Jack Reacher

Congrats canucks357(Goderich Goblins) on your first Howitzer GHL Championship!

AYY Your team came up clutch and won the second game...and now you are one win away from the Finals!!! Good Luck!

I hate my team. LOL. I thought the year would go great since I got some of my key veterans returning, but all it did was just sink me in 16th early on. It took me 10 games to actually get out of 16th only to be stuck in 15th for 5-8 games. I stayed mediocre for the rest of the season then my team finally woke up but it was too late. I made a playoff push and on the last day of games, I beat my opponent 5-2, which I thought would seal my playoff hopes, but no I lost out the #8 seed to another team that had a goal differential of +4 and I had +3. It was quite disappointing and quite upsetting since this was my second time of not making playoffs in franchise history. I just wanted to share my story...BE Prepared no matter how good you think your team is! Good Luck to all teams in playoffs and everyone BE PREPARED, I WILL BE BACK! lol

Well it looks like the age factor of the game has caught up to me. I am trading everyone away except Kadura who is untouchable. In return for these high overall players I have, I need atleast 1 prospect(88+ overall and less than 20 years old) and a draft pick. The asking price is steep because these players can make an impact on your team instantly. Any team that cannot afford that price please message me to find out what type of trade we can negotiate. ALL TEAMS MUST message me before offering, if teams don't I will most likely ignore your offer. Thanks and let those messages come in!

In my experience changing the training hasn't done much if the player is a consistent player that gets injured. Go to a player's individual stats and check how many games he has played in each season and based off of that determine if he gets injured or not. like 5-10 games injured is fine like once every 5 seasons or something, but if it's more frequent then I suggest either trading him while he still has value or having a backup to play his role since he will probably get hurt. One thing that has worked for me is changing the tactics. I used to play on hard and players would get injured left right and center, so I decided to to play around with those tactics for one season. For every 20 games, I switched up the tactics each time(one time "Hard", next "Dirty", and so on). From that correlation I determined player injuries had something to do with those tactics. From that experiment, I learned that more injuries occur in "Dirty" tactic, then "Hard", then "Normal", then "Fair", and then "Safe". My team had 0 injuries when playing in Fair and Safe. Hope this helped.

Say you are selecting #5 and you want the #5 guy, but a team ahead of you has chosen him with their first. Then the computer will shift your first round pick down to the next player that is ranked behind the guy you wanted. So if you have #5 pick, but #5 guy is taken, but the next guy in line is #10(assume you want him), but his bar is set to any pick; the computer will select him with the first round pick, as long as he is higher than the guy that you want to select with your second round pick. This is one of the reasons, I personally automatically shortlist the players I want ahead of me so I don't miss out on them if a team decides to take someone else. This ensure I don't miss out on a valuable prospect and if they do get chose, I will still have my pick in the first round. Hopefully that clears things up.

well i got destroyed in playoffs

So Draft preferences help you to order your picks and prospects you want. So basically if you have the first overall pick, if the draft preferences are not selected, the computer will automatically take your #1 pick, but if you do have a preference, select the player you want and then go horizontally across to a drop down bar which is set to any pick. Change that to one of the drop down options, which will be "first round pick", "second round pick", or "third round pick". This ensures that the prospect you want will be chose n with the right pick. But also remember to set draft preferences to "use shortlist over rank", so the computer chooses from the players you want instead of the ranked ones in the draft. Hopefully that helped.

Please don't destroy me. lol. Good Luck the rest of the way and into the playoffs!

There will always be that tough decision between going for the cup or staying low enough to get a top 5 pick. Since Howitzer is a fast paced world, I would risk dropping spots to gain a better prospect, but this year's draft is pretty disappointing to tank for. I would actually try to win in the playoffs so that your team can gain some reputation and so that players get used to playing in playoffs. Anyways Good Luck on the rest of the season, and possibly the playoffs if you choose to go for it!

It has worked for me, people have read this post and have been contacting me on offers for those players. The right one just hasn't come yet. im still waiting

In my experience, playing in the playoffs will give you more manager and team reputation which in turn will let you get high rated players for a cheaper price. Depending on the player, they can either grow a lot or stay stationary. I once had some guys jump from a 88 to a 90-91, but that was also the year I won the cup. Other years, they usually grow 1 overall or stay stationary. the pros of making the playoffs is gaining reputation and maybe a possible overall jump for some players. The cons of making the playoffs is that if you aren't a top team, you wont get every far and you lose a potential top 5 pick as you mentioned, but also there is the lack of fulfillment of not making the playoffs(wheather its exiting early or not making them at all). If the draft class is decent enough I would risk going into the playoffs, but since this years is a bit weaker than previous years, I would suggest playing younger players so they can "get used to" the big club and vs big league teams.

I am willing to trade my goaltender Sami Patton. He is 22 years old and 89 overall. In return i'm looking to get a good prospect goalie that is 87+ overall or a veteran goalie(27-33) that is 92+ overall.

Yeah that sounds like a great idea Gator...I missed out on soo many good picks because I thought since I will be in the playoffs it wont be good and traded them away. But they turned out to be top 10 picks which were very good in that specific draft. Seeing these odds and getting used to these odds can help me try and predict if i should trade picks or not.

Hey, just saw this post. I'm Jack, and I am the manager of the Palm Harbor Legends. I have been in game world Howitzer since its BETA days. I really enjoy how the game has evovled and meeting the new managers is great; in the beginning no other manages talked to each other a lot, but with new and great managers like Wick(New Castle, GHL) and Gator(Unity, GHL), and Jusu(Stony,GHL) the in game communication has improved and has been amazing....

