ramchop
Joined: Oct 12, 2013
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SWL C Premier
Round 3: npe's Orc "[SWL] Dorruks"
Abhorrent
If there is one team I really do not want to see do well in Prem 100, it is npe's Orcs.
Why? We have quite a different philosophy when it comes to team building. Looking at the picture above, his seems substantially more effective. However, it is based on deliberately throwing games so that the Orcs could get an easy season in reggies, the lowest division in SWL.
As for our encounter, I felt the Orcs were still just playing the spp farming game. Not currently a threat for a Prem title no matter how well they're built.
Full Time: 1 - 1 (0/2/0 - 2/1/0) |
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ramchop
Joined: Oct 12, 2013
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SWL C Premier
Round 4: JamesDSF's Necromantic "Turbo Wolves"
Odds of escaping this one without a loss were pretty small.
- Three of my four best players were out. M8 blodger / BGTmb BOrc / BG BOrc
- Up against an Ag2+ BDT wolf and a Ma9 BDTmb wolf
- Up against a mighty fine Necromantic team. 2x runner up, 2x 3rd, 7th time in Prem
- Up against a mighty fine Necro coach. Currently #4 in the world on the NAF Necro ranking (would have been #1 if this post was written last week)
So how bad was it?
Drive 1
A T8 great escape worthy of Skittle's R2 hobgoblin
Drive 2
Closer to a 1TTD than I would have got. Though, perhaps spectator Faulcon would have taken it to the line
Halftime 1 - 0
Drive 3
Varag dodge!
Dodge Roll [2]
Loner Roll [4]
Dodge Roll [4]
...sadly no pow
Drive 4
Too much happened to break it all down. The BOrc coach spent most of the time on the back foot valiantly scrambling. The better coach got there in the end.
Drive 5
Varag pickup, goblin catch, Troll..... trolled it.
Full Time 1 - 2 (0/0/0 - 2/2/0)
GGs need to hit harder. |
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ramchop
Joined: Oct 12, 2013
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SWL C Premier
Round 5: CokeGuy's Underworld "Believe in Swarming"
Up against the reigning SWL champion, but I felt pretty confident going into this one. The gutter runner was missing. I'd overdog Bomber so there was only one star to face. The UW were bottom of the table. Would this be the game where I paint the UW square on my bingo board green?
Drive 1
Turn 7. I could score. RR in pocket, and surefeet. Straight run to the line 92.6% odds.
I didn't want to give them the chance to score back before halftime, so I stalled. What could 6 UW do against my 9 anyway?
Oh. Snotling 3D pushed out the way (grab is good), then it was dodge skill and reroll in the pocket to pull off 2x 3+ rolls. 79% odds.
I should have scored T7.
Half Time: 0 - 0
Drive 2
Turn 12. Simple 3+ dodge and a gfi. No reroll.
Drive 3
Turn 16. Again up on numbers. Surely he couldn't stop me this time.
Full Time: 1 - 1 (5/3/1 - 1/2/0)
6 cas in 4 games, then 9 in one. I certainly can't complain about the dice. I should have scored on T7. Dammit, dammit, dammit. |
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ramchop
Joined: Oct 12, 2013
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SWL C Premier
Round 6: BeefyGoodness's Tomb Kings "Malapropisms Relieved"
If results went our way there was still a slim coach the GGs could hit a BOrc high of 4th in Prem. Needed a couple of wins though.
Turn 16: 2-1 down, trust in blodge for the draw!
Full Time: 1 - 2 (0/0/0 - 3/1/0) |
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ramchop
Joined: Oct 12, 2013
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SWL C Premier
Round 7: Faulcon's Snotlings "Pitch Painters"
Playing for pride now. Lose and we get 7th, win or draw 6th.
Turn 16: 1-1, trust in blodge for the win!
