Comments on: The Complete RPS Cup: A Season In Hell

By: Malibu Stacey

Malibu Stacey — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:50:26 +0000

I really want to buy this game having read Kieron’s match reports with vicious enthusiasm (yes vicious) but I think I’ll wait for this ultra-mega patch which keeps beeing talked about in revered tones (the one thats supposed to bring some new teams & fix all the problems in the game and bring peace on earth and goodwill to all men).

By: Weevil

Weevil — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:20:48 +0000

These articles were some of the best games journalism I have read this year.

Sold me a copy of the game.

By: ids

ids — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:40:37 +0000

Well at least your doing better than my chaos team we so far 1win 1tie and 1 lost dam elfs

By: Janek

Janek — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:35:12 +0000

18, off the top of my head.

I’m wondering as much as you. The opening half dozen matches or so were really tough – I think 3-4 deaths and a fair number of serious injuries – but having a decent fan factor, the fact that I managed to keep pulling off the results, and the free journeyman line-elves just about kept me on my feet long enough to get established.

Admittedly things might’ve been quite different if the rolls had gone against me a bit more, or if Hentzau had developed a taste for blood in previous seasons.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:45:35 +0000

Re: Funky Badger. I enjoyed the wikipedia page about First-Move-Advantage Controversy.

By: Swanny

Swanny — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:49:23 +0000

Thanks for the great reads.
Definitely sold me a copy of Blood Bowl (as soon as I settle into Aion…)

By: Sunjammer

Sunjammer — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:11:24 +0000

I played a match against an evenly matched Wood Elf team. 6-1 to me, and i wound up actually killing *four* of his guys, including 2 wardancers. It was an absolute bloodbath.

The game can really seem succeptible to favoritism at times. I’m not sure i deserved much of it. It started with him scoring while i concentrated on making his scoring as slow as possible while i just systematically gang-blocked and fouled as much as possible. I wound up with two players shown out, but he played the second half with something like 4 players on the field, which against a team with 4 gutter runners and 2 stormvermin still running around is an absolutely dreadful prospect.

The last match really made me wonder how Janek’s elves could still be as intact as they were, when a bunch of fairly generic skaven could wreak such unholy havoc on an elf team. How many matches has that team played?

By: Bookiegnu

Bookiegnu — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:56:34 +0000

Thanks again Kieron for these reports. They convinced me to buy the game despite not having played the TT since about ’93. Turns out I’m still just as bad as it as back then, and turns out I still enjoy it just as much, despite being badly beaten.

The ‘Ork Chops FTW!

By: Adam Bloom

Adam Bloom — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:34:12 +0000

He was making a silly joke.

Or, to put it another way, wooosh.

By: Funky Badger

Funky Badger — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:27:34 +0000

Chess is played to the clock, so there is a time element already – not what you meant though…

Tei: Chess is exactly “You go first, you win”. Black only wins when white makes a mistake. Black only draws when white makes a mistake…

By: Blurr

Blurr — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:36:53 +0000

I congratulate you on a series of very good articles on the back of which actually I actually spent money on this game. (playing with lizardmen in single player so far cos im not that good any tips?)

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:49:26 +0000

Blitz isn’t real time. Blitz allows you a bunch of additional options. One of those options is real time, but there’s no reason you have to turn it on (and indeed I never have). Blitz allows you to add extended inducements (reminiscent of some of the old cards under 3e), for example. It includes a lot of peculiar options, but I usually play turn based Blitz mode SP with extended inducements, doping, and the like on just to have a more 3e feel for the game.