Aaaaand we're off to the most legendariest bb2 season so far! Woo!
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These are the contestants:
Beer Buddies United (Norse) - Equilibri
Brothers in Death (Undead) - Hakos
Capes Are Cool (Vampires) - J-Reedy
Crooked Crocs (Lizardmen) - Lars
Kossar Catchers (Kislev) - Napoleon
Middle Earth Miners (Dwarf) - Gnaarkill
The Teamsters (Elven Union) - Kvasilad
Wonderworlders (Underworld) - Barmution
Hello, Gnaarkill. Here are the times available for me: (in CET)
-Sunday 14:00-18:30
-Monday any time after 16:00
-I can't do Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday
-Friday any time after 16:00
-Saturday and Sunday 14:00-18:30
Please tell me if any of these times suit you. :)
Hey Lars, weekday evenings would be ideal for me.
Monday from 21
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from about 18
Do any of those work for you?
Yay, a new season is started
And it is dead versus dead, (un)dead fun
J-Reedy: I can play most times tomorrow sunday if we manage to agree on a time quickly. Otherwise, next week it should be possible to start sometime between 18-20 on most evenings except thursday.
/hakos
Quote from: hakos on November 04, 2017, 07:41:38 PM
J-Reedy: I can play most times tomorrow sunday if we manage to agree on a time quickly. Otherwise, next week it should be possible to start sometime between 18-20 on most evenings except thursday.
Ah, two stylishly caped gentlemen shall meet two muscular gents fully wrapped in rags. With some bystanders crowding both sides. So, we'll be seeing if it's a story of rags to riches or story of caped crusaders' succesful journey.
I'll be spending most of Sunday at my grandma's, it's her birthday, so let's make it next week. Monday at 19 or Wednesdey 18-20 would be ideal for me. Let me know which one suits you better, sir Hakos.
Quote from: J-Reedy on November 04, 2017, 09:58:34 PM
Quote from: hakos on November 04, 2017, 07:41:38 PM
J-Reedy: I can play most times tomorrow sunday if we manage to agree on a time quickly. Otherwise, next week it should be possible to start sometime between 18-20 on most evenings except thursday.
Ah, two stylishly caped gentlemen shall meet two muscular gents fully wrapped in rags. With some bystanders crowding both sides. So, we'll be seeing if it's a story of rags to riches or story of caped crusaders' succesful journey.
I'll be spending most of Sunday at my grandma's, it's her birthday, so let's make it next week. Monday at 19 or Wednesdey 18-20 would be ideal for me. Let me know which one suits you better, sir Hakos.
Both would work, but I think I prefer wednesday before monday. Let's aim for wednesday at 19, shall we?
BR/ Hakos
Quote from: hakos on November 05, 2017, 07:53:19 AM
Let's aim for wednesday at 19, shall we?
That we shall do, see you on Wednesday!
Quote from: kvasilad on November 04, 2017, 02:09:43 PM
Hey Lars, weekday evenings would be ideal for me.
Monday from 21
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from about 18
Do any of those work for you?
Let's go Monday 21
/Lars
It's on!
Quote from: NapoleonBlown-apart on November 04, 2017, 01:00:29 PM
Hello, Gnaarkill. Here are the times available for me: (in CET)
-Sunday 14:00-18:30
-Monday any time after 16:00
-I can't do Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday
-Friday any time after 16:00
-Saturday and Sunday 14:00-18:30
Please tell me if any of these times suit you. :)
Yo yo Napo!
How about friday @20.00?
/Gnaar
That works for me. See you on Friday. :)
Oh no, says opponent disconnected here, on a 6 minute timer to reconnect. Hurry if you read this!
Quote from: kvasilad on November 06, 2017, 09:57:38 PM
Oh no, says opponent disconnected here, on a 6 minute timer to reconnect. Hurry if you read this!
Aaand I think we have the first successful reconnect of NUL! So great that it works now :)
We're gathered here today to commemorate the loss of one of our dear comrades, Jackie Presser.
He was ever vigilant in the fight for equal wages, and y'know, we're sure it's all just a rumour that he turned on ol' Jimmy and snitched to the feds, eh? Such a shame about his "accident", him tripping over his own shoe laces and, you know, dying and all that, yeah? You know, we'll miss ya Jackie. Shame about those shoe laces, but it's damn slippery in the rain, y'know, whatchagonnado eh?
