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Title: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: J-Reedy on June 03, 2013, 03:07:42 PM

Match Day 5 will be opened once all the matches from Match Day 4 are played.
...and it's open. GAME ON!
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: Mr B on June 30, 2013, 08:28:10 PM
Get your schedule for MD5 here  :P
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: J-Reedy on July 01, 2013, 05:15:17 AM
All-righty Kvasi, it's time for the witches versus wenches. Here are my OK starting times for the week (CEST/GMT+2):
- Tuesday 17-20
- Wednesday 17-21
- Friday 19-22
- Saturday 19-
- Sunday 18-20 (day times would also be OK for either Saturday or Sunday but I'm not yet sure which day that'll be b'cause I havet yet agreed which day I'll be taking my godson to movies)

Let me know if any of these suits you, sir!
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: equilibri on July 01, 2013, 07:29:55 AM
Hakos, it's time for u to crush my elves! :D

This week I can play around 18:00 tuesday, wednesday and thursday, so pick a time and day!
The weekend is also free, if that suits you better.
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: tags on July 01, 2013, 09:14:23 AM
Quote from: J-Reedy on July 01, 2013, 05:15:17 AM
All-righty Kvasi, it's time for the witches versus wenches. Here are my OK starting times for the week (CEST/GMT+2):
- Tuesday 17-20
- Wednesday 17-21
- Friday 19-22
- Saturday 19-
- Sunday 18-20 (day times would also be OK for either Saturday or Sunday but I'm not yet sure which day that'll be b'cause I havet yet agreed which day I'll be taking my godson to movies)

Let me know if any of these suits you, sir!

Wednesday at 1900 would be great for me :)
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: J-Reedy on July 01, 2013, 09:32:36 AM
Quote from: kvasilad on July 01, 2013, 09:14:23 AM
Wednesday at 1900 would be great for me :)

That's great, I think the chainsaws I ordered for my team should arrive early Wednesday, so see you on Wednesday evening!
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: Barmution on July 01, 2013, 09:59:30 AM
Hey joohoono, when do you want the experiments to start?

I'm bascially available to start any weekday except Tuesday this week from 20.00 to 21.00 GMT+2/CEST and 11.00 to 13.00 and 21.00 on Sunday. Which time fits you best?

Cheers!
-Barm

Edit: Tuesday is now out.
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: hakos on July 01, 2013, 05:29:34 PM
Quote from: equilibri on July 01, 2013, 07:29:55 AM
Hakos, it's time for u to crush my elves! :D

This week I can play around 18:00 tuesday, wednesday and thursday, so pick a time and day!
The weekend is also free, if that suits you better.

Yeah, I do have some hopes of not getting as many KO's and Injuries against me in this match as in the last :)

Winning, thats another thing, I seem to have problems with elves

Thursday at 19 or the weekend would be fine for me

/Hakos
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: johoohno on July 01, 2013, 10:26:27 PM
Quote from: Barmution on July 01, 2013, 09:59:30 AM
Hey joohoono, when do you want the experiments to start?

I'm bascially available to start any weekday except Tuesday this week from 20.00 to 21.00 GMT+2/CEST and 11.00 to 13.00 and 21.00 on Sunday. Which time fits you best?

Cheers!
-Barm

Edit: Tuesday is now out.

I'm pretty flexible this week too! What about Wednesday at 20:00 ish?
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: Barmution on July 01, 2013, 10:45:24 PM
Quote from: johoohno on July 01, 2013, 10:26:27 PM

I'm pretty flexible this week too! What about Wednesday at 20:00 ish?
Darn, just penciled in another match at that time. How about Thursday at 20.30?
-Barm
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: johoohno on July 02, 2013, 12:04:12 AM
Quote from: Barmution on July 01, 2013, 10:45:24 PM
Quote from: johoohno on July 01, 2013, 10:26:27 PM

I'm pretty flexible this week too! What about Wednesday at 20:00 ish?
Darn, just penciled in another match at that time. How about Thursday at 20.30?
-Barm

Sure, we'll try Thursday 20:30
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: J-Reedy on July 02, 2013, 08:44:43 AM
MASSIVE BRAWL AT A FACTORY
Local constabulary were alerted early this morning to put an end to a massive brawl that had broken out at the Killawood chainsaw factory. Official reports reveal that the brawl was between large number of factory employees, all male humans. It seems that Killawood had received a quite large an order of chainsaws that were to be delivered to an unnamed amazon Blood Bowl team. The team had also requested that Killawood would send an instrustror to give personal lessons to the team's players on the use of the chainsaws. The instructor would've also been required to stay overnight with the team. The fight started when the foreman (he was a goblin if our readers wonder why the foreman didn't take the responsibility himself) had asked if any of the employees would like to volunteer to the said duty and all the employees volunteered and couldn't then agree who would get the assignment. Nearby hospital reports that they took in 14 men with chansaw cuts and missing limbs and 37 were treated due to smaller injuries.

