Bitseff and Wyman are talking, and Seth Shimansky has contacted his opponent so far.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Thursday, July 09, 2020 - 04:34 pm: Edit

I'm not quite sure I know my opponent's email (and can't look it up on SFBOL without their SFBOL callsign, which I'm not sure of either).

Is it the Fezzik one?

Thanks!

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Thursday, July 09, 2020 - 05:28 pm: Edit

Bill Schoeller and Majead Farsi are making their schedule, that is two first round games and a half (because I have not see a reply to Seth Shimansky).

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Thursday, July 09, 2020 - 05:57 pm: Edit

MadJack (Klingon) vs CrashandBurn (Aux HHBB)

Scheduled for 6p Saturday 7/11

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Friday, July 10, 2020 - 02:41 am: Edit

Ron and I are in contact, and looks like scheduled for Sunday.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Friday, July 10, 2020 - 08:31 am: Edit

So we have settled on the 2011 playtest Andro (3 btty, etc.) with 2TRL.

I think that ship with 2TRL is unlikely to do well against any sort of opponent, but I'll certainly give it a whirl!

(I'm gonna move discussion of the actual ship over to the Tournament discussion forum side of things).

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Saturday, July 11, 2020 - 11:51 am: Edit

Top half of the tree are all talking to each other about setting games, but I have not heard anything from the bottom half of the tree.

By Ronald J. Brimeyer (Captainron) on Saturday, July 11, 2020 - 12:48 pm: Edit

Wayne and I are playing 7/12 at 9 a.m. EST.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Saturday, July 11, 2020 - 12:49 pm: Edit

I sent an email to my opponent yesterday. Waiting to hear back.

By Jason Gray (The_Hood) on Saturday, July 11, 2020 - 01:22 pm: Edit

I have sent an email a couple of days ago as well, waiting a reply.

By Seth Shimansky (Kingzila) on Saturday, July 11, 2020 - 02:12 pm: Edit

Seth Hydran VS David Kzinti
This Sunday @ 7PM est

By John Rigley (Crash) on Saturday, July 11, 2020 - 08:37 pm: Edit

Crash vs Madjack
win to the Jack , he ripped me a new one. Real bad attack plan On Turn one , I deserved to get killed.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Saturday, July 11, 2020 - 09:18 pm: Edit

John being very nice failed to mention that I rolled unbelievably well. I am normally Mr. "6" but not tonight. That as much as anything made a huge difference in this one.

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Saturday, July 11, 2020 - 10:38 pm: Edit

John I have been there many a time, a bad turn one plan, and turn two/three game over.

All good

By Ginger McMurray (Gingermcmurray) on Sunday, July 12, 2020 - 02:38 am: Edit

Report, please.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Sunday, July 12, 2020 - 11:03 am: Edit

I will summarize a little:

T1- Klingon charges 3 overloads, 1 std. I also starts up 2 weasel's and makes 19 moves going 16 for most the turn. I already can't remember my exact speed plot. I think it was 16 most the turn then 31 for part of it. Crash overloads 1 hellbore and holds a standard. He goes 21 for part of the turn and 30 for the rest with 17 power in movement and has 2 sui's. Around impulse 12 I launch the scatterpack that has 2 speed 32 drones in it. We arrive at range 8 and fire. He overloads the 2nd hellbore and fires both direct fire along with phasers into my shield 2. He missed with a hellbore and did total 18 to my shield 2. I stopped 3 with batteries. He turns and shows me his shield 3 with 6 reinforcement. I fire 4 overloads, 5 p1, and 2 p2 on the next impulse. I roll amazingly well and do like 12 internals. 1 power, 3 phaser-3's, 1 drone rack. He launches 5 drones and my scatterpack drones are chasing him towards the end of turn 1. I ADD a couple drones, shoot one with some p3's, and have to turn off or get hit by a couple drones. I am sorry I used batteries for shield reinforcement rather then being able to tractor a couple drones here. We end the turn with me middle of the map and him facing the northeast corner. My SP drones are all still out there and there is 2 drones at range 1 to me.

T2- I make about 18 moves. I charge up my phasers and batteries and plan to follow him. I expect him to end up in the northeast corner. He goes speed 15 and charges up some stuff. I kill the 2 drones on the board with small phasers and follow. He tractors my speed 32 drones with 4 speed 20 drones still chasing. He ends up killing some drones with phasers and using counter drones to kill the rest of the scatterpack drones. He gets near the right map edge end of turn 2. I fire 4 p1's and do 6 points of damage to shield 5 at range 8 and launch 3 drones. End of turn he repairs a drone rack and a point on shield 3.

T3-

He is cornered pretty good and has no drones on the board. I think it is going to be pretty impossible to get hellbores in arc unless he stops. I charge 3 overloads, charge up phasers, 2 in tractor, and move speed 14 I think. He moves speed 8. My drones approach him and he tractors 2 of them and shoot's 1 of them. He launches the 5 drones. I end up using my 2 drones to kill 2 of his. The ADD got 1, and I tractored 2 of them. So I still have all my weapons and he is out of drones. I have played Crash often and he always has tons of shuttles armed for tricks. He started launching them and I mostly ignored them. I did have to jockey around them some but that was it. One shot me for 4 points on my shield 2. He speeds up to speed 16 around the middle of the turn and I use a speed change on batteries to speed up to 20. He has reinforced shield 5 heavily thinking I would shoot it. I kinda thought that was what was happening so I held fire until I could get onto another shield. On imp 25 I get shield 4 at range 2. I don't think he can get me off shield 4 before I shoot again so figure go for it. I fire 4 p1, 3 overloads, and a standard and do 50. He takes 20 more internals. I get 2 drone racks, and ALL of his phasers. He has zero phasers left on about 35 internals. I am still going to do more internals with waste phasers and probably end on that down shield again before the next turn. He gratiously concedes here.

