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Another day successfully ended on schedule! Awesome work team!

Here are day 2s results:
(http://i.imgur.com/OziEJul.jpg)

And here are the fixtures for day 3:
(http://i.imgur.com/wYZNHJD.jpg)

The deadline for these matches is Sunday March 17th. Please be sure to organise them as early as you can to give yourself the best chance of finishing on time.

Rankings after two game days!

40k Division
(http://i.imgur.com/CNzkBgg.jpg)

Back to back victories from Ulysees and EricSwiftblade see them take a early lead but both have yet to face their strongest opposition.

Hail Caesar Division
(http://i.imgur.com/9DlDIE5.jpg)

A tight spread amongst all the coaches, no-one has drawn more than 2 points ahead of the pack.

Hordes Division
(http://i.imgur.com/TaonYG9.jpg)

As with 40k, two coaches off to a good start but there's a long way to go yet.

Tamurkhan Division
(http://i.imgur.com/Tg6jaHx.jpg)

Yet another division where two coaches have consecutive wins. Closer than most however.

Here be more stats!

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MAKE YOUR TIME SPAIN  :drill:  :grin: :awesome_for_real:

PM sent to Willisterman.

It's been a long time since I've played against Dwarves...

When do you want to take your beating, luckton? I've got some plans at 8pm Eastern tonight which should be cleared up by 10ish. Tomorrow is no good. Rest of time should be good.

HaemishH, looks like you're two hours ahead of me.  Here's when I'm available
- Thursday (tonight!), but it's pretty short notice.  Might be able to catch on steam.
- Friday won't work due to scheduling RPGing.
- Weekend is also rough as my schedule is uncertain.  Difficult, but possible if nothing else works.
- Monday evening or during the day most anytime.
- Tuesday day or late evening, after 11pm your time.
- Wednesday is out
- Thursday evening ro during the day most anytime.

Ugh, another Block vs Block null match  :uhrr:

Let's shoot for Monday/Tuesday.  Working my long weekend of 12-hour shifts back-to-back-to-back this weekend.

Sounds like weakling talk to me, but Tuesday would work.

Drew Falconeer,

Can you play Saturday? I'm GMT.

proudft, maybe we shd delay this a bit, i've been unwell after spending too much time on Crusader Kings.
Maybe tomorrow perhaps, when I'm well rested.

Unskilled newb dwarves...  This isn't going to be a fun match at all.

Ezrast is your friday or sat night work me might be able to do that.

Vast Mountain Raiders met Fursecution and the result was entirely opposite to the state of play on the pitch.

I kicked and the Orcs caged up as usual after getting off to an excellent start by injuring Let Me Tell You About My Fursona. The Skaven started badly when a Gutter Runner dodge went bad and even burning a reroll didn't help. Tyhe next Skaven turn was just as bad when a 3 die blitz from Headsplitter came up 3x both down versus an opponent with Block. Loner ate another reroll to no effect and the Orcs effectively had three turns in a row. There was a big scrum in the middle around the Orc cage and eventually I got both Headsplitter and Secretly a Unicorn in there. Two Rat Ogres was a little more than the Orcs could handle at once especially as their Troll kept failing Stupid rolls. Eventually I got a blitz on the ball carrier and a lucky bounce sent the ball behind the Orc cage and within range of Yiffy who has done extremely well in previous games as well. He ran it up out of range of the Orcs and waited for the clock to run down. There was a hairy moment when the Orcs managed to get a marker with Tackle on him but I Have A Backstory You Know came charging in and rescued Yiffy, allowing him to score on the last turn without having to make a dodge.

Despite the pounding of the first half I was still able to field 11 players for the second. The Skaven made the ball safe then knocked a hole in the Orc lines to fill their backfield with furry bodies. Another big scrap began to form in the middle but the ball was well away from it. I was mugging any Orcs that made it into my half well enough but I had no cover to get the ball forwards. Eventually I figured that the Orcs were decently entangled and ran forwards with a light screen down the clearest wing. The Orcs broke some players free and started marking me up more aggressively and I made a dumb mistake by running forwards and passing the ball to a player who was in scoring range. I thought I'd be able to grab a quick score but the player I passed to had already moved that turn. Having to change my plan in a hurry, I knocked down his marker and then screened him as well as I could. It wasn't quite enough and the Orcs knocked Yiffy down but the ball was still loose at the end of their turn. A bit of judicious blocking and dodging gave Not Going To Lie, Fur is Hot a clear path to pick up the ball and hand it off to I Was Born A Dragon You Know who had a short, risk-free walk into the Orc endzone. Here a weird thing happened. I had my player selected, I picked the square he was to move to and I got the usual line of green circles but nothing happened when I clicked. For the last three seconds of the turn I clicked frantically but he refused to move. Luckily for me the Orcs were able to get a bunch of markers on him but couldn't blitz him and he was able to make the dodge to score on his next turn.

