6 hours ago, Ardaedhel said:

Lol, thanks. That actually just hit me today as I was thinking back through the game. There are a couple of other minor errors in that game too, but none should be too earth shattering. I noticed yesterday that he uses CF to get a flotilla flak shot at Ciena at one point, and I think I recall another error as well. I don't think either was a major game changer though.

This is clearly evidence of institutional cheating and I demand everyone in this tournament, except me is immediately disqualified.

6 hours ago, Viktor Tanek said:

Not that it matters but don't I get points for a bye?

Fixed.

Round 3

Rankings

12 hours ago, Green Knight said:

2: @realadmirals VS @Dr Alex

11 hours ago, Ginkapo said:

Come on then @Dr alex lets see you 10-1 RealAd to get into the eliminations.

On 9/21/2017 at 2:36 PM, Ginkapo said:

Real Ad just rolled 8 dmg 4 accs against my MC30.

On 9/13/2017 at 2:31 AM, Green Knight said:

4: @realadmirals VS @Tokra - Match Results: @Tokra is the winner

On 9/13/2017 at 2:31 AM, Green Knight said:

6: @Visovics VS @realadmirals - Match Results: @realadmirals is the winner 80 to 262

On 9/7/2017 at 1:48 AM, Green Knight said:

5 @realadmirals 9 182 6.5

On 9/19/2017 at 1:43 PM, Ginkapo said:

Real Admiral vs Gink

On 8/31/2017 at 3:50 AM, Rearadmiralsdoitinspace said:

Second half of abandoned Visovics v Realadmirals happening right now... grab your morning (or midnight) popcorn!

REAR OR REAL??

Real

1 minute ago, Ginkapo said:

Real

As in Spanish ROYAL oc.

But... but that's not his name.

7 minutes ago, Ardaedhel said:

But... but that's not his name.

I think in Vassal it may be. . .

3 minutes ago, GhostofNobodyInParticular said:

I think in Vassal it may be. . .

In Vassal he has fallen for the, please enter your real name trap.

10 minutes ago, Ginkapo said:

In Vassal he has fallen for the, please enter your real name trap.

Quote

C:\Users\YOUR USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\VASSAL\prefs\Star_20_Wars_20_Armada

Open it up in Notepad and change the RealName key.

In other news, it seems the Armada module saves off that password you gave it in plaintext in this file. Hey @Green Knight, that's bad, is that something you can fix--probably by removing the password entirely, since who even uses that? Looks like it's a feature of the engine. *shudder*

And after reading a little background on the development history of Vassal and looking at the state of their code... I might start playing Vassal in a VM that gets shut down when I'm not using it. >.> That's an intrusion waiting to happen right there.

User name can be changed at any time, even while logged in, through files - preferences - personal or something.

Login is vassal, not module, so any security issues are outside my scope.

6 hours ago, Ardaedhel said:

REAR OR REAL??

5 hours ago, Ardaedhel said:

But... but that's not his name.

This is all very true - was waiting how long it would take for someone to notice...

It was rear, then Mrs Admirals pointed-out it might be a homophobic - so Vassal'd to real. Then realised can't change forum name... so am henceforce sticking with rear (the joke works better that way anyway).

6 hours ago, Rearadmiralsdoitinspace said:

Then realised can't change forum name

You can change your forum name. Just look at me. I went form NobodyInParticular to GhostofNobodyInParticular to ForceGhostofNobodyInParticular back to GhostofNobodyInParticular.

You just have to do it from the Asmodee page, not the FFG page.

2 minutes ago, GhostofNobodyInParticular said:

You can change your forum name. Just look at me. I went form NobodyInParticular to GhostofNobodyInParticular to ForceGhostofNobodyInParticular back to GhostofNobodyInParticular.

You just have to do it from the Asmodee page, no the FFG page.

Thanks for that @GhostofNobodyInParticular

In that case - politically correct version it is :-)

Henceforth, I shall be known as Realadmiralsdoitinspace...

(until it changes again, probably in the next half an hour or so!)

