the evening, but failing that I will definitely be around from the 10th in the pm. Really sorry for the delay. If that's too long to wait then I'll default my final game to you and look forward to our next season.

Jolima

02-01-2012, 05:01 PM

Screwie: The 9th or 10th will be fine to play. See you then.

All: Please keep filling out the spreadsheet with your intentions for next season. (Players sheet, Notes column.)

Jiiiiim

02-01-2012, 05:02 PM

The maths season in summary
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/7234/mathstats.png

mrpier

03-01-2012, 06:16 PM

duff - Another time then?

duff

05-01-2012, 01:36 PM

So sorry I completely forgot about our game until I was about to go to bed. Sent you a message on Steam but I think you were away. If we still have time to play I should be able to play anytime tommorow after 3ish. Sorry again mrpier.

mrpier

05-01-2012, 02:02 PM

Tomorrow should work, I'll catch you on steam (or vice versa).

Ian

06-01-2012, 07:11 PM

Right then, Zoraster. When's looking suitable for you?

mrpier

06-01-2012, 08:10 PM

Last game of the season saw my insufferable high elves matchup against duff's well developed lizards, I had 400k in inducements and went for a wizard, a babe, an extra reroll and another apoth. I wasn't too confident going in knowing that he massively outpunched me and was a little bit faster too with those damn skinks.

First half I decided to kick, hoping to pressure him to an early score or to get a good opportunity from my wizard. It started disheartening, instead of caging up as I hoped he would do, duff preferred to screen his ballcarrier skink, whithout any guard on my team this made it very hard to punch a hole in his screen without leaving big holes in my defensive lineup so I settled for sending a lone catcher around the side behind his screen to try and get some pressure on the ball carrier. Thanks to the elves mobility the screen was slow in moving forward. About round 5/6 he finally caged up on the right side of the pitch and I could let my wizard shine, taking down the cage and injuring the ball carrying skink and KO'ed a saurus. I retrieved the ball and got a good screen going on the left side of the pitch, making sure to tie up most of his saurus in the process. I believe I had knocked out a couple of skinks at this point so I had a numerical advantage, which helped a lot. A couple of turns of stalling and I could walk in 1-0 in round 8.

Second half I received the ball and I tried pretty much to do what duff had done in the first half, I wanted to be patient and screen my thrower and let duff come to me since I was in the lead. This didn't exactly work as planned when my thrower got hit in the head by a stone first thing and had to sit the rest of the half out. Getting through duff's defensive line was very hard as I had to commit three players just to get two dice on a blitz, dodging was problematic because he had some tackle so I couldn't just run through his lines either without suffering at least three tacklezones. About round twelve I got an opening on the right side, thinking to run a catcher just outside his blitzrange and again tie up some of the saurus, my catcher of course failed his first gfi (with a reroll) and stunned himself, if he had just fallen over without breaking armour there is a good chance I could have scored in the turn after. Now it was my players that were tied up and I couldn't get any close enough to put a tackle zone on the ball, once again failing a gfi and getting a stun when I needed it least. A skink picked up the ball and got in a cage, which I really had no realistic chance of breaking again with most of my players down on the other side of the pitch or in clinch with a saurus. Duff walked in the equalizer in turn 16.

Well played duff and thanks for the game.

Zoraster

07-01-2012, 02:43 AM

Right then, Zoraster. When's looking suitable for you?Not a lot truth be told. Events are conspiring against me this round... I think Nuffle wants to force me to concede and then taunt me by getting Screwie to beat Jolima :D

Wednesday or Thursday are looking the only options. 19:30 either night any good for you? I can do other times those days but if you can't make either I'll just have to let you have this one.

Ian

07-01-2012, 05:18 PM

I should be able to do either of those, so let's aim for Wednesday at 19.30. :)

Zoraster

07-01-2012, 05:34 PM

Cheers Ian, see you Wednesday. Of course this means Jolima will beat Screwie but def the less annoying way to be first loser in the division.

Jolima

09-01-2012, 09:41 PM

So, Screwie: Can you do our game tomorrow? Any other evening this week would be fine as well, but if it's after Wednesday we'll be holding everyone else up.

Still lacking word from about half of you on if you're sticking around for another season as well. (In the spreadsheet please.)

Screwie

09-01-2012, 10:43 PM

Since the Open deadline is before the Gauntlin Goblet one, I'll try and make sure I'm around for a game tomorrow night. Because of chores and other commitments and such, I can certainly play a game that starts in the 4:00-5:30 frame, or any time after 10pm.

Jolima

10-01-2012, 05:20 AM

Ok, I'll aim for 5:30 or soon before. See you then.

laneford

10-01-2012, 04:26 PM

I'm up for Season 2. May switch teams if I can find the time/will to train someone new, but I'll probably stick with elves if I'm being realistic.

Jolima

10-01-2012, 07:28 PM

Me and Screwie just played. His goblins got a massive amount of inducements: Ripper, 3 bribes, a wizard and two babes I think.

The first half was a slow bloodbath for both sides. All of the goblin secret weapons except the fanatic were taken out and I only had some 5 elves left at the end as Screwie scored.

As the second half started I was back up to 10 players with reserves and KO's waking up. I aimed to score fairly fast while taking out as many goblins as possible to give me the advantage to gain me the numerical advantage for further rounds. Even though my thrower was hit by lightning and one of the trolls managed to intercept the ball I could always reclaim the ball without too much trouble and scored after four turns or so.

I hadn't managed to take out so many more goblins though and we set up with 10 players each. I lined up fairly deep to have a chance to counter a thrown goblin but got an early chance to blitz the carrier, steal the ball and toss it upfield. The trolls wouldn't give up that easily though and tossed a goblin back to pick it up while the three trolls blocked me in fairly well from following. A blitzer did have a slight opening though, requiring a 4+,3+,2+ dodge sequence and then a GFI to land a hit on the goblin. That worked out and next turn I just had to blitz anther goblin out of the way (who landed on the ball next to the sideline, but thankfully it didn't bounce out), pick up the ball and walk it in.

So 2-1 and just one more turn left for Screwie. He was down to 4 goblins and three trolls by now, but got a lucky quick snap at kick of. Blocking a defender out of the way works well. Picking up the ball works well. Handing it over to the goblin missile works well. The pass works and scatters almost optimally in the right direction. The goblin succeeds in his landing. He only needs to pull of three dodges to run past my line and score now and he... does so. 2-2 and the match is over.

Thanks for the game Screwie. This gives Zoraster the chance he craved to win the division by winning his last match, which would let him go face to face against Snoozer's murderous Khemri in the final. Good luck!

Ian

11-01-2012, 10:11 AM

We still on for tonight, Zoraster? And let me know how flexible you are on that time too, it occurs to me that what I've planned to do for my dinner might overlap with our time so if you really need to get started then I can do it later/have something quicker. :) Not that I'm talking a massive delay, hopefully only 30 or 40 minutes.

Zoraster

11-01-2012, 10:24 AM

A wee bit later won't be an issue although 40/45 mins will be hitting the latest I'd want to start. Got an 04:00 start in the morning.

Good job Screwie; only downside is I'll have no one to blame but myself (well and Ian) when I blow it now :) Got a dreadful Dark Elf vs Lizard record. I'd fancy my chances of getting a draw but having to win and facing that level of inducemernts... think I'll need the favour of Nuffle with a few early armour and injury rolls.

Ian

11-01-2012, 11:51 AM

Okay, well I'll endeavour to get home sharpish and get it in the oven ASAP. Shouldn't be as much as 45 minutes, all being well.

And I'm quite a quick player anyway, most of the time.

Failure comes easy to me. ;D

Ian

11-01-2012, 08:20 PM

Another round, another toothless defeat. Might sit the next season of the Open out. Getting a bit bored of my inability to progress the team any more and I doubt I can be arsed starting next season with a fresh one.

Zoraster

11-01-2012, 08:29 PM

3-0 win for Fatality to secure top spot. An ominous start saw my Guard lino dead on the first turn (apothed to MNG which is a bit of a pain with a very high strength Khemri side next up) and a further stun and KO, but from then on Nuffle was clearly wearing pointy ears. First half I could do little wrong and had the big bonus of CASing out the mighty blow saurus early. 1-0 up and receiving in the second half with a two player advantage there was little pressure once the wizard was used (fairly inept fireball taking down only the least important of four players and not breaking armour) and just to rub it in I got a blitz after going two up.

Ian

11-01-2012, 11:17 PM

Zoraster's luck was good but, again, mine wasn't actually bad. Though I didn't have the quality block dice I had in my previous few games it was still mostly decent dice for me.

Jolima

12-01-2012, 06:56 AM

I've rolled on the league to the final match between Zoraster and Snoozer. Congratulations to both of you on getting this far and good luck in the finals.

I will be away from Saturday to Tuesday this weekend and will try to get the next season started when I get back.

Zoraster

12-01-2012, 07:36 AM

Cheers Jol, although it must rankle missing out after another unbeaten season. What is the run now, must be around 25 games I guess?

Snoozer when do you want to wrap up the season? Early Sunday evening would work for me, say around 18:00 GMT/19:00 CET? Leaves scope for a couple of periods of OT without getting late.

