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[monk12]

Naturan Demanto 0 - 2 Monk's Marauders

A reasonably bloody game, even though Grant Valdred was knocked out of it early. The humans compensated for his lack by fouling whenever the opportunity presented itself, getting a KO on the Star Vampire (he came back for the second half) and a Pinched Nerve that Ramtut III had to regenerate on the sideline (he came back for the last drive.) Mummies consistently hurt themselves on Both Down results, with a pair of random linemen getting SPP for the CAS, one of which stuck as the mummy failed to regenerate a smashed ankle. For their part, the undead slowed Balkoth the Ogre and niggled a lineman, as well as a MNG on... somebody or other. A blitzer maybe? I'll be down 3 going into next week's matchup with w00t w00t, anyway.

The game itself was the usual sort of thing; the humans stalled until an opportunity presented itself, then pulled some mildly elfy shenanigans to take the ball away and score at the end of the first half, and then scored again three turns into the second half. Both TDs went to Eko Cleanvise, the rookie Blitzer who is replacing the retired Knight Advar, and he'll continue to be a target going forward as he is clearly the weak Blitzer on the team. The Undead very nearly scored on the last play, but though the zombie threw a perfect pass, the ghoul couldn't handle the catch.

[ndkid]

Unstoppable Immovables vs. Light of Judgment

The Lizards get a keg of Bloodweiser and a potion of AG for a skink which actually works. The elves win the coin toss and elect to receive.

L1: A catcher gets deep into Lizard territory with the ball and a fellow blocker.

U1: One elf is KOed, another stunned. Three more are knocked down. A skink gets beside the ball carrier.

L2: The catcher runs in the score.

U2: Kickoff goes into the hands of the AG4 Skink. Three elves stunned, one other knocked over.

L3: A lead blocking skink is knocked over.

U3: A saurus injures himself knocking over an elf.

L4: Despite lots of block dice being tossed around, skinks refuse to fall over.

U4: An elf is finally injured. The ball carrier comes around the end with two skink blockers. Another elf is knocked over.

L5: The ball carrier is blitzed down, sending the ball into the hands of another skink.

U5: The skink dodges around and runs in the score.

L6: Charm has to get a package.

U6: I take time while Charm gets the package, then end the turn so it'll be like there was a riot.

L7: A catcher runs forward the ball.

U7: Carnage ends early.

L8: The catcher runs in the touchdown.

U8: No real damage done.

Halftime Score: Light of Judgment 2 - 1 Unstoppable Immovables

U9: An elf gets stunned, and several other get knocked over. The skinks move forward with the kickoff.

L9: Two saurii get knocked down.

U10: The skinks keep moving the ball downfield.

L10: The ball carrier gets knocked by a blitzer who picks up the ball. A catcher goes downfield.

U11: Lizards begin to swarm around the blitzer with the ball.

L11: The blitzer gets away from traffic makes the pass, and the catcher runs in the score.

U12: One elf knocked out, two stunned.

L12: A blitz knocks down the ball carrier, then another elf falls over trying an aggressive dodge.

U13: The blitzer with the ball gets surrounded, but does not go down.

L13: The blitzer fails a pass.

U14: The pass is picked up by a skink, who hands it off to another, who amazingly manages to successfully grab it, and runs in the score.

L14: The lizards line up on the front line hoping for a blitz or other shenanigans. The elves run the short kickoff backward.

U15: Several lizards get around the ball carrier, but a skink falls over making the blitz.

L15: The ball is tossed back to midfield.

U16: The attempt for an amazing pickup, throw, and touchdown is crushed when the skink fails his first dodge.

L16: Some blocks.


Final Score: Light of Judgement 3 - 2 Unstoppable Immovables

Thoughts: About what I expected from this clash, except for how I got way, *way* more stuns and knocked outs than injuries. With the AG disadvantage, I really needed the bashiness to be more effective. Alas.

[Kanil]

That's the last match for the TT, so it's advanced.

Matchups for Week 7:
THE_SLAYA - Slaya's Scrabblers vs i2amroy - The Traveling Doctors
ndkid - Unstoppable Immovables vs Charmander - Light of Judgement
monk12 - Monk's Meanies vs Kanil - Players are Overrated

Annoyingly, a rematch... on the bright side, the TT seems on pace to finish at about the same time as the main league.

[Kanil]

I've heard nothing about the status of ndkid vs ank. They both appear to be on the forums, so I've set the match to a draw and advanced the week.

Matchups for Week 10
ank - w00t w00t vs monk12 - Monk's Marauders
THE_SLAYA - My Mummie's Mummies vs Jartol - Naturan Demanto
Kanil - Skitterscamps vs ndkid - Morg's Meat Mashers
i2amroy - The Other Kittens vs A Spoony Bard - Doomwheels

[ank]

Sorry, I've been busy, and neglected to contact Nkid, didn't hear anything from him either though.

EDIT: Busy means playing KSP

[THE_SLAYA]

Very close game with Jartol, only won due to slightly superior strength and a bit of luck near the end of the first half where I stunned his wight with dodge, block and sidestep with a single die block.

