Blood Bowl - ** f13 League, Season #3 **

[Sir T]

Heh, I gad to grin when you said Nurgle would be big problems for everyone...

My first game is vs Skaven, maybe i can pick up a few free rotters to bolster my ranks. 

[Ruvaldt]

You have to catch me first.   

[Llyse]

Group analysis from Season 2's Choker.

Stormbringer division is one of the bashiest with Silver Horde FC, 2 Orc teams and Reborne's Ogres. Finally they have star coach Megrim commanding his tasty morsels.

Prediction: Morsel and silver horde to top the group.

Twilight 2000 division is the hardest Division I think to qualify for the playoffs with posting stars like Strazos, and SirT as well as our great League Commissioner who is out for blood  
Finally they have season 2's MVP Sowarg the cheater  

Prediction: Falc and ruvalt to top with Sowarg to die  

Oriental on the other hand has an easier ride with soft skilled ball specialist champion cat fighters, Iain's dark elves and Andy's.

Prediction: Comstar and Andy to move up.

Finally the Awesome Battletech division.

Even though it has 3 vets two of them have rerolled new teams.
It's quite bashy though with 2 necro 2 undead and a dwarf team. The one to watch it is rookie of the season lamaros who has been training up a storm in matchmaking with an 8-1-1 and 1 disconnect record. Please kill the fuckers gutterrunners for everyone's sanity.  

Prediction: lamaros and Alive not Dead to go on up (me to choke in the playoffs again   )

[avaia]

(Bunch of jibber jabber snipped)

Enjoy the halfling chef group!

[lamaros]

Why do you hate me falc? As a fellow Italian citizen I thought you would treat me better than this. Dwarves? Calvin and Hobbes? Lizards? Two Undead? I seriously propose we return to the original mock draw.

Fuck you!

Got to get a lucky start or I'm screwed. I wish I hadn't advised Cad to make his lineup even better from the get go...

Everyone please kill those werewolves before I play them...

[Kail]

not that I think I can crush Kail for free or anything *whistles*.

Crush me?  There won't even be anything left of my team to crush by the time we play.  I'm up against Norse (bashy), Lizardmen (bashy), Vampires (kind of bashy), Ogres (very bashy), two Orcs (also bashy) and a Chaos (nothing but bashy) team.  As a team whose primary weakness is that their armor is made of blu tack and glitter, and their players are expensive to replace.  Also, i've never played this game against people before.  I'm going to be fielding a team of eleven Journeymen by game three.  Journeymen whose only notable difference from the linemen of most other races is that they are easier to kill.

At least we know it won't be a bloodless season, anyway.

[Strazos]

The Norse will be out for blood. And beer. And babes. 

Mostly blood, though. I'm looking to top the charts in kills this season.

[Teleku]

 

You matched me with Llyse for the first game of the new season!!!  He ended my season in game 2 in the 2nd season!  Ahhhhhh!

Edit: Err, oops, wrong replay it seems.

[Sky]

Oh look, my first match against a human player is against a strat game vet and the season 2 champ.

[Llyse]

You matched me with Llyse for the first game of the new season!!!  He ended my season in game 2 in the 2nd season!  Ahhhhhh!

No really, heres the replay.

At least claw is useless against you  

I think I only had Hobbes at the time too...  

[Teleku]

Hey Llyse, just sent you a PM.  Let me know if your down for playing right now (or the near future).  Else, we may have to wait a day or two.

[Ruvaldt]

Ogres (very bashy)

Ogres are only bashy when they're lucky!  Actually, given the properties of snotlings it's one of the (few) opportunities you'll have to score some serious SPPs from blocking.

[Hoax]

There wont be any snotlings left when I'm done with them! 

Anyone not in the Stormbringer Division looking for practice games hit me up on steam when I'm around. Doubly so if you are one of the newer coaches and have a game against Orcs coming up I'll be happy to play as them and give probably not very good advice.

[lamaros]

Twilight 2000 looks like a fun division to be in, 8 different races some new players and some old hands. I think it might see a few games end in blowouts unless the new players use their inducements really well. Strazos and Aviva would have to be the favourites for me, though I think Ruvaldt should be considered a strong dark horse. My money is on Aviva and Straz to come through though.

Gameday 1 I'd put the money down as follows:

Falc and Bann in a draw.
Strazos by three.
Aviva by two.
Ruvaldt by four.

Stormbringer group will be the closest group across the board with the results going down to the final few rounds. I have no handle on the players but a sneaking suspicion Megrim will make it out. I would love to see Gruntle make it through, because Chaos representation would be good.