Screwie

12-01-2012, 10:44 AM

Well my first season in the Open is over and I failed to win a single game, but I had a few really exciting draws and plenty of close calls. My team's strength has fluctuated quite a bit with plenty of lvl 2 and 3 goblin losses, but the most significant advancements have been in the Troll and TRR departments which has kept me somewhat competitive. The other notable bonus was Jump Up for my Bombardier... not that I've had a chance to use that trick yet.

Meanwhile my team is due to hire their 6th (or is it 7th?) Looney once they can afford to. Those guys never seem to last!

Looking forward to the next season, and hopefully my first victory! Cheers for managing this monster of a league, Jolima.

Jiiiiim

12-01-2012, 05:34 PM

I have no idea how you cope with running a goblin team, but I salute you.

Jolima

12-01-2012, 06:28 PM

Cheers Jol, although it must rankle missing out after another unbeaten season. What is the run now, must be around 25 games I guess?

I had to check: It's 22 games in a row now. And before that was one loss against Ian, 5 more non-losses and then 4 losses in a row.

Zoraster

13-01-2012, 03:22 PM

Snoozer I can't guarentee that Sunday window any longer; she who must be obeyed is starting to arrange my weekend and I can't hold an eveni ng on the off chance. Let me know what you can do and I'll see if I can fit you in. I've probably got more scope on Saturday than Sunday now.

If we don't get it done this weekend I'm loathe to start later than 19:30 GMT midweek given the OT risk. That is going to be too early for you right, based off the spreadsheet? Let me know what you can do and I'll try and work something out.

I had to check: It's 22 games in a row now. And before that was one loss against Ian, 5 more non-losses and then 4 losses in a row.
Rather underlines Pro Elf teams being hard to get going but when they do (and especially if they get a lot of doubles) they can rapidly become a really top-notch race. I've never seen a succesful team without a hefty amount of Guard though but they are still new enough that I'm undecided if that is because they need the Guard to be viable or if it is just the result of better coaches keeping their players alive that results in more Guard on the succesful teams.

Indefatigible Snoozer

13-01-2012, 03:56 PM

Zoraster

13-01-2012, 04:30 PM

Early Saturday would be grand, although I tend to define 'early' a wee bit beyond most peoples expectations :) I would happily do 04:00 GMT if you really meant the earlier the better... I really need to be underway by 07:30 at the absolute latest. Could you do 07:00 or anything earlier?

Indefatigible Snoozer

13-01-2012, 05:46 PM

Zoraster

13-01-2012, 05:51 PM

That'll be grand boss. See you then.

Adjusting from Aussie time is a right bitch isn't it? Always take me an age to get back on track when I've been over there for a few weeks.

grinn

13-01-2012, 08:46 PM

Can you guys upload the match on youtube and post the link here. Would be great to watch the final!

Zoraster

14-01-2012, 04:17 AM

In a shock turn of events it appears Snoozer is snoozing!

I guess jetlag has caught up with you bud. As you were on the forum half an hour before our scheduled start I’m assuming you’ve dozed off again so I’m heading out for my morning run. I’ve got another game scheduled shortly after ours was due to finish so we’ll have to rearrange.

Can you guys upload the match on youtube and post the link here. Would be great to watch the final! I won't be able to record it, but it'll be on BB Manager when it does get played. Most of my Open games can be found in Zor's Random Matches, although if I remember I'll stick this one in the new RPS Open league Groovy set up recently.

Indefatigible Snoozer

14-01-2012, 04:45 AM

In a shock turn of events it appears Snoozer is snoozing! I guess jetlag has caught up with you bud. As you were on the forum half an hour before our scheduled start I’m assuming you’ve dozed off again so I’m heading out for my morning run. I’ve got another game scheduled shortly after ours was due to finish so we’ll have to rearrange. I won't be able to record it, but it'll be on BB Manager when it does get played. Most of my Open games can be found in Zor's Random Matches, although if I remember I'll stick this one in the new RPS Open league Groovy set up recently. I've been up since 5:30 waiting! Thought I had you on steam, and was waiting for you to appear, but appear you did not... because I did not have you on steam! If you're back from your run before 7:30 we can make a later start...

Indefatigible Snoozer

14-01-2012, 03:30 PM

Zor - are you available to try again, same time tomorrow morning? I notice (based on your profile) that you're not on steam much. How do you want to hook up?

Indefatigible Snoozer

14-01-2012, 11:13 PM

Sorry - not getting up on the chance you will be up at the same time. we'll reschedule.

Zoraster

18-01-2012, 05:56 AM

Sorry Snoozer; managed to have a desktop and l;aptop die on me at the same time plus a lot of work. Not a healthy combo for arranging games :) For the record you'll pretty much never see me on Steam. Two hours for a BB game is the longest run of free time I really ever have so I very rarely can make casual arrangements. If I don't start at an agreed time chances are I won't start at all.

Anyhow what sort of availability do you have? I'm busy as hell for the next week so probably best if we take your options as a starting point for me to juggle with. I don't really want to concede this one :)

Indefatigible Snoozer

18-01-2012, 07:56 AM

Zor - 8:30pm GMT is usually the earliest I can manage during the week. If we can beg the group's indulgence, we can try an early morning start on Saturday again, if that's easier. 7am GMT would work for me - go on steam so I can see you're around!

Zoraster

19-01-2012, 03:17 AM

Yeah, that is certainly too late for me with the potential for OT.

I'll see you 07:00 GMT Saturday then, although as I won't be near a PC with Steam even installed you won't see me anywhere but ingame.

Indefatigible Snoozer

20-01-2012, 05:11 PM

See you on the killing field.

Indefatigible Snoozer

21-01-2012, 05:35 AM

I'm waiting in the lobby.

Zoraster

21-01-2012, 06:04 AM

Comedy start; Just read Snoozer's opening line in chat 'glad it decided to connect' just as Snoozer's connection goes down :)

Indefatigible Snoozer

21-01-2012, 06:06 AM

My connection was fine I thought...

Zoraster

21-01-2012, 08:30 AM

Final finally played. I've uploaded the game to RPS Open on BB Manager as promised so anyone who wants to see the replay can watch the game.

I've ended the season so anyone swapping teams can do so. I'm still in two minds about what I'll be doing next season. When do you want a final choice Jol?

Indefatigible Snoozer

21-01-2012, 08:51 AM

It should probably be mentioned that the result was 2-1 to Zoraster. As all good finals should, it came down to one gfi, with no reroll available.
Fuller match report when I've had time to process it all.

Jiiiiim

21-01-2012, 12:26 PM

As I drew with the eventual winners I shall say I am officially also the winner of the tournament.

Well done you two.

duff

21-01-2012, 02:26 PM

Congrats Zoraster, unlucky Snoozer (though I find that hard to say when your team is made of COMPLETE STR5 WANKERS)!

Indefatigible Snoozer

21-01-2012, 05:04 PM

Match report - Open final January 2012

Divine Fatality 2: Mommy's Boys: 1

Nutshell summary: Too much dodge, not enough tackle.

Extended summary:

It was a good game, with chances for both sides. After a connection issue forced a restart before the game even begun, the Khemri opted to kick. Kick off event went my way with a perfect defense. The DElves started pushing down the field and Khemri finally forced them to score on turn 5. Second kick-off event also went my way, with the ref turning back the clock, but I was unable to capitalise on it and failed to score.

Other notable events in the first half were the death of a DElf lineman, and only one failed dodge.

Second half started with me attempting to run the ball down one half, only to have Zor give me a master class in cage breaking. The ball got knocked loose, and he managed to get it free to the other side of the field. After a failed blitz, I retained some hope by managing to get one of my tackle guys on the ball carrier, but he made the dodge, and then made the gfi, and that was that. 2-0.

I managed a consolation TD, but very difficult to Khemri to come back from 2-0 down. As I said, the game for me was characterised by very few failed rerolls by Zor, despite my three tackle players. My strength advantage was effectively negated by not having anyone to hit on most turns. And those damn dauntless players were also annoying.

Anyway, it was a good game. Gives me some goals for further team development - MORE TACKLE. Damn elves.

It was a great season. Looking forward to the next one.

Zoraster

21-01-2012, 06:34 PM

I wouldn’t get hung up on getting much more Tackle Snoozer. Khemri’s lack of speed and agility means you’ll rarely be able to pin players down without getting the numbers advantage first. An AG4 dodge into the open is still going to work 80% of the time no matter how much tackle you have. What you really suffered from is the lack of Tackle combined with damage skills. I’d say your priority should be getting a killer Blitz-Ra so you are getting more value from the Tackle blitz. Some Stand Firm would really help your cage ball protection too. Slow bashers don't get much value from more than 4 tacklers against elfs until in an already won position IMO.

It was a good game, although I really thought I was doomed early after electing to kick then having to receive after the restart, facing a perfect defence, a snaked dodge to end my opening turn with my second dice roll of the game and early armour proving to be paper thin. When a riot rolled the clock back after I’d stalled as long as I dared I felt the writing was on the wall.

From then on momentum swung firmly in my direction. I pulled off some big dodges, got the required dice on key blocks, got favourable scatters when the ball was knocked free etc. It didn’t all go my way, but things had swung to such an extent that I came within two 50% rolls of snatching a 2-0 lead by half time which would have been game over.

