What's going on in your game?

James Casey · July 4, 2018

WCW in July 1992, 1 year into my game

Rick Rude is World champion, having defeated Nikita Koloff at SuperBrawl in February. He's since defended against Sting and Randy Savage, and has lead the Dangerous Alliance into War Games against Sting's team. Although the fan favourites came out on top inside the cage, the Dangerous Alliance continues to dominate proceedings as each member holds at least one title - Madusa is NWA Women's champion, Arn Anderson and Steve Austin are NWA tag champions, Brian Pillman and Owen Hart are the WCW tag champions and Anderson is also the WCW US champion.

Sting's been leading the fight agianst the Dangerous Alliance and their plan to dominate the company in a way that their talents deserve, but it's hard going - Rick Steiner, Barry Windham and Dustin Rhodes have all been brutalised by the Alliance, with Steiner so badly injured he left the company. Ricky Steamboat, Savage, Rhodes, Scott Steiner and Windham have mainly been allied with Sting, but the Alliance is a well-oiled and cohesive machine, able to form up in almost any configuration to hold the high ground - and almost all the titles. Some say that there are cracks showing in the anti-Alliance alliance - not least with Steiner growing more and more frustrated at being unable to exact real justice for his brother's injury!

The Six Man titles, however, are currently with the Diamond Exchange - the Diamond Studd, Vinnie Vegas and 'Rough Diamond' Shawn Michaels, led by Diamond Dallas Page and Kimberley. The mouthy group is loosely affiliated with the Dangerous Alliance, and have been acting as spoilers against the company's faces - whether for their own purposes, or because the Alliance's money has been good enough!

The Young Pistols proved to be a thorn in the Alliance's side, however, dethroning Hart and Pillman for the US tag titles in the main event of Saturday Night, and holding off the challenge of the York Foundation. Could the Diamond Exchange be looking to expand their holdings of precious metals?

The Television title has become a centrepiece of WCW's weekend shows, as almost everyone has lined up to try and Beat The Champ at some point - the champion has to defend on Saturday and Sunday nights in front of the cameras, and if they can make it to five successful defences they get a shot at the title of their choice. Current champion Terence Taylor is enjoying the money that each successful defence brings in... but also has his eyes on moving up the WCW ladder!

And about Harley Race's Kingdom? Mr Hughes, the Harris twins and the monstrous Big Van Vader have been brutalising everyone in their path, which includes the Ultimate Warrior! Can the Warrior take down the masked behemoth, or has he finally found a challenge too great even for him?

We must talk about Nikita Koloff and Cactus Jack - the man who won't stay down! These two have been beating one another senseless for months now, with Cactus even being run down by a car during a Falls Count Anywhere match! Still, neither man has truly scored a decisive win yet, with their latest match interrupted by Vader. The only question is whether either man will be able to walk away if they're allowed to fight again!

WCW has been racking up A-rated shows like they're going out of fashion, and is on the cusp of returning to National after the backlash against the Jim Herd era. With the WWF struggling (but powered by Hulk Hogan and with a huge international fanbase, so near-guaranteed to keep hold of the top promotion spot), WCW has a real shot at becoming the top American promotion.

<div style="text-align:center;">All this, and much more, in <a href="http://greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=535664" rel="external nofollow">WCW: Dangerous Territory</a>!

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Gungner · July 5, 2018

Just entered the new year as Impact, and just finished the first PPV of the year, Final Resolution: <a href="https://puu.sh/ARdXr/7e187a6c65.png" rel="external nofollow">https://puu.sh/ARdXr/7e187a6c65.png</a>

My best show booked so far in the save, and the main-event got me my second best match rating in the save. Things are looking bright as we move forward.

King Bison · July 5, 2018

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="BigINMoldova" data-cite="BigINMoldova" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41174" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>One side is made up of wrestling gods and the other is an old territory guy, a guy who hung around the NOAH midcard for awhile and the color guy for Lucha Underground. It's like the 1985 Lakers playing your cousin larry's rec league team.</div></blockquote> Vampiro is a 3 time world champion who has held titles all over the world and was a huge star for CMLL in the 90s lol to relegate him to “the color guy for Lucha Underground” is a bit of a low blow lol

ShibataHeadbutt · July 5, 2018

Playing as International Fight Group,a very low level cult company in a 2005 Real World Mod

i like to try and raise overness in the game so i always add USA coverage to ay tv deal a foreign company has

i fast forwarded until any company is up for grabs in May 2005 i bought out Zero-One and All Star Wrestling

i will post everything later

but Shinya Hashimoto is a cursed star

in the first month he was meant to face Steve Corino in a number one contenders match, Corino wasinjured the night before at another show

at Planet Smasher he was to face Sylvester Terkay for the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship, at the event turns out Sylvester was wrestling another show

At The Battle Royale he was set to face Sylvester in a 2/3 falls match, a week before Sylvester gets an injury in AJPW and is out for 13 months, and Steve Corino gets injured the night before who was due to fight Shinjiro Otani for NWA United National Heavyweight belt

so the main event ended up being Shinya vs Shinjiro in a 2/3 falls match with Shinya winning as Shinjiro signed with AJPW the day of the event

leading to Shinya Hashimoto vs Steve Corino, a match the fans have been waiting for for 4 months now, Corino is out for another 4 days

Every planned Shinya match on PPV has been changed so far

michael20001 · July 6, 2018

End of July 2006 and pulled the trigger on Mark Henry as the World Heavyweight Champion as Taker can't perform regularly.

Unfortunately the main event scene on SmackDown is under heavy development. Henry is passable, and over. But i've hit a wall with Edge, Lesner and Batista creatively. Im running a story with Batista where he refuses to fight without the right payday. Almost like Lesner today, but with more regular appearances. Edge is the Ultimate Opportunist.. but there doesn't seem to be any opportunities for him to take. Lesner i have no idea what to do with.

Waiting in the wings are a huge amount of future stars but they just dont have the development or tenure behind them to justify a main event push.

Shelton Benjamin (IC Champion & Mr Money in the Bank), CM Punk (Cruiserweight Champ), Dolph Ziggler, Daivari and Ken Kennedy are all absolutely killing it in the upper midcard (my cruiserweight title is almost as prestigious as the World Title).

The tag team division is also going through a rebuild as Tatanka & Matt Hardy have split (a thrown together team that caught fire) have split, MNM have not much creatively going for them, Benoit and Rhino are the current champs running a disfunctional team story opposite Paul Burchill & William Regal. Londrick, Basham Brothers and Hart Dynasty are all doing quite well for themselves in the lowercard too, ready to start being moved up.

That is my state of SmackDown currently. If anyone can throw some inspiration my way i'd appreciate it.

Other notable names on the brand are Christian, Gregory Helms and Randy Orton.

John Lions · July 6, 2018

End of July 2006 and pulled the trigger on Mark Henry as the World Heavyweight Champion as Taker can't perform regularly.

Unfortunately the main event scene on SmackDown is under heavy development. Henry is passable, and over. But i've hit a wall with Edge, Lesner and Batista creatively. Im running a story with Batista where he refuses to fight without the right payday. Almost like Lesner today, but with more regular appearances. Edge is the Ultimate Opportunist.. but there doesn't seem to be any opportunities for him to take. Lesner i have no idea what to do with.

Waiting in the wings are a huge amount of future stars but they just dont have the development or tenure behind them to justify a main event push.

Shelton Benjamin (IC Champion & Mr Money in the Bank), CM Punk (Cruiserweight Champ), Dolph Ziggler, Daivari and Ken Kennedy are all absolutely killing it in the upper midcard (my cruiserweight title is almost as prestigious as the World Title).

