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We're approaching the halfway mark of the championship and the divisions are starting to shake down into those whom Nuffle loves one one side and the 99%ers on the other. Something that came up in the last round is that there are a number of brand new and less-experienced coaches in this season and those of us with more experience should try to bear that in mind when playing. That doesn't mean play to lose or whatever, but if your opponent is making rookie errors and missing things then it's a good idea to have a quick chat about it after the fact. Likewise, the new coaches should seriously consider putting a few teams in the f13 feeder league which is a great environment to learn, get experienced coaches to talk you through things and generally tighten up your game in a no-pressure match. Also I'd strongly recommend downloading a few of the other matches in the league from BBManager and watching them (once they are downloaded, you'll find them in the 'replays' menu of your client).

Anyhow, on with the show!

Here are the results from Day 3:
(http://i.imgur.com/tmHzg0p.jpg)

And here are the fixtures for Day 4:
(http://i.imgur.com/Umihij5.jpg)

The deadline for these games is Wednesday 27th March. Play early, play often.

Rankings after 3 game days.

40k Division:
(http://i.imgur.com/7Ykdk8i.jpg)

Ulysees pulls out a small lead with Swiftblade and Celer tied for second but the rest of the division is snapping at their heels. Wide open still.

Hail Caesar Division:
(http://i.imgur.com/0FuCdje.jpg)

Three way race at the top with Avaia close behind in fourth. Some good coaches in the bottom half who can still upset things however.

Hordes Division:
(http://i.imgur.com/5kpoufe.jpg)

Similar story to 40k here. Teleku is running away with the lead but the next three places are very much up for grabs.

Tamurkhan Division:
(http://i.imgur.com/J1lAC8d.jpg)

Against all expectations, my newly minted Skaven seem to be less terrible than anticipated but I have my hardest matchups still to 'look forward to'. There will be a ferocious scrap for playoff berths in this division and it will likely come down to a a very narrow spread of points.

Stats from BBManager:

Ulysees,

I'm GMT, how about you? When you looking to play?

I'm GMT too can play tonight around 10-10.30 Pm or tomorrow at around the same time. If that is too late I might be able to snatch an earlier start time on Thursday but am going to visit my folks this weekend, thank god you are GMT so if we don't get to play in teh next few days we should be able to sort something out before the deadline at least.

Teleku, I'm GMT, available most evenings apart from Thursday and Sunday.

I'm GMT +1, over here in Poland.  Should be available most evenings (including right now) after 5:30'ish.  Whats your steam name?

Tonight at 10 sounds good to me.

Teleku,  I'm Willisterman.  And yep, free now.

I'm free GMT -8 (Pacific time) but only available through Friday. I fly out to GDC on Saturday, returning home on March 31st. Since I am currently unemployed, I can play at any time. :)

Get your bets in now because Necromantic vs. Khorne is probably happening late tonight.

Nice!  I actually want to watch that one.

Preseason, it was 1-2-0 Khorne.   Now we meet again, with more seasoning on both sides.   Ingmar has Block spread all over the place, whereas most of my leveling has been in the team captain Dis, who now has Block himself.  It will be interesting.

My main decision point is standing pat to buy a wizard, or getting some spare zombies to absorb the inevitable clawing from the bloodthirster. I've already had to dip into Broken Forum's ban list for player names!

Can't see you online

It's not 10.30 yet! Logging into steam now

Avaia, when's a good time for Bleating vs. Understone Raiders?  I'm on PST, and judging from Who's Who you're two hours ahead of me (just to be sure)?

Either Wednesday or Thursday evening would be best for me, pretty much anytime you're free.  Could also possibly play tonight too if you get this in time, or Tuesday if you're willing to play after 9pm PST.  Friday is out, and the weekend is iffy, though I'm also free at the same times next week if need be.

Anyway, let me know what works for you!

Just played our game!  Here are the results:

(http://bbm.jcmag.fr/BloodBowlManager.WebSite/ImageMatchReport.aspx?Id=220284&lang=en)

To tired to do a write up, so maybe he can later.  In short, good game, he defended and played his team well.  Between Tackle and Sure Hands, Dwarves are just designed from the ground up to fuck me, heh.

