Slim Jim

Vince is my User Character. I didn't see it coming, she just left one day Means I can fire her now though.

<p>Currently running a real-life game from July '94, now in August '95 and have just signed Ray Traylor (Big Bossman) and have added him to Million Dollar Corporation. His debut match was a tag match with IRS, and it turns out he has great chemistry with Ted DiBiase as his manager and excellent chemistry teaming with IRS so that's his role settled forever <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> Anyway, I think IRS and Bossman work thematically as a duo anyway. IRS as the Taxman and Bossman as his debt-collector/bodyguard. Despite that, I'm struggling for a good name for them as a team even though it feels like a team that could have a great one.</p>

<p>Playing a WWF '94 game, and I am now into May '95 and heading into KOTR '95 (I always put it in May, as part of having a big PPV every other month). I was getting beaten in the National Battle for a long time by WCW, to the extent that I had to push Lex Luger and Sid Vicious hard against my better judgement because they have good Star Quality. However, I have now started beating them (thanks in part to Hogan going to film a movie for 3 months but I should still be ahead when he returns).</p><p> </p><p> I've sent the majority of people that have failed tests for soft drugs, hard drugs and pain killers off to rehab (steroids would decimate my roster so that'll be a slower process to get my roster fully clean). Jake Roberts has been repeatedly in rehab since the start of the game and has just returned clean.</p><p> </p><p> Current roster is stacked.</p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41174" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Main Event:<p> Diesel, Razor Ramon, Rick Steiner, Scott Steiner, Steve Austin, Undertaker (Face)</p><p> Bret Hart, British Bulldog, Jake Roberts, Jeff Jarrett, Yokozuna (Heel)</p><p> </p><p> Upper Midcard:</p><p> Booker T, Jerry Lawler, Jim Duggan, Kama Mustafa, Mankind (Face)</p><p> Bruce Lee, IRS, Haku, Owen Hart, Triple H, Waylon Mercy (Heel)</p><p> </p><p> Midcard:</p><p> Bob Backlund, Faarooq, Rick Martel, Robert Gibson, Tatanka, Taz (Face)</p><p> Barbarian, Billy Gunn, Great Muta, Greg Valentine, Jim Neidhart, Michael Hayes, Mike (Bart) Gunn, Raven, Steve Williams, Usfaal (Butch Reed) (Heel)</p><p> </p><p> Lower Midcard:</p><p> Al Snow, Chavo Guerrero Jr, D-Von Dudley, Ricky Morton, Terry Taylor</p><p> Bradshaw, Lance Storm, Tom Prichard</p><p> </p><p> Opener:</p><p> Bubba Ray Dudley, Dos Caras, Psicosis</p><p> Abe Schwartz, Reno Riggins</p><p> </p><p> Enhancement Talent:</p><p> Blue Panther, D'Lo Brown (Face)</p><p> Villano III</p><p> </p><p> Occasional Wrestler:</p><p> Dennis Condrey (Face)</p><p> Buddy Rose (Heel)</p><p> </p><p> Managers:</p><p> Lou Albano, Kat Madison, Paul Bearer, Tiny Lister (Face)</p><p> James Mitchell, Luna Vachon, Mr Fuji, Ted DiBiase (Heel)</p><p> </p><p> Announcers:</p><p> Chris Cruise, Jim Ross, Vince McMahon</p><p> </p><p> Colour Commentator:</p><p> (Jerry Lawler), Jim Cornette, Bruce Prichard</p><p> </p><p> Not Yet Assigned:</p><p> Bam Bam Bigelow, Barry Windham, Brian Lawler, Chris Candido, Curt Hennig, Eddie Guerrero, Lex Luger, Rick Rude, Savio Vega, Shane Douglas, Shawn Michaels, Sid Vicious, Sunny, Terry Gordy, The 1-2-3 Kid</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Undertaker won the Rumble and then beat Bret Hart to end his year long reign. Jake returned as the manager of Waylon Mercy in his feud with Steve Austin, who he cheated to beat to earn his shot. Austin is still feuding with Mercy (they have excellent chemistry), which is his first feud since debuting and has helped make him very quickly. Both Taker/Jake and Austin/Mercy will finish soon but seem to both have done very well. Jake has also aligned with Raven, who has returned from rehab and re-debuted as Raven after his Johnny Polo gimmick, and Haku & Barbarian.</p><p> </p><p> Great Muta is about to debut after a bidding war with AJPW, NJPW and WCW, so to justify his wage, he'll be getting a heavy push out of the gate, winning the '95 KOTR and facing Taker at Summerslam for the title. It depends how much he gets over but chances are Taker retains regardless.</p><p> </p><p> Diesel & Razor have just teamed up and are feuding with the Million Dollar Corporation, involving Diesel's IC title. MDC is currently Triple H (Million Dollar Champ and great chemistry with Ted DiBiase as manager), Brian Lee, Jeff Jarrett, IRS, Barry Windham and Sid Vicious (but Windham and Vicious are in rehab). 1-2-3 Kid and HBK will join with Diesel & Razor when they return from rehab, and the various returns could drag this out until Survivor Series (which will be the first PPV after Kid's return) but chances are it ends at Summerslam with HBK's return. I might turn Triple H on MDC to join The Kliq but we'll see.</p><p> </p><p> Booker T has been given a good push since debuting and has just formed the Nation of Domination with Faarooq, Kama Mustafa and the debuting D'Lo Brown. They have a newgen manager Kat Madison who has strong entertainment stats and high sex appeal, and Tiny Lister (actor, formerly Zeus) as an enforcer. They are feuding with the Hart Foundation and have a loose alliance with Mankind at the moment because he's been beating the HF in KOTR, and will go on to beat Owen and Bret before losing to Great Muta in the final. Current long term plan is to have Mankind lose in the final of the '95, '96 and '97 KOTRs before winning it in '98, as part of a slow-burn, underdog/lovable loser persona for Mick.</p><p> </p><p> The Steiners are the current tag champs and feuding with Haku & Barbarian and have feuds with Smoking Gunns and Fabulous Freebirds lined up. Hayes & Gordy debuted with Steve Williams (who has A* tag experience with Gordy) as the Freebirds in WWF. After Gordy left for rehab, Shane Douglas replaced him but with Gordy going straight back into rehab for a second issue and Douglas getting himself suspended for beating up Jim Cornette, I have made Bradshaw the third member after calling him up from development. I never really liked Douglas as the third member anyway, Bradshaw fits better as a southerner. When Gordy is back, I'll likely retire Hayes and have him manage full-time (he currently manages the others anyway).</p><p> </p><p> Jerry Lawler is the biggest name that has no real plan, as he works as my colour commentator. He had just introduced his blue-chipper son Brian, which was going to build towards Brian turning as an obnoxious brat and retiring his dad but he messed that up by getting popped for drugs so he's in rehab. I'll likely revisit that feud when he's back but for now Lawler occasional fills gaps on my cards as needed while mostly being on commentary. Jim Duggan has excellent chemistry with Lex Luger so they were working as Team USA until both went to rehab. Duggan is back but Lex is out for another two months, so until then Duggan will be used quite sparingly and as a upper midcard filler.</p><p> </p><p> The mid-to-low card has a lot of veterans who are there to help train my new generation. Taz has just come through them to reach the midcard and I need to find something for him. The Dudleys, Bradshaw, Lance Storm and D'Lo Brown are fairly new additions, who will work their way up. Bradshaw with Freebirds, Storm with the Hart Foundation (he's being used as their whipping boy and fall guy because he idolises Bret and they're taking advantage of him), D'Lo with the Nation.</p><p> </p><p> I also have a lot of great talent in development, and I'm considering starting a Junior Heavyweight Division with Eddie Guerrero, Chavo Guerrero, Rey Mysterio, Psicosis, Ultimo Dragon, Chris Jericho, Dean Malenko, Billy Kidman, Rob Van Dam, Brian Lawler and 1-2-3 Kid, and a few others. Probably on their own B-show. I considered the same with a women's division but talent is very sparse right now.</p><p> </p><p> Other development talent includes Hardys, Rikishi (and a few other Samoans), Edge, Road Dogg, Kane, Ken Shamrock, Val Venis, and Christopher Daniels but currently no plans for any of them to (re)debut before '96.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="jordanmason17" data-cite="jordanmason17" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41193" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Currently booking AWA, now in the year 1997 so I've reached 10 in-game years <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> However I'm currently looking to re-package Kane. He is currently under the ring name 'The Cremator' which is pretty much just his Kane gimmick but with a different ring name. He is an upper midcarder but now I want to move him away from this gimmick but not sure the best way to go about it? I want to turn him into a serious title contender but don't want him to do it under that ring name or gimmick so I'm open to suggestions on what would be best for business to help turn him into a serious contender <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><p> </p><p> <strong>Edit:</strong> Preferably I want to avoid using any ring names he has used in the past or even avoid using his real name <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Thanks in-advance for anyone who can come up with a suitable gimmick and ring name for him <strong>(And if possible, a little backstory too!)</strong></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I know you said to avoid his real name so this might be a little close to the mark but you could go with Jacob, and the biblical connotations from that. There's the story of Jacob wrestling with an angel so it is sort of appropriate. Have him as a heel, a sanctimonious avenger, perhaps with a manager like James Mitchell (the sinister minister). You could either run it as an entirely new gimmick, sort of self-appointed arbiter of right and wrong in AWA, or if you wanted to retain some of the supernatural Kane/Undertaker vibe, you could use 'acts of god' (lightning, fire, water, etc.). If you ever want to 'kill off' the character, he could return as Israel, as that's what Jacob was renamed as.</p>