As I mentioned, I rolled great and picked off all his phasers putting him in a real tough uphill climb right away. Fun game as always flying against John.

By Ronald J. Brimeyer (Captainron) on Sunday, July 12, 2020 - 11:57 am: Edit

Wayne and I have played 2 turns.

We have mostly been jockeying for position so far.
PPD fired at R15 with only 1 pulse hitting reinforcement. EPT plasma run out. 20 point plasma 3 hexes from my ship at end of turn 2. 3 drones launched imps 2.32. I have used a HET. Ships at about R14 going to turn 3.

We will resume 7/13 @ 7 p.m. est.

By Dana Madsen (Madman) on Sunday, July 12, 2020 - 08:26 pm: Edit

Romwe (Selt) over Madman (Ori) (HHGBB)

T1 I double one engine, moved mostly straight with a bunch of reinf up. Brian turned right, dodged for a bit at speed 14, then second half of the turn sped up to 28 and came at me. We ended about range 7, his #1 facing my #6. I'd launched 2 drones early and let them get a couple hexes in front of me, 1 heavy, 1 standard.

T2 I double both warp (probably should have double imp, I was planning on getting close and you lose them quick, can't take engine damage at the end of turn if the engine doesn't exist).

Brian goes 28, I'm going 30 with a slow down to 19 on imp 11? then down to 16 on imp 20 or so. Paid for my HET, overloaded one HB and put 15 reinf on the #1. By imp 4 we were at rng 2 on the #1/#6 boundary hitting my #1, he shot 3 SC, 4 ovld PC and 6 ph-1 and 2 ph-3. I shot a single ph-3, figured I'd lose a ph-1 or 2 but hoped to get lucky. The L+RA ph-3 weren't in arc to take phaser hits. I'd launched a heavy and a standard drone before shooting.

He hit with 2 of 3 SC, all 4 PC's (on 1 to 4) and rolled 1,1,1,3,4,4 on the phasers which hurt. I was expecting to take 15 to 20 internals but then chase him down and do 30 or so back at range one but it was 79 pts total took 30 damage after 15 rein plus 4 bat. Unfortunately lost 3 ph-1's which I knew I was in a hole now. So I was down 1 dr, 4 ph, 3 imp, 3 shuttles and 6 warp plus hull/cargo/tran/bridg

Next imp he HET'd away with the 4 drones behind him. I had to fly a hex past before I could turn to follow him with my 6 facing him. On imp 10 I was going to start dropping behind as he hadn't slowed down and I was slowing. I had 2 tractor energy and tried to grab him and did so. I thought he had a battery left and he was gone but I got lucky. That let me stay at range 2 and let the drones stay close for a bit. On imp 16 I dropped the tractor as I moved on 17 and he didn't. On 17 I het'd and got to range 1 and shot 1ph-1, 1ph-g, 3ph-3 and 2 hb. I did 34 internals all told, got 2 pc and 4 phasers. He slowed down on imp 16 to spd 20 so he didn't get any more separation on the drones. 2 were killed by end of turn with his off side phasers. he got a phaser shot into my down #1 near the end of turn and stripped my last ph-1 off and another power.

While I was up a couple of internals I was down too much power and all ph-1s at this point.

On T3 I doubled an engine and went fast for the start, he went speed 0 and taced. We started 3 hexes apart. I had a second het ready. Really
I was hoping after he tac'd twice I'd get a chance to get to #4 and hoped he'd miss on PC shots or roll poorly and I could get 8 ph-3 to his down #4 shield then be in a good spot to hit him with a HB on start of T4. But he hit with both SC, both PC and rolled a couple more 1's with his 4 ph-1's that were left after shooting my drones. That was more than a fresh shield could take and I called it there.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Sunday, July 12, 2020 - 08:47 pm: Edit

Unexpected win for the Selt!

Yeah, it really can do a *lot* of damage if it rolls lucky. But odds are, generally speaking, it doesn't do that hot most of the time on average dice. But with some luck, it can be brutal.

By Gregg Dieckhaus (Gdieck) on Sunday, July 12, 2020 - 10:15 pm: Edit

The selts biggest advantage is players will role up to it thinking ... its just a selt and then get there doors blown off!

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Sunday, July 12, 2020 - 10:18 pm: Edit

Tree is now up.

By David Zimdars (Zimdarsdavid) on Monday, July 13, 2020 - 12:51 am: Edit

I lost to Seth but I think I was only able to report on Sapphire Star #4 instead of 5. So Kingzilla over AdmiralDZZI.

By Brian Evans (Romwe) on Monday, July 13, 2020 - 06:55 am: Edit

I was kind of counting on Dana underestimating how much damage I could do. I'm not really sure that was gonna happen, until I rolled really well. He had a pretty good estimate on what he expected to take.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Wednesday, July 15, 2020 - 04:54 pm: Edit

1.08 Fezzik (FED) vs bakija (AND)

Monday 7/20, 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET

I can't imagine this will go well for me :-)

By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Wednesday, July 15, 2020 - 06:26 pm: Edit

Dunno. It *is* the immortal Bakija after all!

Or the Fed could miss with all photons.....