Week 5 played and the results recap can be found from here (http://norscaleague.com/index.php?topic=374.msg3388#msg3388). This week the extra props go to Lasseman who managed to fit the only time available for his opponent into his schedule to keep the weekly pace of the league going!
Here are the week 6 matchups:
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All right Lasseman, time for me to fear for your mighty blowers laying hurt on my girls. I'll be away on a running trip (http://www.karsu.fi/events) all of Friday and Saturday, so it'll have to one of the following starting times (all times CET/GMT+2/Swedish or whatever you like to call it):
- Tuesday 17-21
(- Wednesday about 21.30 or later - I'm having a dinner with my mates Wednesday evening but if nescessary I can make it after the dinner)
- Thursday 17-21
- Sunday 18-20 (not sure about this as I'll be taking a 6 hour drive home on Sunday and I might be bit tired from the run & drive)
Let me know if any of these suits you, sir. Tuesday or Thursday would be preferred. If none of these are good for you, let me know some alternatives and I'll see if I can work something out.
Alright Gnaarkill time for the third match between Vinterlegionen and Getingarna. The score is 1-1 so far. Who will take the lead in our derby matches?
I have a vacation this week, currently it looks like I'm available all days the entire week except possibly tuesday. I will be spending some time away from internet so the earlier we can decide on a match day the better.
My preferred playing times (in GMT+2) are: 08:00-16:00 but I can stretch it to 18:00 if we can find no other time.
/Hakos
Gurgeh, time to get a warm Welcome to the NUL league from the cold bones of DDG.
Wednesday is of, otherwise it's looks quite open at the moment.
Schedules in weekdays are starting hours 20:00-21:00 and it's CEST for me.
Looking forward to see you.
Cheers!
/B
Hey Kvasilad!
I'm pretty free this week (y a y !), so any weekday after 18.30 should be good
Time for the intra-NUL Norwegian showdown!
-Barm
Quote from: Barmution on October 01, 2012, 08:09:11 AM
Hey Kvasilad!
I'm pretty free this week (y a y !), so any weekday after 18.30 should be good
Time for the intra-NUL Norwegian showdown!
-Barm
Don't think I've won a single match against you yet, though not for lack of trying! Umpteenth time's the charm, perhaps?
Both Tuesday and Wednesday should be good for me from 1830 onwards, so what about Tuesday 1830 then?
Hi of the sugested days thursday at 19 would suit me best.
/Lasseman
Quote from: J-Reedy on October 01, 2012, 04:57:03 AM
All right Lasseman, time for me to fear for your mighty blowers laying hurt on my girls. I'll be away on a running trip (http://www.karsu.fi/events) all of Friday and Saturday, so it'll have to one of the following starting times (all times CET/GMT+2/Swedish or whatever you like to call it):
- Tuesday 17-21
(- Wednesday about 21.30 or later - I'm having a dinner with my mates Wednesday evening but if nescessary I can make it after the dinner)
- Thursday 17-21
- Sunday 18-20 (not sure about this as I'll be taking a 6 hour drive home on Sunday and I might be bit tired from the run & drive)
Let me know if any of these suits you, sir. Tuesday or Thursday would be preferred. If none of these are good for you, let me know some alternatives and I'll see if I can work something out.
Quote from: kvasilad on October 01, 2012, 08:22:45 AM
Don't think I've won a single match against you yet, though not for lack of trying! Umpteenth time's the charm, perhaps?
Both Tuesday and Wednesday should be good for me from 1830 onwards, so what about Tuesday 1830 then?
Don't be too hard on yourself, if I remember correctly you were pretty close in that one game that had to be reset due to you typing a % sign in that Disorganized Dudes vs DSS match. And my team this season is a bashy team that has caused a massive 2 cas in the 4 last matches, and gotten a single MVP on a positional (a Mummy that already was on 6 SPP). Odds are that my lack of Tackle will make it damned difficult to handle your WDs and that I'm pretty boned if my arm/inj rolls stay at their current level. Skilless Undead pretty much rely on numbers to win, so it's down to my block/2d6 and your d6 ;)
18.30 on Tuesday is a date, then!
