OT2016 Round 4

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.

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!

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!

I am simply statistics geek, that is why I ask

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.

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...

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

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

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.

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