As long as someone is, Teleku :p

That sounds like at least one vote for Beardstorm to come back next season.

The Minizilla's 2 - 0 The Camp-Town Orcboyz

A really hard fought match that could easily have ended in a 0-0 or 1-1 tie but for some shitty pickup dice for Swiftblade. I don't remember much of the first half, Swiftblade had 660k of inducements and went for Morg, the star goblin bomber and a wizard and the wizard for once actually paid off stopping a near certain score in the first half though the bomber was less effective as Swiftblade didn't know how to make him throw his bomb so the score I made on his drive may well have been prevented had he been able to launch his missile! I did a good job of not letting Swift perform skink genocide but managed to injure 2 of my skinks by failing dodge rolls, one with broken ribs and Morg managed to injure my Krox but the apoth enabled me to keep him in the game.

Swiftblade won the toss and elected to receive first but failed to pick up the initial kick which allowed me to move lizards into position to strike on the next turn and I duly managed to sack the carrier on turn 2 and with a bit of jiggling about free up a snatch and grab to try a quick breakaway score. Turn 4 sees the removal of my Krox but stand firm and block are working wonders on the line of scrimmage and keep 4 or 5 of Swifts players tied up for most of the half at the line of scrimmage and though there are a couple of black orcs in play and his blitzers I have a general strength advantage when making blocks for this half but my injury dice seem to have deserted me the last couple of matches scoring a few Ko's and lots of stuns but not injuring many players that I recall (I don't think I took any off the orcs off the field through anything other thank KO's this match). By turn 5 I am ready to score and this is where a lightning bolt takes out my best defensive skink whi happened to be carrying the ball at the time and it needs some luck on my part and a badly timed turnover to get me back into possesion of the ball but unable to score or make my carrier completely safe I risk blizzard condition go for its to take me as far away from a blitz as possible and the risk paid off as Swift has to use GFI's with no re-rolls left to blitz my carrier and duly fails the GFI roll to allow me a turn 7 score.

Second half I receive and setup for my usual play but an excellent short kick puts me in a quandry (and shows me the error of setting up the way I normally do so will learn from that for future matches) and I have to shuffle players across to form a screen rather than a cage around my ball carrier. Then Swift makes the only tactical mistake I think he made all match and opened a gap for me to make my favoured sideline cage which I take advantage of and though he does succesfully bog me down and even get a sack on my ball carrier close to his endzone I have enough lizards free to clear the ball and make a succesful dodge and pickup to score a second try on turn 14. With only 2 turns to score it is my turn to get lucky with my kick off and land a short kick just behind the line of scrimmage and I get a little greedy at this point thinking about the possibility of a third score so push hard on the carrier and though I do get a Saurus in to mark I made a mistake with my frenzy blitz and move him away instead of towards the carrier leaving him with just 1 lizard marking which is easily cleared away and with a couple more blocks a path is opened straight down the centrefield which the orc scampers into but when he makes his 2 succesful GFI's he still ends up 1 square short of the endzone so my perfect defensive record remains intact and I take the match 2-0.

This game was some seriously hard work and but for the blizard screwing gfi's and pickups I think the result would have been more in doubt as Swift did have bad luck at crucial times though my block dice were not great either and for the first time since facing the Ex-Presidents in the semi final of last seasons playoffs (fuck claw btw) I found myself starting the final drive with less players on the pitch than my opponent (though it was only 10v11 so not that big an impact). Was a fun match to play and I am sure Swiftblade will give a lot of people a good run for their money throughout the season as these orcs continue to develop.

match is submitted on BBmanger and here is the tale of the tape:

(http://bbm.jcmag.fr/BloodBowlManager.WebSite/ImageMatchReport.aspx?Id=220296&lang=en&bg=orca)

For future reference, the middle button with the green/yellow curved arrow thing in the UI is the 'throw pass' button, and is what you have to hit to make a bomber throw his bomb. There's probably a keyboard shortcut as well, but I don't know it off the top of my head.

Modern Angel, Make your Time!

I'm GMT +9 and work normal office hours on weekdays.