With that we had 3 turns each to play left and while my win seemed secure I was concerned about the safety of the team. Luckily I avoided serious injury and also prevented a last gasp dash for a consolation touchdown by mobbing the Orc runner with Gutter Runners.

I had two injuries, both just Badly Hurt and the Orcs had one when their Goblin got his foot tangled in the tail of a Rat Ogre.

(http://bbm.jcmag.fr/BloodBowlManager.WebSite/ImageMatchReport.aspx?Id=218417&lang=en&bg=orca)

Another game and another loss (0-2 against IanC's Fursecution) for the Vast Mountain Raiders :oh_i_see:

According to the who's who Lightfax you are GMT-5 so my evening your late afternoon is probably going to work out best. Will look out for you between 5pm and 6pm your time tonight and the same on Saturday on Sunday I can make pretty much anytime from 10am until 7pm your time as long as you let me know in advance.

I guess it is fitting that I would have to play dwarves in a division full of claw and mighty blow after all that time with the Presidents.

Gruntle, what day and time works best for you?  Weekends and Mondays are generally all that I routinely have free.

I've had that happen more than a few times.  Anecdotally, moving the camera around seems to help; I generally try for a steep view angle.  Hard to test so who knows whether it actually makes a difference, but I rarely am unable to get past it.  That's most playing with 4 minute turns though, where there's more time to recover.

Most weeknights I'm available after 7:30 pm Central time (so about 5:30 pm your time) until 10ish (8 your time). Weekends are usually doable depending on the day and time.

Shall we aim for Monday at 6pm PST, 8pm CST?

Works for me.

Excellent, see you then.  Hopefully it'll be as crazy as the Skaven vs Skaven match last week!

Howdy Fildrigar -

I am out of town until Monday, I'll have a better grasp on my schedule for the rest of the week once I'm back and I'll try to schedule with you then.

Ramas, I sent you a msg here to arrange our game time. 940 TV difference, ... I can hire a full new team for that!!

Saw your message will pm you tomorrow when not drunk and able to process timezones.

Nope, I'll be working. My ideal times most days are around 15:00-20:00 GMT-6 / 07:00-12:00 GMT+10, though I can be around any time at all on your Tuesday or Wednesday (preferably still not before your 07:00 but I doubt you'd want to play then anyway).

3-1 hippies over HHB.  now that teleku's figured out diving tackle i am powerless to stop him from scoring :( on the plus side, though, i killed a redshirt and naeltor is down to MV 4  :uhrr:

Hmmm... ok! I will have to consider timezones. I think. Maybe sat your afternoon may work? (9:00 gtm +10 17:00 gmt -6?) Oh but I have daylight saving, so I'm gmt +11 at the moment. So... 16:00-20:00 your sat?

My Saturday afternoon, your Monday morning then. May the tentacliest team win.

And for the first time in a long time, the wrestlers didn't lose!  :drill:

Wrestlers 1 - 1 Keep Rolling!

Man, that was painful.
Nuffle just has it in for me or something.
I remember willisterman getting bad dice once, maybe twice.
The only other problem he had was a miss click early in the game.

He played a solid game of slowly but inevitably moving down the pitch.
Morg and the rerolls for the death roller were solid buys and my team just slowly melted as we played.
His wizard did nothing, proving once again they can't handle the stupidity of Ogres.

First half I managed to run the ball down the pitch but couldn't quite make the goal line and with how slow both our teams are meant that it was an uneventful half.

Second half and the ball makes it's way to my endzone with 2 turns to spare.
Luckily and I use the word with all the poison that a game like this leave you with, I had rerolls left and the kick lands right next to one of my snotlings.
Of course, he can't catch it even with the help of the quick snap that puts him right under it, but a little help from Sid Vicious and he is soon flying over the dwarves (reroll) and running away for dear life.

Game uploaded. I haven't done this in a while so let me know if I've done anything wrong.

Note to self, the great snotling wall is not a good play.

Yep, fairly brutal match...  I really thought it was going to be first win for the dwarves, with two rounds left, but the snotling flew over my dwarves, and their little stubby bodies just couldn't catch him!   The troll slayer made a valiant effort to catch him, but failed, giving him a clear run to the line.  Boo!

Good game though, first level up for my team goes to a blocker.

(http://bbm.jcmag.fr/BloodBowlManager.WebSite/ImageMatchReport.aspx?Id=218542&lang=en)

So yeah, elf BS takes the day, with dice rolls skewing my way overall probably.