-Barm
Quote from: Lars on October 01, 2012, 09:14:22 AM
Hi of the sugested days thursday at 19 would suit me best.
/Lasseman
OK, that suits me fine! See on the field on Thursday at 19 if nothing surpising happens.
Hi Luiggi,
I'm away the whole weekend including friday, so we'll need to do our game before then. I am busy tuesday, but could probably do monday, wednesday or thursday night.
Quote from: Mr B on October 01, 2012, 07:21:09 AM
Gurgeh, time to get a warm Welcome to the NUL league from the cold bones of DDG.
Wednesday is of, otherwise it's looks quite open at the moment.
Schedules in weekdays are starting hours 20:00-21:00 and it's CEST for me.
Looking forward to see you.
Cheers!
/B
I can play on tuesday or friday evening, or anytime during the weekend.
Quote from: The Golden Arrow on October 01, 2012, 09:46:09 AM
Hi Luiggi,
I'm away the whole weekend including friday, so we'll need to do our game before then. I am busy tuesday, but could probably do monday, wednesday or thursday night.
This week can be tricky for me as well because I am moving to a new apartment. Internet "should" be up and running by Wednesday but I do not trust my ISP that much... I'll keep you posted, but we should be able to play on Thuraday night (hopefully the router will be easy to configure and ports will pose no problems).
Quote from: hakos on October 01, 2012, 05:42:43 AM
Alright Gnaarkill time for the third match between Vinterlegionen and Getingarna. The score is 1-1 so far. Who will take the lead in our derby matches?
I have a vacation this week, currently it looks like I'm available all days the entire week except possibly tuesday. I will be spending some time away from internet so the earlier we can decide on a match day the better.
My preferred playing times (in GMT+2) are: 08:00-16:00 but I can stretch it to 18:00 if we can find no other time.
/Hakos
Hi there Hakos!
Yea this will be intresting. Vinterlegionen are real chumps this season! I wonder if they will manage to score their second touchdown of the season? :)
Maybe for the sake of winning the derby!? :) (As my position of being coach and owner of the worthless team i really hope so! I wont mention any names but some players are really on the virge of being FIRED! ;) )
Times between 08:00-17:00 are for me pretty hard to manage since im at work between those times.
How about 17:30 on thursday?
If thats not possible maybe we can play during the weekend?
/Gnaarkill
Quote from: Gnaarkill on October 02, 2012, 03:09:03 PM
Times between 08:00-17:00 are for me pretty hard to manage since im at work between those times.
How about 17:30 on thursday?
If thats not possible maybe we can play during the weekend?
/Gnaarkill
17:30 for you means 23:30 for me so it is a little late and I see that only as a last resort. I would definitely prefer to play during the weekend instead...
/Hakos
Quote from: Gurgeh on October 01, 2012, 09:59:49 PM
Quote from: Mr B on October 01, 2012, 07:21:09 AM
Gurgeh, time to get a warm Welcome to the NUL league from the cold bones of DDG.
Wednesday is of, otherwise it's looks quite open at the moment.
Schedules in weekdays are starting hours 20:00-21:00 and it's CEST for me.
Looking forward to see you.
Cheers!
/B
I can play on tuesday or friday evening, or anytime during the weekend.
Lets plan for Friday then I'm totally exhausted at the moment...
Cya!
/B
The Material Ghouls strike back with a fantastic hitting game, but forgets to run that last square to make it a 2-1 victory (played with Skype active and Kvasi's icon hovered right over my turn timer :P) and has to settle for a 1-1 draw and a course in basic maths. Thanks for a fun game, Kvasilad!
-Barm
Suits me fine.
