Blood Bowl - for real

[Falconeer]

I managed to beat Cadaverine's dwarves 2 - 0. Defintely a horrible streak of bad luck on his part. But hey... what can you do?  

(Trippy leveled up! I've given him Strip Ball. He'll be my Strong Safety now.)

[Trippy]

Go me!

[Falconeer]

Scadente will be back on the 30th, so we have to wait for his match vs. Aez.
Typhon vs. Helm? Any news?

[Der Helm]

Scadente will be back on the 30th, so we have to wait for his match vs. Aez.
Typhon vs. Helm? Any news?

We are in contact 

[Typhon]

Friday looks like our best bet as I'm getting home too late due to work.

[Scadente]

Aez, are you go on friday? Im not back until the middle of the night on thursday, so some sleep and Im fit for fight!

What timezone are you in? In in GMT, so sometime in the evening or the morning would be perfect for me.

[Aez]

Nice, I like some morning BB and I'm on vacation right now.  I'm east coast.  7 to 10 would be great.

[Aez]

Cancel the 7 to 10.  It's more like 7 to 8. 

7 for me is 12 for you?

[Der Helm]

Patchnotes ?

Where are they ?

[Cadaverine]

Patchnotes ?

Where are they ?

Always check the Tech Support forum, the patchnotes have been stickied there for the last 3 or 4 patches.

http://www.cyanide-studio.com/forumBB/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=5566

[Scadente]

Cancel the 7 to 10.  It's more like 7 to 8. 

7 for me is 12 for you?

Yes, but Im starving after travelling, so I need to pop out for some foods, I'll be back in an hour or two though!

[Falconeer]

Starving? After Italia? You did it wrong, mate!

[Aez]

Ok rdy.  Hit me on steam.

[Aez]

Crap too late, I have to go in less than an hour.  Can you play tomorrow?

edit : the match will be Saturday morning.

[Scadente]

Starving? After Italia? You did it wrong, mate!

I was too busy reading this!

edit: and as Aez said, the rat-pounding will take place tomorrow.

edit2: ordered!

[Falconeer]

Wrong again! THIS is the book!
 

[Aez]

An other lucky game for me.  Brucut the ratogre with claw is nasty.

[Typhon]

Damn!  How many players did you have up at this point?

[Aez]

Never had less then 9 and I always started a kick/receive with 11 since I have 2 backups.

[Scadente]

oh yeah, the supposed rat-pounding turned into getting pounded by rats!

The Highlight was when one of my CWs was about to get up and blitz the ballcarrier... he ended up... dead.

Good game!

[Falconeer]

Nice!

We only need Helm vs. Typhon now. Would be nice to advance to day #6 before I leave, but I understand if we can't make it in time.

[Falconeer]

Helm and Typhon! You are both online on Steam now! I demand your match to happen NOWW!! 

[Der Helm]

Helm and Typhon! You are both online on Steam now! I demand your match to happen NOWW!! 

Done.

[Falconeer]

I'm delighted! I'll push it on with day #6 in a few hours!

[Falconeer]

Day #5 is over.

Results are:

Scadente (Black Amnesty) 0 - Aez (Fraggers) 3
Helm (Luscious Lizards) 3 - Typhon (Toothsome Terrors) 0
Modern Angel (Estalia Crushers) 0 - IainC (Tlachtlan Tornadoes) 2
Cadaverine (Team Bugman's) 0 - Falconeer (Bat Country) 2


Here's the Standings after 5 matches.



Aez keeps leading, and with two matches left he's n°1 with 3 points over the closest opponent: Der Helm! Who, win after win, turned the tables of a poor start by snagging the second place. And with the next match being an automatic win for the German due to Falconeer's holiday forfait, Aez has to stay away from hiccups against a returning and healthy IainC. Modern Angel drops to the third place for the first time since the beginning of the league, a consequence of his team getting seriously battered somewhere between games #3 and #4.



