****************************************************************************** ** ** ** H'Pak Match Summary for 2002 0205 through 2002 0209: ** ** ** ****************************************************************************** _____________________________________________________________________________ +020205 2226 BNT Green Par Stm - Baak Wins Green Paradise v1.1 / Green Hell FFA: Baak'lor, Terd St. Ain, Nokilli Stampede! with Wights! *And* water everywhere! Crazy fun! TS goes for the "defend the Stampede Flag" position, and Baak sneaks in some pesky Ghols that take out TS's Fetch and Warlock... There's a really funny sequence where NKI has his Wights in a circle - I call this the "Ring of Fire" - watch what happens when one of them is attacked! :) _____________________________________________________________________________ 020205 2244 BNT StoneHear^ LoH - TS Wins StoneHeart_return / Stone Heart: Chaos FFA: Nokilli, Baak'lor, Terd St. Ain Another soon-to-be-classic map! This is a great one! Because this game was LMOH, 90% of it is at the very end, but watch for one of Baak's Ghols that pulls off a sweet double-mortar-Dorf kill: first eluding NKI's Dorf and Stygian Knight; then watching as TS's Dorf kills NKI's Knight; then sneaking in close enough to NKI's Dorf that he kills him hand-to-hand; followed by a *lucky* dud from TS's Dorf; followed by a T-attack (these are T-Ghols) with pus at very long range to stun TS's Dorf and then kill him! And he walked away unharmed! lol! The quintessential T-Ghol! But there's a funny counter to this: Baak's Dorfs are *awful* and manage to kill half of themselves with friendly fire! Funny bit: watch the film *after* the final whistle and keep your eye on TS's Dorfs on the hill - their celebration is abruptly interrupted! Funny on film! _____________________________________________________________________________ 020205 2254 BNT StoneHear^ Asn - Draw: NKI & Baak StoneHeart_return / Stone Heart: Chaos FFA: Nokilli, Baak'lor, Terd St. Ain Assassin is tough to play 3-way FFA since it's fairly easy to have a draw... NKI and TS start *right* next to each other (sound familiar?) - NKI launches an all-out attack on TS. Watch *carefully* (I slowed it down to 1/16 to see this) as TS's Heron Hero *just* dies on one of the very last pus packets from NKI's SpiderWight. It appears that the Heron Hero's health was knocked down *just enough* by NKI's Archers to do the job. This was much closer than it originally appears! Baak hunts down NKI shortly after with a SpiderWight and then a relentless squad of Stygian Knights. The game ends quickly - but is a draw. _____________________________________________________________________________ 020205 2313 BNT Dun_Caric^ Cps - Baak Wins Dun_Caric / Dun Caric (dark) FFA: Nokilli, Baak'lor, Terd St. Ain OK, you think *14* balls on the field is enough?!? :) This one is *crazy* with lots of little battles and about a million announce- ments of "Ball Captured" - "Ball Lost"... Watch the end where TS and Baak both start frantically tagging balls with their remaining SpiderWights! A couple go uncontested... _____________________________________________________________________________ *020205 2333 BNT MSC_v2 ^ StB - Baak Wins MSC_v2 / Moon Shadow Cave (Dark) FFA: Nokilli, Baak'lor, Terd St. Ain Oh man, this was a *tense* one!! Baak has taken the Bacon to a defensive position, only to find that he is sandwiched between TS and NKI! Lucky for him TS has been *hammered* by two SpiderWights - first from NKI right at the start of the game (taking out roughly 50% of his army!), and then from Baak a bit later that shaves off another 25% or so... While NKI is attacking Baak from one side, TS comes up and takes the Bacon from the other side and moves it directly under a NKI defended cliff! NKI has *two* Fetches and *two* Mortar Dorfs on this hill! After TS's demise, it's up to Baak to get it back - he loses 25% of his army (half of what remained at this point) trying to run and grab it. Needless to say this does *not* work against NKI's defense! Baak manages to sneak in a flank attack but has a Mortar Dorf "dud" at *the worst possible moment* - the mortar drops harmlessly at the feet of *both* of NKI's Dorfs! lol! NKI quickly dispatches the offending Baak Dorf... Baak is being shredded by NKI's height advantage, so he decides to attack the Bacon instead and launches it away from the cliff. NKI sneaks in a solo Myrk who goes running with the Bacon, but Baak hunts him down relentlessly with a pair of Mauls and a Fetch. The Bacon finally gets stuck and Baak overwhelms the Myrk in the final seconds... GREAT GAME!! _____________________________________________________________________________ 020205 2351 BNT Redsand_v^ StB - TS Wins Redsand_v1 / Red Sand, Black Blood (Trow) FFA: