RPS Blood Bowl League - The RPS Open

[Screwie]

Dear Blood Bowl peoples!

I shall be falling off a mountain in Italy for the next seven days, apologies if this delays an orgy of fantasy sports based violence that you had planned to partake with me!

I shall be back saturday afternoon, (uk times).

Cheers!

Ah, okie doke then.

[LowKey]

Grinn and I played our game last night, with the orcs taking the win from my poor tired nurgle lads, i really felt the lack of a skilled players after last weeks bloodbath and while i got that special warrior man and a bribe from inducements he got sent off in turn 4 for fouling, so spent most of the match scrambeling defences, still a well deserved win for grinn, cheers pal!

[President Weasel]

Always use the cheapest man for fouling.

[LowKey]

Ah I know but he has dirty player with str 5, too tempting

[potatoedoughnut]

Str doesn't matter for fouling. In fact I'd say str 5 is a pretty good reason not to foul w/ someone.

[Janek]

I'd only foul with Borak if I had a bribe in hand, and even then I'd probably wait for a juicy enough target.

[Screwie]

Str doesn't matter for fouling. In fact I'd say str 5 is a pretty good reason not to foul w/ someone.

I'm guessing Lowkey just meant to type Mighty Blow there.

I'd probably never foul with Borak and pretend he's only a ST 5 blocker with Block and MB instead. 300k is such a massive cost.

[President Weasel]

Str doesn't matter for fouling. In fact I'd say str 5 is a pretty good reason not to foul w/ someone.

Indeed. I had to go and look that up in case it was one of those things I "knew" about blood bowl that wasn't actually true. I was right though, fouls are straight armour rolls - 2d6 plus whatever unmarked assists you have.

That Borak guy's skills are very much a case of flavour over synergy - he has skills more because an "ebil Chaos Man" would have them than because they work together well. Dirty player is pointless on one of your highest-value players.

Always foul with your cheapest, most disposable players. Rotters, linerats, goblins, lineorcs if you haven't got a goblinw ith sneaky git and dirty player, skellingtons...

It's simple maths - you're attempting to get rid of one of their mans for all or part of the match, in exchange for one of your own being off the pitch for the rest of the game. The foul may not work but your player is always risking being sent off, which is why you should always have as many assists as possible to try to make sure your foul succeeds.
Sneaky git means your player only risks getting sent off if the foul succeeds, so if you have a sneaky git you should probably be fouling high value players with him every turn on the offchance the foul succeeds.

What you should always be trying to do, though, is swap a player you won't miss for a player the other side will. Swap a linerat for a wardancer. Swap a goblin for a troll. Swap a rotter for a troll slayer.

Also, if you're planning on fouling, have a deep bench. If they have 12 players and you have 14, and you foul 3 into the injury box and get 3 of your players sent off doing it, you're winning. The other way round, and you've created a massive problem for yourself.

[HughTower]

Living up your moniker, it seems, you dirty little weas...

[President Weasel]

Not at all, I rarely* foul. Just putting the information out there so that those who want to foul can do it as professionally and cynically as possible.


*yes, OK, I stamped on that ogre recently and injured him out of the game, and it was glorious

[laneford]

Ok I'm back now.

[Jiiiiim]

Five games outstanding and it's theoretically deadline day

:(

[mrpier]

Jolima - we should probably find a time, I've been keeping an eye out for you on steam, but it hasn't quite matched when we're both on.

[Screwie]

Ok I'm back now.


Five games outstanding and it's theoretically deadline day

:(

Sadly I really have no time to play today.

@Laneford: Tomorrow evening is the best I can do. :(

[President Weasel]

Come on, bum faces. Get your games in. Make an effort, use the Steams, use PMs on the forum.

[drawlien]

So HughTower - The plan to play over the weekend, meeting via steam seems to have failed. Can you do Wednesday during the day, Thursday around 8pm (if my DoD opponent can't do Wednesday) or Friday around 7.30pm?

[ChainsawHands]

Didn't get a chance to replay my interrupted match against Prestor John, and definitely won't get a chance before Thursday, so I suspect we'll have to take the 2-1 to me score of crashiness. So many elfs... uninjured. :'(

[Prester John]

Didn't get a chance to replay my interrupted match against Prestor John, and definitely won't get a chance before Thursday, so I suspect we'll have to take the 2-1 to me score of crashiness. So many elfs... uninjured. :'(

A classy piece of Elven Flukery put the Wood Elves on the scoreboard but we were outmatched overall. Few injuries is always good but 3/4 throught he match we were d/c 'd.

More SP's need more SP's.

[Jolima]

Got my match against mrpier in as a 2-2 draw after much elfines from both sides. mrpier sacrificed two of his lineelves to make amends.

Only Screwie vs Laneford and drawlien vs HughTower (and 'Hands vs Prester) remaining.

[Screwie]

It looks like Laneford and I won't be able to get a game in before... next Monday!

So default us, I guess :(

[palindrome]

What version of BB do I need to join your league?

[duff]

So default us, I guess :(

Default you? I'LL FUCKING BRICK YOU SUNSHINE!!

palindrome - Legendary.

[laneford]

I for one, accept the inevitable masonary related punishement that I deserve

[drawlien]

HughTower, I am now booked for Thursday so the options are: Tomorrow (Wednesday) between 12pm and 4.30pm start or Friday between 5pm and 9pm start.

[mrpier]

Thanks to Jolima for a very entertaining match yesterday. Jolima had the upper hand in skills, speed and strength, I had the upper hand in armour and rerolls, the armour advantage didn't help me much but the rerolls certainly did.

It was en elf grudge match, Jolimas elfs vs my high elfs and I had induced an halfling chef and a babe. Jolime won the toss and elected to kick to me, I tried to blitz on the right side, belatedly realizing I was setting my wrestle lineman up for a crowdsurf by jolimas +1 ST frenzy lineman, so I moved a blitzer up for support in what was surely the stupidest moment in the match. Jolima moved two catchers up for support and then pushed both my players out of bounds. It was such an obvious move in hindsight and I really thought I had lost the match there and then, for no other reason than gross ineptitude. First half proceeded with much back and forth but about turn six it was pretty clear that jolima would get the score. He tried a pass that failed in the second to last turn and with no rerolls I thought maybe this could go my way, not so, he loaded the endzone with three players right beside the ball, that tunred out to be a smart move as he failed his pickup but the ball bounced to one of the elves in the endzone, 1-0 to the elfs.

Seond half I kicked off and I think jolima missed the pick up or maybe a throw? Anyway I got to threaten the ball, and it was a weird half. I don't think I missed a dodge in the entire half (with the use of the dodge skill and rerolls) and I dodged a lot to keep myself in the game, being slightly outnumbered the whole half. I even had three or four dodges away from a diving tackler that went just fine. Lots of back and forth in the beginning where Jolima picked up the ball but I usually got a one dice blitz on the carrier, until there was a opening for my men to score. After the 1-1 goal I got a blitz on the kickoff, I made a shit-ton of dodges to get into his backfield and the ball landed in the hands of my blitzer, which got blitzed of course. Much back and forth again and after a turnover by Jolima I got the chance to dodge and pass to a lineman who I had run into the endzone, 1-2 to the high elves.

There were two turns left and I didn't fancy my chances of stopping a twoturner from the elves, I was undermanned (1 bh, two dead linemen and a couple KO's), but I still had nine players to defend with. Jolima beat down my LOS and sent all his elves forward in the middle and on the right side of the pitch. He had no rerolls left and I desperately wanted to beat him for the first time. I knocked most of his elves down and the only one who had a chance on the endzone was a downed catcher, I tried my best to mark him up with four players, but he blitzed himself out and got to the endzone where he received a quick throw, 2-2.

[HughTower]

HughTower, I am now booked for Thursday so the options are: Tomorrow (Wednesday) between 12pm and 4.30pm start or Friday between 5pm and 9pm start.

Oof. Neither of those are going to work. Thursday would have worked, had I got in quicker. I cant play till Sunday tbh, which I imagine screws tings up deadline wise...

[drawlien]

If you can do 6pm Thursday then I can fit you in before my DoD opponent.

Or I can do Sunday evening about 7.30-8.30pm start. But that depends on everyone being very patient with us...

[HughTower]

If you can do 6pm Thursday then I can fit you in before my DoD opponent.

Or I can do Sunday evening about 7.30-8.30pm start. But that depends on everyone being very patient with us...

Yeah, too early for me on weeknight. Small chance I might be able to get home and play you tomorrow night now. I'll let you know here...

[drawlien]

Ok, can you give me as much warning as possible please. I will need to placate the better half for not paying her attention on a Friday evening again.

[HughTower]

If you can do 6pm Thursday then I can fit you in before my DoD opponent.

Or I can do Sunday evening about 7.30-8.30pm start. But that depends on everyone being very patient with us...

Ok, in the interest of bettering conjugal relations, I commit to you, and only you, hot stuff. At 8pm tonight.

See you then.

[drawlien]

Ok, thanks Huggy. See you at 8!

[LowKey]

What version of BB do I need to join your league?

Hello pal! You will need the legendary edition of bb to partake in the blood bath, its the best version because legends

[drawlien]

HughTower and I just played a very tight game. It ended 1-1 which I think fairly reflects how the game went. Thanks for the game HT!

[Jolima]

I have defaulted the two remaining games and moved the league on. Next round ends on next Saturday.

Grinn, any time for a match this weekend?

[Janek]

President Weasel: I'm pretty busy this weekend, but during the week I can do pretty much any evening after around 5.30pm.

[LowKey]

oh fairest screwie, think we could play our game this weekend as I will be away most of next, early Saturday would be ideal if you're around?

[President Weasel]

I am doing something on Friday, and possibly Tuesday. How about Wednesday, around 7.30pm UK time? That's a weekday evening after 5.30.

[Jiiiiim]

Prester John, I SHALL FIGHT YOU.

BUT...when? I'm around a lot at weekends and most weekdays that aren't Friday.

[Janek]

I am doing something on Friday, and possibly Tuesday. How about Wednesday, around 7.30pm UK time? That's a weekday evening after 5.30.
It's a DATE.

