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

[President Weasel]

Ripper Bolgrot: cannot punch an elf wearing butter.

But he is rather good at throwing stunties at other players' heads, if that's any consolation. Oh wait, it wasn't.

Aeris, there are three things you can do against frenzy.

1) stand 3 or more squares from the side (not ideal as it lets the enemy players use the sides of the pitch without needing to dodge past your mans)

2) kill all of them (ideal, but often difficult)

3) put players in covering positions. Let's use X for your mans and O for his. (And | for the edge)

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|X - very bad, even a non frenzy can push him off the pitch
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| X - still bad, a frenzy player can push him off the pitch
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|XX - safe! no frenzy man can get either of these off the pitch - unless he has help.
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|XX -not safe, your other player there could act as a 'backstop' and let the frenzy man shunt your player with his second push
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|X


|XX - not even slightly safe; a single diagonal push from above and to the right of your left hand man sends him off the pitch.
|O
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|O
|XX - this is the least safe one of all. Frenzy could take both Xes out with one fell swoop.
|O
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Diagrams are awesome. However I suspect these might be a little opaque. Maybe you already know all there is to know about crowd surfing and my awesome diagrams are pointless.
However, the main thing to remember about crowd surfing is that the game only lets you do it if there isn't a free square on the pitch to push them to.
Hit someone at a diagonal, and they'll just slide along the edge of the pitch, unless there's a 'backstop' there - if there's a player in that square, they cant be pushed there and they go off the pitch.
(if there's a player in all three possible destination squares you get to pick qhich of the three squares to push your victim to, and the occupant of that square gets 'dominoed' one square further on - so it's possible in one of those examples to frenzy two players off the pitch if you blitz them from the side and get the right rolls.

Hey wait, 4) skills - side step or stand firm is incredibly annoying to frenzy players.

(or fend, which is particularly annoying as it tends to get taken by the fancy-dan skill-fop characters which you particularly want to follow up on so you can continue to punch them)

[Rakysh]

Or fend. I fucking hate fend.

[boots468]

My Lizards enter their fourth season in the Divisions and for the very first time play a team who isn't Orc or Skaven. Unfortunately, it is instead a skilled up Dwarf team, heavy in tackle, mighty blow and guard. Oh well.

Wizard and Babe in tow (just 10k short of Sibili!) I set up to kick in a defensive formation, hiding tke skinks well away. Alini's first turn sets the tone for the rest of his half, as his runner fails the pick up. The next five turns are merely a push-fest, with one or two people being stunned, but pretty much ending up with the teams back in their starting line-ups. Running out of time a bit, the Dwarfs break for it through a small gap and form a loose cage. A few pushes later and I get a 2d block on the ball carrier. The ball falls very nicely for a skink and I threaten a break down the left, but a runner manages to GFI to blitz him off of the pitch. The half thus ends with 0 touchdowns, injuries, KOs or even passes.

Second half starts with a crowd thrown rock stunning a Dorf Blitzer. Accordingly, I throw all my lizards down that flank and in turn 11 am just a blitz and a GFI from scoring. Instead, i misclick and try and dodge the Krox into 3 tackle zones. It doesn't work. Thankfully the blitz on the ball carrier skink even after a reroll only ends on a push, and with the Wizard's help, shortly manage to get the skink on the goal line, out of blitz range. He is put in a tackle zone though, and I fail the dodge of a different skink coming to blitz him free. Now the skink is in trouble and doesn't get lucky with the block dice this time and is knocked down, dead. The apothecary earns his wage by confirming he is indeed quite dead. The ball is then picked up by a blodging dwarf and things look less good for me. Luckily though, a re-rolled Saurus blitz knocks the Dwarf down and a skink manages to pick it up and run it in.

1-0 to the Lizardmen (turn 13).

The dwarfs next have an admirable try at a 3 turn touchdown, but they aren't really built for it and have to resort to a desperate pass. Somehow a Saurus intercepts it, but has no room to move, and in the final turn is knocked down. To get the equaliser, the only Dwarf in range is a quadruple-marked blitzer. Nonetheless, the runner gives it a go, but fails the pick-up, in a repeat of the first turn.

Final score - 1-0.

Thanks for the good game Alini - I was expecting this to be a skink bloodbath, but only one player was taken off the pitch hurt all game between us, which is nice. Even though the armour rolls weren't favouring you at all, that massed Guard and Tackle made playing very hard, and you very nearly made me pay for attempting to stall my score.