<p><span>http://i.imgur.com/ZegCc6y.png</span></p><p> </p><p> Oh Jim.</p><p> </p><p> And that's the story of how in 2002, Joey Styles became the lead announcer for WWE.</p>

<p>Playing C-Verse '97 as HGC (though I changed to TCW because I prefer the name even if there's no Tommy Cornell in the company yet), and currently through to March '98, approaching my second Total Mayhem.</p><p> </p><p> Obviously hitched my wagon to Strong vs Chord for the first few months, with Rip being the first champion through underhanded means (actually ended up awarding him the title in a segment because Strong wouldn't agree to lose in a match). I put a stable around Chord to help build some new stars, and a few allies with Strong. At the first Total Mayhem, Strong won the belt to end the show. After that Nemesis debuted and inserted himself into their feud, eventually phasing Chord into other things to leave it as Strong vs Nemesis but Nemesis came up short. I needed a filler opponent for October so held a show in Puerto Rico headlined by Strong vs Puerto Rican Power.</p><p> </p><p> I'd spent most of '97 building up Vengeance as a force in his appearances (borrowing him from my development company until he was ready) by essentially squashing jobbers, low carders and veterans I had no plans or future for. He got called up full-time after Total Mayhem as part of a loose alliance with the debuting Nemesis alongside BLZ Bubb but they quickly separated and started dominating as a pair. When it became clear Vengeance was getting far more over than BLZ Bubb, I brought in Puerto Rican Power as Bubb's new partner, and added Demons of Rage to create a stable led by Vengeance who went solo and challenged Sam Strong at War to Settle the Score in November, becoming the man to unthrone the legend and become the new World Heavyweight Champion (and jump to A* overness). He held open challenges at Psycho Circus and Malice in Wonderland, beating Corporal Doom and Johnny Martin, before the challenge was answered by Freddie Datsun prior to Just Another Day. The first wobble for Vengeance, who changed the rules on Datsun to be a gauntlet against his lackeys. So Datsun beat Anger then Spite in easy victories but then a tougher match against PRP, who intentional got DQed and Datsun took a stunt bump. This gave him a fair out when he lost to BLZ Bubb in the final match before Vengeance, who then faced Bob Casey in a 2 minute squash for the title (it wasn't the Main Event of the show, I opened with the gauntlet). Datsun will get another shot at Total Mayhem, having completed the gauntlet in the run-up to the show. Vengeance is going to retain but the program seems to be making Datsun. Vengeance is going to hold the belt throughout '98 but I have got a list of challengers built up to face him now.</p><p> </p><p> Jack Bruce & Liberty made each other with a feud over the International title, which ended with Bruce turning face out of respect for their long back-and-forth feud. Bruce then feuded with Steve Flash to retain his title, and then Brute Alexei (who was part of Rip Chord's entourage), which transitioned into a feud with Rip. He has retained against Chord a couple of times but Rip is relentless and will take the title from him at Total Mayhem. Liberty had his own feud with Rip while Bruce was feuding with Flash, and came out on top 2-1 in PPV matches, before moving into a feud with Nemesis and his lackey Runaway Train. He ended '97 going to a no contest with Nemesis at Psycho Circus, so they have continued their feud into '98 and will finish it at Total Mayhem. Currently both Bruce and Liberty are at B+ overness, and both faces, so both ready to take their shots against Vengeance. Probably Liberty first.</p><p> </p><p> I had RDJ in development at the start of the game and didn't notice his contract expire so I had to wait until November to bring him back but he'd been to NOTBPW and Hinote Dojo in the meantime and improved a lot. He joined Jack Bruce's feud as an ally against Rip Chord and Brute Alexei. He finished the year as the first PPV opponent of a heel Sam Strong. Strong had turned after losing the title to Vengeance, thinking the fans had turned on him and the company hadn't given him enough protection in the run-up to his match with Vengeance, so he formed his own protection, revealing a stable with Rip Chord and Nemesis (at the time, 3 of my 4 most over workers, excluding Vengeance) called The Triumvirate (w/Runaway Train as their enforcer). It gave me a very heavy heel Main Event but I wanted space to let Bruce, Liberty & RDJ grow into my top faces (and later Money & Datsun). RDJ was too far below Strong to beat him at Psycho Circus but I've been building him strongly so he can topple him at Total Mayhem. He's currently only at C+ at the start of March so doesn't look like I'll get my pay-off, and RDJ has been overtaken by Freddie Datsun & Rich Money in the face pecking order.</p><p> </p><p> Other stand-outs have been Brent Hill as my TCW Cruiserweight/Junior Heavyweight Champion (Middleweight limit), who has dragged Steve Flash, Chris Rockwell & Ultima up with him; Rich Money who debuted strong from development and is on course to beat Runaway Train at Total Mayhem; Runaway Train who has rocketed to Main Event as the enforcer to The Triumvirate (unsurprising as he is often in A* angles, wins alongside them, or dominant wins of his own); Johnny Martin, who got over as part of his team with Eric Tyler in Rip Chord's entourage but has kicked on hugely since Eric got sent to rehab and he was forced to go solo; BLZ Bubb has done well as Vengeance's second-in-command and there's a feud there ready to go if either ever turns; The DeColts and Stones are currently feuding (I had to cheat a little to get Jeremy as he was head booker but I wanted the full-set) and getting each other over, and making each other more rounded.</p><p> </p><p> Before the year is out the contracts of Sean McFly, Sam Keith, Christian Faith, Bruce the Giant, Sid Streets, Rory McCallum, The Big Easy, Mr. Supreme, and Tommy Cornell are all up for renewal, and I plan on stealing all of them (I've already taken Alex Pierce and Eric Eisen). I don't particularly want Streets or Easy but they're over and it'll hurt SWF. McCallum and Supreme I'm not sold on either but seem to have more use if I can find a spot for them. McFly will be involved with the Stones because I have Victoria Stone already. Keith, Faith & Bruce will be the hardest to slot in because I don't want to stifle the new talent I have built up (and I have Tom Gilmore ready to debut after Total Mayhem from development, already better than the majority of my roster) but I'll need to move Strong, Chord, Doom, Alexei and Nemesis on soon enough anyway, and I've just discovered that Money & RDJ have excellent tag chemistry so they can hang-out in the tag division for a while if needs be.</p><p> </p><p> All in all, absolutely destroying the competition <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Having a blast booking my favourite C-Verse workers from their early years.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="King Bison" data-cite="King Bison" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41231" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Madman Boone?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> You are correct!</p>