However, I did just discover a wonderful new bug.  Nealtor got Injured, and rolled Smashed Ankle, which is -MV, which he already had from a previous game.  I used the apoth (who I saved for just such a situation.  I let a level 2 elf with dodge DIE earlier in the game, just so I could save the apoth for something like this), and re-rolled him to Badly Hurt.  However, when the next kick off came around, I saw he was still Injured, and the game counted him as having gotten another smashed ankle.  I was really sure I hit badly hurt when the option came up, and I confirmed it by looking at the match data:

(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/41488/bs.jpg)

So it seems if you have a player with a lingering injury, and he gets that same injury again later, it wont register the reroll.  Any hope I can appeal this and get it fixed?  Do they even have customer support?

That's a weird bug Teleku. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure you're hosed. Worth reporting anyway but I wouldn't expect that they'll fix your team as a result.

Oh, I can easily see how the bug happens.  They fucked up their logic when comparing variables somewhere.  My status variable already had Smashed Ankle in it, so it assumes that's what I picked on the apoth, due to some incorrectly laid out IF statements.  In short, Cyanide is horrible at programming.

I can do saturday afternoon or night, sunday afternoon or monday night. Whatever of those works best for you, i believe you're but 2 hours ahead of me timewise.

-G

not to take away from naeltor's woes, but for me the most painful example was in the block dice - teleku didn't roll nearly as many, but got 8 pows to my 13. compare that to 4 skulls to my 19  :cry:  i blitzed a wardancer just about every turn, usually with my frenzy/tackle guy, and making sure to roll three dice as frequently as possible.  despite that, i couldn't down those wardancers to save my life.  super painful.

I think you meant your Sat? my Sunday? (as I can't do Monday due to the work thing)

Anyhow I'm online now for the next 14 hours or so, so hopefully we can do it.

Underworld v Underworld was an entertaining game, especially in the first half with the bombs being thrown all over the pitch. However in the end the troll advantage gave a bash boost to the Mess, and they prevailed.

Er, yes. Sunday.

Anyway, got it done, Best with the Mess 2-1 over 8 Eyes.

I made an embarrassing amount of positioning errors in the first half, and that's without even taking into account the part where I had my Bombardier star player make a 2d against blitz action instead of bombing on turn 2 (I'm usually good about making sure the interface is actually doing what I want it to before I confirm, but slipped up here). This allowed an opposing Blitzer to take out my ball carrier, and I didn't form up around it properly to stop from giving up the first touchdown. Rat bullshit let me score a two-turn TD to even the scoreline before half time, but the entire half I was pushing the sidelines with my positionals while feeding goblins to the Best troll on the line of scrimmage, which wasn't great for my long-term game. Down multiple players in the second half, I managed to catch my own kickoff and put up a hell of a fight for the ball but couldn't manage to slug it out nearly long enough to keep the game tied. The Best delayed the game until the last turn and ended it at 2-1.

Fortunately, no permanent injuries anywhere and I leveled up a goblin, so I should be in fighting fit form to prove mutant superiority over Iaian's boring old rattus rattus in game 4.

Here are the long awaited results of the Saturday Morning Australian Derby between old friends Spain and Llyse.

This was always going to be a lopsided match between Veteran team and coach Llyse of Alive not Dead and the fresh, lumbering and dopey Biffing Orcs of Spain. Alive not Dead were definitely stinging for a strong showing after losing to old rivals Hazardous Hippies while Bring back the Biff were still attempting some semblance of teamwork and coordination.

It started off with Llyse winning the toss and electing to Kick to the inexperienced newcomers. Bring back the Biff had elected to take Morg N Thorg, Wizard, Bloodweiser babe and reroll for their inducements to this likely drubbing.

Alive not Dead start off with a conservative start but opt for a short kick hoping for a blitz but it's simply perfect Orc bashing weather instead. Spain, being cocksure sets a light screen instead of a tight, green orc cage and pays for it after Morg N Thorg fails to smash face. Hobbes does what Hobbes does best and KOs a hapless Bob Hawke before snarling at Paul Keating's heels with Atarin the Cruelly Beautiful as backup. With major pressure on the Australian scumsuckers they decide to go with their highly paid external consultant Morg N Thorg to throw Australia's first female prime minister into the fray.

Sadly a heel breaks and she's knocked out into a Labor minders arms as a lightning bolt from the skies attempts to wreak vengeance on Hobbes for threatening Labor's rightful minority government. Hobbes is only slightly singed and quickly knocks down another former Prime Minister the Honourable Paul Keating before standing over the pigskin.

With Orc bodies and Undead souls securing the ball, it's go time for Atarin who throws lovely pass to Calvin the Hungry who drops the ball and continues to do so all night. It's on the 20 yard line though so all the pressure is on Australia's career politicians to salvage a better tomorrow. Malcom Fraser is as good at blocking as he is a Liberal leader and knocks himself out on Climate Change and undead fist.