Right after the incident Killawood CEO announced that the unfortunate event would be fully investigated and meanwhile he would personally take care of the delivery that is believed to have caused the ruckus. Later his wife reported that the CEO had been taken to hospital after suffering some kind of physical discomfort and so would not be able make the delivery. The fate of the instructor position is undetermined at this point but Killawood factories have stated that delivery will be made on schedule.

Killawood, the most trusted brand with woodchuckers and goblin Blood Bowl teams, has made top of a line chainsaws over three decades.
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: Barmution on July 02, 2013, 09:09:56 AM
Quote from: johoohno on July 02, 2013, 12:04:12 AM
Sure, we'll try Thursday 20:30
Thanks, sorry for the hassle!
-Barm
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: johoohno on July 02, 2013, 03:30:01 PM
Quote from: Barmution on July 02, 2013, 09:09:56 AM
Quote from: johoohno on July 02, 2013, 12:04:12 AM
Sure, we'll try Thursday 20:30
Thanks, sorry for the hassle!
-Barm

No worries gives me more time to ponder the inducements :)
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: J-Reedy on July 03, 2013, 04:59:44 AM
MYSTERIOUS ACT OF HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND VANDALISM
Our loyal readers might remember that we reported on the brawl at Killawood chainsaw factory yesterday. Today this strange news stories continues with a special report from our investigative reporter Snootch Machammon. Snootch decided to follow the brawl-inducing chainsaw delivery from Killawood factories to the still unnamed amazon team of Blood Bowlers. According to Snootch the delivery went trouble-free at first, although the delivery was stopped six times by robbers. However, this time all the would-be robbers were not interested in the cargo, instead they insisted on finding out who was the instructor-to-be of lustrious amazon players. After the identity of this person was revealed, the "robber" would proceed to knock him out and take his place on the cart.

The delivery proceeded without troubles - if the short time delays in replacement of the chainsaw instructor are not counted - until the seventh robbery. This time the robbers had - so it seemed - felled a tree in the middle of the road forcing the cart to stop. After a brief lull the cart was attacked by a group of most unusual robbers. Your typical highway robber tends to be on the stocky-side, bearded, very muscular, lacking on the knowledge of recent advancements made in care of personal hygiene and they tend to wear masks on their faces to hide their identity. But these robbers, there seemed to be eight of them, were slender, shaven and well groomed. Masks were used and curiously Snootch noted that great care had been taken in assuring that the masks covered the ears of the robbers fully. Robbers also untypically descended onto the cart from the nearby trees. As to their muscularity, they were fast but seemed to lack any hitting power and they didn't carry weapons - even though they would occasionally fling squirrels at their victims. Instead the robbers seemed to rely on hit-and-run tactics, attacking their victims with lighting fast but light strikes and then cartwheeling or jumping acrobatically away before the victim had a chance to do anything. However, after the first shock of this acrobatic robbery attempt the Killawood cargo crew enforced with the instructor/robber group that had grown bigger and stronger with every previous "robbery" started to gain the upper hand. That is until the "felled" tree stood up before the cart and started swinging away with inhuman force. At this point our reporter Snootch was also knocked out. When he woke he found that all of the cargo crew unharmed but unconscious. Robbers were nowhere to be seen. Mysteriously they had not taken any of the valuable cargo they had worked so hard to get hold of. Instead they had left all of the chainsaws behind after braking them into small pieces. Killawood officials have confirmed that all of the cargo was left beyond repair and the requested delivery can't be made on time.

This mysterious affair is investigated by local highway constabulary. Any information about group of suspicious group of eight tall strangers who may be accompanied by an extremely tall walking tree is appreciated.
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: Barmution on July 03, 2013, 09:51:47 AM
...and so the plot thickens!

Great read, JR!
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: equilibri on July 03, 2013, 01:37:26 PM
Quote from: hakos on July 01, 2013, 05:29:34 PM
Quote from: equilibri on July 01, 2013, 07:29:55 AM
Hakos, it's time for u to crush my elves! :D

This week I can play around 18:00 tuesday, wednesday and thursday, so pick a time and day!
The weekend is also free, if that suits you better.

