OT2016 Round 4

Game 1
Togan Alper (Sertorian) 2 banners vs Greg O (Roman) 6 banners

Game 2
Togan Alper (Roman) 5 banners vs Greg O (Sertorian) 6 banners

Game 1
Stonewall/Joe (Sertorian) 6 banners vs stormwalker/Marcin (Roman) 4 banners
Game 2
stormwalker/Marcin (Sertorian) 6 banners vs Stonewall/Joe (Roman) 1 banner

We played two very similar games. In both of them, Sertorians took a defensive position, which served them very well. In both games, Romans tried frontal assaults and failed at it. In the second game, a slightly more favorable cards and quite few lucky rolls helped Sertorians to secure a more convincing victory. We only post the log file for the second game as we experienced very annoying connection and sync problems in the first game.

end of the month coming up, please get the outstanding games played this weekend!

a warning about update Java to version 8, VASSAL then won't run. SO those with outstanding Open games should hold off until a fix is found..

VASSAL forum discussion of the problem
www.vassalengine.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9281

Rome's Lucky Day
Game 1
Tony Armada (Sertorian) 2 banners vs Mark McG (Roman) 6 banners
Some lucky dice for the Romans here, including a 4 dice kill on a Sertorian MED, but culminating in a 2d Leader check killing Herennius for the final banner.


Game 2
Mark McG (Sertorian) 1 banners vs Tony Armada (Roman) 6 banners
Sertorians were holding their own in this one until a Roman First Strike card eliminated a whole Sertorian MED and also Herennius in one strike. All downhill for the Sertorians from there. Perpenna raced forward, but simply couldn't reach. Sertorians lucky to get a banner.


not a good day to be Herennius...

Game 1
scipio1zama/Mike (Romans) 6 - Kirk/Paul (Sertorians) 1
This game took place totally in the Roman center and left, and nobody ever even moved on the Roman right/Sertorian left. As the Romans, I was blessed with good cards, including a leader card in the correct section and a Line Command, and was able to do much damage to the Sertorian center and right, including the early elimination of Herennius which pretty much doomed Sertorian efforts in the center. My opponent was also plagued with under- performing dice. He played Darken the Skies and tossed 18 dice without a single hit! If it weren't for bad luck, he'd have had no luck at all.

Game 2
scipio1zama/Mike (Sertorians) 6 - Kirk/Paul (Romans) 4
The Romans attacked first in the center, then on their left, then on their right. Unfortunately, they were unable to get their leaders up into the battle in any of the sections, and suffered as a result. I was again blessed with adequate cards, in spite of only having a hand of four I always seemed to have what I needed - including 3 Line Commands in a row near the end of the game that allowed me to pursue weakened units.

I am simply statistics geek, that is why I ask

Yes, I've calculated strength of opposition for each player for each round as we've progressed and sent these along to Mark as it's important for working out the rankings and pairings. He can publish them if he wants......probably not relevant for previous rounds now but maybe for the next round and the final standings after the Swiss stage is complete.

Brent.

mk20336 wrote: Mark, Brent,

General question:
I remember that in OT2015 in tournament table we not only had points, but also strenght of player you won with. That helped to break ties.
Can you do something like this after round 4 and 5?

Thanks!

Mark, Brent,

General question:
I remember that in OT2015 in tournament table we not only had points, but also strenght of player you won with. That helped to break ties.
Can you do something like this after round 4 and 5?

Thanks!

Game 1
Sharpe/Michael (Romans) 4 - Cavie/Dan (Sertorian) 6

Game 2
Cavie/Dan (Romans) 6 - Sharpe/Michael (Sertorian) 4

I definitely had the luck of the dice in both games here. Michael played well and had me on my heels especially when he played the Sertorian side. A mounted charge I saved from the beginning of the game was the last play of our 2nd game and it basically did not miss - even with a hesitant bonus attack that ended up hitting a 1 block unit on an evade and then a 1d leader kill. Game could have went either way there.

Game 1

Travis (Romans) 6 - Tomek (Sertorian) 0

Romans were able to close, despite furious and accurate Sertorian missile fire. The issue was decided on the Roman left, as three MI were able to reap the benefits of a Clash of Shields card and disrupt the Sertorian line.