Calvin makes a pickup after burning 50% of Alive not Dead's rerolls and puts a Touchdown for Alive not Dead 1-0 at the end of the first quarter.

This time it's a deep kick and a Perfect Defence for the playoff contenders which puts even more pressure on the greenskin, freshmeat orcs. Tony Abbott decides to show that he's not just a polling dandy and starts off with a strong blitz which Malcom Fraser follows up stunning poor Gui the Sad Ghoul. After the last debacle though, Morg N Thorg and Paul Keating all backtrack to give Julia Gillard support to no avail as she lets it slip through like a Mining Resource Tax.

With an aggressive defense both Calvin and Hobbes team up to score another Defensive TD deep in the Biff half. Morg N Thorg knocks down Hobbes though but neither Keating nor Gillard can pick up the ball opting to squabble of the corpse that is Australian Federal government called Football. Calvin opts to mimic Hobbes MVP play but being a fresh pup fails miserably and falls as Keating coathangers him next to the ball. It's now that Morg N Thorg has a sudden rush of blood and decides that his 430k hire fee is worth poor Hobbes fine fur pelt. The referee carefully sees such dirty play against a WWF endangered species and sends him off ensuring Alive Not Dead's victory. Gui doesn't notice that he's tied his shoelaces together however and ensures that it's only 1-0 at the break to Alive not Dead.

The bloodweiser girls are the only thing worth the inducement money for Biff besides the breasts and beer and guarantee stalwarts Bob and Gough are back to try and stop the Necromantic tide. The 2nd half doesn't start off well for Biff though with Paul Keating taken out by a Liberally thrown rock from the crowd putting them an Orc down. It's not long before a hole is punched through the weakened line and a simple handoff to Hobbes results in a 2-0 lead to Alive Not Dead.

Time for Biff to get some pride back and aim for a 2-1 scoreline with a decent line of scrimmage. Without Morg n Thorg though they're easily overpowered and it's not long before the experience shows with Atarin cruelly killing Alfred Deakin for fun and experience. Spain decides not to use his apothecary without realising that the 2nd Australian Prime minister would return to fight against his cohorts on the next drive. It's a matter of ease for Gui to secure the ball though and Hobbes to score his 2nd TD.

Alive not Dead go for a 4th TD with a favourable Blitz! start but Calvin knocks himself out while maiming Malcom Fraser leaving the score 3-0.

A decent match from Spain and the Biff but inexperience and careless mistakes mean Alive not Dead stay on the Hippies' tails at 2nd  :awesome_for_real:

In a very, very unlucky day for Swiftblade, the Amazons get the win, 2 - 0, over the Orcs.

I don't think I've seen that many double-1s before.

Well, THANK YOU ALL FOR PREDICTING MY DEFEAT, assholes!

(http://bbm.jcmag.fr/BloodBowlManager.WebSite/ImageMatchReport.aspx?Id=218769&lang=en)

Baus.

proudft, been waiting over the weekend but didn't see you online.
i'm GMT+8

9 AM to 6 PM is my work hours.
If you see me on steam ,just drop a PM

I'm going to be away from this afternoon through till Sunday. Please bother Ingmar for all your match resetting needs in the meantime.

I'll let luckton post the screenshots and stats, but this did not go well for me. When you've had one death and one badly hurt on the first turn, before you've even had a chance to roll, followed by a Blitz for your opponent the first kickoff you receive, there's not much to be done. Still, it could have been much worse. We ended 2-1 to the Norse in maybe the goriest game of BB I've had. We each had seven on the pitch by the end and I started with 13 on my team.

I have two dead dwarves now. Yes, that means I rolled double dead in the first turn. He even took out the Minotaur freebooter I hired, the superhero one. Whatzhisbutt. Nasty.

I honestly don't know if my team can recover from the deaths.

(http://i.imgur.com/6UtfraR.png)

The G6 Crew, having lost their first season match to the mighty lizards, and snatching defeat from the jaws of victory last week against the Dwarfs, were out for blood today against the Chaos Dwarfs.  While blood was obtained from both sides, the G6 Crew managed to grab just a bit more of it. 

The might of two Minotaurs was not enough to sway the Norse's initial drive up the pitch, with Halfdan the 'zerker running right up and throat-punching a C.Dwarf Blocker into oblivion on turn 1.  The C. Dwarf apothecary must have not had his coffee yet though, as he was unsuccessful in restoring the Blocker's trachea.  Dugald the werewolf followed up with body-blow to a hobgoblin, and subsequently removing the gobbo from the pitch as well.  The C.Dwarfs returned the favor by badly injuring Hallbera the Runner, but after a few more turns of throwing blocks back and forth, the Norse practiced their agility a bit and ran in the ball for a touchdown.