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Thanks for the game Lars, it was an exciting one, with odd twists and turns and perhaps decided by Nuffle in the end. Constant downpour was definitely affecting the play. And yeah, Jackie died from a failed 2+ dodge in turn 2 :D
Stats page is up: http://norscaleague.com/index.php?topic=643.msg10421 (http://norscaleague.com/index.php?topic=643.msg10421)
Hey Equi!
Bit of a busy week but I should be able to play tonight (Tuesday) from 1900-2100, Sat (1900-2200) and Sun (1100-1300 & 2000-2100). Any of those suit you?
Cheers,
Barm
Quote from: Barmution on November 07, 2017, 09:26:30 AM
Hey Equi!
Bit of a busy week but I should be able to play tonight (Tuesday) from 1900-2100, Sat (1900-2200) and Sun (1100-1300 & 2000-2100). Any of those suit you?
Cheers,
Barm
If you see this in time I can play tonight, so lets say 19:00!
Otherwise saturday works fine at 19:00 to!
See u on the field.
//Eq
Hey Equi, sorry I didn't see this before. I'll hang around in BB2 for a bit from now if you see this. Otherwise I'll see you 1900 on Sat.
Cheers,
Barm
See you on Sat, Equi! :)
Quote from: Barmution on November 07, 2017, 09:18:06 PM
See you on Sat, Equi! :)
Yeah, I fell asleep yesterday, so saturday sounds fine! :D
See u then.
//Eq
Hi j-reedy
I Kinda forgot about our game today, can we start at 20 instead?
Quote from: hakos on November 08, 2017, 06:52:20 PM
Hi j-reedy
I Kinda forgot about our game today, can we start at 20 instead?
Sure, no problem. See you in an hour!
Just two words: cape advantage
Followed by thousand words:
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Battle Report, Day 1
Sir,
We have engaged the enemy. They dared to attack our home base. We defended with proper lines and our right flank quickly managed to knock out an enemy general out on a lonely scouting trip. We got hold of the enemy plans from the fallen general and could launch a massive counter attack. We stole their treasure chest and punched a hole in their line. Soon after we achieved our target. Time for regrouping
The enemy tried another attack but our cavalry could sneak in behind their lines and sack their supply. Once again we achieved our target.
At half time of the battle we outnumbered the enemy greatly and could launch our own attack. We quickly achieved our target.
Despite low enemy morale the few remains of their army gathered for a final attack against our fully reinforced forces. It was in wain. Our slow but heavy hitting troops surrounded their infantery. With their infantery pinned down it was an easy task for our cavalry to once again surround the enemy headquarter. By knocking out their generals personal guard and capturing him we could capture their flag and the day belonged to us.
Victory!
Signed, General Robert E. Lee
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Thanks for the game J-Reedy. You got a serious nuffling when your vampire tripped and knocked himself out Before my first turn. And I got really lucky with my ghouls sneaking in and stealing the ball twice. Nothing you could do today. Hope you have better luck in your next game.
/hakos
Holy crap, any permanent injuries there?
Nothing serious
Just one zombie with -AV and one thrall with niggling injury
Not worth mentioning really
But my Wight got +ST, that could be worth mentioning :)
/hakos
EDIT: by the way, J-Reedy, your picture does not show up
The Miners secures a win in season opener against the Catchers. 1-0 and the greedy quest for gold continues ;D
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The Russkies had some real bad luck in the opening turns but fought well. They managed to stop the dwarven advancement through clever play in the second to last turn before half time, though the Miners managed to pick the ball up again and had a somewhat comfortable run into to the TD zone.
Second half the Miners had to start without their gasoline driven murder machine, luckily for the dwarves there were two Catchers in the "out" box, one injury and one KO.
The Catchers had a nice drive and played a solid running game to confuse the dwarven defense. But, as always, greed can penetrate even the strongest of men and the Cossacks decided to stall their drive. What was clearly going to be a draw match instead resulted in a win for the Middle Earth Miners after a tough stop from the Dwarves.