The tag team division is also going through a rebuild as Tatanka & Matt Hardy have split (a thrown together team that caught fire) have split, MNM have not much creatively going for them, Benoit and Rhino are the current champs running a disfunctional team story opposite Paul Burchill & William Regal. Londrick, Basham Brothers and Hart Dynasty are all doing quite well for themselves in the lowercard too, ready to start being moved up.

That is my state of SmackDown currently. If anyone can throw some inspiration my way i'd appreciate it.

Other notable names on the brand are Christian, Gregory Helms and Randy Orton.

One thing you can always do with the singles guys who are stuck in a rut is stick them together. With Lesnar, Batista, or Edge, you can have them for some constructed reason (there is an "easy opportunity" for gold? winning the tag titles is a guaranteed payday?) to put two of them together and have an odd-couple tag team, where you can build them up as short-term champions while the rest of your full time tag teams figure themselves out. Since they are just two main eventers squished together, it's easy to justify them losing in the end through them turning on each other or not being able to work in-sync together, and run with it from there.

BigINMoldova · July 6, 2018

RTG is nuts. Two shows a week for 10 months got me to regional and a tv deal. Made twenty-nine grand last week and my user character has had fifty matches in ten months. We're eighty-nine grand in the hole so I'm concerned about that.

Sharkn20 · July 6, 2018

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="BigINMoldova" data-cite="BigINMoldova" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41174" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>RTG is nuts. Two shows a week for 10 months got me to regional and a tv deal. Made twenty-nine grand last week and my user character has had fifty matches in ten months. We're eighty-nine grand in the hole so I'm concerned about that.</div></blockquote> Keep pushin, you are almost turning the corner and have 2 months to spear!

YellowSign · July 7, 2018

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="ShibataHeadbutt" data-cite="ShibataHeadbutt" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41174" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Playing as International Fight Group,a very low level cult company in a 2005 Real World Mod i like to try and raise overness in the game so i always add USA coverage to ay tv deal a foreign company has i fast forwarded until any company is up for grabs in May 2005 i bought out Zero-One and All Star Wrestling i will post everything later but Shinya Hashimoto is a cursed star in the first month he was meant to face Steve Corino in a number one contenders match, Corino wasinjured the night before at another show at Planet Smasher he was to face Sylvester Terkay for the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship, at the event turns out Sylvester was wrestling another show At The Battle Royale he was set to face Sylvester in a 2/3 falls match, a week before Sylvester gets an injury in AJPW and is out for 13 months, and Steve Corino gets injured the night before who was due to fight Shinjiro Otani for NWA United National Heavyweight belt so the main event ended up being Shinya vs Shinjiro in a 2/3 falls match with Shinya winning as Shinjiro signed with AJPW the day of the event leading to Shinya Hashimoto vs Steve Corino, a match the fans have been waiting for for 4 months now, Corino is out for another 4 days Every planned Shinya match on PPV has been changed so far</div></blockquote> Shinya is also cursed on my 80s ASWUK game, except for me it's him that always gets injured before a big match or after winning a title. Or I just don't realise that NJPW have decided to run a show the same day as my PPV, and I have to reorganise my main event. Goddamn Shinya.

YellowSign · July 7, 2018

ASWUK 1989 (July I think?)

Fuji Yamada dropped his World Middleweight Title to Dynamite Kid in a big multi man match a few months ago, who in turn lost it to Owen Hart. Fuji held the belt for around eighteen months and had over 40 successful defences.

Owen Hart & Shinya Hashimoto have turned heel on Yamada and Dynamite Kid. They were originally joined by Davey Boy Smith, who had signed with ASWUK when his WWF contact came up for renewal.

The plan was to have a heel Davey Boy feud with Dynamite, before turning babyface on Owen and Shinya, with the possibility of being the next big figurehead.

This didn't happen, as Davey Boy tested positive for hard drugs the night of his first PPV match, and demanded his release after being sent to rehab.

Sid Vicious has won the World Heavyweight Title from Don Muraco. Vicious recently became a main event star and is growing into a household name, almost as popular as Yamada.

Sting turned heel on tag partner Rick Steiner, joining the occult group Hellfire Club and becoming their new leader. Scott Steiner (having been under contract for a long time but still recovering from a broken neck) debuted to help his brother, but Rick also asked for his release recently after becoming angry at being fined for his steroid use. Scott Steiner and Sting are continuing the feud for now.

Johnny Saint and Kendo Nagasaki, two longtime legends of the British scene, have both left ASWUK due to their contracts expiring. Time decline just got too much for both. Keith Haward and Alan Kilby are also both on their last runs.

Mick Foley and Terry Funk are feuding over the TV title, with Funk returning to stop Foley from breaking his record number of defences.

The tag team titles are being feuded over by Carribbean Sunshine Boys (Dave Bond and Johnny Kincaid) and Killer Instinct (Cannonball Grizzly and Spinner Mckenzie, renamed Big Grizzly and Killer Mckenzie).

Robbie Brookside is feuding with Marty Jones over the World Lightweight Championship.

Steven Regal finally returned from a long stint in rehab, was given a few months feud, won the British Middleweight belt, tested positive again and has been sent back to rehab. Johnny Kidd won the vacated title.

TakerNGN74 · July 7, 2018

NOTBPW 2021

Just completed the year 2021 in my NOTBPW save and things are getting interesting in a long running save. I am currently on the first day of 2022 and I have held 645 Shows

Rocky Golden is the current NOTBPW World Champion he defeated former Champion Shooter Sean Deeley in October 2021 and has made three defenses of the title so far.

The current NOTBPW Television Champion is KC Glenn he defeated former champion Eric Strong in November 2021 Strong managed 11 successful title defenses prior to losing the title. KC Glenn has managed three defenses of the title since defeating Eric Strong and ending Strong’s title reign.

The current NOTBPW Tag Team Champions are the Second Generation Superstars of Jay Chord and Cameron Vessey They won the titles in December of 2021 after they defeated former champions The Almighty Dollar. The Almighty Dollar managed 18 defenses of the titles prior to losing them and their reign lasted from April 2020 to December 2021. Chord and Vessey won the titles in a triple threat match at Winter War also involving Jack and Ricky DeColt. They have yet to defend them.

The current NOTBPW Women’s Champion is Lucy Stone McFly she has held the title since ending Melody’s almost four year long title reign the night she (Lucy) made her debut with the company. Melody managed to make 60 defenses of the title prior to losing it and current Champion Lucy Stone McFly has made 23 defenses of the title since winning it a year ago. Melody went undefeated from February 2017 up until January 2021 Lucy Stone McFly is the only person to ever beat Melody. Melody’s overall record in NOTBPW is 89-4 All of her loses have come at the hands of Lucy Stone McFly three of the loses happened in Singles matches and the fourth happened in a mixed tag match also involving David Stone and Shooter Sean Deeley

Two individuals within my company won awards during the end of the year awards for 2021 Peter Michaels won the award for Announcer of the year and David Stone won the award for Young Wrestler of The Year.

New Signings: Lucy Stone McFly, Frankie Dee, James Justice, Joshua Taylor, Rocky Golden,

Released: Alan Parent, Ariel Breaks, Zeus Maxmillion, Jared Johnson, Julian Watson, Nina Cacace, Sally Anne Christianson, Lauren Easter, Jillian Jarvis, American Elemental II.

Six years into this save and still going strong, I can’t wait to see what the year 2022 brings I feel like this save is losing steam or I may be running out of ideas a bit but after taking a break from it and coming back to it with some fresh new ideas I’m interested to see exactly how much longer I can keep playing this save.

Also I seem to have surpassed SWF and I’m now the Undisputed number one as far as winning the national battles although I’m ranked number 6 overall which is behind both USPW and SWF but I hope to improve my ranking with time.

BigINMoldova · July 7, 2018

Awesome feature I just discovered, The game knows I'm booking a mixed tag even though my roster isn't integrated.