<p>A heel Sam Strong I'm using in my '97 C-Verse game: </p><p> <span>http://i64.tinypic.com/xe3mmp.jpg</span></p><p> </p><p> It's based on this great re-render someone made:</p><p> <span>http://i65.tinypic.com/idsjuh.jpg</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> And also, my new Masked Patriot, feuding in HGC/TCW with the previous one who is now the Supreme Patriot. Points for guessing who:</p><p> <span>http://i66.tinypic.com/iy0y93.jpg</span></p>

<p>I've been playing Death of WCW since it was released and usually I skip it ahead to after King of the Ring and start from there but I decided to book it through this time.</p><p> </p><p> Judgment Day was very similar because storylines were already in place:</p><p> Chris Jericho def. William Regal</p><p> Kane def. Triple H for the WWF Intercontinental title</p><p> Kurt Angle def. Chris Benoit in 3 Stages of Hell</p><p> The Hardy Boyz won Tag Team Turmoil to become #1 Contenders</p><p> Big Show def. Rhyno, Rikishi and Test for the WWF Hardcore title</p><p> Chyna def. Lita to retain the WWF Women's title</p><p> Austin def. Undertaker to retain the WWF World Heavyweight title</p><p> </p><p> As in real life, Austin beat Taker and Triple H lost to Kane. I want Austin as the champion for the Invasion and Triple H is above the IC belt at this point (and will be for his role in the Invasion) so it was a no brainer.</p><p> </p><p> I have other plans for Jericho so he and Benoit didn't enter the Tag Team Turmoil. Shane used the ambiguity of it being an "open" turmoil to enter a WCW team of Palumbo & O'Haire but they were beaten by Edge and Christian.</p><p> </p><p> Big Show was attacked by a crowd of ECWers after the Hardcore title match. On the Raw preceding J-Day, Vince had fired Heyman from commentary and brought back King because Shane had been suggesting he was working with Heyman. In response, some of the former ECW stars on the WWF roster walked out, and were part of the beat down of Big Show at J-Day.</p><p> </p><p> On a similarly tumultuous note, WCW stars attacked Austin & Taker after the Main Event until the WWF roster chased them off. I have signed Curt Hennig & Dustin Rhodes to join Team WCW, and Rey Mysterio (I figure WWF could have bought out the contracts of the guys choosing to sit out with TimeWarner so I took some cash off myself to bring in guys early - but I'm staggering it because it would have cost a lot more to buy out all of Nash, Hogan, Goldberg, etc.'s deals so they'll appear later on), as well as a few other midcard/filler guys like Harris Brothers, Disco Inferno, Ernest Miller, Fit Finlay, Norman Smiley, etc. to give WCW presence in numbers because they lack stars. I'm going to be keeping DDP & Booker very strong, and should have enough depth at the top soon so I can let the filler guys float away as the Invasion heats up.</p><p> </p><p> King of the Ring 2001:</p><p> Chris Jericho def. William Regal in a KOTR Semi Final</p><p> Kurt Angle def. Eddie Guerrero in a KOTR Semi Final</p><p> Test def. Billy Gunn</p><p> Hardy Boyz def. Edge & Christian to retain the WWF World Tag Team titles</p><p> Albert def. Rikishi to retain the WWF European title</p><p> Chyna def. Molly Holly to retain the WWF Women's title</p><p> Big Show drew with Rhyno</p><p> Chris Jericho def. Kurt Angle to become KOTR</p><p> Undertaker & Kane def. Kama Mustafa, Sean Morley, D'Lo Brown & Bull Buchanan</p><p> Steve Austin def. Chris Benoit to retain the WWF World Heavyweight title</p><p> </p><p> The Hardyz beat Austin & HHH for the tag titles in the same way as Jericho & Benoit (except Triple H didn't get injured, yay!), while Benoit beat Angle & Jericho in a #1 Contender match with the losers getting the final two places in KOTR. Jericho and Angle were feuding through the KOTR, with Eddie Guerrero trying to play them against each other for his own benefit.</p><p> </p><p> Hardyz vs E&C was a little placeholder feud to see who the "best WWF team" was to protect the titles from invaders. I had Matt drop the European belt to Albert just to clear it out of the way of tag feuds.</p><p> </p><p> Shane found Taker & Kane and suggested they were unappreciated and should jump to his side, both took it badly and tried to attack him, but were jumped by DDP & Booker, and other lackeys. Taker & Kane are now feuding with DDP & Booker but Vince decided to keep them match-sharp at KOTR with the 4-on-2 where they beat Godfather's new stable, which replaced RTC when Stevie Richards joined the ECW walkout. WCW tried jumping Taker & Kane multiple times in the build up to KOTR, until the final Smackdown, when Taker & Kane found a crowd of filler WCW guys and laid waste to them.</p><p> </p><p> Billy Gunn had been questioning Test's loyalty, and Mick Foley had been questioning Commissioner Regal too, trying to get his job back. At KOTR, after Test beat Gunn, he and Regal beat Gunn down and Shane came out to reveal they had joined WCW. I don't want too many non-WCW guys joining Shane but Test fits with him nicely in my mind. And he's hardly a top tier talent. Regal was obviously fired for defecting, and Vince reluctantly replaced him with Foley as Commish.</p><p> </p><p> Big Show was again jumped by ECW loyalists, and angered that no one tried to help him at any point in a month of attacks, defected to WCW and returned to his The Giant persona.