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Many of you probably aren't aware that we have a fairly successful blood bowl community hidden away in our Gaming Graveyard Ghetto. We've had somewhere north of 30 active players since the current incarnation started last year. So for an f13 project, better than anything that doesn't involve monocles or night elves.

We play Blood Bowl Chaos Edition, which is a more or less faithful interpretation of the GW board game. A turn based strategy game based on warhammer, rugby, raging about dice, and punching elves in the face.

This is a good time to start playing, Season 4 is winding up, and we have a more casual close season swiss league starting up in our feeder league, so people are going to be playing more random new teams rather than the sides they've been developing since last year (feeder league is where we play random matches for shits and giggles, or to train up teams for ~serious business~ season 5).

Blood Bowl Steam Store page (yes, you want the chaos edition)

http://store.steampowered.com/app/216890/

The forum.

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?board=82.0

Pre-season league signups.

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=21053.0

Shit you should know about blood bowl.

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=20271.0

The only thing you need to know about Blood Bowl is that Steam-user Ruvaldt is up for Feeder League games any time he is online, and will merrily give you advice while tapdancing on your players' faces.

Essentially if you bought it on summer sale and haven't bothered to install it yet make sure you do so asap because the lead up to another league season seems to be on.

f13 League Season #4 is two matches away (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=21068.0) from the Super Bloody Bowl. Season#5 will start in September with pre-signing in late August.
In the meantime there's plenty of time to practice in the Feeder League (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=20399.0), minmax your Feeder Team to make sure it will get to Season #5 with some tricks under the hood, and Eldaec's pre-season new extravaganza called Drilling & Manliness Trophy (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=21053.0) that certainly can use some noob blood.

Please don't feel intimidated by coming late to the party. The Blood Bowl lair is the the bloodiest and yet the nicest side of the f13 experience. Everyone is super friendly and ready to help explain the intricacies of the game and the suckiness of the UI. No matter how bad of a player you are, I am probably worse. Just join.

(Stalkers are welcome to the f13 sub-community, although to join the Main League Season #5 you might have to go through the Qualification Round! (this (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=20751.0)) Everyone is still more than welcome to the Feeder League and the other stuff.)

Actually, there is one more thing you should know.

I don't know a single person who has had a DRM problem with BB. /shrug

But..but...it's eeeeviiiilllllll

One more sign up for preseason league would bring us to 24 and be pretty much perfect.

Alas, if I didn't have finals over the next two weeks, I would likely give this a shot despite being a 100% noob.

Impulse is have a sale on the Blood Bowl Dark Elves Edition - DO NOT BUY

It's an old version that is incompatible with the Legendary Edition we're using for the League.

All of the successful F13 communities are in the Graveyard, so this is no shock.

Yeah, this will be our last season.  :cthulu:

Shush, you are ruining my plans :why_so_serious:

You know, being out of the Graveyard is weird. It makes you feel exposed to predators.
Also, first game ever to go STRAIGHT to the Graveyard, and first game ever to come out of it?

I keep going to click in the wrong place on the forum index. Habits are funny things. WHAR DID THE BBB FORUM GO!?!

Not even the second to go straight to the yard - but first to come out AFAIK.

Really? What other game got a Graveyard-native forum?

I'm certain this will go on sale again with Steam...when it does, I'll grab it up.  Never played the table-top version, but it certainly looks fun enough.

Per the top 10 thread, F13.net is now officially a Blood Bowl slash fighter jet fan community.

 :ye_gods:

Pre-season is winding up and Falconeer is muttering about season 5 of the main league thing.

What I'm saying is you should be playing Blood Bowl.

Is it too late for a total newb to get in on the action?

It is not too late.  We have a feeder league set up mostly for the purpose of team-building for the regular season, though a lot of us use it just so we can play some fellow f13ers outside of league matches.  Also, it merits mentioning that new teams have done surprisingly well, even without the feeder league experience, in previous seasons when coached with some expertise.

