Tue, 24 Jun 2003
Bloodbowl League Night #4
The monthly get together of our Bloodbowl league occured last Friday the 20th. All of the usual suspects were there, and we also celebrated Grant's birthday, which was cool (and the cake was tasty too).
I was slated to face Adam's orc team, complete with a big bruiser troll. My lightly armored wood elves were a bit worried about the bruisers, and our initial strategy was to reduce contact with the enemy as much as possible. Score quick, score often, and just try to slow down the already lumbering orcs.
My team ("Mother Nature's Sons" - [team roster]) actually had the potential to be full strength, which hasn't happened since the first game of the season. Unfortunately, a niggling injury bit one of my linemen, and thus he was forced to sit out this competition. I decided to save my apothecary for use later in the game in case some dreadful injury occurred during the coarse of the match.
I won the coin toss, elected to receive the ball, and was off to the races. Scoring a touchdown on my first drive, I lead through the remainder of the game, winning with a final score of 3 to 1. Some notable highlights in the match:
- My wardancer attempting to leap, and failing. He falls down, fails his armor roll, and is seriously injured. Ouch! Then I remember that I have an apothecary, who manages to miraculosuly cure the wardancer of his ills, and he remains on the field, good as new!
- My wardancer and two other linemen team up to knock the troll out of the game for what seemed to be almost an entire half. Great teamwork by the faeries to take down Goliath!
- Adam's touchdown was quite a site. Some of his orcs had broken away from the line of scrimmage, and managed to make their way down the field. Adam decides to try and go for it, knowing that if he doesn't, my elves will converge on his ball carrier to try and take the ball away from him. He goes for it, and falls down. Boom! My lineman is closest to the ball, and picks it up and tries to pass it out of the orc infested region, but he FUMBLES the pass! Arg! Adam's orc which fell down then hops up, picks up the ball, dodges out of two tackle zones, and goes for it twice. He makes both rolls, scampering into the end zone for his touchdown. Quite a nice show of agility by the orcs.
My next match is against Gary's undead bruiser team. Unfortunately, one of my linemen suffered a fractured arm, which means he will have to sit out the next game, plus he now has a niggling injury. On the other hand, I won 100k gp, so I'll be able to afford another lineman to replace him.
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Sat, 17 May 2003
Bloodbowl League Night #3
Friday night saw my wood elf team ("Mother Nature's Sons" - [team roster]) go up against Rob's chaos team. I was short one player due to the foul and resulting KIA from the last match, and Rob's team is definately full of bruisers, so I was a bit worried.
I think that this match may have been the most exciting I've played in several games, thanks to a near-perfect second quarter drive by Rob's team which was very nicely executed. Furthermore, we kept the game very amiable by not committing any fouls.
I ended up winning the close match with a 3-2 score, managed to not lose/injure any of my players, inflicted my first team casualty against an opponent, and earned enough winnings to replace my wardancer for the next match. A very good night, indeed.
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Sat, 19 Apr 2003
Bloodbowl League Night #2
Friday night saw my wood elf team ("Mother Nature's Sons" - [team roster]) go up against Grant's orc team ("The Iron Horde"). My team was short two players due to injuries suffered from the first league match, so I started off in a fairly grim situation.
I ended up winning the game by a score of 2 - 1, but suffered a fairly critical set back. Grant decided to foul my Wardancer late in the game. He killed him. He's dead, Jim. etc. Le' ouch.
Let's just say for the record that it is probably a very good idea that we only play one league match a month... ;>
posted at: 19:15 | path: /games/board/bloodbowl | permanent link to this entry