Hashasheen · July 7, 2018

YellowSign, what database are you using for your game? I'm thinking of getting into British 1990s wrestling and playing a game until around 2001 before porting the promotion into another database...

YellowSign · July 7, 2018

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Hashasheen" data-cite="Hashasheen" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41174" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>YellowSign, what database are you using for your game? I'm thinking of getting into British 1990s wrestling and playing a game until around 2001 before porting the promotion into another database...</div></blockquote> I'm using Mod Squad's 1987 Golden Age mod. Started using it for a WWF game but wanted to do a British game. Think they've got a 1991 start as well but haven't tried it yet.

Vault · July 7, 2018

Almost a year and a half into my first SWF game. Really enjoying it so far. My main event scene is incredible. I signed Wolf Hawkins and Marat Khoklov and currently just had Khoklov win the world championship in a triple threat against Wolf Hawkins and Mikey Lau. I'm eventually setting up for Hawkins to take Jack Bruce's spot as figurehead. Dude is like my AJ Styles, he steals every show.

I split the Bumfholes and reintroduced them as Zim Barna and Randy Flash, with Randy having turned on Zimmy. They've had on-again off-again feuds since the split and both are established upper midcard talents.

Unfortunately I've also lost my fair share of talent to the competition. I've seen Angry Gilmore, Joey Morgan, and Brandon James all turn down generous offers and jump ship. Gilmore hurt the most as I was planning on getting him involved in a title feud.

franticloser · July 7, 2018

WARNING LONG POST AHEAD

Since my diary has kind of died, I figured I would post an update here for anyone that was interested.

Undertaker and Kane ended their feud at Royal Rumble with Taker going over in a Hell in a Cell match, Mankind beat Michaels, and Austin won the Rumble.

Austin beat Mankind at Wrestlemania for the World Title.

I had an owner goal to get Shamrock above 83 overall, so had him win the King of the Ring, beating the Rock in the finals. At Summerslam Shamrock turned heel as Paul Heyman got up from the announce desk to give the assist, and Shamrock the World title. Also at Summerslam Kane and Mankind had a Last Man Standing Match, that ended with Mankind being chokeslammed through the set and disappearing for awhile.

Shamrock and Austing feuded through out the fall with Austin winning the belt back at Survivor Series.

During this time Michaels had a minor injury and so, every week he would come out and cut promos regarding his stance on the business, slowly edging himself away from DX, near the end of his injury time, The Rock confronted him, declaring himself the future and Michaels the past, beating him down effectively turning Michaels face, and launching a feud between the two.

I kept Michaels and Triple H separated during this, not really showing any issues between the two, as Michaels feuded with Rock and Triple H started his first feud for the title with Austin in the winter.

Mankind showed back up at this time as Cactus Jack, attacking Undertaker starting a feud between the two of them.

Royal Rumble 99 was won by The Rock, after a losing effort against Michaels earlier in the night. Cactus beat Undertaker and left him laying after the match in a brutal post match attack. Austin beat Triple H, and finally a debuting Big Show helped Shamrock pick up a win against Owen Hart.

Finally the lead in to Wrestlemania XV. Michaels started a feud with Ken Shamrock, while Owen Hart turned his sights on Big Show. Undertaker was taken off screen for a few weeks and returned as ABA Taker attacking Kane to set up a new chapter in their feud going into Wrestlemania, with Taker wanting to free Kane from Paul Bearer. Austin and Rock started the battle of words that only they could achieve. During all of this, The Hardy Boyz had been champions for a few months, when a debuting Canadian Blondes attacked them to start an undercard feud for the future stars.

Else where Big Bad Mark(Buh Buh Ray Dudley in our universe) Debuted in mid 98 and has slowly built himself to upper midcard on the back of an undefeated streak and strong promos he is the current IC champion. Kurt Angle also debuted in late 98 and is currently the European champion. Regal recently turned face and has a loose alliance with British Bulldog.

<div style="text-align:center;">Wrestlemania XV

The Hardy Boyz beat The Canadian Blondes in a ladder match to retain the the World Tag Team Championships

Big Bad Mark beat British Bulldog to retain the IC championship

Big Show beat Owen Hart following interference by Cactus Jack

William Regal defeated Kurt Angle in a submission match for the European championship

Ken Shamrock beat Shawn Michaels following interference by Triple H

Undertaker beat Kane in a I Quit Match

Steve Austin beat The Rock to retain the WWF World Heavyweight Championship

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I was going to have Rock go over, but Austin complained. My plan is to have Rock win the King of The Ring and go over Austin at Summerslam. I don't know if I will be giving Owen the belt at any point, as it seems something everyone does and being able to give both Mankind and Shamrock decent runs have been fun. Michaels and Triple H will be starting their feud in full going into the summer. Long term, I have played with the ideas of getting Bulldog and Jarrett to the Main Event level and give them a run, but it may be past their time (Bulldog more so then Jarrett) Big Bad Mark is the future for my heel side and I want to get Regal and Angle up as quickly as I can going into the 2000's.

Hashasheen · July 8, 2018

I'm using Mod Squad's 1987 Golden Age mod. Started using it for a WWF game but wanted to do a British game. Think they've got a 1991 start as well but haven't tried it yet.

How does the UK only scene look like? I notice you have a lot of foreign stars...

Editor6 · July 8, 2018

2018's in the books. Remember this?

SHOW OF THE YEAR, Y'ALL.

Tommy Cornell won Wrestler of the Year for only the second time(!!), while PGHW won Company and Tag Team again (this time with Muruyama & Igaki, their second win). Match of the Year was Joey Morgan beating Jack Bruce (who won Veteran Wrestler of the Year) on the first show after Supreme Challenge 38.

Sammy Bach was USPW's top guy on the Power 500 at #83. World champion Wolf Hawkins is at #155. Ross Henry made the biggest jump, going from #496 to #324.

We say goodbye to Enygma today, as he signed with NOTBPW for what is likely his last big contract. A consummate pro, he put over Greg Gauge and Kirk Jameson clean on his way out. NOTBPW seems to be doing their yearly hiring spree early this time around. I expect Lauren Easter to go back, but Findlay O'Farraday (who just won the National title) re-upped with us. We're still waiting on Bulldozer Brandon Smith's decision.

In developmental, Ace Kincaid (TAFKA Skip Beau) won the MAW Championship in October. Aces High recovered from his torn quad, went to LPW to rehab, won the belt, then decided he wasn't re-signing with us. (He hates me because I sent him to rehab for turning up high way too many times.) So the belt was vacated, and Paul Steadyfast won it in December. Nancy Ortiz (a regen) is the Women's champion down there.

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I don't get to talk about my OLLIE game much. But our shows are demonstrably better when Gino Montero (#381) is my champ and on top. Like, 5-7 points better, which is significant at Regional size. Since he regained the Campeonato del Universal in June, we consistently win the regional battles, also helped by our monthly events being on Canal Tres.

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Finally, TCW. It's been an interesting year figuring out which young guys might be the next stars, and the state of the company has led to some surprising things happening. For one, Freddy Huggins auto-pushed to main event level. So I gave him a nice run with the International title (which he'd never had), and now he's slumming just outside the main event storylines, as is Davis Wayne Newton. If my top three heels at the end of 2019 are Chord, DWN and Huggins, that's pretty good.

Finding a new No. 3 babyface remains a challenge. Masked Cougar's over, but I'm not sure he's a top face in an ostensibly national company. Either Chance Fortune or Darryl Devine could do it, but they're both older than I'd ideally like and I still need them in the tag division (where I'm using Marc Speed to help get the young guys there over.) I also have an owner goal that says I can't hire anyone over 35, which I'm fine with, as we're too old as it is. But it makes things more difficult. I'm kicking around some developmental possibilities, either opening my own company or partnering with someone else.

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SWF has reunited both High Concept and The New Wave. They still have the Bumfholes together, too.

