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We've moved on after all but one match from day 3 was played. The Ruvaldt v Teleku match was awarded 2-0 to the Ex-Presidents after a no-show and concession from the Wood Elves.

Here are the results from day 3:

(http://i.imgur.com/aSdrbim.jpg)

And here are the fixtures for day 4:

(http://i.imgur.com/jHEuzy6.jpg)

Please play these games by Friday 19th September.

After 3 days of bitter struggle, the league rankings look like this:

(http://i.imgur.com/6oUs2UA.jpg)

Both divisions looking very similar indeed at this early stage. Ramas and Avaia pulling out strong leads in each and a close scrap for the next three spots.

I get the impression you're overseas somewhere, Wolven, so probably my Friday night or sometime this weekend is our best bet.

Snuffleorc!  I am GMT -5.  I'm available pretty much any evening, my time, and most of the time on Saturday or Sunday.  Let me know when is a good time for you.

Ruvaldt - I am in London (so GMT .. or more correctly GMT+1 due to BST).

I should be free for a game this evening (Wednesday), from 18:00 to 22:00 UK time, but doubt that helps given the time difference.
I am then out/away most of the time from Thursday through to Sunday, but might be able to manage later Thursday evening.

Lamaros,

I'm GMT, can probably play this evening if that's any good to you? With my luck this league you have a good chance of an easy win...

Telekinesis, are you still on CET?

Im in Australia so that's not likely I'm afraid, will probs have to be the weekend.

Hi Sir T I think you said in a previous day that you are based in Ireland, since I am UK based the timezone won't be an issue which is good. So how are you set for playing around 8pm during a weeknight? Otherwise should be able to fit you in at some point around the weekend as long as you give me a time that works for you.

Yep.  Though I've been in Budapest for training since last Saturday, and wont return till Saturday evening.  There doesn't seem to be any way for me to play blood bowl over here (which is why I had to take the loss last round), so earliest we can play is Saturday night.

Hey Avaia, my availability is a bit spotty this week. I'm around tonight and then I'm gone until Sunday evening. I'm CET so BST+1 at the moment.

I won't be around much till Sunday anyway. So that should be no problem.

Weekend it is then, any particular time good for you?

grab me this weekend, satael?  alternately free after ~6 PM PT on weekdays - which i believe is GMT-8, if you're stranded in europe somewhere.

Weekend it is.

My Sunday evening an yor Sunday morning are probably best, or the same on sat.

I'm GMT Friday should be good for me though!

As I'm sure you've been able to tell by now, Wednesday was not a good day for me!  Sadly, neither is Thursday due to a pile of work involving a new class I'm teaching yesterday and today.  The weekend looks open for me, and next week is very open for me as well.  I could even possibly play in my early afternoons to make the time difference easier.

OK, that puts you I think 8 hours ahead of me. If we play at midnight on Friday my time, that's Saturday morning at 8 am for you. Does that work?

Will look out for you then

Yea that works, though If you wanted to go for it a little earlier that's cool, I'm happy to stay up late on the friday night!

Yep, I am. Just give me a time and I can make it work. My schedule is pretty open. I can look for you tonight (Friday) if you want.

Well, I'll be on Steam so I'll just keep an eye out for you. The earliest I would even be home from work is probably around 2-3 am your time.

Tonight works, have sent you a friend request, if we miss each other tonight then Saturday 8pm would also be good.

Mr. Wolven:

Tonight has become somewhat inconvenient for me - does either Saturday or Sunday around 8 pm your time (noon here) work instead? That time can move around, I'm pretty free in general this weekend.

Yea that should be fine, I'm out tomorrow evening but I should be up for it when I get back in, should be about 10 or 11 pm my time!

Cool, look for you around 8

Huitzilopochtli defeats Beetles, 1-0.

Wizard MVP... I had kicked but wrested the ball away in the first half and a blitz-ra made a dash for the goal, using one GFI to be one square away, out of block range from anyone (though in contact range of one demon if there was some lucky blocks and dodges).  And I thought, well, I made the one GFI, I will rest here and saunter in next turn; if he does manage to get that one guy up to me I will assist & blitz in for a highly likely score.

I forgot about the Wizard, who lightning bolted that blitz-ra off the field.

Second half I was down two tomb guardians due to heat but it still seemed like (to me, anyway) a fairly even bash-fest.   With two tomb guardians and a TD in the bank it would have been a probable victory.

Fuckin' wizard!  Though in fairness, if I had remembered him, I would have probably done that second GFI, tripped, and died, so at least the blitz-ra didn't die.

Megrim will upload the stats since he won.   :grin:

Done.

up and about, satael.  grab me if you're around!

