Burning Hammer Of The Wrestling Gods Thread BHOTWG

[Lo-Drew]

Not at all. My plans if I do a deep save is to set up a Unit Disbands match come June. I think I would nuke NEO-Prime, then have NEO-X rename and start their own image.

[mrwhippy]

I loved NEO in the previous iterations so I'm a bit disappointed to see them split. In the long term I want to do some sort of purge and reunification into NEO, probably with Horri going "face" but I'm going ahead with a Horri vs. Taira title match at Burning Path for now. They've been feuding since September 2017 in canon so I could probably call this the end of the chapter and at least use it as a way to change the landscape (ie. Taira out of leadership and down the card). He's still good but his stamina is nowhere near good enough to hang in the 20+ minute main events.

 

I also need to find a way to get more of the juniors into existing factions. 19 of 24 on the starting roster are unaffiliated. No one close to their prime stands out to me as a "heel" that would defect though.

[Lo-Drew]

I found that to be an issue, too. By default Angel could be the top heel via being an outsider. But he doesn't fit any of the units. I signed Blackfriar from IPW and put Ko in a mask and had them join Senmatsu-gun. But even they aren't going to headline the division. I suppose you could turn MYSTIC or Masuko?

[Peria]

For those mentioning stamina issues, try using "slow build" in road agent notes. This will alleviate stamina issues greatly, and sort of is how BHOTWG is supposed to be. Or, well King's Road in general.

[PW_Fandom]

Anyone have any idea's who Crimson Ghost actually is under that mask?

[229tman]

How do you guys book Slaughterhouse. Because I have no idea

[Yokai]

How do you guys book Slaughterhouse. Because I have no idea

 

Sign Kikuchi & Yano from PGHW and then grab Mitsunari Fugunaga. Add all three to Slaughterhouse and profit.

[Lo-Drew]

How do you guys book Slaughterhouse. Because I have no idea

 

I've pushed them as a tweener-leaning heel unit. All the members have either a technical or brawling/striker background to make them a ground and pound esue unit. I signed Frankie Perez, Logan Wolfsbaine and Tsuneyo Yangimoto while adding TARO and Sugiyama to round them out.

[sneakybear]

<p>My thoughts on playing BHOTWG after having done a couple demo saves and started a save for a month (although I think I'm going to restart):</p><p> </p><p>

BHOTWG seem to be in a very interesting space, they've got a very deep decent Heavyweight core (Horri, Ino, Taira, Nakasawa, Senmatsu, etc.) nothing really stands out as "the top". There's no Kikkawa. There's no guy you can put against chopped chicken liver in the main event and still pull him to a decent rating. So you're going to be resigned to staying around your general pop level for the moment. I actually think BHOTWG is in a really good spot with the new mechanics. Tour shows allow you to try out your guys and figure out who really works and who doesn't. It's not totally clear from the handbook but I'm guessing the tours don't really increase your worker pop either? This would be unfortunate but just means that you absolutely NEED to plan ahead in terms of your big events. If Keith picks up pinfalls on every tour show, it means nothing if he gets pinned by a midcarder on the tour ending show. </p><p> </p><p>

But I think especially in the beginning, touring shows can be a good thing for your roster. Your roster is barren in terms of top talent and you could use a few months to make some money through Emperor's Choice and stand little chance of losing pop.</p><p> </p><p>

On first glance, the stables seem intriguing but there's some immediate problems if you want to book this similar to New Japan (which I like to). Very few stables have juniors and the ones that do mostly have them in tag teams. Further, Slaughterhouse is 3 people?! The first thing I'd do is add some juniors to stables. Further, NEO-X and NEO-Prime feels a little gimmicky especially because Taira is not your strongest worker but that's just my personal feelings, there's ripe ground to merge them.</p><p> </p><p>

One of BHOTWG's biggest weaknesses is its starting youth talent pool. Not to beat around the bush, it sucks. Definitely a top priority is upgrading your dojo as well as signing some good youth talent. Razan Okamoto is available although Masa Kurata is unfortunately not at the start because you're at war with WLW. But with 8.5m in the bank, you should be able to buy them out easily if they run into financial trouble. </p><p> </p><p>

Further, there's not a clear heir to Kikkawa for the ace of the company. Horri is 38 and while fine in-ring for your current size, only has 74 SQ and surely cannot carry this company. Matthew Keith is a solid option if you're not fussed about having a gaijin as your ace. But it's not clear from day 1 who if anyone can become the ace of BHOTWG on this roster.</p><p> </p><p>