[Zoraster]

Laneford; I've got my divisions game on Monday but after that the rest of the week is available at the time of writing. I'm doing a few promotional odds and sods this week so mornings won't be available on the off chance you were thinking of taking advantage of my standard flexible daytime schedule.

[Indefatigible Snoozer]

Drawlien - today any good? I could offer you a start time anytime before 2:30GMT. Otherwise tomorrow morning would be good.

[laneford]

Laneford; I've got my divisions game on Monday but after that the rest of the week is available at the time of writing. I'm doing a few promotional odds and sods this week so mornings won't be available on the off chance you were thinking of taking advantage of my standard flexible daytime schedule.

Nah I can only do evenings as well, Tuesday or Wednesday are the best evenings for me

[grinn]

Aaaarggggh, time to face uber-steroided elf-people. I can make tomorrow evening - like 10pm Scandi time?

[Prester John]

Prester John, I SHALL FIGHT YOU.

BUT...when? I'm around a lot at weekends and most weekdays that aren't Friday.


and i shall run away lots

how about Monday evening 7:30 ish ?

[Zoraster]

Nah I can only do evenings as well, Tuesday or Wednesday are the best evenings for me

Wednesday 19:30 then?

[drawlien]

Drawlien - today any good? I could offer you a start time anytime before 2:30GMT. Otherwise tomorrow morning would be good.

Hey, today wasn't good and neither will tomorrow morning be I'm afraid. I could do tomorrow, Tuesday, Wednesday or next Saturday evenings starting about 7.30pm. Any of them suitable?

[Jiiiiim]

Prester: Sounds positively delightful. Add me on Steam http://steamcommunity.com/id/Jiiiiim/ <-- link and I shall hassle you at that time.

[Jolima]

grinn: 9pm would be better, but 10 works as well. See you then.

[DWZippy]

Can I get involved with this? I just bought Blood bowl.

[Jiiiiim]

Ooh is that as in NexusWar Darkwingstalker?

[LowKey]

As in vending machine DW

[President Weasel]

Can I get involved with this? I just bought Blood bowl.

This is the long-form league of the two RPS blood bowl leagues. This season only started recently, so there's a couple of months worth of games to go before new folks could join (unless someone is forced to drop out because of reasons).
I see you've also posted in the Divisions of Death thread - the Divisions have shorter seasons - 3 matches per season instead of eleventy-three or however many we have this time round - and it's the final week of the current season in the Divisions so it's the perfect time to join.

[DWZippy]

Awesome - Also, Jiiiiim, that is nexuswar DW.

[Jiiiiim]

Yaaaaaaay ¬_¬

[laneford]

Wednesday 19:30 then?

Its a violent date!

[groovychainsaw]

Hi Mr Pier, i need to break my losing streak against your helves, how are you fixed this week? I'm free all tomorrow night, for sure, if you're free then?

[NieA7]

HughTower, a distressing number of my gobbos are still breathing, I'm hoping you can help fix that. I'm free this afternoon and evening, and Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings after 8:00, if any of those suit.

[Screwie]

oh fairest screwie, think we could play our game this weekend as I will be away most of next, early Saturday would be ideal if you're around?

Good morning Mr Key. Unfortunately I am out of town at the weekend and unreachable for Blood Bowl matches and the like until Monday evening at the earliest. Terribly sorry old bean.

[mrpier]

Hi Mr Pier, i need to break my losing streak against your helves, how are you fixed this week? I'm free all tomorrow night, for sure, if you're free then?

Yeah, tomorrow night sounds good.

[grinn]

grinn: 9pm would be better, but 10 works as well. See you then.

I d be sprouting a cakeful of lies if I said I was looking forward to the TDfest which will probably be tonight's match. Especially without dear Fredu my MBPO tackling lovely. I'll hop on as soon as I'm back home - but it ll be more tenish than nineish.

[LowKey]

Oh you handsome devil, i can do monday night and then i am away all week i am afraid, ok for you?

Also i previously said id be entering an undead team, it will actually be a lizard, just for the information of the good and the great

[Screwie]

Okay, is 10pm too late for you to start? I can do earlier, I did have other plans but they are somewhat mutable.

[LowKey]

10 would be ok pal

[drawlien]

'Snoozer and I played yesterday. After the pasting my 'zons took from his Khemri last season I was quite happy to get only 2 SI's and only one of them on a skilled player. This time round I was also able to cause as much damage to his team so the Panthers never got horribly outnumbered and unable to stop the slow cage of doom.

The above, a wizard, actually having a faster team than someone for once and 3 players with +Agi all meant that I was able to stop 'Snoozer in the first half, score after 3 turns in the second and successfully prevent an equaliser - despite some last turn heroics from a Khemri Blitzer.

Pink Patisserie Panthers 1 - 0 Mommy's Boys

Thanks for the game 'Snoozer!

[grinn]

Elves of the Line met Gears of Mork yesterday. I had one of my tackling POMB blitzers out and induced Varag who, unsurprisingly proved to be a functional but unimpressive replacement. A couple of low-budget orcy-babes were brought along but they spent the game talking squig-skins. Jolima kicked to me and I set up a carefully pre-planned (little diagram with arrows on it on my side of the monitor) bash-plenty set-up... only to get pitch invaded and thumped by angry elves. Adieu scrimmage line. Adieu left flank. Tricksy elves kicked the ball very close to the mid-pitch just off the sidelines and my orcs had to forget bashing anything and try to scramble a make-shift screen in front of the thrower. Thankfully Jo's first piece moved failed two GFIs and I had another turn to regroup towards the centre. The rest of the half saw me jogging a cage up to 75% of the way in, get corner bashed by super blodgy, sidestepping, diving tackling, guarding, cupcake making blitzers, said blitzers being frenzied away by Gonzi, my angry POMBer - rinse and repeat. Cage moved up, cage moved down, cage moved sideways... until my thrower was within sprinting range of the endzone. It was all made easier by the selection of elves moping in the infirmary. A few knocked outs and a decent amount of badly hurt.

By the second half though Jo manages to deploy a full team, so my injuryfest was not quite paying off as desired. In the second half Jo receives and dances a ball into the endzone in the first few turns. The elves were locked in by tackling orcs and squeezed to score early on. A few more badly hurt elves were carted off the field and I received with 5 turns to go and 2 or so players up. That advantage soon increased but Jolima's elves put up a valiant defence. Not to risk stalling too much my thrower ran up to pass to Agath-Argh Barbara who was waiting close to the endzone. In order to avoid the interception Zeppi the thrower took an extra step and dropped the ball in the open. The elves moved the ball up but got pounced instantly and, in a fit of usefulness Varag jogs back, picks up the ball and passes to the now-screened Agat-Argh, who scores.

2-1 for the Gears. Well played Jo - exciting to the end!

PS Injuries were a miss next game for each side, a -1S on Jo's +1S lineman that was apod succesfully and 7 more badly hurts for Jo. Must admit that the dug-out looks so much prettier with 9 pulsating red crosses floating over prone elves :p

[Jiiiiim]

I think you just ended the longest unbeaten run in the divisions there

[ChainsawHands]

Duffin! How's Wednesday night for you? 8ish?

[duff]

Sorry football's on then. Any other preferences?

[groovychainsaw]

Me and Mrpier played last night, me trying to make up for my opening 2 games ending in 2-0 defeats. Mr Pier was also hunting for an elusive first victory. My team has a fair bit more development than his, his team short by just over 200TV. Being high elves, this means they have even less skills than usual (expensive players!), most only having a single skill whilst many of my Necro players are up to lvl2/3. He also has 4 rerolls to my 3. So, mrpier picks up a wizard and some bloodweiser babes and away we go.

Mrpier opts to kick, and we both gain a reroll on kickoff. I bash the line somewhat unsuccessfully and hit a catcher. MOstly pushes. My sure hands ghoul picks up the ball that has gone deep, able supported by my guard ghoul (both blodgers). Mr pier tentatively breaks through and puts a player in the backfield, whilst dodging everyone else away from my flesh golems. I decide to cage up on the centre spot using those (now free) golems and my other guard/block players. Its looks super-secure. Right up until mrpier unleashes the wizard. Which is pretty effective, KILLING my block/mighty blow/guard golem (who passed the regen roll! Phew!) and 2 turning the zombie on the other corner. Luckily I left enough players around to make it tricky to get anything other than a one dice block, which goes in, and scores a trip, nothing to my blodging ghoul. I decide to bash him down and regroup into a cage on the left, whilst tying up as many elves as possible. A couple of turns go by with me working up the left (getting hit twice more, but blodge saving me in both cases from the one dice block!) until I get in the corner, desperately trying to stall on turn 5, but a few too many pushes has left me with no choice but to score. Which i do, neatly pushing his annoying sidestep blitzer out of the way to step over the line.

Kicking off, I leave the wings fairly open to invite the cage on the sides, better to abuse my wolves :-). mrpier sets up a cage and a catcher on the opposite side, then tries to pick up the ball, which fails (!) and suddenly I'm in range myself. I mark up both his cages as best I can, bash the thrower down away from the ball and sweep the ball up with my ag4 wolf. He's pretty undefended, but mrpier only has 2 elves back to help. He gets the 2 dice block on, but blodge saves me yet again, and, out of rerolls, mrpier has little choice but to watch me bash down his remaining marker and waltz in on my turn 8. 2-0 by half time.

Kicking off again, same set up, mrpier forms the cage on the side, this time handing the ball off nicely. He does a good job marking up my field of players, and I'm a little more stretched than I'd like (by about 1 square across a number of players). I make one mistake, thinki9ng I can blitz the ball carrier if I push a player out of the way, but I miss a tackle zone, meaning it reuiqres a -3 dodge for my wight. Not a good idea. I only get one player on the catcher and 1 1 dice block later, he's away and the catcher runs it in. Still 6 turns to go - all i need to do is not let him get the ball. At all.

