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NORTH Hampshire Road Club's Sarah Barber finished second in the latest round of the Wessex Cyclo-Cross League.
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NORTH Hampshire Road Club's Sarah Barber finished second in the latest round of the Wessex Cyclo-Cross League.
POTENTIAL title winners and challengers are showing their hand seven weeks into the Basingstoke and District Table Tennis League campaign.
BASINGSTOKE Hockey Club's ladies continued their winning start to the season with a 2-0 win over visiting Wanderers.
DEFENDING champions Martyn Isherwood and Mike Prince came through a tough competition to retain their Basingstoke and District Tennis League men's veterans doubles title.
KINGSCLERE lead the way in the Basingstoke and District Tennis League Men's Division One after an 8-0 victory over Kintbury, thanks to their team of Daniel Cole/Steve Mills and Chris Pearce/David Giles.
BASINGSTOKE Hockey Club's ladies continued their winning start to the season with a 2-1 win at Southampton.
LODDON Vale Indoor Bowling Club's dismal friendly form continued last weekend as the club lost 20-110 to Hampshire Patrons.
BASINGSTOKE Gymnastic Club were very honoured to have Vadim Skakoun, from Stavropol, in Russia, head up a summer camp for the tumblers.
ARE you inspired by Basingstoke Bison players or ice skaters like Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean and other skaters on popular television series Dancing on Ice?
BASINGSTOKE skaters got the chance to rub shoulders with the sport's elite when the Professionals on Ice Show came to north Hampshire last weekend.
THE Stafford Moor Festivals in Devon attracts some of the best anglers in the country, and with prize money topping the £1,000 mark competition is fierce.
THE Basingstoke Disabled Games once again proved to be a great success, as teams from right across the south of England took part.
BOUNTY Squash Club made it two wins out of two in the Berkshire Squash League Premier Division with a 5-0 victory over visiting Marlow.
KINGSCLERE horse racing trainer Andrew Balding believes that he has a potential Investec Derby contender after watching Elm Park stroll to victory in the Racing Post Trophy.
LODDON Vale enjoyed their second win of the season in the Wessex Bowls League as they beat leaders Westlecot 80-74.
Fifteen Basingstoke ice skaters aged 10 to 20, as well as the Isle of Wight Synchronised Skating team, will be taking part in the Professionals on Ice at Basingstoke Arena on Sunday night.
STARS of television series Dancing on Ice will reunite in Basingstoke this weekend as part of a spectacular nationwide tour.
WINKLEBURY darts ace Mark Petchey was a double winner at the Tribute and Memorial Darts Competition, claiming victory in both the singles and doubles.
THE weight of the week belongs to Tadley Angling's Kevin Roberts, who hauled 259lb of carp on maggot and pole to win the Stacey's match group fixture at Cove Pit, in Theale.
BLUEWAVE Korean Martial Arts have been busy, taking teams to the British Taekwondo National Kyrougi Championships and Northern Ireland Open International Poomsae Championships.
BASINGSTOKE'S Bradley Sutton finished won a silver Medal at the South East Region Modern Pentathlon Competition at Burstow Park in Sussex and Medway Park Kent.
LASHAM pilot Phil Jones was part of the World Championship-winning Great Britain team in Leszno, Poland.
LODDON Vale's indoor friendly matches kicked off last Saturday with a visit from the touring Somerset County Patrons.
BASINGSTOKE Hockey Club's ladies maintained their 100 per cent record with a 5-1 home win over newly-promoted Barnes at a wet Down Grange on Saturday.
THE ninth Barney Barrington Memorial Match took place last Sunday, on the Beale Park stretch of the River Thames at Pangbourne, where 38 anglers turned out to honour arguably the best match angler our area ever produced.
BASINGSTOKE Gymnastic Club's Aerobic squad turned in some excellent performances at the annual British Championships at the Surrey Sports Park, in Guildford.
NICOLE Rogers and Ashley Nethercliffe represented Hampshire in the finals of the National Bowls Youth Development Scheme at Melton Mowbray.
BASINGSTOKE ice skaters picked up a number of medals at the Basingstoke Open, which was held at the Basingstoke Arena and attracted skaters from across Britain.
KENNET Ospreys went to Bowsaw Lake on Sunday last, where Ian Jones topped out with 95lb of carp on pole and wag using a variety of baits.
THE Basingstoke and District Tennis League ran under-14 and under-16 leagues during the summer months, with teams from Andover, Oakley, Odiham and Preston Candover competing.
