Let's Play Bloodbowl!!!!!

This week our friend Bloodbowl league started. It all stemmed from a WhatsApp group organising DnD sessions. When real life kicks in and DnD slowed down the group just turned into a cracking little chat group. Everyone  in the group had an interest in wargaming so when I got Blood Bowl interest was peaked.  Teams were bought, painted and the RCBBL (Random Chat Blood Bowl League) was born!

There are 6 teams in the league.

Ye Olde Giants - Humans
Bearwood Brawlerz - Orcs
Outriders - High Elves
Corpse Sporkers - Orcs
Slap and Tickle FC - Dark Elves
Crypt Kickers - Undead

Today saw the Giants take on the Sporkers and the Outriders faced the Crypt Kickers.
The Giants brought 10,000 fans and Sporkers brought 60,000 fans giving the Sporkers the edge on crowd support.

The Giants kicked off and the game began. The Orcs did what Orcs do best and grabbed the ball and piled forward. Trying to roll the left side. The Giants scrambled to halt the green tide. The game descended into mainly a brawl.

The humans stopped the left side attack for the orcs to reform and go again, this time aiming for the centre. The humans down a line men to a KO reformed a defensive line. The time running down, an orc blitzer made a break for it hoping to catch a thrown ball. The Giants Throwers sensing the danger rushed the blitzer, sending him sprawling and stopping the passing threat. Halftime was called and after some pieces of orange the teams went at it again. The speed of the Catchers caught the Orcs unaware but they ignored that and charged down where the ball landed. Players charged into the melee. A catcher was took down, and the human thrower Eli Manning took a chance dodged away from an Orc an launched a ball down field towards a Blitzer. He caught it and sprinted for the touchdown!
The teams reset and the Orcs pushed hard but couldn't break through but they did leave 4 humans badly hurt and one blitzer with a broken neck!!!!

After the match my blitzer (Thankfully not the one with the broken neck) levelled up so I got him mighty blow.

The other match was played at the same time so my friend Spartan Dave wrote up a short summary.

The match started the Crypt Kickers kicked to the Outriders once receiving the ball on the left wing of the field the thrower attempted to make a long bomb  across the field as the Crypt Kickers players swarmed him, he made an accurate pass but unfortunately it was intercepted by the crypt kickers wight who then tried to get through the chaos but failed dropping the ball. The Outriders lineman picked it up and showed the thrower how it’s done making a solid pass to the completely open catcher allowing them to score a touchdown. Play reset and the first half was over. Second half Crypt Kickers received the kick off and ran with the ball unfortunately a sneaky elf got in the way and caused a death killing the wight ball carrier right next to the end zone fortunately he regenerated back to life. Play continued until eventually a ghoul grabbed the ball and instantly the team formed a cage around him and forced their way up the field scoring a much needed touch down. Two turns to go for the elves they tried the same tactic as turn one and it was successful again the Crypt Kickers couldn’t believe it on their last turn the Outriders had managed to pull the win right out from underneath the crypt kickers

And that was it we have one game left to play this round so I'll let you know how that goes! 

Guest 40k Battle Report!

My friends recently had a 40k battle report. I thought it would be a good idea to get them to write up a battle report for a bit of variety for my blog. I don't play 40k myself but love all the fluff and stuff that comes with it. So without further or do from my good friend Spartan Dave here is Tau vs Ultramarines.

Operation Cathedral Defence.

It was a cold evening as the forces of the Tau army strategically deployed themselves to protect a derelict cathedral from the superior forces of Roboute Guilliman.

With the Tau army deployed Guilliman started to deploy his reserves. Starting with his Storm raven loaded with a venerated dreadnought and a squad of space marines followed by a crusader tank loaded with a squad of six space marines one of which was a commander.

Next an assault squad of Terminators tried to deep strike onto the field. Failing their drop, they ended up at the furthest edge of the battlefield.

With no more forces deploying this round it was over to movement. The storm raven moved first flying right over the top of the Tau emplacements with the plan to drop the dreadnought into the fray, it made its move dropped its payload which scattered to outside the encampment.

Following closely was the crusader tank armed to the teeth with weapons.