Not a very deserved win, but a win nevertheless. A draw would have been more accurate.
/Gnaarkill
I watched this match live. Have to say the new interface for watching is better than the old one.
I really felt for Napoleon in the first half, his luck was really bad. Impressive that it did not end worse than it did for the first half.
Then in the second half I got to see a bit of what Kislev can do. I'm duly impressed. I think this team can be very dangerous when it starts to skill up.
/hakos
It was a good match. It was stupid of me not to score at the end, but Gnaarkill played well, and probably deserved more armour breaks from all of the blocks he was making.
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Newsflash: Underworld already better than Brettonians ever were. Equi got unlucky w an early av break on an Ulf and I got away w some shenanigans.
GG and better luck further on, E.
You really get to know thy master when you serve him for a millennium. And you get to anticipate all the little quirks he gets when he gets excited about something. Like that time when he saw a jack-in-the-box. I still pity all the parents of Old World who named their sons Jack. But must admit that that century was really profitable for box makers. But I must admit, this latest fad of his really surprised me. Capes and Blood Bowl. Well, not the Blood Bowl part, he dabbled with that when the league was still young, though then he played himself. Scored four touchdowns in a single game once when playing for Polk High Fool Fangers. But those capes... Don't know where he picked that up. But what I do know he is sending me after every cape wielding celebrity he can think of to get them to play for him. All of them refuse of course, so my master had only two caped players "recruited" for our first match. You see, he really doesn't like to go out much, so it takes a really special cape wielder to get himself to do the recruiting. He is of course much more to the point with recruiting than I am... Well, our first Blood Bowl match with my master managing the game through some unfortunate puppet of a coach was against some team undead who seemed strangely organized for a corpse team, almost like they were ex-military or something.
Well, it started out rotten. You see, the ref was a rotter and sun was shiny, so there was smell of rot everywhere. Then my master spotted the two Wights that opponent had on the field. That drove him mad. If it had not been so sunny, I reckon he would've jumped onto field himself. I swear that was all he could talk about for days. "Renfeld! Did you see those capes they wore! How could they spoil such fine capes by wearing them out and not patching holes!" Yeah. Don't know what it is with him and the capes. And then things got worse as one of our caped ones, the singer with that fancy white cape my master took liking to, tried to blitz a ghoulish figure standing next to one of the Wights. Well, our guy, Presley is his name if I recall correctly, went down hard, knocked himself out real good. He was all shook up. That kind of left us exposed, especially when one "those supporting fools not worthy to wear a cape" as my master calls them, got hurt bad and was carried off. We were in middle of the field with the ball and undead all around us. Master commanded one of our "bastardly blood sacks" to run for goal and our second caped one, a rich orphan who much to his infortune likes capes also as much as my master, to toss the ball to that "ugly peon trying to make it look like he is running". Well, that didn't go too well. That Wayne kid really disappointed with his throwing skills, as the ball landed next to him. We held on for a bit longer but then to no avail, there were simply too many of the opponent and too few of us on the field. Master of course is insistent that it was due to them having two players with capes on the field against our one.
So, we were down 1-0. And then things got worse. That Presley kid got back onto field, but he didn't stay there long. Another blitz and down he went again. This time for good, hurt his chest or something, was muttering something about heartbreak hot hell or something like that when they carried him off. And then our "wretched never-do-good excuses for player padding fillings" also started going down and out. I think we were playing 3 against 10 at some point. 2-0. 3-0. 4-0. Nothing went our way. Master was furious after the game. I was sure that I and all of the team was done for when he stormed into the locker rooms. Never get used to that, him appearing out of storm clouds oozing from holes in the door. But that doctor saved us. I guess it's kind of poetic, our loss putting our lives in danger but also saving them. You see, there was so much patching up of those "meat sacks not even worthy of draining" to do that our regular apothecary couldn't handle the load. So I had to call in a doctor to help him. And by god, that was a lucky call. I just picked the doctor by his name, Strange, such a fitting name for the job he was to do. He appeared just as master was about to his worst. The moment the master saw his cape, I knew we were saved. He simply had to have that red wonder. So, all good in the end. Still living and we have a new caped one in our team. From a doctor to a Blood Bowler in a single bite, how Strange.