Not Quite Tabletop but still Wargaming

Been quiet for a while I know, Covid 19 has put a hold on a lot of stuff. I am just awaiting delivery of Victory at Sea. A WW2 naval game from Warlord Games. This was pre ordered and supposed to be released April but thanks to Covid 19 its been put back till August or late July I believe.

I've painted "most" of my minis now and honestly I just wanna play some games. Modelling and painting is fun but there is nothing better than rolling dice with friends (Usually while eating Pringles and Cherry Pepsi Max). I've got ideas for Konflikt 47, a Dragon Rampant army ready to go and Rumbleslam to show as well. The small Blood bowl league I started with friends was ace as well. We had just set up 2 leagues as we have each got 2 teams now. The champions of both leagues will go head to head in a super bowl type match. I have Halflings and Wood Elves ready for these leagues. You can find the posts about the Halflings here. Though I think they have had a  team
name change since that post.

The Wood Elves are here.

With the restrictions slowly getting eased hopefully the leagues will kick off soon.

The one shining Wargaming light through out all this (Apart from talking about Wargaming) is the Bloodbowl 2 Ps4 league I am in, it has done wonders for my mental health especially with lockdown. After the birth of my first son I discovered a group on FaceBook called Dadsnet. It's a great support group for Dad's. It has developed into quite a community now. Within the group there formed a group of computer game dads, here in this group Blood Bowl 2 was mentioned and a few people piped up that they liked it and eventually a small league was formed. We have had a main league and various cups and smaller fun leagues running at the same time. We also try to give teams a theme from team name to player names. My Chaos Team were named after Rock bands so I had stars Throttley Crew and Black Stabbeth. My Violence Together team is called the Bakersfield Massacres and is full of 89s actions heroes and villains such as a saurus called Ming the Merciless or a Kroxigor called Chunk.
The main league has been running for almost 7 or 8 seasons now I believe, we even have a trophy that gets posted around (Soon to be updated to a new trophy especially made for the league) . Though not just with one team we have had a basic league where I ran Humans, a random choice league where your team was determined by a spin of a wheel. I got Underworld Denzins, man that was not a fun league. Then there was a 2 season league where I ran a chaos team. The latest league has just finished after 3 seasons with one team. I chose a mixed team called Violence Together. This team is made up of Orcs, Lizardmen, goblins and ogres. I mainly used orcs lizardmen and goblin secret weapons. This was my most successful team yet and I was in with a shout at the title till my last 3 games ended in disaster and dropped me out of the running (Though my Saurus intercepting a throw will always be remembered).  Next up we are doing a basic team league, so you are only allowed a team that came with the basic game or bonus pre order team. None of the DLC are allowed. I wanted to do something different to a bash team so have gone Wood elves. Slightly dreading it as they are AR 7 and I'm not used to passing teams but hey!! Let's give it a go.  A couple of players in the league want to do something with YouTube and the league so you may see more from that here if it happens. I'll keep you posted with how my Wood Elf adventure goes (I'm already assuming it will go badly, there are some amazing BB players on the league and I am not one of them ).

Well I hope you are staying safe and fingers crossed we can all get some games in soon!!!

Quick Rough play Through of Rumbleslam

Thought I would give Rumbleslam a quick run through before I attempt more games. Lined up the 2 teams and away I went.

Greenskin Team 

Human Team

The bell rang and the Greenskins got off the mark first. The goblin brawler raced forward and started beating on the halfling brawler, landing some solid hits.

The goblin seemingly fearless, attacks

He gets a beat down bonus for rolling high on his attack

The human brawler leaps forward, slams a hit of the goblin and then locks him in a leg lock

The leg lock is extremely effective! 

If you beat an opponents defense dice by more than 5 you get a Beat down bonus (if the defense beats the attacker by more than 4 they get a Reversal bonus).

As orc brawler moved forward, the halfling brawler decided to take his revenge on the goblin.  He punched the goblin in the face knocking him out, seizing his opportunity the halfling lifted the goblin and threw him out the ring.

