RT BBL Season 8

[Gandalf]

Gandalf - I may be a bit late tonight (10-15 mins), don't know yet. Apologies if so - I'm sure you're eager for a bit of splat-the-rat and goblin-hobblin'.

OK - thanks for the heads up and rhyming couplets.

[Moose]

yea no worries Rav what days suit you? im playing DnD on Monday but other than that i should be free

[lawastooshort]

2-1 to the Skaven

http://gandalfgames.net/bbdb/matchdetai ... tch_id=129

Brief report - The Dark Elves lost the toss and scored in Turn 3, and came very close to getting the defensive touchdown in the first half after some 1s ruined my ball handling attempts. However a dashing gutter runner smashed down the Dark Elf ball carrier in Turn 7 and suddenly the ball was up the other endzone in the hands of a second gutter runner... 1-1 at half time. If I hadn't got that elf down it would have been 2-0 to the Elves and NJ would have 90% won.

Second half the Skaven attacked in an as-sturdy-as-rats-can-make-em cage up the right and suddenly had a bit of a player advantage - my injury dice were good, and MB/PO made them better with 3 Badly Hurt, 1 Strained Groin, and 1 Dead Elf. And as NJ said, the sensible option was to stall horribly, which worked fairly securely until the Turn 16 score. NJ got a consolation Smashed Ankle on a linerat in his last turn, which I didn't apothecary, which was not necessarily the right decision.

[DaigaroOgami]

Mental silly Bombers, and stupid arrogant PirlOrc; sandwiched with technical difficulties.

2-0 to the Orcs, barely deserved but silly.

http://gandalfgames.net/bbdb/matchdetai ... tch_id=131


The Duckz got off to a cracking start when long time fan and spectator Grisly Philips Badly Hurt off the pogoer with a rock from the crowd at the first kick off.This apparently fired up the Dummies who then niggled a Black Orc, and KO'ed a blitzer and Percy on his first turn - Percy going off to a fouling chainsaw; The Ducks replied by Badly Hurting off the Chainsaw with Steve BullOrc, and moving him and a blitzer up into position to pressure his bombadier who had the ball. The ducks added to the chaos by also Badly Hurting off their own goblin trying to dodge him to give leroy an assist on Morg or Ripper.

Then amazing things happened - firstly I didnt know a bomber could still throw bombs whilst holding the ball - secondly apparently the default thing for a bomber to do when they're running out of time is to throw a bomb at a semi cage of trolls of gobbos, not run into the protection if it... it was that epic that even the game crashed - I got an error message I've never seen before - saying it had lost connection but did I want to try and reconnect? YES PLEASE!. Harriet was in for a free smack on the bombadier; got the ball free and Steve BullOrc picked it up - then Abom did some mega dodges and 1d blitzed the ball free and picked it up again; Steve BullOrc got up and returned the favour and got the ball again; then all the Orcs moving up to protect the ball got fireballed down - THEN a gobbo scampered off and was taunting PirlOrc the cripple that he wasn't fast enough to catch him - but Harriet was - dumping the gobbo in the crowd of Ducks fans who threw the ball nicely for Steve BullOrc to pick up and stall for a few turns to make it 1-0 at half time. While that sillyness happened Morg, Leroy and Ripper had a pushing match which ended with Morg and a blitzer off the pitch and Ripper ripe for a good kicking - but it was already 4 vs 6 and I couldn't risk a sending off...

Then the game crashed so we had to start again... thankfully it was half time; we recreated the first half as best we could and restarted properly for the 2nd half...

The Duckz received and Percy got Sthwocked by Morg straight away who then played Lob The Gobbo for the rest of the half; Stevie BullOrc needed 4 attempts to pick up the ball and then panicked when his mini-cage was surrounded by trolls and gobbos, right by his own endzone... Stevie blitzed out the cage; elfballed to PirlOrc who started a slow trundle up the wing with Leroy in support - Abom failed really stupid on his useless troll but passed them all on Pudge The Break Tackler Piling On Git who chased PirlOrc all down the field; we traded a few turns of the Troll Blitzing PrilOrc with pushes and PirlOrc blitzing gobbos to push down field; then just as Abom was commending PirlOrc's indestructability and dodging prowess he double one-ed a GFI to score... the idiot. Abom managed to get a gobbo back to pick up the ball; then I had to decide between taking out the only gobbo that could score in my endzone or try and sack the ball carrier - I went for the latter with PirlOrc who 1die-blocked the gobbo over, picked up the ball and GFIed twice to be one square short of saving some face from his earlier idiocy, but his crippled status (Damn you Bigby Wolf!!!) meant he couldn't get over the line.

