Hey guys and gals.
So the ETC has officially started. And off to a good star is it. The Aussie team andEnglandteam arrived late, but purley by accident and got a telling off. Due to this, they ended up playing each other. Which made it a nice and friendly but as they had played ‘The Ashed’ the night before it was a shame… but fun was had.
For the first 30 mins of each round the teams barter for individual match up of armies. They take it in turn to select an army and the opposing side gives them a couple of options of who they want to defend their stake with. This is sometimes a tactic so that match up are forced in a certain way (for either side) but it can also be about who could smash the other. It takes quite a long time to perform this operating with a lot of debating between the teams, the captains and each other. But it felt like a political affair as its taken deadly serious. But once the match ups have be set, the games can begin…and sometimes teams don’t always get the pairing their want / need for a victory. And so the captain sometimes works out an estimated score for the games, to try and pre-empt the final outcome…remember this is s TEAM game and so the full result is taken into consideration. And, bizarrely enough, sometimes the objective is NOT to win. It’s all tic tacs.
The match ups are as follows.
TeamEngland v Australia.
The English Ogres were ‘matched’ up against the Aussie Daemons.
Lizards against Empire
Dark Elves against Wood Elves.
Daemons against Wood Elves
Empire against vampire counts
Tomb Kings against Ogres.
Skaven v skaven.
Vampire Counts against Bretonians.
TeamScotland v Bulgaria
Warriors Of Chaos v Beasts.
Lizards v Warriors of Chaos
Dark Elves v Vampire Counts
Empire v High Elves
Skaven v Orks and Goblins
Ogres v Skaven
Dwarfs v Dwarfs
TeamWales v Poland
Brets v Empire
V.C v Daemons
Lizards v Warriors
Skaven v Brets
Warriors v High Elves
Chaos Dwarfs v Ogres
Ogres v Tomb Kings
Dark Elves v Dark Elves.
Team R Ireland v Czech
Orks v Lizards
Warriors v Dwarves.
Ogres v Deamons
Deamons v High Elves
C.D v Skaven
Empire v .V.C
Skaven v Warriors.
So far there seems to be relaxed atmosphere here, no real issue. A few rule queries, but some of the refs seem confused, buts that’s life. But each round is 3.5 hours long. Looooong games and people play up to last minute. 2400 points and UNcomped. Language issues are kept to a minimum but I can see it could be stressful to fully articulate, especially when booze is involved.
Hot Boy Count: good to excellent. Pleanty of slim gamers with hot bodies. Especially the Sweeds, Norwary and someother Eurpo counry.
Gamer stench: low. Team shirts worn for first day and doors wide open. Its great and fresh at the moment.
Food: Not free and not that cheap, nether is water. Maccy D’s is close by BUT their milkshakes are not the same as theUk.
Alcohol: It looks like a room full of hobo’s. Law here says you can’t drink on a school premise, so you have to wrap up the booze, so the world cannot see it. Though the Aussies have a very stylish holder crafted…. Maybe the Irish should follow suite
So it’s lunch time…i’m chilled and would like to be baking. But will go the tables sides soon to get some updates. But please give us feedback and let us know what you want to know from over here.
G, over and out
