Blood Bowl - for real

[Falconeer]

I'll be back home in 4 days. Then we'll finally advance to day #7 to conclude the league and advance to the next one. Thanks for your patience.

[Hoax]

Mwahahahahhahaahha

I just stomped some dwarves with the help of crazy generous block dice and receiving the initial kick, he had 3 player left on the field by the last turn.  I didn't cause any lasting damage but it got me an important 6 points which makes it conceivable I could earn promotion to the second division in Season 2 of our league (32 team west coast only league, top 2 teams in each randomly assigned division go to the top flight, 2nd and 3rd go to the 2nd division etc) though its still a bit of a long shot and I still need help.

Mostly though, stomping dwarves feels good.  Also getting 2 td's with my top player (should have been 3 he missed a catch and a pickup on turns 15 and 16) to get him to L3 was satisfying.  Can't wait for the f13 league to start up public league games are so bleh compared to private.

[Falconeer]

Day #7, the last one, is on. Let's do this and advance to the next season!

Scadente vs. IainC
Typhon vs. Falconeer
Aez vs. Cadaverine
Helm vs. Modern Angel

[Modern Angel]

Helm, I have a babby now but I'm still flexible enough to work around most anything you need as far as scheduling. I'm East Coast so let's work out an amenable time.

[Scadente]

IanC, Im back home on the 27th, after that Im ready when you are (GMT timezone), Im guessing you are in Europe too, unless my cyberstalking skills are on their decline.

[IainC]

IanC, Im back home on the 27th, after that Im ready when you are (GMT timezone), Im guessing you are in Europe too, unless my cyberstalking skills are on their decline.

COol, Yeah I'm in Germany so CET timezone. Looks like we'll get ours done at the weekend barring multiplayer connection problems.

[Falconeer]

I am up on Steam pretty much all day Typhon, if you feel like playing our match. How's the other three going?

[Typhon]

I am up on Steam pretty much all day Typhon, if you feel like playing our match. How's the other three going?

I should be on tonight and tomorrow night between 7PM and 9PM EST, I'll see if I can find you.

[Hoax]

If anyone wants to get into a private league and lives on the West Coast (PST/MST timezones are accepted, PST is the standard for scheduling games) I'm in a 32 team league that has its second season starting next week.

Here's the thread to get considered and put your name in line.

Its a good league, we've got something like 8 drops out of 32 teams, we're completely reforming the league based on Season 1 standings, so top 2 teams in each of the 4 divisions are  going to the first division 3rd and 4th to second division etc.  So Divisions 3 and 4 will have new coaches and old coaches rerolling teams along with a few of the weakest teams from season 1.

[Der Helm]

Hm. I somehow forgot to burn my Blood Bowl files to CD before I upgraded to Vista and a new HD.

I did send an Email to Tech support, maybe they will reactivate my download rights ?

[Falconeer]

Me vs. Typhon, 1 - 1.

I am the only one who didn't lose against the Aez juggernaut, and I'm the only one who didn't win against Typhon. I am happy he scored some points, though.

What's up with the remaining games, guys? You all bored/dead or what? Last match to advance to Season 2 or something.

[Aez]

Steam says Cadaverine has not been online for 22 days...

[Modern Angel]

I have not heard from Der Helm. I am ready to play whenever.

[IainC]

Scadente and I have tried to play three or four times so far but we keep getting stymied by the multiplayer issue. We can both play other random people and we've been able to play other league games but no amount of spamming invite, restarting the client, bouncing our routers etc will let us connect in game. We've decided that if we can't get past it by the time the last game from the rest of you is finished, we'll call it a draw.

[Cadaverine]

Steam says Cadaverine has not been online for 22 days...

Yeah, I've been busy with work for the last month or so.  And I rarely log in to Steam on top of that.  Anytime after 5:30 PM CST during the week, or whenever on the weekend, and we can get my loss wrapped up.   

[Demonix]

When is this going to be available through steam?

[Megrim]

September, supposedly.