7 hours ago, GhostofNobodyInParticular said:

You can change your forum name. Just look at me. I went form NobodyInParticular to GhostofNobodyInParticular to ForceGhostofNobodyInParticular back to GhostofNobodyInParticular.

You just have to do it from the Asmodee page, not the FFG page.

I don't see why you don't just change it to rearadmiralsdoitfrombehind. Farke the system! And especially farke political correctness!

I seriously thought about the name roguesquadrondoesitfrombehind, but it was too long.

8 hours ago, moodswing5537 said:

I don't see why you don't just change it to rearadmiralsdoitfrombehind. Farke the system!

Not sure taking Insidious in every fleet is a good idea

itzSteve vs. JJ Juggernaut is complete!

itzSteve: 164 - 146 JJ Juggernaut for a 6-5 MOV:18 to itzSteve

We played JJ's Planetary Ion Cannon.

It was a very strange setup as the obstacles were mostly clustered in the center of the table. JJ then made a triangle with the Ion tokens on the left side of the play area. I deployed to the right of the tokens and JJ deployed all his ships on his far right going right into the middle of the tokens. For the first couple of turns, I tried to skirt the edge of the tokens trying to get an angle on his flotillas with my Liberty, but once JJ sped them both up, I was forced to speed up and chase them. The first casualty was one of my A-wings at the end of the third round. At the beginning of the fourth round things began to get interesting. I activated Admo first and one shotted both of JJ's flotillas to even up the ship activations and eliminate his main source to activate squads. JJ used the rest of the round to try and concentrate his firepower to take down Admo. After a ram by a Hammerhead and his flagship, Admo was down to two hull, but with his flagship in the side arc of Admo. This is also where I made my worst decision of the game. Instead of flying my Hammerhead flagship away from the fight, I brought it in thinking I could use it to herd the rest of his ships towards the front arc of my Liberty. After taking down JJ's flagship at the beginning of round 5, Admo ran away from the fight. My Liberty continued to try to take down the hammerheads, but they started drilling the Liberty with External Rack shots which came in the form of two different hammerheads rolling 3 x hit/crit for 6 damage each. I was able to brace both shots however, so the Liberty was able to absorb the damage. Nothing else died until the beginning of round 6 where JJ's last Ion cannon caught my hammerhead flagship with just the tip in range. It downed the hammerhead to make the final score close.

Overall, JJ is always a great opponent who flies his fleets with utmost precision. I have enclosed the logfile: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6Zi9rZaEb3-Q3RNZXVCanFyUzg

Undeadguy vs @BiggsIRL

417 - 65

I was first. Played Contested Outpost.

What a stressful game. Some highlights. Devastator forced my Vic to drop to speed 0 round 1 since I didn't want to take any damage. I thought it was going to be a mistake and almost was. The Vic blew DC to get 2 full attacks against Avenger and Devastator, dropping a fair amount of shields on both. Demo swept in at the bottom of round 2 and pulled a natural Acc on it's side arc (Glad II) and 5 damage against Avenger. Top of round 3 had Demo killing Avenger and setting up an attack run on Devastator. Biggs was unable to get Devastator out of the double arc of the Vic. He opted to beat the Vic with 10 damage (ECM saved me) and a ram. The Vic quad tapped (a new term??) with it's double arc at the bottom of round 3, and double arc at the top of round 4. Devastator had 2 or 3 shields left and 4 hull. The Vic was able to escape a double arc from Devastator, but took some more damage, leaving it at 3 hull and 0 shields. Biggs conceded when Demo was going to activate. We decided Devastator would die and I got the rest of the CO tokens making is 2 to Biggs, and 4 to me. The lone Raider, Triumph, escaped.

Edit: Jonus was the MVP allowing Demo to get 2 Acc which is what really killed Avenger. No Brace and no shields.

Also, Ciena/Valen vs Ciena/Valen is very boring. They tickle each other to death.

37 minutes ago, Undeadguy said:

Undeadguy vs @BiggsIRL

417 - 65

I was first. Played Contested Outpost.