So My Friday night, your Friday morning or your Friday night my Saturday morning might be the best option

I gave the GRs some tentacled hugs, but not enough apparently.  Tied 1-1 with no lasting injuries to either side.

I really hate those little motherfuckers!   :drill:

1-1 tie here as well. I'm really struggling on my offensive strategy with Necromantic so far. I need remedial 'players who go faster than 6' practice.  :why_so_serious:

It was a battle of teams better on defense than offense.  Lots of careful positioning and careful blocking and in the end, a tie, so everyone goes home sad.

Dis added several more casualties to his belt, though all were Badly Hurt or Regenerated.  His average is now > 1 per game.  Muhuahahaha.  Now get out of the way so people can go run after the ball, you big lug.

The Inferno had no permanent injuries either.  A pit fighter hit level 2 and took Block, and the Leader Bloodletter who was in the queue to get replaced decided he didn't like that idea, and he leveled as well, and took Block too.  Contrary bastard.

Thanks, but that wasn't the issue. The issue was that I did not realise you couldn't move, then throw.

So, I wasted my blitz, moved my bomber  who then did nothing which left his skink open to score.

I still won.   :why_so_serious:

Ah - you can move then throw with most pieces, probably including the bomber - but you can't *blitz* and throw.

Megrim, I am confident we can try and set up a game over the weekend, right? With our time difference I doubt we will have better chances.

You can't throw and move with a bomber. You're stuck in position if you want to use the bomb ability.

Ruvaldt, Wednesday evening, Friday evening, any time Saturday, early Sunday (GMT), all work for me, let me know when you can play.

A better match than I expected, I really thought the elves were going to run rings around the slow dwarves, but their speed did stop us getting any traction.  A slow first half finished without a score, as even with 3 players down, the superior elven movement just allowed them to stop any forward momentum.  The second half, the elves quickly moved down the pitch, and scored without too much trouble, though a lightning bolt did take down a wardancer for a short while, the apoth got her back up.

My last drive screwed up a little bit, when my clicking yes on the bribe was totally ignored, meaning my deathroller was sent off.  It wasn't that the bribe failed, as when the turn started, I still had a bribe left.  That left me down a little, and we had to play a little differently.  The elves were able to bog us down again, but on the last turn I had a small chance to score for a draw, but I was let down by Zara the slayer being a bit of a loner, meaning the game ended 1-0 to the Hippies.

Yo yo Fildregar, when is your timezone my man?

(http://bbm.jcmag.fr/BloodBowlManager.WebSite/ImageMatchReport.aspx?Id=220344&lang=en&bg=orca)


Some of the highlights: RK47's GFIs:10/15 (67%), my GFIs: 3/6 (50%)

I also managed to fail half of my pick ups and catches (but funnily enough we both had the same frequency of 1s on d6 rolls; almost 30%)

I'm reasonably good for most times. I'm Eastern US. So GMT -4 (or is it -5 with daylight savings?).

Really, just ping me when you have a moment. I go to school full time again and work from home some, so I'm mostly open. Thursday midday my time is no good, Friday night is no good, Saturday I'm out all day. That actually sounds like I'm not mostly open but WHATEVER!

I'm more shocked with the 6 out of 30 successful blocks, though.  :ye_gods:

(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/829607/Bloodbowl/KoK/MD04/02/JR.jpg)

See you in the fail-offs, you scrub.

It will have to be Saturday or Sunday for me.  I'm usually up for games any time after noon on Saturday.

OK, if you ping me as soon as you're available Saturday we can do this.

That piece sounds worse and worse.

Especially if you're playing against any team that can catch - because if they catch it (counts as a scattered pass), they can throw it back.

Blitzed with an Orc, moved the bomber, then couldn't throw. With a ball that would work.

Did not know that. I thought he would make a decent cage breaker, lessens learnt.

Hm, I guess you *could* try to level one up to get Hail Mary Pass...

Requires a double. Plus they skill up very slow.

Not really worth it.

Bombardiers are only good with Hail Mary, but if that matters to you, and you are nonetheless playing goblins, then I don't know what to tell you.

(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/829607/Bloodbowl/KoK/MD04/02/12.jpg)
(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/829607/Bloodbowl/KoK/MD04/01/JR.jpg)

Ok, that got me.