So I receive deep again, provide a weak cage back there, leave the wings open and bash the middle. Once again mrpier throws a few players down the left wing to close in on the cage. I decide to move into the centre again and cage up behind the golems. Looking nice and secure, with no wizard to take me out this time. mrpier attacks a corner, and I flood the cage with guard players and start bashing. He tries to bring more players into the sides and I see an opportunity. With an MA8 player next to 3 defending MA6 players, if i can score a couple of knockdowns, I might be able to put the game beyond mrpier. Fortunately for me, after marking up by pushing up my golems, he attempts to dodge into the cage to hit the ball carrier. The dodge fails, leaving me with a good opportunity. I bash upfield, mark up as many elves as I can and sprint and make 2 go for its to get free. Only one or two players can reach me, and a failed dodge (again!) leaves his elves in no-man's land. I run the clock down, securing the ball in the corner and bashing his elves until turn 16, where, rather than unkindly bashing his players (who have been left in contact across the field after a hail mary attempt to take down the ball carrier!) I run over the line to secure some more SPPs for my star wolf. 3-1 to Wolfsburg.

A good game that felt a little one-sided. I think partly that could be down to mrpier's lack of skills (particularly not much block) and partly due to some pretty poor luck on the dodges. I didn't see the dice yesterday, but I'd expect him to have had more than his fair share of 1s throughout the game, which is pretty terminal for an elf team. My blodging ball carriers proved elusive, too, I don't think he got a knockdown once over 3 attempts on the ball carrier in the first half, my early pushing his tackle blitzer off the pitch being, in hindsight, an even better move than I thought. A few CAS scored by me, and one MNG on my non-ag4 wolf leaves me a little light to go up against Hughtower's mighty mighty skaven next, with their lvl6 rat ogre and 2 lvl5 MA 10 gutter runnners. A very different proposition for a team team woefully low on tackle. But good on mighty blow. So we shall see what happens there. I'll get a good number of inducements, at least :-). In preparation for that, I now have a level 4 zombie (bloat!) who has block fend and tackle. Maybe he'll kill a ratman. If he can catch one... :-)

[LowKey]

1-1 between me and screwie even though the gobbos were thoroughly nuffled by the dice for most of the game, well played that man!

[ChainsawHands]

Sorry football's on then. Any other preferences?I know not this "foot-to-ball" of which you speak...

Thursday, 8ish?

[Screwie]

Yeah, this was a toughie.

It's Catching! (Nurgle, Lowkey) vs Stikky Fingerz (Goblins, me)

I received to start and tried for a sneaky one-turn TD, leaving my weapons off the pitch. It went badly.

Lowkey stole the ball while it was loose in my half and despite several attempts at goblin defence, he walked it over the line in Turn 8 to finish the half.

The goblins were hampered by flubbing their dodge rolls (results in a couple of very short turns for me), trolls who were locked in place by warriors and/or a beast of nurgle and/or stupidity, and the nurglings' stubborn insistence on rolling POW all the time on their blocks.

1 - 0 to It's Catching!

One goblin died in the first half and several more were KO'd, but somehow I managed to field a full 11 at the start of the second - now with weapons!

Disturbing Presence makes the Nurgle side really tough, and the inadequate graphical effect Cyanide have provided only confuses matters. DP affects all passing, including the throwing of bombs and stunties. To make my bombardier at all effective I had to stand him deep in my half and chuck long passes!

Still, he made his mark - chucking the bomb that destroyed the nurgle cage and allowed my pogo to zip in, scoop up the ball and retreat in the direction of the opposite flank. Suddenly I had the advantage! I used the pogo's speed to outpace the opposition, running forward like a madman while the rest of my squad tied up their opposing numbers. He was all on his own out there and twice, Lowkey did knock him down (but not out). Lowkey couldn't capitalise and my pogo recovered himself and the ball and scooted to the end zone in Turn 15.

1 - 1

Well that was a tough game but I guess I'm happy with the resu- BLITZ!!

My kick was on target to drop the ball 2-3 squares from their end zone, so naturally I tried to chuck a goblin after it. That didn't quite work out, so I just moved my pogo up the free flank towards the ball and figured that was that.

But then Lowkey's guys fumbled the ball pickup.

Okay, one more shot! After hoping really, really hard the troll would get it right for once, my goblin landed on his feet, but the scatter had carried him away from the ball (which was still covered by two beastmen). Now he was within 2 GFIs of the end zone, but it would take him one extra lateral square of movement to also retrieve the ball.

Meanwhile my pogo was within 1 GFI of the ball, but fell 2 squares short of the end zone even with GFIs. Kicking myself for not moving the pogo one square more in the previous turn, it looked impossible now.

Wait - the pogo has Leap...

Okay, so this is the only sequence of events which would allow me to score a final TD and steal the game:
Two GFI rolls for my aerogoblin had to run to the end zone, near the ball (2+ times two).
One GFI roll for my pogo to reach the ball (2+).
A roll to pick up the ball (in 2 TZs) (5+).
A dodge roll to escape the TZs (3+ plus the Dodge skill).
Another GFI to complete the dodge (2+).
A Leap roll to advance 1 extra square and land in an adjacent square to the waiting aerogoblin (4+).
A catch roll to complete the handoff (3+).
...And I still had one TRR I could use! No sweat.

Final score: 1 - 1

Yep.

[Screwie]

I know not this "foot-to-ball" of which you speak...

I've heard of it, but since it doesn't include chainsaws or explosives I don't know how it can call itself a sport...

[mrpier]

Groovychainsaw - I made two bad errors in the first half, the first was not moving my blitzer before I moved/dodged the catcher that protected him from a crowdsurf, I was aware of the danger, but he had ag 4 and dodge, how could it fail?

The second error was worse, after Groovys first goal I was building a cage for my catcher on the left side of the pitch hoping to get a goal before halftime, this should be risk-free apart from a two dice block. Somewhere along the line I lost track of my catcher and used him to mark up a zombie as part of the cage, I quickly realized my error and tried to dodge him away and into the safety of the cage (ag 4 and dodge, what could go wrong? I see a pattern here) Sadly I hadn't bothered picking up the ball with my thrower yet (so it wasn't a failed pick-up), and when the turnover came it was poorly protected.

Second half, my cage on the left tactic got executed correctly this time and I could run in a goal after a couple of blocks. After that it was a steamroll, I had no chance against groovy's cage, I tried to get my sidestep blodger up to the ball carrier in the cage, but he only got pushed away just as fast. With no guard/leap/+1ST and being undermanned the cage proved unassailable.

[groovychainsaw]

Quite right mr pier, in all the excitement I had forgotten some of the specifics of how it went down. I knew you'd failed a fair few dodges though, and must have scored an impressive number of 1s :-). I forgot the failed dodge in the first half, too - it came as quite a surprise to me that my zombie kept doing that to your catchers (I'm pretty sure he's the one that levelled due to scoring the badly hurts). I'm still not sure if my 'let you make a cage on the wing' plan was sound or not. In theory it lets me surround your players and maybe push one off the pitch, but in practice i need to hold more players back so they can come over to help. I'm STILL learning how to use necros most effectively, and luck definitely helped me out last night.

[LowKey]

Yeah your bombadier was on fire, especially when he was actually on fire

[mrpier]

Groovy - well I was a bit worried there myself that I had made a mistake in positioning the cage, and I thought for a minute that you had clear blitz on my carrier, easy to miss that one tacklezone, but it made all the difference :-). Not to mention I did need to get a push/pow with a one dice block and a two dice block before I could run it in. With loss-draw-loss in the first three matches, I can see I won't be a top contender this season, I'm still learning the helves and it seems they need a bit more skills to perform well for me.

[drawlien]

[QUOTE=Screwie;96619]

A Leap roll to advance 1 extra square and land in an adjacent square to the waiting aerogoblin (4+).

[QUOTE]

Correct me if I'm wrong but can't you only leap within the normal movement limits? I.e. it costs 2 squares to do a leap and you have to have 2 left to carry it out.

My Wardancers in the DoD would be interested to know if I have got the rules wrong though!

[Zoraster]

Nope, you are correct Drawl, those are the rules but there is a bug that allows it sometimes on Cyanide.

[Screwie]

Aha, I was not aware of that. I'd never noticed the 1-square leap at the end of the GFIs before and thought that was working as intended, like as if Leap gave you an extra square of movement.

I am somewhat glad then I didn't win via an exploit (no matter how goblin-y that might be).

[ChainsawHands]

I know not this "foot-to-ball" of which you speak...

Thursday, 8ish?Sorry duff, I'm going to be away for work on Thursday. Saturday afternoon / evening?

[President Weasel]

Janek and I were foiled by network synch errors. We're going to try again tomorrow.

[HughTower]

HughTower, a distressing number of my gobbos are still breathing, I'm hoping you can help fix that. I'm free this afternoon and evening, and Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings after 8:00, if any of those suit.

I'm a lover, not a killer. Man.

None suit, I'm afraid, work's all-consuming at the moment. Can I interest you in a weekend game? Saturday afternoon maybe? Or Sunday sometime....

[NieA7]

I'm a lover, not a killer. Man.

None suit, I'm afraid, work's all-consuming at the moment. Can I interest you in a weekend game? Saturday afternoon maybe? Or Sunday sometime....

Billy Big Balls just grown claws just to scratch himself then? Anyway weekend should be OK, I think Saturday's clear and I know Sunday is. Tentatively Saturday at 4:00?

[HughTower]

Big balls need an awfully big scratch.

Yes, Saturday at 4pm sounds wholesome. I'm the same name on Steam if you use it.

[laneford]

3 Feet High and Rising (Helf - Laneford) 1 - 2 Strenuous Garfighters (Nor - Zoraster)


A fairly standard 2-1 loss for my high elves against Zoraster terrifying Mighty Blow / Piling On loaded Norse.

I had 10 players available to start the match, swiftly reduced to 8 players after 2 turns, ending the half 1-0 down with four fit players. Thankfully I suffered little other than a badly hurt or two, and many ko's. And a dead journeyman (its what he would've wanted)

Zoraster held the ball with relatively little fuss, I had one turn when I had a shot at a decent blitz at the ball carrier, but in a running theme of the game, rolled double 1 making the GFI. (GFI's were cursed for both teams this game). Garfighters scored a standard TD in T8.

0-1

I recieved the kick off, all my KO's miraculously recovering, bringing me up to 8 players again. I scored a standard long pass 2 turn TD, to equalise.