[monk12]

In the training league, Monk's Meanies get their first team W with a 2-0 victory over Kanil's Players are Overrated. I was very proud of how I played the first half, as I managed to punch in a 4 turn TD (could've stalled, wanted to protect a surrounded blitzer,) then managed to play defense against the wood elves to close out the half. The second half was a gift from Nuffle, as none of the KOs sustained by Kanil came around, including both Wardancers, giving me a... 4 man advantage? 5? Too much to overcome, even for wood elves (though he did get a good push down the sideline due to a poor setup by myself, I managed to get a path for my Strip Ball Blitzer, who straight up knocked the runner out.)

A bit of Fan Factor, lots of winnings, two leveled up Blitzers... and a mercenary caught MVP, but oh well, can't win'm all.

[Kanil]

ank/ndkid/anyone else: I can send you a PM each time I advance the week if you want -- I don't know if this'll help, but it might if you don't notice the thread.

monk12: I think my best chance at winning was really wasted when I misclicked and ended up with a 1d block on the ball carrier, rather than 2d. You didn't give me any other chances to stop you. I was at least able to foul enough to stop you from stalling, but you got the better of it a few turns later when you KO'd the wardancer. The second half was pretty lopsided, though, indeed.

ank/monk12: DST ends in Europe on Sunday, so keep that in mind when scheduling. Also applies to anyone playing trans-Atlantic games in the near future. DST ends in the US some time later, but I'll mention it as well.

[ndkid]

ank/ndkid/anyone else: I can send you a PM each time I advance the week if you want -- I don't know if this'll help, but it might if you don't notice the thread.

I think this was an aberration for me... usually I'm more on top of things... it was just because the turn switch happened between two of my posts on that thread, so I didn't notice.

[ank]

@Kanil I check the thread regularly, so I didn't miss it, I was just being lazy. However, a post like at least half a day before you advance the week would be nice, to jolt us!


Monks Marauders vs w00t w00t

Tonkai didn't hold on to the ball very well this game, and I got it from him twice this game.

The score was 3-3 at my 16'th turn, but Edawg was KO'ed, so i had to settle for a draw.

This was a very good game, with equal bullshit moves throughout the game!

[monk12]

The Human cage degraded pretty steadily over the course of the game as various Marauders made their way to the injury box. Notably, ball-seeker Galahad Slodar is MNG, and Manfred the Friendly, Kicker with low MA and a surprising number of CAS and Kills to his name was struck down by Beechbranch, may his bark become wormy. I suppose I'll have to feed the ball to a lineman to get a kicker in time for the playoffs. MVPs, don't fail me now!

[ank]

That kill will grant Beechbranch a spot in the Hall of Fame!
Too bad for the kicker though...

[ndkid]

Morg's Meat Mashers vs. Skitterskamps

Kanil picks up a wizard and manages to get both potions to work, granting +1 ST, +1 AG to a Skaven blitzer who was already ST 4. Whee! Kanil wins the coin toss and elects to kick. The orcs get an eigth reroll for the half.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

M1: Two of the three goblins on the front line go down, one stunned. The enrvy passer picks up the ball.

S1: A black orc is injured on Skitterskamps first block. A skaven is stunned trying to dodge.

M2: A goblin gets knocked out. A troll and several black orcs get forward with the catcher, who makes the catch.

S2: The souped-up skaven blitzer kills the ball carrier, but the apoc saves him. The ball bounces into the hands of the troll. Then a black orc is knocked out by another troll.

M3: A skaven is knocked out, and another is stunned.

S3: The troll takes a couple of blocks to finally go down. The un-souped-up skaven blitzer picks up the ball.

M4: The troll, who could stand up and blitz the ball carrier, stays stupid. Some orcs go back in defense, others swarm around the partial underworld wall.

S4: The ball carrier gets to midfield with one blocker. An orc gets knocked off the pitch.

M5: A black orc gets beside the ball carrier. The blitzing frenzied orc manages to push the ball carrier back, then fails the GFI on the second half of the block and uses the reroll, meaning he can't do anything about the resulting skull on the second block.

S5: The blitzer hands off the ball to another skaven, who moves it forward.

M6: The AG passer makes two dodges, a GFI, and rerolls the block to knock over the ball carrier, almost making up for last turn's stupidity.

S6: The souped up skaven picks up the ball and gets among three blockers in a partial wall.

M7: The troll knocks out a goblin in the rear. A player gets beside the scary S5 ball carrier.

S7: The ball carrier runs in the score.

M8: No useful blocks.

S8: A goblin falls over trying to block.

Halftime Score: Skitterscamps 1 - 0 Morg's Meat Mashers

S9: One player stays knocked out for the orcs; all of the underworld players are back up. With the injury on the orc side, that leaves just the goblin sitting on the sidelines. The souped-up blitzer blitzes the goblin on the edge, injuring the goblin's hip and continuing Kanil's streak of getting injuries on his first block of a half. Thus, the ball carrier and several blockers swarm over the line.

M9: The orcs have given up hope on doing anything about the ST5, AG4, MA7 player, so they focus on carnage. A goblin gets knocked out. That's pretty much it.

