RPS Blood Bowl League - The many, many Divisions of Death!

[Jiiiiim]

Just played Jolima.

Jolee, jolee, jolee, jolee-maah
I'm begging of you please don't break my mans
Jolee, jolee, jolee, jolee-mah
Please don't break them just because you can

Your vampires are beyond compare
With block and dodge and stats to spare
With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green
Your thralls are a refreshing drink
Your vamps will want to take, I think
And I cannot compete with you, jolima

You blitz into me as I sleep
There's nothing I can do to keep
the ball, when you blitz my mans, jolima

And I can easily understand
How you could easily touchdown then
But you don't know what skinks can do, jolima

Jolee, jolee, jolee, jolee-maah
I'm begging of you please don't take my skink
Jolee, jolee, jolee, jolee-maah
Please don't tackle him just because you can

You could have my lizardmen
But I could never play again
They're the only ones for me, jolima

I had to have this talk with you
My happiness depends on you
And whatever you decide to do, jolima

Jolee, jolee, jolee, jolee-mah
I'm begging of you please don't break my mans
Jolee, jolee, jolee, jolee-maaah
Please don't break them even though you can

Joleee, joleeeeemaaaah.

He may have to do the coherent version of this match report but it was my general feelings.

[President Weasel]

Jim is the best. It is true.

[Jolima]

Right.

So I started out kicking, got a blitz and got hold of the ball but Jiiiiim got a skink in for support and blitzed my vampire with a Saurus, knocking the ball free again. The ball remained outside of true control for several more turns, but I was starting to feel I had some control of it, with the ball in the center of a blob of thralls and vampires while the lizards were getting worn down far faster than my team. That turned out to be a false feeling as the ballcarrier was blitzed down and the ball bounced right out onto a skink, who failed to catch it while bouncing, but ran right after it and snatching it out of range of my team. Some attempts at chainpushing to get someone after him failed and Jiiiiiim scored the turn after.

I now had 4 turns to counter, which felt like it should be easily doable seing as Jiiiiiiim was down 3 Saurus to KO and several skinks, but I didn't want to score too early to give him a chance for another counter. I set up for bashing my way through his front line but was eventually flanked and some skinks with sidestep/diving tackle got in contact with my ballcarrying vampire on the final turn. I handed the ball over to another vampire (or tried to, he got bloodlust and apparently the handoff became a pass instead while he was eating). This vampire was still next to a skink, but not one with diving tackle, and had to succeed in a 3+ followed by a 2+ dodge to get away. The first dodge succeded after using up the dodge skill, but the second one failed. (I still would have required 4 or so more rolls to score.)

Still 1-0 at halftime.

Another attempt at scoring went better, though still not without potential for failure and it was 1-1 after a few turns into the second half.

The Lizards now only had two skinks left for their offence. One of them got hold of the ball and hid behind a wall of Saurus. I tried to convince one of them to let me pass by to blitz the skink, but he wouldn't have it. Not even when a second vampire joined in.

The skink made a run into my field and my defenders were marked up to prevent easy blitzing. I tried dodging some thralls away to get at him, but one fell over and the skink could score to make it 2-1.

I now had 2 turns left to earn a draw and ran most of my team into his field while trying to mark his Saurus. This left the thrall with the ball unfortunately within range of the skinks, one of which tried a blitz but got a double skull and just knocked himself down. Next turn I could pass the ball up and score with a vampire after just some complications with bloodlust on a vampire supposed to free up the thrower with a blitz.

Thanks for the game and thanks for the song Jiiiiim.

[LowKey]

Jim is the best. It is true.

"Striking and heart breakingly beautiful, 10 out of 10"

- Everyone

[imirk]

0-1 Ragecakes over the Black Orc Bettys,

it was a game of wildly swinging luck and green mans hitting green mans. First half was pretty orcy lots of hitting and little to no ball movement, good early blocking put Ragecage in a good position and he was able to dislodge the ball, but some bad luck including rolling quad skulls meant he couldn't convert, So the second half was a start of a new game with Ragecage receiving, but a pitch invasion stunned 9 of my players, In a bit of haste to capitalize on the situation the ball ended up on the ground near the touchline, and I was able to recover but couldn't get the support to keep the ball. Ragecage eventually recovered and was able to press home for the score on turn 16. the final turn saw another pitch invasion downing 8 orcs, so all I got were my 3 LOS hits and that is all she wrote.

[Sgt.Ragekage]

Div E

Imirk1 0 v ragecakes 1

One big orc fest? I was expecting to wake up tommorrow and have to explain to our lass why i was covered in green spores...
yet she missed out on all the white ones...