Full Time: 1 - 1 (2/0/2 - 1/2/1)
I have got to stop the desperation trust in blodge. Especially when Skitter is around. |
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ramchop
Joined: Oct 12, 2013
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SWL CI Maleficent Lenestar Conference
Season 101! Back to Conferences. Probably the GG's penultimate season. Can we finish with a bang by getting up to Prem one last time?
Who stands in our way?
 Killer Heelz (1390k, 26/22/41 = 42% win rate) Reggiesson
 We Come From A Land Up Over (1250k, 18/8/17 = 51% win rate) The_Demon
 Anything but Twilight (1410k, 7/4/3 = 64% win rate) KeepitCoul
 Phin Lizzies (1500k, 4/7/2 = 58% win rate) RonnieScrollman
Custodes Centenarius (1190k, 6/5/3 = 61% win rate) HaruHaru
 Bloodwolf Bandits (1430k, 10/7/15 = 42% win rate) Bobs
Ahuriri Unearthly (1440k, 14/8/4 = 69% win rate) Sandune
But it's a 10 team division again (yuck!). Who do the Luckers miss out on?
 UnderRatted (1460k, 10/4/11 = 48% win rate) eganra
Malapropisms Relieved (1460k, 23/14/12 = 61% win rate) BeefyGoodness
And how are the good guys lookin?
 GG Luckers (1460k, 39/26/25 = 58% win rate) BeefyGoodness
As always it's going to be a tough season. SWL does it better. |
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ramchop
Joined: Oct 12, 2013
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SWL CI Maleficent Lenestar Conference
Round 1: Reggiesson's Dark Elf "Killer Heelz"
Four previous encounters with the Heelz. The Luckers seem to be a bit of a bogey team for the dark elves, 3 wins 1 draw. Often very bloody.
However, Nuffle decided to smear his greasy mitts all over this one.
Drive 1
BLITZ!!!!
Heelz charge ahead and put a TZ on the goblin blodger. No worries, we'd smack him off after freeing up a block BOrc using grab on the front line. Blitz that delf blitzer, just go for it to get there.... [1] rr [1]
Drive 2
BORcs start bashing. The sneaky git seemed to roll an awful lot of 1s and 2s on the armour rolls. But we got there in the end.
Halftime 1-1
Drive 3
A dodging BOrc knocks the ball free, blodge goblin collects, and wears a pow to the face. No worries we have the ball surrounded. Smack a witch out of the way and it'll be an easy(ish) grind to the line. 
Away sprint the elves scoring on T16 after this time the dodging blitzer BOrc fails the dodge.
Drive 4
We can do one turners, we've got a MA8 sprint surefeet star
And then Nuffle kicks us in the nuts once more.
This time Nuffle the tease, teases the elves.
Full Time: 2 - 2 (0/2/1 - 1/0/0) |
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ramchop
Joined: Oct 12, 2013
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SWL CI Maleficent Lenestar Conference
Round 2: The_Demon's Chaos Pact "We Come From A Land Up Over"
Trolls. You simply can't trust them. The GGs haven't had much luck with trolls. They don't do much damage and take forever to skill. And of course they go stupid at the most inconvenient times. Our current troll, Kaiwharawhara, decided to go random on his second skill: Pile Driver. He was lucky to survive the redraft.
Drive 1
Kreek on the line of scrimmage. So tempting, do we put the players in to get him down and off? The danger here of course is that Kreek gets an awful lot of targets if he remains standing. Do we dare trust Kaiwharawhara to knock Kreek off the pitch?
Troll down, Kreek dead!
Turn 3 started with a snaked go for it leaving the Luckers' ball carrier exposed. The Pact team capitalised, securing the ball, and also removing two GG players.
Again, the age old question. Can we trust a troll to perform a key action?
YES!!
There was a still a bit of work to do after that. This was aided significantly by the Pact Troll going stupid.
"Duh!" Trolls, you just can't trust them.