Yeah, I do have some hopes of not getting as many KO's and Injuries against me in this match as in the last :)

Winning, thats another thing, I seem to have problems with elves

Thursday at 19 or the weekend would be fine for me

/Hakos

Sorry bout my late reply, but something came up thursday, so saturday looks better to me.
What time do you think is best?

//Equilibri
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: Lars on July 03, 2013, 04:04:03 PM
Really nice reports there JR :) hope you will survive without the tools.

/Lars
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: hakos on July 03, 2013, 05:01:09 PM
Quote from: equilibri on July 03, 2013, 01:37:26 PM
Quote from: hakos on July 01, 2013, 05:29:34 PM
Quote from: equilibri on July 01, 2013, 07:29:55 AM
Hakos, it's time for u to crush my elves! :D

This week I can play around 18:00 tuesday, wednesday and thursday, so pick a time and day!
The weekend is also free, if that suits you better.

Yeah, I do have some hopes of not getting as many KO's and Injuries against me in this match as in the last :)

Winning, thats another thing, I seem to have problems with elves

Thursday at 19 or the weekend would be fine for me

/Hakos

Sorry bout my late reply, but something came up thursday, so saturday looks better to me.
What time do you think is best?

//Equilibri

I have become busy on parts of both saturday and sunday

Early saturday, starting 9 or 10, is ok, or late saturday, starting 18 or later

/H
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: tags on July 03, 2013, 06:57:10 PM
haha, great pre-report-write-up there J :D

Let's see if those mysterious robbers show up again.
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: tags on July 03, 2013, 08:52:38 PM
Wow! I don't think I've ever been quite so happy with a drawn game. To plunge head-first into the oldest of sports analysis clichés: that was a bit of a chess match.

It really came down to the wire at 1-1, but it could have been both 2-1 and 1-2, depending on precariously few dice. While I was one GFI away from a single turn TD in turn 8, J-man just needed a lucky bounce/pick-up in turn 16 to get the second TD.

It was an unusually controlled match for the woodies, with less of the insane stunts and more column defence with methodical blocking.

Thanks for the game! That was a really fun one :)


Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: J-Reedy on July 04, 2013, 06:09:50 AM
Quote from: kvasilad on July 03, 2013, 08:52:38 PM
Thanks for the game! That was a really fun one :)

Yep, this really was a nail-biter of a game. I received first, ball got hick-kicked to my st4 catcher and then it was slow advance through Kvasi's really excellent column defence. Elfs strip balled the ball out on turn 6 with an understrenght blitz resulting in push back but my linegal recovered the ball and I managed to score at final turn by dodging into tackle zone of a wardancer who had been pushed back into TD zone. Then at the kick-off Kvasi put up a pushback show at the line of scrimmage, getting three pushing backs that moved his +move wardancer to scoring distance. Pick-up, handoff, pass, catch, leap, dodge and all that was between the wardancer and TD were two gfis. It's actually shame that the first one failed, it would've been one of the nicest if not THE nicest TDs of the season.

At second half I managed to delay the woodies for a turn or two before wardancer did her thing again, leaping and dodging through my column defence and scoring on turn 4. I had 5 turns to score, so the +st catcher got the ball again and zoomed into Animal territory. Kvasi once again got the ball with an understrength blitz, this time there even wasn't need for strip ball as my catcher fell down. My linegal got the ball once again and march proceeded into scoring distance where the linegal was brought down by a wardancer. Final turn, ball on the ground next to wardancer. I push-back the dancer with 3-die block, dancer side steps, ball bounces and situation remains the same. So now I need my st catcher to blitz down the dancer to open up a route to goal, pick-up the ball next to one tackle zone, dodge and gfi for the TD. I get a 3-die on the dancer but have to use reroll to get the dancer down so the resulting ball pick-up fails and it's end game.

As Kvasilad said, this could've been anything from 1-2 to 2-1 if some key rolls had gone other way around. Kvasi played really, really, really nice d-fence and his dancers are just too much to handle on offence.
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: equilibri on July 04, 2013, 07:45:49 AM
Quote from: hakos on July 03, 2013, 05:01:09 PM
Quote from: equilibri on July 03, 2013, 01:37:26 PM
Quote from: hakos on July 01, 2013, 05:29:34 PM
Quote from: equilibri on July 01, 2013, 07:29:55 AM
Hakos, it's time for u to crush my elves! :D

This week I can play around 18:00 tuesday, wednesday and thursday, so pick a time and day!
The weekend is also free, if that suits you better.