Finally, I'd add dates to the BOSJ tour (6 days for what most people will probably run as a round robin tournament?!), Add a G1-type tournament for heavyweights (I've been thinking this at Sword of Destiny with the finals), and finally push the hell out of Helikaon and Matthew Keith. </p><p> </p><p>

In terms of starting booking, Horri can basically feud with any of the faction leaders or even Sakai. Over time, you'll probably want to put the title onto one of them and push Keith to the title. In the junior division, you are stacked. Sensational Dragon is only 34, Emerald Angel is an absolute monster, Elemental III is only 32, Helikaon is only 28!!!</p><p> </p><p>

Ultimately, BHOTWG is in a good spot. They've got a ton of money and some good pieces especially in the junior division. But their heavyweight main event scene lacks star power and it's up to you whether you take what you've got in the non-Japanese talent (Keith, Helikaon eventually?) or you pick off Japanese talent (Okamoto, Kurata if WLW goes under). Regardless, I think it's an incredibly interesting challenge.</p>

[Jon The GOAT]

<p>In my continued exploration of trying out different companies, I decided to give BHOTWG a shot. Im not sure if this file is official or just me testing it out yet. </p><p> </p><p>

Broadcasting: Opened two broadcasters with tiny worldwide broadcasting, one is subscription (tour highlights) one is PPV (big shows). I will invest in them whenever I hit the break even number on subs.</p><p> </p><p>

Development: Hinote Dojo Ressurection is alive & well. </p><p> </p><p>

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Clearly I wasnt very nationalistically inclined. We're looking for the next face of BHOTWG and that was the priority of this signing spree. Going forward I will make sure that the company is filled with our graduates and not a ton of foreigners. One thing I love about 2020 is I can immediately tell if someone is ready to get moved to the main roster. If they can get performances as well as my lower cards, they can get on our tours.</p><p> </p><p>

I've also upgraded dojo facilities to their max for maximal amount of grads. I'll be raising training to 100% soon enough enough too. </p><p> </p><p>

I will probably have a BHOTWG-USA & Hinote Dojo USA once I have the funds to invest in it. </p><p> </p><p>

--</p><p> </p><p>

Roster wise: obviously the big issue with BHOTWG is a lack of heir to Kikkawa. I dont really have a solution to that yet. Im willing to bet both Helikaon & Matthew Keith are good enough to headline with a push but I dont want to rush into that. I'll tell you though that I have a hard time not seeing Keith headlining NOTBH in 2021. Right now, I think its likely Horri vanquishes Time Decline Hiroaki one last time.</p><p> </p><p>

Here's some tiny plotlines that occured to me:</p><p>

Sensation Dragon & Elemental III are competing for their 5th BOSJ</p><p>

BHOTWG Japan needs to be established, who will do it?</p><p>

Race for 8 JHW title reigns: the big four juniors have 3+ each. Helikaon & Kuroki have had their first reigns this year. But I think Helikaon will move on before he gets anywhere close & tbh one one of the big fours breaks the reign count, Id want to avoid having someone else do it. I prefer to have long & quality reigns.</p><p>

Race for 6 World title reigns: Horri has 5, Nakasawa has 4. Can one of them topple Kikkawa's record. Same thing with above where this is the last time a wrestler will hit that many reigns if im in charge.</p><p>

Emerald Angel vs. the Junior division: Arguably the best figurehead contender on your roster, he's debuted recently, hes gotta compete with the four pillars of juniors now.</p><p>

A few guys are looking for their first world title reigns: Heihachiro Sakai, Yasunobu Masuno (and hes running out of time), Matthew Keith. These are the guys most in line for me. Gakusha has an outsiders chance.</p><p>

Senmatsu has to kill everything. I think he's worth pushing and establishing as one of your top workers & stables.</p><p> </p><p>

I know people hate Neo X & Neo Prime & I'd slot Slaughterhouse right in there. Havent yet decided what I'll do with all the stables. Golden Army & Senmatsu-gun are safe af because I like them. The main three stables will have to change. I never booked Neo like Bullet Club, I always booked them like LIJ but BHOTWG have gone full BC in 2020. WE will see what happens here but obviously Neo & Slaughterhouse probably arent destined for much. </p><p> </p><p>