He's GMT -8, aka Pacific time. :)

HaemishM, when would you like to play?  The best day for me is Sunday, any time from 11am EST to 9pm EST. I can also play Friday from 11am to 3pm EST, Mon/Tues/Thurs 7pm to 10pm.

Any chance we can have a sticky made with every coaches f13 forum name, their BloodBowl coach name and their Steam name?  I'm finding it very painful to find the correct name to contact and where.

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=21618.0

 :grin:

The crew got up at 3:30 AM local time to take on the see-saw of overpowered ogres and squishy snotlings that make up Reborne's Wrestlers.  As it that it's now a quarter after 5 AM now, I'll keep this brief.

- Took a Wizard, double kegs, a reroll, and a spare Apoth.
- Wizard actually worked in keeping the game from going 2-2 instead of 2-1.
- Double kegs paid off in keeping the guys that did get inevitably KO'd back on the pitch
- Spare Apoth kept my 'zerker in the match.
- Nuffle didn't fuck up my dice that much for a second match in a row.  The only failure was on my part for not paying attention to line-of-scrimmage assignments.
- Such failure was responsible for the ogres getting a one-turn toss-a-snot TD.
- Nobody died.

Was a good match, 5-star, would play again  :awesome_for_real:

And now I'm going back to bed.

Stats in the spoiler.

Wrestlers 1 - 2 G6 Crew

Ok, first I'm going to thank Luckton for being so accommodating in arranging this match.
I'm busy this weekend so they got up in time that I don't acknowledge to play the match.

Also, the follow comment has no baring on how Luckton played the game.

That match was bullshit.

We both had Cyanide moments.
On my first turn, snotling catches the kick, runs over and fails the hand off but I get no choice to re-roll...
After Luckton's first touchdown, the game decided where to place his players.

Nuffle did unmentionable things to my mascot and then took a huge steaming dump on my team's logo, or at least that the feel I got from the dice in the game.

Luckton was almost always rolling fantastic things.
2 die against block, sure.
No more re-rolls, who cares..
Frenzy into a sqaure of ogres, not a problem...

My one saving grace was a 1 turn TD snotling throw, which really is my favourite part of this team.
I believe this was allowed to contrast ever other die that I rolled.
My most memorable one was Luckton's ball carrier starting to make a break for it, blitz him and I got attacker down or push, reroll to attacker down or both down and the ball carrier has block.

Luckton played well and was good about it but man was that frustrating.

Uh huh. And how exactly am I meant to contact him?

add him on steam n keep spamming i got it to work

Sunday works for me. I'll look for you on Steam in the afternoon, probably after 2 pm CST (3 pm your time).

Should be fine, just be aware that I've got a few things on over the weekend. I will try to make time however.

Uuuuuggggh. At least my troll leveled.

edit: also rolled doubles on a Goblin. Dauntless? Wrestle? Strip ball? Kick?

Guard. You can never, ever, ever have too much guard.

...wait, you're in my division. Hail Mary Pass.

Fursecution's winning streak continues with a 3-0 win over 8 Eyes.

I was receiving and got off to a good start, KOing the troll on my second try and getting some Gutter RUnners prowling in the Underworld half. I tried a throw and run play but the pass scattered. Luckily it scattered into the middle of a clutch of Skaven so it was relatively safe and also dangerously close to the Underworld end zone. 8 Eyes managed to get a Goblin onto the ball after a bit of shoving but he was sacked immediately and Fursecution took the opportunity to clear the field a little wiith Big Bear scoring a KO on a Skaven and Secretly A Unicorn managing to injure another. The ball was passed out of range of the Underworld team and the Skaven made full use of their superior numbers and strength over the next couple of turns before finally opening the score on turn 5.

