Thanks Greg, we had a good game! Sorry it ended prematurely.

By Joshua Ivan Driscol (Gfb) on Friday, March 18, 2022 - 07:58 am: Edit

Geoff has vowed to take my glorious Kzinti pelt and ive promised to make it's good fight.

Tuesday at 1400 Pacific.

By Andy Koch (Droid) on Friday, March 18, 2022 - 09:57 am: Edit

Josh:
Advance yourself?
For some reason it didn't take the first time you did it....

1.1 BS(Klingon)L v SummaryJudgement(Gorn)W

1.2 AdmiralDZZI(Kzinti) v Devil(Shark BB) -This is in progress

1.3 Madman(Klingon)W v Cadet_Stimpy(HydranL)

1.4 bakija(Vudar!) v MadJack(Kzinti)W

1.5 Moose(Aux11g1)L v kingzilla(TKR)W

1.6 CaptainRon(ATC)L v The_Hood (TKE)W

1.7 Zero_G (Orion H1g1B/FFgff)L v GaiusFrackingBaltar(Kzinti)W

1.8 Greg_T(Gorn)L v Spartan(TKR)W

This is excellent guys. Most games are done a week ahead of schedule and 1.2 is in progress.


Round 1 ends 3/26 midnight eastern, 9 days left counting today
After Round 1 we close the schedule up to 2 weeks

Round 2 starts 3/27 and ends 4/9 midnight eastern. So, as always, if you have a round 2 opponent, feel free to schedule up and copy me in...

Thanks!
-Droid

By Joshua Ivan Driscol (Gfb) on Sunday, March 20, 2022 - 12:05 am: Edit

The tree hates me I have tried a few dozen times and it doesn't recognize my username or password.

I tried as both Sir_GaiusFrackingBaltar and as GaiusFrackingBaltar and no luck.

Spartan and I will be playing Tuesday at 2 Pacific time and it may not be an issue past Tuesday when he slaughters me and takes the name Kzinticus for his triumph.

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Sunday, March 20, 2022 - 04:27 am: Edit

edit, Josh I have sent in the report for game 1.7, I reported a Zero_G loss, it worked.

all good

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Sunday, March 20, 2022 - 11:24 am: Edit

Josh,
I have fixed the tree now so that it has your actually callsign. (i.e. Sir_GaiusFrackingBaltar).

By Andy Koch (Droid) on Monday, March 21, 2022 - 09:44 am: Edit

6 days left for round 1
Including today.

By Geoffrey Clark (Spartan) on Wednesday, March 23, 2022 - 07:50 am: Edit

Hello Guys, here is a brief update on game 2.4

Spartan's RKR vs GaiusFrackingBaltar's ZIN.

Turn 1 - RKR and ZIN both slip in for a more-or-less head on pass. About 1.17, range 11 or 12, Rom launches 2x30, ZIN fires 4xStd vs the #1, hitting with 2 and scoring 1 shield damage. ZIN promptly turns out, and Rom slips out a bit, but turns in to pursue. 1.31, ZIN launches 4xMed drones and 1xShuttle.

Turn 2 - ZIN is moving 16, RKR comes in at high speed, gets to range 4 with the shuttle before it has been out for eight impulses, fires 2xPh-1 and blows up the scatter-pack before release. The ZIN fires 2xOL DISR with wide arcs and hits with both at range 6-8, adding 12 more to the RKR's #1 shield. Plasma hits at about 23rd impulse, revealing both are memorex. RKR does not maneuver that well, and has to deal with the drones, tractors one and fires 3xPh-3s at the other three, luckily killing them all, and thereby does not need to take a drone, or turn out. ZIN launches 4xFast drones shortly thereafter, and RKR decides to launch 50-pts to cover up one way out of the corner, and then turn to bring enough phasers to bear to deal with the fast drone wave. With one more tractor, and nearly all of the phasers, RKR wipes out the fast drone wave, only to see the ZIN HET back south out of the corner, and change speed to 31. With a bunch of phasers and in the 6-10 bracket, the 50pts becomes 28 pts, bringing down the #5 shield and scoring 4 internals (drone, AuxCon, 2xPhaser?). RKR can muster only a single ph-1 as follow-up, doing 5 more internals (warp, DISR, fluff), and watches the ZIN run away. RKR decels to 21 and clears the wall in pursuit, killing one of the tractored drones in the process.

Turn 3 - RKR pursues high speed again, on the tail of the ZIN, who is running at speed 20. After getting close again, there is some slipping maneuver to see if the RKR will come in to range 2 or 1 vs the ZIN's rear phaser hose, RKR declines and slips out ... ultimately launches the other 50-pts, only to see the ZIN accel to 30. At range 2, the RKR thinks that reserve power might be low aboard the ZIN, and attempts a tractor, but fails (only needed one more point of effective, apparently), and so the ZIN runs away again toward the wall, and the RKR floats back into the center of the map, waiting on plasma to arm again.

We will continue at 14:00 Pacific / 06:00 Japan tomorrow.

