We three should play Daemons of Khorne!

i try to avoid teams that are popular in the league.

Well - ive not "totally" ruled out continuing with the vamps, but i suspect i may want to play some bit more predictable team for a while...

If i had to do quick short list of teams ive considered a bit.

Non-bashy
-Dark elves (probably not, seems many others want as well)
-High elves
-Ogre (probably too 1/6 after vamps...)

Bashy-bashy
-'zones (pure str3 + tackle allergy, but no bloodlust so maybe :)
-chaos (too many)
-chaos dwarf (got "thralls" = hobgoblins, so not yet..)
-dwarf (probably too many)
-khemri (none yet, but a bit of one trick pony)
-orcs (none yet)
-undead (vanilla, 0 so far, but atleast piran has considered them as well i think)

well, we'll see after few months or so.

A quick note for Mystral about our match next week:
I'm going on a family trip today, I'll be back on thursday of the next week. So if you try to contact me before I'll probably don't answer, as I don't know if the places were we are going to be have free wi-fi.
But I'll be able to play from that day until the rest.

Likewise, I will be away from tomorrow until Friday of next week.
So Morb, I am not ignoring you.....

That's fine. I'll wait to hear from you then.

http://www.twitch.tv/kanarekmichal/c/2750755

I hope Zeta wont be mad at me. But.. You should double think before you attack a catcher near the TD zone.

usually if it looks like the opponent is going to score - you WANT him to score faster than slower.

totally valid risk i say.

Skip after dotted lines to read about the match instead of the story. For final score and replay. skip to ********

I have to say that Mog had many attacker down 1 dices this game...

"Coach! DO you know who the hell I am playing with?" The star player, Eldrill Sidewinder came up to me when he said.
"I'm playing with the Get hurt Kickers! I'm playing in a pro elf team, I'm actually F*** playing!"

Two bitchslaps later, he grasped and pulled my color to stare into his angry eyes.
"Do you know what your team is about?" he turned around, and looked back into the rest of my players.

"WE"RE HERE TO GET THEM HURT!"

"Does gender Matter, MEN?" Eldrill spoke.

"NO!" they replied.

"Do we want to see covered up boobs, or actual elf boobs that we WILL GET WHEN WE WIN THIS MATCH?!"

"ACTUAL ELVES BOOBS!"

I sighed, palming my face at the response of my players. To the side, I could see the lone mercenary that I hired due to lack of players follow my action. His name was Aearian.. and if he played well, I would have hired him.

"THEN LET"S GO MEN!" Eldrill slapped me once more and whispered into my ear. "And if you don't command us, your team the best you can, you are going to the ogre cooking pits."

They swiftly left. I turned to the side, as The lonesman shrugged and left with them.

I honestly mused to myself... their speech was inspiring. Very inspiring... "Gender doesn't matter huh? Alright.. Let's get them hurt."

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Inspired my men were, but that didn't change the fact that I had a very hard opponent to face. Looking towards the crowd. I nodded once at the wizard and the ref whom I bribed and we prepared ourselves.

Heads/tails. Tails. Coin landed heads. Amazons choosed to receive.

"positions everyone!" Kickoff!

a=amazon
e=elf

Turn 1a: The lonesman DIED. my jaw went slack... "There goes my plan to hire em."

turn 1e: there's 6 players.. 6 players in a 3 by 3 square. A mistake, by my opponent. This is a sign from nuffle. He's telling me, that this game, I shall take all advantage I will get, and spare no mercy, none.
I nodded my head to the wizard. Do it!
A lineswoman gets knocked down..and... that's it.
Well that was a waste.

Turn 2e: Now, there's a player that we should note. His name is Taellaon, but we call him Leon. He saw Athena on the floor. just knocked down after a blitz. He looked to the left, looked to the right and nodded.

"GET HURT!"
The amazon blitzer gets badly hurt and is sent off the field.

Turn 3e: Inspired, my thrower saw Dodger the catcher standing next to him, and he rammed her so hard, she died.

Turn 4e: "Hah, a thrower can do that? LET ME SHOW YOU HOW IT"S DONE! Herion's Tornado punch!"
I watched in amazement as a poor amazon catcher's neck snapped from the punch. I almost felt pity for the amazon team.
Later on, I heard that the Apothecaries managed to save her life, at the cost of her neck.. It's a career ending injury, but she'll live.

turn 5a: the amazons koed Eldrill. He rubbed his eyes, apologizing to me when he woke. "I'll show you my true power in the next half." he said to me.

turn 5e: We chased the amazons

turn 6a: 2 koes, bringing the total ko to 4. No doubt I can't stop the TD now.

turn 6e: "Stop running around!" kaneon said, as he kicked the last catcher into a badly hurt state. A pushed instead of a defender down secured the fate.

turn 7a: Touchdown!

turn 7e: Used last reroll to pick the ball up. We played cautiously, moving the catcher in a ready state to be handed off to by the thrower. we did positioning, and prayed for the best.

turn 8a: nothing of note, but only one person was guarding my catcher.

turn 8e: Eldrill hypnotized the blitzer, causing her to look only at him, even as I handed off the ball to a catcher, whom did a 1 square pass to a waiting catcher, to a TOUCHDOWNNNNNN

Turn 9e: A high ball led to an easy catch by my thrower, no rerolls needed.