Pudge (Percy's cousin we think, but not confirmed) saw the pain in the old man's face. The graceful master of the game who had fought a troll the length of the field whilst also kicking goblins out the way, then dodging with the grace Wardancer's envy had just... run out of steam, his gammy ankle gave way and in that moment Pudge saw the realization in PirlOrc's eyes that he wasn't the player he once was, he saw the devestation spreading across his face and something stirred in Pudge. This legend of the game shouldn't go out like this. Pudge recalled one of the cheesiest quotes he'd ever heard in a film and yelled "I can't carry the ball Mr PirlOrc, but I can carry you!" - ignoring his really stupid and bemusing the rest of his team by pushing PirlOrc over the line to kinda score and 'Own TD' in turn 16.

Abom will say that he was trying to get the ball free to try and amazing last turn score involving Trolls picking up the ball and Morg doing some elfball, but we all know the truth...

Percy say's blood's thicker than water.

I think Percy would happily play Abom every week - even if he was coaching halflings and Abom was Chaos or Wood Elves - very refreshing tactics, and just enjoying playing as opposed to getting raged/intense/sulky/competitive vibes from the game - genuine laughs from both of us I think - still playing properly, but seeing the fun and humour in bad stuff happening to the other team and commending good stuff. We both wanted to win but it wasn't the be all and end all of playing. Thanks Abom

[Gandalf]

Ogres win 2-1 for the second time in 4 days

http://gandalfgames.net/bbdb/matchdetai ... tch_id=130

After RL3 gets his 1 million of inducements, the game starts much like the Ogre's last game - Ogres received, roll boneheads galore, but thankfully it didn't last too long. Ogres hit players who didn't get injured. Several snotlings got injured. Bomber Dribblesnot threw one left that went right but hurt some ogres anyway, his second throw was aimed at the ball carrier who shrugged it off (though another snotling went off). Possession changed hands a few ties but the ball was only going in one direction - forwards (as far as the ogres were concerned). Eventually Shrek Goes Fourth ran in & picked it up in a tackle zone. Morg blitzed but it required a GFI and he fell over; SGF scores in turn 8. Underworld have one turn before half time and still have Dribblesnot - who blows himself up. Well if you're going to miss the second half anyway, why not do it in style?!

Second half the Underworld receive; the two big guys begin crushing the ogre front line (they kept breaking armour too). Donkey (+MV ogre) got -MV but rerolled to badly hurt (phew). The rest of the ogres couldn't cause injuries or often even knock the opposition over. On turn 10 I cause my first casualty - and it's a snotling who does it! Meanwhile a Skaven runs down the line but twice gets battered by a horde of snotlings, the second time knocking him off the pitch and the ball lands at the feet of another skaven he picks it up and runs for the line. SGF can blitz in... but rolls two pushes. Never mind, a snotling can hit him.... and rolls red skull - and dies!! It was one of my level 4 snotlings too! The ball carrier dodges clear and scores. 1-1

With 3 turns left the ogres are receiving and set up to push down the left flank. However perfect defence scuppers that somewhat. Still, on with the plan. The thrower picks up the ball. The ogres push a load of players around and Blind Mouse 5 the snotling marked Morg. The Underworld respond by marking the ball carrier with 3 players, hitting some players around including Blind Mouse 5 who survives 2 3D blocks. Turn 15 and the thrower dodges clear and throws it to SGF. The rest of the team try and make his way clear but fail. I try and dodge through but bonehead out. Underworld's last turn is spent hitting and marking. As RL3 hits end turn he says "ummm how did that snotling get there?" for lo there was indeed a snotling in the clear, in scoring range, who had not been spotted due to his extreme smallness. It was Blind Mouse 5 who previously had the unenviable task of marking Morg, was now the team's only chance of winning. SGF passes his bonehead, dodges clear and throws a pass which is caught (after a re-roll) for the winning touchdown, 2-1.

Feel a bit guilty winning like that, but there's not much snotlings can do, but being small and hard to spot are two of them...

Post-game, I caused 2 casualties all game, and one of them was from a snotling!! I just couldn't break armour. Fun fact, the ogres had their armour broken more than the goblins did in this match. I had a snotling level up (lv2, normal roll). RL3 finally got a couple of level ups, though only got 10k. Team Shrek are fast closing in on being the 2nd longest passers in RTBBL history. A mourning ceremony was held for Pinnocchio, truly he was a king among snotlings. Team Shrek now have 3 wins out of 3 but they have played all the games that were identified as winnable. The season is a success already, any more points earned will be icing on the cake.

[Raveen]

yea no worries Rav what days suit you? im playing DnD on Monday but other than that i should be free

Given how last night went I'll say we should aim for the back end of the week and hope the boy starts sleeping a bit better. Thursday or Friday suit you better?