BASINGSTOKE Blizzards basketball team returned to winning ways in the Wessex League with a thrilling 66-63 win over visiting Woking Blackhawk Hunters.
BASINGSTOKE kickboxer Graham Nickless is celebrating after being awarded a First Degree Black Belt in Whu Shu Kwan.
BASINGSTOKE Hockey Club's men's fourth string recorded their first win of the season with a 3-0 win at home to Alton.
TIME is running out for nominations for the annual Basingstoke and Deane Sports Awards, which will be held at the Apollo Hotel on February 27, 2015.
WHAT appeared on paper to be a tricky assignment at Greenacre proved to be the case as Bounty Squash Club won 3-2 to remain unbeaten in the Berkshire League Premier Division.
BASINGSTOKE Blizzards maintained their 100 per cent start to the Wessex Basketball League campaign with a 75-66 win at Farnborough Phantoms.
BASINGSTOKE Hockey Club Ladies made it six wins on the trot and went three points clear at the top of the table after they beat nearest rivals Eastbourne 3-0.
SPORTS Minister Helen Grant will visit a number of sports clubs across Basingstoke this morning.
BASINGSTOKE Blizzards started their season with a 75-67 victory at Windsor Warriors.
WHITCHURCH – home to a famous silk mill, the author of iconic children's novel Watership Down and now a world champion.
BASINGSTOKE Hockey Club's men's first team had a busy weekend, recording their first league win of the season, a 6-1 victory over Chichester, but then going down to a narrow 3-2 defeat in the first round of the EH Trophy to visiting holders Guernsey.
BASINGSTOKE powerlifter Jean Maton is celebrating after claiming a quartet of gold medals at the World Masters Powerlifting Championships.
BASINGSTOKE Gymnastic Club's boys squad enjoyed plenty of success when they hosted the 2014 Southern Region Championships.
ALDWORTH A got their Basingstoke and District Table Tennis League Division One campaign off to a good start with a 7-3 victory away at Alpha.
BASINGSTOKE Hockey Club's men's first team put in a good performance against a strong Wanderers side but were unable to hold on for an impressive victory.
BASINGSTOKE ice skating star Danielle Harrison was crowned junior ladies champion at the National Ice Skating Association's International Judging System Championship at Ice Sheffield.
BOUNTY squash first team, looking to go one better than their second spot in last season's Berkshire League Premier Division, opened their campaign with a 5-0 win at Hart.
BRITISH Touring Car Championship drivers Rob Collard and Nick Foster will be in action at the final round of the season at Brands Hatch this weekend.
COMMONWEALTH Games gold medal gymnast Kelly Simm is giving her backing to Hampshire's Talented Athlete Scheme as the doors open on the next round of applications.
ROXY O'Dea scored a late winner as Basingstoke Hockey Club's ladies first team secured a dramatic victory away at Surbiton.
NETMINDER Dan Weller-Evans enjoyed a great debut for Basingstoke Bison, as he back stopped his side to a 9-1 victory over his former club the visiting Wightlink Raiders, in the British Challenge Cup.


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SNK NeoGeo USA announced today that Metal Slug 3 has shipped for the Xbox. The first Metal Slug game to be released for the Microsoft console, Metal Slug 3 is a revamped port of the classic arcade game and will also be available for the PlayStation 2 in the fall. Metal Slug 4 & 5 will arrive on both consoles in early 2005.
The port of the popular arcade shoot-'em-up will feature Xbox Live leaderboard functionality. Metal Slug 3 will also include more than 10 new slug vehicles, including the slug copter and the elephant slug, which has a special trunk-spray weapon. Original missions will be available as unlockable rewards.
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Holiday home, 6 Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms, (Sleeps 25)
Amidst fields, woods and sand dunes, at the outer edge of the convivial Brabant village of Luyksgestel, you will find this group accommodation. The location is very suitable for a cosy family weekend or a reunion for example.
