BLOOD BOWL - You should be playing this

[Ingmar]

You could start with 11 dwarf blockers and have an entire team with block and tackle... but it would be terrible.

[Llyse]

New people : remember if you want to start getting some games against actual people, put a team in the feeder league and post here...

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=20399.0

... people will start harassing you for some blood bowl over steam.

Harrassed only means you get steam messages for Blood bowl during work hours do to Asia to NA timezone differences

If you want someone to play with and might provide helpful advice definitely post in the feeder thread!

[Falconeer]

A new f13 Tournament is about to start! Separated from the Main f13 League (now in Season 5) but not a bit less charming, this one is based on goats. Yes goats. Everyone can join in as long as you have a brand new Chaos team and only play with Beastmen. I guess this sounds confusing, but you should probably check the official thread yourself.

Horns & Hooves *Season 2*

Horns & Hooves is a simple concept: every team is Chaos and is made up entirely of beastmen.  There are some rules regarding skill progression for those beastmen, which are detailed in the spoilered "League Rules" section below, but, in general, the rules that are in place exist only to accentuate the unique versatility of beastmen.  You have a lot of leeway in skill selection, but there are still some standards that beastmen must meet when levelling up or a team could be invalidated.

The awesome idea is that pretty much all teams start with the same setup, but end up being very different due to the unique characteristic of chaos team: MUTATIONS!

Isn't this the perfect time to start (or go back) playing Blood Bowl?

[Paelos]

The Legendary edition is $8 again today for the daily sale.

BUY AND DIE WITH YOUR F13 FRIENDS!

[eldaec]

Furthermore, we will be starting the second ~D&M~ Open Championship in a couple of weeks, when serious business season 5 reaches the playoffs.

This is the ideal time to join the cool kids and be ready for the more relaxed part of the league cycle where we play swiss league, meaning everyone plays teams of a similar standard and fun times are had by all. The open format also means we'll be able to cope with the holiday period in a sensible way.

Buy this game ffs.

[murdoc]

The Legendary edition is $8 again today for the daily sale.

BUY AND DIE WITH YOUR F13 FRIENDS!

Beauty! Thanks for the heads up.

[luckton]

Just make it a requirement that in order to post in the gaming forum on f13, one must own and play Blood Bowl with f13.  

[IainC]

Just make it a requirement that in order to post in the gaming Politics forum on f13, one must own and play Blood Bowl with f13.  

[Ruvaldt]

f13 has one of the best Blood Bowl communities available, and the vast majority of us are more than happy to help out new players.  We really do have a good thing going, and the more the merrier.

Also, I've gotten around 500 hours of in-game fun from the legendary edition of this title, not to mention the untold number of hours outside of the game and frequenting the f13 league's subforum.  Well worth the measly $8 you all can pay today.

[Sjofn]

Jesus, I just noticed I'm up to 108 hours somehow. I didn't think I had played it that much. 

[jakonovski]

I got into playoffs in our little Finnish league. Four turns in, five guys are in the hospital. More and more, I'm starting to realize that the only thing that kept me playing BB was the miniatures and social interaction. As a computer game it's rather shit, because it's so easy to become a spectator in your own game.

[Falconeer]

Never cared so much for the miniatures, but I agree that social interactions are 51% of the game. And that's why our f13 League is successful. It probably doesn't compare to your high school memories, but it does to mine as they were full of unfinished games due to people falling asleep during calculations, and suspended ones due to cats walking over the boards. Not to mention the fights over obscure rules. To me, the computerized BB experience is in some levels way superior to the cluttered live one. Something you will never hear me saying about CRPGs versus PNP RPGs.

A new f13 tournament (D&M II) just started accepting applications. Head to the forum and join in, dammit.

[Ruvaldt]

Yeah, the f13 league really scratches the itch for a social aspect to Blood Bowl.  If I only played public league matchmaking games I wouldn't be anywhere near as enamored with the game as I am, and I've played the table-top version for years.

I'm with Falc on thinking that the computer version of the game is actually better than the table-top version for the exact reasons he expressed.  Also, it's simply more convenient to actually get games.  I can pop in and play a game pretty much whenever I want; I never had that with the table-top version, and they are fast games.  I honestly couldn't count how many 1 1/2 to 2 hour games of table-top Blood Bowl I've played, and when you're losing those games seem even longer.

