Season 4 Playoff Speculation

[drogg]

I don't think I did many fouls in the sky match, but I'm not in a place where I can watch the replay to be sure. Would love some more opinions on our match if anyone has the time to watch it.

[Sky]

Listen. I'm over it. Sorry I brought up the whole thing. Move on, these aren't the droids you're looking for. Let it go, everyone. I have.

[drogg]

Last night you're calling me a ruthless prick and saying you're done with me and now we're fine? I'm so confused but okay. Water under the bridge.

[Modern Angel]

I would defy anyone to watch the replay of the game in question and find a single untoward thing drogg did. The dice were extremely unkind to Sky but them's the breaks. There was one foul I counted in the entire game and it was very early. One crowdsurf the entire game.

And Sky, really here... you don't precisely get to single people out and then call someone a ruthless prick and then go OH GOD GUYS WHY ARE YOU KEEPING THIS ALIVE?!?

You can at least apologize. Or fade away saying nothing. But coming in and asking everyone to forget you acting like a tool without either of those happening? No, sorry, you don't get to do that.

[Sky]

...no, have the cake.

[Paelos]

Quit acting like a bunch of high school girls.

[Strazos]

I know having bad dice sucks. Sometimes when it happens to me I get all passive aggressive or otherwise obnoxious in game chat, and a lot of times after a really devastating loss I have to sulk and drink and do something non-competitive. That said, I feel like it's unfair to blame me for the game not being fun when you stop trying to play it halfway through.

Just to piggyback on this...

I'm aware that I might do this sometimes too possibly, like when non-block teams are making a lot of 1d blocks on me and such. Just to be clear, I don't mean it...it's a damn game. It's more surprise than anything else.

Also, I sometimes regret not running up the injuries/game on folks but...meh, I'll live, and I'd rather people enjoy playing than be miserable while I garner a bit more SPP.

[Teleku]

Oh, I like to scream and yell about the dice all through the game.  Its therapeutic for me.  Hopefully its not annoying for anybody, I just need to do it.  

I don't think I've played a single game this season sober.

[HaemishM]

I try to invent new swears just for the goddamn dice. If you don't like swearing, you'd better never look at the Blood Bowl chat box when you play me, unless I'm winning. I am the world's biggest dice bitch. But those who have been on the good end of my normally atrocious rolls will likely understand and sympathize.

[Modern Angel]

I just sigh and mope a lot. :(

[Ingmar]

I hide my pain with LOLs and sarcasm.

[Ice Cream Emperor]

Teleku, Ruvaldt, Andy & Me in the semis. So shall it be!

I don't know what I was thinking, picking a bunch of elves over Comstar's amazons -- and watching Ruvaldt's game was a bit of a heartbreaker (why did you run the ball carrier there, instead of two squares over next to the sideline!) But evidently some revision is in order:

Megrim's team is too green to stop Comstar, barring some sort of Jordell-inspired madness, and I have more trouble imagining Llyse choking against Strazos than Ruvaldt. The other half of the bracket remains unchanged, sadly.

So Comstar vs. Llyse and Me vs. AndyDavo in the semis, and then a championship matchup between me and Comstar -- where the dice will hopefully stay out of it long enough to give him a shot at revenge.

[Ruvaldt]

Teleku, Ruvaldt, Andy & Me in the semis. So shall it be!

(why did you run the ball carrier there, instead of two squares over next to the sideline!)

Fuck.  

Yeah, that was a huge mistake.  Against Norse and Necro teams I avoid the sidelines more than I should.  Time to drink.

[Comstar]

I rolled a normal skill on my level 5 Blitzer - she got Tackle, to go along with 4 ST, Blodge, Dodge, Mighty Blow and Sidestep. No Dodgy Elf is going to escape her next time (to be fair, I rolled a lot of POW's with her vs the dodgy Wood Elves).

I also rolled a +1ST with the lineswomen who just has dodge. I was going to give her Dirty Player/Sneaky Git, but the 4 ST will be useful I suspect.  So I have 2 +1ST, 4 +1MV and 1 +1AG.

The High Elves i think will play a lot like the Wood Elves did, but after a few causalities I was always able to mark any deep running elves with 2-3 Amazon's on all sides, so they never had a chance to go for a pass. However, they will have 500+ inducements, so they could get Morg'n'Thorg, or Jordell and a wizard or two. With my full 13 girl lineup back for the match, the Elves need some reserves to be able to get through, and heavy hitter to go for the ball in place of any some Wardancers. Personally, I don't understand why they decided to give +1 Armour to a random lineelf, I would have taken the movement myself.