Schedule wise: I havent decided what Ill do yet. The only appeal for tour shows is i dont have to put in any effort. I can toss in everyone on my roster who is healthy, and not care about grades at all. You cannot gain pop on tour shows with BHOTWG so theres no sense in wasting top matches here either. I will say Im 100% going to book the BOSJ and whatever G1 I come up with as either lesser or normal intent shows. </p><p> </p><p>

Anyways, BHOTWG is a cool company.</p>

[PW_Fandom]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Jon The GOAT" data-cite="Jon The GOAT" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47504" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Any plan's for the Golden Canvas boy's? maybe bring Mabuchi Furusawa in and really get behind him as the heir to the GCG with an axe to grind... looks pretty decent a year into my game.</p><p> </p><p> <span>http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7447&stc=1&d=1590174783</span></p><p> </p><p> Also I did back-2-back normal events for my G1 style tournament, 19 events (18 cards+final) in total just like the real thing and it killed my viewership from 500k down to sub 100k views, sure it made money but there is a penalty to it.</p><p><a class="ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image" href="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2020_05/Screenshot_2.jpg.3b37383cee1fd70938d95bc7e6a57071.jpg" data-fileid="3687" data-fileext="jpg" rel=""><img data-fileid="3687" class="ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed" alt="Screenshot_2.thumb.jpg.f636253aea2a4c97dc0c2285800aff23.jpg" data-src="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2022_08/Screenshot_2.thumb.jpg.f636253aea2a4c97dc0c2285800aff23.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></a></p>

[CGN91]

<p>BHOTWG will be my first save this year. I think they're are in a very interesting spot with Kikkawa no more and back to touring again. Yea touring is the key word, because i won't tour anymore. I tried some stuff out with the whole "tour, lesser & normal" show stuff and i came to the following that i will be doing lesser shows with a normal show at the end of the tour because you gain a lot of more money than with a tour show. You can also do two broadcaster out of Japan when they share content, so you make even more money. My first thought was to be very accurate in doing touring:</p><p> </p><p>

Shows outside of the big cities (Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo, Yokohama etc.) would be lesser shows to run smaller title challenges there. Just like a Korakuen Hall main event type of show. Your average tour stops in Togane, Kuki or Kofu are the tour or throwaway shows. I love to go in detail and only do bigger matches in bigger cities or on bigger shows. You won't see a tag match in freaking' Tsushima or Kofu, only get six man or more.</p><p> </p><p>

Tournaments like BOSJ or a G1/Carny should all be normals, because they will all be broadcast. I would definetly add a Heavyweight Round Robin tournament to Burning Hammer , it adds so much more. Okay just read PW_Fandom comments about his G1 style tourney, dammit..</p><p> </p><p>

I'm going with JON regarding development and expanding stuff. When i got the money i will definetly try to expand to the States and the rest of the world. A Burning World on-demand service is also a main thing to do imo, we've got 2020 man let us be the first ones with a wrestling sub service.</p><p> </p><p>

Tbh i don't care about a heir to Kikkawa right away, i like the aspect that you have try & error. Yes i love me some great grades, but i also like that you can do a wrong decision regarding of title matches and stuff. It adds a cool layer and is even more realistic. I think Yasunobu Masuno is destined to be a one time champion, so i can see him doing a Makabe/Nakanishi type of title win just as a gift because he's a loyal asset to our company. I like Keith but i would love to have an equal nihon main player , too. My go-2-guy is still Razan Okamoto , but not in the first years obviously.</p><p> </p><p>

I don't like the stables , besides the invading Senmatsu-gun and Golden Army. I think we will go full Dragon Gate and will do some disbanding matches or a betrayal here and there. Decades ago they did so many betrayals, even in NJPW, that stables dissapeared and appeared in weeks. I know the NEO split is fresh to the database but i don't care that much. I also can see a RATEL's type of reunion with Masuda and Taira. The stables definetly needs some Jrs as well!</p>