What a stressful game. Some highlights. Devastator forced my Vic to drop to speed 0 round 1 since I didn't want to take any damage. I thought it was going to be a mistake and almost was. The Vic blew DC to get 2 full attacks against Avenger and Devastator, dropping a fair amount of shields on both. Demo swept in at the bottom of round 2 and pulled a natural Acc on it's side arc (Glad II) and 5 damage against Avenger. Top of round 3 had Demo killing Avenger and setting up an attack run on Devastator. Biggs was unable to get Devastator out of the double arc of the Vic. He opted to beat the Vic with 10 damage (ECM saved me) and a ram. The Vic quad tapped (a new term??) with it's double arc at the bottom of round 3, and double arc at the top of round 4. Devastator had 2 or 3 shields left and 4 hull. The Vic was able to escape a double arc from Devastator, but took some more damage, leaving it at 3 hull and 0 shields. Biggs conceded when Demo was going to activate. We decided Devastator would die and I got the rest of the CO tokens making is 2 to Biggs, and 4 to me. The lone Raider, Triumph, escaped.

Edit: Jonus was the MVP allowing Demo to get 2 Acc which is what really killed Avenger. No Brace and no shields.

Also, Ciena/Valen vs Ciena/Valen is very boring. They tickle each other to death.

Blast it, @BiggsIRL. I needed you to split with him!

My game v Irish is beginning now.

And the game goes 170-132, MOV 38 to @Irishmadcat. I was second player and we played my Solar Corona.

His hammerheads proceeded at speed 1 straight across the board, and ate 2 GSDs before my ISD got into range. Between the last GSD and said ISD I accounted for 2 HHs and 2 GR-75s, but his Flagship and the last HH got away. I also didn't kill a single squad of his, though 5 TIEs bit the vacuum of space - or would have, had they not been vaporized by his guns.

VATR4 - Me v Irish.

Pretty much everybody but @jp82729 (sorry dude) still has a shot in NA:W. @SilentSteve needs a 9-2 over @Matt Antilles, who needs a 10-1 (I don't see a scheduled time for this, btw, gents... any outlook?). @Maturin needs a 10-1 to yoink Biggs' spot.

Current wildcard standings:

This is an interesting situation. It looks like wildcard is currently held by @GiledPallaeon (429) and @Rearadmiralsdoitinspace (416).

However the Rear Admiral is also in the EU qualifiers, meaning that if he qualifies there, the wildcard drops down to the next lower MoV. Who is Tokra, who has already qualified. In fact, one of the two of these is true of ALL of the top 15 (I didn't check any further) MoVs, except Pallaeon. But, only one person from each Region can qualify in the qualifiers, so if that person qualifies naturally, their wildcard drops down to the next lower person who did not win a Regional Qualifier.

Which means the absolute lowest possible MoV that could qualify for wildcard--if and only if all of the top MoV slots win their Regional Qualifiers--is 359, held by... me.

So depending how RearAd, mhd, and itzSteve do in their qualifiers, the bar for wildcard is currently at 416, 386, 364, or 359.

Oh I thought only the Wildcard round games counted for that.

Just now, CaribbeanNinja said:

Oh I thought only the Wildcard round games counted for that.

Oh, maybe I misread? I thought the two wildcard slots were the highest MoV in the whole thing, period, and then for the qualifiers it's the top MoV in your Region. So,

#1 overall in NA:W, NA:E, and EU. (3)
Biggest winner in qualifiers in NA:W, NA:E, and EU. (3)
Two highest MoV throughout the whole tourney thus far. (2)

For 8 total.

I could be wrong though.

2 hours ago, Ardaedhel said:

Oh, maybe I misread? I thought the two wildcard slots were the highest MoV in the whole thing, period, and then for the qualifiers it's the top MoV in your Region. So,

#1 overall in NA:W, NA:E, and EU. (3)
Biggest winner in qualifiers in NA:W, NA:E, and EU. (3)
Two highest MoV throughout the whole tourney thus far. (2)

For 8 total.

I could be wrong though.

I too was under the impression this was this way, but wasn't planning to make any presumptions and simply let @Green Knight announce it. Hopefully I can redeem myself from those latter two games of mine. (I intend in no way to detract from @mhd's and @Roquax's wins. Both earned their victories.)