[FMA] OU take the interstellar Cup

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G'day,

Cold and windy in Tassie today so I decided to stay home with the kids rather
than head to the gaming club with Derek. Lachy and I decided to try out an
idea for FMA soccer we'd cooked up by modifying the ranged fire and HTH combat
to reflect passing and tackling etc.

I'll skip the gory rule details, except for the following points you'll need
to now to keep track of what was happening...

Team strength: 9 aside as we didn't have enough suitable figs for 11 a side.

Yellow cards: 2 of the player's dice come up as 1s

Risk Die (RD): Additional dice (<= quality dice in size) represents luck, risk
and extra skilful moves. If a player gets a yellow card result when using a
risk die (whether the risk die rolled a 1 or not) then the yellow card becomes
a red card instead. If a player gets an injury result when using a risk die
(whether the risk die rolled was involved or not) then the injury is so severe
the player is stretched off an a substitute must come on (draw chit randomly
for their quality unless keeping a roster sheet).

Morale: All start as confident. If a goal is scored against a team each
player takes a morale test at TL+goal difference. If they fail they drop
a morale level (if they roll less than half the required value they drop two
morale levels). If they pass and roll >2x what they needed they increase a
level (if already at confident they become "supercharged" and have a
TL-1 to
morale rolls while in this state and may use an automatic RD which does not
give them the threat of a red card or stretcher injury (if they choose to use
an additional RD as normal then that carries the usual threat of red cards and
bad injuries).

Interceptions/Opportunity Moves: Must pass a reaction test. If pass the
reaction test but must race another player to intercept the ball then each
player rolls D8 and moves that many inches towards the ball.

Goalie's: They count towards target shifts for shots on goal, but if
unactivated (or if they have reserved actions) they may attempt to save
(intercept) the shot.

Free kicks, goal kicks, corners, throw-ins (etc): All players may move
ALL their figures for free (even those already activated), but figures that
have already been activated do NOT get new activations.

Kick-off: Every time there is a kick-off (due to end of half or goal) it
is the start of a new turn.

Game length: Can be a set number of turns or a set (real-time) time (or
something) - we used 6 turns (3 turns each way) in this case.

Transfer of actions: Any unactivated player may transfer actions (it takes an
action to transfer a single action) to activated players. The unactivated
figure rolls QD and if the activated player is within QD" the roll must just
be > higher of the two leadership value's (LVs); if outside QD" inches then
the roll must be > sum of the LVs.

AAR: So here we are at the final of the Interstellar Cup. After a gruelling
fortnight of top rate soccer we're here to watch the decade long champions
from the NSL face off with the little known OU team. Soccer may be passed up
by gee-ball fans as ancient news, but for my money there is no more
exciting and skilful game! The weather is clear today with just the hint of a
breeze
along the pitch. The team line-ups have finally been posted and they
are...

.. for the OU
Phillip Heskey = Goalie = V-1
Michael Nelsen = Left Back = V-3
Eddie Abonyi = Left Centre Back = R-1
Joel Farina = Centre Back = E-2
Maia Nicholson = Right Centre Back = R-1
Isaac Tomasson = Right Back = R-2
Peter Kewell = Left Forward = R-2
Ryan Smith = Centre Forward = R-2
David Schwab = Right Forward = V-2

A very defensive set-up but it makes sense given the striking power of
the
NSL line-up!!

Meanwhile the NSL have gone for a more aggressive line-up.
Derk Schneider = Goalie = V-1
Ella Zeige = Left Back = R-1
Christain Linke = Right Back = R-2
Sebastian Kahn = Centre Left = R-1
Hans Lehmann = Centre Right = G-2
Karl Klose = Left Wing = R-2
Oliver Bode = Right Wing = R-2
Bernd Heinrich-Rehmer= Left Forward = E-1
Marko Baumann = Right Forward = R-1

Notice that Rommel has not been deemed fit and will have to watch his this
one from the side-line. Guderain is also sidelined for today after
getting a second yellow card in the closing minutes of the NSL's qualifying
final game. So the NSL team has a new face in it Hans Lehmann. He must be
thrilled to be playing in his first Interstellar Cup, though he'll have bug
shoes to fill if the NSL aren't going to suffer for the loss of Rommel and
Guderain.