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|By Andrew J. Koch (Droid) on Monday, June 07, 2010 - 02:00 pm: Edit
That IS hot and sweaty
|By Brook J. Villa (Brookie) on Monday, June 07, 2010 - 02:17 pm: Edit
Action Report for Up_All_Knight(RFH) vs Andromedan(WYN Shark b/a)
4 turns are in the books
Basically he bull rushed me on turn 1 and took a bunch of shield damage and few internals(he loses some power and a phaser 3). He gets to range 3 on me and fires 6 phaser ones and 4 ol. Luckily he misses with two ol but rolls ok with phasers and does 5 in after a 9 point brick on my #2. I lose 4 hull and a phaser 3. Over the rest of the turn and the beginning of the 2nd turn I scatter launch my plasma f's which do some more shield damage. He blasts me with phasers and ties up mine with his drones. I really never get a chance to turn back into him to launch the other S and my drone defense is pitiful. The first 3 drones I fired at all took 3 or less damage and the suicide shuttle I launched at one of his drones was evaded. Ah well, what can you do? So I spend turn 3 running away and he keeps on my tail at medium range launching drones for me to play with later. Turn 4 I'm caught in the corner, but with some clever speed changes I get my FH in arc. I launch two S torps at him and use most of my firepower to shoot down 4 drones. I take two drones on my #3 and it goes down. He shoots me with 4 ol and 2 phaser ones taking down my #1 and doing some good internals.(two phasers, 4 power, and a trac). He also blasts one of the S's with 4 phaser ones and 5 phaser 3's bringing it down to 13. He makes the 43 points of plasma hit a fresh rear shield. The 19 internals gets two phaser 3's, 3 power, a torp, and a phaser one. I still had a plasma f to launch but he takes it on a fresh #4 shield. It was my mistake for waiting so long to launch it. If that torp hits a weak/down shield I am way ahead, but alas it wasn't meant to be and now I am running again. We'll just have to see what happens.
For the most part it's a close game, but I'm going to have to give the edge to the Shark for it's everyturn firing, drones and durability. Not to mention the fact that he still has his shuttle bays and is not speed restricted. His sheilds are a mess, but mine arenty much better. Gonna be hard to turn around to face him again and any launched plasma(not for 2-3 turns) will cause him problems. I'm used to these long drawn out, bloody games. So I'm looking forward to continuing.
|By Ron Brimeyer (Captainron) on Monday, June 07, 2010 - 04:18 pm: Edit
Captainron (Shark B1) over Hardcore (Orion PPPff)
T1 Orion 15/16/26 with Rwarp2. Shark 15/30/26 with disr cool and 12 on the #6. Orion turns off then back in. Shark tries to close. We get to range 7 on imps 31. On 32 the orion slips out and the Shark slips out to r8 putting the Orion out of his FA. Shark launches 3 drones. No fire from either ship.
T2 Orion 26/31 with both warp hot. Shark 26/25/24 with 2 OLs. Shark turns away Orion pursues but drones force him to slip away to get them at r1. He grabs 2 and kills 1 with p-3s. Around imps 22 orion sc to 31 and shark launches 3 more drones. Orion kills 2 of these at R2 with p-1 and 2p-3s so he can get back to R8 before eot. The last drone hits his nose for 12 revealling 9 point brick. Imps 29 Orion takes a R8 shot with 3 OL Photons and 3 P-1s. Missing with all photons and doing 4 with the phasers to sharks #4. Imps 30 shark hets stairght back at orion and fires 2 OLs hittng #3 for 12 points. Eot we are R8 about 12 hexes in from upper left corner of map. Orion is down 3 engines.
T3: Orion 30/26 both warp burning. Shark 30 all turn 4 HK and 4 to recharge bats. We hit R3 midturn and orion fires 4 P-1s doing 18 to sharks #1. By imps 26 we are R2. imps 29 orion launches shuttle. Shark death drags it with tractor....manned. On imps 31 we are R2 orion facing E Slip or het able. Shark facing F slip or turn able. Orion off sharks 1/6 split, shark off the 4/5 split. Orion launches shuttle dir B and shark kills it with 3 p-3s. it goes boom.
Imps 32 orion hets to dir C and shark slips into his hex #6 to #6. Shark launches 3 drones...2 heavies..and 2 shuttles. Orion with only 3 p-3s in arc and unfired, raises the white flag.
|By Peter D Bakija (Bakija) on Monday, June 07, 2010 - 04:23 pm: Edit
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|By Andrew J. Koch (Droid) on Monday, June 07, 2010 - 08:28 pm: Edit
Droid(HBgD Aux) over CrashandBurn(Zin)in a close fight with lots of drones and stuff.
Turn 1 Typical stuff with the Zin sorta corner diving and the Aux keeping the range open. Zin SP and drone launch on 1.32 all speed 20s. Aux launch 1.32. Range 17
Turn 2 I plot 21/31 and close behind the drones, Zin plots 20/10 and hunkers down behind his drones. I fire at R3, heavily damaging John's #1, while he shoots drones and heavily damages my #3 an Imp later. I speed off at 31 and the Zin follows. We end the turn toward the bottom of the map both facing C at about R9.