The only real blot on the landscape was Gussie Fink-Nottle suffering a death apothed to dead. He was nearing the point of filling my Wrackle void but that role seems cursed on this team :) After going 2-0 up in large part thanks to two scatters going into the hands of Fatality players the game was virtually in the bag. I focussed on keeping the AG3 Blitz-ra on the ground while the rest of my team went into damage limitation mode so they could enjoy the post-match celebrations.

Indefatigible Snoozer

22-01-2012, 08:26 AM

Did we come to a decision about intra-season games? One game only, and only with someone in the Open?

If that is the case - anyone fancy a game against the Open's runner's up today?

President Weasel

22-01-2012, 09:10 AM

You just came second in the whole thing, do you need development games at all?

Jolima

22-01-2012, 09:23 AM

What was actually decided was: "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. All training games must be played against an opponent who's trying to win."

I've added that to the spreadsheet now.

I'll set a latest start date on next season to February 3, please try to get your applications in early so complications like the league being an uneven number can be resolved.

I'm currently thinking that if we are 14 players or less, we will do one division while 16 or more will have us split into two again. If there are two divisions I will try to spread them out manually. The aim would be to divide skill (judged by last season placement), race selection (agi vs str etc) and players who were in the same division last season equally between the divisions. Please comment.

There are some players who still haven't noted if they're staying or not. Please do.

I think that's all. Let me know if I've forgotten something.

drawlien

23-01-2012, 08:50 AM

I'm happy with how you propose to split the league if there are 16+ players.

Personally I've been umming and ahhing over whether I should stick with my 'Zons for another season or not. In the end I decided I would - whilst they've been a lot more injury prone recently they're still quite fun to play with!

grinn

23-01-2012, 08:52 AM

Is there a league reset on the horizon? As much as I love my Gears I really look forward to playing everyone here on a level playing field. Any thoughts?

Screwie

23-01-2012, 09:19 AM

Sounds fine to me Jolima.

Definitely returning with the goblins, but if I can find the time I might get a game in between seasons just to let all the MNGs I accrued in my last game to roll over.

President Weasel

23-01-2012, 12:01 PM

Sorry, didn't realise there was an "are you returning or not" query. I'm definitely returning, with the same orc team as before (despite my sadness at their recent brutal casualties: I am suppose to be a giver of casualties, not a receiver).

I'd prefer one massive monolithic league that takes forever to play, in order to maximise the differences between the Open and the Divisions. However I realise not everyone wants to play a league that takes forever, and I am more than happy to have the league split into two if it means we get to play with old friends who'd otherwise leave.

Zoraster

23-01-2012, 01:20 PM

Is there a league reset on the horizon? As much as I love my Gears I really look forward to playing everyone here on a level playing field. Any thoughts?

A reset is the last thing you need if you want that. Rookie environments are the stage when truly unbalanced games happen as teams don’t have core skills to counter rivals. Rookie BB is a rubbish unbalanced phase that only exists because you have to start somewhere. The whole point of the current ruleset was to do away with the need for Crush rules or resets and it works admirably (slightly less so on Cyanide, but it still works).

Worth noting this season the youngest teams in the league held their own comfortably. Bar Piers totally fresh team the youngest sides had 9-11 games under their belt. Three of them finished in top three positions, and one of them won the championship.

duff

23-01-2012, 02:13 PM

I'm gonna whine like a little bitch if the league is split in two again.

HughTower

23-01-2012, 07:45 PM

I'm truly easy about whatever's decided.

Though the mischievous imp in me wants to see Duff's Lil' Bitch impression...

Prester John

23-01-2012, 09:05 PM

Hi Guys,

I'd like to join the fun, would have to be a fresh team for you to (beat up on / lose to - delete as appropriate) but i like the long season format and competitive play. Wood Elves are my chosen fodder. I have some semi developed teams in FOL i could bring across??? but i'm happy (prefer) starting from scratch and seeing what develops. I kinda like the trying to build from nothing approach. UK based with time most nights for a game.

regards

Steve

aka
Prester John

Jiiiiim

23-01-2012, 09:10 PM

I would maybe use one of the developed teams (as long as they're below 1700 TV) as the risk with a rookie team is that it'd get destroyed in an early game and bugger up the whole season. But hell if you want to use a new team, nobody'll stop you >_>

You've added yourself to the spreadsheet anyway and I think we have a few people not carrying on this year so yeah, should be fine.

ANYONE ELSE WATCHING AND WANTING TO JOIN: STATE YOUR INTEREST IN SPREADSHEET FORM.

Jolima

23-01-2012, 09:30 PM

Welcome Steve, feel free to start with a new team if that's what you want. Just keep Jiiiiim's warning in mind. :)

So is anyone actually opposed to having just one big league this time around? It was a close vote last time around so maybe I'll open it up to some democracy once more. If no one argues for splitting we may as well skip the vote though. It looks like we're currently 17 players assuming that Duff and Nullkigan (who still haven't put it down) stays. To make two even divisions we would have to get back up to 20 again while it's enough with 18 for one division.

As for restarting with fresh teams... Maybe in a few seasons. I've actually considered that for the last few, but as each one comes along I find that I prefer keeping it at a high level. We're not resetting this season at least, but feel free to bring it up again as the next one approaches and we can decide again for that one.

NieA7

23-01-2012, 09:38 PM

When are you going to be restarting? I wouldn't mind moving the goblin team I've got in the stunty cup over, but that's not going to end for a couple of weeks at least.

LowKey

23-01-2012, 09:49 PM

I am happy with one big ol league, also hoping to play half elves (landlord :-))

Jolima

23-01-2012, 09:59 PM

NieA7: We're aiming to start on the 4th, so that will probably be a little too late then.

duff

23-01-2012, 10:14 PM

I'm not that fussed if we have two divisions again, so please don't change it based on my bitching as there's likely someone who equally doesn't want a big league. Anyway, its not like I'm gonna turn up at Jolima's house with my self made Assassin's Creed secret sleeve blade if I don't get my way or anything like that.

NieA7

23-01-2012, 10:18 PM

Fair enough, maybe next time :)

Nullkigan

23-01-2012, 10:27 PM

I'm going to sit out a season, my last few games in both the open and divdeath saw me make a small but significant amount of mistakes that could be blamed (at least partly) on my thinking I was playing my other team.

potatoedoughnut

24-01-2012, 12:08 AM

Don't think I mentioned it here, but I'll be bowing out for the next season. While I quite enjoy the variety of players in the open my time has become highly constrained and scheduling 2 matches per 10 days was getting a bit rough. I'm hoping I'll have more time by the time the next season starts so I'll be back at some point hopefully so you all can murder some more ghouls :)

Ergonomic Cat

25-01-2012, 12:06 AM

I'd very much like to join, but don't have any high TV teams. Do you just do matchmaking/planned games to get yourself up to the required TV level?

Jiiiiim

25-01-2012, 12:25 AM

Janek

25-01-2012, 09:13 AM

Okay Jim okay fine I'll join the Open as well. I'll see about training up a team.

laneford

25-01-2012, 03:44 PM

We meet again, janek-san.

Ergonomic Cat

25-01-2012, 11:18 PM

Yeah, pretty much. When I was about to join I quickly scraped together some games against Ian and Groovy who basically destroyed my team repeatedly. Not the best of plans. Just be aware you should be below 1700 TV when you join.

So far I've got 1 game under my new team's belt. ;) If anyone is interested, I'm in the general open league, with a 1000TV team. I'd be happy to get games in if people were interested. I'm CST (-6 GMT) and usually play after 9pm.

Jiiiiim

25-01-2012, 11:19 PM

I'll try and catch you tomorrow, add me (http://steamcommunity.com/id/Jiiiiim/) on steam, I have some rats that can get biffed in the face.

President Weasel

25-01-2012, 11:30 PM

OK, I don't want to be Mr Grumpy-pants or anything, but recently I have seen people join the Open and then drop out after two or three games when the pressure of having to find an hour and a bit every week-and-a-bit got too much for them. This makes the league worse for everybody else; it's unfair on those who have already played them and didn't get an automatic win and lots of SPs, and it's unfair on those who get an automatic win so don't get to play their game.

If you are joining the league this year, please be aware:

your team can get smashed up, leaving you limping to the end of the season with half a team and a bunch of merc players for each match;
you might not win, and it might be obvious from game two that you won't;
it's a long-form league and you need to find an hour and a bit most weeks to play your match.

None of these are an excuse or reason to drop out of the league and make it worse for the rest of us.
If you don't think you can find the time, don't join.
If you don't want your team smashed up, don't play blood bowl. Particularly don't play an elf team and then whine when they break like spun sugar, but any team can get broken - I lost two of my best orcs and had a goblin eaten in one match recently.
If you will only play in a league if you think you're going to win it, firstly this one's probably not the league for you as we've got some properly decent players, and secondly you have a serious personality disorder and should get help.

If you can definitely find the time, and aren't going to drop out when you lose a couple of matches or your best elf breaks his fingernail, then please allow me to welcome you to the Open! I will see you on the field (with my boot on your neck).

drawlien

26-01-2012, 08:14 AM

I would second P. Weasel's post. It's amazing how your luck can change - I lost the first 2 games of last season which can be a bit disheartening, but my luck turned and I started grinding out some draws which turned to wins and I actually did O.K. in the end.

duff

26-01-2012, 11:38 AM

I think we've been pretty good for drop-outs and no shows though, atleast compared to the Divisions' lower leagues. But absolutely Pweasel, newcomers should be aware that the Open is considerably longer (months rather than weeks) than the Divisions and you can't change teams as often, so it is less newcomer friendly than the DoD. Having said that everybody is lovely and keen to help newer players so don't be put off if you have the time to play.