[IainC]

Scadente and I finally played our game tonight after several frustrating failures to get the game to connect over the past few days. He outplayed me for a 2-0 victory. I had a couple of scoring opportunities but they weren't reliable, requiring that Skinks managed to throw a ball accurately and then catch same. Unfortunately I never got to test the strength of their throwing arms as I managed to fail stupid stuff like dodge rolls or two dice blocks with a reroll every time I was setting the move up. Also my team were clearly wearing their training armour as I could only field half a team for most of the match due to injuries and terrible recovery rolls.

I don't think I'll finish last though so I'm pretty happy with things overall.

[Typhon]

I've got last locked up tight!

[sidereal]

September, supposedly.

It's September!  Make it happen. 

[Cadaverine]

In the event that it hasn't been done already, I'm going to forfeit my match, as I no longer have the time to play.

[Falconeer]

Ouch! What happened, Cadaverine? Good or bad stuff?

[Cadaverine]

Little of both.  Lost about half our team at work, so things are a bit hairy while waiting for management to get it's act together, and replace people.  Since our manager, and the two asst managers will be leaving, I figure I might actually put in some extra effort, and shoot for one of their jobs.

[Modern Angel]

Der Helm, am I to presume that we won't be playing our match?

[Megrim]

September, supposedly.

It's September!  Make it happen. 

I wish it were so. The September release is rumoured to be bringing in Dark Elves (which happen to be my favourite team), along with a host of other fixes.

[Teleku]

So, I cannot find any info about when the fuck this game is going to be released on steam.  Anybody know anything?

[Falconeer]

Well,

Dark Elves: the free Add-on available now!

Today, Blood Bowl welcomes a new playable race as the dreadful Dark Elves join the 8 other races already in the game. The newcomers may be the last to enter, but they have every other team aghast with fear and awe in equal measure. For they encompass the best traits of the best teams in the whole of the Blood Bowl world, in one perfect package. Or so their arrogant coaches would have you believe!

Starting today, every Blood Bowl PC player can download the Dark Elves add-on for free! As they are included as a fully playable race for both the solo campaign or in multiplayer mode.

The Blood Bowl community is constantly growing everyday and already has a lot to celebrate. They will be celebrating even more as we announce many more big surprises already planned for the coming months!

And still no Steam. What the hell.

[Falconeer]

Almost missed this, from the previous patch:

- Matchmaking is available

[Ironwood]

Yeah, just got that e-mail too.

And I have two weeks holiday starting tomorrow.

 

[Prospero]

And still no Steam. What the hell.

Ask and thou shalt receive

[Hoax]

f13 league now plox.  I abandoned a really cool league when I moved because I hate online commitments.

[Megrim]

I take it that the current f13 league is dead? Also, Dark Elves were released last night (see above).

* Edit: derp, read Prospero's post.

Wait no, it was actually Falconeer. Jesus christ i'm slow today.

[schild]

If this got put on Steam, I'd play it. In fact, it's the only game ever I really "liked" Dark Elves in. So uhhhh, this is lame.

[Falconeer]

The last league lost its momentum at the end of July, summer hit, I left for the States and a few others had prolonged absences due to holidays. More, the game never made it easy for people to arrange games and our f13 Bloodbowlers Steam group didn't completely solved the problem, and I'm sure at some point everyone got tired to use slow forum PMs or unanswered Steam IMs. The league has been a success in my opinion, even without its final chapter. The funny thing is that we don't have a winner despite 6 and an half weeks played. in fact, with just one match to play, the standing is:

#1 Aez - 16 points
#2 Helm - 13 points

If Aez loses his last match (vs. Cadaverine) and Helm wins (vs. Modern Angel), then we need a final tiebreaking match to declare a winner.
I'd love if you people would try and play those two finale games.


I'm all up for a new, better league. Of course we need at least 8 players and I am not sure it can be done. Who would be up for it?

[Aez]

Oh wow, I haven't played in age.  I'm on steam allot - Cadaverine : simply send me a msg and we can play.