The sooner the better though.  A lot of us are happy to play feeder league games (myself included) and will give you a ton of tips to improve your game whether you're a total newb or a veteran Blood Bowler.  It really is a supportive, but competitive, community.

I'll pick it up tonight...been meaning to buy something for myself with the little escrow kickback I just got.   :grin:

Excellent.  I look forward to smashing your players' faces.   :drill:

Bring it!  :drill: :drill: :drill:

I wish I had the time and timezone to play in this.

We have people all over the world playing, Azazel! It can make scheduling games tricky but generally not impossible. Actual "time" though, that's harder.

As Sjofn said, we have several people playing from AUS timezones, and thereabouts, as well as several people playing from Europe.  It's never been a problem before.  In fact, my last six games were against people in the UK, Australia or Korea. 

As for actual "time," it's only one game per week if we're talking about the regular league, and one game per week for each additional voluntary side-league, such as the Horns & Hooves league that I organize or the Preseason league that Eldaec organizes.  It doesn't consume that much of a person's schedule apart from the anticipation :argh:.

As with all effective gaming communities....

Posting time >> playing time

A match takes a little over an hour to play out.

How long does the average match take?

f13 rules are 2min rounds and you each get 16 rounds, so I usually plan for at least an hour.  My personal experience says it's closer to 45 minutes, especially as you get better at planning your turns effectively.

Anything up to 1.5 hours is what I plan.

And we have a number of people in AUS timezones and the like, as well as the rest. The only real trouble for me is matchups with those in europe.

Steam sale till 3rd October.

$8.

Jesus fuck, buy this game already.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/58520/

Even girls like it!  :oh_i_see:

 :hello_thar:

I am glad we got to 32 players for Season 5 anyway, we just closed signups. But you guys should get the game now, plenty of time to forge a team in the Feeder League for Season #6 (starting Jannuary 2012).

80% off on Steam this weekend sale.  8 dollars for the Legendary Edition. I suspect I will pick it up before the weekend is out.

I suspect that for eight bucks your post should have said that you already bought it and are in the process of downloading it or already playing ಠ_ಠ

This doesn't last much longer, you should buy this in the next few hours. Or tomorrow for $40. Whatever.

I picked it up and found out I am horrible.  SO horrible.  I'll work on it, but I'm not holding my breath.

We have a lot of terrible blood bowl players, you'll fit right in.

(It's me, I'm the terrible blood bowl player)

Most of the reasons as to why you are horrible can probably be fixed by playing a soft game versus a real person who explains wtf to you while you play. A lot of the rest can be fixed by reading the stickies in the BloodBowl Bullshit sub forum.

This times a thousand.  The rules look SO complicated when you're reading about it (or doing the tutorial), but once you see it in action, it's fairly easy to understand.  We're still in between seasons at the moment, so if you want to play a few games, there's a lot of people who are free for a game or two.

People on these forums are good at games.  REALLY good.  I came to realize this the first time I played an FPS with schild.  It was humbling.  I can only imagine playing BloodBowl with you lot would be the same, humbling experience. 

Still... at $8 I should probably pick this up. 

Join the F13 Bloodbowlers (http://steamcommunity.com/groups/f13bb) group on Steam and harrass anyone who's online for a game. There's a helpful ranking in the BB stickies of the regular players and so you can avoid the sharks while you find your feet if you like or, alternatively, you can ask one of the top dogs to show you the ropes.

I always feel horrible about starting up something that has a loyal multiplayer following--there's no way not to feel like a complete git, like you're walking out on a tennis court with a squash racquet and wondering what to do next. But I'm kind of intrigued.

The rules are pretty simple and it really doesn't take long to get up to speed with the game.  Once you understand the rules and feel comfortable it never stops being fun in multiplayer leagues.  Everyone here has a great bunch of folks to draw upon for advice and games to help them get better.  I always volunteer for Feeder League games for new coaches to ease them and that offer still stands.