Indefatigible Snoozer

26-01-2012, 01:47 PM

I'll add my two cents and say I would like a non-split league. One of the things that attracted me to the Open was the chance to play unusual team match-ups, like Khemri vs Amazons and Khemri vs Norse, which I managed last season. Perhaps I'm a sadist, but I'm disappointed I haven't been able to manage a Khemri vs Halfling game yet...

Zoraster

26-01-2012, 02:49 PM

Perhaps I'm a sadist, but I'm disappointed I haven't been able to manage a Khemri vs Halfling game yet...
Funny you should say that but I'm seriously considering bringing Frenzy back next season... then again I also fancy trying to have Fatality become the first side to defend the Open. Odds are I'll play something else altogether :) I'm sure Pres would be delighted to see Deeproot back in the Open!

Flings can be a pretty tough match up for Khemri tbh. They are the one race that can reliably go toe to toe with the TGs with the three Trees and Dauntless Zara providing a lot of muscle, plus stakes can play merry hell on the now AV6 skelly support. A good chef roll and it can be a long half for a Khemri coach. Generally it is decided by who gets the first knockdowns and gang foul chances or if Zara is taken out before she does much damage.

President Weasel

26-01-2012, 05:17 PM

oh god, Branchmaim Murderbastard? I still have nightmarish flashbacks...

Prester John

26-01-2012, 05:57 PM

Beginner with Wood Elves in an Open, got to be bad for your health... bring it on!

Compared to some of the games i've played the commitment is pretty reasonable (War in the Pacific AE, World in Flames on Vassal).

Just don't mind my flukey rolls :)

edit - up for some training games tho!

President Weasel

26-01-2012, 06:06 PM

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait a minute. Prester John never showed up. I hope you do better than your historical namesake.

Prester John

26-01-2012, 06:21 PM

I have a certain advantage in that respect over my mythical namesake!

Whilst naming my team members i learned that philia is not allowed as part of a name.

Screwie

26-01-2012, 06:27 PM

Murderbastard

Arse, I wish you'd posted this before I bought my last dark elf blitzer. That name is perfect...

Jolima

26-01-2012, 08:39 PM

Since no one defended the split league, a gigantoleague is what it shall be. We're currently at 17 players, so if anyone is on the fence about joining you'd do us a favour by evening out the numbers.

Janek, welcome. I haven't played you much, so I look forward to doing it again.

Prester John

26-01-2012, 08:50 PM

Team application for RPS Open is in!

NieA7

26-01-2012, 10:54 PM

You know on sober reflection the difference between a mildly levelled gobbo team and a rookie gobbo team probably isn't that great when playing cursed Elfs with a TV over 2000. If you still need someone else and don't mind stunties giving away SPP left right and centre I'd like to give it a go. Should be able to pull a team together and apply tomorrow afternoon.

Screwie

27-01-2012, 08:28 AM

Yay, a stunty team with a lower TV than mine! :D Wait, I don't think I like the idea of the other team having more bribes than me and Ripper too....

I had an inter-season match against Vexing Vision last night, and re-applied to the Open with the Stikky Fingerz (in slightly better shape than when they left, bar one unfortunate hungry troll incident).

Vexing Vision

27-01-2012, 11:47 AM

And I can confirm and guarantee that the 5-0 victory for my Amazons and the 1 non-injured goblin was not in any way rigged.

Sorry Screwie. Next time, I will bring the elves. <3

(I made sure not to permanently injure anything though. That took a lot of skill.)

Screwie

27-01-2012, 12:40 PM

Now you just made it sound really suspicious!

What actually happened was I asked for a non-bashy opponent, so VV offered an amazon team which turned out to have 8+ blodgers, including 4 with Mighty Blow.

After the first TD, I had as many goblins left as I had trolls...

Vexing Vision

27-01-2012, 12:43 PM

Only because you couldn't get into the Challenge League fast enough to actually play my resident Elves there!

Of COURSE Amazons are all Blodgers, that's their point!

I'll aim to increase versatility of available teams in the near future for your gaming pleasure. <3

Screwie

27-01-2012, 12:57 PM

Er, you picked the amazon team, not me :P

Anyway I was nuffled good and proper, that's what did me in. You had a streak of POWs and I had a streak of 1s right at the start of the game.

Sometimes Lady Luck likes to throw rocks at me.

LowKey

27-01-2012, 05:36 PM

When are we expecting the new season to start? Is it just when everyone has joined in game? I wanted to play and elfy team but my only developed team is Helf which is full, might try and cram a bunch of games in with Delfs if I have time, in related news anyone want a challenge game against a new delf team?

Jolima

27-01-2012, 08:40 PM

I set next Friday as the last date to get a team in so we can start playing matches on Saturday. Of course, we can start it as soon as everyone is ready if that happens earlier.

LowKey

28-01-2012, 11:03 AM

alrighty I think ill stick with nurgle this season and train up a new team for the next

ChainsawHands

28-01-2012, 11:24 PM

What was actually decided was: "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. All training games must be played against an opponent who's trying to win."What if I take a team out and bring them back later without doing any training games - if I wanted to play next season with a different team and bring the Goats back at a later date would I need to trim them down to 1700 if they'd not played any matches in the meantime?

Jolima

29-01-2012, 10:32 AM

No, if you just rest a team unplayed between seasons, you can bring them back again as they are.

Indefatigible Snoozer

29-01-2012, 10:57 AM

Hey - slight issue with the above, as I mistakenly deregistered my 1900+ Khemri. It then wouldn't let me sign-up at all because the limit on the league is 1700. It wasn't a disaster, since I just fired some unskilled guys, registered, and will rehire them (I've got quite a bit of petty cash) but just a warning if you're planning on doing that....

Maybe the settings on the league need to be changed, and the 1700 rule enforced manually?

Jolima

29-01-2012, 11:40 AM

Sorry about that, I actually lowered it to that just a few days ago. I think I'll leave it for now and we can increase it when someone needs to apply with a higher TV team.

Seems we're only waiting on Janek and Prester John to apply. No rush, but let us know when you're in so we can get it started.

Janek

29-01-2012, 11:55 AM

I'll see if I can grind some prep matches today (but let me know if John gets his app in, I don't mind playing up in TV)

Zoraster

29-01-2012, 01:20 PM

Good news for Deeproot haters: my ‘flings continued good form means they are tied up in a tournament for another few weeks so will have to wait until a future Open season to return. On the other hand yesterday I doubled on the first skill roll for a Snow Troll on a team set for deletion after a quick tourney. Seems a shame to waste that so I’m now thinking of bringing them across. Got at least one, possibly two, more games to play so the Snow Troll is bound to die now :)

Slight fly in the ointment; I’m on the verge of going over the TV cap (40k breathing room). With just a 13 man roster I can’t afford to sack anyone as that really is the minimum number for a viable Norse team. Assuming I’m not able to avoid going over the cap will anyone object if I do the rather cheesy sack a rookie lino to join and rehire before game one?

HughTower

29-01-2012, 02:19 PM

President Weasel

30-01-2012, 09:01 AM

depends how far you go over the cap. I don't have any issues with a 1720 or 1750 team joining a 1700 league, but if you're getting up above 1800 that seem a lot more dodgy.

Prester John

30-01-2012, 05:02 PM

App for my team put in. Got in a couple of pre season games, well below 1700 AV.

Janek

30-01-2012, 05:24 PM

In that case I shall put my app in after One Final Warmup. They're going to get broken aren't they.

Janek

30-01-2012, 06:33 PM

Three MNGs later...

NEVER MIND. TV is temporarily at 1050, but that just means I get inducement funsies in game one. Shall pop the app in now (TV should be around 1400 when they come back so not toooo bad)

Jiiiiim

30-01-2012, 06:43 PM

Sorry 'bout that, the Wood Elves were surprisingly bashy

Jolima

30-01-2012, 09:18 PM

Aaaaand, that's the league up and running!

The new table is huge!

For those of you who are new, you can find your next opponent in the spreadsheet by finding your team on the left, scan right until you see a '-' and then look up to see the name of your opponent. When you have played your match, report it in the spreadsheet by entering the result in the upper of the two players lines. (The lower player's line will update itself.)

We're using a 21 days per two games schedule, which always allows three weekend days for each game. This gives every other game one work-week of flexibility at the end. If the buffer is not used, it is instead used as a pre-buffer for the next game. This other game though has a strict Saturday deadline which must(!) be kept to allow the next season to start on the Sunday. This is especially important now that we are so very many players since a lot of people would be held up waiting for one player.

The first match is one on such a strict deadline and must be played by the 11th.

Good luck everyone!

Screwie, it looks like we get to start this season of just as we finished the last one. I can do any evening from Tue-Thu and probably most times in the weekend. What suits?

Janek

30-01-2012, 09:28 PM

Aw man I was hoping for more than 160k inducements. Never mind, Count, your time will come.

Prester: I'm free from about 6pm all this week, or any time at the weekend. S'all good.

laneford

30-01-2012, 10:31 PM

Oh lord I'm up against the uber zons.

Jiiiiim

30-01-2012, 10:52 PM

Duffin! When shall we fight.