Game 2

Tomek (Romans) 6 - Travis (Sertorian) 4

The Roman missile fire was steady and accurate, and forced the Sertorian left into a series of ill-advised manuevers. Fortunately for the Sertorians, they were able to pick off a few Roman units before meeting their inevitable defeat.

Interesting, I don't believe there were any casualties at all on the smaller side of the battle, as the fighting was decided on the Roman right both games.

Game 1
MichalK (Romans) 6 banners vs Carthage (Sertorian) 1 banner

That game went pretty quickly. Started with skirmish of light troops, quickly changed to full scale assault of Roman Mi in the center. Despite reatreat, Perpenna moving to assitance and huge counterattack - Sertorian forces were no match for Romans this day...

Game 2
MichalK (Sertorian) 6 banners vs Carthage (Romans) 3 banners

Very interesting game. Light units skirmish lasted much longer then in first game. Sertorian archers and slingers were very effective (although some of their damage was nullified by Rally). One of decisive moments was battle inthe middle, where Pompey the Great decided to fall (instead of Egypt...) which definitely changed the game. We started kind of "dance of death" - Casper with one block MC, I with two one block AUX, not to mention some 2 and 3 blocks...
Eventually, bold moves by Sertorian forces gained needed last two banners and history was changed...

As I was disconnected during second game, log for that game is in two parts.

A couple of clarifications on the Scenario Special Rule:

1. A leader is not technically a unit and the left flank Sertorian leader is deceptively pictured as a grey Roman in the Vassal module, BUT in the spirit of the of the special rule was pretty clearly that the leaders shouldn’t cross to each others' command. The special rule is supposed to simulate that the two Sertorian generals couldn’t agree on command…..so it makes no sense that their units won’t cooperate but they will.

2. Rally orders the units that have blocks returned to them, whether you do something with that order or not. The special rule says you can’t order units from both commands with a single card play……therefore you couldn’t rally them with a single Rally play.

3. Similarly, Spartacus cannot be used to order units from different Sertorian forces.

Oops, forgot score
Game 1 BrentS (Sertorians) 5 banners vs Gonzo (Romans) 6 banners

Game 2 Brent S (Romans) 2 banners vs Gonzo (Sertorians) 6 banners

Game 1

BrentS (Sertorians) # banners vs Gonzo (Romans) # banners

Tight battle where Sertorians fought very well without leaders. Roman archer on little used right flank was dead eye shot and got last banner.

Game 2

BrentS (Romans) # banners vs Gonzo (Sertorians) # banners

Romans started with 2 line commands, looked grim for Sertorians, but leadership in center killed 3 of 4 legions with Pompey and hid 2-1 point units. Sertorian right then crushed, but M-F-M allowed all the light to escape and killed a unit with missiles on the way. Sertorian desperation Cav charge with 1 pt MC killed damaged Roman MC and leader for win. Suprising and sudden reverse of fortune. Fig loss relatively equal at 21-19.
Thanks to Brent for great match.

Game 1
EZPickins (Roman) 6 banners vs gcallari (Sertorian) 5 banners

The Romans keep on peppering the, well, other Romans with their slingers until the latter lose patience and, with the help of good cards, charge massively with mixed results, until they lose a leader and the whole center. All is not gone as the left wing of the Sertorians charges, too, sending the score to a disturbing 5-5, but the roman right wing holds and wins the day.

Game 2
gcallari (Roman) 6 banners vs EZPickins (Sertorian) 4 banners

The foolhardy Romans start the battle charging with a lone MC (poor equines), then advance en masse and wreck the Sertorian center, but at a high cost in casualties. At this point the Sertorians try to do their best, but are frustrated by a bad hand of cards and are slowly eroded by the relentless Romans. The left wing of the Sertorians has not been able to do a single move in the whole game.

After all, it seems Sertorius is not at too big a disadvantage. But he needs a bit of luck.

Sorry. The pairings were missing a line..

Tomek - taliaphaoroah

Brent.

Hi Mark,
It seems that I am missing from the tournament table.

Record results below in the form
Game 1
Player 1 (Side) # banners vs Player 2 (Side) # banners
short description
Game 2
Player 1 (Side) # banners vs Player 2 (Side) # banners
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