Nebu, honestly I am surprised you haven't joined our lot yet. Not that I know you that well, but I think Blood Bowl is surprisingly underrated to begin with, and so much more between fucks as old as us. You should totally be playing this. The learning curve is steep-ish without a human-guide, but that's easy to fix. As Iain said, join the f13 Steam Group, join the f13 Feeder League and ask for a game. Whoever from f13 will play you will certainly make it into a Blood Bowl free lesson (and given that nuffle is above everyone, you could even win).

Khaldun and Bzalthek, same thing. The game is so good, and it's all about "persistence" and community/smacktalk. Growing your team is just delicious, and sharing that with other f13 fellas is a unique experience not found in any other game.

Finally, as stated before, the f13 Feeder League (as opposed to the f13 Main League, now in Season #5) is not a real League, just an environment that makes it very easy for everyone from f13 to play against each other, test new teams, track progression and eventually promote a team to the Main League for the upcoming open Season #6).

I can't state this enough: the game has terrible UI and does everything to fuck with people (bad clicking, bad luck, takes real geekery to figure your way out of a 1987 boardgame concept), but our f13 paradise is kind and helpful, and by going gentle on your players' bones it helps in getting the best out of this raw gem.

Blood Bowl doesn't really express its potential if you don't join a community. It's along the lines of playing an MMO offline. And don't feel bad for losing, we all do except AndyDavo, and you get progression XP even when you lose.

I agree with everything everyone said here, and can vouch for fun one can have.

As a fellow newb, my advice is the following:

- Play Human.  They're about as middle-of-the-road balanced as you can get, and offer a great way of experimenting with the various aspects of the game (blocking/tackleing, passing/running the ball, etc.)  Beyond humans, you start hitting the see-saw of pros and cons of throwing game vs. running game, bashy teams vs. dodgy teams and risk vs. reward.

- Read the first 15 pages of the rulebook.  That will get you acclimated with the basics of the game.  Then go play story mode for a bit.

- After you've tried a game or two to get a feel for it, go read the advice stickied thread in the BB sub forum.  Lots more stuff that's easy to wrap your head around.

Tried a few games in single player.  I think I understand the blocking aspect mostly but I'm still getting destroyed on easy difficulty.  Where in single player should I be starting?  Campaign, competition, story mode or something else?  Don't really want to hit multiplayer for awhile.  Guess it's time to read the stickies.

Also how many maps are there?  I only saw two of them.  A very dull grass map and a subterranean one I think which was prettier.  I was kind of hoping they'd show more of the fans and cheerleaders, and I'm already annoyed by the announcers.

Turn the announcers volume to zero in options.

Story mode, campaign mode, it doesn't really matter.

Play orc, human, norse, or maybe unread while working out wtf.

Make sure you understand the rules on blocking and dodging. The computer shouldn't beat you on easy if you understand those rules.

The 'maps' are just backgrounds, there are maybe halt a dozen. All functionally identical.

A pdf stickied in the Blood bowl resources/questions thread named "The Art of Blocking" is excellent and should set you up to beat the hell out of the ai teams.  It's also good to check out the Blood Bowl Tactics website when building your team because they have some excellent articles on TV1000 team-building.

There are nine maps in Legendary Edition (versus six in the original release).

If you're looking for somewhere to get the hang of things before jumping into multiplayer, you might want to look at campaign mode.  A lot of the game is about leveling up players and managing funds and so on, which you don't generally have to do in story or competition modes if I remember correctly.

What kinds of problems are you having vs. the AI?  If you can give us a few examples of key mistakes/bad rolls, maybe we can give you some advice about what you're doing wrong (the game is not awfully good at making this obvious).

Since this tends to come up, I'll add that you need no familiarity with actual football to be able to enjoy this (else I wouldn't be playing). It's closer to a competitive tactical RPG than to a sports game.

Yeah, the game is obviously a ruleset made by people who were dimly aware American football exists, and there are things called "touchdowns." And that's it.

Yeah, the most relevant gaming experience I have to Blood Bowl is D&D Miniatures.

Bah.  You had me... then you lost me.

I made my first touchdown today!  Yay me!

