Ambush!: MiniTourney ***It's all over!!***

[ParadiseCity]

So here's a match that I played v. Rigor, but we're not really sure what it is. It could either be the redo for the previously mis-played match, or it could be the semifinal match (since the redo apparently wouldn't matter anyways). I'll let Death decide

Whatever the case, here's the jist of it. Elvish Hero (Rigor) v. Lieutenant (me) on Howling Ghost Badlands. A dodgy fencer sneaks past the left side while a single spearman stays back to guard the villages. The loys attack on the right at day. Rigor had two chances at unlikely leader kills, but unfortunately for him, they did not work out. Thanks for the match!

And I am also obliged to show you a picture, so:

Rigor - The Elvish Army


(I wonder how much time and money this guy spent doing this)

ParadiseCity - The Fencer Attack


(Who is this guy???)

[The Black Sword]

So, for my final game, I decided to make an effort.



Plk2 with dark adepts and friends:


vs

The Black Sword with woses and elves:


It was a bit anticlimatic in the end. I thought I did well but unfortunately luck turned against plk at some important points, otherwise we'd probably still be playing. Replay below.
(Oh and for anyone wondering, I ran out of time on one of the turns, thats why I didn't move the units near my keep, luckily it didn't cost me.)

[Rigor]

a sad story, i saw the game in slow-mo. poor plk - he surely didnt deserve such a horrible drop out! those adepts....

[Rigor]

small update from my part:

somehow i dont manage to play my game vs gregorius, maybe we set a date and a time to play to finalize it ?

[Death]

edit: lahl I'm such a liar . sorry updates have been slow and coming. [real life excuse here]

also, apologies to cackfiend. i was thinking about making a euro pool and an american pool, but i didn't end up doing it for some reason. oh well!


pro tip of the day: the next time you finish a jar of jalapeños, save the jar with all the juice, chop up some raw shrimp, cucumbers, and a red onion, and throw all that in there, then add some lemon juice and let the whole thing sit overnight.

the lemon juice + the vinegar that should be in the jala-juice will cook the shrimp overnight, leaving you with one tasty snack!

[Rigor]

let me know when u wanna play the game blacksword, im starting with my job this week and wont be on that much during the day. btw did u guys notice that there is an update to statistics from quetzalcoatl? =)

[Rigor]

ok newest update, i managed to meet blacksword today and we will play the match tomorrow or the day after tomorrow evening around 9pm european timezone.

and new new new we ALL will play it on 1.6 so all savegames are on 1.6 and not mixed with 1.8.

[The Black Sword]

I better post this before Death goes crazy

In an epic semi-final, I just managed to beat Rigor with an army of evil saurian sorcerors defeating the royal army of wesnoth(it's only the human necromancers who always seem to lose ).

I'll update properly tomorrow with pictures etc., now I need to sleep

EDIT :

Rigor - The Army of Wesnoth


vs

The Black Sword - The Saurian Horde



A very fun game, swapped sides the first night with both of us trying to grab villages as quickly as possible(well Rigor tryed to be tricky but it didn't work ). We'd both lost 3 units by the time we steadied up, though mine were a bit cheaper than his. Rigor then timed a very good attack on my left hand flank, certainly evening things up, perhaps gaining the advantage to set up the penultimate clash when our armies stopped dancing around and started killing each other, you'll have to watch the replay to see the finish .

[ParadiseCity]

And the match is in. Summarized in one word: spam (although epic spam it was). 10 Horsemen and 13 Cavalrymen! This is one of the few games in which I haven't made a mage, and only one spearman.

The game progressed as such: A single horseman ventured to attack a footpad on turn 3, and then the rest of the cavalry charged ahead and didn't look back. The cavs superior mobility when compared to the pierce-wielding knalgans made this game abundant with village stealing. Because of this, I was able to field a cav or horsie once per turn, and eventually overrun plk2 with the sheer amount of them.

Thanks to plk2 for a very interesting match.

The replay ends shortly after plk2 surrenders, becuase the ai leader retreated to a mountain village, and I didn't feel like getting him off of it .

I should have time to post pics later, but now there is yardwork to be done .

EDIT: I guess this makes the finals tbs v. me on silverhead with me as p2?

[Death]

Wow.


First of all, congratulations guys, those were two very entertaining matches.

On one, there was the fast and furious lizard vs. human duel between Rigor and The Black Sword, with both sides rushing across to the other side on the first night...

and then watching plk2's "robins" repeatedly corner Paradise City's horses was a little like watching Braveheart meets Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.

Well done.


And now, as if that wasn't enough,get this- both games end on the same turn!!! (turn 24) just... lol.

However, I'm giving p2 honors to The Black Sword, since plk2's leader was still alive after the turn. Proper update coming tonight (for real this time!), and the finals will be The Black Sword vs. Paradise City with TBS as player2 on Silverhead Crossing.

Good luck!

[Rigor]

those games were really entertaining although i gave up my advantage with one big hopeful attack. i dont remember when i have been playing tricky this time, maybe, one time, village stealing when tbs didnt expect to see a cavalry so early, but thats it i just wanted to ask if there is going to be another tournament with you as our host, im already addicted to playing matches with a theme so while we will have to wait for the finals, i suggest we start thinking about nice themes and/or looking for some players who would like to play (before we have to wait again for some weeks).

[Death]

Any word on the finals status?

[ParadiseCity]

We are scheduled to play on wednesday around 20:00 GMT. See you guys there .