Nokilli, Baak'lor, Terd St. Ain TS grabs the Bacon and takes it to the corner for a final massive defense - which works well! NKI and Baak both take *way* too long to show up... _____________________________________________________________________________ 020209 0006 BT Barrens 1^ StB - Baak Wins Barrens 1.1 / The Barrens Beer and Mud FFA 2: Baak'lor, Terd St. Ain Baak's SpiderWights are devastating... _____________________________________________________________________________ 020209 0112 BT StoneHear^ LoH - Baak Wins StoneHeart_return / StoneHeart: Pathfinder Battle FFA 2: Baak'lor, Terd St. Ain TS goes for a sneak on Baak's waiting Mauls; Baak leads TS into his own Dorf trap and it's one big fight at the end! _____________________________________________________________________________ +020209 0140 BT StoneHear^ LoH - Baak Wins StoneHeart_return / Stone Heart: Two Armies FFA 2: Baak'lor, Terd St. Ain Played with Rocket Dorfs *and* Sak Cannons!! LOL!! Check out the post-end-game Celebration Blast!! :) _____________________________________________________________________________ 020209 2028 BKT Garden of^ StB - Baak Wins Garden of Segesta v1_1 / Garden of Segesta (Dark) v1.1 FFA 3: Baak'lor, Terd St. Ain, Kaor SpiderWights are nasty! TS gets *hammered* by *both* Kaor and Baak! Kaor sneaks a SpiderWight into Baak's defending army - *but* Baak sneaks one in on Kaor at the same time and catches him a bit bunched... BOOOM! _____________________________________________________________________________ 020209 2047 BKT BaronsBac^ StB - Baak Wins BaronsBackyard1_1 / Baron's Backyard (Dark) 1.1 FFA 3: Baak'lor, Kaor, Terd St. Ain Kaor and Baak have a couple of small exchanges at the start - after Baak goes for Kaor's Wights (non-SpiderWight) that are in the water only knee-deep! Baak sneaks in a couple of Ghols against TS's waiting army and the two of them have the big battle around the Bacon while a part of TS's army is being attacked by Kaor on the flank too far away to Contest... _____________________________________________________________________________ 020209 2106 BKT Dun_Caric^ LoH - TS Wins Dun_Caric / Dun Caric (dark) FFA 3: Kaor, Terd St. Ain, Baak'lor TS does a nice underwater Soulless Wight blast while Baak sneaks in a Wight to do some damage to TS's army (more psychological than physical!). Kaor and Baak take too long to get to the flag at the end, and TS takes it without a fight! lol!! _____________________________________________________________________________ 020209 2122 BKT Dun_Caric^ StB - Baak Wins Dun_Caric / Dun Caric FFA 3: Kaor, Baak'lor, Terd St. Ain Baak grabs the Bacon only to have it stolen by Kaor - but it gets stuck. Baak brings in a SpiderThrall to dislodge it and runs into a TS Ghol Squad on the way back to base. Baak takes it home and - watch the SpiderThrall take the Bacon up the side of the hill and then back down! He's on auto-pilot!! There's a *huge* fight at the end but Baak manages to keep it uncontested. _____________________________________________________________________________ +020209 2138 BKT Green Par^ StB - Kaor Wins Green Paradise v1.1 / Green Hell FFA 3: Kaor, Baak'lor, Terd St. Ain Kaor takes the Bacon and TS gets it for a little while, slightly off-center of the map; Baak lobs his one good Sak Cannon shot directly into TS's Thrall Squad; Baak fails to do any major damage to TS other than a couple of Herons taken out. The big fight comes at the end with Baak charging the Bacon under Kaor's Saks, followed by attacking the Saks, followed by TS coming in from the other side! Kaor is sandwiched! But Kaor manages to keep the upper hand and takes it! Great Game! _____________________________________________________________________________ +020209 2156 BKT Green Par^ StB - Baak Wins Green Paradise v1.1 / Green Paradise FFA 3: Kaor, Baak'lor, Terd St. Ain Baak grabs the Bacon and does a "top-of-the-hill" defense, which begins to feel a bit shaky as he realizes he is in the middle of a Kaor-TS Sandwich! And the hilltop is *mighty tight* for space! The end battle is a good one, and it looks like it could go to anybody at one point. Then Baak's Dorf *just* dies in the flames on the side of the hill (because a friendly Warrior blocked his path! lol!) - when he drops the satchels, it blows the Bacon out into the nearby pool with less than 30 seconds remaining!! Baak races and bumps it the wrong way (duh!) - but it's *just* out of reach to be contested when the final whistle blows... Great Game!! _____________________________________________________________________________ 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: Extra films included in the zip are TS/Baak Co-ops on Landing at White Falls using Rocket Dorfs! Too crazy!! :) ______________________________________________________________________________