Mr. ScottishEngineer (Mike Kenyon). We had some scheduling challenges, he decided to concede.

By Geoffrey Clark (Spartan) on Wednesday, June 28, 2023 - 09:43 am: Edit

When is Jack's Shark vs Seth's Rom scheduled ?!

By Andy Koch (Droid) on Wednesday, June 28, 2023 - 11:52 am: Edit

or I can step in and give you some practice Geoff

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Wednesday, June 28, 2023 - 01:00 pm: Edit

It is still the first round, and if Mike Kenyon Cannot make a date to play Geoff Clark, Andy Koch has offered to play the game.

Note, I am sorry I was unable to intervene earlier, but I only get to work a half day in the afternoons, and not at all on week ends.

I hope this keeps moving. I know Mike Kenyon had problems with time and Geoff Clark was not able to contact him for a play time. Hopefully I will do better with scheduling in the future.

By Seth Shimansky (Kingzila) on Wednesday, June 28, 2023 - 02:02 pm: Edit

Our game will be this weekend or next week. No time set.

By John Rigley (Crash) on Wednesday, June 28, 2023 - 11:35 pm: Edit

Game 1.5 Crash vs. Cadet-Stempy
Finnish seven turns tonight. Of a close nasty fight.
To be continued Friday night

By Geoffrey Clark (Spartan) on Thursday, June 29, 2023 - 06:14 am: Edit

Uhh, not exactly sure how to interpret the message from Mr. Petrick.

Andy, if you want to play, I'm open to it. I can be online tomorrow morning at 06:00 JST / 17:00 US Eastern.

By Geoffrey Clark (Spartan) on Thursday, June 29, 2023 - 06:26 am: Edit

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By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Thursday, June 29, 2023 - 07:09 pm: Edit

1.8 bakija (GRN) vs Jeff_G (GBS 11)

And...Jeff had connectivity and update issues. We are going to reschedule for net week.

By John Rigley (Crash) on Friday, June 30, 2023 - 10:14 pm: Edit

Game 1.5 Crash and Stempy
We finished three more turns tonight , of knife fighting at speed 4 and 5 for 90% of it. We ended the turn at R1. The Hydran is down to 2 gats a fusion, and a p1 and one good shield. The AUX has both disrupters and both plasma and 3 x p1s and 2 x p3s and 2 good shields.
To be continued unless Stempy concedes at some point ,before we can plan a date.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Saturday, July 01, 2023 - 09:26 pm: Edit

If Spartan is playing Droid the tree as it stands isn't quite right. - FYI

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Tuesday, July 04, 2023 - 11:10 am: Edit

1.8 bakija (GRN) vs Jeff_G (GBS 11)

Underway currently as of 11:00 am ET.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Tuesday, July 04, 2023 - 12:50 pm: Edit

1.8 bakija (GRN) vs Jeff_G (GBS 11)

Two turns in and paused!

T1: Gorn moves 15/17/24 (18 moves). Shark moves 20/25/20. We move up the map. At R15, Shark turns across my bow. I launch enveloper B and turn to my right. Shark closes a little bit, fires 4x standard disruptors at my #6, hits with all 4, sees 5 reinforcement, 7 damage sticks. Shark turns off, I turn back at him. We end the turn at 11 hexes, me behind him, both facing A, my enveloper a few hexes behind him.

T2: Gorn moves 24 till 11 then 26 (possibly unplotted acceleration there...); Shark moves 20/24 (changing up on 10). Plasma closes in, he blasts it with a bunch of phasers (5xP3, then 2 more P1), it hits him at 20 hexes movement for 30, -15 damage for 15 total, but soaks most of it with 13 reinforcement spread around, losing a box each on #3 and #5. Shark turns F to move towards my NW corner, and then E, so I'm on his #5 shield. I turn and follow. He launches 2 drones, which I tractor both of and kill with 3xP3 by the end of the turn. I follow him for a few impulses. He turns back to direction F as I get reasonably close, launches a pair of shuttles, and I get a R4 centerline on his #4. I launch my other S torp (standard), and blast him with 6xP1 and 2xF bolts. One bolt hits, phasers don't roll real hot, I do 29 damage for 5 internals (warp, disruptor, hull). Next impulse, I get to turn off for another P1 in the hole for 4 damage (warp, P3, hull). I move off the rest of the turn, he moves into the corner to avoid the incoming plasma S. He turns E again and slips along the wall. We end the turn at about 20 hexes apart. I'm in the middle of the map. Shark is close to the edge with a 22 point plasma S right off his #5.

There are 2 WYN shuttles on the map a dozen hexes from the ship. I have some shield damage, shark has a down #4 and 9 internals (2 warp, 1 disruptor, 1 P3, 5 hull).

We will continue at some point in the near future.

By Jeff Guthridge (Jeff_Guthridge) on Tuesday, July 04, 2023 - 09:02 pm: Edit

Peter's take on the two turns played so far is spot on as I have come to expect from him.