With a few turns left in the first half, the C.Dwarfs started a drive down the pitch, but their Star Player Minotaur, Grashnak Blackhoof, tried to throw down the Crew's Blodging werewolf with a Both Down, and ended up getting his Knee Smashed instead.  Still, the C. Dwarfs persevered, breaking the back of the Crew's Lineman Kicker, and managing to set themselves up for a decent passed-in touchdown on turn 8, but the C. Dwarfs Centaur was as Sure Footed as it thought it was, and brought himself and ball down halfway down the pitch before the delivery could be made.

With the start of the second half, the C. Dwarfs began barreling down the pitch again, and the Crew tried their hardest to keep them at bay, with Fido Ylarson the werewolf managing to Badly Injure the C. Dwarfs other Minotaur off the pitch.  Still, a well protected hobgoblin managed to keep a hold of the ball, while one of the C.Dwarf Blockers managed to deliver a death blow to Eyesteinfriar, the Crew's trained-by-elfs Lineman.  The Crew was unprepared to loose one of it's own completely, and the apothecary was sent out to render aid.  A successful debilitation managed to get Eyesteinfriar back on his feet, but to the sidelines until the next drive.  He wouldn't wait long though, as the C.Dwarfs perseverance paid off, even while being hounded by the Crew, and the C.Dwarfs managed to get on the board and tie up the game with a successful turn 12 Touchdown.

Turn 13 saw the ball get kicked deep into Crew territory, and the kickoff event allowed the C.Dwarfs to re-align their defense for the last drive of the game.  The Crew wasn't about to have a repeat tie of last week, though, and started clearing away a path to victory right up the center of the pitch.  Another C.Dwarf Blocker was sent to the Injury Box badly bruised, while another still had his head decapitated by Fido the werewolf.  The C.Dwarfs attempted to mount a counter-defense, but the Bull Centaurs stumbled over themselves again, allowing the Crew to dive the ball into the endzone for a turn 16 touchdown, and securing their first EVER win in the f13 season play.

(http://bbm.jcmag.fr/BloodBowlManager.WebSite/ImageMatchReport.aspx?Id=219099&lang=en)

In what apparently will surprise EVERYONE making predictions, I upset Jasper's Understone Raiders 3-2!

The key stat there is the block dice. 70% success rate to 44%. He ran all over me in the first half with some quick strikes, but I whittled down his numbers with blocks and injuries so that by the time the game was over, he only had 6 guys on the pitch. He used the 420k of inducements to buy the mercenary rat ogre who did inflict an injury but was then knocked out of the game himself. I managed a kill and I think 2 lingering injuries on him, and I think he got a lingering injury on one of my linerats. But having a full 11 vs. his 8 to start the final possession (with the game tied 2-2) was what sealed the deal. Getting a gutter runner with the ball down the sidelines was easy when he had to compress his team into the middle of the field.

Ouch.

The Human/Khorne match is scheduled for (assuming we didn't screw up the timezones) Friday - my Friday 9:00 am (GMT-7) vs. RK47 Friday-into-Saturday midnight pm (GMT+8).

Jasper... Why buy Rat Ogre? Such foolishness upsets my tips.

Rat Ogres are OK as an inducement. Better than a wizard for instance.

Not quite good enough for main roster imo, also the three I've bought previously all died by turn 4 of their first games.

Also, I think there's something to be said for having prehensile tail available for the mirror match.

No way. I would never get the Rat Ogre over a Wizard and Babes.

I'd go wizard and babes as well.  I know that I've had far more of my own drives ruined by lightning than by rat ogres.  Plus, just the presence of a wizard often makes an opponent play differently, and usually not for the better.

- I think those of you who don't like Rat Ogres are entirely wrong.  The Ogre worked quite well for me until it got injured the first time it got knocked down.
- I had a Wizard too, it just fizzled.

Honestly speaking, I think my inducement selection had little to do with my losing.

Oh, no doubt.  My comment wasn't directed at you.  I was just commenting that I liked wizard/babes more than a rat ogre if I had to choose as that was how the conversation was going.  I didn't even know exactly what inducements you picked.

He also bought a wizard and used it well to attack a gutter runner a few paces from the endzone - but the lightning bolt did no damage. He got some bad rolls in places he needed at least mediocre rolls.

With 420 and only 2 rerolls think I would have taken a reroll, a 2nd apoth, then maybe an ogre with juggernaught, or maybe another reroll and double bloodweiser.

I hate wizards so much.

Only because whenever you use them against me they fail.   :grin:

Whenever and whoever I use them against.

Hey, if it makes you feel any better, the last four Wizards I've bought have all been blown on 1s for their lightning bolts.