OK with the anthems over the ref is calling for the start of play....

TURN 1: NSL kick off. Heinrich-Rehmer taps back to Baumann and then runs
down field. Kewell runs up to Baumann to take the ball, but Baumann out
manoeuvres him. Baumann tries to dribble around Kewell, but Kewell steals the
ball and Baumann can't retrieve it. Smith calls to Kewell and Kewell passes it
to him. Smith then turns and passes the ball on to Schwab. Bode moves to cover
that wing, while Schwab dribbles forward and feints past Zeige to have space
for a shot. Kahn manages to get over to close down the
angle though and the shot bounces off the wood-work in to Schneider's
hands. Schneider rolls the ball to Linke. Nelsen sprints to cover Bode. Linke
dribbles forward and goes through a gap. Nelsen breaks off his man to pursue,
but Linke is too fast. Abonyi comes across to cover Linke and challenge for
the ball. The ball goes loose and skids toward
Heinrich-Rehmer. Lehmann alerts Heinrich-Rehmer who runs forward and
takes control of the ball. Nicholson sprints to shut down a potential shot
from the open wing as Klose runs down the wing out wide hooking back into the
corner of the penalty box. Heinrich-Rehmer puts a good pass to Bode who
runs onto the ball and takes a solid shot on goal. Tomasson comes in too late
to close down the shot, but Heskey takes it down cleanly and boots it to the
other end of the field. Zeige up front for the NSL dodges past the surrounding
OU players and gets to the ball first. Farina moves to cover
Heinrich-Rehmer. While no cause for alarm just yet, the NSL will really
need to settle those nerves if they're to keep the Interstellar Cup from the
blossoming OU team.

TURN 2: Schwab now moves to Zeige and challenges her for the ball stripping it
out with a clever flick of the toe. Zeige gets the ball back, but can't get
clear of Schwab. Smith fires up Schwab who gets the ball away from Zeige.
Lehmann urges Zeige forward and Zeige gets the ball back from Schwab, but is
fouled badly in the process. Those kind of fouls end careers! The ref is
pulling out a card. It's a red card! Schwab has been given a red card!! He's
protesting it, but he's going to have to leave, the ref couldn't miss that it
was right in front of him! Lehmann shouts at Zeige to take the set piece shot,
which she does, but its deflected and the ball ends up flying past Klose who
heads it at the goal. Luckily for the OU Heskey dives to his left and hugs the
ball to his chest. Heskey gets up and kicks the ball down
the field, but Heinrich-Rehmer intercepts the kick and takes another
shot on goal. Nicholson knocks it down though and clears the ball to open
ground in the centre of the park. Lehmann comes forward to collect the ball,
but Nelsen gets there first and tries to pass it quickly. Kahn gets in the way
though and passes the ball on to Bode who pushes forward and takes a wild shot
(under heavy pressure) on goal. The shot isn't a good one, but Baumann comes
across and gets it under control. Abonyi slides in to take the ball from
Baumann, but Baumann slips it back away with a fancy twist of the hips and
takes a shot on goal in one smooth turn. Unfortunately Baumann fails to get
over the ball and it goes soaring over the top bar. The goal kick is taken by
Heskey who knocks it to Smith. Smith gets it under control and hammers it at
the NSL goal. Zeige tries to help Schneider cover the goal, but she doesn't
come far enough across to really cut down the angle. Te ball is flying for the
top corner of the goal, but Schneider dives up and plucks the ball from the
air! What a spectacular save!!! Schneider fires the ball back down the park,
Linke sprints on to it, dodges past 3 OU defenders. Linke's bet 3 defenders
and only has Heskey between him and the goal. He's chipped it over Heskey!!!
It's a goal!!!!!!!

