Travellers second League starts next week ...

Post by **DoubleSkulls** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 8:36 am

Guard is the most generally useful skill - and I tend to give it to all my blitzers first.

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 8:43 am

Guard is nice, but in this environment

two Humans, one Skaven, one Dwarfs and one Norse.

i'd prefer tackle on 2 of the Blitzers first.

traveller · Post by **traveller** » Fri May 14, 2004 9:09 pm

well, i played my third league game yesterday... against a strange dwarfen team. No Slayers !

Just longbeards and 4 runners.

It s a special " Clanlike " dwarfen team. As i knew, he can field at the end 6 runners ! When he can afford as many

The opponent coach started with just 10 dwarfs against my full team.

First half:
I recieved... 1th turn one of his Longbeads went KO. But damm thickskull saved him from leaving the pitch. Well, i got him 2th turn

KO !
At turn 4 my blitzer got a great chance to score but he after rerolling the missed catch roll with another 1, he lost the ball. But after getting back the ball, another blitzer scored at turn 6. 1:0 for the orcs.
At turn 8 ...quite angry about loosing the ball... my blitzer killed one of the dwarven runners.

Luckly for the dwarfs, the apothecary of the dwarfen team wasnt drunk.

Second half:
Turn 1 one of my Lineorc KO ! Turn 3 one of my blitzer was badly hurt, ... missing the next game ? No way! Doc " Just a fleshwound" fixed this injury! And exactly this blitzer run into the endzone at turn 6 and my gobbo, picking up the ball before, run over and ... not being selfish... handed the ball the waiting blitzer. 2:0 for the orcs.

A final attempt of the dwarfs to score a TD at turn 7 was fend off by my gobbo and thrower , which blitzed the poor lonely runner.

Well, a fun game, a bit uncommon, but a good game ... for me at last. I got 90.000 coins and a FF of 9 now

I have to think about buying my fourth blitzer or fourth BO ? Or saving for a troll to get early chances getting him SPPs ? No skill this time.

Traveller

traveller · Post by **traveller** » Wed May 19, 2004 9:55 am

urgh, an update. Yesterday i went into my local shop and did some spywork

The next team i have to play against is a very, very bad Norse team

. I played this team last league two times, too. One win and one loss. But i just checked his TR of 133 against my 119... and he got a lot of skills, 13 players including a blocking Mino!

Last game this norse team did 3 CASs against a normal good playing Human team

Right now i got a team of 3 BO, 3 Blitzers, 1 gobbo, 3 LO and a thrower. Hm, i was thinking about buying a forth blitzer before. Now i´m thinking to buy a troll, to field also a nice BigGuy and give this player some time to get SPPs. And the gobbo likes to fly anyway...

Traveller

traveller · Post by **traveller** » Wed May 26, 2004 5:09 pm

hehoo, game #4 is over.... against this norse team.

I asked for a troll and i got one... a quite sleepy one

Ok, as my team was a bit weaker, so i got one handicap roll. And, after knowing, all those norse have " block skill" ... even the mino... i trained my troll well until even he know to " Block"

1.Half:
My team recieved... well, turn 3 my thrower KO, lost his ball... turn 4, after spending all my rerolls already

... 1:0 for the norse.

Before our teams could enter the pitch again, for 3 turns the fans played a little " riot ".

As my thrower stayed in the dugout,... what else... my little gobbo ... very shy... entered the pitch. There was a outcry from the Norse and they started chanting songs like: " dumbididum, there was a little gobbo, but he is no more... "

Turn 7: A Line norse and a Lineorc KO. Turn 8 nothing happend.
Most of the time of the first half my troll kept standing or laying around... 3 turn he even didnt want to get up... do i said this before, that i dont like " ones "

here a typical pict of the 1. Half:
http://www.ruediger-rickassel.de/picts/ ... iga04a.jpg