Last one I bought threw a fireball at four people and missed all of them.

the one before that killed HRose though

Not only his blood but the blood of all his future blog posts stains your hands.

Ermine Vermin     5
Blitzberg Brewers  0

Ermine Vermin win without Cheddar Persille touching the ball, including a hattrrick for new Gutter Runner 'The Parmigiano Pimpernel'. Couple of rats miss the next game, but no permanent injuries, the Pimpernel reaches level 2, Neville the Nose reaches level 6.

First half the orcs simply couldn't stop the Vermin pouring through the lines and scoring 4 defensive TDs, but they were steadily chipping away at the rat numbers. Second half, after an early score to make it 5-0, there were only 6 vermin left, and they couldn't get hold of the ball. The Orcs almost managed a turn 16 consolation score, but they needed a GFi in a blizzard on the line, and nuffle did not oblige.

Good god, this ratty menace must be stopped!

Top punching bags in the league and before this match hadn't kept a clean sheet in 24 (excluding byes and disconnects). Plus they did have a 1000TV advantage here.

We're kind of one match away from disaster at all times, and, you know, blood bowl.

In case anyone is wondering the inducement money was spent on Ripper, Varag, Wizard, and a bribe. Wizard managed to knock a guy out but the bribe fizzled, the star players made a decent contribution. Possibly I'd have found room for the chef on this match up.

Gort did also suffer 2 blitz! events, and a riot with a +2 vs 0 fame disadvantage, then a blizzard stopped either of us pushing too hard in the second half.

Not just you!  ALL the rats! 

Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh the pain!  At least this game I didn't suffer 2-3 injuries or deaths.  In exchange I had to cope with 2 Blitzes, a Pitch invasion that knocked over all but 3(?) of my players, and a Blizzard, and failure after failure when GFI and trying to pick up the ball!  You would think the Blizzard would be beneficial against Skaven, and I would agree with you, except when you are down 3 (or was it 4?) TDs by halftime.

My MVP was the wizard. I think he knocked 3 of 3 rats off the pitch. With 820 in inducements I wanted to purchase a Chef but was panicking trying to get the most out of my 820 without leaving too much behind. I had my incudements planned out (including a much-needed Merc Thrower for Sure Hands) but must have raised your TV before we started. I had more $$$ than I calculated. Even though I had no defense it was fun. There's something fun about having 6 or 7 players on your roster in a league with TV 1500-1900 teams.  I should have just bought Morg, given him the ball, planted him at midfield, and dropped the beat hammer!   :drill:

Apologies. I thought you had fewer inducements.

Wait, what? When? I want the full story.

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=23015.msg1161860#msg1161860

Me vs Ingmar day 1.

Haven't heard from Fildrigar yet - sent him a Steam message on Monday when he was 'online' but apparently it was lies.

Seems like we still have a whole bunch of games to go. Play more blood bowl.

Hordes Division is 1 game away from finishing Day 3.

And we have 2 people from Down Under too!!

Move it slow pokes

Slackers. Back in my day...

Oh hey is it next week already?

Danicia, I'm free Thursday evening after 7pm PDT (GMT-7) and most of the day Saturday.  Start planning how you're gonna spend that sweet inducement cash!

Does anyone know another way to contact Fildrigar? He doesn't seem to be reading the thread or my Steam messages.

Try contacting him via Danicia if you can't raise him directly.

It was looking to be a battle of grizzled skilled humans versus a full but inexperienced demon roster, and the demons were a little worried, especially about all that pesky Block.  The humans won the toss and elected to kick.  And then the snow began to fall.  Dis attempted to explain to the rest of the team that this was a very good sign, as the humans were going to be much better at passing, and this would cut down on their options, but the rest of the Purple Inferno looked at him with dim comprehension.

The ball was kicked and the humans commenced to soundly beat on the demons, injuring Malacoda right out of the gate (he regenerated, pshew).  Another bloodletter, Minos, was KOed.  This was not a promising start, but then Dis decided to show his lesser minions how things are done and killed the Knights' ogre with one mighty swipe of his claws.  The apothecary ran out to save the bleeding lout, but was unable to attach his fat severed head.

Despite this minor setback, the humans managed to wrest the ball from the demons' clutches and Brother None the blitzer grabbed it and jogged down near the goal line.  There he paused for a few turns hoping to run out the clock, and the demons continued to attempt to even the odds, slowly getting a handful of blockers within range of Mr. None.  Then he finally scored, afraid of being clawed like that hapless ogre.

There were enough turns remaining in the first half for the Inferno to tie... if they hurried.  The kickoff was run up to and handed off successfully to Vanni Fucci the herald, who made a beeline for the goal, alone and with his claws crossed he would dodge whoever managed to blitz him.  He did not.  Whitewolf the blitzer knocked the ball loose and that was basically the end of the half.