[squirrelfanatic]

Nullkigan's Dark Elves gave you forum guys a really good spanking. 4-1 for the Dark Elves.

[mrpier]

B

|O
|XX - this is the least safe one of all. Frenzy could take both Xes out with one fell swoop.
|O

This was done to me in a match, although I can't remember who I played against, might have been in the Open to.

[squirrelfanatic]

Ripper Bolgrot: cannot punch an elf wearing butter.

I remember it slightly differently: Ripper hit quite a lot of elves, they just refused to die. He even made his Loner roll for re-rolling a going-for-it. He's awesome. It was just a shame that I had no idea how to chainpush your _ _ _ _ | _ X _ X _ X _ | _ _ _ _ elves on the LoS.

[Alini]

It's like the tender, squishy skinks were kept cruelly away from my friendly boys by a wall of scaly teeth. Totally unfair, but nicely played ;)

[Alistair Hutton]

I am so terrified of play laneford's Nurgle. So damn scared, especially with my star Blitzer out.

[wink5000]

Xenny still around? If so reply here http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/foru...=64&do=discuss

[Dentharial]

Da Blu Moonz (Dentharial, Orcs) VS Agathis Avengers (AgP, WElves)

In an attempt to inhibit my wordiness, my match reports this season will be performed in limericks.

The first half was steady but slow
Since the orc players lack mighty blow
The elves' careful retreat
Means their team's not too beat
But the half ends with a score of One-Oh


A blitz at the start means there's trouble
Orcs surround the elves in a huddle
The orcs charge the back
And their plan is on track
To win without much of a struggle


The orcs are now getting ahead
So the elf coach grabs at a thread
The elf thrower GFIs
But then promptly dies
And the apo brings him back from the dead


The elves started out with eleven
But the orcs have by now removed seven
Two more are ejected
(Their limbs still connected!)
And the orcs feel like they are in heaven


The elves bravely block 2-against
But the end of the match has been sensed
There's not much more to tell
AgP was just swell
This screenshot tells the story, condensed

waaagh.jpg

Final Score: ​Da Blu Moonz 2 - 0 Agathis Avengers

[Gorm]

I always read GFI's as Go For Its so the limerick didnt work for me until i thought about it. Good work otherwise sounds like a brutal/beautifully told game.

[DWZippy]

Yet another game where I didn't earn a single SSP. Pheonix graciously let me skip the last few turns of the match, because I thought it would be unfair to ragequit.

[DWZippy]

I think I'm going to re-roll at the end of this season as Undead or Chaos..

[20phoenix]

Thanks for the game darkwing. Playing skaven who have a numerical advantage can be a nightmare as they can literally get everywhere. I also had the help of some generous kick off rolls (blitz and perfect defense).

Good luck for the rest of the season and I hope you stick it out.

[aerisdead]

I think I'm going to re-roll at the end of this season as Undead or Chaos..

I don't know if this maybe isn't ok, but I'm already considering re-rolling my Chaos team for next season because I didn't realize you could name/change the visuals of your player at the moment you buy them and I'd like my team to be a bit more personal!

I'm gasping to play more games though... I've decided not to play the CPU any more.

[boots468]

Nice match report Dentharial! Also, congrats on breaking many elfs. You're doing Nuffle's work.

[Heliocentric]

@Denth More of this sort of thing I think.

[Heliocentric]

I think I'm going to re-roll at the end of this season as Undead or Chaos..

I'll just offer some experience on undead.

Your linemen will be dependant on mvp to level you'll be playing for many seasons before you can manage to get a wall of block on the LOS, something which you'd expect for a supposedly bashy team.

[Alistair Hutton]

I'll just offer some experience on undead.

Your linemen will be dependant on mvp to level you'll be playing for many seasons before you can manage to get a wall of block on the LOS, something which you'd expect for a supposedly bashy team.

Undead are pigeon-holed in the utility part of the spectrum along with Humans. They're not unbashy but they aren't "bashy" if you know what I mean.

[Rakysh]

*wink*

Yeah, they're similar to Necromantic in that regard. They're the bashy end of the middle of the spectrum. Bashy is Dorfs, Khemri, Chaos Dorfs, and maybe orcs at the utility end of the bashy spectrum.

We need a graph for this.