T3 I plot speed 31 and run run run. John chases and I plink his #1 for 5 more. John does not fire. We end the turn about r6-7 from our ship and drones. I do not launch this turn, because...
T4 I plot 8/4/9 and weasel! John was not expecing this but handled it well nonetheless, sidling out and getting a r5 OL/phaser shot on my #6. I cleverly had a brick on my #1 because I planned on turning in, of course he fired early and missed it. I really suck at reinforcing properly. Fortunately for me, John really sucks at hitting with disr, and my shield holds. I turn in next imp and fire at his #3 taking it down completely after some batt reinforcement, but I return the favor to John and miss with the HB. I decel to 4 and weasel off his stack, then later accel to 9 as he decels to 8.
4.32 I launch 5 drones. We end the turn at r3, my #1 to his #4.
Turn 5 I rearm the HB, recharge phasers, put 9 in trac, and plot 9 all turn. John does a 0tac/4 plot. I close to R1 my #2 to his #5, I tractor him for 1, and we launch scads of crap at each other. When the dust settles, I get hit by a medium drone (darn lucky) and he gets hit by a medium and a heavy, then he takes an unfired p-1 in the hole. A couple of Imp later, he HETs and I get popped by a Sui that I didn't notice in all the clutter. I use all my batts to reinforce. John then gives me all 4 bearing p-3s for 10 internals, getting mostly fluff. He then tries to break the trac over the next few Impulses, but I sweat it out and hold at 9, which turned out to be exactly what was required, as he had 8. 5.22 I turn in at pseudo speed 3 and bring the gat to bear. 5.23 I launch my other sui, which hits his #4 on 5.24, followed by the gatt for another 20 or so in.
We finish out the turn, but John concedes here as I have all weapons ready for a blast on Imp 1.
A very tight game against one of my favorite SFB people. It could have gone another way if John had a bit more luck and I had a bit less. Boo Hoo John Anyway... Go Team Iron Mans!
|By Chris Proper (Duke) on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 - 04:25 pm: Edit
When there's no limit to what Droid gets, there's no limit to what Droid does.
|By Andrew J. Koch (Droid) on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 - 04:50 pm: Edit
Droid Does. (TM)
|By Brook J. Villa (Brookie) on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 - 08:09 pm: Edit
Is one of your apps SFB?
|By Kerry E Mullan (Nomad17) on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 12:36 am: Edit
Pool A Lazlo(HYD) vs Nomad(KLI)
Hyd doing spd 14/26 plot KLI went 16/31(on 27)
KLI launches scatter early(4 spd 20's+ 2 spd 32) SS out to allow drones to get slightly ahead. Hyd is just keeping ftrs 1 ahead of him til around imp 24 when they start falling 1 behind. On 26 I reach R8/9 to ftrs and fire 4 std disr at one crippling it. HYD turns in using LS gat to kill the 2 spd 32s(I am on RS).
I launch my T4 spd 32s offset to allow for a dogfight launch as well. Me slipping out to help avoid some closure. On 31 I fire P1+ 2p2 on his #1 wih drones all around him(hyd tractored both spd 32s and spd 20s would not impact til imp 2 next turn). After seeing no rein, on imp 32 we both unload remaining weapons. I get 13 internals he gets 2+13 after hitting 14 rein. The big thing was that one of the hyd tracs got hit. otherwise ints were pretty lame for both. No Hells hit though.
I had launched 2 other shuts with one killing the crip shuttle late in the turn.
T2 we start at R2 with the ftr at R7. We both go spd 0 an HYD gets hit on down shield with one tractored drone for 22 internals(4 power in general). After this I threw 6 H+Rs at him getting 2 of his unfired fusions!
Then he weaseled the remaining drones taking it all on his #3 while turning his #2 to me. I launch a shuttle that will force him to kill it, tac again, or take the shut fir through the #1.
HYD tacs his #3 to me but I don't notice for 5 imps while I move the fresh shuttle onto his #2. At this point I look at a 10 point shield and alpha with 3 OL+2 p1+ 4 P3 saving the FX P1s to deal with the ftr. After hitting with everything at R2 for 47 dam the 37 ints left him with a GAT and 14 power so Andy conceeded.
