****************************************************************************** ** ** ** H'Pak Match Summary for 2002 0105: ** ** ** ****************************************************************************** _____________________________________________________________________________ +020105 2054 BIKT Tamaerlin^ StB - Baak/Kaor Wins Tamaerlin / Tamrlin (light) 2v2: Terd St. Ain & Illikon, Baak'lor & Kaor The Bacon gets lodged on the NKI/TS side of the map early and is captured by Baak/Kaor shortly after. Even after a Wight blast it still remains on the NKI/TS side of the map. Baak/Kaor suffer a nasty rebound accident and NKI/TS get some good shots in from the high ground on the Ice Field. Meanwhile, Baak/Kaor sneak a Dorf Assassin in from behind who takes out several melee units one at a time. At the end it looks like a tough battle for Baak/Kaor to reclaim the Bacon, but NKI/TS's Warriors don't notice the massive army slipping between them and the Ghols grab it! Great Game! _____________________________________________________________________________ +$020105 2112 BIKT Tamaerlin^ StB - Baak/Kaor Wins Tamaerlin / Tamrlin (light) 2v2: Terd St. Ain & Illikon, Baak'lor & Kaor Baak/Kaor grab the Bacon and set up in a strong defensive position at their starting area. Some small scrimages early in the game, all contributing to the tense atmosphere surrounding the stand-off. The final battle is one huge two-front assault with 2 minutes remaining, but it's a bit too much (though close) for NKI/TS to overcome. Great Game! _____________________________________________________________________________ 020105 2134 BIT Tamaerlin StB - TS Wins Tamaerlin / Tallow Abbey (Dark) 2v1: Baak'lor & Illikon, Terd St. Ain Although Baak/NKI get the Bacon and bring back to their starting area, they suffered a few extra hits to one of their two Trow... This combined with an excellent TS Blitz (notably Ghols shredding Soulless) and taking out the Baak/NKI Trow, spells victory for TS. _____________________________________________________________________________ +020105 2154 BIT Picket Fe^ KoH - TS Wins Picket Fences / Picket Fences - Light Side FFA: Terd St. Ain, Baak'lor, Illikon LOL!! You *gotta* see this one - maybe more than once! :) Baaks pulls the *same* move from the *same* position against the *same* enemy (TS) in the *same* position! Firing a couple of random Rocket shots which nail TS's Sak Cannon and a couple of Dorfs, reducing his army to 57%! Yikes! Baak's luck begins to turn as a random Rocket shot into what is currently unknown territory *rebounds* off NKI's Sak Cannon! OMG! (NKI's Sak Cannon hits this Dorf shortly after! lol!) Whereas NKI has a nice random Rocket shot that is a *direct hit* against Baak's Sak Cannon! LOL!! Also TS gets a good shot in from *way* across the field with his remaining Dorf, nailing one of Baak's! Once Baak figures out where NKI is and sees his Sak Cannon he ends up sending in some Warriors to take it out. The survivors go across the field to hunt down TS's remaining Dorf. One finally makes it there and survives a rebound - the second shot kills *both* the Warrior and the Dorf! Meanwhile Baak and NKI have each sent a small group of Warriors (NKI also has a Journeyman) to within spitting distance of each other, but neither side auto-attacks! Once they do see each other it is a brutal hand-to-hand battle ending in NKI having a couple of survivors, including the J-Man. But... Baak has been moving up his last Dorf and *just* as NKI's J-Man is healing, he sends in a Rocket which takes them *all* out! This is a *must see* on the film, as it looks *really* funny! (Both NKI and Baak laughed in the game!) :) And you *must* watch the ending! Baak's Dorf is *completely jinxed* as he fires rebound after rebound - several misses - two hits (one of which almost kills his last remaining friendly unit, a J-Man!) - a couple more rebounds (against a charging TS Warrior) including one that bounces back into a shed and almost kills him - *and* two Rockets that are *absorbed* by this same Warrior, one of which is post-game! **VERY FUNNY TO WATCH!!!