Gameday 1 I'll go with these results:

Guntle to snatch a score draw against Team Snoosnoo.
Hoax by one in a bonehead fueled display against Reborne.
Megrim to kick heads and win by two over drogg.
Kailas to dodge his way to a victory by one.

Oriental division is where I would place my money if I had to bet on the group winners. Comstar is the reigning champion and AndyDavo looks to be one of the most experienced coaches in the whole league. Dark Elves might take a bit to get going, but Sky and Haem haven't really played against other people much and the other teams aren't the sotre of races to put too much heat on early.

Gameday 1 predictions:

Xuri and ginaz to fight out a score draw.
AndyDavo with a one score victory.
Comstar to make Sky want to quit the league and win by four.
IanC to give Haem a few pointers on the way to a 2-0 victory.

Now, the Group of Death, literally.

This is a funny group because we have only one team over 1000 tv. For this, and for his dominance in season two, Llyse will have to be considered the clear favourite to win the group, more so than any other team in the league. That said, he does seem to suffer from the pressure and we can only hope the expectation of victory weighs him down from round one. Anyone who manages to kill any of his werewolves will obviously be due a beer or three, but I'm going to raise the stakes and say that anyone who kills both of them before I play them will get a free touchdown from me if we have a game to arrange it. I will let you walk in a turn two TD without stopping you in any way (***provided you recieve and do not block any of my players while doing so***).

Apart from Llyse though, the league is tough. It is clearly the hardest league in terms of potential for death, with two undead, two necromantic, one lizard and one dwarf. My Skaven team and Teleku's wood elves are behind the eight ball and will have to pull something special out if we are to make anything of ourselves.

On the positive side my draw itself is not too bad. I don't play Llyse till round 5, have Tele in round two when he is coming off the back of Llyse, and get to piss those tackling dwarves off right to the end of the season. With a bit of luck against the undead sides I might even manage to be able to field a team by that stage. (Edit: Just noticed that Llyse seems to play quite a few people just before I play them. I'm not sure now if I want those wolves to die, or I want them to destroy the other people more...)

The second place in the league will be a toughly fought one and I think luck with injuries and deaths will have a lot to say about who makes it. I don't know much about most of the managers other than suspecting that a few of them have a bit of experience with the table top game and that I should be very wary. Hopefully I can make it out, but maybe Ruvaldt can represent Skaven in the playoffs if I don't.

Tips for gameday 1:

Cadaverine to inflict little more than a one score victory over Ingmar.
ezrast to topple Nix by two.
Llyse to kill off Tele's wardancers for me in a 2-1 victory.

And, once again: Fuck you Falc. If by the grace of God I play you at any point...

[lamaros]

Dwarves to Battletech horray, fuck those stumpy fucks! Neither Skaven team in my group here's hoping Lameros gets matched against Dwarves first game so they can eat his GR's and we can all laugh!

1: It's Lamaros. No E.
2: Fuck you, I get the Dwarves in the last round.
3: Fuck you!  

As for my draw, I had a bad feeling I'd end up with one of the veteran Necro sides -- but at least I get to start the season off chewing on some delicious rats!

1, 2 & 3: Fuck you too! If you manage to eat any rats I hope you get rabies and die.

[Hoax]

My picks are as follows.

Battletech:
-Fleshwound and Beardstorm draw
-Rape of Skabine over Negative Capability
-7 Deadly over Fiesta
-Alive not Dead over Hippies ***My pick for most blood spilled this week!

Orient:
-North by Northwest and Gut Spillers draw.
-Wildcards over Beetles ***My pick for most lopsided victory
-Catfighters over Bashtards
-Hackers over Peace Dogs

Stormbringer:
-Snoosnoo over Nifty Helmets
-I'm going to win every week
-Burninluv and Morsel draw
-Silver Horde over Offsidhes

Twilight2000:
-Dandies over Bell Jar ***Upset Special
-Diplomatic Immunity over Strongman
-Necco Waivers over Swedgins
-Rat Country over Harbingers

[Cadaverine]

My picks are as follows.

Battletech:
-Fleshwound and Beardstorm draw

Nice call.  It was, in fact, a draw.  1 - 1.

Almost pulled a win out of the bag, despite 2 early injuries, but a lucky dodge from a friggin' dwarf saved the day, as it were.

[Ingmar]

Beardstorm! death count stands at 1 skeleton so far. WHO WILL BE NEXT?

[Ginaz]

Quick question.  How do we make and submit a video replay of the match?

[Ice Cream Emperor]

1, 2 & 3: Fuck you too! If you manage to eat any rats I hope you get rabies and die.

Rabies will only make my werewolves stronger!