WINNOW opened in December. Youth Energy Pro Wrestling closed in December.

Peria · July 9, 2018

Really busy, unable to play as much as I want. But I just checked the 46 year old Thunder Hike just for fun, I have a soft spot for the Magic Three, since my CV97 game. And she isn't in decline. Blew my mind.

Neighborhood Editor · July 9, 2018

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comparison from my first to my latest (and best) show I've done so far.

For a <a href="http://greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=533682" rel="external nofollow">Road to Glory challenge</a>, I decided to randomize my location to be different, and got France. Originally I was absolutely LOATHED the idea, but it has so far been my most fun and successful RTG game yet.

First I've been very lucky both in-game and with the MYSTERY BOX dice rolls, I've had two so far, one being number 49 ("Where There’s A Will" Gain EITHER $56,609 or +5 Prestige.) which helped for being SUED for 25,000 for using copyrighted music, so I think we know which one I took, and the second year I got a boost in pop so that also helped. I recently just got a big commercial deal that has seen my growth also skyrocket.

Finally, when it comes to my region, I only really had one competitor, ICW, Italian Championship Wrestling, who I was able to buy out for only 6K and had a decent pop in France, they may have even ran a show there. Now I essentially can run wild across the region until I'm big enough to challenge WxW.

Some other things are Da Baron is Da Mack, who as in the CWC rep'n Germany, and is in the New Empire stable of all German wrestlers cause Invasion angles. My Women get high ratings cause I tend to cheese those ratings, however I am trying to move away from that to build a proper women's division.

EDIT: I am Marcel Louis

Skummy · July 9, 2018

I've got two games running at the moment.

The first is a 2001 game, as Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling.

Initially, I was set to run with Dustin Rhodes as my top face, and Barry Windham as the top heel, and ran an angle wherein Windham defeated Dustin with the help of Kendall Windham, Steve Corino and CW Anderson to win the World Title. I grouped them together as "The 21st Century Horsemen", but the WWF threw a spanner in the works by signing up Windham and Rhodes.

I toyed with eventually turning Kendall face to rebalance the roster, but the fans weren't buying it, so I dropped it. Instead, I brought in Tully Blanchard to round out the Horsemen and, later, Larry Zbsyzko as an announcer/manager to Corino. Larry would bring back the AWA World Title, and award it to Corino. Much later down the line, Kendall would end up leaving the company, and replaced in the Horsemen by Jeff Jarrett, when his Time Warner contract expired. This would set up a power struggle between Corino and Jarrett as to who the rightful leader of the group was, though I've not got that far yet.

I was also lacking a top face in Dustin's absence, so I moved Dusty Rhodes into more of a full-time capacity, rather than just doing the odd one-off Legends match or tag match. Dusty would end up all over most shows - feuding with Jerry Lawler, Terry Funk, and with the Horsemen. I also brought in Rob Van Dam to add a bit of younger blood to the main event picture, with him feuding with Corino until he got signed by the WWF.

More often than not, shows were being headlined by multi-man matches pitting some combination of the Horsemen against a loose alliance of babyfaces - usually comprising Dusty, RVD, the Rock N Roll Express and Manny Fernandez, with occasional guests on one-night deals. All building to a big eventual War Games match.

My other game, started last night, is in 2005 as a created promotion called Inoki Genome Worldwide. Loosely modelled on the IGF, the story is that Inoki, upon leaving NJPW, founded a US-based promotion to take Inoki-ism worldwide. It's a mostly "Hyper Realistic" product, built around MMA crossovers, but also features a supporting cast of veterans like Ron Simmons, Vader and Road Warrior Animal, and a handful of younger talent in Bryan Danielson, Samoa Joe, Low-Ki and Mike Quackenbush.

I've set myself the rule that I won't book any talent that's employed by NJPW, AJPW, NOAH or Zero-One.

The first show featured a PRIDE rematch between Don Frye and Yoshihiro Takayama, Bob Sapp vs. Tank Abbott, Samoa Joe vs. Dan Severn, and a main event of Josh Barnett vs. Giant Bernard. I was planning on setting up Barnett and Bob Sapp as the two top stars, but after Sapp/Abbott was the worst match on the card, with an E- rating even though they had great chemistry, Sapp being exhausted in a sub-10 minute match, and his morale tanking when I criticised his performance, I think I'm now firmly Team Barnett, and reducing Sapp to more of a special attraction role.

I also have the team of Giant Singh and Giant Silva knocking about - they defeated Danielson & Quackenbush on the first show - but no tag division to speak of, so I may end up building up Sapp to face them in a handicap match. Not exactly a Match Of The Year candidate, but probably best to keep all three of the big useless lugs in one match rather than stinking up the entire card.

iamainnocentkid · July 9, 2018

Got the most improved company of the year award and AJ Styles winning the young star of the year 😍

neonflux · July 10, 2018

Real world mod, 2017 april. First RAW rusev beats orton and cena for the title. Then next ppv rusev beats cena again and cena is sitting out his contract now.

Reigns, rollins and finn formed a club and beat up neville and gave the cruiserweight title to alexa bliss. Then alicia fox beat her and is the new champion.

Tamina and alicia fox and nia jax bullied bayley and no one cared. Tamina is the womens champion. She will eventually go versus rusev for the world title.

Samoa joe got goons and is going to kill randy orton. Signed like half the Impact roster but theyre all failures. Also signed like most of Shimmer

Penta el 0M is going to marry eva marie. Sami zayn will lose every match hes in.

Started a child company for women. I will sign every woman available and then eventually turn wwe to a women's company.

Neighborhood Editor · July 10, 2018

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="neonflux" data-cite="neonflux" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41174" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Real world mod, 2017 april. First RAW rusev beats orton and cena for the title. Then next ppv rusev beats cena again and cena is sitting out his contract now. Reigns, rollins and finn formed a club and beat up neville and gave the cruiserweight title to alexa bliss. Then alicia fox beat her and is the new champion. Tamina and alicia fox and nia jax bullied bayley and no one cared. Tamina is the womens champion. She will eventually go versus rusev for the world title. Samoa joe got goons and is going to kill randy orton. Signed like half the Impact roster but theyre all failures. Also signed like most of Shimmer Penta el 0M is going to marry eva marie. Sami zayn will lose every match hes in. Started a child company for women. I will sign every woman available and then eventually turn wwe to a women's company.</div></blockquote> Is this loss?

Derek B · July 13, 2018

So this is going to be a ridiculously long post as I put together everything I've been doing in my BHOTWG for almost 3 years. Get coffee now if you actually want to make it through reading all this. <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> I'm also going to be posting it in the BHOTWG thread and the What's Going On In Your Game threads, so don't read both of them. <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

First up... I've been watching a lot of NJPW over the last 2 years so I wanted to un a company like them and I've never quite managed to get into a BHOTWG long term so my plan was to run BHOTWG like they are NJPW. First up, I switched back to the touring schedule as it made it easy to organise tours and talent. My tours run February to April, June to August and October to December. We have major events at the start, middle and end of each tour with major tournaments becoming the major focus of the company.

After our first major PPV of the year we have the Summit Challenge, which is our G1 Climax. 2 blocks of 10 men in a round robin format, the winners of each block face off in our March event. The winner goes on to challenge the World champion in October at Night Of The Burning Hammer, making a couple of defences on the way. We run the Junior Tag League in April, with 10 teams of Junior wrestlers facing off in round robin format and the top two facing off again to determine the winner. I've had the winners of this challenge for the Jr Tag belts at Night Of The Burning Hammer but I've also had them get a shot sooner.... so no real consistency there.