I was surprised the HYD turned into the scatter instead of doing a shoot and scoot, but at R2 one Hellbore missed so the added 8 ints could have hurt me much worse. As well the KLI tends to be BAD to the hydran.
|By Andy Vancil (Andy) on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 12:41 am: Edit
Nomad (Kli) over Laszlo (Hyd)
Turn 1, he goes 16, I go 14/25/26. Fighters out. SP out, 2F+4M. At range 9 to fighters, he fires 4 stds at one, crippling it with 9 damage. I turn in and shoot down his fasts. He launches two more fast drones and the DF drone. I close, skating by his medium drones and tractoring his fasts. By impulse 32, we are at range 2, and I unload. 5p1, 4p3, 1 fusion, 1 OL HB, 1 Std HB, and the fighter alpha at range 6. I do 46 DF but miss with the std HB. (Of course, it was range 2.) He has a brick and takes 2+13 in, 2 phasers, a drone rack, 3 power.
His phasers do 13 internals to me. I am pleasantly surprised to notice he did not hit a HB. But then I notice he hit a tractor beam, which means a fast drone will hit me on 2.1, on my down shield. It turns out to be a heavy, which he follows up with some decent H&R, leaving me with a HB, a p1, 2 gats and a fusion. I weasel the remaining drones (except the DF) but after the WW clears, his alpha leaves me a smoking wreck.
Good game, Kerry!
|By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 03:04 am: Edit
Anyone heard from Mike Helbig recently? I haven't yet got any reply (to my reply to his mail).
|By Andrew J. Koch (Droid) on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 04:47 pm: Edit
I've seen him on a bit...I know he is driving truck alot and has his laptop with him. He may be one of the many(or so it seems) players online who has an outdated email address in their profile. I'll mention it if I see him around
|By Robert F Estrada (Daredevil) on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 04:56 pm: Edit
I watched the Nomad vs Lazlo game ( soft spot for HYD captain, but rooting for WL team-mate Nomad)
I thought Nomad had a huge brick only ( until he fired 4 stands at fighters imp 26)
Andy could have alpaed R6-8 on Brick 9+5? and run to reload. Hindsight.
The Klingon seems to have the HYD's number in the RPS imo to many advantages
Attacking T2 or WWing T2( clean the pack) hehe
Andys games are so epic in scope. I thought for sure Kerry was going to get blasted at R2 or R1 ( if Andy had a speed change) HB would have missed even at R1 on a 11! but the extra 5-10 internals may have made a difference.
Very intense game , with many pinpoint decisions that were made by both sides.
|By Stephen McCann (Moose) on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 07:22 pm: Edit
Barry Kirk, I was online tonight for our game and waited 15 minutes for you. E-mail me and we can reschedule our game.
|By Xander Fulton (Dderidex) on Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 12:36 am: Edit
Ooof. Well, Marcus (Hydran) dun blowed the doors off my poor Firehawk (uhhh...Romulan).
Turn 1
This started out promising. My plan involved a few stepped mid-turn speed changes to come out fast, shoot off some plasma, and turn off under cloak. The gimmick was that I was shooting heavy plasma (both S-torps)...at his fighters (which he obligingly launched right away - this plan would have REALLY gone off if he hadn't!)
Mostly worked as expected, with a 16(1-16)/8/4 plot. Marcus's movement was as expected for someone with a cruiser under torpedo attack, and I was hoping I'd get the fighter kills. But, NO! He lab'd one of the torps on impulse 32 of turn 1 and figured it out (several times, actually)!
Turn 2
So turn 2 starts with me under cloak, reloading the heavy torps, and we basically close...sort of...but not really in a hurry. He spent a lot of the turn running out the torpedoes (only one does any damage - 1 point to a fighter) before turning around to face me, again. I decloak on 26 (enough time to get a shot on 32). Empty the facing phaser-1s at his fighters at the tremendous range of TWELVE...and would have crippled one but for the small target modifier.
Turn 3
At this point, I make my first serious mistake. With fighters and his ship at range 12 and closing straight on, I should have chucked an F-torp at them to keep them honest before cloaking, but I was annoyed by the retained-lock-for-a-few-impulses that happened last time I cloaked out. So I plotted a speed 0 (this is important, as it will later be my undoing) to guarantee a dropped lock, didn't power fire control, and cloaked out right away.
I'm sure we can all see where this is going. The Hydran closed range (of course). By the end of the turn, he was close enough to shoot Hellbores at me. Not solid odds - he needed an '8'...but got two hits! A smattering of mild shield damage (one was reduced to 50% by the cloak) ended this turn.
Turn 4
Now, here the mistake from turn 3 was compounded. I plotted what was a BRILLIANT maneuver. I started this turn beyond his fighters (2 range) and ship (range of 4). With a 19/16 plot, I could finish loading my heavy torps, mostly recharge my battery, power an HET, and keep ahead of his fighters!
