SBVT08 Lesser played scenarios

posted a score update and the American Semi-Finals
rjvonline vs gotigerssc
Cavie vs gonzo
G27 KIZAKIHARA 1572 AD

Mark, I assume that semifinals are round-trips (2 games, alternating sides)? When are results due? Thanks.

rjvonline wrote:

Mark, I assume that semifinals are round-trips (2 games, alternating sides)? When are results due? Thanks.

correct, play twice, swapping sides. Highest cumulative score wins

deadline is 31 March, but let's try and be quicker

Round 3

Mark McG (RED) 1 banner won, 25 blocks lost

Polonus100 (BLUE) 9 banners won, 18 blocks lost
 

Samurai Charge helped  gaining village and routing enemy samurai's attacking to rescue. Infantry onslaught crushed castle garrison. Whole army slowly marched next towards the bridge and gain control over it facing only small counterattack where fell one of my brave generals.  


Round 1

DanieleC (RED) 3 banners won, 23 blocks lost

Polonus100 (BLUE) 5 banners won, 16 blocks lost

 

Tokugawa shoot better than Osaka, so Osaka's samurai unit came from behind the hills and made some trouble among Tokugawa Ashigaru Spearmen. But left wing samurai unit came to rescue and Horse Samurai finished the day. In the last counter attack of Osaka's army two of Osaka's leaders were killed in battle.
Thanks to both of my opponents for interesting and emotional duels.

European Semi Finals are posted
Red Match mk20336 vs Mark McG
Blue Match Polonus100 vs gottoman

I am surprised to make the Semi-Finals.. but I think the Red were quite disadvantaged. Only 11 Red wins in 49 matches...

Two bigger scenarios (R3 and 4) were strongly biased towards Blue. But Michal K could afford to struggle even under such unfavourable circumstances and won decent amount of banners..

Scenarios 
Rnd 1 G39 DOMYOJI 1615 AD (Heights of Komatsuyama)  Red wins 2 Blue wins 8
Rnd 2 G40 DOMYOJI 1615 AD (Battle Among the Tombs)  Red wins 4 Blue wins 5
Rnd3 G34 TAKAKURA CASTLE 1585 AD  Red wins 0 Blue wins 10
Rnd 4 G25 MIKATA-GA-HARA 1572 AD  Red wins 2 Blue wins 8
Rnd 5 G26 THE RAVINE NEAR SAIGADAKE 1572 AD  Red wins 3 Blue wins 7

American Semis Red
Game 1
Renaud (Red) - 0 banners; 17 blocks lost +1 seppuku
Justin (Blue) - 4 banners; 5 blocks lost
I started the game by moving my units into forest in the center and Renaud advanced his right flank down into combat, and that is where most of the action took place. There were a couple of points that determined the outcome, but my play of the Insult card really messed up one of his attacks and turned the tide. Plus there were so many critical rolls that just didn't go Renaud's way that it was impossible to overcome. Final banner was claimed on a leader.

Game 2
Justin (Red) 1 banner; 15 blocks lost
Renaud (Blue) 4 banners; 5 blocks lost +1 seppuku
I was getting demolished as Renaud was in the process of crushing my left flank with his cav unit when he slipped behind my lines to trap an Ashigaru with no retreat/support. However, his 5d attack scored two hits and on my battle back I weakened that unit to 1 block and that won me the game and match. I attacked the cav from the hill and was ambushed but my unit held out and claimed the banner from the cav even though I lost a leader. We messed up here and forgot to roll the extra die for ambush so we did it post match just in case and it didn't affect the outcome. Renaud then cleaned up the last unit for the win.

Euro Semi Final 1
Mark McG (Red) 4 banners, 17 blocks lost
Michal (Blue) 3 banners, 12 blocks lost

A surprising Red win on the back of 2 leader kills, a hard day for Shimazo leadership.
Michal had some pretty bad luck with dice and cards on the left & right and nothing for the centre where all the troops and problems lay.

 

Gottoman wrote to me on 14th willing to play but didn't respond later to arrange the meeting. He suffer serious illness and this is probably the problem.