[HH23] Let The Gourd Times Roll

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[HH23] Let The Gourd Times Roll

Post by MadMario » Tue Nov 07, 2023 5:15 am

Prologue

A CSA Maniac Beer laboratory, somewhere in the Henndirro Galaxy

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Science guy 1: "Behold! The recipe of the newest member of the Maniac Beer family: the PUMPKIN SPICE BREW"
Science guy 2: "Umm, yeah, but spoopy season is nearly over now..."
Science guy 3:"Yeah, and if Zupponn didn´t extend the timeframe, this wouldn´t have been a Hellhunt at all."

"What?"
"What?"




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"Oh, don´t worry. That´s why we put much effort into marketing! I´ve requested the full advertising budget for a year in advance to get PUMPKIN SPICE BREW promoted! We also let AI make ad posters. And what always works is making something a LIMITED EDITION! The whole brikverse knows about PUMPKIN SPICE BREW LIMITED EDITION now and everyone`s crazy about it!"




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And yes, the ad campaign can be seen everywhere in the brikverse. Even where the CSA wouldn´t have liked it to be seen...
"ENOUGH OF THAT!"




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"The Deadly Spoop Men will not longer watch their fellow pump-kins get smashed and liquidized for minifigkinds amusement!"




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and soon the Deadly Spoop Men found the location of the LIMITED EDITION PUMPKIN SPICE BREW ONLY AVAILABLE FOR A SHORT TIME brewery, and made short work of the scientists and workers.

"FOR THE GREATER GOURD!"




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"Let it be known that anyone who comes at this brewery shall be smashed, liquidized and turned into a refreshing liquid for the Deadly Spoop Men! Come at us!"
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INTRODUCTION

Post by MadMario » Tue Nov 07, 2023 5:54 am

It was a bit after spoopy season, when seven lost souls convened for what has become The biggest live Brikwars Battle meetup in Continental Europe up to today.
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The Deadly Spoop Men have raided and occupied the CSA Brewery, where the LIMITED EDITION PUMPKIN SPICE BREW OMG ITS SO LIMITED GET YOURS WHILE STOCK LASTS is produced. They defend what has not been smashed, and want to make sure that no minifig enjoys the beer anytime soon.




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The nearby Maniac Beer Bar is rather unimpressed yet, as the customers already got smashed (heh) by the new flavour and other products of the Maniac Beer linecard.




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Soon - attracted by the massive ad campaign throughout the brikverse, 6 factions approach the scenery to follow their own interests. Which mostly are killing, looting and - of course - killing.

From left enter the Skeledrones, controlled by Vomarsk
Top left sees arrival of an XEC-Vacation Suitability Assessment Team, led by raziel87
From top right approach the Knights of Draakh, played by Equinox
At the right side enter The Polish Orlogrodian troops, controlled by Duerer
Down right appear the Space Knights, led by [skerebob]
and from down left enter the Morbin` Angels, played by Cyberman



So let the fun kommence, the Pumpking shall be pleased, and LET THE GOURD TIMES ROLL!
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Turn One

Post by MadMario » Tue Nov 07, 2023 1:51 pm

Space Knights

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There´s a lot of movement, as nothing interesting is in firing range for the soldiers.
One soldier starts eating his brought croissant. Because every good soldier brings his own croissants to battle.
The tank commander sees this as a sign to fire the tank at the nearest enemy. But due to a critfailed shot, it fires straight up 12", with the impact to be awaited somewhen next turn.




Orlogrod

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Troops move, and the famous medik Dr. Ethanol picks up one of 4 mysterious purple 1x1 bricks that are scattered on the battlefield...


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...these bricks are indeed lootboxes, and let the owner of its collector pick a random minifigure I brought with me in this giant purple brick.
Duerer loots a series 24 Referee, which can be deployed as reinforcement at the beginning of next turn!