** Nicely played, TS! While NKI and I were killing each other, you were busy winning the [KoH] game! LOL!! _____________________________________________________________________________ +020105 2218 BIT Gothic v1 KoH - TS Wins Gothic v1 / Gothic (Dark FFA) FFA: Terd St. Ain, Baak'lor, Illikon Even though TS started in the middle, it ended up being a NKI Sandwich. Some *great* mini battles in this well-balanced KoH game! TS was relentless with getting time on the flag however, and even when one of Baak's Mauls succeeds in getting to TS's last Dorf (after both Baak's and TS's Dorfs are reduced to Red Health), Baak didn't actually see the kill and thought he was still alive! (even though he sent the Maul in there to do just that!) So, although Baak could have overwhelmed TS, his tentative approach lost the game and TS takes it with 0:31 extra on the flag! Nicely played! _____________________________________________________________________________ *020105 2241 BIT Hedgerow Cps - TS Wins Hedgerow / Bustle In Your Hedge-row (wacky) FFA: Terd St. Ain, Baak'lor, Illikon OMG! What a Game!! Out of eight starting positions, NKI and Baak are right next to each other - and you know what *that* means! NKI and Baak go at it for quite some time, with several good mini battles. Baak manages to sneak a Dorf around to take out one of NKI's Warlocks. NKI takes his remaining Dorf army (and there are still *most* of them remaining) into the map to hunt for points. Meanwhile, TS is racking them up! While trying to dislodge a stuck ball, Baak is suddenly face-to-face with NKI's *entire* Dorf Army! (In fact, Baak's dislodge shot explodes two of NKI's Dorf's unexploded grenades!). Baak dodges NKI's first barage of shots and gets *one shot in* before being toasted by several NKI grenades. But - it's enough to kill a couple of NKI's Dorfs which starts a *HUGE* cascade explosion (and I mean *HUGE*!!) that quickly takes out *all* of NKI's Dorfs! It's quite a sight! *Dozens of flares!!* But the clock is ticking! Baak pushes one ball back towards his home base only to be intercepted by a TS Dorf. Baak loses the exchange of mortar vs. grenade and must chase down this Dorf who now has the *deciding* ball! The ball is lodged at the end of the outer path and the two Dorfs launch grenades at each other. They are *both* standing after the first volley - but the second one *kills them both*!! Unfortunately for Baak, the death of TS's Dorf leaves a *pile* of flares by the ball which launch the ball *right* into TS's home base!! OMG!! GAME OVER!!! _____________________________________________________________________________ +020105 2302 BIT Nowhere_t Asn - TS and NKI tie for Win Nowhere_to_run / Nowhere To Run FFA: Terd St. Ain, Baak'lor, Illikon After Baak and NKI have a brief but nastly battle leaving them both wounded suddenly TS shows up with the Fetch From Hell and quickly reduces Baak to 38%! Followed by a very long range NKI Warlock strike (his Warlock was really hot against Baak) Baak is down to 25%! From there Baak cannot escape and loses his Heron (the Assassin Target) to TS's Dorf... Now begins an amazing battle between TS and NKI where TS manages to take out NKI's last Archer while he's being healed, and NKI sneaks in and takes out TS's Heron with a Heron plus Maul attack - it's *really* close at the end! The game ends with both TS and NKI having 1 kill, thus a 2-way tie. _____________________________________________________________________________ 020105 2327 BIT averyidi StB - Baak Wins averyidi.0 / Frost on the Badlands FFA: Terd St. Ain, Baak'lor, Illikon TS grabs the Bacon and has a brief stand-off with NKI. Then TS moves the Bacon to try and insight a NKI-Baak battle - he takes it straight into Baak's waiting army! Baak starts to take the Bacon away, only to confront TS's army who is coming around attempting to sandwich. Baak gives the Bacon up to NKI and waits. Meanwhile, TS has circled back around the other side of NKI and now it's a NKI Sandwich! Baak manages a Forest Giant Sneak and takes out several of NKI's Knights. The end is one *massive* 3-way battle - there are pieces of Stygian Armour and Forest Giant leaves *everywhere*!! _____________________________________________________________________________ 