</p><p> </p><p> Austin and Triple H split after losing the tag titles and I set Austin to turn face (which was badly received because he's only been heel two seconds) but it meant Triple H made life hell for him and Benoit in the build up to KOTR (he had previously deliberately got himself disqualified from his KOTR match against Jericho by attacking him with a sledgehammer to show he was 'back'), beating Benoit on the go-home Smackdown show and then assaulting Austin after he beat Benoit, confirming Austin's face turn (he doesn't seem too damaged by the poor turn, thankfully). I'm going to pretend Benoit suffered the same injury as in real life at KOTR except it was bad enough to retire him. I don't like booking him after what happened with him IRL.</p><p> </p><p> I also had Shane organise a WCW show the night before KOTR as a way of giving the finger to Vince, to which he invited Heyman and ECW:</p><p> Haku def. Buff Bagwell</p><p> Chavo Guerrero def. Disco Inferno, Gregory Helms, Jamie Noble, Juvi Guerrera and Psicosis for the WCW Cruiserweight title</p><p> Curt Hennig def. Booker T for the WCW United States title</p><p> The Dudleyz def. Doring & Roadkill for the ECW World Tag Team titles</p><p> Harris Brothers def. Rhodes & Kanyon, Finlay & Storm, and Miller & Smiley</p><p> Filthy Animalz (Rey & Kidman) def. Natural Born Thrillers for the WCW World Tag Team titles</p><p> Raven def. Rhyno for the ECW Television title</p><p> Hugh Morrus def. Shawn Stasiak and La Parka</p><p> Diamond Dallas Page def. Booker T for the WCW World Heavyweight title</p><p> </p><p> I am building Haku as an actual threat, and can't stand Bagwell so I'm booking him into the ground until he asks for his release.</p><p> </p><p> Chavo is comfortably more over than Helms, and now I can build Chavo vs Eddie for the Invasion PPV.</p><p> </p><p> Booker is going to face Kane for the IC title at Summerslam so I wanted to clear him of his belts before then, which is why he had to lose to Hennig, but I heavily protected him in that loss.</p><p> </p><p> I needed the ECW Tag belts away from Doring & Roadkill because they are nowhere near ready to look threatening to WWF teams. I nearly went with The Eliminators after bringing in John Kronus but instead went the obvious/easy route with The Dudleyz. I also wanted to get one of the ECW belts off Rhyno, which is why he dropped the TV belt to Raven.</p><p> </p><p> I was going to stick with Palumbo & O'Haire and give them a chance but O'Haire got pinged on a drugs test and took his punishment badly and was then a problem backstage so I switched the tag belts to Rey & Kidman, which was another factor in Chavo getting the CW belt (although the Eddie feud probably would've secured that anyway).</p><p> </p><p> DDP is going to face Taker at Summerslam to defend his title. I'm not doing the stalker angle (although I might do it for someone else, I just don't think it suited DDP). DDP & Booker will beat Taker & Kane at Invasion, but currently I'm planning on them both losing at Summerslam (partly for realism, partly because WCW will have been besting WWF for most of May, and all of June & July by then and I need them to wobble).</p><p> </p><p> ECW won't be a part of the Invasion PPV officially but will continue to disrupt matches and attack both sides, until Vince relents before Summerslam and gives Heyman Sunday Night Heat, which will become ECW's little home at least until Survivor Series, so I can focus on WWF vs WCW but keep the extremists bubbling away somewhere.</p><p> </p><p> Invasion is currently looking like this:</p><p> Haku vs Rikishi</p><p> Harris Brothers vs APA</p><p> Bagwell, Palumbo, O'Haire, Rhodes & Morrus vs Jericho, Angle, Gunn, Albert & Hardcore Holly</p><p> Hardyz vs Regal & Test</p><p> Chavo Guerrero vs Eddie Guerrero</p><p> Filthy Animalz vs Edge & Christian</p><p> Triple H vs Curt Hennig</p><p> Undertaker & Kane vs DDP & Booker</p><p> Steve Austin vs The Giant</p><p> </p><p> And Summerslam:</p><p> Los Guerreros vs Too Cool (Chavo is CW champ/GMS is Light Heavyweight champ)</p><p> Filthy Animalz vs Edge & Christian vs The Hardyz vs Steiners for WCW & WWF World Tag Team titles (probably Ladder/TLC; Steiners are planned for start of August return)</p><p> Chris Jericho vs Curt Hennig for the WCW United States title</p><p> Kane vs Booker T for the WWF Intercontinental title</p><p> Undertaker vs Diamond Dallas Page for the WCW World Heavyweight title</p><p> The Rock vs The Giant</p><p> Steve Austin vs Triple H for the WWF World Heavyweight title</p><p> </p><p> My long term plan is for four groups: McMahon loyalists, WWF loyalists, WCW, and ECW.</p><p> </p><p> Instead of NWO being brought in as a virus to kill everyone, I'm going to have Triple H rise to the top of Vince's team and then bring in his Kliq buddies and, with Steph, enact a hostile takeover of the old man. After taking out Vince, Steph and Shane agree to split the company, which will bring in Raw and Nitro as the two brands under the WWE umbrella and a one-time draft, and I'll let that run without a brand-feud until the first 'contracts' come up, at which point competing over talent will spill over into another 'war', after which Vince will make his triumphant return, take full control, and put into place a brand split with a yearly draft and that will be the Invasion story done.</p><p> </p><p> And somewhere in all of that I need to figure out the best time to bring in Flair, Hogan, Goldberg and Sting. And then how to spread the dream matches across my PPVs.</p>

<p><span>http://i68.tinypic.com/ofn6le.jpg</span></p><p> </p><p> And I'm playing as Vince... she never mentioned anything. I suppose I've been too involved in the Invasion angle that I must've neglected her. And I guess she probably didn't like being shipped off to my new development territory in Oregon.</p>

