RT BBL S6 - Week 10/9 6th September 2015

[lawastooshort]

Goodness me. That felt like one of the top 3 worst games of bloodbowl I've ever had. At least the vamps showed why their unreliability makes them not league favourites whatever some might like to say. The good thing to come out of it is that identity has to do the write up.

2-0 - well played id you took advantage of it all going moderately wrong without making any mistakes, a deserved win.

[Gandalf]

Orcs beat Nurgle 1-0 in what ended up being a highly entertaining & tense match! Full match report to come from the victor. I'll get the hang of these dang Nurgleites at some point...

The Isa Black Stars vs Moose's Lizards match was postponed due to "real life", whatever that is.

Today appeared to prove that pre-match cheese consumption leads to defeat. OR that the wrong sort of cheese was consumed by la & myself. I went for this cheese.

[Raveen]

The Rock Knocker Knock some Rocks!

Following a Virgin Media related incident in the first half we restarted. I kicked to the Amazons and the ball landed in the middle of the Amazons' half. They scooped it up and made for the middle. The dwarves fell back under an excellent block train but reformed their line and I chrged in a Bull Centaur to attack. Red Lion ran the ball to my right and failed a hand off to a catcher. The ball was on the sidelines and a blocking match ensued. As only one player on the pitch has guard it was a tricky task for both teams. I eventually got the ball out by pushing the St 4 catcher onto it and letting it bounce off. The throw in landed well for me and hobgoblin was able to pick it up and run through a gap in the lines. A single Amazon blitzer got a hit on him and the ball scattered to a Bull who caught it. It was relatively easy to blitz him free and then stall until the end of the half. A good number of Amazons were KOd and I didn't want to give them two chances to come back at me.

In the second I received and picked up with a hobgoblin who delivered the ball to a Bull. The bull took off up the pitch but I ran out of time before I could cover all the Amazons. A thrower and a catcher were able to get to the bull but he remained on his feet. In my turn I made some blocks and then moved my second bull through where he fell over on a double 1 gfi. The catcher blocked my bull and fractured her own skull. It was simple to blitz in with a Dwarf and let the bull score.

I kicked off again and the ball fell short. The amazons got it but I was able to trap them in by my left sideline. A desperate pass saw the ball at the feet of a linewoman 3 spaces out from the endzone. I blitzed in and got the ball with a hobgob but wasn't able to cage due to fouling. Red Lion blitzed in by failed a GFI to get next to the ball carrier, I double skulled on a 2D pushout and the ball basically didn't move any more.

GG Red Lion, your blocking was excellent. Shame the dice failed you from time to time.

[id3nt1ty]

Where to begin...

The game didn't go la's way from the get go, as he lost the toss and I kicked the ball into his endzone - where a thrall failed to catch it. Socrates failed his blood lust and Parmesan rolled both down. Really, the dice say it all - just over a quarter of the D6's la rolled were ones. By turn five, there were two vampires and four thralls left to defend the ball against ten Khorne Daemons. Amy Whinehouse walked the ball over the line in turn seven.

The vampires pulled themselves together for the second half, kicking the ball just over the line of scrimmage and forcing Club 27 to defend right off the bat. la put the pressure on straight away - closing the Daemons in on all sides, but failed to gaze into the cage (rolled a one). The Khorne started to make space. Shiny Demon waded into the fray and started pushing thralls around. After a bit of a scrum, la managed to gaze a corner off the cage. Archimedes blitzed the ball carrier but was let down by the dice and rolled attacker down, leaving the route clear for D. Boon to run in a second touchdown.

Shiny Demon made his great big swoopy kick which disappointingly trickled the ball over the line into the hands of a thrall. Neither team were ready for this, but la was worse off, having set up to push down the opposite flank. I was trying a new defensive line up called It's a Trap - which it turns out doesn't deal very well with short kicks. None the less, la moved the ball to relative safety and made his push down the flank anyway. Unfortunately half his team was messing around in his back field, not really paying attention. la dealt with my sideline trap very well, screening off the ball carrier so the best I could do was to get a tackle zone on him with Shiny Demon. Socartes (the ball carrier) now had the end zone in sight. First, he hypno-gazed Shiney Demon, then blitzed Dave Alexander to the floor, dodged once, dodged twice, tried to dodge a third time but rolled a one and fell over - scattering the ball off the pitch. The ball got thrown back on behind my defenders, and after a desperate scrum for control of the ball the game ended 2 - 0 to Club 27.

Commiserations to la, who really was let down by the dice but continued to put up a fight all the way to the end.

[Red Lion Three]

Well played Rav. Those dwarves are troublesome folk. It seemed easier to knock over the bulls than the dwarves, despite their greater size - though whether this is (statistically) true I have no idea. Perhaps they tended to be on their own more.

[id3nt1ty]

It seemed easier to knock over the bulls than the dwarves

They have a higher center of gravity

[lawastooshort]

Heehee – since it just came up, I have to note that Socracheese didn’t gaze then blitz (you can't) and then fall over – Pythagoras was hidden under the bloodthirster’s massive massiveness and he did the gazing

[Raveen]

Well played Rav. Those dwarves are troublesome folk. It seemed easier to knock over the bulls than the dwarves, despite their greater size - though whether this is (statistically) true I have no idea. Perhaps they tended to be on their own more.

I was throwing the Bulls in more than I should and depending on their strength and armour to see them through (a pleasant experience following the poor armour on the Khemri). Also I tended to need a Bull to tackle your St4 harridan. I should think that you were also aiming to get 2D on them and without Block or Dodge the odds of them going down are pretty good (50/50 on 1D assuming you have block) compared to the Dwarves.

