eldaec
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Many of you probably aren't aware that we have a fairly successful blood bowl community hidden away in our Gaming Graveyard Ghetto. We've had somewhere north of 30 active players since the current incarnation started last year. So for an f13 project, better than anything that doesn't involve monocles or night elves. We play Blood Bowl Chaos Edition, which is a more or less faithful interpretation of the GW board game. A turn based strategy game based on warhammer, rugby, raging about dice, and punching elves in the face. This is a good time to start playing, Season 4 is winding up, and we have a more casual close season swiss league starting up in our feeder league, so people are going to be playing more random new teams rather than the sides they've been developing since last year (feeder league is where we play random matches for shits and giggles, or to train up teams for ~serious business~ season 5). Blood Bowl Steam Store page (yes, you want the chaos edition) http://store.steampowered.com/app/216890/The forum. http://forums.f13.net/index.php?board=82.0Pre-season league signups. http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=21053.0Shit you should know about blood bowl. http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=20271.0 |
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Ruvaldt
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Shit you should know about blood bowl.
The only thing you need to know about Blood Bowl is that Steam-user Ruvaldt is up for Feeder League games any time he is online, and will merrily give you advice while tapdancing on your players' faces. |
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Hoax
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Essentially if you bought it on summer sale and haven't bothered to install it yet make sure you do so asap because the lead up to another league season seems to be on.
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Falconeer
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f13 League Season #4 is two matches away from the Super Bloody Bowl. Season#5 will start in September with pre-signing in late August. In the meantime there's plenty of time to practice in the Feeder League, minmax your Feeder Team to make sure it will get to Season #5 with some tricks under the hood, and Eldaec's pre-season new extravaganza called Drilling & Manliness Trophy that certainly can use some noob blood. Please don't feel intimidated by coming late to the party. The Blood Bowl lair is the the bloodiest and yet the nicest side of the f13 experience. Everyone is super friendly and ready to help explain the intricacies of the game and the suckiness of the UI. No matter how bad of a player you are, I am probably worse. Just join. (Stalkers are welcome to the f13 sub-community, although to join the Main League Season #5 you might have to go through the Qualification Round! ( this) Everyone is still more than welcome to the Feeder League and the other stuff.) |
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Morfiend
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Shit you should know about blood bowl.
The only thing you need to know about Blood Bowl is ... Actually, there is one more thing you should know. 3rd-party DRM: SecuROM™ |
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Ingmar
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I don't know a single person who has had a DRM problem with BB. /shrug
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Sky
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I don't know a single person who has had a DRM problem with BB. /shrug
But..but...it's eeeeviiiilllllll |
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eldaec
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One more sign up for preseason league would bring us to 24 and be pretty much perfect.
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trias_e
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Alas, if I didn't have finals over the next two weeks, I would likely give this a shot despite being a 100% noob.
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Sky
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Impulse is have a sale on the Blood Bowl Dark Elves Edition - DO NOT BUY
It's an old version that is incompatible with the Legendary Edition we're using for the League.
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All of the successful F13 communities are in the Graveyard, so this is no shock.
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Sky
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Yeah, this will be our last season.  |
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Falconeer
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You know, being out of the Graveyard is weird. It makes you feel exposed to predators.
Also, first game ever to go STRAIGHT to the Graveyard, and first game ever to come out of it?
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Sky
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I keep going to click in the wrong place on the forum index. Habits are funny things. WHAR DID THE BBB FORUM GO!?!
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eldaec
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Not even the second to go straight to the yard - but first to come out AFAIK.
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Falconeer
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Really? What other game got a Graveyard-native forum?
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luckton
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I'm certain this will go on sale again with Steam...when it does, I'll grab it up. Never played the table-top version, but it certainly looks fun enough.
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eldaec
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Per the top 10 thread, F13.net is now officially a Blood Bowl slash fighter jet fan community.  Pre-season is winding up and Falconeer is muttering about season 5 of the main league thing. What I'm saying is you should be playing Blood Bowl. |
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luckton
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Is it too late for a total newb to get in on the action?
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Ruvaldt
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It is not too late. We have a feeder league set up mostly for the purpose of team-building for the regular season, though a lot of us use it just so we can play some fellow f13ers outside of league matches. Also, it merits mentioning that new teams have done surprisingly well, even without the feeder league experience, in previous seasons when coached with some expertise.
The sooner the better though. A lot of us are happy to play feeder league games (myself included) and will give you a ton of tips to improve your game whether you're a total newb or a veteran Blood Bowler. It really is a supportive, but competitive, community.
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luckton
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I'll pick it up tonight...been meaning to buy something for myself with the little escrow kickback I just got.  |
"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
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Ruvaldt
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Excellent. I look forward to smashing your players' faces.  |
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luckton
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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Azazel
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I wish I had the time and timezone to play in this.
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Sjofn
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We have people all over the world playing, Azazel! It can make scheduling games tricky but generally not impossible. Actual "time" though, that's harder.
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Ruvaldt
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As Sjofn said, we have several people playing from AUS timezones, and thereabouts, as well as several people playing from Europe. It's never been a problem before. In fact, my last six games were against people in the UK, Australia or Korea. As for actual "time," it's only one game per week if we're talking about the regular league, and one game per week for each additional voluntary side-league, such as the Horns & Hooves league that I organize or the Preseason league that Eldaec organizes. It doesn't consume that much of a person's schedule apart from the anticipation  . |
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eldaec
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As with all effective gaming communities....
Posting time >> playing time
A match takes a little over an hour to play out.
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KallDrexx
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How long does the average match take?
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carnifex27
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How long does the average match take?
f13 rules are 2min rounds and you each get 16 rounds, so I usually plan for at least an hour. My personal experience says it's closer to 45 minutes, especially as you get better at planning your turns effectively. |
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lamaros
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Anything up to 1.5 hours is what I plan.
And we have a number of people in AUS timezones and the like, as well as the rest. The only real trouble for me is matchups with those in europe.
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eldaec
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Sjofn
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Even girls like it!  |
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luckton
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Even girls like it!  |
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Falconeer
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I am glad we got to 32 players for Season 5 anyway, we just closed signups. But you guys should get the game now, plenty of time to forge a team in the Feeder League for Season #6 (starting Jannuary 2012).
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