<p>I'm now into June '99 on my Montreal Aftermath game.</p><p> </p><p> The Rock has been corporate champion and lost the belt to Mankind on the first Raw of 1999, which was the last 'real' moment I wanted to recreate (excluding him winning it back at the Rumble but that was part of the package).</p><p> </p><p> Austin never received his rematch and the debuting Big Show won the Royal Rumble (and then joined The Corporation) so at Wrestlemania it was The Rock vs Big Show vs Steve Austin. I was going to put the belt back on Austin but The Rock is starting to eclipse him as my main face now so I decided to throw a curve ball and had Big Show win and maintain his dominance since his debut. Austin then moved into a feud with Undertaker and Kane (with Triple H as his uneasy partner). The Rock regained the title at Vengeance in April but then had to face Big Show, William Regal, Albert and Sid Vicious in a 4-on-1 Cage match at King of the Ring (which wasn't the Main Event of the show, because I knew it would be a cluster) and lost it back to Big Show. After the match during the ensuing beatdown, "WHEN IT COMES CRASHING DOWN AND IT HURTS INSIDE" hit and Hogan returned to a huge pop as he looked to make the save, only to turn on The Rock and drop the leg. The next night on Raw he was revealed as McMahon's new Commissioner. I will have The Rock regain the title at Summerslam and then actually let him hold it for a few months because the belt has been a hot potato recently.</p><p> </p><p> My plan for Hogan (who is in terminal time decline) is to see if I can squeeze three Manias out of him. The first, which will be his first official match back in the company (he'll stay rust-free in dark matches), will be against Austin. He will lose and it will spark him back into competition. He will look strong for the next year before facing The Rock, and losing. He will then go back to being more of an occasional guy but being kept strong, and the final year I want from him is at Wrestlemania X8 to lose to Undertaker in a Retirement match (Taker will be 37) and that will be the point at which I start recognising The Streak in my game. Also on X8, I am planning Rock/Austin to see who is "the greatest ever" after they both beat Hogan, which could run for three straight Manias depending how long Austin holds out.</p><p> </p><p> Triple H is currently gearing himself up to by "the guy", he is absolutely killing it in everything he does. He's been face for over a year now but after Mania '99 he aligned with Austin against Taker/Kane. Both sides started showing signs of fracture, and their first match had a Sports Entertainment finish when the referee lost control, then at King of the Ring (after they had all cost each other their places in the tournament), it all disintegrated, with Taker turning on Kane, then before Austin could get the pin, Triple H turned on him too and got the win over Kane. So now the four all want to kill each other. I think I'll go back to the tag team well for the June PPV with Austin/Kane vs Taker/Triple H so I can save the fatal fourway for Summerslam (which I have moved up to July), and on current form, Triple H has to be the guy to win it. He's moved into his Cerebral Assassin gimmick now, which had been building since DX split (Road Dogg, X-Pac and Chyna have been away in rehab), with Chyna still as his manager. I had Sable loosely aligned with DX when they were faces so I might turn her heel and replace Chyna (who is technically still a face) with her. Eventually, he will dethrone The Rock to become WWF World Heavyweight Champion and will take the belt into Mania against whoever wins the Rumble, which at current planning will be Mick Foley.</p><p> </p><p> Kane will go on to feud with Taker and his Ministry after Summerslam, working his way through Taker's minions, before beating his brother in a gimmick match that allows me to send 'Taker off to be repackaged because the Ministry gimmick is running dry at the moment. I wasn't a huge fan of biker 'Taker so I might just bring him back as the Deadman and lose the ministry stuff. That will set will set Bradshaw and Brian Lee (as Acheron) free as the Acolytes (they are the same age and have excellent tag chemistry so it fit nicely to slot them into that role rather than Faarooq). I may even copy the APA gimmick, as I felt that had a lot of potential.</p><p> </p><p> Mankind has been probably second behind only Triple H in killing it for me. He's had his run as champion, he'll probably get to the top again at some point. He finished his on/off feud with Taker at Mania '99, and moved into a feud with IC Champ Owen Hart. At Vengeance, Hart took a count out loss to retain, and that took us into the KOTR tournament. Owen and Foley met in the semi-final, as did Kurt Angle (undefeated since his debut in September when he won the European title) and Truth Killings (who got through because Ken Shamrock and Rikishi both got themselves DQed in previous rounds), so Commissioner Slaughter decided both Owen and Kurt had to defend their titles in their semi-final matches or they would risk violating the 30-day defence rule. Kurt continued his streak and beat Truth, and Mankind upset Owen to become the new Intercontinental Champion. In the final, it looked for all the world that Kurt would win the tournament because he had been undefeated for nine months but Mankind refused to tap to the ankle lock (the first person to break it) and then scored the win with the Mandible Claw to become King of the Ring. Owen (who had to vacate the European title in '98 through 'injury' when I needed him off the roster because HBK was making everyone hate him) wants both the Euro and IC titles, Angle wants his revenge, and Foley is proving that he's a fighting champion as both IC Champ and King, so Owen/Kurt will face-off at the next PPV to decide who gets to face him, while Mankind will hold an open challenge and retain, Owen and Kurt will draw so it will be a Triple Threat for both IC and European Championships at Summerslam, which I am currently thinking Kurt will win. I am currently planning to have Mick win the Royal Rumble to complete his set of notable wins and give him a Mania Main Event (which he will probably win because I am a god damn Foley mark). I need to check if Angle has excellent potential set in the editor or I just got lucky, because he's developed as quickly if not quicker than he did in real life, he's already easily good enough to Main Event any show.</p><p> </p><p> I need to plan out my tag division carefully, because it is full to bursting (which is good because I have the WWF Tag Team Classic for the first time in this game in September). Edge & Christian are currently on their first run as champions and are doing incredibly well (especially Edge, who has started getting A* performance ratings). Road Dogg is back from rehab to reform New Age Outlaws, the Dudleys are finally making an impact, then I have:</p><p> </p><p> Acolytes</p><p> Acts of God (Al Snow & Christopher Daniels managed by clean and loyal-to-me Jake Roberts [it took a lot of rehab])</p><p> Corporation (William Regal & Albert)</p><p> FBI (something of a jobber team at the moment)</p><p> Flash Magic (Flash "2 Cold" Scorpio & Black Magic [Norman Smiley] managed by Godfather)</p><p> Kaientai (Taka/Funaki/Tajiri/Great Sasuke/Kaz Hayashi)</p><p> Island Boys</p><p> Patriots (Patriot & Mike Enos, also a jobber team)</p><p> System X (Lance Storm & Sean Morley)</p><p> War Machine (Bob Holly & Mike Barton)</p><p> World's Most Wanted (CW Anderson & Mike Awesome)</p><p> </p><p> And I just re-signed British Bulldog and I'm thinking of reuniting him with Owen once he's done with Angle/Foley. Then in development/rehab I have:</p><p> </p><p> DOA</p><p> Godwinns</p><p> Haas Brothers</p><p> Hardys</p><p> Headbangers</p><p> Heartbreak Express (Barry Windham & Brian Lawler with excellent chemistry)</p><p> Shane Twins</p><p> Truth Commission</p><p> </p><p> And a whole load of AI generated teams that have been together a while now.</p><p> </p><p> I had been thinking of starting a 'hardcore' brand but it was going to be fronted by Raven who I just stole from WCW, but he's off in rehab already so I think I'll nix that idea (having a different focus meant having to alter the match danger every match anyway) and structure my roster into three tiers, Raw, Smackdown (probably) and Heat, because it is becoming quite bloated. If I can buy out WCW in the next couple of years, I think I'll run Nitro/WCW as its own brand/'company' and do a full on brand split, but for now I'll keep everyone available for Raw, then have the midcard on Smackdown and use Heat as a step up from development.</p>

<p><span>http://i66.tinypic.com/s2w1u0.jpg</span></p><p> </p><p> Well... great. It would've been better to know 14 months ago, Steve, before I strapped that rocket to your back.</p><p> </p><p> He seems to be doing a good job with it anyway, although he's dropped down to A popularity since December '98 when he lost the belt to The Rock and hasn't quite bounced back yet. I was about to put him over Rock and Big Show at Wrestlemania but might change that and stick with The Rock (or go for a curveball Big Show win and turn The Rock face).</p><p> </p><p> I'm going to have an interesting time deciding what to do for my Figurehead. I had been just leaning Austin's way but this might be the trigger to switch to The Rock (another reason to turn him face).</p>