By David Zimdars (Zimdarsdavid) on Thursday, March 24, 2022 - 05:21 pm: Edit

Hi Andy,
Majead had to cancel tonight 3/24. We will be unable to reschedule in next 6 days. See our email chain. You will have to decide.
-Dave

By Daniel Bitseff (Cadet_Stimpy) on Thursday, March 24, 2022 - 05:33 pm: Edit

On the heels of that, can I be added to the replacement queue?

By Andy Koch (Droid) on Friday, March 25, 2022 - 10:11 am: Edit

Dan,
Yes.

So R1 is complete. All games were started and only 2 had to be decided by technicality. Not too bad.

The clock on Round 2 starts Sunday 3/27,
And ends April 9. Please schedule up if you haven't done so already, and start shooting .

Thanks
-Droid

By Jason Gray (The_Hood) on Friday, March 25, 2022 - 10:03 pm: Edit

Kingzilla (TKR) over The_Hood (TKE) in a one session, ten hour, 21 Turn marathon!!

An even grinding battle, missed my one chance at certain victory on Turn 11 when I launched a R-Pseudo at range 2 (I loaded it as real at first but changed my mind.....doh), Seth guessed right, totally ignored the Pseudo and lived to continue the fight.

The end basically came on Turn 19, the TKR was out of WW and the R-Torp of the TKE was coming online next turn with a potential 100 points against a ship with basically no shields, at range 5 centre line Seth bolted all four torps and five phaser-1s, the resulting 26 internals left TKE with enough power to arm the enveloper but not enough to move to the centre of the map as well.

One tough battle, good luck in your next games Seth.

By Seth Shimansky (Kingzila) on Friday, March 25, 2022 - 10:16 pm: Edit

Kingzilla RKR vs The Hood
10 hour 21 turns of Tom & Jerry dance of near deaths. Jerry AKA the Hood did everything possible to keep me away and to avoid the mouse trap. From cloaking, wild weaseling and the 10 turns straight of retrograding. Tom AKA kingzilla doing everything possible to chase down the mouse by eating lots of plasma and using all 4 wild weasels. Out of 672 plus impulse of the game play there where a few moments of where Jerry was out of characters and was aggressive but failed. Jerry played like he was a ISC with no PPD. Tom played like the Fed but never clever enough to get a clear range 5 shoot until turn 19. Dice where not hot for either of us for most of the game.

I did not like playing the match up but enjoyed playing The Hood who is a very honest and crafty player.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Saturday, March 26, 2022 - 07:07 pm: Edit

Madjack vs Madman is happening 6:30pm eastern on Monday.

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Saturday, March 26, 2022 - 09:53 pm: Edit

AdmiralDzzi (Kzinti) v. summaryjudgment (Gorn)

Set for April 2 at 12 EST / 9 Pacific.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Monday, March 28, 2022 - 09:00 am: Edit

MadJack vs Madman is (NOT) happening at 6:30pm eastern on Monday. We are working on details for either Tuesday or Wednesday.

By Andy Koch (Droid) on Monday, March 28, 2022 - 11:39 am: Edit

Well done guys!
10 hrs 21 turns is grueling.

By Joshua Ivan Driscol (Gfb) on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 - 10:55 pm: Edit

Spartan defeated me in 12 turns. I could have held out longer but Spartan had me and I knew it. Slowed and declawed I was EPT bait.

By Joshua Ivan Driscol (Gfb) on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 - 11:01 pm: Edit

All hail Spartan Kzinticus Rex, glorious imperator. Blessings on your house and good luck with Kingzilla.

Next up Romulan civil war!

My bet is it takes 27+ turns.

By Geoffrey Clark (Spartan) on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 - 02:43 am: Edit

Thanks Josh, it was a great game, there were some key moments that were really tense.

By Geoffrey Clark (Spartan) on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 - 02:52 am: Edit

Lo and Behold, what is this?

As the proconsul Spartan Kzinticus Rex returns to Romulus, he finds that Romulus's other consul, Kingzilla has ruthlessly and mercilessly attacked and defeated the old guard King Eagle captained by The Hood!

This shall not stand, Kingzilla! The gods smile upon Spartan as the Romulan hero to put down your rebellion, bring you to your knees, back to Romulus in chains, and restore order to the Empire.

(am I winning the information campaign yet?!)

By Seth Shimansky (Kingzila) on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 - 01:45 pm: Edit

Spartacus, much time has passed since you've been home. Much has changed. Your outdated ways no longer hold true. A younger generation has arisen with new and better tactics.

Romulans are an aggressive and betting species. It's in our blood.

I challenge you to a wager of 1 bottle of Romulan ale!!!!

By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 - 03:17 pm: Edit

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10 hour 21 turns of Tom & Jerry dance of near deaths.

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By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 - 05:01 pm: Edit

well if you would just stay still and not use a WW. Then The TKE could hit you with a Plasma R and be done with You...

By Geoffrey Clark (Spartan) on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 - 07:54 pm: Edit

Kingzillicus!

As our green blood is spilled, so shall our fates' be revealed. Your wager is accepted, old friend!

Monday 17:00 Eastern / Tuesday 06:00 Tokyo