Our second tour kicks off in June with another big event set up by a couple of small shows... then we launch into the Best Of Super Juniors, which I hae been running with 2 blocks of 10 in a round robin format too, making it larger than the real one. This has had some ridiculous success for me as we have a lot of the best Junior wrestlers in the world and the winner of each block again faces off to determine the tournament winner, who also goes on to NotBH to challenge the champion. For the first two years this tour wrapped up with the Heavyweight Tag League, pitting 10 teams against each other in a round robin format with the top two facing off again. In the third year I rebranded this to the Ultimate Tag League and expanded it to include Jr teams and at some borrowed teams to have 2 blocks of 10 in a round robin format, with the winner of each block facing each other again to challenge any tag champions they are eligible to face (more on that later).

This all sets up for Night Of The Burning Hammer at the start of the October-December tour, our biggest night of the year. With most of the title matches already set thanks to the various tournaments it is also where personal rivalries are raised to the highest level and grudges are settled based on events so far. After this event we have the Kitozon Cup, an annual giant tournament in honour of BHOTWG legend Master Kitozon. The event has been 64 men each year and has seen many talents loaned in to make it particularly epic. The second year also saw me introduce a Young Lions cup where 8 of my youngsters compete to give themselves something to elevate them and perhaps get a shot at one of the other titles too. The winner of the Kitozon Cup gets a World title match at the start of our February tour, which is technically our second biggest show of the year.

No matter what time of year it is, my regular tour shows have 10 matches per show (a lot, I know) with half of them generally being tournament matches of some kind and the other half being multi man matches where my various stables tend to face off to hype various upcoming matches I have and to generally keep them busy. I realised I was having some issues with my young lions getting too popular by appearing on the main show, so they have mostly been relegated to pre-show matches whenever they get used, which is fairly often to help them learn while also keeping them at Enhancement Talent level so that their momentum doesn't suffer. It's worked out pretty well for me since I adopted that position, with my newer talents that I actually want to push now able to get past the young lions quickly and establish themselves on the main roster.

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So that's the rough structure of the company under me. I'm playing as owner/booker Tadiyuki Kikkawa, just because I wanted to have fun with him. He started six or seven years into Time Decline unfortunately so one of my first plans was how to phase him out as figurehead and champion. With his stable Kikkawa Army by his side, he had canon allies in people like Tasuku Iesada (freelancer who comes and goes, also now in decline) and Masaaki Okazaki (even further into decline at 10 years). I can't remember who else was there in canon but in my game I had Heihachiro Sakai being mentored as par of the group to explain his massive improvements over the last few years, along with Hirokumi Saito and VENOM. Yoshii Shiomi was VENOM's partner but not part of the group... and this was part of the early story. The junior members, VENOM and Shiomi were both struggling and were given an ultimatum... win BOSJ or get booted. VENOM was nowhere near winning and a furious Kikkawa beat him up so bad that he was never really the same... this led to some tensions in the group, but Kikkawa replaced VENOM with some new Junior talents... Reaver became the top ranked Junior in the group, with Musashi being a new local member who would regular tour with the company... last but not least was Chess Maniac (who has become Chess King now), bringing some technical expertise to the group.

Less than a year later, Hirokumi Saito suffered a similar fate and without his mentor Tasuku Iesada around to help (he left due to freelance status) Kikkawa murdered him out of the company and replaced him with a couple of heavyweights that he had seen learn a lot in INSPITE... Morimasa Kato and Hitomaro Suzuki. But Kikkawa was no longer champion by this point and the struggle of trying to get back to the top was taking a toll on him mentally, causing himi to get more aggressive and lash out at allies as well as anyone who had any degree of success against the Kikkawa Army. The rise of Heihachiro Sakai has also plagued Kikkawa, with his success coinciding with Kikkawa's downward turn.... Sakai won the first Kitozon Cup and defeated Kinnojo Horri for the title (Horri had beaten Kikkawa for the belt and won the rematch), and had a strong year where he defeated various other Kikkawa Army members in tournament action. This spiraled into the third year where Kikkawa opted not to compete in the Summit Challenge (in reality, he can't handle the schedule) which drew the ire of Sakai who thought the group's leader should be involved in a major competitioin like that. Throughout the year Sakai has also railed at Kikkawa's treatment of Suzuki and Kato, with Kikkawa regularly punishing them after losses... this caused Kato to quit (I let his contract expire by accident) and soon Tasuku Iesada was given the same treatment... Iesada was Sakai's mentor and Kikkawa's close ally, so to see Kikkawa stab him in the back triggered the real breakdown of the Sakai-Kikkawa relationship, made worse by Sakai winning the title for the second time before Best Of Super Juniors. With the group mostly limited to multi man matches, Kikkawa and Sakai couldn't be on the same team... and whenever Kikkawa wrestled, they lost... whenever Sakai was on the team, they won... Sakai has also personally pushed for Suzuki to get more chances, finally getting some singles matches to showcase his skills (he has developed really well) which Kikkawa feels is an insult to his leadership... this finally came to a head at the end of our summer tour when Kikkawa deliberately cost Sakai the title, causing him to lose to major rival Yasuhiko Taira (his second reign in this save). Kikkawa went nuts, beating the ever loving crap out of Sakai to set up their bitter grudge match at Night Of The Burning Hammer 2018. Sakai will obviously win and Kikkawa has already been removed as figurehead.... the fall out will see Sakai give everyone an ultimatum. Follow him or follow the broken Tadiyuki Kikkawa... Musashi has already left (I made him furious with a loss during BOSJ and another recent one), Masaaki Okazaki is going into a veteran trainer status where he just teams with youngsters, Chess King will go it alone, Reaver is on his way out of the company (about to hit time decline, I think and has low skill caps), while Hitomaro Suzuki will continue his fledgling team with Sakai that has been going well so far. Kikkawa will move into a role where he rarely wrestles, mostly acting as a spokeman for the company having put over a new star, dissolved his stable and moved himself down the card. Job done. <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

The original babyface group of the company was the BHOTWG loyal group I dubbed "Battle Forged". Led by Hiroaki Nakasawa and Elemental III, along with Nakasawa's protege Atsomri Takemura, they originally also had Chuichi Sanda and Eiji Hamacho as heavyweights and The Awesome Kiyaru and Jin Miyamoto on the junior side... the line up has changed significantly though as the veterans (Sanda, Hamacho, Kiyaru) were all so far into decline that I just couldn't keep them around while Jin capped fairly low and was allowed to leave when his contract came up. Replacing them has been PGHW team Brute Kikuchi and BISON Yano on the heavyweight side, and also potentially the greatest Junior in the world, the exciting Kamikaze (who I book a little like Will Ospreay)... this group is generally close to championship gold at all times with Nakasawa winning the 2018 Summit Challenge and the 2017 Heavyweight Tag League with Takemura (they were also team of the year)... they have been a little light on storylines (except for E3) though, but the decreasing amount of BHOTWG loyalists in the group makes me tempted to consider turning them heel (at least in my mind) somewhere in the future.