By the second half, all the demons were up and about (aided by the Bloodweiser Babes) and it was 11 demons vs. 10 humans and 1 ogre-sized hole in their line.  The Knights set up a catcher on one side to receive and Xenomorph II the thrower on the other, so Guido de Montrefeltro the kicker booted the ball over to the catcher, since his frail little body looked more ripe for the clawing.

The Knights had to use a reroll to pick up the ball.  The other two rerolls were quickly used up in subsequent turns and they had to play much of the half with no rerolls.   Whitewolf took Plutus the herald out of the game with a concussion, but then the Inferno knocked the ball loose and it was back in demonic clutches.  Geryon the bloodletter eventually fought his way to the goal line with the ball and the game was tied, with not much time remaining.

Both sides were now at 10 players.  The Knights set up heavily on one side and Guido kicked short to the other, crossing his fingers for a blitz to validate his decision.  It was not to be, alas, and the Knights got the ball and were soon running it up the sideline for their second score.  Dis did not like the looks of that, and took down the ball carrier, but in his enthusiasm the ball went flying into the stands... and for some reason the referee threw it way over on the other side of the field.  It was in a good position for the Inferno to pick up, but it was a looong way from the goal, and their chances of taking the lead were dashed when Minos failed to pick up the ball.

Purple Inferno tie Knights of Codexia 1-1. 

Plutus the Khorne Herald: serious concussion
Stabby the Catcher [Sprint, Sure Feet]: pinched nerve
Ulminati the Ogre [Block]: passed away


Fancystats:

Something about referring to anyone having "passed away" in Blood Bowl makes me laugh.

Avaia and I will be playing either Saturday or Sunday, by the way, we have not forgotten! We were just busy at different times during the week.

Sure sure. Lift your game!

Games validated.

Finally.  All but my Troll are now Block-proof  :awesome_for_real:

Indirect contact achieved; I allegedly will be playing my game either tomorrow night or Sunday.

Still waiting on initial contact from Danicia, but I'm free all weekend so hopefully we'll work something out!

EDIT: we connected on Steam, will play tomorrow afternoon!

The First Ladies 1 - 0 Nifty Helmets

I took a wizard, Morg, a bribe and an extra reroll for my inducements, and they all turned out to be really helpful.  My plan was to foul the hell out of Gruntle's awesome minotaur, and get at least one TD on the board.

I chose to receive, and lined up my big guns on the line of scrimmage so that I could get a shot at his mino.  I managed to knock him down, and fouled him, scoring an badly injured, but Gruntle used his apothecary and got another badly injured as his result so I knew that he'd be back.  I had to use my bribe in the process, but I figured that I would at least get one drive without him on the field.  I then started moving the ball to my right.  After a few turns Gruntle got an awesome leaping blitz on my ball-carrying hobgoblin, and we got into a bit of a scrum over the ball.  I managed to pick it up twice with my centaur, Eleanor Roosevelt, but each time she got knocked down.  The third time was the charm though and I got her out of the scrum.  It was at this time that I noticed there was a big group of beastmen downfield that were going to be trouble if I wanted to score that half so I went against my usual aversion to fireballs and used the wizard to great effect, knocking down four of players and koing a chaos warrior.  This would prove pivotal as it enabled me to move close to the endzone and cage up, free of his leaping blitzer.  I scored on my sixth turn.

There were two turns of inconclusive play that followed, and we began the second half.  With his minotaur back on the field, Gruntle racked up two injuries against me and just generally broke armor all over the place.  I played more aggressively than I normally do, putting as many folks on the ball as possible, but also getting a little out of position in the process.  It looked like Gruntle was going to break away, but I pulled off a lucky blitz with a hobgoblin, and knocked the ball close the sidelines, where it sat for a few turns while I surrounded it.  He managed to knock the ball out of bounds and the crowd threw it close to my endzone.  Gruntle picked up the ball with a beastman, but failed on a second gfi, and it was at this point that his block dice started giving him a lot of turnovers; three in a row, in fact.  I held him off, and picked up the ball with hobgoblin, running him towards the line of scrimmage on the final turns.

I think the minotaur foul and wizard were key to scoring the TD.  If that hadn't gone perfectly I think this would've either been a draw or a loss for me, because I'm sure he would've given me a few kos or injuries in the first half otherwise.  Gruntle had bad luck on blocks at the beginning of the first half and the end of the second, but played a great game in spite of that.  It was a lot of fun.