S10: The souped-up blitzer runs in the score.

M10: The kickoff lands near the passers. The rear passer picks it up and hands it to the forward passer, who runs it to midfield. Each of the three goblins on the front line survives the first 2- or 3-die block, and the worst any of them ends up is stunned.

S11: Another orc is knocked out.

M11: Some positioning blocks.

S12: The troll is injured by the souped-up blitzer, but regenerates.

M12: The catcher gets free downfield.

S13: The ball carrier is knocked over, and the ball bounces over past all the orcs beside it to the skaven.

M13: A couple of black orc attemps at blocking lead to the black orc falling over.

S14: The ball moves forward.

M14: An orc gets caught fouling a skaven thrower, who he managed to stun.

S15: The ball moves closer to the goal line.

M15: A block and a foul on a goblin total for a stun.

S16: The third touchdown is run in.

M16: It took 16 turns, but the troll finally managed to injure a goblin.

Final Score: Skitterscamps 3 - 0 Morg's Meat Mashers

Thoughts: This one was pretty demoralizing from the point where my black orc with S5 was injured on turn 1. A skaven blitzer with ST5, AG4 makes my team frustratingly irrelevant in a manner completely different from, but similar to, everyone's least favorite wood elf. I wish the feedback gave you block counts, because I'd love to know the block-to-injury ratio for Kanil's 4 against mostly AV9 players against my 1 against mostly AV7 players, especially given how many more knockdowns I scored. :-)

[Kanil]

We both broke armor slightly above what is expected for each team's respective armor values. The real difference is that of your 19 armor breaks, 15 of them were stuns. 3 more were KOs, and only 1 casualty. Compare my 10 armor breaks, 4 stuns, 2 KOs, 4 CAS.

Had you rolled more reasonably on the injury rolls, I would have had a lot less players to play with.

[ndkid]

Unstoppable Immovables vs. Light of Judgement

The lizards elect to kick.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

L1: A riot stuns two skinks and a saurus and six elves. Four elves go back to defend the ball, and the fifth breaks his neck trying to dodge away from the line.

U1: The lizard front line runs forward to the three elves in front of the ball carrier.

L2: A catcher runs downfield. The elf with the ball dodges out of traffic, but then drops the attempted pass.

U2: A set of skinks and saurii knock over the ball carrier and surround the ball.

L3: The skink with the ball gets pushed, then an elf falls over dodging in traffic.

U3: With lots of effort and a reroll, the skink gets out of traffic and scores.

L3: This riot just leads the ref to run back the clock a turn. A skink and saurus gets knocked over. Then an elf skulls a 1-die.

U3: Three saurii get back and knock over the elf by the ball.

L4: An elf picks up the ball and tosses to another elf, who runs it into the lizard side of the pitch. A skink gets stunned. Another skink and three saurii are knocked over, though an elf falls over in the process.

U4: Lots of standing up. Three skinks gang up on the catcher with the ball, and one falls over to knock over the ball carrier.

L5: An elves blitzer pushes a skink by the ball.

U5: A saurus injures an elf.

L6: A skink gets injured, but then an elf injures himself blocking another skink.

U6: An elf gets knocked out. The ball carrier gets knocked down. The ball goes into the stands, and a skink picks up the throw in.

L7: A blitzer stuns the ball carrier. Another blitzer fails to pick up the ball.

U7: One elf beside the ball is knocked over. A skink fails a downfield pass.

L8: The catcher falls over going for the end zone.

U8: Not much.

Halftime Score: Unstoppable Immovables 1 - 0 Light of Judgement

U9: Between two injuries and two knocked out elves staying down, only nine elves are available to field. One elf in the center stays up, and saurii get to both wings. The four skinks form a three-corner wall around the ball carrying skink and move forward.

L9: A block goes awry.

U10: The ball carrier gets deep into elven territory with two saurii protecting him.

L10: An elves blitzer knocks over the ball carrier. The crowd bats the ball around for a while, before leaving it close to the elven end zone. A saurus gets stunned. A blitzer dodges to the ball and picks it up, tossing it to a catcher near midfield.

U11: A skink gets beside the ball carrier.

L11: A blitzer takes out a skink. The ball carrier continues downfield.

U12: Another elf gets injured.

L12: The catcher runs in the touchdown.

U13: The unconscious elves stay down, leaving eight elves on the pitch. A pitch invasion stuns two saurii and two elves. The krox kills an elves lineman. The fast skink runs to the midfield with the ball.

L13: A skink gets knocked out. The skink with the ball is stunned by a blitzing catcher.

U14: Another skink picks up the ball and moves it forward with a blocker. A skink knocks himself out dodging.

L14: The ball carrier gets knocked over.

U15: Another elf is knocked out. Another skink picks up the ball and runs it downfield with a saurus blocker.

L15: A blitzer falls over trying to blitz.

U16: The ball carrier runs in the score.

L16: Not much.

Final Score: Unstoppable Immovables 2 - 1

Thoughts: I never cease to be amazed by how elves can stay in games while severely outnumbered. Playing this back-to-back with my game against Kanil at least helped to even out some of the painful feelings after getting so few casaulties there...