Prester John

30-01-2012, 11:27 PM

Aw man I was hoping for more than 160k inducements. Never mind, Count, your time will come.

Prester: I'm free from about 6pm all this week, or any time at the weekend. S'all good.

woot game on!

7:30pm (after putting the little ones to bed and eating) any day this week is good. Say tuesday? but Weds, Thurs, Sat are good and then Mon (Superbowl weekend, Pats to win (as in not the Giants))

friend me up on steam PresterJohn1000

Zoraster

31-01-2012, 07:44 AM

Well it was a tight run thing but just made it. Got to the end of the final game with 10k to spare, but with 6 of 13 players within an MVP of a skill to take me over the cap. Cue tense wait for the server to make the last rolls :) As it happened the MVP avoided all the relevant players and I lost a point of FF too after the tie so I’m in with 20k to spare, and no sacking shenanigans required!

Having glanced at the fixture list my games are virtually the opposite of the ideal order so it promises to be a tough start for the Garfighters. Still I wanted more of a challenge so I can't complain :)

Zoraster

31-01-2012, 07:45 AM

LowKey; there is a chance I could do Friday. Saturday onwards is wide open at the time of writing.

LowKey

31-01-2012, 07:55 AM

Morning zoraster, Friday eve would be ideal, could probably do early Saturday but ill be busy in the afternoon/eve

drawlien

31-01-2012, 08:15 AM

Screwie

31-01-2012, 08:34 AM

Screwie, it looks like we get to start this season of just as we finished the last one. I can do any evening from Tue-Thu and probably most times in the weekend. What suits?

I can do late tonight (like after 10pm), from 8pm Thursday night, or the weekend.

duff

31-01-2012, 11:07 AM

Duffin! When shall we fight.

On guard!

My usual BB slots tend to be Sat afternoon/evening, Monday, Wed and sometimes a Friday evening. I can also usually play quite late. Any of those take your fancy?

Jiiiiim

31-01-2012, 03:36 PM

Wednesday evening do you? Around 8pm?

duff

31-01-2012, 04:31 PM

Sounds good, see you then.

Jolima

31-01-2012, 05:51 PM

I can do late tonight (like after 10pm), from 8pm Thursday night, or the weekend.

Thursday at 8 sounds good. See you then?

Indefatigible Snoozer

31-01-2012, 05:53 PM

Hughy-T: Anxious for our rematch. Thursday good?

Zoraster

31-01-2012, 07:45 PM

Morning zoraster, Friday eve would be ideal, could probably do early Saturday but ill be busy in the afternoon/eve

19:30 UK time Friday suit you boss?

LowKey

31-01-2012, 07:51 PM

bonza, see you then

NieA7

31-01-2012, 07:52 PM

Let me know when you've got BB sorted out Pres, I've not got much coming up so I should be able to fit our game in whenever you've got time (same for the gobbo match).

laneford

31-01-2012, 08:34 PM

Did somebody mention 'zons? Don't worry laneford they aren't quite as uber as last time you played them!

I can do any evening this week apart from Thursday. Is any one of them especially good for you or shall I catch you on steam sometime?

Balls. I can do thursday.

Friday I may be around, but I may be drunk instead.

How's the weekend, early next week look for you?

Screwie

31-01-2012, 08:59 PM

Thursday at 8 sounds good. See you then?

Sure thing Jolima.

Prester John

31-01-2012, 09:21 PM

Rough introduction to the League, started bad and when the Wardancer got injured in turn 2 just felt like one of those games. Even the Treeman got injured. Got increasingly desperate as game went on but no dice. Only positive was no real nasty injuries. Need better SP progression to get the team up to scratch.

Bring on the next round!

HughTower

31-01-2012, 09:53 PM

Hughy-T: Anxious for our rematch. Thursday good?

Ah, the Snoozster. Of all the people knocking around these BB boards of ours, I get you again for the third time in a month or so. I feel like I should ask you out.

Going to see Stewart Lee on Thursday so no. Am also midway though rebuilding my PC so am concerned about getting things tip top in time. How about Sunday some time? I love a morning game but can do later too.

drawlien

01-02-2012, 08:12 AM

Balls. I can do thursday.

Friday I may be around, but I may be drunk instead.

How's the weekend, early next week look for you?

If I don't see you on Friday I could do fairly early on Saturday morning (about 9am) or some time after the rugby in the evening. Sunday I could do the evening before the SuperBowl starts. After that it's Wednesday or Thursday evening next week. Any of them sound good?

Indefatigible Snoozer

01-02-2012, 10:43 AM

Unfortunately I'm out this weekend, so it'll have to be next week sometime. Could do Monday/Tuesday, probably Thursday. 8:30GMT kickoff.

ChainsawHands

01-02-2012, 10:44 AM

It's you and me, mrpier - when's good?

mrpier

01-02-2012, 12:01 PM

How about tomorrow? 6 pm or something?

ChainsawHands

01-02-2012, 12:15 PM

That's a bit early for me, would 8pm be OK?

President Weasel

01-02-2012, 12:36 PM

NieA7, I believe my orcy mans must fight your goblins in our first match. When would be convenient?
You'll be pleased to learn that my tackle/mighty blow goblin murderiser level 5 orc was one of my casualties when Groovy steamrollered my team last season.

(You may be less pleased to hear that my tackle/mighty blow/piling on very thorough goblin murderising orc is still running around the place murderising goblins, maiming elves, and brutalising amazons and human catchers.)

Screwie

01-02-2012, 12:37 PM

(You may be less pleased to hear that my tackle/mighty blow/piling on very thorough goblin murderising orc is still running around the place murderising goblins, maiming elves, and brutalising amazons and human catchers.)

Oooh, I hate that particular orc so much...

NieA7

01-02-2012, 12:54 PM

mrpier

01-02-2012, 01:11 PM

Chainsawhands - ok, let's try that.

President Weasel

01-02-2012, 04:06 PM

President Weasel, I believe you are correct. Tomorrow night would be good, pretty much any time after 8:00. If that's not convenient I can make Saturday evening or pretty much any time Sunday.

(Wouldn't like to guess how pleased or not you'll be that the difference in TV will let me take 3 bribes, Ripper and Morg.)

The large TV difference strongly suggests you have no ball and chain bastard; I will take Ripper instead any day. Morg's going to be tricky to deal with, I admit. It also suggests you won't have a large number of goblins to bring on when your first team starts dying off, which is nice.

I forgot to say: can't make tomorrow, can do Saturday or Sunday. Saturday evening around 7.30pm?

NieA7

01-02-2012, 06:04 PM

I'll be honest: I'm not entering the Open with an ambition of winning it. I'm not even expecting to win a single game. No, I've entered the Open to have fun with gobbos. And for me, fun with gobbos means using the little gitz to attempt to murder the best player on the other side, or at least cripple them in some way. Thus, starting lineup includes ball and chain bastard. And chainsaw bastard. And bomb bastard. It's only a pity the secret weapon star players aren't in too.

I'll only be free later on on Saturday, I could probably make a start around 9:00 or 10:00pm. Happy to play on Sunday though, should be free all day then.

President Weasel

01-02-2012, 06:29 PM

I have no plans for Sunday morning, indeed I disapprove of them and prefer to pretend they don't exist. Therefore a 9.30pm Saturday start sounds fine to me. Give me a shout on Steam if you are going to be later than that.

NieA7

01-02-2012, 07:03 PM

Should be fine but I'll be out Saturday afternoon, sadly deprived of internets - if I'm not about (always possible the car could blow up or something) then don't worry about waiting.

Jiiiiim

02-02-2012, 12:21 AM

Ultimate Maths Squad (Jim, Human) vs Skinkinators (Duffin, Lizards)

Standing toe to toe with a saurus
Trying to break a hole in their wall
Duffin is sad
when I punch one in the nads
and through that gap we pass and score with the ball

Christ, you know it aint easy
You know how lizards can be
The way things are going
They're gonna run it past me

Lining up to weather the storm
Doin' pretty good in the main
His skink nearly scores
but he falls on the floor
and I am one nil up as we reach the break

Christ, you know it aint easy
You know how lizards can be
The way things are going
They're gonna run it past me

Hold the saurus off on the restart
send another one to the dirt
but Duffin flanks left
And my position's bereft
He scores, I haven't even got his skinks hurt

Christ, you know it aint easy
You know how lizards can be
The way things are going
They're gonna run it past me

Screwing all his courage to the stickin' post,
Duffin swarms my thrower with stunties.
Rashly, I charge forth
Mess up the hand off
The skinks grab it and run right
out of range, blast!

Made a desperate blitz with an ogre
dodged and push the skink off the pitch
The scatter is kind
There's a chance in my mind
Just get the ball and lob it and wish

Christ, you know it aint easy
You know how lizards can be
The way things are going
They're gonna run it past me

Caught the pass without any problem
Ran it in and cheered and laughed
The Duffin he said
I wish that ogre was dead
He is a hero even though he's quite daft

Christ, you know it aint easy
You know how lizards can be
The way things are going
They're gonna run it past me
The way things are going
They're gonna run it past me
The way things are going
They're gonna run it past me

And because it's incredibly late and I'm not exactly lucid, here is a recording.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ac5g6zab91fc4c8

duff

02-02-2012, 12:38 AM

Haha, brilliant. It was a close game and if not for that fecking Ogre dodging and blitzing like an elftwat it could have been 2-1 to the skinkinators, probably undeservedly, but still. Jim played a very tight game though and when I lost a couple of Saurus in the first half I was happy just to make a game of it, so not all bad.