[Jon The GOAT]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="PW_Fandom" data-cite="PW_Fandom" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47504" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Any plan's for the Golden Canvas boy's? maybe bring Mabuchi Furusawa in and really get behind him as the heir to the GCG with an axe to grind... looks pretty decent a year into my game.<p> </p><p> Also I did back-2-back normal events for my G1 style tournament, 19 events (18 cards+final) in total just like the real thing and it killed my viewership from 500k down to sub 100k views, sure it made money but there is a penalty to it.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Will check out Furusawa for sure. Would be great to have a true leader to the Golden Army. Funakoshi is my favorite CVerse guy as well so I may bring him in and give him a huge push.</p><p> </p><p> Could you give me more info on what you did for the tournament? What kind of broadcaster did you air the shows on? </p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="CGN91" data-cite="CGN91" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47504" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>BHOTWG will be my first save this year. I think they're are in a very interesting spot with Kikkawa no more and back to touring again. Yea touring is the key word, because i won't tour anymore. I tried some stuff out with the whole "tour, lesser & normal" show stuff and i came to the following that i will be doing lesser shows with a normal show at the end of the tour because you gain a lot of more money than with a tour show. You can also do two broadcaster out of Japan when they share content, so you make even more money. My first thought was to be very accurate in doing touring:<p> </p><p> Shows outside of the big cities (Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo, Yokohama etc.) would be lesser shows to run smaller title challenges there. Just like a Korakuen Hall main event type of show. Your average tour stops in Togane, Kuki or Kofu are the tour or throwaway shows. I love to go in detail and only do bigger matches in bigger cities or on bigger shows. You won't see a tag match in freaking' Tsushima or Kofu, only get six man or more.</p><p> </p><p> Tournaments like BOSJ or a G1/Carny should all be normals, because they will all be broadcast. I would definetly add a Heavyweight Round Robin tournament to Burning Hammer , it adds so much more.</p><p> </p><p> I'm going with JON regarding development and expanding stuff. When i got the money i will definetly try to expand to the States and the rest of the world. A Burning World on-demand service is also a main thing to do imo, we've got 2020 man let us be the first ones with a wrestling sub service.</p><p> </p><p> Tbh i don't care about a heir to Kikkawa right away, i like the aspect that you have try & error. Yes i love me some great grades, but i also like that you can do a wrong decision regarding of title matches and stuff. It adds a cool layer and is even more realistic. I think Yasunobu Masuno is destined to be a one time champion, so i can see him doing a Makabe/Nakanishi type of title win just as a gift because he's a loyal asset to our company. I like Keith but i would love to have an equal nihon main player , too. My go-2-guy is still Razan Okamoto , but not in the first years obviously.</p><p> </p><p> I don't like the stables , besides the invading Senmatsu-gun and Golden Army. I think we will go full Dragon Gate and will do some disbanding matches or a betrayal here and there. Decades ago they did so many betrayals, even in NJPW, that stables dissapeared and appeared in weeks. I know the NEO split is fresh to the database but i don't care that much. I also can see a RATEL's type of reunion with Masuda and Taira. The stables definetly needs some Jrs as well!</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I think I'll have to sit down today and try to figure out a more concrete schedule before I really get settled into the game, and try and incorporate locations more. I'm not crazy familiar with Japanese geography so it'll be a learning experience. I think I'll mostly stick to making sure Im mimicking NJPW's schedule. </p><p> </p><p> I understand the dislike for NEO after some thought. There's really no direction to go with it. Taira/Ino/Masuno were never big enough that them splitting into three factions would be an attractive direction to take it. Each of the three stables just feel like they're not working towards anything.</p><p> </p><p> My reluctance with Keith/Helikaon & most of the guys I signed to development is just that, I still prefer to have a largely Japanese core. Im hoping that I'll find some gem in one of my graduates to treat like the second coming of Kikkawa.</p>

[CGN91]

 

Anyone got something like that before? First day of the save.

[a0161613]

Seems like a narrative, I see that regularly. Sometimes it's the Golden Lions though.

[CGN91]

Okay so i fight me through some names and stable tangle to bulk up the stables a bit. I signed bunch of guys and i wanted to give you a tiny overview what i did the first couple of weeks. It's just a test save i will go further into a BHOTWG save in a few days or weeks.