[notjarvis]

2-1 to the Skaven

http://gandalfgames.net/bbdb/matchdetai ... tch_id=129

Brief report - The Dark Elves lost the toss and scored in Turn 3, and came very close to getting the defensive touchdown in the first half after some 1s ruined my ball handling attempts. However a dashing gutter runner smashed down the Dark Elf ball carrier in Turn 7 and suddenly the ball was up the other endzone in the hands of a second gutter runner... 1-1 at half time. If I hadn't got that elf down it would have been 2-0 to the Elves and NJ would have 90% won.

Second half the Skaven attacked in an as-sturdy-as-rats-can-make-em cage up the right and suddenly had a bit of a player advantage - my injury dice were good, and MB/PO made them better with 3 Badly Hurt, 1 Strained Groin, and 1 Dead Elf. And as NJ said, the sensible option was to stall horribly, which worked fairly securely until the Turn 16 score. NJ got a consolation Smashed Ankle on a linerat in his last turn, which I didn't apothecary, which was not necessarily the right decision.

Good Summary, one of those games where the dice played a significant part, with the rats having significant luck breaking AV8 and getting injuries rather than KOs (when i took 2 Babes!) meant I was down in numbers at the start of the second, and way down in numbers about turn 10 (think I had 6 versus 10 on the field). la did very well to take advantage of all the good fortune his way, and completely dominated the game from turn 7

Not much i could have done from there to be honest. I sacked my witch elf with niggling injury after the game, meant to sack her a game or two ago but forgot, as the niggling injury is too much of a liability on AV7.
Annoyingly she was (wo)man of the match too so that was a waste of SPP.

1 lineman was killed and 1 was injured for the next game so i think i start the game versus the ogres with 9 (might be 10 I'm not sure).
Don't think I could afford a new player, but theres not a chance I will buy one before the next game :-) Journeymen to the Ogre slaughter!

[lawastooshort]

Yes NJ it all turned on my 1d blitz getting the ball free in Turn 7, it would have been very different otherwise I think. Although I felt a bit unfortunate that'd I'd managed to let you get the ball that far away from me!!

I'd probably save up for the new witch elf if I were you - Ogres is certainly a team you want to feed journeymen...

[Gandalf]

The Ogres aren't too fussy about who they bludgeon.

However they did seem to replace Mighty Blow with Mighty Tickle for my last game. I need to borrow la's 2D6 skills. Dodge is going to help you out too, so I'd be surprised if I inflict more than 3 casualties.

[DaigaroOgami]

Ducks - Gobbos match report updated; here's the epitaph:

Pudge (Percy's cousin we think, but not confirmed) saw the pain in the old man's face. The graceful master of the game who had fought a troll the length of the field whilst also kicking goblins out the way, then dodging with the grace Wardancer's envy had just... run out of steam, his gammy ankle gave way and in that moment Pudge saw the realization in PirlOrc's eyes that he wasn't the player he once was, he saw the devestation spreading across his face and something stirred in Pudge. This legend of the game shouldn't go out like this. Pudge recalled one of the cheesiest quotes he'd ever heard in a film and yelled "I can't carry the ball Mr PirlOrc, but I can carry you!"

[notjarvis]

The Ogres aren't too fussy about who they bludgeon.

However they did seem to replace Mighty Blow with Mighty Tickle for my last game. I need to borrow la's 2D6 skills. Dodge is going to help you out too, so I'd be surprised if I inflict more than 3 casualties.

My predicition is more 4-5.

If They can get 4 casualties versus Rats - I think the Ogres will cream them

[Moose]

Friday will probably suit me best rav

[Gandalf]

The Ogres aren't too fussy about who they bludgeon.

However they did seem to replace Mighty Blow with Mighty Tickle for my last game. I need to borrow la's 2D6 skills. Dodge is going to help you out too, so I'd be surprised if I inflict more than 3 casualties.

My predicition is more 4-5.

If They can get 4 casualties versus Rats - I think the Ogres will cream them

Huh? The dark elves are better placed than the rats to resist injury - as you have more block/dodge/wrestle and higher armour than the rats - and the ogres haven't improved their damage-causing powers since playing Skaven.

[notjarvis]

The Ogres aren't too fussy about who they bludgeon.

However they did seem to replace Mighty Blow with Mighty Tickle for my last game. I need to borrow la's 2D6 skills. Dodge is going to help you out too, so I'd be surprised if I inflict more than 3 casualties.

My predicition is more 4-5.

If They can get 4 casualties versus Rats - I think the Ogres will cream them

Huh? The dark elves are better placed than the rats to resist injury - as you have more block/dodge/wrestle and higher armour than the rats - and the ogres haven't improved their damage-causing powers since playing Skaven.

I meant if the rats found it easy to cause 4 injuries to the dark elves, the ogres should get more ☆

[Gandalf]

Ah right! I think those pesky rats have had nice 2D6's this season. Would be nice to prove/disprove that. Some day, maybe....