Now to combat the Crusader shot first taking out 2 of a 12-man fire warrior squad, following this the Storm raven opened fire on another 12-man fire team on the roof of the cathedral ruins. The plasma cannons charged.... and with a failed roll to keep the cannons cool they exploded causing one wound and saving the fire warriors from certain death.
With that it was the tau’s turn to strike, not needing to move they went straight to shooting.
The tau opened fire and caused no damage to the space marines
Back to the marines, this time the crusader and the storm raven caused no damage
Now the Tau were fired up raring to cause harm.
The riptide battle suit fired its ion cannon causing no damage to the storm raven
Next a battle suit commander fires his railgun at the crusader piercing its armour causing one wound.
Noticing that the tank was injured the tau’s Hammerhead gunship commanded by Longstrike opened fire... but failed its hit roll luckily he had tank hunter meaning he could re-roll a miss which turned out to be a blessing finally penetrating the crusaders armour it exploded killing 3 of the HQ squad inside. Listening to the burning screams of their comrades the remaining squad members rallied together and pushed onwards.

Now noticing the dreadnought at the edge of the compound the Tau’s crisis team opened fire at it making an incredible roll and succeeded in destroying its main weapon leaving just its power fist.
Now suffering significant losses, Guilliman deep strike in another squad of marines but they scattered to the edge of the battlefield too, The storm raven left the battlefield but not before dropping its payload at the rear entrance to the compound.

With this squad dropped they made short work of the unaware battle suit commander killing him instantly. Next the dreadnought and the terminator squad with their captain tried to charge but didn’t quite make it.
The Tau retaliated firstly by launching a barrage at them from the riptide taking out 2 of rare squad.
Following up, the crisis team fired upon the dreadnought and with some luck they managed to wipe it out. Also providing cover fire at the heavily wounded terminator squad advancing the fire warrior squad managed to pick off 2 of them leaving just the captain to defend himself

And with that the battle was over time had not been kind to the space marines but could they push on and win the next battle


That was it guys. I hope you enjoyed it, always good to try a bit of variety and adds more content to the blog.

Favourite Unit in............ Konflikt 47

I thought I would do a sort of series focusing on my favourite units in different game systems.
First up I chose the game system Konflikt 47. As regular readers will know me and Alex Does Hobby Stuff have an ongoing Konflikt 47 narrative campaign so we have played a fair few games with. In fact I believe I'm correct in saying Konflikt 47 drew my good friend back into getting a big battle game.
The unit I have chosen is the British Galahad. The ever stalwart British Tommy now encased in rift tech powers armour.  I love the  design and sculpting of the models and the lore around them.
They are the strongest of the various armies power armoured units meaning they should shrug off most small arms fire as they carry the Tough and Resilient special rules. They are fewer in number as they are quite an expensive unit (A full squad will cost you 290 pts. You can get a Sherman or Cromwell tank for less than that). To me the cost is worth it and I will always take the full 8 man squad where possible as each soldier is equipped with an LMG packing 4 shots. That's a unit throwing out 32 shots!!

This can really devastate a unit or in the case of our narrative campaign a giant failed German bio experiment! 

The Galahads killed it in the first turn of the game. Since then they have been in every British force I make.
They have not been properly tested in close combat in any of our battles I don't believe but against regular equipped troops they have many advantages. Against Nazi horrors they are a bit weaker as their resilient is negated by Tooth and Claw. However if they can pass the horror test and unleash point blank range shooting on the attackers as they come in that could be a game changer with their LMGs.

So Ladies and Gentleman I give you the Galahad!

Smethwick Comets vs Bearwood Brawlerz

Tonight saw me playing Blood Bowl with my long time opponent and legendary friend from Alex Does Hobby blog.  Much like me he has not played blood bowl in years so we were looking forward to a match. He chose the Orcs. I chose the Smethwick Comets and we kicked off!

10,000 Smethwick Comet fans attended the match with the Brawlerz bringing 3000. Before the whistle was even blown a rock  was thrown from the crowd. Stunning a Black orc. The kick off sailed out of bounds and the touch back enabled the Orcs to gain an easy possession. The Orcs started to block the scrimmage line of the Human team.

The Black Orc stunned from the rock didn't halt the Brawlerz drive

The Brawlerz drove for the left wing

The Comets defensive line had to shift

Comets tried to halt the Brawlerz blitzer 

The Brawlerz made a strong push down the wing.  The resulting melee left a Comets lineman knocked out!

Good night! 

The Comets started to push the Brawlerz back but the Orc blitzer still had the ball.

Lots of push back rolls held the Brawlerz

The Comets coached yelled for the ogre to get stuck in. Unfortunately the ogre got all confused and failed his bone headed roll

Errr what coach?? 