1-1

The second drive from the norse was less brutal, but no less effective. I tried to run a screen defence, but after another few KO's, and BH's, decided discretion was the better part of valour, and retreated most of players to lick their wounds and hit lone norseman. Zoraster ran in the winner on the last turn of the game.

2-1

I desperately need some cash to buy some more players. I won a paltry 10k which was all eaten up by my overpaid overskilled fancy dan elveses.

The losing streak continues. It's going to be a long season.

[duff]

Sorry duff, I'm going to be away for work on Thursday. Saturday afternoon / evening?

Balls, I'm playing in the DoD on Sat night. I could do Sun or Mon or Tue night if any of those are good?

Mon or Tue would be preferable as I'm a very religious man.*




*Top Gear is on on Sunday's.

[ChainsawHands]

Busy Monday and Tuesday, but we could go for Sunday if we can fit it around your observances?

[duff]

Busy Monday and Tuesday, but we could go for Sunday if we can fit it around your observances?

Anytime Sun night should be good, I should be on Steam by 7 at the latests but probably earlyier if thats good?

[President Weasel]

Janek and I were foiled by network synch errors. We're going to try again tomorrow.

Network synch errors foiled us again! We are comprehensively foiled.
We're going to set it to 0-0.

[Janek]

Cyaniiiide

[Jolima]

Duff/'Hand: The round is supposed to end on Saturday. Any chance you could fit it in then instead?

[duff]

Ah okay, I can try to re-schedule my DoD game, failing that could you play in the evening (say starting after 9pm) 'Hands? I'm out all morning and early afternoon so can't play then. Hopefully Alethron will be okay with changing our game, I'll ask him.

Also, if you should end up with some free time tommorow let me know as I should be able to play anytime after about 2pm.

[duff]

Okay Alethron is good for changing our game to Sunday, so 'Hands I'm fine to play anytime on Sat after about 2pm.

[Screwie]

What the heck, there are a full five (possibly six) people behind me in the league. That means I'm nearly mid-table! This cannot happen.

I am liking the bigger league this season :)

[Jiiiiim]

Ultimate Maths Squad (Jim, humans) vs Red Rose of Love (Prester, welves)

Have decided to jettison remaining dignity with this one. Fourteen more songs to go >_>

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Where have all the wood elves gone
And where are all their gods?
Did you see the casualties
they faced through rising odds?
Isn't there a wardancer on a dicey leap?
Late at night I toss and turn and dream
of what they need

They need an apo
They're holding out for an apo 'til the end of the night
He's gotta be strong
And he's gotta be fast
And he's gotta not just let them die
I scored a touchdown
I didn't stall for a touchdown 'til the morning light
They gotta just score
And then we get one more
And we gotta just keep them in strife

Somewhere before half-time
Is my wildest fantasy
Somewhere just beyond my reach
a thrower who's about to flee
But he makes a blunder and, rising from the deep
I somehow make an interception, now we can't be beat

They need a hero
They're holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night
He's gotta be strong
And he's gotta be fast
And he's gotta just run from the fight
They need a reroll
I'm holding on to my rerolls 'til the morning light
They've gotta just score
And it's gotta be soon
And he's gotta stop failing GFIs

The mathematicians split the wood elves in half
And Bernoulli makes it three
Even though there's a wizard somewhere
Watching me

Through the lovely balmy nice weather
And the slaughter and blood
I can feel his fireball
Though it isn't much good

I need a long throw
I'm holding out for a long throw 'til the end of the night
It's gotta be strong
And it's gotta be fast
And he's gotta be throwing just right
I kept a reroll
I'm holding out for my reroll 'til the morning light
I've got one more score
And that'll make it four
And that's gotta be all I can say

Full time: UMS 4-1 Red Rose

Prester needs a few more skills on his elves before they can compete with the fatter, older teams. Too many rerolls needed at the moment.

[ChainsawHands]

Okay Alethron is good for changing our game to Sunday, so 'Hands I'm fine to play anytime on Sat after about 2pm.
I won't be back from the hyperborian wastes of Orkney until some time considerably after 2pm, I'm afraid - sorry, would have said sooner but hadn't realised the round was due to end so was expecting Sunday for the match. Barring further misadventure I'll see you on Steam Saturday evening, but I can't see it being before 6 at the earliest.

[duff]

No problem, just wanted to let you know when I was available from. Catch you tommorow.

[President Weasel]

Ultimate Maths Squad (Jim, humans) vs Red Rose of Love (Prester, welves)
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When the music started up and I realised which song this was I laughed out loud, an actual Sid James-esque guffaw.
Not sure you've quite got the voice for this style of music, but you have los cojones mucho grandes for doing it anyway. Well played Jiim, you big hero.

[Jiiiiim]

Oh yeah it sounds horrendous I agree but I couldn't not do it.

[HughTower]

Ultimate Maths Squad (Jim, humans) vs Red Rose of Love (Prester, welves)

Have decided to jettison remaining dignity with this one. Fourteen more songs to go >_>

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Dignity jettisoned, legendary status acquired. Full kudos to you.

[ChainsawHands]

And I'm back! Steamessage me once you're online, duff.

[ChainsawHands]

Match played: 2-0 to me. Just like in our last match over in the divisions, duff dropped the ball letting me score once, and then suffered a blitz afterwards to let me go 2 up. Despite some sterling play in the second half (stalling my drive and getting the ball) he wasn't able to capitalise on it to score.

Thanks to duff for the game.

[Jolima]

The league's been moved on and the next set of matches marked up.

[drawlien]

So 'Hands, when would you like to play our match? I could probably do sometime this evening up to 8.30pm. Otherwise, Wednesday onwards starting around 7.30 to 8.30pm would be good for me.

[Jiiiiim]

Alright Zorro, when do you want to beat my humans into a bloody pulp? If you're around today I can play any time.

[President Weasel]

Storm Boyz gots to play Grinn's Gears. When, Grinn?

[NieA7]

HughTower's Skaven and my Gobbos had a fun game last night, I achieved one of my Open ambitions by causing more casualties in a match than I suffered (two dead linerats and three or four badly hurts vs. one dead, one smashed collar bone and one badly hurt).

With over a million gold's worth of inducements I was somewhat spoiled for choice - in the end I went for Ripper, Morg, three bribes and a wizard (babes and apo's be damned). The Vivisectionists chose to receive and after pushing a few gobbos about scored a one turner with the obscene MA 10/sprint/sure feet runner. The rest of the first half was a long grind down the pitch for the gobbos. All the strength around ensured I could get at least one two dice blitz in every turn, and despite the bombardier fumbling his throw and killing the loony things went pretty well. By the last turn the Gobbo with the ball was hedged in on the sidelines, but a couple of blocks ensured he only needed two dodges and a GFI to score (with a TRR in hand). Naturally he failed the first dodge.

Needing to speed things along a little the gobbos pushed harder in the second half, scoring a mildly risky TD with two turns to go. Hugh went for another 1 turner and got it comfortably (leveling up the sprinting bastard in the process), leaving me 1 turn to equalize. Sadly despite planting the landing a 4+ dodge proved too much to ask for, the carrier falling over and badly hurting himself in shame. 2-1 to the Skaven at full time, with a well earned win - the diving tackle gutter runner was a particular pain all match.

Three games, three losses, but at least two of them have been pretty closely contended. So Duff, time for your skinks to finally get someone their own size to pick on. I'm free today, and Monday, Thursday and Friday evening and Sunday afternoon/evening next week.

[Zoraster]

Jiiiiim: Diary is full today I'm afraid. Wednesday or Thursday starting around 18:00-20:00 would be best at my end but I'm open to other times both days. Friday is probably out as my parents are due to be coming up from their coastal retreat so next options will be Saturday mid-morning to late afternoon or anytime Sunday week.

[Jiiiiim]

Wednesday at 6pm then?

[Janek]

Screwie: I can only do after about 8pm over the next week, with the exception of today, Friday and next Sunday when I can play whenever (so long as it doesn't clash with rugby)

[Zoraster]

Wednesday at 6pm then?

It's a date!

[mrpier]

Prester John - I should be available, today, tomorrow, wednesday evenings in the nearest future. How about you?

[ChainsawHands]

So 'Hands, when would you like to play our match? I could probably do sometime this evening up to 8.30pm. Otherwise, Wednesday onwards starting around 7.30 to 8.30pm would be good for me.Can't do tonight or Wednesday; Thursday?

[groovychainsaw]

Hughtower! Im totally free tomorrow night (Monday) fancy our game then?

[HughTower]

Hughtower! Im totally free tomorrow night (Monday) fancy our game then?

Any chance today, old bean?

[Prester John]

mrpier when do you want to play? Evenings are good, including this evening if you are around?

[groovychainsaw]

Hughtower - I might be around later, but can't guarantee it - I've got to sort the divisions out first... If you spot me on steam later I'll let you know...

[HughTower]

Hughtower - I might be around later, but can't guarantee it - I've got to sort the divisions out first... If you spot me on steam later I'll let you know...

Your dedication is awesome as always. Just press Auto-sort...?

I'm around for the rest of the day so ill try and sniff you out. Billy's hungry for some wolf.

[drawlien]

Thursday it is. See you then!

[ChainsawHands]

Cool, shall we say 8?

[Screwie]

Screwie: I can only do after about 8pm over the next week, with the exception of today, Friday and next Sunday when I can play whenever (so long as it doesn't clash with rugby)

Hi Janek, I can manage after 10pm on Monday and Tuesday, or after 8pm on Thursday or Friday. Failing that, any time at the weekend is fine by me.

[Janek]

Let's saaaaay... Thursday at 8.

[drawlien]

Yes, 8 is good.

[groovychainsaw]

Me and hughtower played last night. 1-0 to hughtower in a tight game, where my reliance on bashing the other team (of rats, no less) got slightly exposed. 300TV missing, I picked up a wizard, a bribe and a babe.

I received, caged up and spent 7 turns bashing the rats, undone by a double skull when I was just about to run the ball in. Half time, 0-0, only one CAS inflicted. Bugger.

