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Kerrrunch!

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 8:36 am
by StillGas
Anyone else got this? I picked it up from GW some years back for a fiver. It's basically dumbed down blood bowl featuring the Bright Crusaders (dwarves and humans) vs the Darkside Cowboys (dark elves and orcs).

Played first to 3 TD's with a wierd box lid with a grid inside onto which you chucked a load of dice to see if your block/pass worked. I played it a fair bit with my brother and games usually went 1/2-0 to the Cowboys before all the elves were decimated by the dwarves and the Crusaders would win 3-2, the Cowboys left with half a team if they were lucky!

Yes, I was always the Cowboys :)

Still, it provided a distraction on those rainy afternoons in the mid 90's....

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 8:05 pm
by Munkey
I had this - it was rubbish :lol:

Still I'd played 2ed before playing this, perhaps the other way round wouldn't have been so bad. The board was ok though.

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 8:54 pm
by honeycomb kid
I bought tat crapo game too a couple of years back. I saw it at some crummy games store for like $5 and bought it for the models as spare limbs and stuff for conversions (though recently I've managed to trade a few and get some guys I wanted). When I saw that ridiculous rule about blocking I laughed so hard. I remember it siad something like you have to drop the dice from at least this height to prevent cheating or whatever. Oh well, it was worth the fiver.

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 9:03 pm
by BullBear
This 'die-dropping in a lid' sounds like the same mechanic Ultra Marines ahd. Did the other two games in the series (Mighty Heros and Space Fleet) play the same?

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 9:06 pm
by Munkey
Yes, It was a shortlived GW revolutionary play mechanic, the Box Lid Combat Tray, much hyped in WD at the time.

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 9:07 pm
by BullBear
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2003 9:48 am
by StillGas
Just glad I'm not the only one who experienced its dubious pleasures :P
Still the human figures did have quite amusing 'rabbit caught in the head light' expressions.

Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2003 6:10 pm
by DaImp
Do any of you know if there are pics of Kerunch on the web somewhere. I am curious to see what it looked like - and I want to see those humans! :)

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 9:29 am
by StillGas
DaImp wrote:Do any of you know if there are pics of Kerunch on the web somewhere. I am curious to see what it looked like - and I want to see those humans! :)
No idea I'm afraid. I tried finding my copy of it the other day; after scrabbling around in my loft for an hour I found that my mum had given it away to a young relative. :puke:

Still you live, you learn....

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 10:02 am
by Indigo
I remember space fleet, and that absurb box rolling system. Everyone had their own method for getting favourable results, and they were convinced bouncing dice off the sides worked, or trying to drop them "flat"

none of it made a difference though...

heh at least GW games were different and interesting then rather than mass market

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 10:20 am
by StillGas
Just out of interest, did anyone else struggle to win with the elves/orcs?
Or was it purely my incompetance :oops:

Also, anyone notice how there were always pictures of blood bowl on the box rather than of kerrunch! itself?

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2003 2:31 pm
by Dave
ask galak, he's got everything..