Blood Bowl

[nadriel]

matgb got me playing my first game of Blood Bowl in ages. It may come as no surprise to anyone that knows me that I feileded an undead team, against his orcs
I won.

Now, this is moderately unusual in itself, although my tactic of knocking over players and then jumping on their heads until they were injured was quite effective. As was Mat's habit of screwing up dice rolls.

It's only when we got to the end of the first half (all we had time for), that we discovered, after counting the 4 injured/dead players and the 4 KO'd players of his, that he still had 4 remaining on the pitch. Which meant he'd actually fielded a team that had one too many players on the pitch. And still lost. Badly.

I shall now glee a little, at least until the next time he successfully one ups me :-)

Comments

[matgb]

*cough*

Worked for them for 11 years. Got the jacket ad everything. Never could stand AD&D. As for overpriced? If it really was, they wouldn't have gone nearly belly up nearly five times in the last 15 years. It's not that their stuff is overpriced, it's that the industry generally is full of amateurs covering their costs and having fun. But let's not go there...

Besides, Blood Bowl frequently gets an honorary pass as a non-GW game, even the haters will play it, no idea why.

[thinlizard.livejournal.com]

"If it really was, they wouldn't have gone nearly belly up nearly five times in the last 15 years!

Really?! I never knew that. I was just referring to the fact that they have the bollocks to now sell TWO miniatures for £8 when back in the mid to late 90's you could pick the same figues up for about £3. In financial trouble or not, they're still a big con and pretty bad value for money..IMO.

[connexion.livejournal.com]

That's it people... if I go to London/UK with some time, maybe I can take my goblin team and we can organize a mini-tournament...? ;)

5-6 players, 2-3 random games each, tally up scores, highest scoring teams fight a final.
1100000 per team, teams 'regenerate' fully after each game, one player per team being awarded a skill on each game and 2 skills (or one special skill) being alocated for the final.

Roughly speaking this is how our current league is being run. We have 5 players.

[thinlizard.livejournal.com]

That sounds greeeeeaaaaat! All I need now is that Lizardman team (w/ Kroxigor of course!) and i'll be ready to go! ; )