Except...I'd been moving speed 0 for the first 8 impulses of turn 3. So couldn't move faster than 10 this turn. Wasted power went to reserve warp (which was fine, I was 2 points shy of recharging the battery, anyway), but it meant I was range 2 from two Stingers and range 4 to a Hydran TCC...all with loaded Fusion Beams...at speed 10.
So...yeah. That went badly. Started turn decloaking due to lack of power to it, tried to get away, realized (quickly) it was futile, so HET'd and vaporized the closing fighters with phasers, just after the cloak dropped, and shot off all my plasma. They returned fire, blowing down my #1 shield and doing 17 internals. Not AWFUL...except that, after an HET, I have to move forward. Towards the Hydran ship. And he turns towards me - centerline at range 1.
Do I need to continue? "Popped like a cheap balloon" is a good description. Literally one impulse after the cloak finished dropping. So many ways I could have stopped that from happening! Learning new stuff about tourney SFB all the time - VERY DIFFICULT to stop a single failure from continuously (and rapidly) snowballing into a lost match!
|By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 05:23 am: Edit
Every attempt to do something clever to destroy them has backfired for me. I think one should try avoid worry about stingers; Outside range 3 they are only a nuisance after all.
|By Marcus J. Giegerich (Marcusg) on Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 08:18 am: Edit
It was a fun game Xander. You'll get the hang of the client and the tourney rule set in no time.
I'll contribute my speed plottery for each turn because I have little else to add ;)
Turn 1 - 16/25/26
Turn 2 - 28/27/16
Turn 3 - 16/26/25/16
Turn 4 - 14/25/14
Xander's targeting of the fighters with his torp launch almost worked. I was planning on running them out to range 16, gatting them, and turning back in. I got a funny feeling around impulse 31 and labbed 1 of the torps at range 4 (using all 4 labs) and succeeded in identifying it 3 times over as targeted on a fighter. Had I known my roll ahead of time I would have labbed both of them!
I think his biggest mistake was continuing to cloak after turn 1 while the fighters where still alive. It is really, REALLY tough for a Firehawk to come out of cloak with fighters around and not get punished for it.
So go go Team Jersey!
|By Xander Fulton (Dderidex) on Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 12:40 pm: Edit
In re-thinking the match - obviously, forgetting my speed 0 plot was a critical mistake. But I still could have had the match up until that HET into your teeth. Stupid unfamiliarity with the Firehawk is to blame (I'm far too used to the non-tourney old Eagles), but I had no need to HET to kill the fighters on that last turn. The TFH has MORE than sufficient rear-facing phasers to do it. Heck, that would even have given me another Ph-1 for your ship when I WOULD end up later HET'ing after opening the range up, some.
Re-thinking those last two impulses...uggh. SO MANY WAYS I could have handled that better! Think I just panicked in the face of that many Fusion Beams, with the blunder of the speed plot throwing my turn plans in the air.
|By Clayton Krueger (Krieg) on Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 08:09 pm: Edit
krieg (GRN) over sumo (KLI)
Turn 1 I plot 31/16/31 and launched a standard S torp. sumo plotted 15/28, launched his sp on imp 2, fired 4 standard disruptors about mid-turn and then ran to the NW corner. Before he turned off he thought about turning toward me, thinking the torp was a fake, but he guessed right. I destroyed his 6 type 1 sp drones with phaser fire near end of turn, which ends with me in pursuit about 12 hexes away.
Turn 2 I'm planning on an anchor, but my speed turned out to be too slow at 16, even with a mid-turn sc. He went 28 with a late turn bump to 31 and the closest I could get to him was 3 hexes. I had put 11 in trac but he was able to fend it off at r3. So i fired 6 phasers and took down his 3 shield. He returned ph fire doing 18 damage to 1 shield. So next imp, with an downed shield facing me, I couldn't resist and fired an f bolt, and of course, I missed. With his turn mode now satisfied, he turned direction c, so I launched a real standard S torp which i figured would hit imp 1 next turn.
Turn 3 he must have thought torp was fake and choose to only fire a few phasers at it. He had a 7 pt. brick and it took down his 4 shield to 4 boxes. I then fired 4 phasers and did about 12 int, mostly power but no disruptors or drones. 2nd imp i het and fire 4 more phasers into him, doing another 16 internals, more power and all batts, but still no disruptors or ph 1s. I now launch an f torp to tie up his phasers and move away as fast as i can with a 24/12/14 split, hoping to get out of range 8. He does a 15/21 split and turns, phasers f torp down to 3 pts and gets within range 8 by end of turn.