As to becoming a spectator in your own game: sure, there are games that are ruined purely by luck, there isn't any doubt about that.  I just played a game with my nurgle in which I failed to pick up the ball, which was open, five times in a row in the endzone and I went on to lose the game because of it.  Instances in which you can do absolutely nothing to improve your game though are very rare.

Also, the D&M tournament is the absolute best time to join in the fun because it offers new coaches an opportunity to build a team with lots of potential opponents and groom that team for the regular season.  If you were on the fence about joining us, hop on over; this is the time to do it.

[lamaros]

Yeah I have no desire to play the board game. Never have, likely never will. Rolling dice? Painting shit? Having to physically meet up for a game? That's a big commitment that I can't make for a game, especially not three times a week.

And I think the game is great. The bugs are annoying (but rare, once you know them well), but the game itself is lots of fun. It's pretty competitive if you want it to be (better players usually win the game), but has randomness and tension, as well as a lot of humor.

Best game purchase I've made for a long long long long time. It's really brought me lots of pleasure.

Also I get to play against f13ers, which is really nice, considering all my RL friends don't play games much, and never play super nerdy turn based ones like BB.

[Llyse]

One of my best game purchases ever, and something I will always play due to the f13 blood bowl league.

[eldaec]

On steam sale till 3rd Jan.

 

[eldaec]

This is a reminder that if you do not play blood bowl you are a broken incomplete shell of a fun hating human being.

Also the close season is winding up, meaning the new season starts soon, and you should buy this game so you can play a couple of times before then.

If you are worried about being bad at blood bowl bear in mind that...

1) We are terrible at this game
2) Luckton only started playing last season and already heads up the close season leaderboard.

[Ruvaldt]

The Elfbowl League will also be starting its first season within a week or so.  Right now I'm just finalizing the rules, and will probably post them tomorrow.  It's a great league for beginners because everyone is starting with a fresh team, and judging by our success with the two Horns & Hooves seasons it should be a lot of fun.  Plus, I've gotten the OK from Falc that teams from Elfbowl could be transferred into the regular season at some point, as long as they meet the same restrictions as other transfers, though it would be too late to do so for the upcoming  *SEASON 6*.

[luckton]

Legendary Edition on sale this weekend for $13.58 @GamersGate

Dark Elf edition is available for $5 too, though I don't see the point.

[Falconeer]

DO NOT buy Dark Elf edition unless you hate multiplayer. Which means you hate Blood Bowl.

So DO NOT buy Dark Elf edition.

[IainC]

Season 6 signups have begun. In unrelated news we need someone to go to AndyDavo's house and break his fingers.

[Falconeer]

You are possibly the closest. Or Eldaec.

[Sky]

In unrelated news we need someone to go to AndyDavo's house and break his fingers.

[eldaec]

We still need a few people to reach ideal numbers.

 ~you want to play blood bowl~

[IainC]

I'm going to kick off the new season TODAY, if you want in then (ideally) sign up ingame now or at the very least post in the Season 6 thread or PM me to let me know you want to take part. There are six spots remaining at the time or writing.

[Llyse]

Now's the time to get into BLOOD BOWL!

It's $10 on Steam sales for 8 hours from now...

[rk47]

bought, installing. I'll play elves, tee hee.

[Llyse]

bought, installing. I'll play elves, tee hee.

Suweet!

When you're slightly bored of futzing around on your own make some teams and apply to the f13 feeder league and feel free to hit me on Steam for games (Both f13 and non-f13 leagues!

[eldaec]

Chaos edition is released on Thursday.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/216890/

Pre-order it immediately.

 IMMEDIATELY.

[Threash]

Is there any other way to find out your player key besides the original box or email?

[Falconeer]

Preordered. Of course.

[Ruvaldt]

I think a Chaos Dwarf team named after the first ladies of US presidents is in order.

Barbara Bush is going to be a Chaos Minotaur.

[proudft]

Is there any other way to find out your player key besides the original box or email?

Yeah, this is weird.  I bought it on Steam, you'd think it would know.  Neither of the two keys stored in Steam for Legendary work for the discount.  Hrm.

Edit: if you bought it somewhere other than Steam, the key is in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cyanide\BloodBowlLegendary

You apparently have to add the dashes yourself when you copy it over, every 5 characters.   This is the same key as the first one listed for me in Steam so it didn't help me, but maybe it'll be of use to you.

[Threash]

Nope, Steam purchase also.  Lame, i bought TWO of the previous editions i want my damn discount.

[proudft]

Oh, you know what?  Try looking at it IN Steam, not the website.