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Only five days left till season 13 of the Blackbox Trophy and the IRONDWARF Trophy will come to an end. So pack your stuff and get on the pitch, it is time for some last minute glory!

Since it is the first season for IDT I am going to focus on this and leave the BBT and Steel Gauntlet entries to the more experienced once.

This is only a preliminary view since there are still five days left for all those ambitious coaches out there to make a difference... and maybe that is the reason for this blog post: Tease them to act!



While Naama, fixii and spinball as coaches are outstanding there is also a tendency on rosters with Norse and Amazon, Dwarf, Orc, but also Necromantic Horror that got earned more than others.

EDIT: Sorry I forgot to mention before: The overall lead with 20! wins of Fermano with his Lizards is really an outstanding achievement (IMO).


The following overview shows the current roster leads



Naama and Elyod are leading the pack here... at least for those rosters I can evaluate. Ogre and Hafling have no entries in the Top100 and thus I cannot see who is leading there.

As said before: If you want to make a difference to this preliminary standing, get your teams ready and play some Blackbox games!

Cheers,
Chris

PS: Please excuse the poor visuals / excel spreadsheed screenshots.

PSS: This has all been done manually. If you find any discrepancies, please feel free to contact me.

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This has been made by a very good friend of mine. Go berserk on that "Like" button, he needs all the support he can get.

Let me lay out the rules I looked at and then post the question, so you all know I tried to find this on my own.

Add 1 to any Armour or Injury roll made by a player with this skill when an opponent is Knocked Down by this player during a block. Note that you only modify one of the dice rolls, so if you decide to use Mighty Blow to modify the Armour roll, you may not modify the Injury roll as well. ***Mighty Blow cannot be used with the Stab or Chainsaw skills.***

Chainsaw says NOTHING about MB under itself.

I recently played a game where I blitzed a chainsaw, got a 3 and a 1 for the dice and the +3 chainsaw did not break. But my tree had mighty blow. Should I not be able to apply MB to that AV roll?

I think I should because my player is not the one USING the chainsaw so Im not actually combining it with anything. OR are the rules interpretted to say as the attacker, I am using the opps chainsaw for a +3 so I cannot use my mb with it?

unfortunately I won't be able to get back online properly until the 10th May, when I'll get out of the hospital.
so, to everyone who has business with one of my teams, I guess I'll have to forfeit.
Take care, drink enough water, avoid ultra-processed foods and unnecessary salt.
see you there
A

Springtime in the northern hemisphere. Everything is growing and starting to bloom. A new beginning in nature... So why not do something new in BB as well?

As I wrote in my prior post, I finished the ‘all Elf BBT run’ beginning of April and enrolled to the Elven Union and Necromantic Horror XLF as well as to the O[L]C Lightweight Championship.

Since I did not have too much experience with (scheduled) tournaments, this was a bit too much at once and I needed to face the consequences. I did not find the time to schedule all three round one games without risking to tear the deadline and thus decided to drop from the Elven Union XLF in time to prevent a delay for the whole tournament. While I knew this meant one less game for my opponent (Sorry Solaris!), I thought open and timely communication may be more important than sticking to the tournament (even if Elven Union is one of my favourite rosters!) as long as possible and creating a delay for the rest of the coaches.

And very soon I experienced the other side of the coin in the second XLF. I completed my round 1 match two days before the communicated deadline on April 9th. Unfortunately, the other two coaches could not agree upon a time for their match, and I needed to wait till April 14th for the coinflip decision on who would be my opponent in round 2, only to wait another 4 days for the forwarded coach to communicate that he will not play our match. I do not want to judge this, because I do not know the underlying reasons. Just wanted to bring this up as an example what can happen in a tournament as well. So, I played only one match, et voila I face Java in the final.

Compared to that the O[L]C Lightweight went as intended. All games were played! And with the help of Nuffle I was able to win the cup with the ‘Sisters of the Lake’ (Avelorn).

To fill the free slots that open spontaneously and cannot be filled with scheduled tournament or league games, I decided to try Norse. After all that Elven rosters - which I still love - a bit more bashing. WaffleIron convinced me with some of his comments in the 145 Discord channel that they may be fun and so I gave them a go. Without any real intention. But after 8 games and a record of 7/0/1, I may try to win the remaining 4 matches (one win not counting towards the IDT score because I messed up the first match and did not play it in the blackbox) to earn the IDT Norse badge... If time and Nuffle allows!

So, here we are 8 days left in the season. Having won my first ever tournament, facing the legend Java in another final, one of the IDT badges within reach and still hoping for a lucky slot in the Steel Gauntlet... Two weeks in April can really mean some changes!

Cheers,
Chris


EDIT I: I wrote about the patience I needed during the scheduled XLF, but this can also happen in a blackbox or Gamefinder match. I think the Disconnection procedure is very good and if all coaches act in good faith and understand/respect the coach on the other side of the line there should be no problems. But sometimes things happen that ask for some patience... even more that close to the end of the season.

Update: I managed to get in 11 wins with the Norse and thus earned the IDT badge. The team is Not yet frozen, but reached end-of-season state and I will not re-draft it, but consider using them in a tournament.

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It's that time again! Hopefully the Secret League and especially Secret League STUNTY folks have been feeding up their stunty teams, because the Fifth Annual Secret League Stunty Cup is, once again, upon us.

We shall have an elimination tournament, and it shall be glorious. At my count, there's twenty-two possible rosters, but these guys are small and easy to overlook... I might have missed some. The winner gets their stunty team's name inscribed on the BIG plaque in Secret League headquarters.

Enrollment is open now. Get your team signed up... don't miss out.
(Imagine those sad little eyes lookup up at your if you miss out on team enrollment. Don't do it! Don't disappoint them!)