020105 2353 BIT Around th Cps - TS Wins Around the Bend M2 / Around the Bend FFA: Terd St. Ain, Baak'lor, Illikon A funny sequence as Baak's Ghol goes on a brief Odyssey with the tie-breaker ball - first almost dumping the ball in the river near NKI, and then dodging NKI's Wight and Ghols (with some help from Baak's Zerks). ...I'm not sure what Baak's Army has been smokin' - they seem a bit *slow*!! Watch as TS's infiltrating Ghols start to tear apart Baak's Archers and go for his Dorf - Baak's Zerks just sit there watching! lol! Baak had to *make* them attack! Followed by a friendly fire *disaster* (with Ghol Bombs!) it was definitely going to be either TS or NKI! So much for the big 3-way ending fight! :) _____________________________________________________________________________ +020106 0013 BIT A Borderl Cps - NKI Wins A Borderland Odyssey / Aqualonian Killing Spree FFA: Terd St. Ain, Baak'lor, Illikon Dang is it *hard* to move the balls on this map, *or what?!* Baak only briefly saw TS after Baak attempts to dislodge a ball on the wall (which Baak's Ghol took there on auto-pilot!) only to have it get blasted *through* the wall and stuck on the other side! Ha! Of course when he goes around to get it he is greeted by a *large* group of TS's army! Whoops! Suddenly TS's home area has been invaded by NKI and when he returns he finds NKI's *entire* army there! Watch TS's Warriors come back towards home and have NKI's two archers - who are both pushing balls - go *right* between them! LOL!! This one comes *right* down to the wire!! Baak *just* captures back the ball that went through the wall which takes the game to Sudden Death and within *a second or two* NKI gets another ball and wins the game!! Nice!! _____________________________________________________________________________ 020106 0035 BIT Around th KoH - NKI Wins Around the Bend M2 / Around the Bend FFA: Terd St. Ain, Baak'lor, Illikon Oh man! This would have been *such* a great Bacon ending!! ... But it's not a Bacon game, it's KoH using a ball!! Baak suffers a Bacon Flashback, but makes the end of the game *much* more interesting, as NKI has it won with minutes to spare... Check out the battle on the Bridge! _____________________________________________________________________________ 020106 0056 BIT Nowhere_t StB - Baak Wins Nowhere_to_run / Nowhere To Run FFA: Terd St. Ain, Baak'lor, Illikon NKI pins Baak down at the "behind the lake" position (which only has one way in or out) and the two of them pick at each other for several minutes! NKI takes the Bacon and waits for TS and Baak to come for it. TS sneaks in a Fetch attack that takes out NKI's Warlock and Dorf, while NKI takes out most of TS's Archers and the Fetch. From there they duke it out leaving NKI with some Archers and Mauls remaining. After a good Archer exchange with several fire arrows, NKI takes the Bacon across the map. But the map is too small and there are just too many things to get hung up on... _____________________________________________________________________________ +020106 0108 BIT Battle Ar StB - TS Wins Battle Arena 2.0 / The Demolition Arena FFA: Terd St. Ain, Baak'lor, Illikon *FUNK*!! A *super short* game (5 minutes) that comes down to the very last minute... NKI and TS duke it out for most of the beginning of the game. TS finally tags the bacon but loses his Ghol in the massive ring of satchel charges. Baak tags and then grabs the Bacon and starts running with it. Baak's Heron is severely wounded by Ghol Satchels and is destroyed by NKI at the Bacon. Baak gets a couple of sneak Ghol Satchels in on NKI but doesn't have anyone at the Bacon! TS comes in and tags the Bacon - Baak takes out TS's units at the Bacon with more Ghol Satchels but can't get to the Bacon in time! TS wins with *no units remaining*!! NICE!!! _____________________________________________________________________________ Legend: * = Game Of The Week + = Game Of The Week Runner Up $ = Deciding Game for The Sacred Sword & Axe of Shaal'a Manx s = Slide Show Notes: ______________________________________________________________________________