THN BB L4 Week 1
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Ghostwolf67
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I doubt they can get a much worse beating! Though maybe that's tempting fate...
Ghostwolf: depending on what's happening on Friday evening, maybe our game is best done then. I think I'll be out Saturday evening, I'm certainly out all day Sunday (though probably back later in the evening) but then I've more flexibility next week so that'd also be possible. Thoughts?
Fridays fine mate. I doubt the game can go anywhere near my way that much again.
Panda with issues...
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They're skaven.
Narly Bird
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That works for me.
Just a heads up though that the wife is thinking to visit her parents this weekend, so i may end up having greater availability.
Nothing confirmed yet, so i will update you once i know.
Panda with issues...
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OK, I won't so I'll be there at 1pm GMT, Saturday!
Narly Bird
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No problem. See you then.
Panda with issues...
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Narly and I had a thoroughly entertaining game today to kick off the season, finished as a 2-2 draw, but every single TD was a defensive TD. Ridiculous game that ended up as a 20/20 rating, and balanced on a knife edge throughout, as our games always do.
Narly chose to receive, and got a little unlucky with a blitz result to start the game, which let me put some serious pressure on him, and exercise my strength advantage over him, my block dice were nice, and some considered play and pressure led to the ball switching hands a few times, until finally I managed to clear the ball and pick it up and ram it down the centre of the pitch with a vamp and double lunchbox escort. Narly couldn't put him down, and feeling the rest of his team closing in, I chose to score around turn 4 or so, maybe 5.
Second kickoff to Narly was quite shallow, and I got the perfect defence result, and perhaps a little foolishly I chose to put my players in the position to really pressure him.
This left me a little open on Narly's left flank, and forced him to reverse and make a throw, burning his last reroll I think. He was streaking down the pitch, but had no margin for error. I was a little out of position, but some nice use of hypnotic gaze and careful play allowed me to seal the flank, extract the ball and lock up some of his better players deep in my half, whilst streaking down the pitch to score a second defensive TD on turn 8, closing out the first half.
There had been injuries galore in the first half, and Narly's sub turned out to be pretty critical in the second half.
I was down a vamp in the injury box, a thrall with a broken collarbone, and a thrall that had been munched on with a case of the KOs (who wisely decided not to get up at all through the entire game, he'd gone off about turn 3 or so I think). In contrast, Narly was down 2 gobbos I think, but the skaven core to the team was intact. With a 2-0 cushion and a vamp with 5 spp, I felt it was worth going for a throw to try to level him. However, the second half kicked off with Narly getting a blitz, and a really deep kick. I didn't really have enough players to cover the deep part of my half fully, and decided my best bet was to pick up the ball, make the throw and push towards Narly's weak, refused flank, this is when the bloodlust started to kick in. I failed the bloodlust roll on the vamp close enough to pick up the ball, and had to reroll it, which meant that when I actually went for the ball, I fumbled the pickup. Narly swept in and poached the ball, and tiptoed it over the line in a single turn. 2-1.
We set up again, and this time I did get the throw off (though burning another reroll) and made a push down my left. Narly's dice really started coming up great, and added to this was my team deciding to chow down on each other, and while I didn't lose any vamps off the pitch to bloodlust, there was a turn where 2 failed bloodlust rolls put 2 thralls off injured. Narly closed the flank down expertly, and some good, violent play from the troll was really causing me problems in the centre. He was closing in very fast, and my dice were ice cold. I had to try to make a very weak breakthrough, and failed the dodge, putting my vamp out injured, leaving me with only 2. 2 who were very bloodlusty. Narly cleared out the ball, started to lock up my players (what few were left), and after surviving a blitz from a thrall (burning my final reroll) headed down my empty right flank. Some good technical play in the turn where I ate 2 thralls (to badly hurts) let me free up a thrall to try and close him down, but he had a fine player advantage, and it wasn't to be. Narly slammed his second home, and the game was on, because he had a five player advantage, and just enough time to score again. Most of my players ended up stuck on the LOS, and I only had 1 vamp and one thrall deep to receive the kick. This time the kick was very short, and favoured Narly to recover it. I had no rerolls and no margin for error, and my (crappy, but what can you do) plan was to pick the ball up with the thrall, chuck it to the vamp, and play keepaway for the final 2 turns, hoping not to fail any bloodlust rolls. Predictably the thrall failed the pick up, and Narly cleared the ball, picked it up, and pushed as far forward as he could, as he only had 1 turn left to score.
The race was on. Luckily, the vamp that should have recovered the kick had now essentially turned into a deep safety. Narly had tried to chuck a gobbo at him to lock him up, but that goblin met an unfortunate end as he got eaten by the troll... Narly made a few dodges and GFIs to lock up the safety. Luckily I made my bloodlust roll and the dodge, and blitzed his ball carrier, but the result was push, both down. I decided to take the push, and Narly and I had a brief discussion about whether the both down would have been a better choice. It would have spilled the ball, but turned over, and I still had other players to activate. The push also meant his ball carrier needed 2 GFIs and a load of dodges to get straight past the vamp, or Narly needed to clear out the S4 vamp. I managed to dodge my other vamp, and hypnotic gaze one of his players to free up another thrall, which I used to put a tacklezone on the only other player that Narly could get to the endzone. It also meant he couldn't assist any blocks to free up the ball carrier. My final move of the game was to try to dodge a final thrall to put more TZs on the ball carrier, but it failed. Due to the way my players were spaced, Narly was really struggling to put together a 2DB on the vamp marking the ball carrier, he tried to dodge a gobbo to help out, but failed, and the game ended on some pretty desperate D play.