Started a new WCW game with Montreal Aftermath, and after looking at the Star Quality of their roster in the Mod Squad thread, I realised I had enough depth that I didn't need to rely on the negative personalities so decided to cut my losses. A couple of them were easy enough to cut because they were small-time and were easy enough to pop for drug use (looking at you, Juventud Guerrera). The rest lasted until Starrcade. The Steiners break up saw them drop the tag straps to The Outsiders on Nitro, and then Rick go over Scott at Starrcade. DDP & The Giant then took the belts from The Outsiders at Starrcade as well, to clear the way for them to be ditched. Sting went clean over Hogan, and Savage went over Luger in a short match (I had got rid of Buff Bagwell on the first day of the game). I had Bischoff kayfabe fired as part of NWO's bad night at Starrcade (which also saw Hennig drop the US title to Bret Hart on his debut), as WCW reclaimed control of the company, and then sacked him off-screen too. Hall, S. Steiner and Luger all got popped for drugs so I released them but Hogan and Nash were clean so I had to wait for them to have incidents backstage, which didn't take long so they're gone as well. WWF have already signed Scott Hall but left the others for now. I'm being sued by Hogan and Nash for unfair dismissal, which could be costly. However, clearing out that lot has helped streamline and focus my roster. Piper started criticising Flair for losing his way and letting the Nature Boy die, which sparked a revival in Flair, who then turned on Piper to reform the Horsemen (with Curt Hennig, and the debuting Sid Vicious and Shane Douglas). Current feuds are: Sting vs Randy Savage (WCW World Heavyweight Championship) Bret Hart vs Curt Hennig (WCW United States Championship) DDP & The Giant vs Bill DeMott & Ray Traylor (WCW World Tag Team Championships) Chris Benoit vs Shane Douglas (WCW Television Championship) Chris Jericho vs Eddy Guerrero (WCW Cruiserweight Championship) Ric Flair vs Roddy Piper Davey Boy Smith vs Sid Vicious Harlem Heat vs Armstrongs (Steve & Brad) Rick Steiner vs Fit Finlay Goldberg's Streak The roster is pretty impressive even after losing Hogan, Nash, Hall, Steiner, Luger and a few others, and a much more manageable size (a significant portion of the midcard and below have been sent to development as well). Having Sting, Savage, Hart, DDP, Giant, Flair & Hennig already at a point where they could feasibly challenge for the title, Vicious & Davey Boy a rung below, and Booker, Goldberg, Jericho, Eddy and Douglas being built up is looking very good for the future. I'm not going to have Benoit near the top of the card, I have no need for him with the depth I've got, I'll probably just let his deal expire and have him fade away, but Finlay and Malenko look like they'll become Upper Midcard mechanics who can really go in the ring but don't quite have enough to be Main Event players. I also have a lot of potential in development too, should be a fun game. Booker T has already bulked up to Muscular Heavyweight and had a boost to his already impressive SQ, which cements him as a top-tier potential figurehead for the future.

In my WWE game, I have booked from the brand split to Summerslam and my next PPV is going to be the first WWE Tag Team Classic (I thought about taking the Dusty Rhodes Classic from NXT but decided not to), which will be a two-night tournament with two-night qualifying beforehand. The qualifying will have teams from other companies and a load of nostalgia acts from years gone by and will be a light-hearted sort of affair. The main shows will be more like proper PPVs with the teams I want to spotlight and will be much more serious. The current line-up is: Main Roster: 1. American Alpha 2. Anderson & Gallows 3. Ascension 4. Breezango 5. Dudley Boyz 6. Enzo & Cass 7. Golden Truth 8. Kane & Big Show 9. Lucha Dragons 10. New Day 11. Prime Time Players 12. Shining Stars 13. Social Outcasts 14. Usos 15. Vaudevillains 16. Wyatts NXT: 17. Blake & Murphy 18. Bourne & Puma 19. Briscoe Brothers 20. Gargano & Ciampa 21. Hype Bros 22. Motor City Machine Guns 23. Rising Sun (Hiroshi Tanahashi & Seiya Sanada) 24. The Addiction (Daniels & Kazarian) 25. The Revival 26. Young Bucks Nostalgia Acts: 27. Boogie Knights (Disco Inferno & Alex Wright) 28. Cryme Tyme 29. D’Lo & Mark Henry 30. Demolition 31. Deuce & Domino 32. FBI (Nunzio & Johnny Stamboli) 33. Hardy Boyz 34. Hart Dynasty (Kidd should be back from neck surgery in my game) 35. Hawkins & Reks 36. Headbangers 37. Headshrinkers 38. Hurricane & Rosey 39. La Resistance 40. Legacy 41. Londrick 42. Kaientai 43. Mexicools 44. MNM 45. New Age Outlaws 46. Outsiders (Nash & Cody Hall w/Scott as manager) 47. Powers of Pain 48. Rock ‘N’ Roll Express 49. Steiners 50. Too Cool 51. World's Greatest Tag Team Indy Inactive: 52. America’s Most Wanted 53. Doug Williams & Nick Aldis 54. Generation Next (Evans & Strong) 55. Kings of Wrestling (Cesaro is still on my main roster but Hero/Ohno is only back for the tournament for now) 56. LAX Indy Active: 57. American Wolves 58. Bollywood Boyz 59. Drew Gulak & Tracy Williams (Evolve Tag Champs) 60. Kenny King & Rhett Titus 61. reDRagon 62. Roppongi Vice 63. Tiger Mask & Liger 64. Von Erichs (Ross & Marshall) I am currently thinking I'll have two "qualifying nights" with 8 Fourway Tags on each, then Night 1 has all the Last 16 matches, with the Quarters/Semis/Final on Night 2. In future years I am just going to have the final two nights but I got carried away for the inaugural edition Now I just have to draw up brackets... the first two nights are going to be an absolute cluster.

<p>New Smackdown titles if anyone wants them:</p><p> <span>http://i67.tinypic.com/hvaq1e.jpg</span></p><p> </p><p> <span>http://i66.tinypic.com/25i2aly.jpg</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> And if anyone wants to have Raw and SD world titles instead of the current WWE Heavyweight and Universal belts:</p><p> <span>http://i68.tinypic.com/2qlykjb.jpg</span></p><p> </p><p> <span>http://i64.tinypic.com/mlpp3o.jpg</span></p>

Apparently Lesnar/Orton went on last because of the blood on the mat.

