Thanks to
Dave and the
Spiky Club for organising a great event, it was fantastic to meet so many dedicated BloodBowl fans from all over. what a great day, next year i'll try and come without the cheerleaders
Ok here we go, first act of the day was to actually find my way around reading and finally get to the venue, so a quick registration saw me draw Deathwing in the first game.
1st Game vs Deathwing
DW Wins toss and receives with his High Elves, my intention is to break through and sack his ball carrier and hopefully if that fails to ensure DW doesn't burn up to much time scoring. The first tactic fails but DW scores in turn 2 or 3 ( cant remember ).
From then on its the Undead Crawl upfield, although i think DW designed it so i could score earlier thsan planned leaving him two turns to go 2-1 up. After some hasty end of First half turn die rolls he falls short and we sit level at half time.
2nd half this is where i expect to take control and put myself into a winning position. Then comes the bane of my weekend, RIOT.
5 Turns lost, Three turns to score, it becomes an impossible task and falls short. the game ends 1-1, and although slightly disappointed to not getting the chance to use the undead to roll to a 2-1 win, i'm satisfied in starting undefeated.
Good tense first half, against a great opponent.
2nd Game vs Dwarves.
Played Tom and his Ogre'd Dwarves. this one went exactly to plan.
Received, took up to turn 8 to score, with the predictable undead crawl.
2nd half Tom replied and after the ball was thrown back in from the SSSideline to my endzone his Runner was able to get to the ball first to equalize.
6 Turns to equalize and thats exactly what happened an a repaet of the first half saw the Undead Creep upfield with a Ghoul Breaking out of the pocket to score in Turn 8 for a 2-1 Victory and full casualty points.
3rd Game vs Undead
Only game against a non NAF Coach. lost toss and after turn 1 lost a Mummy and a zombie seriously injured. 2nd turn saw a third in the casualty box. After turn two the game is as good as over until my opponent continues to rely on making blocks rather than scoring while he has man advantage. Eventually he does score with me only 6 men on the pitch, but if he scored when he could have i feel i'd have been in serious trouble. All my players regenerate. at this point My Mummy has rolled three Double skulls. 2 Turns to equalize " BLITZ ". I feel like crying, as My three injuries have regenerated but my ohter Mummy is now KO'd and doesn't return for the rest of the game.
2nd half, still outnumbered i pull of a lucky equalizer in turn 5. and then manage to hold up play for the rest of the game to pull of a very lucky draw. this is one i'd rather forget. it was a particularly difficult game as i had continual problems identifying the opponents players. His Orc Blitzer and Chaos Beastman, doubled as Undead Wights and Zombies, his figures were all painted just Silver so the One skeleton Model looked very similar to the Mummy's. A frustrating game which i was very lucky to get a draw from. In fact even now I still can't believe i got a draw out of it
4th game vs Dwarves ( Again )
At this point my Mummies had both gained Block and a ghoul Sure hands, so i was confident of outbashing the dwarves, especially with my 4 wights in tow. except my opponent had 3 Dirty Players, and his previous game against Longfang he'd certainly not been afraid to use them.
Anyway, this one was a perfect result, his dirty player was sent of first time and the eye sat on him for the rest of the half, now a man up i managed to turnover his ball carrier and went into half time 1-0.
2nd half became easier when shortly in i picked up my third casualty, and eventually ran out 3-0 maximum point victory.
At this point i stood at 44 points, just two points from making the last 4.
5th game vs Grumbleduke's undead.
We'd both narrowly missed the play-offs, so all we were playing for was pride.
This was as it tunred out to be an extremely tense affair, i took a 1-0 lead then Grumbleduke reponded to end the half level. second half began as an almost repeat of the first, with grumbleduke now receiving and scoring in his third turn. this left me 5 turns to get the equalizer, and in this tight game i'd have been happy to finish 2-2. Unfortunatle another RIOT ensued and i lost another 5 turns, game over and i'd been handed my first and only defeat of the tournament,
( Damn kick off table, Grumble, Grumble )
Nevertheless another great game against another great TBB'er.
PS: Sorry Grumbleduke, i didn't know it was you until this morning.
I daresay at this point there were a l,ot more TBB'ers there than i realised, apologies to any i didn't get around to saying hello to.
Nearly forgot my Mummy made a desperate 6+ dodge, then GFi's twice successfully then failed a 6+ to pick up the ball, then Grumbleduke's Mummy Blitzed mine with two GFI's on a one die block to get him away from the ball, his ghoul then dodged, picked up the ball and dodged again for the deciding touchdown. ( Was a great two turns )
6th and last game vs an Ogre'd human Team.
This was another very tense game ( No riots, blitzes, or disastrous Kick off results this time
Possibly a boring game to watch but a very intense game to play, i held him up for the whole of the first half, to sit at 0-0.
2nd half my turn except, with 1 mummy out i cant get enough of his players KO'sd hurt to gain advantage, finally after getting numerical advantage late in the 2nd half i roll out of the cage to the Right, and a turn 8, 2 Dice two blocks to free up my Block, dodge ghoul. A Blitz from the ghoul to free up a receiver, then a Wight Hand off's to the receiving ghoul who GFI's twice to score and win 1-0 in the last turn PHEW.
A Tough weekend where won 3 Drew 2 lost 1. I'll never know if i'd have done better with the two riot results but i guess it was the same for everybody.
Great to meet everyone from the board, cheers to you all. Roll on the next tourney
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