Gutted 1 - Kwai High 0 (Sir T conceded on turn 6)

6 turns 2 dead elves, injured wardancer and another 2 injuries. Normally I would be a little upset by a concession but can understand this one given that I was basically murdering the elves with no retaliation possible. Not sure what the process is for a conceded match so have PM's Iain as BBmanager didn't pop up like it normally does after a match is played to upload the result.

Like I said in game Sir T if you want to get some practice games in with some voice comms then I'm more than happy to go through some stuff with you.

(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff80/Sir_Telemachus/BloodBowlLegendary_2014-09-13_19-57-46_001.jpg)

Muscle meets Chaos in a 1-1 tie with no serious injuries on either side.

1-1 chaos string theorists against the muscle daddies.  satael dominated me the first half and then lost steam the second half as i managed to KO and surf a few beastmen, but i couldn't get any injuries and barely eked out a consolation score.  moral victory of a sort, and nothing permanently dead or injured.

Lamaros,

Added you as a friend on steam, looked out for you all day, but not seen you. Tomorrow then?

OK. I'll be at the computer for a while starting now so we should be able to do this once you're back. Not sure who you are on Steam though.

Ok I am now back, sent you a friend invite!

Nuffle didn't shine on the orcs again, with the Lovers almost making a hash of it after the mercenary Lord Borak ballsed it up with a double skull in the second last turn. Thankfully the team recovered and scored with a GFI on the last turn.

All you need to do is look at the block stats to get a feel for my game. Turn 1 was awesome, KOing both his star player and another, I was thinking I'd get an easy TD. But a great defence from Lamaros and bad luck preventing a turn 8 easy TD and I failed to score first half.

Second half I was down a few players and Lamaros played excellently. I very nearly managed to prevent the TD, but his unerring ability to get knockdowns and my unerring ability not to got the TD turn 16. 4 of my team injred including a Black Orc at -1str (rerolled to -1str... urgh). To summarise my season so far I did a near pass for SPP final turn, which failed...

Why don't you want to be friends, IaiaiaianC?  Was it something I said?   :heartbreak:

Accepted, sorry. When do you want to play?

Been checking for you on Steam since the weekend but haven't seen you on.  Any idea when a good time would be?

I forgot to write up my game with Wolven and now the details are sort of fuzzy. It ended in a 2-0 win for my side; as far as I remember the only long term damage was a -AV injury to my kicker. He bought Morg with his big pile of inducements, so I was juggling Morg and a minotaur with my zombies and flesh golems all game. Thankfully the mighty blow never permanently hurt either of the FGs, and I was able to minimize the number of hits on my wights and werewolves.

Nurgle prevail over rats, 2-0.  Was a pretty ugly game for IainC, who needed a pass completion to make things interesting.

(http://bbm.jcmag.fr/BloodBowlManager.WebSite/ImageMatchReport.aspx?Id=297801&lang=en)

I needed a pass completion but I couldn't buy one at any price. My Agi5 GR with Catch failed every catch roll he was asked to make and as a result two very clear scores failed. I also failed GfIs and dodges on first actions to give the Nurgle team an almost uncontested first half TD. Meanwhile Avaia was removing rats from the pitch as fast as possible - at the end of the match I had 7 in the injury box and 3 KOs. I have four MNGs including my Rat Ogre and a Gutter Runner.

Should be on tonight and tomorrow night.

What time zone are you in again?

UK

Ex-Presidents 2 - 1 Scum Sewer Surfers

This was a tight match that easily could have gone either way until around turn 15 when I scored the game winning TD.

Snuffleorc picked up Morg, a wizard, an extra reroll and some Bloodweiser Babes for inducements.  I elected to receive, and immediately tried to cut down Morg, knowing that he'd be likely to contribute a lot to the match.  I was unsuccessful.  In fact, not only was I unsuccessful in getting any early injuries, Snuffle was the first to draw blood after badly injuring Calvin Coolidge.  I drove up the field in a slow, Chaos-like fashion, but Snuffle enjoyed some very good one-die blocks to keep me constantly on my toes.  I scored on turn 7 after dodging away from Morg.  Snuffle had two turns to score, and positioned his rats on my side of the field for a pass, but failed to pick up the ball.  The first half ended with George Washington intercepting Snuffle's pass.

The second half began with a weather change to sweltering heat.  This was a big disadvantage for me because I don't have a bench and Snuffle's is fairly deep.  Even if he lost a few rats more could step in, but I'd be screwed.  I tried my best to prevent him from scoring, but he did so on his second turn without a lot of effort.  My primary ball carrier and two others came down with sweltering heat while Snuffle's team stayed healthy and I was down four pieces receiving the ball.  What followed was me taking a lot of risks by dodging around out of tackle zones until I was pretty much at the end of my rope, but positioned my players in such a way to make him roll dice if he wanted to follow me up field.  Then Nuffle threw me a lifeline and Snuffle failed a dodge at a bad moment.  I managed to get my rookie ball carrier to two spaces away from the end zone, and had some favorable knockdowns.  Snuffle nearly got a gutter runner to my ball carrier but failed on a gfi to put him in a tackle zone.  We each had one turn at the end of the game to stomp on each other and it was done.