Game boils down to: how much risk vs reward you want to take? There's a lot of fun to be had when you play high risk team in multiplayer.
And there's the mind numbing dwarves.. Use your creativity.

It is football, really, but in a turn based format. And you can murder your opponents.

Elves if you want a passy team (which is referred to as elfy bullshit). Orcs for bashy starter team. I played my Orcs as a passy team...worked great one season, not so much the second.

You should definitely give it a whirl. I hate it but love it. Nuffle will kick you over and over but then you'll pull off something crazy that makes you love it all over again. And then you roll doubles on your Black Orc level-up for +1 STR.

I've gotten more of the hang of it in single player though I'm still not doing well.  I can score and win, but I think the problems I mostly have are with dodgy teams (those damn wood elves).  They just run circles around me, ignore my tackle zones, and score at will.  I don't know if there's some way to stop them, or if I should just let them score asap to get a possession change.  Then at least maybe I could hold onto the ball and beat the ever living snot out of them and hope for some casualties.

Well, you are quite ahead of the learning curve as far as dealing with Elves goes. Most people take a while longer to work it out.

Yeah, breaking their legs is your first, and best, option.  I actually like kicking to Elves and letting them receive at the beginning of the game.  They will generally score quickly, leaving me plenty of time for a long, plodding drive for a TD in which I smash them and take a few out.  If you start the second half with more players on the pitch and are receiving the ball it's very difficult for them to do much on defense if you're careful.

Also, force them to dodge into tackle zones.  It doesn't state it very clearly in any tutorial, but dodging into tackle zones, unless the player has Stunty, is more difficult than dodging into an open square.  As a long-term solution, build a few players who have tackle; it's an amazingly useful skill if you put it on the right players and remember to set them up to use it.

But yeah, it's tough to stop Elves from scoring.  That's just the way they're built and it's the only thing that keeps them as competitive as they are.

If you really want a sobering experience, play as Halflings vs. Dwarfs. 

I don't know whose idea it was to give an entire team Block and Tackle right out of the box, but if I ever meet them, it'll be a swift crane kick to the teeth followed by a punch to the throat.

New people : remember if you want to start getting some games against actual people, put a team in the feeder league and post here...

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=20399.0

... people will start harassing you for some blood bowl over steam.

Well... I don't care for harassment.

Then stop wearing such a short skirt.

Well that's not strictly true, but the only ones without block are the runners (of which you only get 2) who will level up very quickly anyway, and if you have any sense block is the first skill they get. Tackle is a bit rarer, but I can't remember offhand which players get it.

Blockers start with Tackle.

And oddly, Black Orc Blockers do not start with block.  :heart: GW  :oh_i_see:

You could start with 11 dwarf blockers and have an entire team with block and tackle... but it would be terrible.

Harrassed only means you get steam messages for Blood bowl during work hours do to Asia to NA timezone differences

If you want someone to play with and might provide helpful advice definitely post in the feeder thread!

A new f13 Tournament is about to start! Separated from the Main f13 League (now in Season 5) but not a bit less charming, this one is based on goats. Yes goats. Everyone can join in as long as you have a brand new Chaos team and only play with Beastmen. I guess this sounds confusing, but you should probably check the official thread yourself.

Horns & Hooves *Season 2* (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=21486.0)


The awesome idea is that pretty much all teams start with the same setup, but end up being very different due to the unique characteristic of chaos team: MUTATIONS!

Isn't this the perfect time to start (or go back) playing Blood Bowl?

The Legendary edition is $8 again today for the daily sale.

BUY AND DIE WITH YOUR F13 FRIENDS!

Furthermore, we will be starting the second ~D&M~ Open Championship in a couple of weeks, when serious business season 5 reaches the playoffs.

This is the ideal time to join the cool kids and be ready for the more relaxed part of the league cycle where we play swiss league, meaning everyone plays teams of a similar standard and fun times are had by all. The open format also means we'll be able to cope with the holiday period in a sensible way.

Buy this game ffs.

Beauty! Thanks for the heads up.

