Tree is posted.

By Daniel Bitseff (Cadet_Stimpy) on Wednesday, November 10, 2021 - 07:25 pm: Edit

1.04 King Eagle vs. Andro! I gotta see that one...

By Jason Gray (The_Hood) on Wednesday, November 10, 2021 - 07:34 pm: Edit

Sunday 7pm EST 🙃

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Thursday, November 11, 2021 - 02:02 am: Edit

I have booked a seat for the Andromedan vs Romulan KE battle.

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Thursday, November 11, 2021 - 08:26 am: Edit

Game 1.7, Spartan FH victory over Zero_G WAX.

Thanks for the good game Geof.

By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Thursday, November 11, 2021 - 12:18 pm: Edit

TKE v. AND?

Good Grief. The never-ending battle....

By Joshua Ivan Driscol (Gfb) on Thursday, November 11, 2021 - 01:27 pm: Edit

I'm still waiting to hear from Droid. Real life must have him busy.

By Andy Koch (Droid) on Thursday, November 11, 2021 - 02:17 pm: Edit

I am feeling cornered right now.

By Geoffrey Clark (Spartan) on Friday, November 12, 2021 - 12:51 am: Edit

Thanks Wayne / Zero_G! It was a good game.

I think on the Sapphire9 standings that Greg_T's ship is Gorn in 1.08?

Also, tried a practice battle vs The_Hood, my AND vs his RKE ... not pretty! He launched R-torp about range ten, AND flies in at speed 30, turns one way, then HET's another to move around plasma and get close. Blasts at range two, does about 50, hits 30 shield, 10 armor and hull ... then fails displacement, and cannot HET again, so eats R and two F's, plus phasers ... not pretty!

By Greg Thrasher (Greg_T) on Friday, November 12, 2021 - 01:24 am: Edit

Yes, I am flying the noble Gorn. ;)

By Joshua Ivan Driscol (Gfb) on Friday, November 12, 2021 - 11:10 am: Edit

Game 1.03 against Droid will be next Friday November 19th at 9 AM Pacific time.

By Geoffrey Clark (Spartan) on Friday, November 12, 2021 - 11:36 am: Edit

Hello Greg_T,

If you did not see it, I highly recommend this thread on Gorn vs Orion.

http://www.starfleetgames.com/discus/messages/12031/41964.html

Regards,
Spartan

By Greg Thrasher (Greg_T) on Friday, November 12, 2021 - 12:30 pm: Edit

Thanks, Spartan. I will check it out!

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Friday, November 12, 2021 - 04:06 pm: Edit

Heh, I dunno if that thread will *help* someone playing a Gorn vs an Orion. Just mostly make them feel bad :-)

By Geoffrey Clark (Spartan) on Friday, November 12, 2021 - 06:56 pm: Edit

Well, as a fellow BP player, it initially made me feel kinda queasy, but I think intelligence before the fight is always useful.

Philosophically speaking .. the SFB tournament is not quite like rock-paper-scissors, not so deterministic, luck plays a big role (especially for the trigger-happy ...), but also, the skill of the captain. So, I consider this game remarkably balanced overall. Soon, I'm going to re-analyze Mr. Schirmer's tournament archives in some new ways, such as the old "Food Group" idea ... i.e. Big Plasma, etc. Captain's skill level, with a bias towards recent experience will also be included. That big Rating Ace history PDF ... gotta merge that data with the digital archive data ..

Anyway, the Gorn does have a challenge in that match, but who knows, maybe Greg_T will try new variation or Madman makes a mistake ... I hope it is a good game.

BTW, I don't know summaryjudgement ... Player Search says "Callsign summaryjudgement does not exist."?, but he could benefit from intelligence on KLG vs Gorn, I'm sure ... perhaps BS's KLG is a good model? Just like BS certainly benefited from your Gorn's tactical write-ups against Romulans in the Master's final. He was hellbent to bolt, I knew it, and I wanted to make it as difficult as possible. Luck played a big part.

By David Zimdars (Zimdarsdavid) on Saturday, November 13, 2021 - 12:02 am: Edit

Well, John Rigley beat me in my Orion PPHb1 vs his WAX gHBD. I got too close, didn't hit with enough photons. That ship has a lot of drones and power for reinforcement. Good luck to all in the next round!

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Saturday, November 13, 2021 - 12:18 am: Edit

SummaryJudgment is me. No 'e' in judgment, that's the trick.

[Edit only one 'e' anyway.]

By Richard Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Saturday, November 13, 2021 - 05:52 am: Edit

'Judgemente'.

By Geoffrey Clark (Spartan) on Saturday, November 13, 2021 - 06:21 am: Edit

Well, Graham, thanks for pointing it out, I guess I suffer from some old fashioned Britishness in my Englishe spellings (even though I'm American).

Good luck in the Klingon vs Gorn matchup!

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Saturday, November 13, 2021 - 08:04 am: Edit

Geoff wrote:
>>BTW, I don't know summaryjudgement ... Player Search says "Callsign summaryjudgement does not exist."?, but he could benefit from intelligence on KLG vs Gorn, I'm sure ... perhaps BS's KLG is a good model? Just like BS certainly benefited from your Gorn's tactical write-ups against Romulans in the Master's final.>>

Heh, there is plenty of intel in this here forum about Gorn vs Klingon (mostly, like, 20 games between Bill and myself detailed...), so I'd imagine Graham has read all that by now :-)

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Saturday, November 13, 2021 - 11:32 am: Edit

You can be Am,eican, but as an example go to Catholic School and be taught by Irish Nuns.