<p>A few different versions for people to use, the square ones are for Event logos, the rectangular ones are for Belt pics:</p><p> </p><p> <span>http://i64.tinypic.com/213iz2c.jpg</span><span>http://i63.tinypic.com/316kft4.jpg</span></p><p> </p><p> It's simple enough to add a logo to these ones if anyone has any other promotion they want to use them for.</p><p> </p><p> <span>http://i65.tinypic.com/2vds8c3.jpg</span><span>http://i66.tinypic.com/femcck.jpg</span></p><p> </p><p> <span>http://i63.tinypic.com/9zoq6o.jpg</span><span>http://i67.tinypic.com/b6vjww.jpg</span></p><p> </p><p> <span>http://i65.tinypic.com/15quetz.jpg</span><span>http://i65.tinypic.com/2wbyq77.jpg</span></p><p> </p><p> <span>http://i68.tinypic.com/2ms3urn.jpg</span><span>http://i65.tinypic.com/2q091uh.jpg</span></p>

<p>I usually try to run 6 'big' PPVs and 6 other PPVs when I'm WWF (Jan: Rumble, Mar: Mania, May: KOTR, Jul: SSlam, Sep: ???, Nov: SSeries) but have always been looking for a good September event. In post-WCW saves, I go with Starrcade, and up until now pre-WCW buyout, I've used Saturday Night Main Event as the sixth big show. In my latest Montreal Aftermath show, I have moved SNME to the Saturday before Wrestlemania to make that an even bigger weekend, which left a gap in September, which I have decided to fill with a two-night tag team tournament called the WWF Tag Team Classic. Here are the event and belt pictures if anyone else wants them:</p><p> </p><p> <span>http://i68.tinypic.com/a2et5s.jpg</span></p><p> </p><p> <span>http://i67.tinypic.com/o8toba.jpg</span></p>

Coming up on one year in my Montreal Aftermath game, and the current Survivor Series '98 card is looking like this: Pre-show: CIMA, Taka Michinoku, Yoshiri Tajiri & Great Sasuke vs The Dudleyz, Al Snow & Christopher Daniels --A lot of my Lightheavyweight division is from Japan, but I didn't really want to have a 'Japanese' team on the main show as I don't want them grouped together onscreen, I'd rather they were their own characters, it just happens that after booking the main show, most of my remaining faces were the Japanese guys from that division. The Dudleyz are coming out of a feud with Edge & Christian and don't have much direction, Al Snow & Christopher Daniels are starting an angle where Daniels uses a manipulative preacher character to control Snow, whose susceptibility has been made clear with his obsession with Head. Triple H, Billy Gunn, Edge & Christian vs Owen Hart, Sid Vicious, Big Bossman & Ahmed Johnson --This was, obviously, originally intended to be DX vs Team Hart but X-Pac & Road Dogg both got popped for drugs three times so are off in rehab. I gave them a lot more leniency than most guys because I knew I wanted them for this show but in the end I had to make the sacrifice. Hasn't really affected Triple H, who is coming off a feud with The Rock and Mankind for the IC title over the summer and has a ready made feud with Owen, but Billy Gunn has been treading water for the last month so Survivor Series is coming at a good time for him. Edge & Christian fit fairly well with the DX vibe so they are loosely aligned with them for now. Owen Hart returned after Breakdown in September after I gave him a six month holiday because HBK was turning everyone against him, so I cut my losses until HBK was gone in the hopes that the Simmering Tensions would fade with time, and Owen won the IC title from Triple H at Judgement Day in October, and for Survivor Series has hired the biggest team he could assemble as protection. Vicious was HBK's enforcer after Rick Rude left but was kicked out of DX when Triple H took over so has history with them, as does Johnson. Bossman is a fairly new addition but his gimmick works quite well against DX's and is the sort of gimmick that would be 'for hire'. Rodney Anoai (Yokozuna), Rikishi Fatu, Ekmo Fatu (Umaga) & Kimo Anoai (Rosey) vs Godfather, Animal, Steve Blackman & Sgt Slaughter --Yokozuna returned as part of The Rock's Nation (and agreed to slim down), and when the Nation splintered, he turned against Godfather so this is slightly reigniting that ember now that Yoko under his real name has formed a new group of Samoans. The rest of Godfather's team are a rag-tag bunch that needed a place on the card. The other three Samoans all debuted after Judgement Day, and at some point will collide/work with The Rock. Undertaker, Kane, Goldust & William Regal vs Mankind, Faarooq, Bradshaw & Brian Lee --Undertaker and Kane battled Austin for the title over the summer, with both brothers holding the belt (Austin -> Kane -> Taker -> Austin). After Austin retained the title against Taker in an Ironman match at Judgement Day, Kane helped Taker destroy JR, King, Hebner and anyone else at ringside, and was the start of their hostile takeover of WWF. Bradshaw & Brian Lee (for whom I need a better name, he was working as Bulldozer but I'm not a fan of it) have good tag chemistry so I'm going to make them the Acolytes in this timeline instead of Faarooq, who is coming towards retirement. Goldust has had a loose affiliation with Bearer for months now so will be drawn into the Ministry as well, but not Regal. Mankind has a long history with Taker/Kane/Bearer but is a lazy addition here because he didn't have anything else to do on the card because he's part of the Austin/Rock feud. Ken Shamrock, Vader, Mike Barton & Bob Holly vs Kurt Angle, Jeff Jarrett, Marc Mero & Barry Windham --Angle debuted almost immediately after he entered the business and is the current European champion. He has been feuding with Shamrock, who brought in Vader to take on Angle as he recovered from injury. Angle beat Vader clean at Judgement Day, and will win the Survivor Series match and beat Shamrock at Armageddon. Barton & Holly have been working as a serious, no-nonsense tag team instead of Bodacious & Bombastic, and are feuding with Jarrett/Mero for the Tag titles. Jarrett, Mero, Windham & Brian Christopher formed Memphis Wrestling a few months ago but Windham & Christopher got popped for drugs. Windham will be back for this match but not Brian. Their 'wrestling purity' schtick works nicely with Angle so this has all come together nicely. Steve Austin vs The Rock --After losing the IC title in a feud with Triple H and Mankind, The Rock has come out of it fairly strong and has been handpicked by McMahon as the man to dethrone Austin. Mankind will get involved in this one to stop McMahon costing Austin the match. At Armageddon, Austin will lose to The Rock, and Mankind will beat McMahon to earn a title shot. Mankind will beat The Rock on the first Raw of '99 as he did in real life because I love that moment, and The Rock will take it back from him at the Rumble. I'm going to have McMahon ban Austin from the Rumble because he's already due a rematch for the title, so I'll have to think about who wins that. Possibly Triple H who will be due a heel turn by then. Austin will take the title back at No Way Out (a lot of Attitude Era style belt-hopping, I know), and retain at Wrestlemania against whoever it is that wins the Rumble.

<p>Hennig is, excuse the pun, perfect for the Horsemen but if you don't want to turn him then I would say one of Flair's protégés would be the most realistic (in that Flair would use his stroke to give one of his guys a good spot), so whichever of Ace/Douglas fits better for your roster. Douglas as the better worker probably doesn't need it and Ace has a good name for the Horsemen already (I can hear him labelling off the members as Ace of different suits with Flair as Ace of Diamonds, naturally. Hearts for the biggest playboy, Clubs for the wildest partier, not sure about Spades... I think it's supposed to symbolise death so the biggest/most destructive?).</p><p> </p><p> If not any of them, then Scott Hall from the rest. I can't see Michaels as a Horseman but maybe he could have a run trying to prove himself to them and by the time he does, he doesn't accept it (and in the process beats Flair for his title and/or valet).</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Bonafide_Bluffa" data-cite="Bonafide_Bluffa" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41174" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>With Zayn headed off to Smackdown</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> You could have him appear under a mask as El Generico on Raw at the same time with only Owens knowing that it's really Sami.</p>