2.Half:
The norse thrower, still with wet hand, didnt pick up the ball !
http://www.ruediger-rickassel.de/picts/ ... iga04b.jpg
And so, at turn 2, my blitzer tried his luck... one go for it "1", reroll, and yes, what else... a skull for the Blitz !

http://www.ruediger-rickassel.de/picts/ ... iga04c.jpg
well, at turn 3 the ball was passed, but not catched

Someone spot the little one ?

http://www.ruediger-rickassel.de/picts/ ... iga04d.jpg
At turn 4 my lineork got the ball, a short run, a quick snap to the gobbo , standing just perfect... 1:1

http://www.ruediger-rickassel.de/picts/ ... iga04e.jpg

Turn 5, the attack of the norse ... again a nice throw, but the catcher missed this catch...

http://www.ruediger-rickassel.de/picts/ ... iga04f.jpg
Turn 7, after "laying down" the catcher with my BO, one of my blitzer got the ball aaaaand ... yes, a longbomb, back to the blitzer, which waited in the backfield of the Norse. Ok, not accurate, but still good enough!
Turn 8, the Norseblitzer tried to get away from my Troll, yes, but he just tried

... and without a reroll... my troll kick his legs away. KO !
And so, at Turn 8, my blitzer picked up the ball and, tatataaaa, 2:1 for green !
http://www.ruediger-rickassel.de/picts/ ... iga04g.jpg

Quite a fun game for both coachs, first half was his lucky half, mine the second one ... we both used all of our rerolls very fast, we both used our apos to save players from serious hurts and still 2 cas each

One of my BOs will get a skill ... "Block", i think, and one of my Blitzers will get "tackle". N o injuries or missing next game players , FF up to 10 ... good enough!

3-0-1

Next game against some Skavens...

Traveller

Khaine · Post by **Khaine** » Wed May 26, 2004 5:44 pm

traveller wrote:
That's a difficult choice - beating rats generally requires getting men up or lucky.
LUCKY.... this word i dont knew any longer after the last game ! In one game two times a double six as kick off event...
So i need some or at last one more player for the skaven !

Here another " in game pict " ... after a missed catch! Those shadowforge girls are real nice minis. I have to order a team, too.
http://www.ruediger-rickassel.de/picts/ ... iga01c.jpg

Traveller

After that game against the girlies you could at least console yourself in the fact that your team is 10000000 times better looking and well painted

. I know it's not much but it's something.

Skummy · Post by **Skummy** » Thu May 27, 2004 4:09 pm

Congratulations, Trav! Sounds like a well fought game. Your skill choices are pretty good for Skaven, though I'd suggest that you might want to think about Mighty Blow on the Black Orc.

As a long time Skaven coach, nothing scares me more than Mighty Blow. If the BO got his skill from an MVP and is sitting at 9 or more SPP's, then certainly go with MB. He'll get block pretty quickly after that.

traveller · Post by **traveller** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 12:54 pm

Well, last week, before i left to Rimini, i played the 5th game. As i dont recall all the details, here a short report:

Against a Human Team with out a BigGuy... he is second place ( behind me on place 1

) in our division of 6 coaches. This team scored quite a lot of TDs. So i was expecting some pass and catch game.

First half:

I was in for quite a surprise at my turn 3 ! Turn 2 one of his catchers got the ball and run into my half, just 6 squares away from my TD zone. Without any protection of his team, well in reach of at last 3 of my players, which didnt had to dodge to blitz him!

And just when i moved my turnmarker for my turn 2, he told me, my turn is over

DAMM HOUSE RULE ! For 50.000 , which you have to pay before the game to the organisers, you can bribe the ref once a game to finish the turn of the opponent before he even move one of his players! Thats the reason, he moved his catcher into the open without fear and why he dont use a ogre as i knew now, he spent the money for the same thing the game before, too !