Quote from: Luiggi on October 02, 2012, 01:14:01 PM
Quote from: The Golden Arrow on October 01, 2012, 09:46:09 AM
Hi Luiggi,
I'm away the whole weekend including friday, so we'll need to do our game before then. I am busy tuesday, but could probably do monday, wednesday or thursday night.
This week can be tricky for me as well because I am moving to a new apartment. Internet "should" be up and running by Wednesday but I do not trust my ISP that much... I'll keep you posted, but we should be able to play on Thuraday night (hopefully the router will be easy to configure and ports will pose no problems).
It appears that the ISP delivered and I could connect. My only concern now will be the port forwarding, I have done it in the router configuration but I still don't know if the Blood Bowl client will work all right.
Anyway, I can play on Thursday between 18.00 and 22.00 GMT +2, I think that will fit you nicely.
PortForwarding helps sometimes.. sometimes it does nothing.. more or less the case for me.
Try to put your BB-Unit (u'r PC) as a DMZ setting for your router always helps me when everything else fails.
Good luck!
/B
Quote from: Barmution on October 02, 2012, 07:48:00 PM
The Material Ghouls strike back with a fantastic hitting game, but forgets to run that last square to make it a 2-1 victory (played with Skype active and Kvasi's icon hovered right over my turn timer :P) and has to settle for a 1-1 draw and a course in basic maths. Thanks for a fun game, Kvasilad!
-Barm
Thanks for the game! After a miserable start (from my perspective at least :D), I got a few lucky breaks to secure the equalizer, and then Skype stopped the final rush where my defensive line could not ::)
I need to start being more careful with my elves, though, as I now have the dubious honour of having 4/7 entries in the graveyard, as well as 3/3 of the best punching bags. Currently able to field 7 out of 11 players for my next outing, I'm going to need those winnings to fill out my roster some :)
Quote from: Luiggi on October 02, 2012, 09:32:37 PM
Quote from: Luiggi on October 02, 2012, 01:14:01 PM
Quote from: The Golden Arrow on October 01, 2012, 09:46:09 AM
Hi Luiggi,
I'm away the whole weekend including friday, so we'll need to do our game before then. I am busy tuesday, but could probably do monday, wednesday or thursday night.
This week can be tricky for me as well because I am moving to a new apartment. Internet "should" be up and running by Wednesday but I do not trust my ISP that much... I'll keep you posted, but we should be able to play on Thuraday night (hopefully the router will be easy to configure and ports will pose no problems).
It appears that the ISP delivered and I could connect. My only concern now will be the port forwarding, I have done it in the router configuration but I still don't know if the Blood Bowl client will work all right.
Anyway, I can play on Thursday between 18.00 and 22.00 GMT +2, I think that will fit you nicely.
Yep, how about starting 20.00 (CET) on Thursday?
Deal, 20.00 that is.
Quote from: hakos on October 02, 2012, 04:33:11 PM
Quote from: Gnaarkill on October 02, 2012, 03:09:03 PM
Times between 08:00-17:00 are for me pretty hard to manage since im at work between those times.
How about 17:30 on thursday?
If thats not possible maybe we can play during the weekend?
/Gnaarkill
17:30 for you means 23:30 for me so it is a little late and I see that only as a last resort. I would definitely prefer to play during the weekend instead...
/Hakos
No problem Hakos!
Weekend suits me aswell. Wich day do you prefer and on what time? I can manage any time on the weekend.
/Gnaar
Quote from: Gnaarkill on October 03, 2012, 11:24:00 AM
Quote from: hakos on October 02, 2012, 04:33:11 PM
Quote from: Gnaarkill on October 02, 2012, 03:09:03 PM
Times between 08:00-17:00 are for me pretty hard to manage since im at work between those times.
How about 17:30 on thursday?
If thats not possible maybe we can play during the weekend?
/Gnaarkill
17:30 for you means 23:30 for me so it is a little late and I see that only as a last resort. I would definitely prefer to play during the weekend instead...
/Hakos
No problem Hakos!
