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[Tournament On] Blood Bowl
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These tourneys are organized often, and they are always sabotaged by just such players, if you're going to sign up to a tournament, see it through. After the 3rd or so tourney/league this has occured excuse me for being just a little bitter.
I'm sure lying about what I did in the game will somehow help the tournament.
No, wait, it really doesn't.
Being flamed in the thread made me realize that coming back after cooling down like I'd normaly do would be a waste of my time.
Found this nice write up on LRB5 changes. All sounds good to me and makes me excited for the Cyanide version. The Inducement stuff really sounds like an excellent way of balancing teams with mismatched ratings. Was that in the Beta at all? Also the free temporary linemen for teams below full strength is a fantastic idea.
Both teams were pretty evenly matched capability wise, both employing the 'smash big holes in the line and send through the (relatively) agile nippy guys to sprint for the line' tactic. Ended in a gentleman's 2-2 draw, memorable moments being a Hail Mary pass from one touchline to the other when Kaliyama had neglected back line defence and a final turn touch down from his fantastic dodging Wolf. My moment of shame being when a Mummy failed to even manage a pushback to send said Wolf crowdsurfing, instead opting for the double skulls/both down, rerolled to the same.
No long term damage to either team (though his Wolf aged a niggle which was most unjust) and The Brains are now feeling like they're really coming together nicely as the skills start to appear and enough cash was scraped together to replace the early Ghoul fatality. Conifidently we march forward to our inevitable doom in round 3!
By the second half, though, JamWarrior was waxing me. The hail mary pass was brilliant.
Two teams of armour 9 players with block and crappy movement facing off,This game was predictable draw out and bloody.
Brass Zeppelin went onto the pitch outnumbered 10 to 11 thanks to a SI from the previous rounds, with odds quickly lengthening to 8 vs 11 thanks to a couple of lucky early KOs from the Dwarves, in spite of this numerical advatange a sum total of nothing happened in the first half, thanks to some determined delaying tactics from Brass Zeppelin and a failed GFI roll from a Khaza Trol blitzer on the touch line.
The second half continued in much the same spirit, with both teams grinding away on each other, but did feature a hobgoblin returning the favour and fouling a troll slayer to death, only to have his hard work destroyed by an apothecary, until Brass Zepplin were betrayed at the start of a turn by a fucking touchpad causing an AGI 2 chaos dwarf to attempt to dodge into a dwarfs tackle zone, leaving the team in a painful position, the dwarves quickly took advantage of this fuck up, seizing the initative, outnumbering and overwhelming the few CDs who hadn't been knocked down without a chance to stand back up and making it into the CDs end-zone for the only touch down of the match.
Those of you wishing to recreate this match from the Chaos Dwarves perspective, take a brick and rub it against some concrete for half an hour, then when it comes time to change half stick your dick in between the brick and concrete for a minute or so. Thats how you feel after you lose a game because your hand bumped a pad.
Are you fucking kidding me?
Look. Normally, I never foul. I never stall. Ask JamWarrior about that if you have to. But the fact is that when Nion has something as game-breaking as a one-turn scorer, unorthodox tactics are called for. I even asked the chat room at one point--"would it be poor form to foul at this point?" and had at least three people that I can still recall tell me to do it for the good of the league. After he scored without me ever moving or rolling a dice, I was compelled to try and remove that bullshit. I essentially had to move my defensive spirit into my offense, otherwise it was unlikely that I would have had a chance at all.
I understand that Nion is disappointed that he couldn't just one-turn his way to victory without me ever making a defensive move, but frankly I don't think that justifies any bitching, let alone chastising the way I played. If he had had any sort of strategy besides an offensive game in which I could have no effect, maybe he would have done better.
I know there were bad rolls too, and I'm sorry about that. But don't blame me for trying to remove a one-turn scorer that essentially doesn't even let me play the game.
And the references to Nion's fouling weren't about my game, they were about Nion's league game before ours, where apparently he late-game fouled with no justification. I don't really know, and I don't really care. But if you're going to tell me to 'be less of a cunt' then it seems like you're going against logic and at least four members of this league.
Uhhh, you don't lose anything from a one turn score except being a goal down. You still get the same amount of turns, the same amount of moves and so forth. And you weren't a goal down. You were a goal up. You had possession of the ball, with Nion undermanned and having no way of threatening your ballcarrier in a meaningful manner barring any major mistakes on your part. Just because the peanut gallery told you to be a cunt doesn't make you any less of a cunt.
You honestly don't see anything wrong with fouling 8 times in a match against a squishy team, even after you were rolling in CAS and the clear winner of the game?
And as for the tournament game: Breaking armor 9 times out of 10 (literally) is not a brilliant offensive strategy. It's just bullshit luck. As is starting your turns with 1die frenzy blocks and fouling every turn, and never getting a turnover from it.
Watch the replay man. I clearly didn't foul every turn, even though I could have. I don't see anything wrong with 1d blocks when all my guys have block and 4 team rerolls, if it's an important block. But that's besides the point.
I understand the dice really didn't go your way, and I'm sorry for that, but that's just part of the game. At least at the end of the day nothing really bad happened to your team. But even if you'd had a casualty, it doesn't matter. Your team is made up of diabolical rat people, and my guys never wear shirts.I really don't think we should take this too seriously.
Let's just play some games.
As someone completely neutral who just happened to randomly look at this thread...
Fouling 1 turn scorers is totally, completely legit. No matter what the circumstances, I don't care if you're up 4 tds.
This is because being fouled out/injured/killed is the only weakness of those players. And for all you know you might be up against that team later in league play or a tournament or whatever.
It sucks having your star player killed, but boo hoo. That's the whole balancing factor of squishy teams in the first place, if you don't like it then there are plenty of tougher teams to play as. They can't score in one turn with a few lucky rolls on a runner though.
If you're going to both play a squishy team and paint a gigantic target on a player by giving them +MA/VLL, then you have to realize that player is going to die.
Well, he never actually fouled the one-turner.
Need to move stuff around in the new bedroom and get my desktop set up, but I should be able to play tonight or tomorrow, depending on when stuff gets done, and when Rakh/Cynic's around. Starting a match at 11pm on a worknight is not a good plan, usually.