The Underworld had a bad start to the next drive, the Troll stayed off the pitch as did their other KO meaning that they were down to 10 for the rest of the half. The Skaven swarmed forwards and marked up the Underworld players who were trying to cage up on a wing. I blew the cage open but made a mistake by moving a player over the ball that I hadn't intended to. The plan was for that player to mark up an Underworld player then for a Gutter Runner to grab the ball and hand it off to an unmarked Gutter Runner in the Underworld half. I should have kept hold of the ball but instead I went for a risky pass which I fumbled (having already burnt a reroll that turn on the pickup). It made little difference however, the Underworld team got to the ball, then fumbled it themselves. The ball was recovered by the Skaven who passed it off succesfully this time and held it out of reach until the end of the half. Meanwhile they surfed a few players off the pitch and scored three more injuries before the whistle blew. 2-0 at the half.

The second half was a little kinder to Ezrast but it was a case of too little, too late. Shelob the Troll came back on but they were still down to 9 on the pitch vs 11 Skaven. Big Bear the Stormvermin left almost immediately with a MNG injury that I used the Apothecary on to turn it into a Badly Hurt. The next turn my other Stormvermin was also Badly Hurt. That didn't stop the Skaven from sacking the Underworld ball carrier, unfortunately Yiffy tripped on his way out of the scrum with the ball and knocked himself out. The Underworld got the ball back and started to make their way down the pitch, unfortunately I was able to surround their cage and get Secretly A Unicorn entangled with them. His prehensile tail made moving the ball carrier risky and so the game bogged down into a brawl. Unfortunately the strength advantage was all on me and I pulled the cage apart again and got the ball back before making a run for the endzone and scoring the third on tun 14.

Three Underworld turns to go and 3-0 down is a bad lace to be in. The Underworld tried their best though and managed to score two more injuries. A last turn attempt at a consolation touchdown came to nothing as a Troll-powered Goblin sailed through the air clutching the ball, only to land one square short of reaching the endzone.

All in all an extremely violent match. 3 injuries and a death on the Underworld side and 3 injuries on the Skaven bench. We both have an MNG, the others (except the death obviously) weren't serious.

I levelled my Rat Ogre and a Gutter Runner, Ezrast levelled a random Goblin.

(http://bbm.jcmag.fr/BloodBowlManager.WebSite/ImageMatchReport.aspx?Id=220803&lang=en)

Your Sunday morning my Sunday night sounds good Coach Power Team Volcano

Will attempt to be sober by then  :awesome_for_real:

Also

Wrestle or block.

Horns on normal rolls means say no to dauntless. Strip ball is nah...

And I wouldn't get guard, you don't have block, you have an expensive goblin who can do tricks, don't waste that by putting him in to contact all the time.

That's what I'm looking for, except that was last updated on Dec 2011!!  Can we (Bann?) update that first post with those that are missing? I'm one that's not on there. ;)

So, ummmm, game played.  I won 5-0. Have you ever played against someone who was still learning and they got terrible dice? Danicia was a very good sport about it, but even BB Manager says she got terrible dice compared to mine.  Her d6's were -14.51 v. +11.11 and 2d6's were -22.78 v -2.30.  I don't want to go into the gruesome details other than to say that all her injuries were BHs, so have some stats.

No luck yet. No response to any of my messages.

(http://i.imgur.com/8TM55eJ.png)

i think i just broke chieftripodbear in half.    of the 42 d6 rolls i made, fifteen of them were sixes.  i intercepted passes, which turned into blitzes, which would become scores with injuries.  my krox picked up the ball after blasting the ball carrier and probably could've scored had he not stopped to injure julia gillard.  skinks passed, skinks caught, drogg never boneheaded.  just unbelievable.  edit: i was just reminded that i had a skink eat 6 block dice in a single round and not fall over.  that also happened; in fact, i think a skink ate turf only once during that whole match.

4-0, one orc dead, another -1 str.  props to the good chieftain for taking it all in stride as the casualties mounted and the lizard bullshit went from unfair to sublime. stats behind the spoiler.

Hey Fildregar: Please contact me via steam/private/here if you read this. Tried contacting you on steam but to no avail. With our time difference the only time I think we'll be able to play is my Sunday morning-afternoon your Sat afternoon-evening, which is 17 hours from now.

Ermine Vermin - 3
The First Ladies - 1

Fairly wacky game.

Vermin are missing their Thrower and a +1STR linerat - but still give away a metric asstonne of inducements, Ruvaldt picked a wizard, bribe, and reroll.