Weekend suits me aswell. Wich day do you prefer and on what time? I can manage any time on the weekend.
/Gnaar
Then I think we should go for saturday as first plan and have sunday in reserve.
18:00 my time would be perfect for me. That would mean 12:00 GMT+2. Would that be suitable for you?
/Hakos
Quote from: hakos on October 03, 2012, 01:33:57 PM
Quote from: Gnaarkill on October 03, 2012, 11:24:00 AM
Quote from: hakos on October 02, 2012, 04:33:11 PM
Quote from: Gnaarkill on October 02, 2012, 03:09:03 PM
Times between 08:00-17:00 are for me pretty hard to manage since im at work between those times.
How about 17:30 on thursday?
If thats not possible maybe we can play during the weekend?
/Gnaarkill
17:30 for you means 23:30 for me so it is a little late and I see that only as a last resort. I would definitely prefer to play during the weekend instead...
/Hakos
No problem Hakos!
Weekend suits me aswell. Wich day do you prefer and on what time? I can manage any time on the weekend.
/Gnaar
Then I think we should go for saturday as first plan and have sunday in reserve.
18:00 my time would be perfect for me. That would mean 12:00 GMT+2. Would that be suitable for you?
/Hakos
Ok great, yea that suits me well!
So, let us aim our mighty clash for Saturday @12.00 GMT+2.
See you on the pitch mate! :)
/Gnaar
Just a short note about the Cougar Kittens - Chaotic Dudes game, proper match report will follow later (within a week or so). Lars had lousy dice day, on his first turn I counted eight ones/skulls, the turn ended with double skulls rerolled into double skulls. The dice didn't get any better until late in game and meanwhile I enjoyed trouble free game. 2-0 for Kittens. Violent game, both teams lost one player to deathly blocks. Chaos tried to use the doctor on the dead but the doctor proved to be mortician. Kittens had used their doctor on the strength loss of a linegal with a guard, so another linegal (no skills, but would've gotten a roll after the match) bit the dust.
Also, I feel for anyone who still hasn't played against Lars. His minotaur got his first skill, so now there's a mighty blow'in and clawing minotaur out there....
Quote from: J-Reedy on October 04, 2012, 08:30:56 PM
Also, I feel for anyone who still hasn't played against Lars. His minotaur got his first skill, so now there's a mighty blow'in and clawing minotaur out there....
Hah! Luckily I'm immune to claw! :P
Quote from: J-Reedy on October 04, 2012, 08:30:56 PMHis minotaur got his first skill, so now there's a mighty blow'in and clawing minotaur freaking foul magnet out there....
There, fixed it for ya ;)
My last game vs Sweet, Sweet Decay has been the worse I have played in ages, a boring 0-0 draw. At least he got 6 SPP, but I get nothing. Zero. Not even cash (a mere 20k). Oh, yes, I know what I got. A dead thrower that hogged up the MVP award. So much for the "elves are weak but at least they can get easy SPP".
I should have gone for the 3+ 4+ 2+ play, though... You were right, TGA :P
I don't think it was that boring. There were a lot of tacticaly plays and both sides got relatively close to scoring. It was sad that we didn't get any TD:s, but the game involved lots of interesting positioning with both of us having lots of denial (you with dodge/side step and me with DP and more strength). I find these intense games to be more fun (even better if you win of course :P), than if one player flies away with touch downs or injuries.
The fact that you didn't get any money and that you're killed player got the MVP really suck really bad though :(. I got 11 SPP and a good amount of money at least even if no players skilled up.