As for Elemental III, he has been one of the focal points of the Junior division. Originally it was all about the elite guys in the division, who I collectively dubbed "The Four Pillars". They are Elemental III, Sensational Dragon, Marihito Masuko and MYSTIC Dragon. They generally coexisted peacefully as competitive rivals but that has turned into a war. It began with the 2016 Jr Tag League when each man took on a tag partner for the tournament (none had regular partners) in an effort to beat each other... Elemental teamed with Jin Miyamoto, Marihito Masuko teamed with internatioal star Hijo Del Relampago, Sensational Dragon teamed with Helikaon (KC Glenn) and the eventual winners were MYSTIC Dragon and new recruit Tsuneyo Yanagimoto. While credit was given, Sensational Dragon began to goad MYSTIC... saying he was the worst of the Four Pillars and could never win the BOSJ.... at first this didn't seem to matter, but over the course of the next 12 months and with MYSTIC repeatedly falling short the cracks were showing... losing the Jr tag titles, losing in the first round of the Kitozon Cup, losing to most of the other 4 Pillars in the 2017 BOSJ on his way to a lower half finish (won by first time entrant, Velocidad)... he finally snapped and agreed to put his status as one of the Four Pillars on the line against Sensational Dragon, who was relentless in his taunting of MYSTIC. At Night Of The Burning Hammer 2017 Velocidad beat Elemental III to cement his status as one of BHOTWG's greatest Junior wresters and on the same night we saw Sensational Dragon defeat MYSTIC Dragon in an epic match. MYSTIC Dragon would then disappear from the coompany completely... and at the same time a new star would show up in our Mexican child company, Truth Elemental. The Kitozon Cup saw the continued rise of another Jr star, KC Glenn... he had ditched his BHOTWG moniker and joined with the Tempest Society (our Bullet Club, more on that later) and his team with COTT champion Roderick Remus (dominant in the Jr division as 2017 and 2018 Jr Tag League winners and Jr Tag champs), KC also made it to the final of the 2017 Kitozon Cup avenging a major loss to Sensational Dragon from 2016's event. The 2018 BOSJ event was... epic, to say the least. With Elemental III, Sensational Dragon, Truth Elemental, KC Glenn, Velocidad, Marihito Masuko, a rising Masa Kurata and Razan Okamoto all on fire througout.... KC Glenn (already Jr tag champ and Jr tag leage winner in 2018) almost swept the field to set up a clash at Night Of The Burning Hammer with Velocidad... these two men have met twice in singles action before... KC won in the 2017 Kitozon Cup match and Velocidad won in the resulting title defence in 2018, with both matches rated 100. Also set for the show as the result of Ultimate Tag League fallout is a super rare three way match... Sensational Dragon vs Elemental III vs Truth Elemental. Truth has back up in his stable "The Truth", made up of Jonathan Faust (we bought out 21CW), Stealth Z and Crimson Ghost (young lions back from my Mexican child company) and made his presence felt as he cost Sensational Dragon his title match, while also attacking Elemental III who returned from an injury incurred in BOSJ... those two matches will surely be electric.

Another stable we have on the roster formed around Kinnojo Horri and his imutable ability to keep on fighting no matter what. He won the original Summit Challenge in 2016 and went on to beat Tadiyuki Kikkawa for the gold at Night Of The Burning Hammer, leading us into what I call "The Aceless Era". In reality, this Aceless Era is just a period of a few years where I am deliberatley ensuring that no World champion holds the title for long as a way to make it seem like everyone is all on the same, hopefully world class, level. Horri is portrayed as a natural leader (similar to real life Hiroshi Tanahashi) but without as much skill obviously... his heart and leadership saw him get closer to Tadakuni Toshusai, who is sper charismatic, odd and funny... Tadakuni is booked for me like a more talented Toru Yano and has had some big wins and even title matches... but never quite makes it all the way. Horri and Toshusai lost in the final of the 2016 and 2017 heavyweight tag leagues, before winning it in 2018 to set up an epic title match with The Melbourne Blondes for NotBH. But... the group itself is made up of people who just seem to need an extra boost of leadership to succeed and is very much a babyface group. Kinnojo leads, Tadakuni talks, Nissho Yuasa continues to develop even though he will never be world class and the former Junior tag champs Kansuke Konda and Hyosuke Kokan found a new lease on life when they joined up following some crushing defeats. Hyosuke was the legit MVP of the 2018 BOSJ, averaging a 99 match rating across his 9 matches. You read that right. Joint highest of anyone with Yasuhiko Taira also getting a 99 average in the 2018 Summit Challenge. The group also had Rokeumon Matsushita for a while as Nissho's partner, but his skills caps were low so he's been shipped off to development hell, currently in Australia. The group is also one of the few stables that I book to team with people outside the group, usually unaligned babyface type characters that need partners for matches between tournaments. They have fought and often lost many matches to Kikkawa Army and I really undervalue them as a group because they have been great. Oh.... and this stable is called "Grasp-Creation", being a rough translation of what happens when people aim high and try to achieve their dreams.

So... Tempest Society. I mentioned them a while back as being my Bullet Club. They are made up of North American workers and have proven themselves to be great wrestlers but are undoubtedly heels and have been the only group known for regularly interupting matches and cheating to win. I had always planned to have a group like this and it started when I got Shooter Sean Deeley and Jack Marlowe within days of each other. They both competed for the newly minted alliance title, the Burning Intercontinental title, but both came up short. Shortly after that Atom Smasher's contract came up too, giving me a true team in Jack and Atom which was cool. And then, just before Night of the Burning Hammer 2016 we got Angry Gilmore, who I installed as official leader of the group. They kept disrupting matches and Gilmore kept demanding title matches, eventually finishing as runner up for the 2017 Summit Challenge and spinning it into a title opportunity where he more or less stole the belt from Heihachiro Sakai. Also recruiting KC Glenn away from BHOTWG due to seeing his amazing potential, and signing up 2016 Sam Keith Classic winner Roderick Remus and Greg Gauge (which is a cool team because they are both twins!) the Tempest Society soon had some of the hottest talents around and a bad influence to lead them. The only non-standard match in the company that we have had was an Angry Gilmore title defence against Sakai in 2017, where a cage was used to keep people out... Gilmore won that but lost at NotBH to Yasuhiko Taira who had defeated him for the Summit challenge months prior. The group has gone on to be amazing... Gauge and Deeley are a sublime tag team, with Remus and Glenn being dominant in the Jr tag division too. Gilmore is always around the title hunt too, while Jack and Atom have been consistent thanks to 100 tag experience even though Jack has hit time decline. They have generally fedued with Grasp-Creation and the very exciting NEO stable....

NEO start the game as a three man group consisting of Koshiro Ino, Yasuhiko Taira and Yasunobu Masuno. I started off booking all three of them as potential world champions which led to them being booked very strongly, partticularly against the Kikkawa Army. But they have to lose sometimes... so near the end of 2016 I had them go on a recruiting drive and they had three midcarders to the group. Ieyoshi Shimakage, who is a cocky youngster with strong charisma.. and the team of PUNK Nasty Club, "Bad Boy" Kazunoru Yamura and Toju Munkata. All of them have developed really well and could win secondary title now, with PUNK Nasty Club being one of my star tag teams at 100 experience and with Toju bulking up to fit the heavyweight division unexpectedly. This team has feuded on and off with Kikkawa Army for the entire game so far along with the Tempest Society for a while.. but when they added Haruki Kudo to the group as a mentor (as he is for Koshiro Ino, who is in time decline since game start but was still the first IC champion) things really kicked off with their main rivals... the Golden Lions.

So, I bought out GCG and stole all their good stuff. <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> The tsunami narrative hurt Japan a lot and I already have PGHW as a child company (in an alliance with NOBPW and TCW too), so when both BCG nd GCG became available to buy out after Night of the Burning Hammer 2017 I made BCG a small child company and took the GCG talent. I've been loaning in talent from PGHW to make things more interesting but I like them as a company... once I bought out PGHW, they actually started making money and are now at 82 pop across Japan (but still cult) so I al leaving them with their core talents. GCG didn't fare so well... so I signed most of their top guys and created the Golden Lions. The GCG titles are all still active too, active as secondary and tertiary belts but are sill at very high prestige due to the depth of quality I have on the roster. Kudo continues to be in a position of authorty over the GCG belts, while the Golden Lions came in holding most of them (KAZ held the Openweight title and he is with someone else). Hiroyasu Gakusha, Toshiharu Hyobanshi, SUKI, Takayuki 2000, Kiminobu Kuroki (the douchenozzle), Mabuchi Furusawa and Namboku Makuda make up the group. Hyobanshi was quickly injured with a broken neck that saw him replaced as tag champ, while Gakusha unseated SUKI for the singles gold. There have been a lot of interactions with NEO but the Golden Lions seem to prevail when it matters the most... over the course of a year Gakusha has beaten most of the stable to retain his singles title but an even more epic match is coming at Night Of The Burning Hammer, one that merges GCG history with the ongoing BCG rivalry... Funakoshi has challenged Gakusha for the title and Kudo has made the match. The two have clashed in tag matches many times with Funakoshi having more of the wins... at Night of the Burning Hammer, BCG and GCG clash for a major title and this is just one month removed from Gakusha retaining against Mabuchi Furusawa at The Golden Kingdom (I kept the event name for the end of August event) here Mabuchi emotionally lost his shot at the title that his father had fought for, at the event he masterminded, for the company he loved... in my head, it was epic.

