Heh, I was not prepared for you to come in close, and you were prepared for coming in close, which, well, kills me.

Again, I was totally expecting an enveloper, as I always expect an enveloper from a Romulan, and that didn't happen. My turn off was guessing you were also going to turn, to avoid R8, but well, none of the things I expected to happen happened :-)

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Wednesday, March 06, 2024 - 08:45 am: Edit

Carl Magnus wrote:
>>The tournament should really switch to Swiss format.>>

Getting these SS tournaments to run reasonably smoothly is the best we can do, and what we got is generally running reasonably smoothly.

If someone else wanted to organize and run a Swiss format tournament, I suspect there would be at least 8 people willing to play.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Wednesday, March 06, 2024 - 02:40 pm: Edit

Can anyone contact Stephen McCann (Moose)?

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Wednesday, March 06, 2024 - 09:51 pm: Edit

Thanks for all the great Tournament battle reports.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Wednesday, March 06, 2024 - 10:55 pm: Edit

I have seen him online the last couple days, he isn't completely disappeared. If I see him again I will ask him.

By Stephen McCann (Moose) on Thursday, March 07, 2024 - 01:08 pm: Edit

I am here, sorry, been sick most of the past week.I will contact Dave today to set up our game.

By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Thursday, March 07, 2024 - 09:32 pm: Edit

Peter, I can do organize and running. The problem is the web thingy. Lack the skills for that.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Thursday, March 07, 2024 - 10:03 pm: Edit

MadJack (Gorn) vs Madman (Orion) playing 3/8 at 6p unless we need to cancel for some reason we aren't sure of yet.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Friday, March 08, 2024 - 08:34 am: Edit

>>Peter, I can do organize and running. The problem is the web thingy. Lack the skills for that.>>

You can run a tournament without any sort of webpage; just ask here to set up a thread for the tournament, and organize everything in the thread.

By Stephen McCann (Moose) on Friday, March 08, 2024 - 01:39 pm: Edit

Dave and I are scheduled to play tonight at 7pm eastern. Sorry for the delay.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Friday, March 08, 2024 - 04:32 pm: Edit

Dana and I have cancelled for tonight. Planning to play next Tuesday at 6p.

By Stephen McCann (Moose) on Friday, March 08, 2024 - 11:20 pm: Edit

Moose over AdmiralDZZI in 6 turns. Too tired for a write up tonight, I will try for one tomorrow.

By Geoffrey Clark (Spartan) on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 04:12 am: Edit

Hey Moose,

I've sent you email on scheduling, please have a look!

By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 07:08 pm: Edit

I am almost ready to start a new campaign, but need feedback by someone on the rules. The format will be quasi round-robin, and is organised by the Masters to find out who REALLY won the general war.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 09:11 pm: Edit

Remarkably, MadJack (Gorn) over Madman (Orion).

By Geoffrey Clark (Spartan) on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 09:16 pm: Edit

Hey Hardcore, I'll read the rules and give you feedback.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 10:07 pm: Edit

Are you planning tournament ships somehow?

By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 03:29 am: Edit

Thanks Geoff. You'll get a link by email to the Google Drive document.

By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 03:31 am: Edit

Jack, yes the purpose is to provide more fun for us die hard tourney gamers.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 10:04 am: Edit

>>Remarkably, MadJack (Gorn) over Madman (Orion).>>

What happened there? I always like seeing how that goes.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 11:01 am: Edit

It was an odd game where everything seemed to work out for me.

T1 - I launched both fakes on different impulses late in the turn. Dana did not double anything. We ended the turn like range 7 with neither one of us firing.

T2 - He doubled both warp and bricked up a rear shield. He ran the torps out a little and then took the fakes on his brick. He turned around but I launched 50 into his face before he could get close. He shot the 50 and they hit his brick. I fired several phasers on the same shield rolling well for a few internals including the drone rack and a warp. He doesn't fire at me with anything.

T3 - I park and tac and he doubles both warp. I launch an enveloper once he turns into me at range 8 and I have 2 ww's ready. He ends up taking 60 for 10 internals and I got an unfired overloaded hellbore at range 5-6. He keeps coming in so I launch the last F thinking I will get more internals after it hits and I fire phasers. He Hets away to avoid that thinking he would get turned back around and close to r1 before the end of the turn. I fire 8 phasers after 4 tacs and see he uses batteries to stop more internals so I think he probably can't het again. I do get some internals though nothing real consequential. Late turn I speed up on batteries and he never gets the other overloaded hellbore back into arc.

Good intense game. Not much I would change about my play. I practiced hard for this one, harder than I have in years for a single game. I knew this game was going to be extremely tough and I had to play 2 Orions in a row (lots of practice).

Biggest factor was getting the drone rack on the first internal.

By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 02:44 pm: Edit

The campaign rules have been sent to Geoff for feedback. I don't expect major changes since I kept them simple. As soon as i have a better campaign name than "What will the Masters do now? (Or, "-Oh no! It's the General War all over again!".)
" I'll ask SPP to set up a new thread and accept sign ups.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 06:50 pm: Edit

Jack,

Sounds like a kooky game. Congrats!

By Geoffrey Clark (Spartan) on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 09:54 pm: Edit

Sapphire Semi-final, Spartan (RFH) vs Moose (WAX)

Friday 5pm US East / Saturday 6am Tokyo

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Sunday, March 17, 2024 - 08:29 am: Edit

Any updates on the Spartan V Moose game?