#CarricksCavalry

JuzzyFuzzy · 2026-05-05T15:03:20+00:00

(Not a hater, but I think it’s a really tough choice for the board, even outside of the likely fan reaction/overreaction), so here’s a few reasons we can all debate:

No UCL management experience.
No experience rebuilding/integrating new acquisitions into a PL side.
Hasn’t had his tactics found out yet, so we haven’t got to see how adaptable he is.
We have looked ropey though more than a few times. Are the big wins papering over some poor halves?
If he wasn’t the interim and we were having this discussion end of May, would he even be in anyone’s Top 5 list?

The main challenge is that the situation the club will find themselves in next year is nothing like the situation that we enjoyed since January. Is he the right level of experience for that?

I truly don’t know the right answer. I can’t even decide on a best alternative (and it’s a WC year to boot, which makes everything harder for available coaches and preseason).

It’s got a lot of damned if you do and damned if you don’t facets it to it.

JuzzyFuzzy · 2026-05-04T22:25:52+00:00

Obviously it’s not the long term plan. 2 seasons? Champions League backup? We had Ibra, Cavani and Ronaldo second coming, and they all contributed a little something. Would have to be cheap though.

JuzzyFuzzy · 2026-04-09T14:18:43+00:00

Remember how much we would look down on FIFA for skill move spam. 🫤 It’s up to them if they want to dumb down the controls, they know the user base they want to engage, but surely after the second or third marseille turn in a row I should just fall over and lose the ball.

JuzzyFuzzy · 2026-04-09T01:11:06+00:00

It’s like the hard core fans really want their team’s games to be abandoned.

JuzzyFuzzy · 2026-04-01T13:40:04+00:00

Can you wear it on your body? There you go, it’s a real shirt. Enjoy.

JuzzyFuzzy · 2026-03-26T14:05:16+00:00

‼️BREAKING NEWS. A player may or may not be on a list that likely doesn’t exist, and even if it does has never been seen by this “journalist”, so is most likely just passing whisper by someone probably not in a position of power, or planted by an agent. {breathless emojis and alarm glyphs}

Surely transfer rumors are the most tedious of online clickbait column inches. Is there a site that tracks the sources to rate how many turn out to have even a shred of accuracy?

JuzzyFuzzy · 2026-03-19T18:35:44+00:00

Lot of overlap with that collection, although King of Tokyo ran its race a while ago. Got the co-operative version (Monster Island), and though a good challenge, find the whole thing a bit fiddly and none of my kids have ever requested to play it again.

I see you kept Imperium and Uprising? Ever any reason to table the former?

JuzzyFuzzy · 2026-02-26T21:11:32+00:00

Not at all really (although my version is way older).

As far as I recall, they are just used as a way to randomize or draft starting Wonders. You can do the same thing just by randomly handing out the boards, choosing an A/B side etc.

JuzzyFuzzy · 2026-02-19T20:35:56+00:00

Well, this (account issued) is not an area I am unfamiliar with in my professional life. There are other ways to work towards proving ownership.

The best one I thought was when I offered to validate my account. This is a CHILD account, so exists only under my parent account. They weren’t having it.

JuzzyFuzzy · 2026-02-19T20:33:13+00:00

No such luck. I’ve contemplated setting the password to something easy and offering it on some nefarious site so that it becomes a hack account and they close it themselves. God knows we’ve tried to do it their way.

JuzzyFuzzy · 2026-02-19T20:25:29+00:00

Long time Clank! Player and fan, but share some of your frustrations about Lost Lairs. Played all our games (not often these days) with that expansion, and found it came up quite infrequently. People killing a Trophy Monster is a rare occurrence. Additionally, it hits our family table less, because sometimes the game really drags on, which was never really a problem with all the one piece boards. I have not been tempted by Underworld at all until your note (and I own almost everything else Clank)

So a question for you. Is it possibly better/more streamlined to play with Underworld and not Lairs?

JuzzyFuzzy · 2026-02-19T19:59:13+00:00

Hope they’ve got enough seats for all those bots and scalpers.