 

Stables

 

NEO Prime - New Stablesmates are Helikaon, Crimson Ghost, VENOM & Yoshii Shiomi

 

NEO X - New is Razan Okamoto

 

Senmatsu-gun - New is Tsuneyo Yanagimoto

 

SlaughterHouse - New are Azumamaro Kita, Fujio Narahashi, Pavel Vanzycha, Takenori Doi, Chomei Sugiyama & Frankie Perez

 

Golden Army - New are SUKI & Mabuchi Furusawa

 

The Hontai Unit got some new faces in Kyuichi Matsumoto, James Diaz, Logan Wolfsbaine (Diaz), BISON Yano & Brute Kikuchi (not sure where i should move them atm)

 

I don't like VENOM & Shiomi in NEO Prime, but i also did not see them in the Hontai. The big Junior stars are also all Hontai, cuz i can't see one of them in a stable atm. Definetly when NEO & co. are dead, but not for now.

 

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BHOTWG The Burning Path V: 30,000 Fans @ Kanagawa Stadium

 

1. Helikaon & Ghost defeated Hiraki & Kaima in 8:56 when Helikaon pinned Masakazu Kaima with a Tune Up The Sunshine Band. [67]

2. Senmatsu-gun (Tsuneyo Yanagimoto, Ieyoshi Shimakage and Toju Munkata) defeated SlaughterHouse (Frankie Perez, Pavel Vanzycha and Takenori Doi) in 10:38 when Ieyoshi Shimakage pinned Takenori Doi with a Package Piledriver. [59]

3. The Golden Army (Toshiharu Hyobanshi, Hiroyasu Gakusha, Mabuchi Furusawa and Takayuki 2000) defeated The God Butchers and Yano & Kikuchi in 11:36 when Mabuchi Furusawa submitted Brute Kikuchi with a Furusawa Armbar. [61]

4. Rebel Run X defeated Shiomi & VENOM in 18:27 when Jin Miyamoto pinned Yoshii Shiomi with a Boosted Senton. Rebel Run X make defence number six of the BHOTWG Junior Heavyweight Tag Team titles. [64]

5. NEO Prime (Tatsuya Toshitara, Matthew Keith and Koshiro Ino) defeated NEO-X (Razan Okamoto, Ryushi Sato and Yasuhiko Taira) in 13:19 when Koshiro Ino pinned Razan Okamoto with a Kobra's Bite. [65]

6. SlaughterHouse (Azumamaro Kita, Fujio Narahashi and Yasunobu Masuno) defeated Murai Enomoto, Taro Shionoya and Gonkuro Kamioka in 13:14 when Yasunobu Masuno submitted Murai Enomoto with a Day Of Rackening. [60]

7. Michio Gensai defeated Atsumori Takemura in 20:28 by pinfall with an Avalance Spike Slam [67]

8. Sensational Dragon defeated Elemental III in 19:52 by pinfall with a Sensation Shock. Sensational Dragon makes defence number two of the BHOTWG Junior Heavyweight Championship title. [79]

9. TadaNaka defeated The Killing Floor in 16:16 when Hiroaki Nakasawa pinned Nissho Yuasa with a H-Bomb. TadaNaka win the BHOTWG World Tag Team titles. [70]

10. Kinnojo Horri defeated Heihachiro Sakai in 22:01 by pinfall with a Destiny Bomb. Kinnojo Horri makes defence number four of the BHOTWG World Championship title. [82]

 

OR: 74

 

I did the same as JON and created a On-Demand service and made good money after the first tour with over 2 Mio. Dollar.

So it was a pain in the a-- to do the show. I'm not familiar with BHOTWG and with all the fresh faces it was hard to book the undercard. Senmatsu god injured within the tour, so he wasn't available. I tend to do a disbanding match asap with NEO, i think at FDOTI in March. In April there will be my Burning Carnival my big Heavyweight round robin tournament. No plans yet, like i said i definetly will do a new save in a few weeks.

 

I think Yasunobu Masuno will win the big title in the year to get a "You were so loyal to us" aka a Nakanishi-esque run with the belt.

[Kobashi]

I wasn't to keen on the touring schedule because booking 6-8 meaningless shows (which takes some time regardless of importance) before having one real show is not an enjoyable ratio for me.

 

I like the idea of having unimportant shows in a tour to develop minor talent.

 

So what I ended up with is: I reactivated the TV show and left two of the tour shows and deactivated the other tour shows.

Show now there are ~six shows between monthly events with two of them beeing touring shows and four are televised.

 

It feels more realistic to advance storylines etc. in a TV show.

Did anyone do something similar?

 

As for storylines:

I started a war between the two NEO factions. It ended with Taira losing a match with Ino that forced him to disband his stable but Sakai won the World Title from Horri the same night.

 

Sakai will start his own stable while Taira will join the Slaughterhouse.

[Jon The GOAT]

Started a serious game with BHOTWG. Dont feel like making my life complicated so basically sticking really close to an NJPW type schedule.

 

 

Fan Festival type show. Mostly veterans against young lions ft. freelancer Fugunaga coming by & Ninja Shunji vs. Crimson Ghost having a showdown.

 

 

Nakasawa/Angel was a special match with Nakasawa wanting to team with the new arrival Nakasawa got the pin here.

 

Gave the titles to the Golden Army boys because I dont like Saito & Yuasa also turns out they have bad chemistry & Yuasa is in TD.

 

Ino beat Keith in a kayfabe end of a US title tournament. Ino is in time decline which sucks but is whatever since I had no big plans for him.

 

Sensational beats the other members of the four pillars in a four way junior match because why not, lets have fun.

 

Senmatasu beats Gensai to win his first title in four years with BHOTWG. He's going to hold otno the Japan title for at least a year but possibly more and establish that belt.

 

Horri beats Tadayuki 2000. Tadayuki 2000 isnt in TD so he might actually get a world title reign since I want a GCG guy to get one. Its either he gets it or hold out for SUKI/Furusawa some years later.

 

 

Wanted to test out The God Butchers but they've got bad tag chem. They used to be my favorite guys to try and push but Im not sure if ill even bother with BHOTWG. I might cut them loose and just find someone else to use.

 

NEO Prime won the 6-man tag titles. It'll keep Matthew Keith busy for a bit.

 

Masuno beats Taira. I had considered letting Taira win but I want Masuno to win the BHOTWG World title by this time next year and Taira is in TD so why not give Masuno the win.

 

Emerald Angel beats Helikaon & Kurobi in a special challenge. Helikaon & Kurobi who have had a reign each already felt they deserved a shot at the highly reputed junior. Kurobi takes the pin, mr. Time Decline.

 

Sakai faced Ino. Sakai had claimed he didnt trust the result of the tournament if it was a finals between two stable members so Ino ended up taking on Sakai. Sakai wins. Was going to have Ino keep the belt but hes in TD and obviously Ive got to prepare Sakai for his eventual title run in like a year or two. So first US title reign last a day but it's fine.

 

Buddy Garner defeated Hiroaki Nakasawa for the new Blue Rhino King of Fighters. Match got dinged for selling but it's all good.

 

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This is our schedule for the next little while. I've got a few plans cemented already.

 

I want the BOSJ to go to Marihito Masuko next so he can get tied for 4th, then MYSTIC Dragon will finally win it but win it 4X and finally Sensational Dragon will break the four way tie between the pillars to get his 5th.

 

Elemental III's accomplishment will be beating Optimus's 8 title reigns. The goal will be to keep Emerald Angel strong while I'm giving those other guys their glory.

 

BHOTWG Title wise I know I want Nakasawa to get his 5th reign to tie Horri & Kikkawa, I want Masuno to finally get his first reign even if he isn't very good, if Tadayuki is good enough I'd then like him to get a reign on behalf of the Golden Army and finally I'd like Horri to have his final reign 6th reign to surpass Kikkawa. After that I can move on to whoever is ready, likely Sakai or Keith.

 

I'd like to build Senmatsu up into being my next real dominant BHOTWG World Champion.

 

Obviously I'll be bringing in Furusawa & SUKI at some point & Im keeping an eye out on SAISHO/WLW/BCG guys. I'd love to grab Kobe & Kurata to join Emerald Angel in a war with the pillars.

 

Fun game. Hope I can keep it going. I'd love to at least see through my mini BOSJ plans.

[Hashasheen]

@ JON - Is there anyone you're looking at that's a homegrown guy to push from the ground up? BHOTWG this iteration around seems really more of a WCW-WWE company where they're just buying talent to push without a lot of homegrown stars.

[MikeSc]

In my game BHOTWG changed to "Respectful Wrestling" Product in late 2020. Still waiting to see how that turns out.

[Jon The GOAT]

@ JON - Is there anyone you're looking at that's a homegrown guy to push from the ground up? BHOTWG this iteration around seems really more of a WCW-WWE company where they're just buying talent to push without a lot of homegrown stars.

 

I think it would be pretty awesome for one of the day one young lions to grow talented enough to become a World Champion and considering Im willing to give mediocre Masuno a reign, I'll be willing to give one of these not very impressive young lions eventually too.

 

At a glance, guys I can see going on to win the world title that I feel like are BHOTWG guys: Masuno, Sakai, Toshitara (may not count since hes not a true born), Munkata/Yamura, Gensai (not classified as true born but basically is), Hiraki.

 

Its much too early to really judge the young lions but Im going to make sure one of Bandai, Minamino (who has 80SQ and can go up 3 weight classes), Nakayama, Tomonaga, Yunokawa, &/or Hara eventually win the big one.

 

These are just guys who I think have the potential at a glance. Masuno/Sakai are lock. The rest depends on their development. And obviously we might get lucky with Hinote Dojo generating studs though I hear a lot of negativity about regens :/

 

To me an ideal goal would be to make one of the starting Young Lions an eventual world champ and one of the Hinote Dojo gens an eventual world champ.

 

In my game BHOTWG changed to "Respectful Wrestling" Product in late 2020. Still waiting to see how that turns out.

 

When I was considering just doing a North American based puro game I was going to go with Respectful Wrestling. I prefer the larger than life/showmanship aspect of Classic Mainstream Puro though. I kinda want a product with slightly more focus on in ring (65 like Respectful Wrestling) but also more appreciation for characters & willingness to lean on SE stuff from time to time. I feel like that would mirror NJPW a tad more.

[Jon The GOAT]

Double post.

 

 

New Year Dash! style show. The attendance level bothers me but w/e. It was a lesser event.

 

Ino gets a title challenge against Horri set up. Taira is basically just a loss post. He's had plenty of reigns but at this point he's in TD. I dont think he should expect anything else in terms of accomplishment outside a 6-man or tag team title run with Masuno.

 

Lethal RING was formed because that was the first logo I saw and its not really meant to be a long term stable anyways. Gargantuan & Prometheus have bad chemistry so they'll be splitting up at some point. Billy Russell will end up challenging Sensational Dragon for a title shot.

 

PUNK Nasty Club are my Junior Tag Aces so gotta keep them strong.

 

Team Toshusai got the 3 man win so they can be the next challenges to those 6-man tag titles.

 

Opener was just a way to use my juniors tbh. I wasnt sure if theyd all get mad for missing the show or not.

 

I took off Left Off Show complaints officially. I like to play with as many rules on as possible but I feel like they can be pretty detrimental to a puro-style game. Crowd management (I like a reverse-pyramid style booking where matches get bigger & bigger), Burn Out (I dont want to start shitting on all my main events because I went over 3hrs), Left Off Show. The left off show is largely because I'll be doing a ton of things like Fantastica Mania and what not where I'll be letting my main guys largely rest or shows in the US where I want to simulate one group of people traveling in the states while the other is in Japan.

 

I could come up with ways to work around it in game. Sending everyone on vacation, building temporary brands and making shows brand designated. But the mechanics for doing all these things in the game are incredibly tedious & time consuming and I want to book more not spend all my time just organizing and working around it. I feel comfortable with my other TCW game knowing that given the desire I can play with everything on so BHOTWG will be a bigger focus on simulating what I hope is an interesting NJPW rip-off.

 

I've brought in about 16 guys from CILL on 1 month handshake deals for my Ultimo Wrestling Series. I will be bringing the impressive ones back for Burning J Cup in August as well as the Junior Tag League in October.

 

I think the roster is desperately lacking in veteran presences to work with the young lions so I'll be considering that. The GCG guys + Ino/Taira are aging out so I think in two years they'll be my guys working the undercard.

 

Anyways, Ultimo Wrestling Series should be chill. It's an interesting experiment to see how itll work out both for CILL & myself. Ideally I would also love to set up at least a mini 2-3 show tour in each spot of the world. USA/Canada/UK/Australia are all basically set thanks to the default NJPW schedule but Mexico/India/Europe aren't.

 

I forgot to mention I opened the Warrior Globe streaming service. At first I felt bad about eating my PPV buys but from my understanding, NJPW doesnt really use PPVs in Japan and it's not like money is ever a struggle in TEW so I just let it be. I only use PPV for the normal events I think are valuable enough. Im trying to really balance out touring/throwaway/lesser/normal and not overuse normal.

 

EDIT:

 

Finished up Ultimo Wrestling Series.