So... Rebellion-Gun. This stable started off as The Rebellion (Natsu Miyamae and Ken Shimedzu) giving back to BHOTWG by mentoring a promising tag team. That team was Matthew Keith and Tatsuya Toshitala, who have gone on to become some of the top guys in the company. Keith is a two time holder of the IC title and has travelled the world with it, while the team have come close to tag gold many times. Sadly, due to age both of the Rebellion have moved on but joining the group (with their blessing) was a team inspired to get into wrestling by them, The Rebel Alliance, KAZ and Eien Miyamoto. The two youngsters have been on BHOTWG's radar and this finally got them all the way there, with KAZ bringing the GCG Openweight title along with him which he quickly lost to Chess Maniac (this win changed his name to Chess King), who in turn lost to Raymond Diaz who has had a lot of fun destroying people for the title which is defended more often than my other titles. Rebellion-Gun are all good enough that they could win major titles, with Matthew in particular looking like a world champion in the next few years. Mostly avoiding the Tempest Society due to the brotherly link between Matthew and Greg, they seem destined to clash soon. So far they have only met in multi man matches, with a tag time liit draw in the 2018 Ultimate Tag League being the most interaction they have had in the company despite being on the same roster fo rmore than 2 years. I'm considering them clashing at NotBH 2019 for a singles match.... but we'll see.

We aso recently bought out 21CW and absorbed them too... I was torn between keeping them as a child company (with all those benefits) or buying them out, which would take me to international size... after a vote on a facebook group, I bought them out and went International. This also prompted me to open a bunch more child companies around the world, while giving me access to Tommy Cornell. Ooooooh, Tommy... who recently improved his look and went to 100 star quality while now being the most popular wrestler in the world thanks to me. I'd make him a figurehead if it didn't look like he was about to hit deline with his sex appeal already falling. He is looking to reinvent The Syndicate but while making it more about him. His group is The Cornell Dynasty and feature himself, new IC champion Edward Cornell and recently turned-on-his-tag-partner 21CW UK Champion Leigh Burton. The Cornells managed to beat all three sets of tag champions in the company during the Ultimate Tag League (BHOTWG Melbourne Blondes ; GCG Takauyuki 2000/SUKI ; Junior KC Glenn/Roderick Remus) but failed to win their block... Tommy made an open challenge to the best in the world to face him at Night Of The Burning Hammer 2018 and it has been answered by the 2017 Kitozon Cup winner, PGHW's own Yoshimi Mushashibo. And while Tommy is clearly going to win this one, it's going to be the greatest match of all time. Anything less than 100 is a disappointment as neither of these men are on decline yet. This sets up Tommy for a Burning title match and could give the group a lot of gold as I'm considering putting the title on him.

There are also a lot of talents that float around without alliances. Mitsunari Fugunaga was rebranded as TANK Fugunaga after a size change gone wrong... he has been a constant nemesis of Kikkawa Army, often teaming with the likes of Eisaku Hoshino (when he is around, freelancer), Buddy Garner (who just left the company, on decline), Raymond Diaz, Funakoshi, Gonkuro Kamioka (who has developed well) and Fujio Narahashi (who is a midcard ace for me just now). If anyone needs a partner, these guys can generally count on each other to come together and get the job done fairly well... sure, the stables will generally beat them but they do well. Simon Flemmingway and Totoya Munakata also feature regularly with these guys at heavyweight despite being juniors, generally trying to learn technical skills from Garner before he left...

We also have one last semi-comedic stable for the undercard, that I call the Okakura-Miwako Gods or "OMG!". They have had a few cast members come and go already but the core is Pretty Okakura (who is loyal elsewhere), Miwako Katsukara (the sexiest girl I could get at the time of debut) and a variety of people with high sex appeal that are trying to get into BHOTWG. Currently in the group alongside them are Kirk Jameson and La Estrella, who are both very talented. The group mostly loses but is a way for people to get their foot in the door before turning on the leaders and moving up as new blood comes in... there are a lot of people in development who could fit the bill here (I'm playing with no fog of war, which is rare for me) with Kian Owens in my Aussie child company having 100 sex appeal and a lot of talent, he could be next.

In case people ask, I created a template for organising tournament blocks, with a 8 and 10 person version just in case I need them. I also track match ratings for tournament matches to see who is actually performing well, though I didn't do that in the first year. It's kinda handy, and I might add it to my google docs to share if anyone has read far enough down to see this, though it is a little clunky. The tournaments with two blocks alternate nights on which they are active, with hype videos covering their appearances on the nights they are off which tend to provide a bit of extra entertainment skills and overness. We usually run 3 shows a week whlie we are active too, which works out to around 100 shows a year given that I tend to relax that a little during the Kitozon Cup stage of the year. It's quite intensive but the tournament parts are the easiest to book as I can just look at my file to see what matches are next. We also have a very large roster with even more people sitting in development wanting to be called up. I get around 20 emails a day, with most of those being from development people but I only call people up when I have something for them to do. My alliance blocks me from adding my various child companies to it but with PGHW already being mine and NOTBPW slowly edging down towards cult with their ageing roster and already in debt, I think I might just boot TCW and add all the kids... that way I can loan a bunch of my workers out to them, then send them on holiday at my end... that keeps them active and helps the little ones grow larger wthout upseting my own roser. Plus I can commit to adding more alliance titles like I have wanted to do for a while... they are fun and are a good way to spread some good talent around the world which is really what I want to do with my global expansion. I also plan to run some cross promotional type events using the World War event I got with 21CW.... I used it as a way to unify some 21CW titles with our own at a "World War: BHOTWG vs 21CW" event I ran in London that had great results, and I think I have enough stars worldwide that I could run similar shows anywhere in the world. But first... I got to raise my popularity a bit more, as even with 21CW's popularity being added to mine I am not as big in North America as I would like. Though I am now up to 93 popularity across Japan, which is insane.

I rememmber someone somewhere asking me about how I did storylines in-game and I don't tihnk I got around to replying. For BHOTWG, I rn vague storylines... that is, if I am running a tournament I will put all of Block A into one storyline and all of Block B into another. This way, every match builds up the story and since I'm generally trying to put my best matches on last they will end with a high heat rating. I also do the Japanese thing of whoever win the final match gets to address the crowd, which for me is an entertainment based angle talking about people in both blocks that tends to rate very highly too, while also running a hype video for the opposing block somewhere in the middle of the show. This ensures those storylines are always active. Beyond that, I only have a few others going that are roughly card position dependent. If the juniors are in tournament action I will have a heavyweight storyline featuring just the top guys, one featuring various tag teams, one featuring midcarders who don't fit into those two and one for everyone else... then also a junior story for whoever isn't in the tournament. This is reversed for when heavyweights are in tournament action. When I am running the Kitozom Cup I have each block of 8 in one storyline and I try to do something on every show to advance each block... once we are down to the last 8, I put all 8 of them in one story and divide the rest of the people into their various levels again. It works pretty well as my top guys always have high storyline heat.... but we also don't need storylines for our company.