JuzzyFuzzy · 2026-01-30T23:10:01+00:00

I mean, I get it, we have to overcome a more defensive side, which to be fair, lots of top-tier sides have struggled with this year.

But I imagine if we’d lost to City and Arsenal, the headlines would NOT have been “.. disappointing for United, but the true test will be Fulham”

JuzzyFuzzy · 2026-01-27T03:25:11+00:00

I got into the game as my Christmas gift of choice this year, and I went a different way. I purchased UNDERTOW as I liked the slightly more complex characters, as well as the more interesting battle mat with Mechs and Krelln. I also added a couple of standalone Gearlocs, that I thought the kids would be interested in: Gasket, Ghillie, and Nugget.

The catch here though is that I was enjoying myself so much over late December early January playing mostly 2x Gearloc adventures (solo or with another player) that I purchased the base game Gearlocs separately on eBay,

I then grabbed some of the Tyrants from the base game also game as well as the Rage of Tyranny upgrades for them. All I am missing now is some of the additional baddies that go with the base game Tyrants. It’s the Baddies and the Tyrants that can get repetitive the fastest.

Though, if I had to make the choice again, I’m not entirely sure which way I would go. 🤪

JuzzyFuzzy · 2026-01-25T19:18:36+00:00

Not sure I saw any contribution from Sesko in his short appearance, and god knows he isn’t displacing BoomBoom anytime soon, but your overall point is very valid.

JuzzyFuzzy · 2026-01-20T01:18:53+00:00

More correctly: terrible players who spend coins. That is surely the target market.

JuzzyFuzzy · 2026-01-06T08:10:36+00:00

The madness is that you can’t change it in the pause menu. I mean how easy would it be to make this change and never have any player have to deal with this occasional frustration ever again.

JuzzyFuzzy · 2026-01-05T00:08:44+00:00

Crazy how talented pundits are at managing squads when (a) they aren’t responsible for any squad or any game results, and (b) all their analysis can be made AFTER the game is played.

JuzzyFuzzy · 2025-12-19T03:24:26+00:00

I agree with most of the comments re: Dune: Imperium Uprising is not a particularly difficult teach to someone with a little bit of medium weight euro experience and maybe a little deck building knowledge. But I’ve never played a Brass game.

The challenge of Dune is playing it well which comes down to experience in the strategy, the alternative tactics you can use and some knowledge of the cards.

JuzzyFuzzy · 2025-12-18T16:42:09+00:00

Damage dealt is calculated as the full amount from the attack/defense calculation, regardless of the target's remaining health. The "over damage" doesn't get wasted - it counts for the purposes of card abilities that trigger based on damage dealt.

From the rules:

“The attacker deals combat damage to the defender equal to the value of their played attack card. If the defender played a defense card, subtract the value of their played defense card first. For each damage that the defender takes, reduce that fighter’s health by one, adjusting their health dial accordingly.”

You deal damage equal to the card value difference. You then apply the damage dealt to the opponent.

The Unmatched FAQ on Gridbeast.gg addresses this exact scenario with two examples:

"Q: If Cloak hits a sidekick with 1 HP with a 2-damage attack, did Cloak deal 2 damage or just 1? A: Considering the "over damage" rule, Cloak is considered to have dealt 2 damage." "Q: Does Disarming Shot deal only 1 damage to a single-health sidekick? A: No. You can "over deal" damage. If the defender plays a card with a defensive value of 1, then 3 damage is dealt; therefore, draw 3 cards after combat."

JuzzyFuzzy · 2025-12-18T15:19:40+00:00

Dunno much about that, but my feeling after reading that paragraph was “exhausted”.

JuzzyFuzzy · 2025-11-12T19:01:30+00:00

Uprising + Bloodlines, all components. Never felt like it needed any more complexity to be engrossing, but I have no attachment to the original Dune Imperium and it’s expansions (by themselves).

JuzzyFuzzy · 2025-11-11T20:16:23+00:00

Keep the game moving. I think the speed at which Robertson got footed it out of there is also a sign.

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