I attended Catholic School with Irish nuns and even after all these years it sometimes interferes with my spelling and phrasing since it was in my formative years.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Saturday, November 13, 2021 - 02:30 pm: Edit

1.01 bakija (GRN) over summaryjudgement (KLI)

T1: I move 15/17/24 with an enveloper (tube B), held standard (tube A), a weasel, 5 reinforcement on my #1. Graham moves 15/16/26 with 4 standards armed. We both go straight up the map. At R15, I launch my enveloper and turn off. He fires 4x std disruptors at R12 or so, hitting with 2 on my #5 for 6 damage. He turns off and runs from the plasma the rest of the turn. I turn back up towards the middle of the map. We end the turn at about 15 hexes.

T2: I move a 17/26 split, start rearming my plasma, hold the weasel, have some power in tractors and HET. KLI moves 16/15/25/26 with probably 2OL, 2STD armed. He moves towards the West wall, the plasma closes in, he shoots it with 6xP3 as it is about to hit for 20, and he takes 11 damage spread around the ship. I just move towards him as he goes into the SW corner of the map. We both speed up in the middle of the turn, and he turns out of the corner. We end up at R6, #6 to #6, so I launch 50 plasma at him. he comes into R5 and shoots me with 4xOL (2 off battery, I assume) and 3xP1 (2 were fired as P3s earlier). He hits 4/4 on the OLs, rolls fine on the phasers, does 36 damage to my #6, doing 6 in (P3, warp, 4 hull). I turn in and get R4 from his #5 shield. I don't like how this is going. He launches a couple medium drones. I fire my 4 facing P1s and bolt my facing S torp (which launched a pseudo a couple impulses earlier). The bolt hits (phew!) and I do 30 total damage. After 1 battery reinforcement, the KLI takes 7 internals through his #5 (having lose 2 boxes earlier from the enveloper), losing a P3, 3 warp, 4 F hull. I HET out of dodge, firing a pair of P1s at his down #5 from R6, but roll 6, 6, and miss. As he keeps moving away from my F torp, I get a couple more P1s at R8 into the same shield, hit for 4 damage, and hit 2 more power and 2 batteries. We end the turn at R8, me facing F, him facing B, me off his down #5 (but with no phasers cleared on impulse 1).

T3: I move 24/16 (22 moves), rearm plasma and a few batteries, put some power in my phasers, hold the weasel. KLI moves 26/15, rearms things, has 2OLs. Impulse 1, the plasma F moves off his down #5. Impulse 2, he slips in front of it and takes 15 on his #4 (now 7 boxes). I turn North, he turns North. At R8 or, he shoots my #3 with a pair of OL disruptors before I get out of range, hits with 1 for 6 damage. This encourages me to turn in and engage with the F and fast load F I have available on my right side, so I turn in and slip towards him. 2 of his drones catch up, I ID them both as I's, and kill them with 3xP3 shots. He launches another pair of medium drones. We get to R5, so I launch a pair of F torps at him as he is moving 15, figuring he'll either stop and weasel, or eat them somewhere which I can follow up with some phasers. He bulls forward, and when my pair of F torps reach R1 from his #1, we discover that there was only 1 F torp on the map (the fast load from tube B...), and somehow an interface error resulted in only 1 plasma on the map. Graham is incredibly gracious, and we rewind to the impulse where I launched the plasmas, and this time he turns off and accelerates to 19 (and still doesn't decel to weasel), but this gets me a shot on his down #5 with 3xP1s for another 8 in. The plasma catches up, and he has nothing to do with it but slip and take it on his 7 box #4 for another 20 some odd internals and surrenders.

He didn't have a weasel armed, and had started one on T3.

Thanks for being a solid, gracious opponent! Even if we had stuck with the 1 plasma on the map, it was still going to take down most of his #1 and get followed up by another plasma F and phasers, so probably about the same either way.

Now I get John's WAX again. At least it isn't an Orion...

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Saturday, November 13, 2021 - 02:55 pm: Edit

I tried something new this game, and was not consistent enough in the execution. I usually insist on R8 and overloads almost every turn, and launch the SP turn 1.

Instead, I repeated a (successful) strategy from a match against a Firehawk (not played by Peter which may be relevant) where I delay the SP, and launch it in pursuit position on turn three, while using standard disruptors, looking to get an anchor with SS armed.

On Turn 2, I miscounted hexes (a persistent problem I have in SFBOL that I usually avoid on paper; I'm confident I can fix this) and took the EPT for 20 instead of 10 (or 2); then I got too aggressive, walked into a bolt shot, the bolt hit, and then took some mizia (the dice didn't cooperate with Peter here, or it would have been even worse), and lost like 4 power and 2 batteries on 15 or 16 in.

Then you have the usual Klingon problem of choosing between getting close enough to the bad guys to hurt them and having enough weapons armed to hurt them, and it all went downhill from there.

Congrats to Peter who was both gracious and hit all his marks to win the match.

By Randy Green (Hollywood750) on Saturday, November 13, 2021 - 05:42 pm: Edit

Sounds like it was a really good game.

By Andy Koch (Droid) on Monday, November 15, 2021 - 07:21 am: Edit

Graham bulled forward.