It was a tale of 2 halfs, the first was all me, and Narly was all over the second.
Narly chose to receive, and got a little unlucky with a blitz result to start the game, which let me put some serious pressure on him, and exercise my strength advantage over him, my block dice were nice, and some considered play and pressure led to the ball switching hands a few times, until finally I managed to clear the ball and pick it up and ram it down the centre of the pitch with a vamp and double lunchbox escort. Narly couldn't put him down, and feeling the rest of his team closing in, I chose to score around turn 4 or so, maybe 5.
Second kickoff to Narly was quite shallow, and I got the perfect defence result, and perhaps a little foolishly I chose to put my players in the position to really pressure him.
This left me a little open on Narly's left flank, and forced him to reverse and make a throw, burning his last reroll I think. He was streaking down the pitch, but had no margin for error. I was a little out of position, but some nice use of hypnotic gaze and careful play allowed me to seal the flank, extract the ball and lock up some of his better players deep in my half, whilst streaking down the pitch to score a second defensive TD on turn 8, closing out the first half.
There had been injuries galore in the first half, and Narly's sub turned out to be pretty critical in the second half.
I was down a vamp in the injury box, a thrall with a broken collarbone, and a thrall that had been munched on with a case of the KOs (who wisely decided not to get up at all through the entire game, he'd gone off about turn 3 or so I think). In contrast, Narly was down 2 gobbos I think, but the skaven core to the team was intact. With a 2-0 cushion and a vamp with 5 spp, I felt it was worth going for a throw to try to level him. However, the second half kicked off with Narly getting a blitz, and a really deep kick. I didn't really have enough players to cover the deep part of my half fully, and decided my best bet was to pick up the ball, make the throw and push towards Narly's weak, refused flank, this is when the bloodlust started to kick in. I failed the bloodlust roll on the vamp close enough to pick up the ball, and had to reroll it, which meant that when I actually went for the ball, I fumbled the pickup. Narly swept in and poached the ball, and tiptoed it over the line in a single turn. 2-1.
We set up again, and this time I did get the throw off (though burning another reroll) and made a push down my left. Narly's dice really started coming up great, and added to this was my team deciding to chow down on each other, and while I didn't lose any vamps off the pitch to bloodlust, there was a turn where 2 failed bloodlust rolls put 2 thralls off injured. Narly closed the flank down expertly, and some good, violent play from the troll was really causing me problems in the centre. He was closing in very fast, and my dice were ice cold. I had to try to make a very weak breakthrough, and failed the dodge, putting my vamp out injured, leaving me with only 2. 2 who were very bloodlusty. Narly cleared out the ball, started to lock up my players (what few were left), and after surviving a blitz from a thrall (burning my final reroll) headed down my empty right flank. Some good technical play in the turn where I ate 2 thralls (to badly hurts) let me free up a thrall to try and close him down, but he had a fine player advantage, and it wasn't to be. Narly slammed his second home, and the game was on, because he had a five player advantage, and just enough time to score again. Most of my players ended up stuck on the LOS, and I only had 1 vamp and one thrall deep to receive the kick. This time the kick was very short, and favoured Narly to recover it. I had no rerolls and no margin for error, and my (crappy, but what can you do) plan was to pick the ball up with the thrall, chuck it to the vamp, and play keepaway for the final 2 turns, hoping not to fail any bloodlust rolls. Predictably the thrall failed the pick up, and Narly cleared the ball, picked it up, and pushed as far forward as he could, as he only had 1 turn left to score.
The race was on. Luckily, the vamp that should have recovered the kick had now essentially turned into a deep safety. Narly had tried to chuck a gobbo at him to lock him up, but that goblin met an unfortunate end as he got eaten by the troll... Narly made a few dodges and GFIs to lock up the safety. Luckily I made my bloodlust roll and the dodge, and blitzed his ball carrier, but the result was push, both down. I decided to take the push, and Narly and I had a brief discussion about whether the both down would have been a better choice. It would have spilled the ball, but turned over, and I still had other players to activate. The push also meant his ball carrier needed 2 GFIs and a load of dodges to get straight past the vamp, or Narly needed to clear out the S4 vamp. I managed to dodge my other vamp, and hypnotic gaze one of his players to free up another thrall, which I used to put a tacklezone on the only other player that Narly could get to the endzone. It also meant he couldn't assist any blocks to free up the ball carrier. My final move of the game was to try to dodge a final thrall to put more TZs on the ball carrier, but it failed. Due to the way my players were spaced, Narly was really struggling to put together a 2DB on the vamp marking the ball carrier, he tried to dodge a gobbo to help out, but failed, and the game ended on some pretty desperate D play.