Turn 10E: a run, a toss, a catch and a go for it is the perfect mix for a classic and well executed 2 turn touchdown! If anyone wonders why my catcher did a go for it. It's to prevent even a 1/6 chance of an interception.

turn 10a: Mogg had to leave... so I delayed as much as I could, thankfully she returned during the results of a kick. so that's why her formation was so off, if anyone's wondering.

turn 11e: An elf blitzer caused a tackle lineswoman to be badly hurt. Good god, what kind of shoes are my elves wearing?

turn 11a: A double single roll red dice! This is DEVASTATING

turn 12e: I capitalized. Hypnotic gaze allowing a guard player allowing a two dice block, getting the ball and running off with it.
I took the ball with a Blodge blitzer, which would prove crucial later on.
Still having a blitz, I blitzed and let a go for it fail to retail my last reroll.

Turn 12a: BLITZ: Defender stumbles! Dodge, sidesteps! blitzer goes free

turn 13e: ran blitzer down field.

turn 13a: Blitz! Defender stumbles! Dodge, sidesteps! blitzer goes free

turn 14e: hypnotic gaze, lol. lol. blocked, blocked blocked, blitzed. Hmm, nothing happened.

turn 14a: A FAILED DODGE, A FAILED DODGE! poor Andromeda trips and ended up badly hurt. My nearby elves had to wince.

turn 15e: I wanted to prevent a two turn touchdown by the amazons, as improbable as it is. Delayed TD.

turn 15a: Two red dice blitz! Pushed my blitzer into a touchdown, ending the turn.

Turn 16-1a: Ref decided to move the clock 1 turn back. will a two turn TD occur?
Extremely demoralized...the amazon lineswoman failed to pick up the ball.

Turn 16 E: We decided to give a fond farewell to the amazon team. I said to them. "Just,, smack them to the floor, and let them leave... Right? Pity em, they have 1 useless player now and 1 dead player."

Remember Leon? He decided differently, conspiring behind my back, He turned to the crowd. "CAN YOU SMELL, WHAT LEON IS COOKING?"

The deafening cheers of the crowd made him grin. His eyes landed on Molly Beak, a lv 3 linesman with block, dodge and fend.

"TEAM, WHO ARE WE?"
"GET HURT KICKERS!"

He started running, my players crowding around poor Molly. "And we're here to GET THEM HURT!"

Injury roll. 6+5... +1 dirty player.

The death caused deafening roars from the crowd. So stunned with the entire situation, the ref didn't even send him out of the pitch. What was the point? It was turn 16.

turn 16a: You can't get more demotivated then that... Agetha birdeye failed to do a 1 square pass, even though she had the pass ability..

and thus, our match ended.
Needless to say, after that performance: Taellaon got the MVP

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3-1 for the elves

replay: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/125541377/Weekly_S2_D1_R8_Cheongzewei_Moggrym.db

Bonus material: Watch an ogre, a chaos dwarf, and a centaur play toss the bomb for more then 6 rounds!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/125541377/Toss%20the%20bomb.db

A few notes, that I've had a chance to ruminate on yesterday's proceedings.

-My Week 2 flashbacks are coming back in full force as I just couldn't seem to get the rolls when I really needed them the most.

-I'm quite glad my Apo wasn't useless this game, as it saved our dear Ogre from dying. The same could not be said about the other Apo, who sat and twiddled his thumbs all day as he wasn't used. I didn't apo my MNG injury since it wasn't stat down, it was super early and I did not wish to risk not having one around in case of something major.

-The first half was crushingly difficult, with me losing guys left and right and not being able to stop 2 relatively quick scores.

-The 2nd half went slightly better, but I was unhappy with the fact that my Thrower was a complete moron and my Lineman and Blitzer were better than him. Not to mention the pansy got smacked in the face and went down for the game.

-I'll be gracious that my team wasn't worse off, because we now have a relatively healthy roster fairly deep in the season. We'll see who remains standing after my game next week with Piranjade, but I'll say this: my boys are looking for some vengeance after going winless over the last month.

Finally...

My reasoning on the attack:
-My wizard was gone, so I couldn't stop a camp at this point if you did.
-2 dice shots are always nice to take in desperate measures, which at this point it was.
-Ending your drive was critical, so it was either going to restart mine or end yours for a TD.

Would I change what I did? Not a bit.

And as for hating you, I'm always of the mindset, never hate the player, hate the game.

The trouble with Blood Bowl is that it thrives on your hate. It likes suffering. So then after stepping away for some time, I have no choice but to come back harder than ever, determined to beat it into submission.

Honestly man. Your approach to losing depresses me. I'm feeling unworthy :D

In Blood Bowl, this is the case 95% of the time. Other games though, I beg to differ :P

Regen is weird.

I just played a match with my naggaroth khemri and i suffered 4 deaths...3 of which regenerated. Altogether regen worked 5 time for me in that one match. Thats more than it has worked for my vamps during the 2nd season :S

I caused one CAS (which was ofcourse regenerated (khemri vs khemri), but i did end up winning 1-0.

Also ive once seen someone give thro-ra accuracy + strong arm. no idea who is supposed to catch the ball though, besides opponent that is.

Somewhere in the wild wide universe of Blood Bowl there ought to be a Skeleton with a double agility upgrade and Catch ... ;)

Ive actually seen a Blitz-Ra have +2AG, that is the godly agility of 4 :)

that was in different khemri team though and i would hardly build my team around the statistical idea that "ill get it eventually".