Second half, hugh hangs on to the ball in his backfield, i defend/bash/defend, he runs through finally, I lightning bolt his ball carrier (badly hurt), then mark up the ball. Not effectively enough, his MA10 gutter runner picks it up, and, with a little help from billy big balls, skips over the line.

I have 5 turns, so i set up to go sprinting into his backfield with my wolf. I receive a blitz, I dont have a lot of players in my half, i foolishly expose my wolf to being pushed off (after a double push on a frenzy), I get a ghoul badly hurt so I only have 2 players left with ag3. I manage to finally score some injuries, get a wight within range of the line, but not out range of the rats, who push me back out of range (i was lucky they didn't score a knockdown, really). With hindsight, I might have cleverly pushed my wight back towards the line, but it would have required a handful of goforits and a push result at the right moment, and i needed more than 4 minutes to figure it out :-).

So that was it. 1-0 to Hughtower. My mighty blow didn't really kick in until my second attack which made my whole 'caged up' first half slightly worthless, and I knew i would concede to the gutter runners once hugh got the ball (not enough tackle for me + lots of skills for the gutter runners = easy touchdowns). I didn't even get to use my bribe, which was set up for billy, but he only went down once, hugh making very good use of him as a strike blitzer, even though he wild animal'ed 3 times in the first half on a blitz, he was effective in the second half. Oh well, onwards we go, at least I'll have my other wolf back for my next match ;-)

[Screwie]

Let's saaaaay... Thursday at 8.

Cool. See you then.

[laneford]

Lowkey! I believe we're up. You around tomorrow Mayhaps?

[President Weasel]

Grinn!
Grinn Grinn Grinn.

Where be you?

[LowKey]

Id love to, i have an engineer installing our internet tomorrow afternoon so the evening should be fine assuming everything goes to plan, shall we say 8?

[Zoraster]

Jiiiiiiiiim: I am about but Cyanide won't let me log in at the moment. Icrashed a minute or so ago so hopefully it is just a case of waiting for the server to refresh.

[Jiiiiim]

ah I forgot you don't do Steam. Will pop on now.

[LowKey]

Something went wrong! Ill have to pop to an internet cafe to play so could we make it the weekend? Let me know what time suits

[laneford]

Exploded internets!

This weekend could be tricky, I'll have a think about when I have a free few hours.

[Jiiiiim]

Ultimate Maths Squad (Jim, human) vs Strenuous Garfighters (Zorro, norse)

and now a song that like half the people won't get. Yes it's mean to sound like that.

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My lovely Norse
Running Through the field
Where are you going with your mighty blow and
Piling on?

I get a pow on you with blitzer thumps
and drive through your defences
finish the move with a stalled touchdown
to empty out your subs benches

My lovely Norse
I'm receiving no more
Running away, with the wolf on his back
from a rock in the crowd, yeah, from a rock in the crowd


You bloody Norse
running through the field
where are you going with your mighty blow
stop it I yield

I want to cower and not take my lumps
and hide from your offensive
Okay you can score, now that is 1-all
and I've empty sub benches

You bloody Norse,
I just dropped the ball
Running towards me is a wolf with a glint
with a glint in his eye, with a glint in his...



...eye

Full time was 2-1 to the garfighters. I didn't do enough damage when I had the upper hand (that would be the happy-sounding half of the song), and I just got minced and minced in the second half. Should have just held out for a draw then but went for it and lost. Oh well.

[NieA7]

Duuuuuuuuuffffffff, we gotta play our game!

[DWZippy]

and because you all should REALLy get jims song. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYzVMcgWhg

[grinn]

Grinn!
Grinn Grinn Grinn.

Where be you?

I be in Malta, serenading pigeons. Running a workshop here day and night till saturday. Can we play next week in the evening?

[duff]

Duuuuuuuuuffffffff, we gotta play our game!

Sometime Sat / Sun evening?

[President Weasel]

I be in Malta, serenading pigeons. Running a workshop here day and night till saturday. Can we play next week in the evening?

Hey, that sounds fun. Is it fun?

"delays until Friday 16th are allowed" but I am assuming the rest of the guys will want us to get our game in earlier so they can get on with their next one. How about Monday or Tuesday, 1930 UK-o-time?

[grinn]

So much fun! As long as one is into being shat upon liberally by winged things. Small proviso- I need to prep my speech for tomorrow and might be done in a decent enough time to have a game. Shall we keep in steamy touch this evening?

Otherwise I can swing Mon or Tue.

[President Weasel]

Cool beans, I'm around this evening. I'll probably be playing mount and blade.
If I don't see you on the Steams I will pencil you in for Monday around half seven.

[Jolima]

Snoozer, we need to schedule our game as well. Any favourite time in the weekend?

[grinn]

Hey Prez, still at pigeonpoo convention (running 2 hours late) so I wont be on until later.

[NieA7]

Sometime Sat / Sun evening?

I'm out on Saturday but Sunday would be fine, 8:00?

[drawlien]

Chainsawhands and I played last night. His uncouth chaos lot were rather rough with my girlies and slapped them around quite a lot, scoring in the 7th turn. This allowed me just enough time to try an amazing long distance pass - literally half the length of the pitch - which succeeded! We went into half-time all tied at 1-1.

To start the second half there was a riot (the chaos fans didn't like the fact they'd let the 'zons score at the end of the half) and half the chaos team went down to only one girl. I rushed to exploit this and then stalled for a bit, scoring after 4 turns. However, 5 turns was more than enough time for 'hands to get the equalizer whilst beast-handling the girls a bit more.

Final score: 2 - 2.

Thanks for the game 'hands. When attacking I think you had the tactics and I had the luck!

[President Weasel]

Grinn and I have scheduled our match for Monday; sorry for the slight delay.

[duff]

I'm out on Saturday but Sunday would be fine, 8:00?

Sounds good, just double checking that's pm (20:00)?

[ChainsawHands]

I did have one bit of luck: BHing Zara on turn 1 was pretty good. Other than that though...

At least I got the draw; losing to the combination of an absurd pass and 5 players (including 2 warriors and both +ST beastmen) getting rioted would have been a bit galling. ;-)

[Screwie]

Janek's necromantic and my goblins faced off last night, in what turned out to be a very one-sided battle and a 2-0 victory for him. I still enjoyed some great moments of entertainment though:


My bombardier's first pitch was intercepted by a zombie, re-intercepted by my pogo, who than threw it wide and hit one of my trolls, KO'ing him!
My bombardier's second and third throws were much better, knocking down the ball carrier and KO'ing that bastardy Tackle + Mighty Blow wight. That evil undead blitzer stayed out of action for the rest of the match.
Way too many turns cut short by goblins failing dodge rolls! Including poor Zatbum, who was level 3 and managed to kill himself via shoelace-related mishap.
Criminally outnumbered in the second half, I wasn't able to clear space and keep the ball for any TTM TD attempts. I could barely manage a defence against the opposition drive once they stole the ball, either - although a combination of a Diving Tackle goblin and Janek's insistence on scoring with a flesh golem slowed the game down a lot. So I threw goblins at his nicely formed cages. This worked surprisingly well!
Small mercy, I escaped the match with only 1 death, 1 MNG for my pogoer and an MVP for my level 4 troll (who is now within punching distance of lvl 5). Not bad at all.

I expecting much worse from this match, so I'm elated my team survived it so well. Thanks for the game, Janek.

[Indefatigible Snoozer]

Jolima - when are you around on the weekend for our Khemri/Elf Why-won't-you-stand-still-so-I-can-hit-you-hey-where-did-you-go-silly-dodgey-elf game? Saturday or Sunday morning would be good for me...

[Jolima]

Snoozer: Saturday at 10?

[NieA7]

Sounds good, just double checking that's pm (20:00)?

There's an 8:00am on Sundays? But yeah, 20:00.

[Indefatigible Snoozer]

Sounds good. I'm up now, so ping me on steam if you're on earlier and we can start earlier.

[laneford]

LowKey, I probably have some free time this afternoon, otherwise I can't commit to anything until Monday? Any good for you?

[LowKey]

Myself and Laneford just tried to get our game in but unfortunately no dice, I am on a public wifi at the moment which has allowed me to play before but is extremely temperamental, our internet was meant to be installed during the week but due to complications is now getting installed this Saturday (17th), I know that's past the deadline and am reluctant to make everyone wait so if that is too late then no problem, give Laneford the default win, sorry for the inconvenience

[grinn]

Hey Prez, I m free this afternoon and would love a bit of bloodbowlsing. Let me know if you're around!

[President Weasel]

YEs I am, I don't see you on Steam though

[President Weasel]

Outplayed, out-fought, out-manoeuvred, and shit out of luck with the block and injury dice. Skulls galore, 3 deaths on my team (one of which I apoced, the other two were level one players) a niggling on one of my better players, a couple more injuries, and some KOs. Not to mention the blitz Grinn got when it was 1-1 that allowed him to sneak in another touchdown before the end of the first half.

4-1 to Grinn.

[HughTower]

Outplayed, out-fought, out-manoeuvred, and shit out of luck with the block and injury dice. Skulls galore, 3 deaths on my team (one of which I apoced, the other two were level one players) a niggling on one of my better players, a couple more injuries, and some KOs. Not to mention the blitz Grinn got when it was 1-1 that allowed him to sneak in another touchdown before the end of the first half.

4-1 to Grinn.

Oh dear, I DO hope Azlop is OK. The little muffin.

[grinn]

Hey Prez, that was some rotten luck on the injury dice. Thankfully pretty Az is unharmed. Condolences to the dead ones' families. Manager's sortin out a lifetime supply of salted squigs.

[President Weasel]

I reckon you deserved a win, you played better than me and that's a nicely put together team (all that stand firm!). I just wish the dice had treated me a little more kindly and I'd been able to make a match of it - there was nothing I could do about that 4th touchdown, because I just didn't have enough orcs left standing. Most of the second half felt a bit pointless and depressing - although getting that consolation injury in the very last turn cheered me up a bit; I guess I am just not a very nice person :)

I wish you joy of your well deserved and extremely orcy victory!

[Jolima]

I defaulted the match between Laneford and LowKey in Laneford's favour and ended the round. The next deadline is Saturday the 24th.