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Dr. Ethanol then fires at the nearby Space Knights. He barbecues one of them and sets two on fire.
Two Orlogrod soldiers shoot the already burning guy on the left, and the flamethrower guy kills off the other guy on the right.


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The two last soldiers shoot at the Draakh horse, but the armor blocks everything.

There´s also two Orlogrodian soldiers who happened to be at the bar since before the battle. But they´re too drunk to even realize what´s going on around them, let alone know how to fight.

The Orlogrodian Commander gets a strategy pip for witnessing first blood.



Morbin` Angels

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The bloodpriest directly sprints toward the CSA Beer transport that´s loaded with a big Barrel' o' OT.


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Bloodzerkers and Bloodgunners proceed and shoot at the Skeledrone Crawler, but nothing is damaged.
The Dreadnut is more successful. It shoots a rocket...


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...right away killing a soldier and the commander of the Skeledrones. The Crawler is also in explosion range, but takes no damage once again. Tough little bug.

Not pictured is how the final Bloodzerker sprints to pick up another of the purple lootboxes. It contains a series 23 Holiday Elf with snowglobe!


Knights of Draakh


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One Archer shoots an arrow in the Orange Deadly Spoopman´s butt, butt - eh... but he doesn´t even notice.
The dragon advances andbreathes fire towards the Orlogrordian 'Angel Hardsuit', roasting the soldier in front of it and setting one of the hardsuits' legs on fire.


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The horseman sees the weakness in the hardsuit and charges right at the already burning leg...


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After several minutes of rule interpretation (regarding resolving MOMs and POPs in a charged attack with a pointy weapon against a structure etc. etc...), and some dicerolling, the leg is successfully chopped off!


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One of the polearm bearers has an idea. He climbs the roof of the bar and tries to cut the giant sign´s metal supports. He wants the sing to fall over to the front and smash some opponents. But he fails to inflict enough damage...
"Some help up here?"


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The second polearm guy climbs up and swings his weapon at the supports. The result is underwhelming, but at least one support is broken.

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*sigh* "Amateurs! Let me have a look!" - says the Inkwisitor, as she climbs the roof and wields some Magik at the structure...


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...but she obviously mixed up 'push' and 'pull' in the spell, so instead of smashing enemies, the three are blown off the roof by the falling sign, and end up disrupted on the ground! (feat. fail)


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Meanwhile the 'Kandelabracadabra Torcher' (Flamethrower guy) sets fire to the bar and its surroundings. One patron is scorched to death, another starts burning and the barkeeper stays unharmed for now...



Skeledrones

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The Crawler moves up and skewers the bloodzerker that picked up the lootbox. "Watch your St-*SPLURCH*"
The sign warned him. He just didn´t listen.


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One guard picks up another lootbox, the other trips over his dead commander´s body. A soldier shoots at the Bloodgunner...


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The Bloodgunner isn´t killed, but he panics and fires blindly at the pumpkin patch, killing the ghostly warden. Bad thing was, the warden was there to contain the evil sprites of the pumpkin patch, which now roam free!


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Lootbox contained a series 21 Ladybug girl!




XEC

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A groundskeeper sneaks into the brewery and loots a container. He finds gold and money, but sadly no deadly chemicals or explosives that he hoped for. Deeply dissapointed, he decides to at least take the keg of LIMITED EDITION PUMPKIN SPICE BREW DID I ALREADY MENTION HOW LIMITED THIS IS BUY NOW OR REGRET IT LATER and secure it.


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Another groundskeeper shoots the purple DSM in the back and distributes his intestines on the concrete floor.


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The caravan moves forward and shoots at the Skeledrone Crawler, with no effect.

Not pictured is a Tesla-Groundskeeper who just trips and keeps his fellow comrade from proceeding by just lying on the ground.



END OF TURN ONE OVERWATCH:
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Turn Two

Post by MadMario » Tue Nov 07, 2023 5:21 pm

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Space Knights

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The tank´s shot from Turn one comes down but nothing happens. The tank immediately tries its luck again and...