The gory details:

(http://)The Minizilla's 2 - Bony Slaves, Iron Beards 0

Lightfax had a fair few dollars to spend on inducments in this match and Opted for extra apothecaries, a chef and a wizard but the game was largely and strangely quite bloodless with only 1 injury caused by my normally quite vicious lizard team. The match started with me winning the toss and electing to kick to Lightfax's Chaos Dwarfs. I had never played them before so didn't really know much about their strengths and weaknesses and the chef stole 2 of my re-rolls in the first half giving lightfax 6 re-rolls to my 2 so suspected this might be a game that would reward caution over rish taking, shame I never heed my own advice!.

Lightfax grabs the ball safely off the kick and runs to midfield but elects not to cage up and sets a light screen that protects his left flank but not his right and with a few blocks I open a path to blitx the carrier freeing the ball. A scrum ensues then as both teams mark the ball and an attempt by a bull centaur to pick up the ball fails and the bouncing ball finds its way into the hands of one of my Saurus and as always happens with me when I luck out I totally have no idea what to do. I want to score with the saurus as he only needs 3 points to level up but every time I try this in the past it backfires and it nearly did this time. It took me 6 turns to get into scoring range and with my skinks seemingly unable to escape the chaos dwark tackle this half turnovers were happening quite fsat for me. Luckily I was obeying the rules of Coach and making my risk free moves first so it never left me totally open but it made slow going as I trundled up the field before finding myself double marked in scoring range and on turn 7 I decide to go for the score but forget to blitz, so score the required pow and move away from the second marker but am then stuck close to the endzone and unmarked but unable to move! Luckily for me Lightfax picks the worst time to fail a dodge and turns over quickly allowing me a turn 8 score and to go into the second hald 1 - 0 up.

Second half I am receving but this time the chef obviously forgot to add salt to the stew cos it tasted so foul he failed his rolls and no re-rolls were stolen for this half. I setup for a side run and fail the first pickup with my agi4 sure hands skink. Luckily these are dwarfs so no chance of capatilising on this slip up and my next turn I make a safe pickup and run up the sideline, clearing any obstructions and safely travelling up the pitch. Nothing much of note occurs bar a smashed knee from my Krox on one of Lightfax's Hobgoblins and I run in a score on turn 14. 2 turns to go and though Lightfax lucks out a little by failing a pickup with a bull centaur that hands off to another stood close by there is not enough time to score a consolation so a few blocks are thrown but no harm is done and the story of Lightfax's blocking dice in this half continue with an ignomious skull to end the match.

2 more Saurus level ups acheived so a breack tackle Saurus will be getting mighty blow and I will finally be gettting guard on the other one.

Match is submitted (but went too fast and left it at day 1 - if you want me to submit it correctly let me know)

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The Biolab Sea Bears are officially CURSED, and they suffered another week of abnormally high mortality as the Chemical Elvers defeated them 5-0.

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Highlights included:

• Elves killing TWO LADIES on the SAME TURN (only one of them was a loner)
• The Elf Thrower tripping over the goal line with a GFI, giving him a -AV MNG
• An Elf catcher getting stabbed and niggled (he's already -MV, he may be on the chopping block)

The deadline is tonight and there are two games outstanding still. Sjofn vs Avaia is apparently going ahead shortly but what is the news regarding Carnifex vs Megrim?

A tighter game than the score might indicate; for much of the second half the game was essentially one failed necromantic dodge roll away from a tie.

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A lot of bodies hit the ground, but mostly stuns and KOs. No permanent injuries, I think a beastman is MNG.

Ugh yea, I've not really been around to schedule a game. I was hoping to play over the weekend, but with the time difference its a bit hard. Can we get a 1-day extension?

1 day extension. 24 hours from now I'll roll the day forwards unless your game is actually in progress at the time.

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ugly game, I suck at everything, brb going to go cut myself

The depleted Bleating took on Nurgle, and I had no expectations heading in.  I was down two nurgle warriors and my ball handler so I fielded 5 rotters, two were loners.

I chose to recieve the opening kick, and my first two blocks resulted in injuries to The Mutiny.  Sjofn burned the apothecary by mistake, and of course that never goes with punishment.  A couple of turns later her werewolf was dead, only to be hired at the end of the game as a rotter.   :heart:

I held the ball back deep for the first 5 turns, hoping to inflict some pain.  I ran in a score on turn 8 after having to blitz off some pressure mid-half.

Second half was mostly uneventful, with the wizard doing his job as the norse tried to make a break down the sideline, KOing the ball carrier with a lovely ZOT.  I parked near my beast, who just sat around with a bad case of Really Stupid for most of the half.  After losing the ball, I managed to pick up the ball in a crowd, dodge out, and score again in turn 16.  2-0 nurgle.

 :heartbreak: There's always next week!

Game played, sorry about the delay.

Yup was a very close fought 1-1 tie, which was much more exciting than the score reflects.  I'm too tired to do a proper write up, so here's some stats :)
Oh, also we both commited murder :)