It was a tale of 2 halfs, the first was all me, and Narly was all over the second.
Narly Bird
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Yeah that was a really close match. But with me down 2-0 and kicking at the beginning of the 2nd half, I was sure I had lost. Your team just self destructed in the 2nd half! So many 1’s by those Vamps.
I think in the 3 seasons we have played each other on THN, we have always got a draw result from the matches!
Panda coached his vamps really well on defence. Not so great on offense, but it wasn’t really his fault as they basically imploded. Unfortunately my dream of a killer Goblin will have to wait a while, as whilst I scored with a Gob, he is still 3spp away from a level. But I did get my Troll to level up and he is now sporting his very own tentacle (and here you thought he was just happy to see you).
Thanks for the match Panda and good luck for the rest of the season.
I think in the 3 seasons we have played each other on THN, we have always got a draw result from the matches!
Panda coached his vamps really well on defence. Not so great on offense, but it wasn’t really his fault as they basically imploded. Unfortunately my dream of a killer Goblin will have to wait a while, as whilst I scored with a Gob, he is still 3spp away from a level. But I did get my Troll to level up and he is now sporting his very own tentacle (and here you thought he was just happy to see you).
Thanks for the match Panda and good luck for the rest of the season.
Panda with issues...
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Overall though, I definitely think that I'm a much better defensive coach than offensive one. Although, yes, in our game yesterday I was hampered by low numbers and bloodlust, I do feel like I lack creativity when carrying the ball. It's something I definitely need to work on I think.
Panda with issues...
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Any news on the ghostwolf-ronin rematch? It's the only game left this week.
Not yet. It's probably going to either Thursday late or Friday late, I suspect. Carps is looking pretty busy and I can't do earlier evenings on either of those days.
Ghostwolf67
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Ghostwolf is busy. Very very busy. But he still wants to play his match.
Panda with issues...
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no particular rush guys, we started the week about sunday or so, and can be flexible. I know we're all very busy, except maybe bloke.
Narly Bird
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Just a reminder that I'm in Singapore from Sunday to Thursday on a business trip and therefore won't be able to play until after then.
Safe travels, Narly.
Narly Bird
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Thanks. I made it here in 1 piece and am browsing the net from my hotel room. So i will have internet access (just not BB access) during my time here.
Ghostwolf67
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Have a good time narly. Me and ronin just played our game (again?). I still managed to scrape a win but it could have gone either way. No where near the shut out it was previously by any means. Will write a proper report later.
Panda with issues...
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Ok. Have validated and rolled over the week. Looked like a bloody match for both sides...
This week's matchups:
Tax's Nitwits (Traxata) vs Stormclaws (Ronin Storm)
Suck on this (Panda with issues...) vs Scarpeak Ravangers (Ghostwolf67)
Electric Mucous (Narly Bird) vs I cant think of a name (thatbloke)
So, we have the Dodgebowl, where Ronin and trax can spend their time running up the score on each other and playing touch bloodbowl so theri players don't get injured.
Then we have the farcical situation where the vamps are both stronger AND more agile than the chaos team, or at least they WOULD be, if Narly hadn't MNGd two of my players, whilst the Ravangers managed to win their game, but lose a chaos warrior straight dead, so that's 4 of 4 teams broken beat and scarred...
Then there's mutationbowl, where quite frankly anything disgusting might happen. Narly has an MNG skaven linerat (lots of missing rats this season already) and blook has two dead rotters.
Oh the violence! Oh the lack of humanity! And not just because the closest thing we have to a human in this league is a lunchbox, I mean thralls...
This week's matchups:
Tax's Nitwits (Traxata) vs Stormclaws (Ronin Storm)
Suck on this (Panda with issues...) vs Scarpeak Ravangers (Ghostwolf67)
Electric Mucous (Narly Bird) vs I cant think of a name (thatbloke)
So, we have the Dodgebowl, where Ronin and trax can spend their time running up the score on each other and playing touch bloodbowl so theri players don't get injured.
Then we have the farcical situation where the vamps are both stronger AND more agile than the chaos team, or at least they WOULD be, if Narly hadn't MNGd two of my players, whilst the Ravangers managed to win their game, but lose a chaos warrior straight dead, so that's 4 of 4 teams broken beat and scarred...
Then there's mutationbowl, where quite frankly anything disgusting might happen. Narly has an MNG skaven linerat (lots of missing rats this season already) and blook has two dead rotters.
Oh the violence! Oh the lack of humanity! And not just because the closest thing we have to a human in this league is a lunchbox, I mean thralls...
So, Trax, when's good for our dodge-happy game?
I can't do Tuesday or Thursday unless it's very late. Wednesday, Friday late, or any time in the day on Saturday or Sunday can work for me.
I can't do Tuesday or Thursday unless it's very late. Wednesday, Friday late, or any time in the day on Saturday or Sunday can work for me.