Prester John, I'm up against you next. The weekend is best for me if it suits you.

[NieA7]

Jiiiiim, time for your Goblin slayers to get some practice. Should be free tomorrow and Thursday evening from 8:00, plus all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The Game against Duff's Lizardmen finished 1-0 to him (would've been 2-0 if a hand off to a Saurus had worked), though that was a pretty flattering scoreline for me really. Some grim luck in the first half coupled with some fairly dim play in the second made sure I was never really in the running, despite the fanatic turning himself into a homing missile and knocking the ball free from four squares away. Duff caged and screened like a pro, ultimately there was just too much strength 4 in the way for me to get anywhere even with two Trolls, Ripper and Morg.

Four games, four losses but I think I'm starting to get my head around the gobbos. Three secret weapons on the pitch seems like a recipe for disaster for one, although that rule could probably be simplified to anything on the pitch plus a bombardier is a recipe for disaster.

[Jiiiiim]

Will try and catch you tomorrow around about 8 then

[groovychainsaw]

Ah -Mr weasel! We meet again! Any more blitzers for my wolves to kill this time? :-D. I'll see if i catch you on steam this week, failing that, you free on sunday morning for our match?

[Screwie]

Hughtower! My goblins against your skaven. It's an underworld face-off! My fine goblin scientists hope to overcome the rats' natural resistance to explosions through liberal application of explosions! Wish them luck.

I can play against you Thursday or Friday at 8pm or later, or any time at the weekend. Wednesday night at the same time is maybe possible too.

[President Weasel]

Should be playing this evening in the Divisions but apart from that just keep your eyes peeled on Steam. Sunday morning might be tricky.

[mrpier]

Laneford - Who's got the highest elves? Let's find out sometime.

[drawlien]

Zoraster, when would you like to play our game? I could do tomorrow lunchtime or evening until 8.30pm, Thursday evening, Saturday evening. Any of those suitable?

[Prester John]

I defaulted the match between Laneford and LowKey in Laneford's favour and ended the round. The next deadline is Saturday the 24th.

Prester John, I'm up against you next. The weekend is best for me if it suits you.

Yep fine with me, have to be an evening and Sunday is looking better than Saturday but i could do Saturday too. 7ish is a good time for me.

[Zoraster]

Zoraster, when would you like to play our game? I could do tomorrow lunchtime or evening until 8.30pm, Thursday evening, Saturday evening. Any of those suitable?

I'm in promotional tour mode this week so it is a write off BB wise. I may be able to swing something Saturday evening, but it'll be the first evening back home with the little lady so for the sake of my testicles I'd rather arrange it for next week if possible at your end. I've got a meeting Monday afternoon but otherwise could fit in anything that suits you at the time of writing. If not I'll have to run the gauntlet of wifey wrath... suppose it would be fitting pre-match prep heading into an Amazon game :)

[drawlien]

I could do Wednesday anytime or Thursday evening around 7.30pm. Which would you prefer?

[HughTower]

Hughtower! My goblins against your skaven. It's an underworld face-off! My fine goblin scientists hope to overcome the rats' natural resistance to explosions through liberal application of explosions! Wish them luck.

I can play against you Thursday or Friday at 8pm or later, or any time at the weekend. Wednesday night at the same time is maybe possible too.

I can't believe there are two goblin teams in the league. How did this happen? Who picks frikking gobbos, for crying out loud? It's as nerve-wracking as playing Operation with the Taliban's waistcoat collection.

Weekends are much better for me, Screwie. We'll make ourselves available for murder on Sunday morning UK time, if that works for you. Say, 10.30am?

[ChainsawHands]

All right then, Ms Jane K, we have a Bowl to Blood. Monday at 8?

[Screwie]

Weekends are much better for me, Screwie. We'll make ourselves available for murder on Sunday morning UK time, if that works for you. Say, 10.30am?

That's fine by me, Mr Tower.

[Jolima]

Yep fine with me, have to be an evening and Sunday is looking better than Saturday but i could do Saturday too. 7ish is a good time for me.
7ish on Sunday it is!

[LowKey]

Hello challenger! I cant see who you are but i am sure you are simply delightful, i am free to play any evening next week

[duff]

Think were up next Grinn (please don't hurt me) whens good for you?

[Zoraster]

I could do Wednesday anytime or Thursday evening around 7.30pm. Which would you prefer?

Wednesday anytime sounds good. With this much notice I can schedule around whatever best suits you. My personal preference would be somewhere around 14-16:00 to break my day up, but really you can name your time.

[drawlien]

Shall we go for a 16:00 kick-off then?

[grinn]

Hey Duff, I m against Snoozer's steroid-boosted dead people. My turn to get a bashing :p

[grinn]

Snooze-man, I can't play before next week. Some time in the evening during the week or during the day next weekend perhaps?

[President Weasel]

Hello challenger! I cant see who you are but i am sure you are simply delightful, i am free to play any evening next week


Think were up next Grinn (please don't hurt me) whens good for you?

Duffin, you're actually playing Lowkey.
Lowkey, in a quite staggering coincidence you're playing Duffin.

I'm not going to sort out your scheduling for you.

[LowKey]

If youd be so kind that would be lovely pres, maybe dinner after if you could book some where nice

[duff]

How about next Mond / Tues / Wed ? I could play through the day or in the evening.

[Jiiiiim]

Ultimate Maths Squad (Jim, humans) vs Underfoot Crawlers (NieA7, gobbo)

It may be of use if you know that Pythagoras is my thrower and Chebyshef is my catcher. Anyway, time to finally bring the girl groups of the early noughties into the deal.

link link link ----> http://www.mediafire.com/?b3328mfv81v9t7d <----- link link link

Py, py, pythagoras

You know you wanna sing of us (baby)
Please take this finely made report of us (baby)

Goblins look to kill
Chainsaw, spinny wheel
One Morg and many trolls and we ain't even started
Roll blitz, run around
chainsaw to the ground
Grab ball, don't go down
Cos we ain't even scored yet

You got me fleeing and you got me sitting deep
Listen for the squeak as a goblin fails his leap
Your fanatic's crazy but he just stays asleep
No fortune for you as I quickly take the lead
You got me trembling like a little prissy elf
You're so strong, you're like a black orc or twelve
Your goblin's flying and I can just tell
You got him out of range, oh damn, oh hell

Pythagoras
Just pass it up
The way you throw so accurate
It's all about the two of us
A 1-0 win just ain't enough
He need triangulation baby
A little elevation maybe
Catchers running 'round like crazy
There goes my Cheby

Pythagoras (baby)
So accurate (baby)
Pythagoras (baby)
So, so, so Accurate

Half time, 1 to 2
We know, what to do
punch guys run it through and we ain't even done yet
Solid as a rock
How many ways can you manage to drop?
Show me what you got 'cos we ain't even done yet

You got me fleeing and you got me sitting deep
Listen for the squeak as a goblin fails his leap
Your fanatic's crazy but he just stays asleep
No fortune for you as I quickly take the lead
You got me trembling like a little prissy elf
You're so strong, you're like a black orc or twelve
Your goblin's flying and I can just tell
You got him out of range, oh damn, oh hell

Pythagoras
Just pass it up
The way you throw so accurate
It's all about the two of us
A 4-2 win just ain't enough
I need triangulation baby
A little elevation maybe
Catchers running 'round like crazy
There goes my Cheby

Pythagoras (baby)
So accurate (baby)
Pythagoras (baby)
So, so, so Accurate

A little elevation goes a long, long way
Show a little patience
And take it far away
Bernoulli end the game oh


Pythagoras
Just pass it up
The way you throw so accurate
It's all about the two of us
This 5-2 win will be enough
I need inebriation baby
A little celebration maybe
You got me running 'round like crazy
There goes my Cheby

Pythagoras
Just pass it up
The way you throw so accurate
It's all about the two of us
This 5-2 win will be enough
I need inebriation baby
A little celebration maybe
You got me running 'round like crazy
There goes my Cheby

Full Time: Maths 5-2 Goblins

[President Weasel]

/Rises to feet
/Applauds madly

[LowKey]

How about next Mond / Tues / Wed ? I could play through the day or in the evening.

Shall we say monday 8pm?

[Screwie]

Jiiim's talent

Fecking. Amazing.

[President Weasel]

Storm Boyz 1 - 0 Wolfsburg

The first half was no fun for Groovy. Picture a sandcastle slowly dissolving as the tide comes in - if the sandcastle is made of necromantic minions, and the tide is a bunch of orcs still smarting from their schooling at the hands of Grinn's orcier orcs, and grimly determined to restore some orcy pride. The ball carrying wolf is running backwards and forwards behind the thinning line of undead, looking for an out; the orcs are closing in. And closing in.
In turn 7 groovy had 4 players on the pitch and none of them vertical; I had enough players left to cover all of them, have a one-orc guard detail on my ball carrier even though he was out of reach of any of groovy's players, and still spare 5 orcs for the foul assist that killed groovy's werewolf.

1-0 in touchdowns, something like 10-1 in armour breaks. (one KO'd orc, one sent off, 2 un-undead undeads and a handful of KO's, plus a couple of surfs)


In the second half, the crowd swarmed the pitch and took out half of my team. Literally half - I had 9 orcs and a goblin lined up, and then I had 3 orcs and a goblin standing up. We'd lined up 10v9, thanks to Groovy's spare players and bloodweiser babe.
Things quickly degenerated into an undignified scramble, with most of the second half taking place in a small area near my left sideline, about a third of the way to my goal line.
Groovy almost managed to pull out a draw but couldnt quite managed to both scoop the ball and get away with it. He was still in with a chance right up until the last dice roll of the game, but with the dodge and the tackle zones and the pickup it was a difficult ask for his ghoul, who'd already made heroic efforts in the second half. The game ended with a failed pickup; had he made it he would only have needed a single dodge and a stroll to the line.

Good game Groovy, good game. You had spectacular unluck with the dice.
Still, last time we played you killed two orcs and my goblin got EATEN so I guess these things balance out :)

[duff]

Good game Groovy, good game.

Are you subconciously turning into Brucey?

[President Weasel]

It was a deliberate tribute, after our match the other day. I am pleased you spotted it :)

[Zoraster]

Shall we go for a 16:00 kick-off then?