Game started with Vermin recieving, and Cheddar Persille scoring immeadiately.

Vermin kick back to the Ladies, ball lands in the end zone - and Roosevelt (centaur) recovers it. The rats race over the line of scrimmage and overwhelm Ruvaldt's centaur. Neville the Nose (GR) grabs the ball, and even Barbara Bush (mino) can't do anything except push Neville around the pitch. The Ladies are forced to call on their wizard to stop the TD, and recover the ball. Bush hands off the Rooseveldt who forms the centre of a rolling maul, that grinds down the pitch to score. In the process Blind Eddie (GR) and Neville the Nose are knocked out, and the Marquis de Brunost (Stormvermin) is taken off with a damaged back.

First drive of the second half sees the ladies establish control, it is not looking good for the vermin, as KOs and Badly Hurts take them down to just 6 rats. Then on turn 11 comes the moment that turns the game, the Ladies miss a far corner off their cage, Neville the Nose finds his way in, and manages a dauntless blitz to KO Roosevelt and send the ball loose; Cheddar Persille sniffs an opportunity, stands up from prone, leaps out of the box he is in, quadruple dodges and picks up the ball under 1 tackle zone, then tosses a pass to the Parmigiano Pimpernel who had been waiting upfield - he GFIs into the end zone. 2-1.

The Ladies recieve, Coolidge (hobgob) attempts to get things moving with a pickup and handoff to Nixon (hobgob). Nixon fails the catch. This is all the gutter runners need to swarm the ball, and Blnd Eddie soon finds his way to the end zone for a third TD.

The final drive was then just some comic hijinks with Hobgoblins failing to pick up the ball.

Stats:

Dodges:
Vermin - 24/34
Ladies - 0/1

Blocks:
Vermin - 9/14 (2 turnovers)
Ladies - 27/52 (1 turnover)

Marquis de Brunost misses next game with a niggle, no injuries to the Ladies. A Hobgoblin and the Centaur levelled up, and I gather Ruvaldt can afford his second Centaur now.

Was a fun game and close.  The Ladies were more competitive than I thought they would be, and I was pretty sure we'd end on a 2-2 tie until that crazy blitz and pickup.  It came down to that play, I think.

Good news is that Roosevelt leveled and I have the cash for my second centaur.

Fildrigar has not had much luck this season, and sadly it continued against the Mess, with another goat killed in action and general favoritism to the mutants with die rolls.

It was actually a pretty close game for the most part, and with a bit more luck on Fildrigar's side could have ended up in a draw. He did not get a lot of defender downs, which really hurt his chances to take out some goblins.

The dice seem to hate me. Two/three die blocks and a push is the best I get. Still at one player with a skill up, which I got my first game. For the future, to get a hold of me, I'm at gmail. Fildrigar. Also, my physical BB dice seem to roll way better than my virtual ones.

Need an apothecary, but can't afford one. ( I seem to be rolling very low on the money table. ) Would buy one with inducements, but then no minotaur star player.

Aye, and for 21 blocks to 31 you didn't get many break armors at all. Especially considering my av is worse across the board, even with the claw and MB pieces I had.

Played my game against Modern Angel's Team Power Volcano, match report to follow in the morning:

It's all bullshit. I lost to Megrim's vampires 1 - 0.

In turn 15 I had a catcher long in the end zone and my star Thrower ready for the easy bomb, without any disturbance. Loaded with rerolls and skills on both ends, the only chance for Megrim to prevent my equalizer is to take my catcher out of the game with one final blitz. Mind, knocking her down wouldn't be enough, the player has to be taken out completely. And... yes. Splotch. No more catcher, game's over.