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Team Value fluctuations:

Team           -          This week TV         -          Last week TV         -        Last week TV position       -         TV Variation

1) Aez                            1470                               1440                                        1                                       +30
2) Cadaverine                  1150                               1040                                       5                                       +110
3) Falconeer                    1140                               1110                                       3                                        +30
4) IainC                          1110                               1090                                       4                                        +20
5) Helm                          1110                                 960                                       6                                       +150          
6) Modern Angel              1000                                940                                      7                                         +60
7) Typhon                       980                                 800                                       8                                        +180
8) Scadente                     870                               1120                                       2                                        -250

--- League Total               8830                              8500                                       -                                        +330

Huge improvement on Typhon's Team giving some hopes for the remmaining two games, but terrible, terrible drop for Scadente's! From second place to eighth! Aez, who is responible for Scadente's demise, keeps getting better and with such a high Team Value compared to the chasers we can't see how he could lose the title at this point.

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Now, on with
Day #6     ( 1 week to go! )



Typhon (980) vs. Scadente (870). Typhon for the honour, Scadente for a better placement. With TV advantage, this is probably the best chance for Typhon!
IainC (1110) vs. Aez (1470). The Skaven armada could get the title with a win here, but IainC is getting better game after game and his recent winning streak speaks of a force to be reckoned with.
Falconeer (1140) vs. Helm (1110) won't be a real match as your League Organizer will forfait the game. Holiday time, heh. So 3 easy points for Helm to keep hoping in some Aez stumble. Sorry for not yelding you any SP, Helm.
Cadaverine (1150) vs. Modern Angel (1000). A dwarf feud! And a match where the struggling Modern Angel, coming from a 2 losses streak, has all to lose and not much to gain. The TV difference in favour of Cadaverine could play a huge role in a surprisingly late-season surpass at the expensive of the former n° 1. This will be televised, on Monday Night Blood Bowl.

[Modern Angel]

My poor dwarves.

Cad, I will need to wait until Wednesday to play our game but any time is good.

[Cadaverine]

Ok.  I'll be available around 5:30 PM CST on Wed.  Just hit me up on Steam.

[Teleku]

God dammit, why is this game not coming to steam  until late September?

[schild]

Because Europe is beta testing it.

[Modern Angel]

God dammit, why is this game not coming to steam  until late September?

It's sitting there, waiting to be bought.

[Azazel]

Was the US$ price always $49.95? I thought it was $10 less, but it may be my imaginationings.

Also, how long do games take to play? Several hours like real Bloodbowl?

I might just be able to afford this thing this week. Hopefully.

[Megrim]

It probably takes up to about two hours per game, but it mostly depends on how quickly each player takes their turn. My friends and i have been playing with the default 4-minute/turn timer - so whereas i tend to play my turns out quickly (usually sub one minute), one friend sometimes takes nearly all four to make his moves. I think that if you're thinking of getting into it, even the most time-strapped person should be able to find space for one game every couple of days. 

[Falconeer]

We play the f13 League with a two minute timer and I must say you get used to it pretty soon. While sometimes it happens that you cry for a few seconds more, all in all it's a much more spontaneous experience, much quicker, with less waiting definitely resulting in shorter games and more fun.

I play in the Italian League with a 4 minutes timer and games often stretch to 2 hours and change. Plus I hate having to wait 4 minutes. In the f13 League games range from 1 hour to 90 minutes, max. Don't think I've ever passed the 1 1/2 hour mark with a 2 minutes timer. Much, much healthier.

[Azazel]

I just bought it tonight. I haven't played in years. Most of my play was done during 3rd ed proper, none of this Living Rulebook guff (which was just changed so they could sell the miniatures without the cards that came in the box).

What are the rules around fouls? I can't for the life of me remember, but I seem to keep getting sent off. I may have even just quit a game in disgust right now. (Did win my first game back, against the PC though).

 

[IainC]

I just bought it tonight. I haven't played in years. Most of my play was done during 3rd ed proper, none of this Living Rulebook guff (which was just changed so they could sell the miniatures without the cards that came in the box).

What are the rules around fouls? I can't for the life of me remember, but I seem to keep getting sent off. I may have even just quit a game in disgust right now. (Did win my first game back, against the PC though).

 

Fouls are a roll against the armour value with a +1 for each assisting player. If the armour roll is a double then you are sent off (Dirty Tricks skill means you are only sent off on a double if the armour roll is failed).