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 Posted: Mar 16, 2004 - 09:56 AM
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Zombie wrote: I didn't think Khemri had what it took to win a tournament. Good job showing me wrong Ken!
thanks Zombie. I think the teams I played were able to play into my hands altho all 5 coaches finished in the top 10. Since Skummy and I live near each other, we might do a 1 vs 2 match up because skaven or woodies woulda been the teams that give khemri trouble (at the cost of blood tho  )
Just stuck to the strategy of hitting with 3 dice on the mummies and fouling once a half unless they fouled me back or I was up 3 players on them. Ball handling probs cost me about 3 td's tho...so if anybody scores on khemri it's pretty hard to win. The only person I blew out (2 scores and win the casualty battle) was the last game against the Orcs.
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Posted: Mar 16, 2004 - 09:59 AM
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You mean like Whatif the ref had actually done his job in my thrid game?  
Here's a brief recap of my 5 games at the TKC. Some Kinda Voodoo (Necromantic) consisted of 2FG, 2WW, 2W, 1G, 4Z, 2RR, 1FF. I chose to give block to one WW at the start of the tournament.
Round One Opponent - Gutt Shot (aka Stan Tucker) and his Slaughter House Butchers (Necromantic):
Started off at Table 2. Necromantic vs. Necromantic. This was going to be a battle! Like all 5 of my opponents, Stan would prove to be a great sportsman and it was a really fun game to play. He had a slightly different roster than I had chosen, with only 1 wight and a 5th zombie. His wight had Sure Hands. Right from the get go I knew I wanted one thing, to get his werewolves off the pitch before he got mine! I lost one of my wolves, but not before I had gained a good advantage in players including both of his werewolves. Stan put together a great drive early in the second half, and only some lucky rolling allowed me to pick up the ball and turn things downfield.
Final Score: 2-0 in my favor
Casualties: 1-1
Skill Chosen: Block on 2nd WW
Round Two Opponent - RedJak and his Da Red Wonz (Orc):
Table 3. Time to test my mettle vs an Orklando local. He had an amazing dugout that I'm sure someone captured with a digital camera. My ghoul was able to score quickly down the right sideline after some key blitzes by the werewolves. On the ensuing kick-off one of my werewolves was able to pick up the loose ball after a blitz and scored the following turn. Then things started to turn against me. One of my werewolves was blasted into the dead and injured box by a brute of a black orc and was soon followed by one of my flesh golems. Playing 9 vs. 11 my strategy really became one of survival. In the end, I was able to pull out the win, but only because I got off to a good start.
Final Score: 3-1 in my favor
Casualties: 0-2 in his favor
Skill Chosen: Block on FG
Round Three Opponent - Tutenkharnage (aka Chet Zeshonski) and his Blackland Wasters (Norse):
Back up to Table 2. Well, this one got off to about as bad a start as possible. Chet had just picked up a Dirty Player and Got the Ref on the opening kickoff. His DP proceeded to decimate my ranks and I just couldn't seem to get him off the pitch. Bako, one of my werewolves made several heroic actions throughout the game, but Chet very skillfully filled my Dead & Injured box. When I attempted to foul back, a zombie was ejected - further depleting my ranks. I did finally manage to convince the shoddy ref to eject his DP on the 3rd foul he made in the 2nd half! Chet is a great coach and I paid careful attention so I was sure to learn as much as I could from the game. Damballah-Wedo, my ghoul, scored my only TD after making 3 dodges and picking up the ball in a tackle zone.