Insatiable 1 - The Bell Jar Utd. 0

Zellar Dwellarz 2 - Blitzburg Brewers 1

This is one of those games that had everything and is what makes playing Blood Bowl fun (when you win). Gort's Orcs were down a lot of men, so he had 930k worth of inducements to make up. He went with Morg n' Thorg, Varag Ghoul Chewer, a wizard and 2 Broodweiser babes, along with some mercs to fill out the roster. I kicked off and the first half slog started. I played a bit too cautiously I must say. My first turn I sent my gutter runner to pick up the loose ball among a cage of orcs. He picked it up, but failed his dodge away and subsequently spent the rest of the first half unconscious on the bench. He also happened to be my strip ball gutter runner so missing that meant I couldn't pressure the ball as much. On the last turn of the half, he had Morg with the ball 6 spaces from the endzone. I had 4 defenders along the goal line but unfortunately I miscalculated his movement and he was able to go in at an angle untouched and unfettered for the score. 1-0.

On the kickoff, I had a chance to score a 1-turn TD. I have 2 GR's with 10 MV so they were both on the line. I clear a path, my apprentice thrower hands the ball off to my seasons thrower, who passes to the gutter runner 2 spaces away - and it lands BEHIND the thrower. Yes, that's right with "Accurate" and needing a 2+, I roll a 1 and another 1. FAIL.

Second half starts off with a kickoff to me and a quick score to tie it up. Kicking off deep, I know that I HAVE to pressure the ball hard, get a turnover in his half and pass or run it in for the score so I do just that. He cages up Morg with the ball, and I pressure. At one point, he makes a few positioning mistakes and leaves Morg in the cage with an open side. In comes my strip ball GR to take the ball away, leaving Morg stunned. Another GR picks up the ball and since it's turn 14, I figure I can move him as far away as possible without scoring so that I can wind the clock down. Only 1 orc is in range and he'll have to GFI to get the blitz. He does, and not only does he get a defender down result, it's such that the defender is left stunned next turn AND the ball goes out the back of the end zone for a touchback - which comes to the middle of the field. He gets an orc to pick it up, but doesn't have a clear path. Another of my turns and the ball is on the ground, my apprentice thrower gets the ball and runs as close as he can to throw the ball to the waiting GR in the end zone. Only one orc between the thrower and victory and he puts it up....

INTERCEPTION!!!!!!!

Yes, an ORC intercepts the pass. Flustered, he makes one final mistake. Instead of running away from my gutter runners (who are down), he runs towards them. Specifically, the gutter runner with strip ball. It requires a blitz, a pickup and 1 GFI roll but this runner is FIERCE. He knocks down the orc, grabs the ball and runs... HE SCORES! THE CROWD GOES WILD!!!!!!

With one turn left, it was all over but the crying. Kickoff, failed pickup, game over. One of the best games I've played. He was left with 1 dead black orc and I have a 2nd level linerat missing the next game with a gouged eye. His block dice let him down. I had a 68% success rate to his 39% and we both had 2 turnovers from blocks.

Another dead black orc?

Jeez, what did gort do to piss off Nuffle this much?

You should have seen last game's kick-off table. My opponent was gifted 2 blitzes (HaemishH had one this game too), a pitch invasion that crushed all but 2-3 of my players, a blizzard (helping him, not me!), and a bunch of rerolls.

When I made the Brewzers I figured, Orcs, 10 AV, I'll be doing sum BROOZING!  Nope, I should have named my team the Blitzburg Softies.  Even with 9-10 AV I've failed more AV rolls than even the 6 AV Skaven I've hit with MB! Me Brewzers are down to 8 players now, 2 Black Orcs and a Thrower killed and I can't count the number of in-game and 1 game injuries I've suffered. It's crazy, Morg is now a full-time player on my team! I wish the orc Star Players didn't have so many goofy goblins or that dopey troll who can't cut it in a progressed league.

HaemishH, on my last possession I was trying to throw the ball down field to an empty area but I started my move too late for being the non-host. Even with 8 seconds left I couldn't get the idiot to throw the ball. He.just.refused!  I need to keep that in mind on my last moves for the turn.  :ye_gods:

Look at the bright side - you nearly killed my best Vampire!  :grin:

Two days to go and two matches yet to be played.

Sjofn v Gruntle
Celer v Lightfax

Are these scheduled yet?

Don't worry, your next opponent is nice and soft.   :grin:

By the way, I'm out of commission from the 28th of March to 5th of April on vacation in Myanmar.

So the earliest I can play my next match against Drogg is 6th of April, so look forward to it Blood Bowl fans!