 

MVPs were probably Tigre & Aztec but they all capped out around the same spot once their pop got to about 17 which is as much as it would reach doing tour shows. I had to work around their unimportant perception and do a lot of shorter matches or at times risk overuse pen for technical masterclass type matches. Its unfortunate that I cant do the workaround for a pen that's absolutely nonsensical (I dont mind pens but this is easily the worst one in the game and doesnt make sense) but it is what it is.

 

No stories were moved forward, I just wanted to use as many CILL guys as possible alongside some of the guys on the roster who tend to be underutilized. I signed up Monday Next on a handshake deal just to help him gain some pop & get hired elsewhere in Japan. I also brought in Sojuro Sen since he was unemployed. I have no intention of pushing either guy. They'll be wrestling in the undercard mostly. Not protecting them at all.

 

Next up is the Road to Everlasting Mission. We'll be having our first shows in the US on that tour as well. At the very least the Ultimo Wrestling Series will have helped us build a bit of US pop so we're not going in completely unknown but Im sure those wont be very pretty shows all things considered.

 

Plans for this tour:

 

Road to Everlasting Mission (any tour show)

Blue Rhino Openweight 6-Man Tag Team: Matthew Keith, Tatsuya Toshitara & Michio Gensai vs. Tadakuni Toshusai, Taro Shionoya & Murai Enomoto -- The latter won a match at Lords of the Ring to set this up but theyll get a few more wins before this

 

Everlasting Mission in US

BHOTWG USA: Heihachiro Sakai vs. Matthew Keith -- Keith lost to Ino and would have faced Sakai at NOTBH if he'd won. Plus he's American, so.

 

Everlasting Mission in Sapporo

BHOTWG Junior Heavyweight Tag Team: Hijo Del Relampago & Jin Miyamoto vs. -- Havent decided yet actually. The tag divisions are taking a small backseat while I still find my way around the game. I wanted to see if one of the CILL pairings might be good enough and I might still go that route.

BHOTWG Tag Team: Toshiharu Hyobanshi & Namboku Makuda vs. Nissho Yuasa & Hirokumi Saito -- rematch before I blow this team apart

BHOTWG Japan: Munemitsu Senmatsu vs. Michio Gensai -- rematch

 

Everlasting Mission in Osaka

BHOTWG Junior Heavyweight: Sensational Dragon vs. Billy Russell - Solid challenge though Im sure the fans will be missing the pillars or Angel as a challenger

BHOTWG World Heavyweight: Kinnojo Horri vs. Koshiro Ino - set up from Lords of the Ring. Horri defends and Ino gets his arguably last shot at the belt.

 

Coastal Clash (teaming up with CZCW for this)

Blue Rhino Openweight 6-Man Tag Team: Matthew Keith, Tatsuya Toshitara & Michio Gensai -- to be decided, possibly against come CZCW guys

Blue Rhino King of Fighters: Buddy Garner vs. -- will face a CZCW guy

BHOTWG Tag Team: Toshiharu Hyobanshi & Namboku Makuda vs. Gargantuan & Prometheus -- going to blow up God Butchers after this with that negative chem

 

Decent stuff to look forward to here but the fun fun stuff will be when we do the Quest of Heart Single-Elimination tournament.

[229tman]

Im think of adding a couple of more tournaments to the BHOTWG calander but I can't decide where they should go. First I have the Burning Cup, think New Japan Cup single elimination Tournament. Next is Kitozan Memorial League, think G1 winner gets shot at Night of the Burning Tag Cup, Finally is the the Ichihara Tag League, think world tag league

[pate]

That's similar to what I've been doing, but I called it the BH Cup because Burning Cup sounds like something you should see a doctor for.

[CGN91]

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TEW 2020 is my fourth TEW game (i don't count the old EWR ones) and i never ever had such less playing time with the default database than this year. My WCG dynasty (which i convert from 2016 to this one and is currently in mid 2018 in-game) is the only game i had so far in TEW 2020 in Japan, which is confusing because i'm a huge puroresu fan. </p><p> </p><p>

I absolutely loved JON's postings and maybe i'm going to update the thread from time to time with my save. Anyway i don't have the time to think about Burning Hammer for hours so it will be a NJPW ripp-off i think. I liked JON's idea with an Fantasticamania ripp-off, so i'm going to do the same. I created a G1 type of tournament in August (Burning Carnival), the winner will have a title match at NOTBH i guess.</p>