Yeah, I do have some hopes of not getting as many KO's and Injuries against me in this match as in the last :)

Winning, thats another thing, I seem to have problems with elves

Thursday at 19 or the weekend would be fine for me

/Hakos

Sorry bout my late reply, but something came up thursday, so saturday looks better to me.
What time do you think is best?

//Equilibri

I have become busy on parts of both saturday and sunday

Early saturday, starting 9 or 10, is ok, or late saturday, starting 18 or later

/H

Late saturday sounds great! I don't have any other plans.

Shall we say 19:00?
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: hakos on July 04, 2013, 06:06:00 PM
Quote

Late saturday sounds great! I don't have any other plans.

Shall we say 19:00?

Sounds excellent

/H
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: Barmution on July 04, 2013, 10:29:21 PM
Another narrow victory for the Fair:


Johoonoo almost lost Morg to a (not so) cunning trap in my turn 2, but my Mino refused to push him the last square. Afterwards there was a massive tangle up of my best players that eventually saw Radioaktiv steal the ball and score (mostly due to the Mino being seriously useless for 3 consecutive turns and a snake eyed BT dodge), but not until I had managed to remove Morg through means of breaking the bastard's leg (sooner or later he's got to understand that he's not welcome...) and a couple of other players were off Badly Hurt as well. At the start of the second half the Fair set out strongly, managing to hurt off another 2-headed gobbo who had made it through the defensive line. Suddenly, Johoonoo's luck turned on him drastically and he started losing players to failed dodges willy nilly and one of these allowed me a shot on the ball carrier which worked out. After some more smacking around the Underworlders the Fair scored in turn 12 and amazingly not a single one of J's KO'd players returned, leaving him with a mere 5 to receive the ball with. This allowed my dorfs to pressure the 2 Throwers left in the back field with my Bull Centaurs and score in turn 15. J was left a turn to do a 1ttd, the pick-up and hand-off to the goblin succeeded and the Troll made his move to pick up and toss the little bugger but promptly plunged him to the ground and BH'ed him off the field and that's all she wrote.

Interesting match, especially casualty wise as my dorfs "only" did 50% of the casualties. Failed dodges, the crowd and the frustrated Troll did the other half. Thanks for the match, Johoonoo! Btw, I think you should get yourself an apothecary, your guys seem a bit fragile.

Cheers!
-Barm
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: equilibri on July 05, 2013, 07:32:47 AM
Quote from: hakos on July 04, 2013, 06:06:00 PM
Quote

Late saturday sounds great! I don't have any other plans.

Shall we say 19:00?

Sounds excellent

/H

See u tomorrow 19:00! Be nice... :D
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: hakos on July 05, 2013, 07:49:30 PM
Quote from: equilibri on July 05, 2013, 07:32:47 AM
Quote from: hakos on July 04, 2013, 06:06:00 PM
Quote

Late saturday sounds great! I don't have any other plans.

Shall we say 19:00?

Sounds excellent

/H

See u tomorrow 19:00! Be nice... :D


I have a bad feeling about this match... :o
Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: hakos on July 06, 2013, 09:01:56 PM
Pyrrhus Victory, thats the only way I can describe this match.



When it comes to Dices it were quite even. The elves had better 1D and 2D statistics but I had the clear advantage in block Dices. This was seen clearly in the first half there a couple of failed blocks left the field open for me to knock the ball loose and score 1-0.

In general the Bounces were really going my way in the first half. In turn 8 I could really capitalize on both that and blocking advantage. Some of my few successfull 1D saw me knocking loose the ball, my ghoul could hand it over to the wolf, who ran a whooping 9 Squares to score 2-0 as the absolute last thing happening in the first half.

Second half, my turn to receive, he got a Blitz that made me really nervous since he could position two players where the ball landed. However, my good luck with Bounces continued and I could get the ball loose and score 3-0 in T12.

5 turns left for the elves to at least even the numbers. They started off great by removing my best wolf, Ni Hao, permanently from the match, and since he failed the regeneration roll he got a broken neck and has done his part in the team. :( This also caused a big hole in my line and the elves run within TD distance with 3 turns to go. But now Nuffle laughed at us both, all the remaining turns ended very quickly thanks to a lot of skulls on both sides, and no RR's left. Equilibri got a final chance in T16 to score, all he needed was a pick-up, but he failed. End result, 3-0.

/Hakos

Title: Re: Match Day 5 - OPEN
Post by: Mr B on July 07, 2013, 03:03:18 PM
That was a fast Md... Cya in Md 6