Just make it a requirement that in order to post in the gaming forum on f13, one must own and play Blood Bowl with f13.  :why_so_serious: :drill:

f13 has one of the best Blood Bowl communities available, and the vast majority of us are more than happy to help out new players.  We really do have a good thing going, and the more the merrier.

Also, I've gotten around 500 hours of in-game fun from the legendary edition of this title, not to mention the untold number of hours outside of the game and frequenting the f13 league's subforum.  Well worth the measly $8 you all can pay today.

Jesus, I just noticed I'm up to 108 hours somehow. I didn't think I had played it that much.  :ye_gods:

I got into playoffs in our little Finnish league. Four turns in, five guys are in the hospital. More and more, I'm starting to realize that the only thing that kept me playing BB was the miniatures and social interaction. As a computer game it's rather shit, because it's so easy to become a spectator in your own game.

Never cared so much for the miniatures, but I agree that social interactions are 51% of the game. And that's why our f13 League is successful. It probably doesn't compare to your high school memories, but it does to mine as they were full of unfinished games due to people falling asleep during calculations, and suspended ones due to cats walking over the boards. Not to mention the fights over obscure rules. To me, the computerized BB experience is in some levels way superior to the cluttered live one. Something you will never hear me saying about CRPGs versus PNP RPGs.

A new f13 tournament (D&M II) just started accepting applications. Head to the forum and join in, dammit.

Yeah, the f13 league really scratches the itch for a social aspect to Blood Bowl.  If I only played public league matchmaking games I wouldn't be anywhere near as enamored with the game as I am, and I've played the table-top version for years.

I'm with Falc on thinking that the computer version of the game is actually better than the table-top version for the exact reasons he expressed.  Also, it's simply more convenient to actually get games.  I can pop in and play a game pretty much whenever I want; I never had that with the table-top version, and they are fast games.  I honestly couldn't count how many 1 1/2 to 2 hour games of table-top Blood Bowl I've played, and when you're losing those games seem even longer.

As to becoming a spectator in your own game: sure, there are games that are ruined purely by luck, there isn't any doubt about that.  I just played a game with my nurgle in which I failed to pick up the ball, which was open, five times in a row in the endzone and I went on to lose the game because of it.  Instances in which you can do absolutely nothing to improve your game though are very rare.

Also, the D&M tournament is the absolute best time to join in the fun because it offers new coaches an opportunity to build a team with lots of potential opponents and groom that team for the regular season.  If you were on the fence about joining us, hop on over; this is the time to do it.

Yeah I have no desire to play the board game. Never have, likely never will. Rolling dice? Painting shit? Having to physically meet up for a game? That's a big commitment that I can't make for a game, especially not three times a week.

And I think the game is great. The bugs are annoying (but rare, once you know them well), but the game itself is lots of fun. It's pretty competitive if you want it to be (better players usually win the game), but has randomness and tension, as well as a lot of humor.

Best game purchase I've made for a long long long long time. It's really brought me lots of pleasure.

Also I get to play against f13ers, which is really nice, considering all my RL friends don't play games much, and never play super nerdy turn based ones like BB.

One of my best game purchases ever, and something I will always play due to the f13 blood bowl league.

On steam sale till 3rd Jan.

 :drill:

This is a reminder that if you do not play blood bowl you are a broken incomplete shell of a fun hating human being.

Also the close season is winding up, meaning the new season starts soon, and you should buy this game so you can play a couple of times before then.

If you are worried about being bad at blood bowl bear in mind that...

1) We are terrible at this game
2) Luckton only started playing last season and already heads up the close season leaderboard.

The Elfbowl League will also be starting its first season within a week or so.  Right now I'm just finalizing the rules, and will probably post them tomorrow.  It's a great league for beginners because everyone is starting with a fresh team, and judging by our success with the two Horns & Hooves seasons it should be a lot of fun.  Plus, I've gotten the OK from Falc that teams from Elfbowl could be transferred into the regular season at some point, as long as they meet the same restrictions as other transfers, though it would be too late to do so for the upcoming  :drill:*SEASON 6*:drill:.