See ya! 

The halfling grappler ran forward punched the orc brawler but backed away as the orc did not look happy!!
The human brawler saw his chance and bounced off the ropes!

Off the ropes gives the wrestler a boost! 

The brawler clothes lined the orc grappler hard, sending him sprawling to the ground!

Boom!!!! 

The ogre decided to join the action stepping out to catch the goblin trying to sneak around

"oh boy!" 

The Ogre punched the goblin and then grabbed him, pulled him into the air and choke slammed the goblin into the matt!!!!

This was not good for the goblin 

One KO'd goblin

The troll moved over and attacked  the human brawler. The brawler went to pick up the knocked down orc.

The crowd gave an approving cheer but the orc fought back cracking the human with a punch!

The halfling grappler ran around the Ogre and picked up the goblin and threw him out of the ring!

The orc team were down 2 players. Its not looking good,

The orc brawler towered over the halfling brawler and hit him hard. The halfling was still standing.

Orc and Halfling toe to toe

The human grappler get up from knockdown, runs to the turnbuckle and unleashes the 450 Splash!! The orc blocks the attack but it hits the Halfling  brawler KO'ing him!!!!!!!!

Disaster!!! 

The 2 big guys turn on each other causing a small amount damage each

Heavy Hitters! 

The human brawler was up next, he punched the orc grappler but with very little effect so he took a run, bounced off the rope and clothes lined the orc back to the ground.

Train wreck coming thruougrh!!!!!

The human grappler and orc brawler exchange hits, the sheer power of the orc attack pushed human grappler back 2 squares

Time was running out and the Greenskins need to do something drastic!
The ogre punches the troll and tries to choke slam him but the troll fights it off and hits the ogre with a spine buster!!

The ring shakes as a big guy falls

The Halfling grappler climbs the turn buckle and leaps at the orc grappler!

He hits it but the orc is still standing!!
The human grappler climbs the turnbuckle and lands a 450 splash but this orc is also still standing!!

450!! Outta no where! 

The roar of the crowd encouraged the Halfling brawler to recover slightly from his knock out

How is he still walking!!! 

The halfling quickly moves to the ropes bounces off them and sends a flying headbutt into the Orc grappler!

Here he goes off the ropes! 

Crack!!! Orc down

The orc collapsed after the Halfling headbutt. The bell rang and the Human side having threw 2 Greenskins out of the ring and lost none of their own team were victorious.

That was a fun little run through. I'm sure I messed some rules up but I grasped most of it I think. Can't wait to do more games of this!!!

Stay safe people

Dungeons and Dragons

Got to play Dungeons and Dragons again last night using modern technology (Bloody Covid 19!). Discord and Roll 20 were our tools for adventure.

My character is a Dragon Born fighter called Garrit. He was a guard for his clan but after being away on a patrol he came  returned to find his village destroyed. He joined the Waterdeep guard to hopefully find out what happened. His weapon is a Halberd.
In the group were my Dragon born, an elf rogue, an elf ranger, a dwarf Barbarian and a Tiefling sorcerer.
We had heard something had happened at the town of Night stone so the group headed that way. They got to the town to find the bell ringing and  Wargs in the town square. Unfortunately my dragon born was leapt on by a Warg and pinned while the Warg tried to chew on me. Thankfully my Dragon born is of red dragon descent so the Warg got my breath attack full in the face. It collapsed dead on me. Another Warg was killed and we set about exploring. The Elf Rogue found some goblins and killed them. One was taken prisoner and interrogated. It informed the party that Giants had attacked  the town and the goblins had seized  the  opportunity to loot the town. The goblin was disposed off and the party moved on. A couple more goblins were killed (My dragon born got one. Surprised a goblin staring at treasure.).

We stopped there, working out the tech had eaten in to our game tine so we called it an evening and will carry on soon. The party moved to lvl 2 so now I have action surge for my fighter!

I shall jeep you informed of what happens!