Full Time: 2 - 0 (3/0/1 - 1/0/0) |
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ramchop
Joined: Oct 12, 2013
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SWL CI Maleficent Lenestar Conference
Round 3: KeepitCoul's Vampire "Anything but Twilight"
How are BOrcs meant to combat Vampires?
I'd recently played a DIBBL semi-final with my Vamps against a BOrc team who had topped their division 4/1/1. My vamps monstered them and won 3-1.
So, I was worried this SWL season. Not one, but two vampire teams for the GGs to Luck their way around. There's always the hope that vampires self-destruct. It's what they do... right?
T16:
woot.
Full Time: 0 - 3 (4/0/0 - 1/0/0) |
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ramchop
Joined: Oct 12, 2013
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SWL CI Maleficent Lenestar Conference
Round 4: RonnieScrollman's Lizardmen "Phin Lizzies"
BOrcs are just slow lizards right? Well, watch as my movement 8, sure footed, sprinter outruns those speedy reptiles.
Turn 7:
#$@& !!!
Niggled apo MNG
Half time 0 - 0
Full Time: 1 - 1 (0/0/1 - 1/0/0) |
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ramchop
Joined: Oct 12, 2013
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SWL CI Maleficent Lenestar Conference
Round 5: HaruHaru's Vampire "Custodes Centenarius"
A game of two big mistakes
Lucker mistake:
Vamps charge forward and score off the GG's first drive. But there's time to equalize.
I played that so badly. No rerolls, but "trust in blodge" clearly was not the option. The sneaky git could have screened the ball carrier. The kicker could have 2D blocked the thrall with a Bomber and sg assist.
Haru rubbed it in by fouling and successfully arguing the call before the blitz.
Custodes mistake:
Second half. I get why vamps would want to score quickly. Turning a 0-2 around would be very hard indeed. Plus, it's so much more fun playing Vamps on defence.
I came into this game thinking I'd had enough of the BOrcs. Despite the mistakes though, I really enjoyed it, even had thoughts about going on past the 100 games.
Full Time: 1 - 1 (1/1/1 - 0/0/1)
However, the next two games put the final nails in the coffin.
1/3/3 in Conference. GG's worst season. One more season and done. |
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ramchop
Joined: Oct 12, 2013
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SWL CII Carriwitchett Clackbox Conference
Season 102! I should know who Carriwitchett Clackbox is/was. Will someone please tell me?
The final season for the GGs. My first SWL team Freezy Trees (norse) managed to qualify for Prem in their last season. My 2nd team Bravado (wood elves) did the same. Will the GGs? Don't be silly!
Who stands in the way of the Luckers going out in style?
Weapons of Maths Destruction (1445k, 32/22/19 = 59% win rate) The_Squigadier [Luckers record 1 win \o/ ]
 Romagna Regals (1430k, 4/0/3 = 57% win rate) Miyuso
 Minutes or Centuries (1260k, 46/25/26 = 60% win rate) SkittleMosaic [Luckers record 1 draw 1 loss /boo! ]
UnderRatted (1425k, 11/6/14 = 45% win rate) eganra
Bloodwolf Bandits (1460k, 13/7/19 = 42% win rate) Bobs [Luckers record 1 loss /boo! ]
 SWL - Fitzroy Fryers Club (1010k, 4/2/8 = 36% win rate) baz_machine
 Beer on Ice (1390k, 7/0/2 = 78% win rate) knine
GG Luckers (1415k, 40/29/28 = 56% win rate) ramchop
7 games to go. Oh well, no matter how bad this season goes, I can't lose my winning record \o/ |
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ramchop
Joined: Oct 12, 2013
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SWL CII Carriwitchett Clackbox Conference
Round 1: The_Squigadier's Orc "Weapons of Maths Destruction"
Another hideous creature:
What a horrible way to start the first game of the season:
Go the dodging BOrc!
Halftime 1 - 0
A glorious creature:
What a wonderful way to end the first game of the season:
Full time: 2 - 1 (1/1/0 - 1/1/0) |
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