Anyhoo. Two orc teams, both taken a battering recently, meet on the field of nuffle. He is in a particularly dwarfish mood and must have been on the old xxxxxx. One injury all match and thats just badly hurt. The rest of it pretty much went along the lines of everyone meet in the middle and pound on each other until gork comes out your mostrils.

Half time, nil nil, not much death and destruction. Then nuffle stirkes. I recieve the kick off this half and BANG, pitch invasion. 2 FAME to 0 means your getting it in the MORK. nine of imirks players get stunned to my one. Ouch. Bitch slapped back to bangkok.

With two free turns and not much else to do, after a few blitz' it ended up as one nil to me. Bar kick off rolls it was a really tight, enjoyable match. Tis always fun to beat the yanks tho ;)

[ntw]

I propose that Jiiiim does everyones match reports from this time onwards - all in favour?

[ntw]

Results validated, Div3 & DivF rolled on

[potatoedoughnut]

I propose that Jiiiim does everyones match reports from this time onwards - all in favour?

Sounds good. I'll start sending my replays your way Jiiiim.

[Vexing Vision]

I propose that Jiiiim does everyones match reports from this time onwards - all in favour?

Only if he doesn't sing.

[squirrelfanatic]

Hurra, my Blood Bowl copy has arrived in the mail. However, I won't join your dastardly deviant Divisions before the cycle after the next one (mid-end of October) since I want to get a better understanding of the game and will be on holidays at the beginning of next month anyways.

I will register in time as soon as I have made a decision about what race and style to play. By the looks of it, good ol' Chaos seems to be pretty popular around here as well, eh? ;)

Looking forward to play with you guys!

[Arnisarus]

do not get put off by any bugs you encounter, they sometimes add some spice to games :)

[ntw]

Hurra, my Blood Bowl copy has arrived in the mail. However, I won't join your dastardly deviant Divisions before the cycle after the next one (mid-end of October) since I want to get a better understanding of the game and will be on holidays at the beginning of next month anyways.

I will register in time as soon as I have made a decision about what race and style to play. By the looks of it, good ol' Chaos seems to be pretty popular around here as well, eh? ;)

Looking forward to play with you guys!

Coward! Surely the pressure of playing in the Divisions would be just the incentive you need to understand the game... ;)

Register first, worry about race and style afterwards. And Chaos is popular because everybody loves to grow an extra arm and beat up Elves (and in the game!)

[imirk]

Chaos are a bit trickey to start with though since they've no starting skills.

[squirrelfanatic]

Nice try ntw, but I won't feed your bloated goat(men) those juicy rookie players that easily (and in the game!). Chaos seem to be the typical late-game powerhouses if built well, so I can understand why they are so present everywhere you look in BB-land. I will possibly go with Orcs but as I said that is still something I will have to decide on after a few training matches.

[Arnisarus]

orcs are a good choice for beginners, they can soak up alot of damage, and the blitzers start with block so you've at least got some options in the start games. Also 4 strength 4 black orcs makes for a tasty line against squishy teams :D

just forget about throwing in the early game, or infact never throw unless you have to :) pick it up with a blitzer since they are fastest and have block and just cage him all the way up, try get kick off retrun on your ball carrier early too since fast dodgy teams may get to him before he manages to move into a cage. Sodding elves

[squirrelfanatic]

Thanks for the heads-up, Arni. I am currently reading up some basic information about the teams and basic tactics (caging, 2-1 grind, massive swearing, etc.). I still experience some difficulties with grasping the overall reasoning behind some playstyles, but this is mainly due to the sheer wealth of different skills (and their possible combinations and implications for your game) and player statistics that I have to hammer into my head.

I guess it all comes down to practice and experience and a light-hearted attitude towards loosing. :)

[imirk]

I guess it all comes down to practice and experience and a light-hearted attitude towards loosing. :)

You'll be fine!

[LowKey]

Nice try ntw, but I won't feed your bloated goat(men) those juicy rookie players that easily (and in the game!). Chaos seem to be the typical late-game powerhouses if built well, so I can understand why they are so present everywhere you look in BB-land. I will possibly go with Orcs but as I said that is still something I will have to decide on after a few training matches.

Undead my boy Undead, a great all round team and quite beginner friendly, you wont be playing a passing game but ghouls can be surprisingly nimble when necessary and make good blitzers after receiving block, zombies are my favourite cheap linemen with ok AV and regen, wights start with block and good access to skills and of course Mummies, who are just lovely

The Undead are also surprisingly under represented in the DoD at the moment

[Xercies]

Also realise that several games you might win or lose because you got lucky or the other team got lucky. One of the greatest things about this game is you don't really know whats going to happen sometimes :)