I tried, as coach, to argue ... but no 6. TD ! 0:1. Argh !
Turn 5 one of my blitzer did his TD: 1:1

Second half:
we both got a cas , we both knocked out a few players... i nearly kicked his both catchers in one turn into the fans

.... he tried a score turn 7, i blitzed him... nothing really happend in second half.

As we both got high FFs a lot of fans watched the game and we both got 80k.

100.000 on savings.... So, maybe a fourth blitzer or BO ?
One of my blitzer got a trait. Hm , what to do ? He got Block and Guard already. For my Troll ... "Leader", to save me some Turnovers ? But I would prefer " dodge "... never got a blitzer with this skill!

Traveller

kithor2002 · Post by **kithor2002** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:09 pm

That's a really nasty house rule

Skummy · Post by **Skummy** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 9:37 pm

Stand Firm and Guard together are pretty tasty, but Dodge would make him a really good scorer. Judging by that houserule, scoring is more important in your league...

DanielLaw · Post by **DanielLaw** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 1:01 am

Not a bad result for a top of the table clash!

Plenty of income and no major injuries...

For the blitzer, Stand Firm and Dodge are both great choices. Try Dodge if you've never had one with it. Alternatively if you want to be really flash you could try Side Step - you can move his Guard assist whereever you want!

Good luck next game.

gaijin

traveller · Post by **traveller** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 2:04 pm

Ok, game# 6 is over.

My orcs played against a Skaven team including ratogre and 4 runners, ... but just 1 RR

First half:
His team got a Handicap roll... mighty blow on a player of his choice.
Turn 2 first runner KO

Turn 3 the first Rat-Thrower went into the fans... badly hurd, missing this game, but Rat Apo healed him. Also a Stormvermin KO.

Turn 4 2 cas for me ... Line rat and a second Rat Thrower missing this game !

Turn 5 1:0 for the Green

... and the Ref discovered the secret dagger at kick off. Another Line rat out of this turn.

Turn 6 The three runners broke through ... one too much ! 1:1

Second Half:
Turn 2 a Rat runner tried to dodge... and killed himself

and another TD for the green in this turn 2:1

Turn 5 a long pass and this damm runner got the ball : 2:2
Turn 6 ...the rat ogre tried to block my troll (with a one dice block

and hurt himself... missing this game, too !

and...another TD for my new blitzer 3:2 !!

At the end : 3:2 TDs for my team and 3:0 cas for the orcs, plus 4 CP, too.

Because of my high FF ( 68.000 spectators) we both got 70k. And that means for my team, with the savings, it got his forth BO

One of the Blitzer got a new skill: Tackle ! ( Yes, Tim, i remember your post ! Two blitzer with tackle now

) And the new blitzer with 2 TD got + 1 ST.

WOW, this game was my " most lucky dices game " ever! I hardly needed a reroll.

The troll never was stupid... 16 turns !!

4:1:1 ....

The next game will be difficult as it´s against a very good Norseteam. But with 4 BO... ehm,no, including the +1 ST blitzer, now 5 players with ST4

it should be more difficult to " frensy " someone into the fans !

Traveller

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 2:19 pm

Wow, things are looking good, Trav. Seems, the practice sessions at international tournaments turned you into a good player very quickly

I would be interested to see your current team? Looks like an evil one to me. 6 players with ST4+

traveller · Post by **traveller** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 2:26 pm

I would be interested to see your current team?

This wish could be fulfilled easy !

I´m using this STARS at NAF...

http://www.thenaf.net/teams/Traveller/M ... ckers.html

Seems, the practice sessions at international tournaments turned you into a good player very quickly

... in a maybe better one than before.... i hope !

Traveller

DanielLaw · Post by **DanielLaw** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 12:50 am

Well done Traveller - good result!
The team looks pretty solid too - some good skill choices. Of course, +1 ST never hurts! (except the opposition, that is

). How about another Goblin or two? - give that Accurate Thrower someone extra to pass to...

gaijin