President Weasel

02-02-2012, 09:39 AM

Whenever I play Jiiiim the sting of defeat is lessened by the knowledge that there will almost certainly be an excellent match report. He's a national treasure.

groovychainsaw

02-02-2012, 10:28 AM

/Redacted (was a long post about the divisions... in the wrong thread...)

Screwie

02-02-2012, 10:39 AM

You appear to have posted in the Open League thread, mate :)

groovychainsaw

02-02-2012, 10:40 AM

Gah, sorry chaps
too many blood bowls.... tidied it up so as not to confuse.

mrpier

02-02-2012, 11:39 AM

I'd like to induce two deathrollers, deeproot and Morg against chainsawhands to offset his monstrous strength advantage please.

ChainsawHands

02-02-2012, 12:22 PM

I'm thinking of sacking my minotaur, if that helps...

ChainsawHands

02-02-2012, 06:43 PM

Might be running 10, 15 minutes late, but will be there as soon as I can.

Screwie

02-02-2012, 09:11 PM

Just finished my match with Jolima... absolutely terrible non-starter for me. Nothing worked and if he wasn't so keen on trying for casualty SPPs Jolima could've scored even higher. I have some nuffling left over from my match against VV it seems.

Much more of this and I'll start training Dwarfs for next season :P

NieA7

02-02-2012, 09:53 PM

*this post does not exist*

grinn

03-02-2012, 02:02 PM

Hey Groovy, when do you want to play?

ChainsawHands

03-02-2012, 02:33 PM

Had my match with mrpier's Insufferable high elfs last night. Thanks to replacing my minotaur (170TV of failed Wild Animal rolls) with a beastman I was only giving away 500K of inducements...

mrpier chose to receive in the first half. Eldril Sidewinder was mysteriously invisible during setup, but appeared at kick-off, as it happened reasonably close to the ball. Through means I don't particularly remember but which probably involved punching I was able to get the ball off the elfs and run it up the pitch. I went for a bit of stalling beside the endzone, which looked dodgy for a while after he got the ball back and my blitz on the elf with the ball sent it into the crowd, but in the last 2 turns I was able to Badly Hurt 2 of his players, including Eldril Sidewinder, off the pitch and get the ball back on a beastman who was one GFI away from scoring. He had a side-stepping elf (and a couple of his buddies) marking my ball carrier, but between elfs and chaos players I got enough round the sidestepper that I was able to blitz him and push him into my ball carrier, leaving me in range to score without the GFI. Sadly the marking elf was still on his feet, but one successful dodge later I was 1-0 up and the half was over.

Second half, I start trudging up the pitch, but got fed up waiting for the wizard so I marked and screened enough of his players to feel safe-ish and then built a half-cage to lure the fireball out. Sure enough BOOM, but although one beastman got KOd the ball carrier stayed standing. Well, I think an elf blitzed him down after that, but I was able to get the ball back and scored with... maybe 3 or 4 turns left on the clock? Anyway, it wasn't long enough, and I was able to hold the elfs off from scoring.

Final score was 2-0 to The Horny Goats, after what mrpier described as the "worst game ever", on account of him having earned approximately 0 SPPs. Still, no elfs were permanently harmed in the making of this match...

Thanks to mrpier for the game.

ChainsawHands

03-02-2012, 02:36 PM

mrpier

03-02-2012, 04:03 PM

It wasn't the worst game ever in terms of bad dice, goals against or casualties sustained, I was just so fucking tired I could hardly plan one turn ahead. Put my thrower on the bench when receiving and put my kicker on the sideline when kicking off, everything was just poorly executed on my side it felt like. Anyway, not to take anything away from chainsawhands, he played very well, nad his chaos were a bitch to play against, always knocking my elfs down and having annoying tackle everwhere, blodgers, +ST beasts which were nasty as well. :-)

Thanks for the game Chainsawhands.

Oh, and I did get 1 SPP from a pass completion in round fifteen :p

Zoraster

04-02-2012, 07:53 AM

The Strenuous Garfighters introduced themselves to the Open with a display of ruthless efficiency that saw Lowkey’s Nurgle beaten 2-0. Lowkey really got screwed by early injury dice as my zerkers recorded three CAS before Lowkey started his second turn. Crucially the Wrackle Pestigor was killed and failed regen. With a big advantage in numbers and skills there was little that could be done to prevent Garfighter control.

With no pressure on the ball my runners were able to easily feed ST access positional the two TDs, putting skills on a zerker and ulf. Next up Snoozer gets a chance to avenge the final... and that Khemri team is scary as hell from a Garfighter perspective :)

Zoraster

04-02-2012, 07:56 AM

Jol there appears to be a wee issue with the SS. 'Hands win isn't registering. Given my talents are more suited to breaking spreadsheets I'll let someone else sort it :)

Jolima

04-02-2012, 08:32 AM

The spreadsheet should be fixed now. I hadn't accounted for the increase in columns, only in rows when expanding the formulas.

Here's a challenge to any spreadsheet wiz out there: Make the wins/draws/losses formulas more maintainable. It works as it is, but enumerating all of the result cells like that tears at my soul. :-) (Even though it's just once, and then copy/pasting.)

drawlien

04-02-2012, 01:01 PM

You could add a column for each match-up with an if statement to show W/D/L for the player whose row it is. Then all you have to do for the totals is countif(B2:Bx,"W") for the wins for the first player etc.

Then if the league size changes you just have to change x.

LowKey

04-02-2012, 06:13 PM

You knocked 300 tv permanently of the team zoraster! Going to be a tough season :(

edit: think I am going to drop my Undead team out of the DoD and put them into the Open, should I put that intent on the spreadsheet some how?

President Weasel

04-02-2012, 10:42 PM

Storm Boyz (President Weasel, Orcs) 2-1 Underfoot Crawlers (NieA7, Goblins)

Despite a TV difference of upwards of 800, this was an incredibly close game that turned on a couple of dice rolls. We didn't manage to hurt that many goblins, partly due to the chainsaw goblin being incredibly resilient. We hit that little rubber bastard more times than we could count (although to be fair, we're an orc team - anything above 'four-ish' and we get confused and angry and punch something), usually with some combination of block, tackle, mighty blow, and piling on. He just kept bouncing right back up again, sometimes he'd be a little dizzy and need a lie down for a turn but apart from that we didn't even manage to scuff his uniform.
We did, however, manage to badly hurt the ball and chain bastard (yay!) and KO a troll, who stayed KO'd for the rest of the match. The bomb thrower got sent off for not paying his bribe in a prompt and timely manner, and another goblin got his poor little collarbone all smashed up, but we couldn't hurt enough of NieA7's team quickly enough to really swing the match in our favour.

The score was 1-1 at half time, and NieA7 received in the second half. The ball spent a great deal of time bouncing loose after he had a failed hand off in turn 1, then he eventually got the ball to a goblin who raced off into my half, one go for it from safety.

One failed go for it from safety.

The ball went off the pitch, and got thrown right back into the scrum in the middle, but next to three of our orcs. We couldn't quick manage to pick it up and run away, so there were several more turns of scrabbling around. I sent one player within go for it range of the line - our freakish mutant +1 move +2 ag black orc. NieA7 sent Morg after him, but Morg could only manage AD/BD, and our guy had block.
I scooped up the ball and tried a pass. Morg failed the intercept. The black orc failed the catch.

One turn to go.

NieA7 threw a goblin in the general direction of the ball. He tried a dodge past our mutant black orc. It failed.

On my very last turn my 4AG black orc needed to dodge away from Morg, pick up the ball, and make 2 go for its. Neither side had even seen a reroll since turn 13 (we'd started with 4 and 5, and both burned through them by the halfway mark).

The black orc dodged successfully, picked up the ball successfully, made the first go for it successfully, and, amazingly, made the second one too.

Kudos to NieA7 - with a team fresh out of the box he took on one that has been kicking around the Open for two seasons and had about 850 TV more than him, and made the match so close that took some lucky dice rolls to decide it.

potatoedoughnut

05-02-2012, 02:20 AM

PW - your match report is bizzare. Example:

black orc needed to dodge
Not a common statement.

my 4AG black orc needed to dodge
"Unique"

Jiiiiim

05-02-2012, 07:09 AM

what inducements did he go for? Morg, three bribes, aaaand...

President Weasel

05-02-2012, 11:09 AM

PW - your match report is bizzare. Example:

Not a common statement.

"Unique"

Indeed, he is a freak of nature. It took me two stat ups and about 150TV just to get myself a green chaos warrior (Ag3, Str4, Mv 5 - it certainly made me realise how nice it is to get 4 cheap ones on the Chaos team). But then he rolled a second AG up - given that many of the better coaches wouldn't take the first AG up on a 2AG player, my AG4 black orc is a rare bird indeed

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v286/chompmancobra/Ugroth.jpg

There he is. Can't you just feel the agility? Sense his elflike poise and grace?

Jiim, he took 3 bribes, Morg, and Ripper.
When I kicked, I was facing a wall composed of Troll, Big Blue Troll, Ball and Chain Bastard, freaking Morg n Thorg, Another Troll. Also somewhere behind those was an unkillable chainsaw bastard, but on the plus side I think he only injured one guy and got stuns the rest of the time.

