[Team Blog] Dark Elves - Lords of Westeros

[Nikolai II]

Originally Posted by Barristan

Just wanted to try the template on the pitch and didn't cancel it before clicking out of the pitch.

Seeing how people have said "it is impossible to cancel the wizard in Cyanide" - how do you do that? (Not that I ever try the template myself, but it could be good advice for others.

[Barristan]

Thanks for your sympathy Maiais, a hug would have make me feel better but no less stupid

To be honest Niko, I had never read anywhere about this particular refinement of cruelty from Cyanide and I had never felt the urge to use a template to visualise a 3*3 square before so I didn't know you couldn't cancel it! What can I say? The pitch was full of Orcs and it was Friday evening, I needed some assistance to compensate my old age, etc etc (that enough?)

I feel like I have cancelled him in the past though... Seeing that you can switch from Fireball to Lightning, I would say clicking on the Blitz icon should do the trick? Although it means you need to have one of your players selected... Meh.

Tell you what, I will try that on Single today and let you know THE TRUTH!

[Barristan]

Tried it, there is one and only one thing to do to cancel it: clicking on the fireball/lightning icon again. Clicking anywhere else will not work, even on the spell book. Personally I would have at least allowed cancellation with the esc key but hey! Cyanide has their own reasons to make it tricky...

Good to know at any rate!

[SorroW]

Originally Posted by Barristan

Tried it, there is one and only one thing to do to cancel it: clicking on the fireball/lightning icon again. Clicking anywhere else will not work, even on the spell book. Personally I would have at least allowed cancellation with the esc key but hey! Cyanide has their own reasons to make it tricky...

Good to know at any rate!

Thanks alot for this information! :-)

/SorroW, who have had Fireballs going of outside the pitch a couple of times...

[Nikolai II]

Originally Posted by Barristan

Tried it,

For Science!!!

Thank you

[Barristan]

MD4 vs L'espoir est dans la mort (Hope lies in death) coached by Fredad


My opponent sacks a lino at the last second and induces a Bribe and Varag. I personnally would have taken a Wizard no matter what, but it turned out it was a good choice for him.

I win the toss and choose to kick. Pouring rain, things are looking bright for me against Orcs. Two turns later though the Thrower is in a cage midfield and I have my first injury removed from the pitch, my only Guard piece of course. Luckily Selmy BH the MB/PO/Tackle Blitzer on his first block but my opponent daringly uses his Apoth on him. The cage is moving slowly, a double 1 on my first dodge deprives me of a T4 and see another player KO. I'm trying to stop the train but T6 Loras and Brienne have been BH as well and I have 3KO in the box. I still believe I can stop the push when I sack the Thrower (KO) with Jaime during my turn but the ball lands between Varag and 2 BO. With 5 players on the pitch vs 9 it's a no go. Never fear, I take down what I believe to be his only player within scoring distance during my T7. Alas, he transmits the ball to Varag after clearing the way and the Star Player makes for the endzone. First GFI is a 1, Loner goes through and he makes both GFI to score T8.

I line-up for my T8 with 8 players, the result is a Riot! Feeling hope since my opponent massed towards his EZ, I send 5 players within scoring distance, 1 midfield and 1 to cover the ball carried by my Runner. He surrounds my guys as best he can, none of them goes down. My midfielder goes up to 1D blitz Robb free, but fails the GFI. Damn, here burns my last reroll, it's a ! Oberyn comes up and makes the perfect pass, only for Robb to roll a 2 on the reception. Blasted rain!

Halftime 1-0 Orcs.

I setup heavy on the right with 9 players on the field, and the weather turns to very sunny! Must have been played in Ireland that one

I manage to score in 2 turns, too scared of his Tackle blitzers to stall. In the process I surfed a Blorc but it's only a stun. Double damn.

1-1, I'm back to 10 players, it's still feasible.

Kick-off, Varag takes a rock full in the face and is removed from the pitch, while Jorah is only stunned! Hell yeah!

I try to pressure his carrier but he multiplies the TZs around him and keeps rolling s to thwart my moves. No double skulls for him, he even manages to dodge with his Troll on a missclick Finally I see an opening when he transmits the ball to a Blitzer (still no need of a RR of course), Jaime blitzes and ! Yes! The Thrower catches the bounce! NOO! I try to squeeze him on the sideline and make a wall of players, but it all goes to nothingness when he transmits (still no RR) to a forward blitzer after BH Oberyn and scores T15. He hasn't used a single RR so far.

There will be no riot this time, and I lamely lvl-up my Assassin with a pass (I dunno how to one-turn and I don't think the setup he gave me left me any chance of doing so).

Final score 1-2 Orcs, 1-4 in cas and 1-4 in KO. Here goes my flawless season but I can still make the PO if this doesn't turn into a bad streak. The MVP lands on Rhaegar, meaning 2 lvp-up again and I didn't suffer any permanent injury. Could have been worse I suppose.

Really feel like I failed the critical rolls (to equalise in first half) and he never had much to worry about on his plate. He didn't even use his Bribe.

He told me at the end I should have stalled to aim for the draw, but I really didn't feel it was an easy thing to do, what with casualties and KOs nearly every turn. And both time I sacked his carrier the ball refused to land in a favorable spot for me. Well, s*** happens and it was in interesting game in a good atmosphere anyway.

Next up is the other Dark Elf team, which is now the sole leader of the group with 4-0-0. I'll post more about it after the day has been validated.

Thanks for reading!

[Barristan]

I feel like this is a big favour to ask, but as I am eager to learn from my mistakes, would anyone consider watching the replay of this last game if I upload it and tell me where I could have done better/differently?

Thanks a lot in advance to whoever would agree

[Barninho]

I'll be happy to have a look if you upload it to bbmanager and let me know where it is.

[Barristan]

That's very kind of you!

Sorry to be a pain but would you explain me how to do that? I never used BB manager before

[Barninho]

OK first you need to download bbmanager if you haven't already.

Open bbmanager and then open the game.

Go to Single Player click on load. Select the replay you want to have watched.

Load the replay and watch it (this makes it the automatic choice when you upload). Remember you can press + to fast-forward through the replay and save time.

Click on submit match.

Next to the word league is a drop down menu. Click on it and select 'Crunch Them All' (I will inbox you the password). You might want to select a distinctive week number so that it stands out, but shouldn't be a problem either way.

That should be it.