Legendary Edition on sale this weekend for $13.58 @GamersGate (http://www.gamersgate.com/games?prio=relevance&q=bloodbowlweekend&aff=ggnews)

Dark Elf edition is available for $5 too, though I don't see the point.

DO NOT buy Dark Elf edition unless you hate multiplayer. Which means you hate Blood Bowl.

So DO NOT buy Dark Elf edition.

Season 6 signups have begun (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=22111.0). In unrelated news we need someone to go to AndyDavo's house and break his fingers.

You are possibly the closest. Or Eldaec.

:Love_Letters:

We still need a few people to reach ideal numbers.

 ~you want to play blood bowl~

I'm going to kick off the new season TODAY, if you want in then (ideally) sign up ingame now or at the very least post in the Season 6 thread (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=22111.0) or PM me to let me know you want to take part. There are six spots remaining at the time or writing.

Now's the time to get into BLOOD BOWL!

It's $10 on Steam sales for 8 hours from now...

bought, installing. I'll play elves, tee hee.

Suweet!

When you're slightly bored of futzing around on your own make some teams and apply to the f13 feeder league and feel free to hit me on Steam for games (Both f13 and non-f13 leagues!

Chaos edition is released on Thursday.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/216890/

Pre-order it immediately.

 IMMEDIATELY.

Is there any other way to find out your player key besides the original box or email?

Preordered. Of course.

I think a Chaos Dwarf team named after the first ladies of US presidents is in order.

Barbara Bush is going to be a Chaos Minotaur.

Yeah, this is weird.  I bought it on Steam, you'd think it would know.  Neither of the two keys stored in Steam for Legendary work for the discount.  Hrm.

Edit: if you bought it somewhere other than Steam, the key is in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cyanide\BloodBowlLegendary

You apparently have to add the dashes yourself when you copy it over, every 5 characters.   This is the same key as the first one listed for me in Steam so it didn't help me, but maybe it'll be of use to you.

Nope, Steam purchase also.  Lame, i bought TWO of the previous editions i want my damn discount.

Oh, you know what?  Try looking at it IN Steam, not the website.   :grin:

I was was going to say, I just pushed the 'buy it for cheap' button and everything was ok.

Score, thanks!

To people who don't have this game somehow:

This is a turn based multiplayer game that can be played casually, we have an active community on f13 so you don't have to play mouthbreathers, and it is a faithful interpretation of a GW game from before they went full retard.

I cannot see how a computer game could be designed more specifically for this community.

ALSO, season 6 is wrapping up which means two things. Firstly, it we've done something on f13 for six seasons, and it isn't EVE, this game actually came out of the fucking graveyard. Also it means in a couple of weeks we'll start taking signups for the close season D&M tournament, which is the low key swiss-tourney ideal for new people.

Become a new person.

Buy this game ffs.

It seems like people who already own it can buy Chaos edition for $10 AND GIFT IT!

So there's no excuse to roll 1s and break your monitor in Frustration together!

That and laugh at your hapless foes  :drillf: :drill: :awesome_for_real:

I thought the huge patch for Legendary Edition means it'll work when matching with Chaos Ed users?

That is correct.

Yep, the $10 Chaos Edition is for completely new people to Bloodbowl who don't want to pay $30 off shelf

What's new in it, worth getting if you have LE?

Three new teams is the main attraction.  For $10 that's pretty good.

I really need to start putting more time into this game, there is so much out there right now though.  I did pay my ten bucks and it is currently downloading so we shall see.

I think it's pretty bad, but since it's blood bowl I bought it the moment it turned up on steam   :why_so_serious:

Downloading now.  It's a good time to buy at $10 too, since this may very well be the last BB edition released for a while.

Unless I'm reading the sale wrong (which I may be, because that's how it looked yesterday to me, too), it's 67% off this weekend anyways, so anyone can get it for $10.00 without mucking around with gift exchanges.

LE is on sale, too, but I don't know of any reason to get it over Chaos, unless the one penny difference is really a big deal to you.