Turn 4 imp 1 he fires 4 ol and 4 ph 1s, scoring 1 int (warp) thru my 4 shield. My plan now was to use EPTs because of his downed 4 and 5 shields, and stay out of ol range. He had lost 10 power and all batts, so he went sp 4 to be able to load 4 ol. So i launched a pseudo to start working on the ww's - he only had 2 shuttles left due to sp and a 3rd turn manned shuttle launch - which he launched and later voided with a sc to 14 after the pseudo hit. Then i launched an ept which hit on imp 32 and caused 18 internals, this time hitting 2 disruptors.
Turn 5 ended the game when another ept hit which he couldn't outrun and didn't weasel.
|By David Schultz (Ikvavenger) on Friday, June 11, 2010 - 11:54 am: Edit
DaveC in the Hydran over IKV Avenger in the Klink
T1 - Had a good plan out of the gate. Managed to avoid his HB's and Fusions and even blew apart one of his Stingers with 4 standard Disruptor shots. Feeling pretty good about how this turn panned out.
T2 - Faked Dave out early in this turn. He thought I was hitting the other fighter, instead I got a great R8 shot on him and downed his #6 shield. Right after this is when it fell apart. Trying to get my type two waist phasers into arc for a Mizia shot through the down shield I was caught flat footed by an unanticipated speed change from Dave. Unable to get away in time he was able to catch up to Fusion range. After his volley and some Mizia shots the DAC frowned on me. I lost all the Disruptors but still had all my Ph-1's. Later though I lost a couple of them and with his other Stinger coming in and only three Ph-1's left I conceded.
All in all it was a very challenging, tough round for me and my opponents were all top notch. However, I'd like to feel that I made three new friends and they taught me quite a bit. I'd love the opportunity to replay any of these games JFF. All of you played great and best of luck in the rest of the tourny.
|By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Friday, June 11, 2010 - 12:18 pm: Edit
Hm, I wonder what the usual SOP for Klingons are in this match-up? Seems to me the ADD would be the primary stinger defence, and the disr would be aimed at the ship only. Maybe I will find out someday, but the one and only attempt at flying Klinks in a tourney ended with me conceding in frustration over the power drain of df weapons
|By David Schultz (Ikvavenger) on Friday, June 11, 2010 - 04:01 pm: Edit
I'm not sure about the ADD's Carl. An ADD isn't effective until R3 (its optimum firing range) and that is when the Stinger is within range with the Fusions and Gatling. In other words, if you can hit it with an ADD, it can hit you as well. The ADD against a SP/SS/Admin is fine, but I don't think it would be the 'primary' choice against a Stinger.
First you have to hit with it, which at R3 is a 1-4 chance. Then I believe you have to roll to see how much damage is done which I think is 1-6? If that is so, you have no chance of killing or crippling it in one impulse. This means it will take a minimum of two impulses to kill/cripple while still maintaining R3 while likely taking fire.
While a Stinger isn't optimum at R3, it still has a gatling and 2xFusions to hit with. And at R3 it is still going to have a fair chance to score some decent damage, particularly if there are two of them.
My initial plan was to kill a Stinger on T1 and then the second on T2. That takes away several of the Hydrans options and a decent amount of in-close fire power from him. I'm glad I choose to fire on his ship on T2 instead of the second Stinger as it wasn't nearly close enough to worry me. My main mistake was sticking around trying for the Mizia shot through his downed #6. I should have immediately turned off and opened the distance. But that is a lesson learned.
As far as it goes, SOP I think is take out the Stingers if possible early on so they don't come back to bite you at a bad time. Secondly, saber dance at R15 where his Fusions and Gatlings are useless and his HB's are not very effective. At this range the disruptor still has a good chance to hit and you can soften up the shields for later in the game when you have the opportunity to come in with OL's. I definitely don't want to hit R3 or less against him unless I've pulled some teeth or it is a down turn for his fusions. Still have the gats too worry about though unless you've been able to nail them, but that isn't likely with the long range sniping. My hope is he would waste the HB's on a long range (non-OL) shot and then go for the R8 OL on him while still staying out of his R3.
Just my thoughts.
|By Kerry E Mullan (Nomad17) on Friday, June 11, 2010 - 05:58 pm: Edit
As a KLI I like to do a few things, but a lot depends on if the hydran leads with his ftrs or has em trailing:
1. Get the scatter out early enough to allow it to get in front of you. His GATs dealing with drone is better than them dealing with you.
2. Pound the ship with everything using spd to avoid the ftrs. This normally works well due to the KLI arcs. it is very easy to hit him at R4 with P1's plus OLs and then turn off bringing your P2s into arc for mizia fire.