I'll upload the match once I get home.  Fun game without many injuries and well played by Snuffle.

Ermine Vermin - 7
Hazardous Hippies - 4

11 touchdowns by turn 14. It's nbd.

Will post stats etc after dinner.

That was the game that made me finally realize I don't really want to play BB anymore.   :oh_i_see:

Or at least until I've had a good long break.  Holy god.  Fuck dice.

But yes, touchdown count got hilarious.

Holy shit.

We are pretty much the two top speed scoring teams in the league.  What were you expecting?   :awesome_for_real:

Though I it seems like the last time we played it was even higher (or at least feels that way).  The dice weren't so lopsided, and we both just ran by each other to score endless TD's.  He still won because holy god its hard to stop his one turn TD guy if you aren't a blocking team.  I'm still so bitter they nerfed the ability for Wood Elves to do that after the original version.

Edit:  Also, could you please verify the match?  The one positive point was that my treeman finally injured another player, and got enough SPP to gain rank 6.  Must see what he rolls!

Uploaded now.

Teleku lost a wardancer early, and another near half time, after that we were exchanging elf 2 turners and rat 1 turners, with the exception of a couple of turnover TDs for the rats following a blitz in the forst half and wacky pass from Teleku's star thrower in the second. Cheddar Persille scored 5 in all.

I think Teleku has a wardancer out with a damaged back, plus a levelled up treeman; my rats have a level on a +STR Wrestle lineman.

More stats

Dodge

Vermin : 18/20
Hippies : 18/21
I think the first time I remember anyone attempting more dodges than me.

Blocks

Vermin : 16/34
Hippies : 10/23
Up is down and down is up.

Hazardous Hippies | 4 - 7 | Ermine Vermin

Teams

	Hazardous Hippies	Ermine Vermin
Race :	Wood elf	Skaven
TV :	2050	1930
Treasury :	270000	250000
Rerolls :	5	4
Apothecary :	1	1
Fan Factor :	9	14
Cheerleaders :	1	0

Match Report

	Hazardous Hippies	Ermine Vermin
Score :	4	7
Touchdowns inflicted :	4	7
Touchdowns sustained :	7	4
Passes :	6	2
Catches :	7	3
Interceptions :	0	0
Knockdowns inflicted :	10	5
KOs inflicted :	3	1
Injuries inflicted :	2	2
Deaths inflicted :	0	0
Tackles inflicted :	0	1
Yards gained passing :	104	26
Yards gained running :	150	256
Ball Possession (%) :	66	11
Own occupation:	71	28
Opponent occupation :	28	71

Note of the match: 18/20
Spectators: 31000

I think you meant to write this.  We generally can't do it either!

Pretty much every lineman and blitzer type can take Tackle; you ignore it at your peril.

I have tackle.

By the way, I'm not complaining.  It's a good tactic.  I'm just pointing out that everyone is vulnerable to it.  That's what makes it so good.

Yeah I wasn't being specific really. It's not the absolute hardest thing to stop, though, and any team can build with an eye towards containing it without rendering themselves useless in other ways.

Tackle is bad skill you should not take tackle. Everybody lets have a pact that nobody takes tackle.

Actually it doesn't impact the one turn TD very much, priority skills vs the one turner are Kick, Kick, Kick, then Sidestep. The best bet afaik is to force me to pass (with a good kick) and leap (with a carefully planned lineup plus sidestep). The other thing is not to have less than 11 players, you really can't design a decent line without all your guys.

But everybody should have a player with Kick.

Tackle is there for the extra turn(s) you take to make sure you break the 1TTD guy before you score your own touchdown! It does get to be a bit annoying when there are enough spare rats that he doesn't have to go out on defense, but rats break easy and you'll get to him eventually.

In general when dealing with a 1TTD guy, scoring as fast as you can on your own turn is not playing to your role in the matchup. Pretty much every team has to take the 'bash' role in a game against rats like that.

It's also great on your drives for stopping my other gutter runners swooping through your lines and yoinking the ball out of your cage because you couldn't quite protect that back corner which surely nobody can rea...... OH GOD THE RATS.

Now stop discussing tackle choose other skills please.

besides, unless somehow your full line has tackle(hard if you're not dwarves) there's still going to be an opening eldaec can sneak through, assuming he doesn't just blitz you out of position.

i bloodthirster blitzed the 1 turn tackle guy but couldn't break armor.  at least i tried!

Did you fail to stomp?  What the shit!