Edit: having investigated this for ten seconds, it looks like Chaos isn't actually on sale for people who don't already have it.  I am stupid and wrong.

I was in fact able to buy it for $10 for a friend, though, and he is playing it fine, so there is that option.

Just buy the damn game. Most people who try it get over 100 hours out of it, most of which will be against other f13 people so 3 or 30 dollars are all good deals.

I thought to myself, "Hm, do *I* have 100 hours in Blood Bowl?" Sure enough, 128 hours. Who knew?

I may or may not have over 650 hours in Blood Bowl.

Season 7 sign ups are open now, and most of the cool kids are playing new teams for some reason.

You should sign up to play blood bowl.

I'm getting ready to play the miniatures version with a buddy, so it's tempting to jump back in. But I'm already struggling to find time to paint minis, it would eat up a good 20% of my available painting time :(

Play a goblin team irl, the minis are smaller, you can paint them faster, more time to play blood bowl.

Dumb question time: If i did want to be cool, which edition do I buy?

Does it have to be played live?

Yes, played live and no reason to buy anything other than Chaos Edition unless you are just dirt poor.

I only have the orcs and humans included with the game, plus a couple star players. He already took dibs on the orcs and I have to paint them like the superbowl shuffle Bears.

Any couple of WHFB sprues from any given range will give you a team. At worst, a couple of blisters or metal figures off eBay. There's also tons of third-party teams available.

I just want to be sure he's into it first. And then Dreadball. Then we'll see what's what.

There are about half a dozen slots left.

I don't fully understand why Sky isn't signing up along with his irl buddy.

Maybe he has lost his mind.

The Andydavo is gone, Sky.  It's safe to go back into the water.

Posting because Blood Bowl is still a thing, and we switch out of main season in a couple weeks into close season with the low pressure tourney to help people develop teams. In other words, a good time to buy and start playing blood bowl.

(It is always a good time to play blood bowl)

Once, or just before the main league wraps up in a couple of weeks, we will be looking to run a low-level tourney for all interested players. If you like turn-based strategy, football, and blood this is a great time to dip your toes into the wonderful world of Blood Bowl.

Just post in the subforum, make yourself known and we'll look to find a place for you.

And you can always try to find games in the feeder league (just post in the thread whenever you are looking to play or ask someone like me if I happen to be on steam) if you don't want to wait for a tourney to start  :awesome_for_real:

D&M3 applications now open in the blood bowl forum.

This is the shorter and more easy going close season tournament ideal for new players and new teams (all blood bowl is always ideal for new players, but this blood bowl is especially so).

You should play blood bowl.

What Eldaec said. Come join one of the few surviving f13 gaming sub forums  :awesome_for_real:

The new tournament is for new teams only so you have a good chance of killing people's players!  :heart:

Honest question: is there a way I can learn to play this game without being curb stomped?


Is there a training wheels version or AI to play against?

There us an AI that will help you learn the block and dodge rules.

But good against remotes is one thing, good against the living is another matter. Join the d&m tourney and you'll figure it out. We play this tournament using the swiss team, so less successful sides are paired against each other.

There is AI, single player and campaing mode. So yes, plenty of ways to learn the game against bots, but that does not prepare you at all for the amount of rage you will experience in a real match. Oh wait, I am not supposed to scare away new players...

More seriously, yes. You got all you need to learn against the computer, and you can even set up match where you pick your team and the AI team and you can be as unfair as you want. But as eldaec said, the real fun is against other humans. The meta-game is 75% of the fun in Blood Bowl. And why the f13 League has been alive and healthy for three years now.

Play against the AI to learn the rules, but eventually you'll have to play against real people to really learn the nuances. Real people who aren't dicks are probably the best people to learn from at first, so if there are people here you think will be kinder and gentler to you (they won't stomp on your best player on turn 16 because they can, for example), once you think you have some bit of an idea what's going on, play some matches in the feeder league with 'em!

Honestly, probably the hardest thing to get used to as a newbie is learning how to spend your inducement money and dealing with two minute turns. And learning how to deal with the fact that sometimes you will do everything right, but the dice will turn on you at the exact wrong moment to fuck you over. On the upside, that also means the dice could turn on your opponent!