Thanks to the ogres bone headedness the Brawlerz made a gap and the blitzer burst through

Ere we go! ere we go! ere we go! 

Seeing the danger a line man threw himself at the blitzer, sending him sprawling

The Comets thrower quickly snatched up the ball and looked down field

A lineman had broke free of the opposition! The thrower launched a short pass straight and true. Could the lineman catch it?

He does!!!! He makes a break for thr end zone. 

And Jessie Armstead scores!

After that the half ended.

We set up for the second half. The Comets would be the receiving team.

The ball went for a touch back so was passed to a player.  The blitzer and catcher combination on each side sprinted forward. The thrower ran the ball forward  and threw it to the catcher who ran in for a quick touchdown!

Victor Cruz scores!! 

With the clock running out the Brawlerz  surged forward!

The Comets ogre spent most of the game fighting with the Brawlerz Black Orcs. In the end both Black Orcs ended up as casualties.

The Comets went on the defensive taking out the ball carrier

The ball scattered in the Comets favour. The thrower scooped up the ball and ran for a gap in the line

Eli Manning spots players in free space 

A long throw this time. The throw is accurate!,  a Brawlerz player leaps up to intercept but misses. The pass lands safely in the line man's arms and he sprints towards the endzine

The Brawlerz scrambled a defence but it was not to be. The Comets before scoring shoved a Brawler into the baying fans. Luckily he made it  back to his dugout

With that the lineman ran in for the touch down

Another touch down for Jessie Armstead!
The final whistle went soon after. Comets win!

Was a great game and lots of fun showing my friend the Blood Bowl ropes. He seemed to enjoy so that was mission accomplished.
Hopefully I'll be entering a league soon!

Human Team Ogre

I forgot to post about it but a month or so ago I got a belated birthday present in the form of an ogre for my human Blood Bowl team.

I built it fairly easily, the arm and armour were a bit difficult to get in place but I managed it. I painted it up it my human team colours.

Next added some basic basing

And he's done. Hopefully he'll get a run out soon!!!

Blood Bowl Friendly Undead vs Orcs

Today I played a friendly game of Blood Bowl. I brought the Orc team from the box against my friends Undead team.
Since getting Blood Bowl a group of friends has took an interest and purchased teams. So we are setting up a friends league soon.
I wanted to give the Orcs a run out as I am entering the Orcs and Humans into the league. The Orcs won the toss and elected to kick the ball to start the game.

The Starting Formations

The Undead collected the ball and heading down the wing.

Aggressive defence 

The Orcs rushed to screen the shambling Undead. The Undead shifted sides of the pitch and formed a cage around the ghoul ball carrier. 

Mummies leading the cage onward 

The Orcs always up for a scrap attacked the cage. The Undead giving as good as they got. One Orc was sent to the casualty bin early on.

A brutal brawl erupts 

There were plenty of blocks flying in from all sides. The Orcs managed to land a hit on the ball carrier knocking him down. There then proceeded a hilarious game of no one catch the ball and it bounced off various players before coming to a rest.

The ball bounced of at least 5 players I think 

The Undead grabbed the ball but half time was called

A couple of players recovered from their KOs, the Orcs bought in their second thrower to replace the injured line Orc. Receiving the kick for the second half the Orcs went on the attack. The Undead read the play and piled in tackles taking the ball carrier out.

Skeleton stops the blitzer in his tracks 

More Orcs piled in and managed to get the ball back. On the other wing an Orc blitzer had made a break for the end zone. The Orc thrower came up with a crazy but brilliant plan. He threw the ball!

"Boyz look at 'im finkin 'e is an elf init" 

The blitzer also managed to grasp the idea and plucked the ball out of the sky. He then sprinted towards the end zone.

Touchdown!!!

The teams set up again with only a few turns left. The Undead went full on. They smashed through one wing and the mummies helped tie up a lot of Orc players on the other wing.

Dangerous amount of free space for the Undead team

The Orcs scrambled to stop the shambling horde.

The Orc thrower has to get stuck in

The Undead landed a few blocks and a Ghoul dodged away from the defence.

Touchdown!!!!! 

The last few turns ended in a rather cheeky Wight shoving my Black Orc I to the crowd!!! Thankfully he was just stunned and made his way back to the dugout.  

And off he goes!! 

The Orcs created 2 holes in the Undead line. A blitzer ran as fast as he could towards the end zone. The Orc thrower holding the ball burst into the Undead half and went for a pass. 

And with that the game ended in a draw. Great fun, I really love blood bowl!