(If I don't die in sectarian violence...  :why_so_serious: )

I think Sjofn and Gruntle are planning to play today sometime. I'll bug Celer and LF.

Been busy so didn't get a chance to comment.

It's REALLY hard to do bash against a team with lots of Stand Firm and Fend. Toss in generally high AVs across the board and the line just wouldn't move.

I took a couple dumb risks out of necessity which didn't break my way. Llyse's team is completely fucking terrifying.

Fend on Gutter Runners who also have wrestle is just fucking awesome. I now have 2 10 MV Gutter Runners at least one with fend, and I just leveled a linerat with block and he got +1 AGI. Skaven really do come into their own as an elder team.

Yeah, and then Your luck faded and half your side dies in one game...

Roll with it while you got it, because Nuffle is GOING to fuck you at some point.

Even Werewolves fall one day...  :why_so_serious: :awesome_for_real: :drill:

 :grin:

Yeah, we just played. Sjofn took an extra apothecary but the game barely had any injuries to speak of (both teams received a MNG on a 0 SPP second stringer, Sjofn saved a Werewolf from a real injury and returned him for the next drive with a badly hurt). It rained and it seemed like no sure handed Norsemen could hold onto the ball but the helmet's cloven hooves were just tacky enough.

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I lost, by the way. As is apparently my way this season.

All games validated so far, just waiting for Celer and Lightfax to get their game in and then we can move on to day 5.

This is certainly a strange season, a lot of new players and many old faces with new teams. Upsets and crazy results all over the place. I'd never have put any money on me winning four in a row with a rookie Skaven team before this season for example and I'd have expected Sjofn with her veteran Norse to be cruising into a playoff spot by now. Mathematically you can still qualify but you need some help from other fixtures too.

Hah, awesome, I'm looking forward to only 1 or 2 deaths (what the 2 skaven teams did to me)! The game is cruel when you suffer many positional deaths and can't afford to replace them. They give you crappy lineman journeymen to bring you up to 11 players. I think I'm up to 3 or 4 of these jokers now.

Unless you are a playing a 700 TV goblin team I think you'll have no trouble with my D'Ork team.

Game played, Chemical Elvers win 6-0 but lose their star Catcher to the worms.  I love/hate this game  :heart:  :heartbreak:

Is that tied highest record in the league, or are we at 7-0 for the biggest blow out score?

7-0 IIRC.

I try very hard not to bitch about my dice. I really, really do, because good play can minimize the impact of bad luck, and usually I lose/tie because of some stupid thing I've done. But this season?

FUCK MY DICE

Getting ahead of the next thread, I'm away Friday lunchtime till Thursday evening and I'm on GMT till Sunday when we shift to +1.

An evening or first thing Friday could work, next Thursday evening, or the following Saturday. Gruntle, what's your availability?

Yeah, pretty sure I managed a 7-0 some seasons back (and it was almost an 8-0 as I recall).

In fairness, Lightfax pretty much had zero interest in the ball after it was about 2-0.  His master chef took 1 reroll the entire game, his fireball targeted 4 guys and hit none of them, it was just not his day.  I don't really remember what happened after my apoc came up dead/dead, but I think I'm lucky that the only other casualties were just BHs.

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I beat Ironwood 7-0 with Fianna Chulain last season and Ulysees beat Danicia 7-0 on day two this season.

If your dice are anywhere near as bad in your other games as they were in ours, yeah, you have gotten SEVERELY Nuffle-fucked this season. Our block dice was 60-37% in my favor. My block dice against Gort was just as one-sided.

Did I mention that I killed his werewolf with 36 SPP on the last turn of the game, only to watch regen come through for him?

Vs. Nix in Season 3, IIRC.

They were at their worst versus you, but I've certainly had some really frustrating moments in my other games, aside from the one versus Eldaec (at least, I don't remember being all ARGHGHGHGHGH after that one, just sort of "fuck rats, and fuck that I have to play them two more times"  :why_so_serious:). Although to be fair, the worst moment versus avaia was sort of my own doing, what with the UI brainfart that spent my apothecary uselessly on a BH level 1 lineman so my level 3 werewolf died.  :uhrr: