Imyurhukaberry (159) vs Lilninja93 (57) at the Train Station

Great game. Durge JH is a tank. I just avoided him as much as possible. Got some lucky init rolls to seal the deal...and the ESA is well worth the points with an Imp Officer. (as is a Mando JH) Activations played a key role in this game. One of these days I'll remember that the Imperial Sov Protector has Force Sense!

*to ED...man...i hope the streak breaks for ya!

me & lil ninja had a nice battle last night at 1am lol, our week 2 makeup match, man if we had more time i would of had him i think lol, & not to mention my bad rolls i had on durge who i let an AOO go on my WeW with 30hp & durge what do you know on the AOO gets crit, if he didnt i would of killed durge, & then marr was closing in on Mara, but lilninja got me, the dude is good & dont under estimate him, the user is a beast & he played very well, hope he feels the same.

Understand i dont have the best collection, & i think i hold my own last few games i played with what i got, so Lilninja93 , your good & will go far in the league my friend & it was a great match & i had fun, lol we both let eachother go on stupid moves we forgot to do & i admire you for that my friend.

Week 4 Matchup

ArtemisCFrog43 at Skeeve3000

We played on the Muunlist Plaza map.

I ended up winning the match 199 to 197. I only had an IG-86 Assasin Droid left. If he had gotten one more gambit he would have won the match. I'm not sure I have ever had a match go that close.

Mathias vs. Demosthenes

Mathias wins 204-189. His last piece proved to be too much to handle once I had picked off all of the rest, and I couldn't whittle down his HP fast enough, and he won on gambit. Argh! lol. Great match, man, wish you all the best in the rest of the league!

Ukezwoll vs Eroschilles

Conceded

Winner: Ukezwoll

I tried to circle around and avoid contact as it seemed my squad had the ranged advantage. Eroschilles killed a few scrubs of mine, while I was largely unable to kill anything as he kept different figures as the legal target and these tough pieces also shrugged off many weak attacks. In the end the main threats of my opponent did take significant damage though and the game was conceded at that point, even though I still had not managed to kill anything except a 6 point figure.

Really? Seems like slow play to me...

Which time limit was being enforced? 2hrs or 80/75 minutes? What was the final score?

...but still. being able to kill only a 6 point piece during the whole game is pretty whack...

The score was I believe 14-11 in favor of my opponent when he conceded after something like 1 hour and 30 minutes. The time limit was 2 hours.

Neither of the parties involved complained about slow play, so there's no incentive to change the result. I know for a fact that Eroschilles' main beatstick has a lot of HP, and so perhaps Ukezwoll was focusing on taking him out, and never got around to whittling down all of his HP.

A peculiar statement I have to say. The first part would imply that a game deciding ruling on slow play should be made even before the game is finished. This game only went 75% of the time. I don't believe that kind of ruling is supported by the current DCI rules, nor do I belive the community would welcome a change to that effect. The second part of your statement seems to pinpoint a culprit regarding why the pace of the game was fairly slow. Obviously one would expect you to have been there, watching the whole game to be able to make such an audacious claim.

Judging from the state of the game at the time of the concession, I believe there was several factors contributing to it. First of all, my opponent was not aware of what the time limit for this game was. He may have expected and played for a win with the lead he had. Instead the realization that the time limit was 2 hours seemed to cause some concern and one might presume, possibly some degree of demoralization. Secondly, the very last activation of the game was mine. Following an init win I was able to in one activation cause 120 damage to his main threats. This weakened them considerably and severely harmed the chances of my opponent to win the game. He was poorly positioned to do any damage to my figures, hampered by the lack of door openers in a map crammed with doors and being severely outactivated he would have to expose a piece to my shooters if he wanted a chance to collect gambit. It was a pretty bleak situation and while probably not impossible to turn around I can certainly see why the decision was made to concede at this point.

In short it would seem that my opponent being unfamiliar with the time limit of the game, that the pace of the game may have been perceived as taxing and the fact that my opponent had other commitments to attend may have together created an environment, demoralized him if you like, where suddenly having to soak 120 damage with his main threats eliminated his will to play the game to the end. At which point the game was completely lost of course, no matter how many figures was left on the table.

This would also serve to illustrate the concept of "morale" I believe, which I'm sure you are familiar with. In wargames that employ this concept it is not always necessary to eliminate every living opponent. The "morale" of a unit is used to represent the will to act of the human component. When the "morale" of a unit reach zero it has no longer any will to carry on left. It will be as little able to contribute as if every living being of the unit had been eliminated. I believe this game was decided when the "morale" of my opponent reached zero and he no longer had the will to carry on playing. Why would you claim this was not a valid victory?