My plan was to skill up both bulls and give 1 block and one break tackle (they really get bogged down if you're not careful) but Nuffle laughed and gave me +mv on the first and a double on the second. So I have a Mv 7 Sprint Sure feet Bull and a Dodge Bull.

I really want to get a second skill on both of them...

[DaigaroOgami]

Oh Nuffle you orrible git!!

We don't need superbulls round 'ere thank you.

I hear ID3 got ST up on TWO players last night too.

Jeebus. It was meant to be a nice league this year.

[notjarvis]

The Orcs beat The Nurgle team 1-0


Orcs (NJ) Nurgle (Gandalf)

No inducements
Fine weather.

Nurgle Elects to Receive.
Nurgle Do some hitting and attempt to foul a player, leading to one of their players being ejected (on the first turn)
Orcs hit about a bit knock the Beast over and push up
Nurgle attempt to cage up on the Orc left.
The Orcs break into the cage and pressure the ball carrier a bit. The beast of nurgle tries to get up and run into contact, but fails his GFI and loner roll.
The orcs surround the ball, but the ball carrier manges to blitz and dodge out! Unfortunately he fails the pass to get the ball completely, as it scatters next to a Nurgle player.
The Orcs manage to recover the ball. and apart from an ill advised attempted handoff (which fails due to disturbing presence, but luckily bounces back to end up with the handing off player) the orcs manage to score at the end of the first half.
1-0 to the Orcs at Half Time
9 Nurgle (one got KO'd) versus 11 Orcs.

Orcs Receive, It lands short on the left of the pitch. They collect the ball and manoeuvre about. Their plans are disrupted when a goblin fails to dodge out of a tackle zone - turning over early on the second turn.
The Nurgle team blitz the ball carrier, but only push him around,
Some hitting happens around the park.
The ball carrier manages to dodge out and the specialist passer can attempt a normal pass to the other goblin who is free up the field, (with crucially both ends of the pass outside Disturbing presence) who can run safe if he gets it! This (predictably knowing my luck with the pass) fails, and worse he rolls a 1 leaving the ball in the middle of the park.
More hitting happens around the ball two black orcs go down (injured annoyingly) The orcs try and pick it up about 3 or 4 times but can't pick it up and dodge out successfully.
Eventually with two turns left a rotter manages to get free and make a Pass to the pestigor who has crept down-field who can score this turn with two GFIs or next turn without! He tries to score, but fails the second GFI on the line! Worse the ball scatters off pitch, and lands safe in the ORc half where hardly anyone can get to it.
The game ends 1-0.

Overview
Close game which could easily have been a draw , or the other way. Gadalf attempted to score on the last but 1 turn as he was worried I could get defence back - I could have only got 1 goblin (who was next to the beast of Nurgle too) so I'd suggest the chance of me stopping him next turn was low, but was close throughout.

Dice
Gandalf had the better of the D6 (+4 swing according to BBM) and 2D6 (nearly 6 swing).
The block dice were on the Orcs side, but not overwhelmingly. We both rolled few skulls But the Orcs rolled more. The orcs were massively ahead on defender stumbles though.
If I had those dice versus the Amazons I would have been totally screwed :-)

Next game
I currently only have one Black orc fit for the next game annoyingly, and I think I'm up against Ravs team and his Uber powered Bulls. I think I'm doomed there.
I Have 80k to spend - Can spend it on
Black Orc - so I can at least start with 2
Apothecary - In case the orcs continue to be made of glass.
Another Thrower?Goblin (prbably not, but I will eventually get a second thrower hopefully

[lawastooshort]

Where to begin...

I didn't even kill a Herald

Although one pit fighter, I believe, temporarily killed himself on a thrall. Second doctor's opinion though was that actually he was fine.

[notjarvis]

On another note.

Can someone let me in on the hack they are using to get skill increases on their upgrade rolls please?

In all the time we have been playing together I have never had +ST, and only once had +AG on a sodding Norse berserker which is kind-of useless.

[Raveen]

Daigoro and Moose (and Abom). You guys need to apply for the league in Blood Bowl and be accepted by a Commissioner. Myself, Gandalf or Id3 can do this for you (make all cheques out to Commissioner Raveen though, makes it easier on the paperwork) just let us know when you've applied.

[Raveen]

I currently only have one Black orc fit for the next game annoyingly, and I think I'm up against Ravs team and his Uber powered Bulls. I think I'm doomed there.
I Have 80k to spend - Can spend it on
Black Orc - so I can at least start with 2
Apothecary - In case the orcs continue to be made of glass.
Another Thrower?Goblin (prbably not, but I will eventually get a second thrower hopefully

The thing about the Uber-Bulls is that they'll absolutely be better after 3 skills than they would have been, but at the moment they're totally worse than they would be after 1 normal skill.

On another note.

Can someone let me in on the hack they are using to get skill increases on their upgrade rolls please?

In all the time we have been playing together I have never had +ST, and only once had +AG on a sodding Norse berserker which is kind-of useless.

For the record I now have the same number of stat boosts and only 1 less doubles roll than the Carrions achieved after 3 seasons. I was due!

[DaigaroOgami]

Will 'Overlord Raveen' do on the cheque? I've already posted it you see, sent it with Percy when he went out to visit the Vampires to drop off a few 'shrooms... those guys are getting desperate.

Hopefully one of you three with the permission slips will be around tonight 7.30/8ish to accept us into the league - won't be able to get on before then.