Yeah, it was a tactical and interesting game, I'd rather see games like this one than a steamroll of casualties and KO's (which, by the way, kinda happened today... thank god you only had one mighty blower that spent half his turns mesmerized in his "thoughts"). I guess it was the MVP to a dead man which hurts the most... at least Nuffle could have given me a break and let that blitzer skill-up with the last pass :D
Quote from: Luiggi on October 04, 2012, 09:41:24 PM
I should have gone for the 3+ 4+ 2+ play, though... You were right, TGA :P
Of course you should have! That's 55.56% with an RR available. I go for those all the time, which is probably why I'm leading both the graveyard and the punching bag categories, but at it's damned fun when they work out :D
Quote from: kvasilad on October 04, 2012, 11:48:47 PM
Quote from: Luiggi on October 04, 2012, 09:41:24 PM
I should have gone for the 3+ 4+ 2+ play, though... You were right, TGA :P
Of course you should have! That's
55.56% with an RR available. I go for those all the time, which is probably why I'm leading both the graveyard and the punching bag categories, but at it's damned fun when they work out :D
He didn't (though he had catch to reroll the 4+). Both of us burnt the rerolls early which made it "interesting" when it rained the whole game.
Shall we try to play today at 20:00, Mr B?
Hi, that will be tight, trying to get the little one to bed now.. shall we say 20:30?
ok
So, the derby match between Getingarna and Vinterlegionen is played. It was a very intensive and frustrating match, probably for both of us but less so for Gnaarkill since he managed to score the winning TD as the absolute last thing that happened in the match.
I don't have the will for a long match report so here is the short version.
Vinterlegionen starts the offensive, the ball is kicked quite far into his half and I try to move in and stop him from forming a cage, which succeds, but he throws the ball far into my half and suddenly I'm very out of position. Luckily he does'nt catch it so I have some minimal chance and then he fails the simle pick up he need to make the TD the game is on again. Neither of us managed to get hold of the ball for more than one turn. It looks like hawaii football and nothing organized at all. Both of us were quite unlucky with the dices during the first half. He got a lot of double skulls, failed the critical ball pick up and got some both down with his new yeti. I managed about 5 bone head or loner with ogre and so on. All 7 RR are gone after turn 4.
Second turn, I scope up the ball and forms a loose cage. Gnaarkill tries to reach my ball keeper but fails, early, and I can get a break through. Looks like an easy TD next turn, I think. Little did I know that the luck will be more one sided from now on...
From next turn Gnaarkill succeeds with everything for every turn forward, except to knock loose the ball. But since every block for him ends with me lying down and every block for me ends with a push I can't do much. Despite this, due to some lucky bounces with the ball I am in a position to make a TD in t12 but I managed to misclick and move one player one square to much and the road to the end zone is suddenly closed. All I needed was one dodge (regular) and one gfi with a rr available. Well, well, I would probably not have suceeded anyway. At the end I make a desperate throw (instead of facing at least 6 possible blocks against my ball keeper) and the ball is finally loose, Gnaarkill moves in with Gunnar, his expert thrower, throws it over more than half the pitch, fails to catch it but can pick it up with his runner next turn and then in t16 score.
My next opponent will be happy to note that the ogre will rest for one match after a very dauntless attack on him.
/hakos
Excerpt from Blood Bowl Gazette vol 534 issue 15, p. 22-23:
NUL match week 6 recap by Fagronkey Nagrumbundyme.
Results from the week 6:
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Welcome ya'all to recap of week 6 games of Norsca Union League! With sixth week - which by the way proved to be extremely violen -behind us two thirds of the regular season is done and there are only 3 games left. So in addition to recap we'll also be speculating about the playoff race!
Let's start from the top, the only team that has mathematically certain place in the play-offs is the Khemri Drop Dead Gorgeus. They've racked up 16 points and the latest 3 of those came their 0-1 win over the high-elf White Fire this week. The Khemri dominated the knock-outs but the casualties went one a piece and the casualty that the Khemri suffered proved to be re-fatal as they lost a skeleton Khojupet Heror. Looking at the stats ball handling was kept to minimum in this game. As to White Fire's playoff chances, they currently hold the last place with 4 points but as there are three teams above the high elf that are only one win away in points, nothing has been decided yet. Key matchup for the high-elfs could be their week 8 match against the Chaotic Dudes.