Final Score: 2-1 in Chet's favor
Casualties: 1-0 in my favor
Skill Chosen: Block on 2nd FG and Block on Ghoul
Round Four Opponent - Ben (aka Ben Tusim) and his Da NunGa JuNgaz (Orc):
I did my best snoring Saturday night in an attempt to gain an unfair advantage over Ben But, he just shook it off. I was again at Table 2, although only because so many folks had already played one another. Ben and I battled on the sidelines and he got the better of me with some great maneuvering of his squad. I made a key error trying to use my werewolf for a hit that I should have done with my wight, and failed the dodge allowing Ben scored his first TD at the end of the first half. I failed my Bonehead roll on that one. The second half was spent trying to keep him out of the endzone and try to get my hands on the ball for the equalizer. I couldn't pull it off though. I knocked his orcs down left and right, but couldn't manage better than a stun on most rolls. Meanwhile my KO box filled up and he marched down the pitch to score again. I spent the last few moments of the game beating his orcs into the gorund in the hopes of getting a second casualty becuase scoring was impossible at that point.
Final Score: 2-0 in Ben's favor
Casualties: 1-1
Skill Chosen: Block on Zombie (boring skill selection works, really!)
Round Five Opponent - Sturmjarl (aka Pat Wynn) and his She-Wolves of Wynn (Amazon):
Down to Table Seven. It was certainly a pleasure playing the coach chosen as most sporting, and it was obvious to me that he deserved that recognition. He had a great set of Phil's Valkyries painted up quite well for his squad. AV 7 is AV 7 though, and I was able to score four casualties throughout the match. I lost a werewolf very early again this game, and we battled back and forth for a tie. I had the opportunity to attempt one of those plays that you will always remember, that stem from great games that are just sooo close!! I needed to make 3 two-dice blocks, 1 one-die block, a dodge, pick up the ball in a tackle zone, and then dodge again (or throw in a tackle zone) before throwing a long pass to my werewolf sitting the endzone.
My werewolf jumped to his feet and moved into the endzone for the catch. Both Flesh Golems blasted amazons to the ground (one was a KO). My ghoul (with an assist from a zombie) knocked down another amazon freeing up the wight. The wight dodged through a tackle zone, and picked up the ball!! I chose to dodge out of the tackle zone and the 1 came up, so either way it ended the heroic attempts of Shango (wight) to pull out the victory.
Final Score: 2-2
Casualties: 4-0 in my favor
11th Place Overall and a hell of a good time!!! |
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Posted: Mar 16, 2004 - 10:39 AM
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First, I need to say that the I had a wonderful time down in Sunny Florida.
Jim and his crew did a great job with everything. The only complaints I have are that my butt hurt from sitting on those chairs and I had to leave that great 75 degrees and Sunny weather for 35 degrees and snowing. 
It was great to meet so many new people including several I have seen here and on TBB. I was able to put a lot of names and faces together now.
As far as game recaps.
I took Wood Elves with 2 Dancers, 9 Line-elves, 2 re-rolls and 3 FF. I started the tourney with Strip Ball on a Wardancer.
I ended up playing all FL coaches and I don't remember most of their names off the top of my head.
My first match was against Da Wor Mongas(Orc). I won the match 1-0 with casualties 1-2 against me. We kept each other from scoring through out the whole first half. I started the 2nd half with 1 dancer injured and another KO'd (who never came back). My lineleves were able to pull it through and score in true elvin fashion on turn 2. My opponent had the worst luck breaking my armor. I'd say if he knocked me down 30 times he only broke armor 23 times. He did get 2 casuatlies and 2 KO's out of them.
My 2nd match was against the West Volusia Boneheads (Khemri). He won 2-1 with casulaties 3-1 over me.
This game did not go well for me at all. He really made me have to fight for everything that needed and I lost those fights. My luck in this game was demonstrated in my last action. To tie the game I needed a 2+ dodge with a dancer. 1 reroll 1.
Match 3 was against The Sun Burners (Chaos) coached by Rob. I won this game 4-0 with casualties 1-2 in his favor. I think I laughed more in this game than any other game I've played. Rob was a great sport and was truely having fun even when losing. My new Armor Specialist (Woodies don't play Dirty  ) came in big by injuring the Minotaur twice.
Match 4 put me up against the She-wolves of Wynn (Amazon) coached by Pat Wynn. This game ended in a 2-2 tie with me winning casualties 1-0.