3. Drones- launch them as soon as you have channels for em but launch 1 per hex to make manuevering around them difficult.
4. Of course shoot the ftrs if he leads with em and my personal theory is launch shuttles for manned admins to cause manuever difficulties.
Most likely I would say the ADD is not the primary ftr defensebut spd and a pair of R4 P1s would be.
|By Peter D Bakija (Bakija) on Friday, June 11, 2010 - 06:03 pm: Edit
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I've been fortunate to have great mentors, from Patrol Leaders as a Scout, to Troop Scouters, Group Scouters and training team members who have helped me, challenged me and supported me as a Scouter. Today I want to talk about resources that are available to everyone that have been a great help to me.
The Dump
I was fortunate to inherit an extensive library in my Scout group, going back to the founding of the group in the 1940s. These old books have fantastic information, but they are not easy to find anymore. The Dump is a library of scanned PDFs of old Scouting resources, collected and curated by Scoutscan.com. Everything from BP's earliest, pre-Scout writing, to specific merit badge advice, is available here.
Clarke Green has been blogging since 2005 on Scouting, and gives sage advice, shares useful tips, and also has a weekly podcast that is very entertaining and informative. Clarke aims his advice at Scout leaders, no matter what capacity you are serving in, and has written a few books in addition to the blog. The Index is a good place to dive in to nine year's worth of material.
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Joy was the Pack Scouter during most of the time that I was Troop Scouter at Ninth Benoni, and we started blogging within a few months of each other. Joy blogged the day's Pack meeting every week for years, and this blog collects these meetings as well as many other ideas for camps and outings for Cubs.
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Building your first treehouse
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Choosing a tree
For any tree house, and especially your first one, selecting a tree that has a few branches radiating out at the same level will make things much simpler. For a first treehouse, a tree like a willow that splits low down is ideal.
The starting point, and the part that will probably take the longest, is getting your first pulley established to raise everything else up. A heaving line, with a weighted bag, beanbag or other weight with a lightweight messenger line will help you get the first ropes up. You can then use the first rope you establish to Prussik up and place a pulley for raising items up. Everyone working at height should be using harnesses and fall protection measures.
Rigging and raising the first pole is your next task. Once it's in place, and lashed onto the tree using hessian or padding, you can raise the rest of the base poles up and set them in place.
Having established the base, the next task is to get safety railing and any roof or other superstructure up. In my experience, you can expect to spend about a third if your time getting the pulley in place, a third of the time on the first two base poles, and the final third on the rest of the structure.
August 29, 2014
Hourglass Tower at Oppikoppi festival
Following on from the Belgian music festival last week, Oppikoppi is the largest music festival in South Africa, held annually on Northam Farm.
1st Northam built this tower for the 2014 festival, and the five minute time lapse by Donald van der Westhuizen shows how it was built. The tower was put up by building it completely on the ground (method 1 according to this post) by this team:
August 22, 2014
Pioneering at Pukkelpop festival
|image courtesy Universiteit Hasselt
This pioneered structure at Pukkelpop 2014 in Belgium was seen by thousands of people during the annual music festival. Designed by Jakob Ghisjebrechts, it was built with the help of Gouw Limberg, a regional Scouting organization in Belgium
|design model. Image courtesy Universiteit Hasselt
|image courtesy Universiteit Hasselt
August 15, 2014
Bamboo Scaffolding- government guidelines for pioneered structures in Hong Kong
Bamboo has been used for centuries to build scaffolding in East Asia, and is still in use today- everyday pioneering visible in every city. Where there are industries, there are standards, and the Hong Kong government publishes the document Guidelines on the Design and Construction of Bamboo Scaffolds, which regulates every details of how bamboo should be used in scaffolding there.
|Figure 1 from Guidelines on the Design and Construction of Bamboo Scaffolds
The type of bamboo-
The commonly used bamboo types are Kao Jue and Mao Jue. They should be 3 to 5 years old and air-dried in vertical positions under indoor condition for at least 3 months before use. The nominal length of both Kao Jue and Mao Jue is 6 m.
Shear lashings for joining poles-
And even inspection for quality control-
Bamboo is a natural material and it expands and contracts as the moisture content changes. Proper workmanship, close supervision and frequent inspection are required to ensure the structural integrity of the bamboo scaffolds.While these regulations might not apply in your country (and might even allow for structures that are illegal/not suitable for Scouts in your country) they are an interesting read if you are looking at building large pioneered structures.
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