16:00 Wednesday is in the diary.

[NieA7]

I feel proud to have played a small part in the creation of such art, even as I'm still licking my wounds from the gobbos first proper thrashing. As Jiiiiim said the problem is his humans are just so damn competent - specialist teams seem somewhat easier to deal with, or at least they have up to now. It may have been a mistake to go for Morg and Ripper rather than one of them and a spread of babes, wizard and apos, though passing up on all that strength is hard to do. Still, I got three skill ups out of the game (even though the MVP landed on Ripper) and enough cash to get a pogo, onwards!

[groovychainsaw]

Yup, as weasel said, a true nuffling last night. Shortest match report I've ever done below ;-).

I cage up, look to break the line... look to break the line. Why does my armour keep breaking. Retreat retreat retreat. Only 3 players able to stand up. Can't even stand someone up to save my wolf from being stamped on. He's dead now (I'm now on my 5th werewolf since joining the open!). TD to weasel, turn 8.

Kickoff. A couple of KOs come back. I'm up to 9 vs 10. One bit of luck - half of weasels team goes down stunned. He retreats, I go all out. 6 turns of bashing around the ball later, I'm down to 5 players again, and just can't get a lucky break to force a draw. Game over 1-0 weasel.

Yup, I was nuffled. Even with the ball in the hands of a wolf I couldn't break weasel's line. Over 50% of his hits broke armour (one of the best sets of armour breaks I've ever seen, getting a 21.66 from BBManager), leaving me stunned, KOd and occasionally dead. His D6 rolls were good, and he rolled many more pows than me. Meanwhile, I rolled lots of 1s, a quarter of my rolls were skulls (I double/single skulled out a couple of times even with rerolls) and my armour breaks were woeful, scoring one KO all game (-10 in BBmanager). So yeah, I was pretty lucky to stick in it to the end, but I think nuffle was just toying with me. There was no way I was going to score with those dice.

Unless I see marked improvement (in my own playing ability!), I think I'll drop the Necros for the following season. 4 losses to only 1 win so far this season (matching my poor record from the previous season) and all those losses seemed to leave me out of options very early in the game. I don't think I can work out how to play necros. Next season, I'll pick someone a bit tougher. Skaven, maybe ;-)

[Indefatigible Snoozer]

@Grinn
Next weekend being the weekend of 24-25 March?
During the week matches have become quite difficult recently, so it will have to be that weekend. Mornings are better, the earlier the better, Sunday morning being better than Saturday. Can I tentatively suggest 8am, knowing that's usually too early for normal people?

[duff]

Shall we say monday 8pm?

Sorry, missed this, that sounds good, catch you then.

[Janek]

Hands: Oh uh yeah Monday at 8 is good I think yes.

[ChainsawHands]

Cool, see you then.

[grinn]

@Grinn
Next weekend being the weekend of 24-25 March?
During the week matches have become quite difficult recently, so it will have to be that weekend. Mornings are better, the earlier the better, Sunday morning being better than Saturday. Can I tentatively suggest 8am, knowing that's usually too early for normal people?

:o 8am? 10am GMT might be more realistic ;)

[grinn]

Ps Snoozer, what have you been sacrificing to nuffle to get those str and ag boosts ??
5 seasons and I ve yet to see a single str boost!

[Prester John]

7ish on Sunday it is!

Oops sorry, somethings come up - can't make it tonight - whens the next best time for you now?

[Jolima]

Oops sorry, somethings come up - can't make it tonight - whens the next best time for you now?

Tuesday at 8pm?

[mrpier]

Me and Laneford played our helves vs helves match yesterday, it ended 4-3 in my favour. I had 350k in inducements and used it on a wizard, a bribe and an extra reroll. Lanefords helves are hideously skilled, but they lacked manpower, having to start with one journeyman. Having quite a lot of -AV on his team didn't help either when my armour breaks started rolling in, luckily for him it was mostly badly hurts, but I think it was five of his helves in the injury box at the end of the match. That being said I never felt secure in my lead, two one turn touchdowns from laneford and five or six (mostly) failed one dice blitzes on my ballcarrier in the middle of the cage made sure of that. Highlights for me in the match was downing a whole cage of helves with the wizard and BH one of them in the process, and having the time and luxury to use five elves to crowdsurf a sidestepper (also BH if I remember correctly).

Thanks for the game Laneford, if you'd had better luck on the armour rolls there's no way I would have walked away from this match with a win.

[Prester John]

Tuesday at 8pm?

Great! See you then.

[duff]

My lizzies managed to grab a 2-0 against Lowkey's nurgle last night. It was one of those games that was actually reasonably close fought, but some bad luck which led to early turnovers for Lowkey in crucial turns allowed me to run away with it.

First half I kicked off and Lowkey started a tightly packed drive centered around his Beast. I plunged my saurus in and this scruffle took over most of the half. It looked like Lowkey was starting to push through when his runner got antsy and broke for it. Thankfully I could free a saurus for the blitz, and to add insult to injury, a skink relay ensured a quick counter attack to score on turn 8.

Second half the kick went out and so I was able to give the ball to a saurus on the right wing hoping to bag 3 precious SPP. I pushed hard down the right, perhaps a bit too quickly and I overstretched myself, but luckily Lowkey failed a dodge with his dodge chaos warrior (I think) when trying to shift over to cover my advance. This let my saurus run in unopposed for 2-0. Though somehow I had managed to miscount and he was still 1SPP away from a level (despite me having several saurus on my team within 3SPP of a ding), what an idiot I am.

[LowKey]

Aye i couldnt break through those cold blooded sacks of muscle, i had to make a break for it at the end of the half for a chance to score, duff also killed another pestigore (even with an inducement igor!) leaving me with only 6 players higher than level 1 and one skilled peatigore, i really hate this team

[Zoraster]

The Garfighters embark on their make or break run of nightmare fixtures stealing a 2-1 triumph against Drawlien’s ‘zons. It was a tense encounter with fortune oscillating madly and all results possible right up until the final turn.

Perversely the game probably turned on Drawlien taking the lead. It was a defensive score after I’d been hopelessly bogged down, lost the ball, pulled off a last ditch surf to get the ball back, fluffed a pick up and finally gone behind in turn 7. While you would never turn down the defensive score it did give me a Turn 8 LoS to hit some ‘zons. Two stuns left me feeling a tad despondent, but the third hit put the rookie Blitzer out the match. Even better Drawlien opted to foul a ‘zerker and got sent off. Only a rookie, but it reduced him to 10 men at best. French Fancy failed her KO roll, leaving Drawlien down to 9 men for his first possession. It wasn’t decisive yet, but a perfect defence on kick off combined with snakes ending the first three Zon turns of the half really transformed the game.

The final drive began with Drawl down to six players with four turns to go... and I got a blitz. The Lady briefly swapped sides with a perfect punt leaving the ball in the end-zone and Drawlien’s AG4 and well timed armour breaks combining with Norse handling errors to leave the Panthers within touching distance of a heroic victory. Instead superior numbers told as the Norse finally decided it would be an idea to pick the ball up rather than leave it in the end-zone. An end-to-end two turn play ended the contest.

[drawlien]

My Agi4 blitzer failed 2 pick-ups in the end-zone to win the game. :(

However, it did make for a very exciting match. To be honest I thought the writing was on the wall when I only had 6 players for the 3rd kick-off, so managing to get so close to scoring a second was a small victory in itself.

Thanks for the game Zoraster, it was good fun as always.

[Zoraster]

To be fair to her it was only one pick up she failed – the last reroll had already gone on a dodge in traffic away from a tackler – and she had to deal with negative modifiers. That moment is typical of my season thus far; how many times in the game did you make pick ups in TZs? Four or five times wasn't it? But when it really mattered you fail. Currently I seem to be getting the dice going my way when it comes to the really decisive moments.

[drawlien]

No, let's expose her true rubbishness. Admittedly one of the failed pick-ups was actually the square next to the end-zone which knocked the ball into the end-zone. Then you hit her next turn and she sidestepped onto the ball and failed to pick it up again!

[HughTower]

No, let's expose her true rubbishness. Admittedly one of the failed pick-ups was actually the square next to the end-zone which knocked the ball into the end-zone. Then you hit her next turn and she sidestepped onto the ball and failed to pick it up again!

QUESTION: Can you pick up on a Side Step? I thought not (based on user testing and deep disappointment)...

[ChainsawHands]

No. "Picking up the ball", page 8 of the rules - if a player's pushed back onto the ball (which includes via sidestep) they don't get to pick it up, it bounces. (Of course it may then bounce off of someone else and back onto them, in which case they'd get to try to catch it.)

[Zoraster]

Indeed, and it would be a pretty huge bug if you could... so you probably can in Cyanide :)

[Jolima]

The league was supposed to move on yesterday, but I missed that one match had been scheduled for this morning. The round will end as soon as that is played, which should be in 2 hours or so, and I've marked up the next set of matches in the sheet already if you want to start scheduling.

[Screwie]

Prester John, are you free for our match tonight maybe?

[grinn]

Gears of Mork played Snoozer's Mommy's Boys this morning. A nerve wrecking game for the green-skins facing a wall of juiced-up dead-mans. The orcs receive and initially get bogged down just over mid-pitch. A gap left open by a Tomb Guardian failing a block is exploited by the green cage which repositions itself on the right flank. Mommy's Boys tower all around the firm standing orcs, but with some judicious positioning and a few one-die blocks the Gears' thrower, Zeppi L-Hafi, makes an easy jog to the end line on turn 15.

The Boys have 4 turns to equalize. They start the drive with a push on their left flank, but the effort is soon plugged by the Gears. Re-routing the attack towards the centre and then right, the Boys are surrounded by orcs. The thro-ra manages to dodge out of the green cage and runs up to the far right flank, within reach of the endzone.

The orc fans scream for blood at the site of lonely bony and two blitzers, Gonzi and Agatha Barbara run up for a frenzied blitz. 4 block dice later and the side-stepping thro-ra is still standing. Dodge - Score. The Boys tie the Gears at half time.