TURN 3: OU kick off, with Kewell passing to Smith before running down the
field. Kahn moves to cover Kewell. Smith pushes the ball in to the open and
dodges around the other side of his man into the open. Schwab beats Zeige to
the ball and takes a shot on goal, but Schneider takes it easily. Schneider
shoots the ball off to Baumann and then stays to cover the goal. Farina runs
forward to cover Baumann and Bode runs down the wing. Nelsen comes across to
cover Bode. Baumann passes the ball to Heinrich-Rehmer and then runs
down
the right wing. Tomasson comes to cover Heinrich-Rehmer, while Klose
runs down his wing. Tomasson moves to cover Klose and Lehmann pushes forward
to cover centre field. Heskey rocks on his toes to cover the goal. Linke
pushes
forward to set-up the offside trap. Heinrich-Rehmer tries to dribble
forward, but Nicholson knocks it away. Heinrich-Rehmer beats Nicholson
to the ball and pushes it on to Klose who takes the shot, but its deflected
wide of the goal by an OU defender. Klose takes the corner and strikes it to
Lehmann who tries to head it in, but Heskey gathers it in cleanly. Half time
whistle blows. The NSL may be leading one-nil, but the OU are definitely
settling into their game and starting to look stronger and more settled as we
head to the half time break.

TURN 4: OU kicks off. The OU have reorganised their position, opting for more
offensive positions for the second half. Schwab sprints down the left field in
his new position on the left wing position. Baumann moves to cover
Abonyi and Kewell runs to mid-field. Heinrich-Rehmer comes in to shut
down the OU front line. Smith passes in to open ground on his left before
wrong footing his man and dodging in to the open on his right. Tomasson comes
up and gets the ball, while Baumann comes across to cover him. Tomasson passes
to Schwab who takes it on the volley with a backwards over the head kick and
knocks it into the goal!!!! The crowd is on its feet!!! So early in to the
second half and the OU have equalised!!!

TURN 5: NSL kicks off. Klose runs down into space. Schwab comes into centre
circle. Bode runs down his wing and loops into mid-field. Kewell comes
in to
the circle too. Baumann kicks it to Heinrich-Rehmer. Kewell and Schwab
rattle Heinrich-Rehmer, but Heinrich-Rehmer flicks it past them, dodges
round and runs on to the ball again. Farina comes forward and challenges for
the ball, but doesn't get it. Its passed to Kahn, who runs into the clear.
Tomasson urges Farina in to challenging again. Farina strips the ball from
Kahn, before following Tomasson's directive to pass it to Kewell.
Heinrich-Rehmer intercepts the pass though. Kewell slides the ball away
from
Heinrich-Rehmer (and was lucky not to get a yellow card!), but to no
avail as the ball rolls to Baumann. Baumann passes the ball back to Linke who
miss kicks it and sends the ball skittering towards his own goal! Schneider
dives on the ball though. Schneider quickly rolls it back to Linke (the only
NSL player in easy reach who is unmarked). Abonyi moves to cover the goal and
Klose. Zeige sprints down her wing. Nicholson also moves to cover the goal and
an NSL attacker (Kahn). Linke lobs the ball into centre field of the OU half.
Kahn takes it on the bounce and tries to head it in to the goal, but Heskey
hugs it to his chest before slamming the ball down the field toward the NSL
goal. Schneider easily gathers it in and hits the ball back into the OU half.
A gust of wind catches the ball and carries it on to the NSL goal. An awkward
bounce sees it bounce down off the crossbar, but luckily Heskey is good enough
to catch it before it goes over the line.

TURN 6: Nelsen moves wide. Linke covers his wing. Smith moves down field.
Lehmann covers centre field. Schwab moves down the park too. Zeige comes back
over to cover Schwab. The NSL are going to have to pick up the pace and take
control of this game before time runs out! Kewell goes down his left wing.
Klose comes back to cover Kewell. Farina pushes in to open
left-centre
field. Bode moves forward to pressure Heskey who passes the ball off to
Nelsen. Nelsen passes it to Kewell, with Heinrich-Rehmer trying to
intercept. Heinrich-Rehmer just makes contact with the ball and toes it
to Zeige. Zeige tries to clear the ball, but Abonyi knocks it down and passes
it to the edge of the NSL penalty box. Schwab races to the ball just ahead of
Lehmann. Schneider comes across to cut down the angle and Kewell moves to
cover the far post and clean up any scraps. Smith urges Schwab forward and
Schwab confuses the NSL defenders by over running the ball. Schwab flicks the
ball off his heel over his head before slamming in to it on the volley and
sending a curving, spinning ball over Schneider's out stretched fingers into
the top corner of the goal!!! The OU have the game in the bag!!! The NSL can't
come back from here!!! Yes that was it, the full time whistle goes!!!!!!!!!!
The OU have taken the Interstellar cup!! The poor NSL players are lying
despondent on the ground and Schneider's in tears, but the OU are
ecstatic. For the first time on twenty-five years they've taken the
Interstellar Cup!! They're racing around hugging and jumping. They're will be
wild scenes in Oceania tonight!!!