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KABOOM!...this time waaay more effectively! Although it hit the Draakh horserider instead of the targeted Angel Hardsuit, the resulting explosion kills the horse, the horserider, the Hardsuit, two Orlogrodian Soldiers and 4 bar patrons!


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Among the victims are an Ulrion Protectorate Soldier, a StarCorps Trooper on shore leave and... Oh no, not the Booze Brothers! :(


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3 SpaceKnight soldiers then try to kill off Dr. Ethanol, but he gets himself a fancy redshirt guy to protect him from safe death.



Orlogrod

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Dr. Ethanol wants to return the favor and tries to barbecue SpaceKnights, supported by a soldier, who however drops his weapon instead of shooting. Ethanol also doesn´t roll well, as he is just able to set one of the SpaceKnights on fire a little bit.


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Dr. Ethanol then starts one of his infamously abhorrent experiments, as he starts stitching the corpses of SpaceKnights together to form a Minifig-Centipede!


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That´s too much! The Referee intervenes and calls out Dr. Ethanol for violating minifig rights repeatedly!


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She immediately drags him off the battlefield to have him brought to high court for his deeds. (Feat critfailed)


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The referee then angrily kicks her football at the nearest SpaceKnight.


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*BÖNK!* - He is hit in the face, but taking no notable damage. His surprised look is priceless, though.



Morbin` Angels

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The Bloodzerkers and Bloodgunner who hide behind an AI-generated ad billboard for the GET YOURS NOW AS STOCKS LAST YOU WONT BELIEVE HOW LIMITED EDITION THIS PUMPKIN SPICE BREW REALLY IS , find easy targets in the disrupted Skeledrones and the honestly not-so-scary-since-immovable Pumpkin Sprites.


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One Skeledrone and one Guard are easily killed...


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...and so is one of the Pumpkin Sprites. *SQUASH*



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The Dreadnut shoots another rocket. This time at the DSM Commander! It´s a hit, but a literal redshirt is there in time to fulfill his predestined role. The Orange DSM is meanwhile killed by the shockwave.


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The Bloodmage performs some wicked blood-magik - the Ancient Ritual Of Morbin` on a peacefully nearby sitting Good Boi. He hopes to transform the dog into a bloodthirsty fierce creature that can´t wait to shred some enemies!


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*SWOB* - umm, yeah. Close enough, I guess. That'll have to do. (Feat fail)


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Nevertheless, Good Bunny hops into the Beer carrier and drives off to the edge of the map, thereby securing the barrel of OT Beer for the Morbin`Angels!


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The remaining Bloodzerkers combine attacks on the Skeledrone Crawler, dismembering the claw.



Knights of Draakh

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The Draak of Draakh (heh) advances and picks up another lootbox. It´s a Series 21 Beekeeper!
The dragon then roasts the last remaining Orlogrod Soldier, which was only half-heartedly hidden behind an ad billboard for the OMG YOU STILL DIDNT BUY THE STRICTLY LIMITED EDITION PUMPKIN SPICE BREW BY NOW HOW DARE YOU NOW GET YOUR ASS UP AND BUY THAT SHIT BEFORE ITS GONE FOREVER DAMMIT! beer.


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The other soldiers assume that this battle is ending soon, and decide to collect as many Maniac Beer as possible.


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Every available connection point is used to attach beer kegs...


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Every. Available. Connection.


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To keep up the brikwars sportsmanship for a bit, at least the Archers attempt to land a kill. One kicks over the WELL THERE YOU GO NOW ITS TOO LATE THE LIMITED EDITION PUMPKIN SPICE BREW IS ALL GONE AND YOU DUMB*SS don't HAVE ANY HAHA GO AHEAD AND CRY ALREADY ad billboard near the brewery, and both combine fire to kill the DSM Commander. But their attack rolls are no harm for the DSM.