This was one of the more exciting games. My woodies domintated the first half ending it 2-0. The 2nd half looked like it would be all me until he threw a long bomb from a TZ and caught it for his first TD. At this point he out numbered my 9-6 and that proved too much for me. The KO was a 3 turn riot but put the ball on the side line close to the LOS. On my last turn, with 2 amazon's causing interference, I tried to throw a 4+ pass to a waiting dancer. Rolled a 3 then rerolled it to a 2 for a fumble. It was an easy 3+ pu and catch to tie it up.
My last match was real grudge match. My opponent was the Black Forest Falcons, a Dark Elf team coached by Eric Kopp. So it was darkies vs woodies and Falcons on Falcons. This game ended 2-0 in my favor with casualties 2-0 in his favor.
I scored first on turn 2. Then I scored again around turn 7 after some dice on his side.
The 2nd half turned out to be one of pure frustration for Eric. I tried my best to tie up his guys and get in the way and it payed off big time. He was forced to try several 1-die blocks, dodges and gfis. 90% of his rolls where either  ,  , or 1. I had a pass block guy hanging out near his thrower but he never got a chance to throw. The game ended when I was able to strip the ball loose then toss it well into his backfield.
Overall, my games were very enjoyable and everyone I met was great.
I'm looking forward to seeing every one again.
I took a few pictures which I'll post tonight or tomorrow. |
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Posted: Mar 17, 2004 - 10:12 AM
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Hey Jimmy, not to be pushy or anything but when do we expect to see the tournament results to be entered into the NAF?
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Posted: Mar 17, 2004 - 10:18 AM
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Old_Man_Monkey wrote: Hey, Grasshopper, there's a gift in the mail for you too... Rob tells me that you were the main man responsible for the construction of all the great pitches to help me out when I thought I might be short. Though we ended up with enough 'official' ones, I can't thank you enough for the work and help you showed by putting those together...
Fuhgeddaboudit, boss, was glad to help. Those who can, yadda yadda...
I must take this time to re-mention that they were all SINEATER'S design's and PDF's. There now my conscience is clean. |
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Posted: Mar 17, 2004 - 11:30 AM
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Grasshopper wrote: There now my conscince is clean.
The whole thing?!?! I highly doubt it 
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Posted: Mar 18, 2004 - 11:01 AM
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| Well about the pitches anyway... |
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Posted: Mar 18, 2004 - 11:52 AM
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| OK, Brian is entering the new NAF signups (11 new members - woohoo!) into the database - once that happens, tourney results will be completed. Should be by Monday or Tuesday... |
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Posted: Mar 18, 2004 - 03:45 PM
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gken was just lucky that he didn't have to face the sexy ladies of the Scarlet Mist 
Great tournament and great crowd in Florida. I think I might fly down next time though or stay longer. I'll probably end up staying longer as the wife doesn't like to fly |
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Posted: Mar 20, 2004 - 08:32 PM
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Posted: Mar 25, 2004 - 04:30 AM
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Sorry for the delay in getting the results posted - there are three new coaches who I can't find and have asked Brian to send me their members IDs - once I have those, it shouldn't take very long... (I'm acting as my own NTO and am ill prepared for the task...
I also would like to ask anyone who can to send me pictures they have of the tournament - I am in the process of compiling a photo album and putting the best pics in as part of my tournament write up - if you have some to share, please do so (I've seen Phil Bowen's, Dan Sloan's, and the Sci Fi City pics... all super, thanks!)
Thanks again to everyone for making the tournament such a great time!
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Posted: Mar 25, 2004 - 06:54 AM
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I haven't made a web site out of my pics yet (or resized them) but here is the URL for the images.
http://www.sju.edu/~deckman/tkc_2004/
I'm going on a short vacation this weekend so I'll try to get a web page up early next week. |
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Posted: Mar 25, 2004 - 11:37 PM
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| OK, results are entered - just need someone to push the button... |
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Posted: Mar 26, 2004 - 04:47 AM
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Woo Hoo! I am the top ranked American Necromantic coach at a stunning 150 rating...
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| Don't go yellin' yet... wait until the calcs are done... |
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