So far dice have been on my side, but he's managed to get more out of his weapons.

Time will tell.

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Tuesday, July 04, 2023 - 10:40 pm: Edit

Thank you for the tournament battle reports.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Wednesday, July 05, 2023 - 12:17 pm: Edit

MadJack v Kingzilla

This Friday at 7p eastern.

By Andy Koch (Droid) on Wednesday, July 05, 2023 - 04:14 pm: Edit

Bolty Bolterson

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Wednesday, July 05, 2023 - 09:54 pm: Edit

That is what they call me.

By Geoffrey Clark (Spartan) on Thursday, July 06, 2023 - 03:40 am: Edit

Hey Andy,

Thanks for the good game. I can appreciate the challenge of just jumping into the ZIN before the battle. I thought you might be in the LYR, which was how I was planning for the fight. But, as a some-time judge here, I think you know the proper protocols best. I'll try to summarize our game.

T1 - ZIN has a 20/30/26 plot, ISC moves 24/17/26. We move towards the center, some slipping in by ISC, some slipping out by ZIN. Shuttle comes out 1.8 and then blossoms into 6xIM, About that time, ISC launched EPT from B, and turns left to cross the bow of the ZIN. About 1.20 we are about 10 hexes apart, and ISC wave-locks ZIN, over the next few imps, reinforcement on #1 is about 8 points (?). ZIN also launches 4xIF drones. 1.24, ZIN then turns in (left) to run from the EPT a bit, fires 6xPh-3 and takes torp for ~5 pts around. 1.26 ISC gets to R5 on the ZIN's #6, fires 6xPh-1s to score 19, and drop the shield to 2 boxes. The ISC turns out (NE), labs some of the fast drones, fires 2xPh-3 and kills 2xIF.

T2 - ZIN has a 20/30 plot, ISC has a 17/31/17 plot. ZIN makes comes around to chase the ISC, ISC tractors last IF drones. ISC is running from 6xIM, with ZIN off the #5. As ZIN turns around, announces speed change on 2.10, ISC also accels to 31, and then launches G&F from C&E, then turns to run up the wall into the NE corner. ZIN is headed right into the plasma, fires 6xPh-3 at G + 2xPh-3 at F, so takes 20 total on 2.18, for one internal (aft hull). ISC runs from drones up into the corner, and eventually fires 2xPh-3 at tractored drones, killing both, and then turning across the N wall, with 6xIM about 3 hexes away, and ZIN about 7 hexes away. ZIN launches 2xFast drones on 2.32.

We decide to pause there. After a while to consider, Andy decides to concede, feeling like he has taken a lot of shield damage, and does not have a WW, might face more plasma shortly. ISC feels like the last move should not have been a slip, so that the option to continue to run against the wall would remain, rather than stopping to WW. It looks like the ISC has 2xF ready on 3.1 (quick load from B, plus D), has two WW ready, and might TAC and be ready to use PPD ... (not until WW period is over).

Good Game, Andy! You had me sweating a bit with the aggressive ZIN play! No DISR armed all game, 100% drones and chase.

By Geoffrey Clark (Spartan) on Thursday, July 06, 2023 - 03:41 am: Edit

Jack said: "If Spartan is playing Droid the tree as it stands isn't quite right. - FYI"

I guess it doesn't matter too much now? Not sure what the right way to record that is ...

By Geoffrey Clark (Spartan) on Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 11:26 pm: Edit

Jeez, are we missing some messages here, after maintenance last night?

By Geoffrey Clark (Spartan) on Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 08:03 am: Edit

We are totally missing messages! I've got a text file of those contents from my browser cache, so I can add them back ... who should I contact about the issue?

By Geoffrey Clark (Spartan) on Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 08:06 am: Edit

Jack said "I played my best game in years, in the best ship, and rolled average. That's going to be enough against FireHawks most of the time even if one of the best players is playing it. End of story."

The data seems to agree with you on that, but "most of the time" is nuanced. Shark is just about 60-40 vs Firehawk, and on top of each matchup in the plasma category, except one ... ;)

Wins Loses Matches Percent
RFH ... WBS ... 29 .... 40.3%
WBS ... RFH ... 43 .... 59.7%
RKR ... WBS ... 25 .... 37.9%
WBS ... RKR ... 41 .... 62.1%
RKE ... WBS ... 7 ..... 33.3%
WBS ... RKE ... 14 .... 66.7%
GRN ... WBS ... 54 .... 47.0%
WBS ... GRN ... 61 .... 53.0%
ISC ... WBS ... 40 .... 54.8%
WBS ... ISC ... 33 .... 45.2%

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 08:17 am: Edit

Yeah, the results of my game vs Jeff were deleted. As was my request that someone fix the tree, as I accidentally reported a loss (I won 1.8 and advanced to R2).

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 11:13 am: Edit

Folks, I am so sorry. We lost all messages from 7/6 to 7/10. It isn't something we can fix. We were just fortunate to have saved the BBS at all.