[Death]

okay! that's great news! good luck to both finalists and I hope to be able to catch the match.

In the meantime, here's a modest tournament sum-up. I would've liked to do more regular content for this tournament, but c'est la vie. Hope you enjoy it, and I hope all the players had a good time. You guys really went above and beyond to keep it interesting, civil, and moving along from start to finish. In short, I barely had to do anything, thanks!


So without further ado about adoing nothing...


presenting...







***Awards!!!***


Presenting, the first annual Ambush! awards! Ok!






• Winston E. Churchill Leadership Award or "wait, that thing does more than just recruit?"


Rigor vs. Tesafilmchen

Oh no! the big bad dwarves are coming to eat all our eggs!



Rigor: NOT IF I EAT ZEM FIRST! ZAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA~~!!!


note: 3 bonus points for leader ambush



Rigor vs. Paradise City

Reports are in general! Assault phase is a go, advancing in full force.

Recommending we go all out Avatar on their as--

wait a minute... what's tha-



AAAAAUUUUUUUGHHH!!


note: 5 bonus points for hidden ambush
(-1 point for james cameron reference)



and last but best...


The Black Sword vs. Henrythe12th

TBS demonstrates how to lead from the front lines. Bravo!







• STAPLES® presents: Best Use of Labels Award


Gregorius vs. plk2

?



Tesafilmchen vs. Rigor

???





plk2 vs. Henrythe12th
!


gj, henry




• The Danilo Ilic Most Dramatic Leader Kill Award


...but first, let's take a minute to commemorate the ones that got away...

plk2 vs. ParadiseCity

plk2's immunity to birds saves him from this otherwise precarious predicament:



The Black Sword vs. Henry the 12th

TBS demonstrates the art of tanking.




...and now a minute to commemorate the ones that... didn't.

Henry the 12th vs. Gregorious

"I got this..."




and finally,

perhaps the only genuine assassination of the tournament...


The Setup



The Snipe



The Amphibious Ambush



...and The Kill!



And now we finally know how the Lord of the Rings should have ended. Poor stupid dwarves...






• The Katie Couric Award for Best Chat


First category... best excuses!

1st runner up:

Henry the 12th !

missing DA's... that's... that's genius



winner:

Gregorius !

CPUtiny!!





Second category... strategy assessment!

1st runner up:
Cackfiend !

yup... that about sums it up...



winner:
Gregorius !

yup... that about sums it-... wait, what?




Next up, digressions!

well okay, we only have one entry here, kind of like the very first olympic debut of water polo in 1972. back in those days there wasn't enough water to go around and what what was to be had we got from the great august camel hunts, although we would use poison tipped nerf weapons instead of real guns, which was the style at the time.

anyway, the winner is...

Gregorius !






aaaand finally,

we get to everybody's favorite category...


Innuendos!



1st Runner up:
Rigor !

LOL





and the winner...


for best innuendo...


of 2010...


is...



none other than...



GREGORIUS !!!




Congratulations! ... and LOL !








(ps- i want that spare ribs recipe!)






• Ambush! Award for Best Ambush! Award for Best Ambush!


The Black Sword vs. Henry the 12th

"heh heh heh heh..."



HAH!




Henry the 12th vs. Gregorius

"meep... meep?"



(snorting growling fire breathing etc.)




Tesafilmchen vs. Paradise City

"PROTECT THE QUEEN!!!~!"


"We, oh...

...nuts."




Paradise City vs. Plk2

This one is called:
















AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!





... and finally, the game that featured not one, but TWO major ambush operations...


The Black Sword vs. Henry the 12th


First, Henry baits his trap...



In swoop the hungry drakes...



Uh ohs!



the noose tightens...




...but it doesn't end there!


Miraculously, two drakes manage to claw their way out. Henry manages to trap them again, but at this time at terrible expense, drawing valuable units further and further from the front...







Henry stretches thin trying to hold out, but at last The Black Sword cuts through the defenses, trapping the once great king against the wall...




a more fitting end could not be made...

...when the King, finally, met the Blade.










last one!





• The Chuck Norris Award



Tesafilmchen vs. The Black Sword

The following candidate has been disqualified:

Little skirmisher attacks an Elvish fighter. At night. From a forest.


It dies.





The following two candidates are deceased, and unable to claim the award:


Paradise City vs. plk2

If it was only 4 gryphons attacking it, this fighter would've lived no problem.




The Black Sword vs. Gregorius

It's the eye of the tiger...


It's the thrill of the fight...


Risin' up to the challenge of our riiiivaallll...


And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night...


And he's watchin' us all with the eye of the tiger...


The eye of the tiger...


The eye of the--GGGKKLG!!



"finally... I hate that stupid song."







and here we go,

presenting...

The winner of the Chuck Norris award for excellence in the field...

goes to...



Paradise City vs. Rigor

...this guy!



Using mostly white boy kung fu (screaming, dodging, running), this fencer singlehandedly drew 3 units away from the front, and stole 2 villages.





...managing to return just in time for the coup de grace: trapping the leader.





as he hurled himself onto the spear, the last thing he saw was a glimpse of that stupid cape.... his head playing "70%! 70% 70%!" over... and over... fade to black.









That's it for awards*! Thanks for reading!




*also, the award for worst overall luck goes to plk2. congratulations!!!! of sorts

[Death]

...and here are some more pictures that I thought were cool but didn't make it into the article.

i think they speak for themselves, though.


















































^awesome.































god, I'm glad that's all finished.