The current second spot of the NUL has been claimed with 13 points and the team holding the second position are the amazon Cougar Kittens. They can also be secure about their playoff berth althought they still need 1 point to make it absolutely certain. This week the Cougar Kittens took home a 2-0 win from the Chaotic Dudes. This proved to be the most violent match of the week, casualties were split 3-4 in favor of the chaos side and in addition, both teams lost one player to the Grim Reaper. The Dudes' casualty was their chaos warrior Max Myyr Shaarks while the Kittens lost their linegal Scarlett. The Dudes will also be missing one of their beastmen this week. The Chaotic Dudes currently hold the 8th spot that is the coveted last playoff spot. Their point total is 6 so they'll have to on their toes in order to keep the spot. As mentioned, in week 8 the Dudes will be playing against the White Fire that are only 2 points behind the chaos team.
Moving on, the undead Material Ghouls are currently ranked on the third place but there are three other teams that have the same amount of points - 8 - that is needed for securing the third spot. These teams are (in order of standings rank) the Nurgle Sweet Sweet Decay, the wood-elf Partly Animals and the pro-elf Elfy way. One of the reasons for this stalemate of a situation is the week 6 match between the Material Ghouls and Partly Animals. The teams couldn't decide which one was the better one, so the game ended in a 1-1 draw. Undead dominated the physical play scoring 3 casualties and 5 KOs. The elf surprisingly almost matched the undead in casualties by scoring 2 of them but the lack of KOs was alarming. Partly Animals also lost another of their players bringing up their death count of the season to 4. They'll also miss their lineman Ali Gator this week so the undead hitting was really efficient. The Material Ghouls didn't however escape unscythed, they'll be missing their rookie ghoul Pennyful Lowpass this week. Pennyful played with the same number as Marilyn Moredough who suffered a career-ending injury in the MG's match agains the Cougar Kittens so there have been rumours of the number 7 jersey of the undead team being cursed.
As to the two remaining 8 point teams, they also played against each other week 6. The Nurgle side Sweet Sweet Decay hosted the pro-elf side Elfy Way and neither of teams proved to better. In scoring that is. The match ended 0-0 but SSD really showed which one of the teams was the physically dominating side. Elfs lost the casualty race 1 to 4 and one of the elf casualties was their thrower who also got the MVP honour of the match, probably because of the entertaining way of his demise. The one casualty that the Elfy Way got keeps the SSD pestigor Ghaar'gors away from week 7 games and will likely also cause some niggling problems. There's a high likelyhood that some of these 8 points teams will remain tied after week 7 as none of the four teams play against each other. The Partly Animals will host the Cougar Kittens and the Elfy Way get a visit from the Chaotic Dudes while the Material Ghouls travel to the lands of Khemri and the Sweet Sweet Decay to far north to play the norse side Vinterlegionen.
Speaking of the Vinterlegionen, they played against the human team Getingarna and scored a 0-1 win. Most notably the Vinterlegionen also managed to injure the Getingarna ogre Mar Skin-Tearer so seriously that he (or is he or she, nobody knows because nobody dares to ask him/her) that he'll miss the Getingarna week 7 match. In the standings the Vinterlegionen hold the 9th place but are tied in points with the 10th place White Fire. Vinterlegionen won't play any of their closest rivals so they'll have to earn the play-off spot hard way. Getingarna are currently at the 7th place with 7 points. They have an important matchup this week as they go against White Fire. A win from this week could give the human side a more secure playoff berth.
All in the all the playoff race is still going strong and week 6 proved to the most violent week of NUL this season. 4 deaths and a number of serious injuries remind all of us why we should love this game and this league! Remember to pick up your copy of the Blood Bowl Gazette also next week so that you get the latest news from week 7 of NUL!
Standings after week 6:
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Two thumbs up on the writeup as usual, J!
...not looking forward to meeting those undefeatable Khemri :o
-Barm