P.S. Check your PMs.

[Ruvaldt]

Quick question.  How do we make and submit a video replay of the match?

Replays are kept in your Blood Bowl directory.  Mine is BloodBowlLegendary > Saves > Replays.

I always used to just email them to Falconeer.  After that they can be retrieved via BB Manager once he uploads them.

[Teleku]

Great to see everybody has so much faith in me.   

My woodland elves will show you all!

[Falconeer]

* IMPORTANT FOR ALL NOOBS *

In League playing, you don't get your money or SP right after the game is over. To prevent messed up or bugged game results, every result has to be validated by the League Commissioner, manually. This is not your Commissioner's decision, it's built-in, not changeable. Because of this, you don't get your winnings or experience until that happens, so don't panic! Just send me a mail with your replay attached and I'll know your match is done and requires validation. This usually happens every 12 hours, often less than that.

[Reborne]

There wont be any snotlings left when I'm done with them! 

There are always more snotlings!
They work for food and we lie to them about burying it under your end zone 

[lamaros]

So we have to email you the replay directly? Or can we upload it to bbmanager and let you know that we've done it?

[Falconeer]

It's TEN THOUSAND times better if you upload it. But I didn't trust people on that so I decided to take the responsibility for everyone. Those smart enough to upload their own without making a mess are invited to do so. The password to upload is the same you used to join the League.

[NiX]

Pfft, everyone thinks I'm going to get torn apart by ezrast.

On average I kill 1 person per game and seriously injure 2. I only expect to go up in those statistics. UP I SAY!

[Sky]

Oh look, my first match against a human player is against a strat game vet and the season 2 champ.

And on the wrong side of the planet. Should be fun scheduling a 16 hour time differential when I have limited windows of gaming time.

[Comstar]

Battletech Division - My money would be on Alive not Dead - he has a really powerful team. The trick will be that everyone playing them will be able to get 1  star player AND a halfing chef  - his lack of rerolls cost him last season. Use the star players to beat his star players up and cost him the rerolls to win.

I feel for those poor Wood Elves and Skaven.

Cthulhu Division - I'm worried about the star players and halfling chef here- my girls can be pounded pretty easily by Morg'N'Throg, or by Dark Elf Assassins, and having a high amount of rerolls secured victory for me my win last season.  I am SO happy theres no Dwarves or Nurgle teams I have to worry about.

The Khermi team is the one to watch the replays for- if they can pick up the ball more than 5 times this season it will be amazing, so should have hilarious matches.


Stormbringer Division- I can foresee entire teams being dead before the end of the season here. That Elf team needs to stay out of block range. This is the group of block/armour/injury/death.

Twilight 2000 Division - I'd say this group is the one with the most exciting finish. I hope the Humans can pull it off (I have a soft spot for Human teams as I played them on the board game for many years), but I'd put money on the Diplomatic Immunity Norse or the Necco Waivers Necro team here. 

[HaemishM]

How do we make sure to save a replay of the games we play?

[proudft]

It's automatically saved, you just have to figure out which one it is in the Saves/Replay directory.  Hint: probably the most recent.  

[Falconeer]

It's always automatically saved in your documents folder/Blood Bowl Legendary Edition/Saves/Replays.

I don't even know if you can switch it off. It just saves them all, wether you want it or not. Nifty.

[ezrast]

Pfft, everyone thinks I'm going to get torn apart by ezrast.

On average I kill 1 person per game and seriously injure 2. I only expect to go up in those statistics. UP I SAY!

I sustained 0.166 deaths and 0.166 (I think? can't check from here) serious injuries per game last season. And that was with an entirely AV 7 team. Bring it!

But, yeah, I fear this was not the division to go skink-heavy in. A bunch of lucky casualty rolls last season meant I didn't learn my lesson about hiring an apothecary. Poor bastards are going to be dropping like flies.

[Hoax]

If you get the undead early in the season and the dwarves late you might be ok. Mummies without block will not have much fun hunting skinks the wolves otoh frenzy is a skink's worst nightmare.

[Ruvaldt]

Sky had a great idea to create a smack talk thread, but it got denned with the instructions to instead do it here.

In compliance with those instructions, here are my feeble attempts at insulting my next opponent:

Sir T's Nurgles are so ugly that when they take the pitch even the cameras are turned off.
Sir T's Nurgles are so slow that instead of 16 turns their matches take 32.
Sir T's Nurgles are so stupid they think a quarterback is a refund.
Sir T's Nurgles are so fat that when they get hit they bleed gravy.

Fear and Loathing want to eat his children! Praise be to Nuffle!