[ezrast]

So, I'm contemplating whether to bring 7 Deadly into Season 5. I really like Lizards conceptually but I think their playstyle may not be for me. Their development is just so terrible that at my now higher-than-average TV I feel totally outclassed by other teams of similar value, and I'd kind of rather just play the game to win, like every other team can, without having to engage in the skink-deleting saurus-handing-off SPP gain metagame. On the other hand, if I reroll (thinking Skaven or Dwarves), I'd have to spend some time in the feeder league doing TV management anyway. Of course, my elves are already in the vicinity of 1250, maybe I'll just promote them.

Alternatively, I could stop blaming my team, suck up the fact that I'm not a running team and hire a Kroxigor, and practice until I learn to position my players properly.

[Comstar]

On the other hand, if I reroll (thinking Skaven or Dwarves), I'd have to spend some time in the feeder league doing TV management anyway. Of course, my elves are already in the vicinity of 1250, maybe I'll just promote them.

Well Skaven and Dwarves are as pretty much different teams as you can get. Do you like punching things or do you like running around things. If you like doing things, play Elves - everyone can do everything! And if you like dodging away from everyone, try Amazons.  Or if it's having half the team being a big guy with high ST, Ogres.

Don't play Dwarves. They suck. They are also boring. And I hate entire teams with tackle. And slow. Did I mention they suck? No hilarity with Dwarves.

[ezrast]

I know, right? ICE rolled SO many Defender Stumbles against my Skinks in our playoff game, and every time I was like "That's okay, I have dod--OH WAIT."

I liked making running plays with my Lizards back before everybody was skilled enough to shut me down, and I'm pretty sure I've been leveling my team entirely wrong for that - I guess you're supposed to take Break Tackle first on Sauruses? - which is why I was thinking Skaven. Was thinking Dwarves just because I've been feeling especially newbish lately and I'd like an easy-to-play team; that's probably not a very good reason though. I already tried Amazons; I played you with them back in Season 2. And I didn't even lose! I was a total newb though; I had no idea why 6 rerolls was a bad idea and then when I figured that out I retired the team because I didn't know you could throw away rerolls and I thought they would be permanently inflating my TV forever. Elves not because they look that great to me but because I've been doing surprisingly well with them in the feeder (4-0-3 so far but 2 of my losses were due to crash/DC while I was up on points) and I don't think the league has any Pro Elves.

Not trying Ogres outside of the Snotling league though. Definitely not that hardcore.

[Sjofn]

No hilarity with Dwarves.

Depends on what you find hilarious. The dwarf passing game is pretty funny. :P

That said I don't think dwarves are a team for me, their slowness makes my traditional positioning fuck ups even more depressing.

[Ingmar]

Dwarves are great for minimizing risk/randomness. They're not so great for recovering from positioning errors, so in that sense they're not the easiest team in the world to play. They're still pretty easy though.

[Ice Cream Emperor]

Dwarves are for people who hate dice, basically. Or I suppose a much smaller group of people -- people who think dwarves are cool. The first group is somewhat easier to understand, but in any case I hate playing dwarves -- all the interesting-situation-generation tends to come from the other team, while the dwarves just kind of dwarf-about being exactly what you expect them to be.

Ingmar did buy a deathroller though, so that's something.

[Modern Angel]

I think dwarves are completely awesome. I have a dwarf fetish. I still don't know if I like playing them

[Ingmar]

much smaller group of people -- people who think dwarves are cool.

 

[Sjofn]

Dwarves are cool and I'll fistfight anyone who says otherwise! 

[Ice Cream Emperor]

I think dwarves are completely awesome. I have a dwarf fetish. I still don't know if I like playing them

Yes well obviously there is a tension in that even smaller group of people -- those who like dwarves but are not scared of randomness.

We don't generally hear from those people regarding Blood Bowl, however, as they are too busy playing Dwarf Fortress.

[Modern Angel]

I was playing Dwarf Fortress yesterday!

[Sir T]

With my shit dice rolling I officially hate randomness.

[Ingmar]

Dwarf Fortress is a UI upgrade away from nobody ever hearing from me again.