The Boys receive and immediately start causing damage - inflicting a pinched nerve on the Gears' troll and sending him out for the next game against another wall of strength. Da Dok is ready to run onto the field but Da Coach stops him. A whole half left and plently of valuable players that will be taking rotten fists to the noggin. The Boys get stuck in mid-pitch with the Gears screening their advance for a few turns. Then the Gears' stand firm blitzers charge into the cage and brace themselves for the oncoming onslaught.

Da Coach's plan works perfectly as the blitzers stand in the face of assault and the Boys are forced backwards. The next turn sees a Black Orc charge the ball carrier but fails to pop the ball free. The blitz actually clears the ball carrier from an otherwise green-hued mess of tackle zones. The thro-ra jogs to the right flank and hands the ball to a blitz-ra that runs up the side with minimal protection. The Gears jump on the opportunity, freeing two of their blitzers and taking down the ball-carrier.

The game is pretty much over for the Boys as they have no players in range for the last turn.

In the Boys' last turn, Anubis, the Str/Ag boosted blitz-ra tries to pick up the ball but fails. The Gears sent two blitzers up towards the end-zone in a desperate attempt to secure the match. In the last turn the thrower is in range of the guarded ball but the snow-storm that's range does not allow him to pass to Mintoff, the waiting blitzer. But the downed Agatha Barbara jumps up, picks up the guarded ball, dodges out and hands off the ball to the Zeppi il-Hafi, who now has enough movement to reach the waiting Mintoff with a 2+ pass. The pass is made... the fans burst into a frenzy...

and Mintoff fails the catch.

The game ends in a draw.

Thanks, Snoozer for an exciting game!

[President Weasel]

So it's the Storm Boyz against Zoraster's unbeaten Strenous Garfighters this week. When works for you, Zoraster?

[Janek]

Drawlien: I'm free almost any time at weekends, or after maybe 6pm during the week. State your preferences!

[NieA7]

Mr Pier, I'm going to be busy most of next week unfortunately - can you make some time next Sunday?

[grinn]

Duffindor, Monday or Tuesday night for a game? 10pm CPH time both days would work a treat...

[drawlien]

Hi Janek! Can you do about 8pm on Tuesday or Wednesday?

[Janek]

Tuesday at 8 sounds good.

[mrpier]

Mr Pier, I'm going to be busy most of next week unfortunately - can you make some time next Sunday?

Unkown, it's the start of easter holidays, so I might be afk a lot.

[drawlien]

Tuesday at 8 it is then.

[Zoraster]

So it's the Storm Boyz against Zoraster's unbeaten Strenous Garfighters this week. When works for you, Zoraster?

Ah, orcs. Norse kryptonite. With both you and Grinn in the next four rounds, sandwiching the Lizards and Goblins (two other races who oft destroy Norse) this is the defining spell of the season for my lads. Getting to round ten still in touch with the leaders and with team more-or-less intact will make a championship challenge an obtainable target... easier said than done though :) Bloody AV9 spoiling our tactics :(

Wednesday at 19:00?

[President Weasel]

Everything* appears to be Storm Boyz kryptonite at the moment, including Grinn's orcs. I warn you, his orcs are orcier than mine are. Wednesday at 1900 should be fine, although I might be a few minutes late. I'll mark it in my diary.



(*apart from Groovy's necros, who forgot to put their armour on that day)

[groovychainsaw]

Laneford! I believe we're up next - I need someone to level up my new wolf against and your elves look tasty :-). When are you free? I'm available tonight and weds night for sure.

[Prester John]

Prester John, are you free for our match tonight maybe?

Sorry missed this... free any evening except friday this week from about 7

Cardiff - Swansea match ehh!! :)

[Screwie]

Hehe, ok I will try and grab you on Steam some time this week. Typically I'm free to play after 8pm.

[duff]

Duffindor, Monday or Tuesday night for a game? 10pm CPH time both days would work a treat...

Sadly I can't do either of those. I'm playing in the DoD tonight and going out on (jagerbomb) Tuesday. Will probably be out on Wednesday aswell. Thurs - Sat should be doable though, sorry busy week this week. :(

[laneford]

Laneford! I believe we're up next - I need someone to level up my new wolf against and your elves look tasty :-). When are you free? I'm available tonight and weds night for sure.

I can probably play tonight, I'll pop on steam and see if I can see you, otherwise Wednesday is fine.

[NieA7]

Unkown, it's the start of easter holidays, so I might be afk a lot.

I think I can make any time on Sunday so I can fit in around your schedule. Failing that Thursday night from 20:00 is a possibility.

[mrpier]

Thursday night is the one night I can't play this week :) Although sunday is probably possible now that I think about it.

[LowKey]

Holy heck Jolima, we're to make blood of bowl, I am away this weekend so can play any evening before/after

[HughTower]

Jiiiim - we're up, it seems. But your computer is sick. So I'll await your command. And our song.

[drawlien]

Janek and I played our match last night. A deadly combination of only 1 player with tackle and failing ball-handling rolls 2 or 3 turns in a row for the Necromantic team meant my 'Zons went up 2 - 0 in the first half, both defensive TDs.

However, to make things a bit more interesting in the second half, the +Agi Blitzer who failed to win me the match last time round decided to fail a dodge when the ball-carrier was in a precarious position and no safeties were deployed. This led to Janek scoring a defensive TD of his own with 3 turns left to equalize. Fortunately, the Panthers were able to hold onto the ball (and would have scored if there was an extra turn) and so the match ended 2 - 1.

Thanks for the game Janek.

[Zoraster]

Pres quick heads up; I may be a wee bit late tonight. A highly attractive and intelligent lady has annexed my PC for a BB game prior to our meeting. There is more than two hours in between so it should be fine, but I know her opponent – he makes Hugh look like Usain Bolt – so if they start late, have a blitz or riot adding turns etc it will be a bit tight. Sorry in advance.

[Screwie]

Prester John, I will make sure to be available online tonight for some BB. Come find me on Steam if you're free.

[HughTower]

– he makes Hugh look like Usain Bolt –

I don't suppose you mean tall, black and muscular...? No? You sure?

[President Weasel]

Zoraster and I played our game today, and Nuffle and the block dice made it very clear who they wanted to win.

Picture the scene - the ball is deep in my half in the hands of my thrower. There is one lone norseman causing trouble in the backfield, but I can knock him down, get my thrower back to safety with the Green Wall, and start work on my Field Marshal Haig style battle plan of marching slowly forwards til they run out of vikings.
The dice come up double skulls.
I reroll.
Two more skulls.
You realise I am not talking about both downs here, I am describing 4 dice and 4 skulls, a 1/1296 chance.

I picked skulls, obviously. I got a turnover, obviously, and my poor thrower never got the chance to head to the welcoming arms of my pack of orcs. Instead he was sacked. More vikings headed towards the melee, and a few turns later Zoro scored.

The dice went my way for a little while, and with vikings piling up in the injury box things werent looking too bleak. Then Zoraster made a break with the ball - this time I rolled 6 dice against his ball carrier and couldn't come up with a pow or stumble to save my life. Not a 1300 to 1 job that time, but still pretty gutting. Zoraster rolled a successful wild animal and a couple of go for its with his troll, chainpushed his ball carrier to the edge of the little knot of 4 orcs around him, made the dodge, and took a 2-0 lead.

I was still breaking armour but getting too many stuns and KOs for my troubles, and the stunned guys kept getting up. I did manage a touchdown of my own to claw back to 2-1 but after that Zoraster sensibly ran the ball into his own corner and protected the ball carrier and his win for the handful of remaining turns.


Some very nice play from Zoraster in there, but I'm blaming the dice for my not gettign at least a draw out of this. 1300 to 1!

[Prester John]

Red Rose of Love 3- Sticky Fingerz 2

Red Rose show the love in a fun game against the Fingerz. Gobbos begin with a 1 turn TD featuring goblin throwing. The Wood Elves consult the rulebook but apparently its not against the rules to throw teamates. Protests will be made. Rose score a TD in a couple of turns hoping to sack the goblins after they recieve but despite heroic (guard, really need to keep an eye out for guard) attempt by the glorious wardancers the goblins take a 2-1 lead at halftime. Woodelves seem to get worse of injuries but Gobbos are dirty and have many chainsaw and bomb throwing fanatics in the Sin bin.

Second Half the Rose recieves and despite losing the ball on the initial drive manage to get a TD when the gobbos force it out of bounds and its chucked in near the Elven catcher - who was near the Gobbo endzone. Two all.

Gobbo's recieve and bring the ball into the centre of the pitch surrounded by Ogres and Gobbos. melee insues led by the Woodelf Treeman ("Love hurts" - i like that name) ball drops here and there but Woodelves run away with it to score on their last turn.

Final 3-2 to Rose, fun game.. It was a game of 2 halves, Blood Bowl was the winner and Gobbos - are you mad!!!

thanks Screwie

[NieA7]

Thursday night is the one night I can't play this week :) Although sunday is probably possible now that I think about it.

Twas ever thus :) Well, if you know a time on Sunday you'll be free I'm happy to meet up then, otherwise I doubt I'll ever be more than an hour or two away from checking steam so you can just msg me on the day. I'm on holiday the following week so if you can't make Sunday pretty much any time any day after is fine too.

[groovychainsaw]

Hi Laneford, as I didn't see you free last night, how's sunday morning sound? I'll try to catch you before then on steam, but if not, then will that work as a backstop?

[Indefatigible Snoozer]

Mr Chainsawhands - are you free to play on Saturday morning? 9am-ish would be ideal.

[ChainsawHands]

That's... not really going to work, I'm moving on Saturday (with probably post-move internet issues to follow). I suppose it's unlikely you'd be free tonight?

[ChainsawHands]

Actually fuck it, 9am on Saturday it is.

[grinn]

Hey Duff, are we good for Saturday morning around 11am Copenhagen time (10 uk I think)?

[Indefatigible Snoozer]

Actually fuck it, 9am on Saturday it is.

We can go earlier if you like. The earlier, the better in fact. Shall we start the bidding at 4am?

[ChainsawHands]

Ha ha ha, no. 9am on a Saturday is quite early enough, thanks; do they even make any times before 9am on a Saturday morning?