<p>Currently in July '98 with Montreal Aftermath. Quite a few things have stayed basically the same because they were either already in motion by the start of the mod (Austin winning the title at Mania, Kane/Taker, etc.), and other things I can't avoid because they were such huge moments for me as a fan at the time (I always have to recreate Taker/Mankind HIAC, Foley broke his jaw this go through), and others just make sense logically with the available roster so for me Austin as champ is on a collision course with Taker by the end of the summer, and The Rock/Triple H are due to meet for the IC title (but with Rock as the '98 KOTR after H's '97 win), and DX forming in a similar way to real life post-mania.</p><p> </p><p> But starting to diverge enough to create its own landscape.</p><p> </p><p> While Triple H is feuding with The Rock, the rest of DX are feuding with the stable Memphis Wrestling (Jeff Jarrett, Marc Mero, Brian Lawler, Barry Windham, Jacqueline, all managed by Jerry Lawler). Sable joined up with DX shortly after their face turn at the end of April, partly because she fits with their schtick pretty well I thought and partly playing off her/H's history from her debut. Sable is the Women's Champion after restarting the title, feuding with Jacqueline, they'll probably trade the belt over the summer/autumn, before Chyna takes it and hopefully by then the women I have in development will be ready to come up. Brian Lawler is the Light Heavyweight Champion but has great chemistry with Windham so will drop that belt to X-Pac, and Lawler/Windham will then feud with New Age Outlaws who have held the tag titles since the start of the game (right now Jarrett/Mero are challenging them).</p><p> </p><p> Nation of Domination started to fall apart very quickly, as I sent Mark Henry and D'Lo Brown down to development and replaced them with Yokozuna as Rodney Anoai (who agreed to lose weight, unlike in real life, which was great). So they went down to just Rock, Kama & Yoko after the inevitable turning on Faarooq. Now that feud is done, Faarooq is feuding with the returning from rehab Goldust, and Kama/Yoko are about to split as Rock heads off into singles feuds. I have Rikishi, Umaga and Rosey in development so I'm toying with creating a Samoan stable but for now I think I'll just bring up Rikishi to team with Yoko, after he's beaten Kama (and completed his face turn into The Godfather).</p><p> </p><p> One of my favourite feuds since Mania has been Sid Vicious (hired to improve my star power and to replace Rick Rude as Michaels' enforcer) against Ken Shamrock. I was forced to stretch it out because Vicious was injured for six weeks (but still okay for angles) so it will make it to Summerslam for its blow-off match. It's been a fairly one-dimensional feud, which suits the two of them, and has largely been a physical war, with other people getting caught in their wake. Vicious' injury was explained by suspension from in-ring competition after attacking a referee in a rage.</p><p> </p><p> Trying to build up a few more tag teams because that's a division that's been quite lacking. Currently have Legion of Doom, FBI (Guido & Tracy Smothers), Disciples of Apocalypse and Flash Magic (Flash Funk & Norman Smiley as Black Magic) in a fairly lazy four-way tag feud, largely designed to get Flash Magic ready to feud with my next heel tag champs because I like Flash Funk and they have excellent chemistry. Also have Bob Holly and Mike Barton teaming but not as the New Midnight Express because I hated that gimmick, instead working as The War Machine which IIRC was the first Auto Name name that I liked, and Jerry Lynn & Robert Gibson who again have excellent chemistry, which only happened by chance because I was waiting for Ricky Morton to drop the tag titles he holds in my development fed (on a PPA deal, not a dev. deal). Have a lot of teams almost ready in development as well, including Dudleys, E&C and Hardys, as well as 'new' teams, my favourites being CW Anderson & Mike Awesome as World's Most Wanted, Lance Storm & Sean Morley/Val Venis, and CIMA & Tajiri. Also discovered in a dark match that TAKA and Sgt Slaughter have good chemistry, which I feel has something to it in an 'odd couple' way.</p>

<p>This is a superb mod, thanks!</p><p> </p><p> An additional point to the guys making a WWE Universe alliance, I have done the same except I created WWE Performance Center as its own local company, limited permanently to being local. That gets you up to the required 3 for the limit, meaning no one else will ever join or leave the alliance. I've restricted to the complete no hopers that need a lot of developing, and given them hiring rules of minimum C Star Quality and under 30, and set to never have any titles. It seems to be working well for me.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="MarkyGeorge" data-cite="MarkyGeorge" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41303" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><p> I'm going to replace the August PPV with a bracketed tournament named after Christian Faith, and use that more as a launching pad for a particular talent to start competing for the SWF Championship over the coming year.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> With his nickname being "the Ironman", you could use that as a theme with the preliminary rounds being 15 min Ironman matches (which would likely often go to "sudden death overtime", which sounds much more dramatic than it actually is after 15 mins), then 30 min semis and 60 min final.</p>

<p>Playing The Golden Age, and I have a 6&6 event schedule with WWF. Jan-Mar-May-Jul-Sep-Nov are PPVs (Rumble, Mania, KOTR, Summerslam, SNME, SurSer), the others are "supercards".</p><p> </p><p> Currently coming into KOTR, and current card is three title matches and two KOTR tournaments (winners on left):</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Tag Team King of the Ring:</strong></p><p> Hart Foundation [bret Hart & Jim Neidhart] vs Oriental Express [Great Muta & Jushin Liger]</p><p> Wild Samoans [Afa & Sika] vs Rock 'N' Roll Express [Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson]</p><p> Fabulous Freebirds [Michael Hayes & Terry Gordy] vs Demolition [Ax & Smash]</p><p> British Bulldogs [Davey Boy Smith & Dynamite Kid] vs Assassins [Assassin #1 & Assassin #2]</p><p> </p><p> Hart Foundation vs British Bulldogs</p><p> Fabulous Freebirds vs Wild Samoans</p><p> </p><p> Fabulous Freebirds vs Hart Foundation</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Singles King of the Ring:</strong></p><p> Jake Roberts vs Paul Orndorff</p><p> Roddy Piper vs Terry Funk</p><p> Andre The Giant vs Bruiser Brody</p><p> Harley Race vs Stan Hansen</p><p> </p><p> Andre The Giant vs Jake Roberts</p><p> Roddy Piper vs Harley Race</p><p> </p><p> Roddy Piper vs Andre The Giant</p><p> </p><p> <strong>WWF World Tag Team Championships:</strong></p><p> Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard vs Bob Orton Jr & Don Muraco</p><p> </p><p> <strong>WWF Intercontinental Championship:</strong></p><p> Ricky Steamboat vs Honky Tonk Man</p><p> </p><p> <strong>WWF World Heavyweight Championship:</strong></p><p> Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> The June Supercard will have Hogan vs Piper vs Savage, with Piper & Savage costing each other so Hogan can retain, before Savage beats Hogan at Summerslam (now in July) with Piper as guest referee. They'll have another Triple Threat at the August Supercard, and then Piper vs Hogan at SNME in a face-vs-face match while Savage faces a "visiting" challenger (probably JYD who is currently actually in development and that'll be a good way to bring him up as a big deal). Savage & an ally (maybe a heel-turned Jake) will face Hogan & Piper at the October Supercard, before Team Savage vs Team Piper at SurSer, before finally getting to Savage vs Piper at the December Supercard and the Royal Rumble. I'll see where things stand on my Rumble winner before deciding the winner of that but I want Piper to get the belt at some point. I'll probably go with Jake for the Rumble, and if he has turned by then, Piper will take the belt and I'll do Piper vs Roberts, and probably go back to Hogan vs Savage over Elizabeth at Mania.</p>