I would also like to add that if you play as BHOTWG, one of the first things you should do is to get the best staff possible. My commentary team were dinging every match for a long time until I got Sosa Morri from PGHW... with him, we rarely get penalties now and thanks to the number of matches we have our referees are amazing. Our road agents are also amazing and after having just a single 100 rated match before this team was assebled, we now have 46. With KC Glenn involved in 9 of those. For serious, that guy is a lock for wrestler of the year assuming Hiroako Nakasawa can't somehow add a few more to his 8, half of which have been in various kinds of tag action compared to KC who has just 1 in tag action.

Last but not least.... a quick rundown on major champions and important events to give you an idea of things in real time instead of block text. I maybe should have put this at the start. <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

INITIAL CHAMPIONS

Burning World: Tadiyuki Kikkawa (5th reign)

Burning Junior: Sensational Dragon (5th reign)

Burning World Tag: Toshiki Shibanumo and Nissho Yuasa (2nd reign)

Burning Junior Tag: Hyosuke Kokan and Kansuke Konda (3rd reign)

2016

February

Chuichi Sanda and Eiji Hamacho defeat Toshiki Shibanumo and Nissho Yuasa for their 6th Burning World Tag title reign (1 defence)

April

Kinnojo Horri defeats Hiroaku Nakasawa to win 1st Summit Challenge

Koshiro Ino defeats Sensational Dragon in a 2 night tournament to win 1st Burning IC title

MYSTIC Dragon and Tsuneyo Yanagimoto defeat American Optimus and Red Panther to win 1st Junior Tag League.

July

Elemental III defeats Marihito Masuko to win his 4th Best Of Super Juniors

August

Yasuhiko Taira and Yasunobu Masuno defeat Kinnojo Horri and Tadakuni Toshusai to win 1st Heavyweight Tag League

October

Kinnojo Horri defeats Tadiyuki Kikkawa for his 4th Burning World title (14 defences)

Elemental III defeats Sensational Dragon for his 4th Junior title (8 defences)

Yasuhiko Taira and Yasunobu Masuno defeat Chuichi Sanda and Eiji Hamacho for their 3rd Burning World Tag title (5 defences)

Buddy Garner defeats Koshiro Ino to win 1st Burning IC title (3 defences)

MYSTIC Dragon ad Tsuneyo Yanagimoto defeat Hyosuke Kokan and Kansuke Konda for their 1st Jr Tag title (9 defences)

December

Heihachiro Sakai defeats Sensational Dragon to win 1st Kitozon Cup

Created own broadcaster, BHOTWG Online. Covers all non Japanese regions with tiny size.

2017

January

Created "World Wrestling Alliance" along with NOTBPW and TCW.

February

Heihachiro Sakai defeats Kinnojo Horri for this 1st Burning World title (2 defences)

Bought out PGHW, kept as child company and added to WWA alliance.

April

Yasuhiko Taira defeats Angry Gilmore to win 1st Summit Challenge

Malili Umaga and Rhino Umaga defeat Yasuhiko Taira and Yasunobu Masuno for their 1st Burning World Tag title (3 defences)

KC Glenn and Roderick Remus defeat MYSTIC Dragon and Tsuneyo Yanagimoto to win 1st Junior Tag League

Matthew Keith defeats Buddy Garner to win 1st Burning IC title (7 defences)

June

Marihito Masuko and Hijo Del Relampago defeat MYSTIC Dragon and Tsuneyo Yanagimoto for their 1st Jr Tag title (4 defences)

July

Angry Gilmore defeats Heihachiro Sakai for his 1st Burning World title (3 defences)

Velocidad defeats Marihito Maruko to win his 1st Best Of Super Juniors

August

Hiroaki Nakasawa and Atsumori Takemura defeat Kinnojo Horri and Tadakuni Toshusai to win 1st Heavyweight Tag League

Create Lucha Libre en Fuego as Mexican child company, and a Mexican dojo.

Ocobter

Yasuhiko Taira defeats Angry Gilmore for his 2nd Burning World title (1 defence)

Velocidad defeats Elemental III for his 1st Junior title (7 defences)

*Hiroaki Nakasawa and Atsumori Takemura defeat Malili Umaga and Samoan Machine for their 1st Burning World Tag title (3 defences) *(Rhino injured while champion replaced with ally)

KC Glenn and Roderick Remus defeat Marihito Masuko and Hijo Del Relampago for their 1st Jr Tag title (1 defence)

Bought out GCG, adding three titles. GCG World held by SUKI in 2nd reign. GCG World Tag held by Namboku Makuda and Takayuki 2000 in 1st reign. GCG Openweight held by KAZ in 1st reign.

Took over BCG as child company.

Troy Tornado defeats Matthew Keith to win 1st Burning IC title (7 defences)

November

Hiroyasu Gakusha defeated SUKI for his 5th GCG World title (5 defences)

Matthew Keith defeats Troy Tornado to win his 2nd Burning IC title (0 defences)

December

Yoshimi Mushashibo defeats KC Glenn to win 1st Kitozon Cup

PRIDE Koiso defeats Matthew Keith to win his 1st Burning IC title (1 defence)

Chess King defeated KAZ for his 1st GCG Openweight title (5 defences)

2018

March

El Alborotador Confiado defeats PRIDE Koiso to win his 1st Burning IC title (5 defences)

Shooter Sean Deeley and Greg Gauge defeated Namboku Makuda and Takayuki 2000 for their 1st GCG World Tag (2 defences)

April

Hiroaki Nakasawa defeats Heihachiro Sakai to win 1st Summit Challenge

Heihahiro Sakai defeat Yasuhiko Taira for his 2nd Burning World title (4 defences)

Blake Belushi and Rick Stantz defeat Hiroaki Nakasawa and Atsumori Takemura for the Burning World Tag titles (3 defences)

Raymond Diaz defeated Chess King for his 1st GCG Openweight title (2 defences)

KC Glenn and Roderick Remus defeat Hyosuke Kokan and Kansuke Konda to win 2nd Junior Tag League

Create Fire Pro Wrestling as American child company, with American dojo

Create Burning Goddesses as Japanese all women's child company.

May

Created Burning Hammer: UK as British child company, with UK dojo.

July

KC Glenn defeats Tsuneyo Yanagimoto to win his 1st Best Of Super Juniors

SUKI and Takayuki 2000 defeat Shooter Sean Deeley and Greg Gauge for their 1st GCG World Tag title (1st for SUKI, 3rd for Takayuki 2000) (2 defences)

21CW bought out, adding three titles. 21CW World held by DJ Reason. 21CW UK held by Leigh Burton. 21CW World Tag held by Lance Martin and Kelly Martin.

Grow to International size.

Heihachiro Sakai defeats DJ Reason to unify 21CW World and Burning World titles. (at company's first UK event "World War: BHOTWG vs 21CW")

Melbourne Blondes defeat Absolutely Flawless to unify 21 World Tag and Burning World Tag titles.(at company's first UK event "World War: BHOTWG vs 21CW")

Edward Cornell defeated El Alborotador Confiado to win the Burning IC title (5 defences) (at company's first UK event "World War: BHOTWG vs 21CW")

August

Yasuhiko Taira defeated Heihachiro Sakai for his 3rd Burning World title (3 defences)

Kinnojo Horri and Tadakuni Toshusai defeat Funakoshi and TANK Fugunaga to win 1st Ultimate Tag League

Create Thunder Pro Wrestling as Australian child company, with Australian dojo.

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If anyone has any questions, feel free to fire them my way as I'm taking a short break before I head into my third Night Of The Burning Hammer event. I'm looking forward to it and he fall ou from my storylines at the moment, I'm hoping to free up some roster spots by getting rid of a few people (Kiminobu Kuroki was allowed to leave for newly national sized WLW) but my roster is also enormous... I might even upload the save at some point, but I'm not sure anyone really wants a game that is this ridiculously big and likely inaccessible to anyone that isn't me. <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

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