NieA7

05-02-2012, 01:09 PM

With the two trolls, Ripper, Morg and the fanatic on the pitch I think my average strength was higher than the orcs. It was beautiful.

It was a good match, right on a knife edge all the way through. The rubber chainsaw loony was especially impressive, though the rest of the team did pretty well too (except the bombardier, who may as well not have been there). Caused a couple of casualties but one was on the troll who regenned. Could've got a TD twice in the second half just resting on one roll too, one with a GFI, one to throw the goblin with the ball out of a cage composed of angry orcs. Sadly Ripper wasn't quite agile enough, and the rest is dodge-y Black Orc history.

Net result of all that awesome goblin-ey play? 40 less TV for the next game, no new skills. Gotta love the little green gitz. Good start though, and there some tackle-less Necro's next.

laneford

05-02-2012, 10:06 PM

My high elves continue their inevitable icarus-like plummet they began midway through last season, losing 2-1 to drawlien's amazons, due to his nefarious tactic of inducing an entirely unamazonian (i felt) blizzard for the entire match which nullified my passing game, combined with my own elves refusal to perform their basic elfy duties at any really important moment.

I started ok, recieving the ball and managing to score late in the first half, only impeded by my own star MA10 level 5 catcher tripping on some ice and breaking his own leg. (class)

In the second half it was a game of trying to keep the zons out with ever decreasing numbers of elves, the zons scored quite early, and without an ability to hurl long bombs to my skilled catchers, I couldn't either score, or hang on to the ball long enough. Eventually drawlien recovered, regained possession, and and I couldn't quite hang on for the draw, as he ran in a score in his last turn to make it 2-1. GG sir!

I'm left with 8 fit elves, and yet my TV is still upwards of 1700.

Next: goblins.

Erk.

Screwie

06-02-2012, 08:51 AM

I'm left with 8 fit elves, and yet my TV is still upwards of 1700.

Next: goblins.

Erk.

My goblins, I think :D

I wonder if this means you'll also be taking 3 journeymen for the next game, inflating your TV by another 210? That would give me a lot more inducements to play with... Also, I am quite glad I won't be facing your MA10 catcher this time!

(Still, considering my last game... this could turn out to be the battle of worse luck.)

laneford

06-02-2012, 03:56 PM

My goblins, I think :D

I wonder if this means you'll also be taking 3 journeymen for the next game, inflating your TV by another 210? That would give me a lot more inducements to play with... Also, I am quite glad I won't be facing your MA10 catcher this time!

(Still, considering my last game... this could turn out to be the battle of worse luck.)

I've bought a blitzer, so I think I have 9 fit players, so two journeyelves.

I believe it was against your goblins last season where the wheels came flying off my elfy wagon.

*sigh*

So. Many. Trolls.

HughTower

06-02-2012, 09:29 PM

@Snoozer,

We need to get this done, methinks, else we feel the thud of Jolima's swedehammer on our tender parts.

Tuesday? Say 9pm start GMT?

Indefatigible Snoozer

07-02-2012, 06:52 PM

Not going to be possible HT. I might be able to do tomorrow, can probably maybe definitely do Thursday, both around 8:30 GMT.

HughTower

07-02-2012, 07:12 PM

Not going to be possible HT. I might be able to do tomorrow, can probably maybe definitely do Thursday, both around 8:30 GMT.

Ok, Thursday could work. Let's hook up on here during the day and see how we're set.

groovychainsaw

08-02-2012, 08:26 AM

Me and Grinn played our season-opening match yesterday, and it went down as a pretty straightforward orc grind, 2-0 to Grinn after both halves.

I opted to receive on kickoff, hoping to cause some damage with some claws early on. An ill-considered foray down the right wing with a wolf and a wight left them trapped out there for the first 4 turns, whilst I tried to tie up the orcs (was a stupid play all round, really...). Some good 2 turn stuns saw me make a break up the left, but some steady attrition by the orcs (and none in return for me) meant I was running out of players by turn 5. An unfortunate attempt to knock down a black orc (3 2 dice blocks from players with block against a black orc with no skills resulted in 3 pushes) left me with little support upfield for my escaping wolf. An improvised cage left a gap, and Grinn popped the ball off my wolf (after 2 GFIs and a one dice block) and held it on the sideline. I shunted 2 orcs off the pitch, was rewarded by my wolf getting badly hurt (failing regenerate twice, as I used my Igor) but it wasn't enough, and with no cover in my backfield, it was an easy run in for Grinn at the end of the half. He was 2 CAS and 3 KOs to my none. My KOs got up (thanks, bloodweiser babes!) and I hit to end the half, but to no avail.

Second half, Grinn receiving, his vicious black orc and frenzied blitzer combo made inroads on my left and I wasn't able to shift them, my players were like waves crashing against the orcy rocks. I steadily got worn down until I was down to 6 players by turn 13. I almost threatened the cage with some good blocking, then obviously the coach yelled something from the sidelines. Unfortunately, most of my players failed to hear him (rotten ears, you see), but my ghoul was paying attention - he scores a swift kill on the +AG dodge sidestep orc (apo'd to badly hurt), then following turn, as Grinn runs into the corner, he sprints across and kills Grinn's thrower (accurate and block, i think?). Grinn, obviously fearing this suddenly psychotic ghoul, runs over the line in fear. Fear, i tell ya. 2 turns left, Grinn sets up deep with all his players, I bash the line and score a gouged eye on his troll. And that's about it really.

Textbook stuff from the Orcs, my team came away mostly unscathed, but with few players on the pitch at any given time, it was a slow grind to a loss, really. Grinn's team played it tight and used their skills well, they seemed to have a lot more than my team (considering the 170TV gap), with block/guard/mighty blow/piling on being a common combination on many players. My mighty blow and claws did very little all game, even though I was targeting players and getting the knockdowns (indeed, I rolled just as many block dice as Grinn, and to similar success). Grinn had slightly more luck on the casualties, but it was more a lack of higher dice rolls on the injury rolls that did for me, right up until the end, when it was too late to make any difference. Skills were key, and the D6 rolls counted. We both rolled similar number of times throughout the game (ie not many D6 rolls, both pretty conservative), but Grinn had 14/34 rolls as 6s and I had 18/40 1s. Whilst none of those rolls were critical on their own to my game, it added up to a general feeling of 'there's nothing I can do to defeat this team'. Which i think, last night, was true.

grinn

08-02-2012, 08:28 AM

Me and Groovy played our first game yesterday. The Gears got their grind on from early turns, removing an un-regenerated Wight from the scrimmage line. There were two golden opportunities to crowd-surf the other Wight and a Werewolf but both were failed miserably by on the spot knock-downs. Groovy tried to switch his attack from the left to the right flank but was met by a wall of hastily re-deployed green. It all ground to a halt on the sidelines in the Gear's right half. Kazz Ahmar, my side-stepping lineman managed to grab hold of the ball after a blitz from Zeppi the thrower. Two orcs ended up in the crowd but Kazz managed to sprint up the sideline through a hole made by Agath-Argh-Barbara and pass to the waiting Fred-Urgh Sant. Guarded by Bima, the BO firm-stander Sant ran into the endzone.

The second half saw both teams fielding 11 players after a number of returns to the pitch from both sides. Wolfsburg suffered a number of casualties (most of which were regenerated) again and were down on the numbers enough for the Gears to take their time hunting the rest down and putting in the slam. They scored again on turn 14, but only after suffering the ire of an angry necro side, two players getting killed (Kazz Ahmar, dodge-sidestep lineman and Grotlu One-Eye, niggled KOR thrower). Kazz was saved by da Doc but Grotlu floated up to cuddle amid Mork's crusty bosom. The Gears coach shrugged at this. poor Grotlu was marked for removal as soon as Zeppi (the other thrower) got his next skill up (which he just did).

Great game groovy!

Indefatigible Snoozer

08-02-2012, 03:39 PM

I can probably do tonight at 8:30 GMT, HT. I'll make the same offer to my DoD opponent though, so first in best dressed.

Indefatigible Snoozer

09-02-2012, 05:40 PM

We on for tonight HT? 8:30 GMT start?

HughTower

09-02-2012, 07:06 PM

We on for tonight HT? 8:30 GMT start?

Yes, indeedy.

drawlien

10-02-2012, 08:00 AM

Is the round over now (Groovy, you haven't updated the spreadsheet I would do it for you but I can't at work)?

Who am I meant to play next?!

President Weasel

10-02-2012, 08:32 AM

It was just Grinn and Groovy showing as still to play. I shall update their score in the spreadsheet before people start muttering about bricks. No idea who we are supposed to play next though.

Interestingly, nobody drew their match this round. Not even one player.

Indefatigible Snoozer

10-02-2012, 01:16 PM

Shocking start for the Khemri, due largely to me not rebuying the rerolls i sold to rejoin the league. Khemri with 1 reroll = [insert approriately difficult thing].
I'm actually pretty surprised that it went as well as it did, ie, only a 2-0 loss against a Skaven side who ran circles around me. One TG is out for the next game, but I killed one unskilled linerat, from which I take some small pleasure. I even came within two squares of the touch-down line with the ball, at one point, before being brutalised by that monster rat ogre.