I'm definitely happy to run some newbies in some friendly games in the feeder league going easy

Yeah, I'm always game for showing someone the ropes.  Blood Bowl has a steep learning curve, and it takes literally hundreds of games to become a truly excellent coach, but it's tons of crazy fun, and f13 Bloodbowlers are just about as nice a crowd as you're likely to play with. 

Sucks that GW is pulling support for all the specialist games. Maybe a good thing, since they didn't support it anyway.

Carry on :p

Wait, what?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/524134.page

Actually, looking over the models I'd rather proxy with modern sculpts as they don't hold up well. Need to track down the team and player cards, though.

Soo....does this mean no more LRB revisions or new teams, etc.?

They've supported and unsupported secondary games several times, haven't they?

GW already cut off the LRB people after they had the temerity to design teams that do not have preexisting miniatures.

I doubt GW ignoring it will do blood bowl any harm.

There's even a chance that cyanide will get to make a Slannesh team if GW doesn't care enough to say no  :awesome_for_real:

Wasn't GW who stopped Slann & Chaos Pact in the pc game, it was just Cyanide being weird and prioritising their bullshit made up team.

At least according to cyanide - who knows really.

Odd, I really could have sworn cyanide said the reason they couldn't do them was because GW considered them non-cannon, and blocked them.  At least for the slann, not sure on pact.

That is the reason that they gave for not including them.  I think it's bs though.  If you ask me they want to have material for another release further down the road so they held back on including them in Chaos edition.

All 3 new lrb6 teams (underworld as well) are considered valid by gw for competition play, they just refuse to put them in the rule book, and told the LRB committee to foad so GW don't have to deal with this ever again.

The lore thing was only the excuse for the slann, Chaos Pact and Underworld were just laziness.

Underworld is in Chaos Edition. 

And I don't think it was laziness regarding Chaos Pact.  They weren't too lazy to make a new team with all new art, pieces, skill setups, etc with the Khorne.  That is actually more work than putting in Chaos Pact because a lot of the Chaos Pact models are already in the game, and the rules already exist.

I was referring to their lack of inclusion in a LRB.

Despite regularly posting on this Blood Bowl community website there are still some of you that unaccountably do not own Blood Bowl.


It's half price this weekend on Steam.

You want the Chaos Edition.

The f13 league will be kicking off again in a matter of weeks. Buy this now for christ's sake.

F13 league is once again looking for players in the subforum.

Post there. Play blood bowl.

Seriously, we are bad, you'll fit right in.

One more player takes us to 24. Sign up while you can.

You guys probably know about this, but:

http://bloodbowlgame.tumblr.com/

Yep, and that is even more reason to get some practice in early.

Sky, why the fuck are you not signed up to play blood bowl?

I did not enjoy my experiences in the f13 league. I'd rather paint. If only I could find someone to play the board game version I'd be happy.

Fancier graphics and animations are not exactly a draw for this game, i rather play the old game unless the new one has more teams and vastly improved UI.

This.  Also, Bob looks like an unlike TF2 Heavy in those graphic test shots.

Hi.

Blood bowl is still a thing (blood bowl is always a thing).

You should sign up for blood bowl in the subforum, New season needs new teams.

No experience necessary, we are all very bad at blood bowl.

Listen to that guy who posted above this post.

That is all true once again, come sign up for Blood Bowl in the Blood Bowl forum.

wut is the tv cap senpai  :pedobear:

Tenth season sign up thread is now open in the blood bowl thread.

f13 doing anything 10 times over 6 years without getting distracted and wandering off is pretty remarkable. So you should sign up in the Blood Bowl forum.

Reconnected with an old buddy who has a slew of BB teams. Board game for life, bizcheeses.

The proletariat have risen from their slumber and demanded that season ten be all new teams all the time.

So this is a good time to join in if you've been worried about facing more experienced teams.

One spot left for anyone who has unaccountably failed to sign up.