Lachy would've like a more "blood bowl" kind of game I don't doubt, but
Janneke was impressed with FMA's flexibility (as was I, it really looked and
felt like a soccer match!!!!)

Cheers

Dang! that read somewhat like a sporting event.

How did you get all the detail? Do you have an increadable memory, or were you
driving 'em crazy taking notes?

Great game. Keep us informed of any improvements!

(Hey Jon! You may have the makings of a sport sim here! Yet another direction
for GZG! Sports minies anyone?)

G'day,

> Dang! that read somewhat like a sporting event.

I had the real Paraguay vs Germany game in the background for inspiration;)

> How did you get all the detail?

Bit of both, I've developed a note taking short hand for use in games -
that way you get a fast game and notes to boot;)

> Great game. Keep us informed of any improvements!

Lachy and I thought of having a bit of a league... might see how that goes
;)

Cheers

After my exams are over, Zac and I will (hopefully) start work on our "Ender's
Game" mod for FMA... infantry with vector movement, should be interesting.

Any suggestions on simulating getting "flashed"? (frozen when hit by a weapon,
reduces movement in flashed location)

(For anyone who hasnt read Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" series, its a

On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 04:52:52 -0400, Donald Hosford
<Hosford.Donald@acd.net> wrote:

> (Hey Jon! You may have the makings of a sport sim here! Yet another

Haven't seen Pig Tickler yet, I take it?

Forgive my ignorance...what is Pig Tickler?

Donald Hosford

> Allan Goodall wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 04:52:52 -0400, Donald Hosford

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 01:10:24 -0400, Donald Hosford
<Hosford.Donald@acd.net> wrote:

> Forgive my ignorance...what is Pig Tickler?

Pig Tickler is a game sold by GZG (licensed by them from Eureka in Australia).
It uses figures in the 40mm scale range (bigger than 28mm, I believe). These
figures are in a weird steampunk universe called Pax Limpopo.

Pig Tickler is a game for as many people as you have figures. Each player gets
a British unicycle lancer. You also need a unicycle referee, a stoker (they
make two different ones) and a mechanical steam-driven pig. There's also
the
PORC (Porcine Omni-redirectional Random Computator), a ring that you use
to figure out the direction the pig goes.

It's a lot of fun, though the charts really need to be redone. There are too
many "nothing happens" results for my liking. Other than that, it's quite a
fun game. Now if Eureka would only come out with _other_ Pax Limpopo
games!

I have thought of making Pig Tickler into an FMA game. I tried a bit of it,
and it seemed to work, but I wasn't sure if it actually added anything to the
game or not. With Beth's soccer game, I'm thinking I should think about doing
Pig Tickler in FMA again.

G'day,

> Now if Eureka would only come out with _other_ Pax

Isn't there a lizard back race or am I thinking of something from a
different company? Someone from the vic-scifi lists could probably set
you straight.

Cheers

G'day,

> The [eureka] Lizard race is set in the sewers of London and comes

Yep that's the one!!! There's even a pic up of it on someone's vic scifi site
unfortunately I can't remember the url:( <What was it that someone was saying
about the number of things to remember someone can handle?;)>

> At 12:15 PM +1000 19/6/2002, Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:

The [eureka] Lizard race is set in the sewers of London and comes with a
"track" of straight and?45 degree curves, and a winners stand. 20mm scale
jockeys on small raptors

HTH

> At 3:29 PM +1000 19/6/2002, Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:

just remembered the title

"Wagers of Sin"