Jolima

10-02-2012, 07:52 PM

That's the first round in on schedule then. Thanks for that. The next round is started and marked up in the spreadsheet.

mrpier, I'm playing you next. Any time that works this weekend?

Screwie

10-02-2012, 08:02 PM

Ahoy Laneford, are you up for a game tomorrow?

drawlien

10-02-2012, 08:40 PM

HughTower! When can you play from Wednesday next week?

NieA7

10-02-2012, 08:53 PM

Janek, you and I have a game to play! I've got time over the weekend apart from Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, and I can make most evenings after 8:00 next week.

Janek

10-02-2012, 09:09 PM

How's Saturday at 8pm sound?

NieA7

10-02-2012, 09:10 PM

Sounds good, see you then.

President Weasel

10-02-2012, 09:27 PM

Jiiim, it's my orcs versus your band of crazed mathematicians. Last time out you really had my number, I am hoping this time I can even the score and square things between us, although the odds are against me, something something something hypotenuse.

Also, when would you like to play blood bowl? If you said "Saturday, around 2 o'clock" then I am afraid I must disappoint you, for that is when my Divisions match is scheduled.
Something something radians something quadratic something irrational numbers.

Jiiiiim

11-02-2012, 12:02 AM

I'm on half-term holidays so, well, any time that I'm on Steam will do. This will be: most of the time. I shall be more specific if we're struggling to find such a time.

Indefatigible Snoozer

11-02-2012, 08:27 AM

Zor - would you be up for a game around 6am your time tomorrow morning?

HughTower

11-02-2012, 09:05 AM

HughTower! When can you play from Wednesday next week?

Hello sugarlips.

Next weekend sounds like the best plan, though I find the energy and a spare evening before then I'll let you know.

HT

laneford

11-02-2012, 11:41 AM

Dear Blood Bowl peoples!

I shall be falling off a mountain in Italy for the next seven days, apologies if this delays an orgy of fantasy sports based violence that you had planned to partake with me!

I shall be back saturday afternoon, (uk times).

Cheers!

Zoraster

11-02-2012, 01:08 PM

Zor - would you be up for a game around 6am your time tomorrow morning?

06:00 on a Sunday morning? Perfect Blood Bowling time :D I'll see you then.

Janek

11-02-2012, 01:28 PM

Sounds good, see you then.

Oh bum, I didn't realise the rugby was so late today. Um. Can we do it a bit earlier or a bit later? Say 6.30pm or 10pm?

LowKey

11-02-2012, 02:40 PM

Grinn me ol' mucker, when would you like to play our game? Sunday is good for me, shall we say 1pm?

NieA7

11-02-2012, 02:41 PM

Oh bum, I didn't realise the rugby was so late today. Um. Can we do it a bit earlier or a bit later? Say 6.30pm or 10pm?

6:30 will be fine.

President Weasel

11-02-2012, 04:48 PM

Ultimate Maths Squad (Jiiim, Humies) vs Storm Boyz (Pres. Weasel, Orcs)

A solid, meaty, satisfying clash, like a hearty stew or a good steak and kidney pie.

Jiim's human team is packed with block and guard, and anchored by their guard ogre they were able to give as good as they got in a first half which was pretty much a shoving match. A good, competent shoving match though, not one of those lower league ones where both teams just sort of jostle about at random; this was championship-level shoving. Neither team could get a numerical advantage (insert maths joke here): I managed to give a -STR to one mathematician which was apoced to -AGI, and Azlop retired badly hurt.
The ball was on the ground once or twice but the orcs could never keep enough bodies round it to keep it safe; Jiim's catcher made a break for safety with the ball; my blitzer shoved him to the line and stood there guarding him; he dodged free (4+ 3+, with dodge, eminently doable) and scored in turn 6.
The ref stole a turn from me in a dodgy riot roll (boo, shenanigans). My attempt at a one turner stalled when the troll dropped the goblin and KO'd him. This is an improvement, since the last one turner I attempted saw the previous goblin becoming a late-game snack for the troll. On the other hand, the troll has block as well as guard and stand firm which makes him a genius amongst trolls, so if he wants to eat the occasional goblin I will happily keep buying them.

At the beginning of the second half my troll used his block skill to knock the ogre over (and I immediately ordered another goblin and a barrel of barbecue sauce). Then I got 4 assists round him and fouled him off the pitch and into the badly hurt box.
The absence of the troll, coupled with the need to try to stop our drive, coupled with the slightly crappier armour of the humans and my attempts to punch with every single player every turn, started to take its toll. I got a human or two off the side, and one or two more went down after hits and didn't get back up.

Jiim still almost managed to sneak a victory, but this time the blitzer that hunted his ball carrier had more supports, and didn't mess about with pansy push rolls. POW!, and the ball carrier is seeing stars. Push! and the other human isn't standing over the ball. Pick up! and the orc thrower has the ball, and Unexpectedly competent pass! sees it land in the agile hands of Urgroth Eat'Skulls, the AG4 black orc.
Unlike the last abortive attempt at a breakaway with that orc, Jiim wasn't able to muster two humans with guard to support his blitzer. This time one lone brave human charged Urgroth, and rolled skull/push, rerolled to skull/push. I chose skull, then walked the ball in for a turn 16 touchdown.

The ref didn't mess with the clock again, so the match ended 1-1. Probably a deserved result, although Jiim came close to nicking the match off me for the second time in a row. Looking forwards to the writeup.

Also, as of 1755 UK-o-time on Saturday 11th Feb, The Ultimate Maths Squad and the Storm Boyz stand proudly in joint first place in the league. All others are number three, or lower.

Indefatigible Snoozer

11-02-2012, 05:04 PM

06:00 on a Sunday morning? Perfect Blood Bowling time :D I'll see you then.

Ok, see you in the game.

Jiiiiim

11-02-2012, 05:40 PM

Ultimate Maths Squad (Jim, Humans) 1-1 Storm Boyz (Weasel, Orcs)

Match report -> http://www.mediafire.com/?3ew3o8vpt92ogut <- Link!

Sing along at home!

I hurt my team today,
By playing Weasel's orcs,
I focus on the pain,
to put in this report,

Receiving, make a hole,
That old familiar scheme,
Try to throw it far away,
But I forgot about the Greenz,

God What have you done,
You orcish fiend,
All this mighty blow
and I can hear Hardy's screams,

And you don't have the ball,
My 1-0 is a cert,
then I will hunt you down,
I will make you hurt,

I bear this foul of yours,
Upon my ogre's head,
The apo long since used,
At least he isn't dead,

Beneath the strains of time,
My players disappear,
You are somewhere else,
I've got five guys left here,

God what have you done,
You orcish fiend,
All this mighty blow
and I can hear Hilbert's screams,

and you now have the ball,
My team's in the dirt,
Get up when we're down,
Try to make you hurt,

And when we start again,
I'll throw it far away,
But I will get you back,
I will find a way

President Weasel

11-02-2012, 05:47 PM

That is Jiiiiimtastic.

grinn

11-02-2012, 06:42 PM

hey lowk, I cant make Sunday. Could we try for some time during the week at night, say 9pm Uk time ?

G

Grinn me ol' mucker, when would you like to play our game? Sunday is good for me, shall we say 1pm?

LowKey

11-02-2012, 10:53 PM

Sounds good, can do any evening except tuesday

Indefatigible Snoozer

12-02-2012, 07:16 AM

Another disappointing outing for my decaying boys, with Zor's entire team of MBPO monsters tearing through my undead mans as if they were wrapped in paper (which several of them are...). The Norse had also clearly also worn their adamantium loin clothes, since I only managed 3 CAS, vs the Norse's 8 (plus numerous stuns and KOs). A miraculous number of regen rolls, however, saved at least two of my best players from death and serious injury. And, a silver lining, another skeleton joined two of his team mates by rolling +str on his level up. So that's 4 Str 5 guys, and 3 str 4 guys, giving an average team strength of a nice round 4.

Still, the team is feeling the hole this season where Man Pointing in Two Directions used to be. We miss you, Two-Point.

Prester John

12-02-2012, 08:41 AM

Time to feel the Love Chainsawhands! Monday evening 7:30 ish any good?

President Weasel

12-02-2012, 08:44 AM

Still, the team is feeling the hole this season where Man Pointing in Two Directions used to be. We miss you, Two-Point.

I don't. This team of ancient Egyptian steroid freaks is bad enough without him.

HughTower

12-02-2012, 04:24 PM

I don't. This team of ancient Egyptian steroid freaks is bad enough without him.

Aww, they're pussycats really.

Just try to catch them on a day when they have 1 reroll and run around them...

ChainsawHands

12-02-2012, 08:54 PM

Time to feel the Love Chainsawhands! Monday evening 7:30 ish any good?8 would be better.

NieA7

12-02-2012, 09:40 PM

And at a stroke Jiiiiim rendered all written reports obsolete. Bravo sir.

Janek and I played our game last night, finished up 1-0 to him. The damage was pretty impressive, I think the gobbos actually outnumbered the necro's by the end of the match - all that was left was a Wight, a Ghoul and a handful of zombies. Some tight defending meant I could never break away, and while most of the necro's casualties were KOs most of mine were injuries, including a MNG and a dead. With only 10k winnings I can't actually field a full squad for the next game (despite the strength 1 gobbo making a triumphant return), which is going to make managing the secret weapons interesting.