Kerrrunch!

StillGas · Post by **StillGas** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 8:36 am

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....

Munkey · Post by **Munkey** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 8:05 pm

I had this - it was rubbish

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

honeycomb kid · Post by **honeycomb kid** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 8:54 pm

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.

BullBear · Post by **BullBear** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 9:03 pm

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?

Munkey · Post by **Munkey** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 9:06 pm

Yes, It was a shortlived GW revolutionary play mechanic, the Box Lid Combat Tray, much hyped in WD at the time.

BullBear · Post by **BullBear** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 9:07 pm

StillGas · Post by **StillGas** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 9:48 am

Just glad I'm not the only one who experienced its dubious pleasures

Still the human figures did have quite amusing 'rabbit caught in the head light' expressions.

DaImp · Post by **DaImp** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 6:10 pm

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!

StillGas · Post by **StillGas** » Fri Apr 04, 2003 9:29 am

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.

Still you live, you learn....

Indigo · Post by **Indigo** » Fri Apr 04, 2003 10:02 am

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

StillGas · Post by **StillGas** » Fri Apr 04, 2003 10:20 am

Just out of interest, did anyone else struggle to win with the elves/orcs?
Or was it purely my incompetance

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

Post by **Dave** » Sat Apr 05, 2003 2:31 pm

ask galak, he's got everything..