Skeledrones

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The Crawler prepares to use his most intimidating weapon - the Chaos Orb Launcher! It is capable of turning any minifig into a mindless zombie!


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At least if it works correctly! This orb goes off right in the launcher, and the already zombiefied driver is... turned into a normal minifig!


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The newly recruited Ladybug sees a chance to make a name for herself. She picks another Chaos Orb from the palette.
"Don´t worry, I got your back!"


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Oh, no! Instead of re-zombiefying the driver, she zombifies herself!
"urrrrrrrgh..."


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The remaining guard shakes his head, drops off the palette, takes yet another Chaos Orb and throws it at the driver, who is re-zombified finally.
"Can we now stop this de-, and re-zombify nonsense and finally get someone actually killed?"


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The re-zombified driver then tries to make up for the embarrassing last minutes and charges into the nearby standing Bloodzerkers (who he believes have giggled all the time) - but they are all able to bail out of the way.



XEC

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The caravan uses his plow to slowly shove a keg of YEAH SEE THATS ONE OF THE LAST EXISTING LIMITED EDITION PUMPKIN SPICE BREW YOULL EVER SEE IN YOUR PAHETIC LIFE YOU MORON WHY DIDNT YOU BUY SOME WHEN IT WAS STILL AVAILABLE YOU PIECE OF SH*T???


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Sloooowly the plow moves up, until... *PLINK*


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*SKA-DOOSH!* The explosion does not much damage to the dreadnuts armor, but the plow caravan itself gets totally obliterated.


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The Groundskeeper in the brewery gets a bit curious. He wants to know what happens if ALL THE SUBSTANCES on the laboratory table get mixed together. Well, only one way to find out! *BLAM!*


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Another Groundskeeper wants to find out by self-experimenting if the Maniac Beer cans are worthy to be mentioned in the newest edition of the XEC vacation catalogue.


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But the Deadly Spoop Men at the brewery won´t let him escape that easily. They shoot at the beer cans and effectifely blow the sixpack up.


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Meanwhile in the brewery, the dangerous mixture of liquids creates the first Pumpkinbrootal!
"Oi, lads! Time to get Smashed!"

[This wraps up Turn Two, and at this time it´s decided to end the game for time reasons. All factions have had some kills, looted some Maniac Beer, reinforcements and / or other valuables, and performed several hilarious feats. So while technically no winner is declared, the game was a full success!]



Thanks all participants for coming the whole way for playing. Special thanks to Vomarsk for writing down all the ongoing stuff. It really helped making this report easier.



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Re: [HH23] Let The Gourd Times Roll

Post by Valiant » Mon Nov 13, 2023 1:46 am

Gameplay: 4
Photography: 3
Violence: 4
Writing: 3
Overall Appearance: 5


Man, you fully committed to the pumpkin theme! Five points for you!
And I only just realized that that's a QR code you have on the board. Lemme see if it works...

Nice.

Your photography and writing are good. The gameplay and the violence were excellent. The board was dull for my taste, but hey, you make do with the time that you have. Congratulations on the largest European BrikWars meeting to date!

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Re: [HH23] Let The Gourd Times Roll

Post by Zupponn » Wed Nov 15, 2023 10:32 pm

This was a fun little battle that made had a terrific use of Pumpkins! Your photos were well lit and generally clear, but some more mess on the battlefield at the end could be an improvement for the future. Also, your battlefield was well built and I give you props for including a working QR code. Great work!

Gameplay: 4
Photography: 5
Violence: 3
Writing: 5
Overall Appeal: 5
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Re: [HH23] Let The Gourd Times Roll

Post by The PumpKing » Fri Nov 17, 2023 2:43 pm

Gameplay: 5
Photography: 4
Violence: 4
Writing: 4
Overall Appeal: 5

This battle was ossum. Glad to see some rep from the lads across the pond, or whatever it is we say. Loved the use of pumpkins and that dreadnut is such a badass build. THE PUMPKING IS INDEED PLEASED!
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