CENTERS FOR SALE! I am looking to trade numerous centers on my team so I can finish my on-the-run rebuild. I am willing to trade Kenny Karas, Marco Mustoe, and Brendon Smiley. Karas has been a top line center on my team since he has joined my team. He is 30 years old, 94 overall and he has put up 30+ point seasons and had a breakout year last year and the year before. He is on a 1-way contract worth 3.2 million. Marco Mustoe,28 years old and 92 overall, has been a solid 3rd/4th line center for me since I have picked him up. In my opinion he is only a great defensive player. His offence is pretty low, but his defensive categories are off the charts. He has been a great asset on the PK, and for the second straight season he has had 0 giveaways. He is usually not injury prone, that being said he did miss 10 games this season with numerous injuries. Mustoe has a fairly decent contract at 4 years at 2.3 million(3 years left now) Brendon Smiley, 29 years old and 92 overall, has been a solid second line center both on 5 v 5 and on the 2nd PP. He has played 8 full seasons and he had 3 seasons riddled with injury, so he is very reliable to play the entire season. He is not much of a goal scorer but he does get a lot of assists. He also takes a lot of shots so he is bound to get a goal soon, he has 70 Powerplay points, 27 of which were goals. Smiley's contract in my opinion is a steal because i signed him to a 9 year 2.1 million deal(he is now on his last year of that contract). In return for one/all of these centers I would like to have some younger centers. I would say the 18-22 range and a minimum of 88 overall. Their traits should be majorly blue/green, if there are a couple that are red I will discuss this in our private message talks we will have in the game about the trade. I would like to perform this trade at the midpoint of the upcoming season so that I can base my situation on them, whether go full rebuild or to continue with them all the way until the season after. I'm looking forward to these trade offers via Private Messaging in the game. Thanks. JR

Hey guys, Im the manager of the Palm Harbor Legends in the GHL. This offer is to mainly GHL teams but SHL teams can also inquire about some prospect/two way players. I am willing to trade Forward Boris Durcik (24 years old 87 overall) and defencemen Max-Antoine Yusko (28 years old 95 overall). Durcik has a 1.5 mil x 3 year deal, and Yusko has 4.0 mil x 4 year contract. I have no room for Durcik on my team, but he would be a decent depth guy, maybe second or third line winger on GHL teams. He has a great takeaway to giveaway ratio(14:5 when he had 14 minutes of ice time). He can also help defensively has he averages around 22.5 blocked shots per season(last time he had good ice time, he finished with 42 hits and 32 blocked shots). Yusko on the other hand is very reliable defencemen. He has spent 9 seasons on my squad and has been solid chipping in offensively once in a while and being a great defensive player. In 513 career GHL games, he has 55 goals and 153 assists for a total of 208 points and he has a +/- rating of +50. Yusko hasn't been playing much time on the PP on my team so I play him mainly on the PK. Although if you were to put him on the PP he is very productive( he had 90 points in 3 seasons, which he spent around 3-4 minutes on the PP). In return all I ask for is draft picks(1st and 2nd round picks would be nice, but thirds are definetley not out of the question) or some good prospects(preferably 18-21 age range and atleast 85 overall). Please message me of a deal you want because i will reject every trade sent without consulting me first. Thanks. JR

Hey guys, I'm the manager of a ghl team and i was trying to sign into game plan and when it loaded the game was sent to a page saying runtime Error this morning. I thought it was a minor thing and would be fixed later, I tried to sign in now and it says runtime Error again. Help please. Am I the only one experiencing this or are other managers experiencing this too? Please get back to me. Thanks, JR

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sorry, I accidentally hit post, but I'm in the ghl of howitzer and I saw a manager just rage quit and trade all his good players away for basically garbage in some cases, and then he re-signed. I have tried to find him in other gm worlds and leagues but he hasn't show up, please keep an eye out for this manager. I'm not mad about the trades because I have a decent team like many others in the ghl, but it is disheartening to see a manager quit just because hes about to be relegated. Thanks. Thoughts on the issue? Have you experienced this in the past?

Hi,

I am the manager of the Palm Harbor Legends in the GHL, I received a very good offer from the manager of the Birnamwood Assassins. I had accepted this trade but after the simulation these players were no where to be seen. Can you get this trade to go through please and thanks.????

I am the manager of the Palm Harbor Legends, i was away for a week and this was during the re-sign and free agency stage of the sim. Before i left, i re-signed players and offered contracts to my prospects. when i returned, the assistant decided to sign veteran forwards and defencemen(one of them has a 4 year contract). The computer signing these players made me go over the cap by $3.5 million. I then proceeded to releasethese players so i can trade to get prospects and picks, 1/3 of these players had a 1 year contract,I accidentally released a computer signed player and his salary was like $1.75 million for 4 years, I cant afford to lose 1.75 million in cap for 3 more seasons. Is there something you can do or do i just have to deal with it? Please see to it quickly, thank you for reading this.

In the game world howitzer, I can't go to a goalie's player profile. It shows up as an error. Is this just happening to me or is it happening to everyone? Please look into this, Thank you.

In the near future, I would like this game to have an option where you can retain a players salary during a trade. Ex. if your over cap by like 500 000, you can click on the players contract or something and take 500 000 off of it. Another idea would be having managers to be able to give out conditional picks. Ex. a third conditional pick if the team makes the playoffs. These are some ideas that i thought of...It might be stupid, but it's something to think about for the future of this game.