RCBBL meet the teams!

I've been posting about our friends league the RCBBL. So I thought a blog post showcasing some of the teams involved in the leagues.
First up are the Undead Team the

Crypt Kickers

Awesome work I'm sure you will agree. Plus they have magnets on along with the ball so it's easy to keep the ball on the bases.

The next team is the Orc team the

Corpse Sporkers

A lovely painted team as well (Painted by the same guy who painted the undead team).

The third team is the Elven Union team

The Outriders 

These guys look brilliant, being based around the Children of Thanos and even have different colour sashes to show what position they play! (The only way I can tell the difference between my lineman and blitzer is the lineman has spikes on both hands the blitzer does not).

The next team is my human team the

Ye Olde Giants

My team are named after New York
Giant players past and present. My main thrower is obviously Eli Manning and my Catchers Victor Cruz and Odell Beckham.

The next team are my Orcs

The Bearwood Brawlerz

I really like the purple on these guys. I really wanna get a goblin at some point but my searches for a super cheap 28mm Goblin that I can convert are drawing a blank at the moment.

We also have a team of dark elves but they are not painted yet but I'll do a post when they are.
I think you'll agree the teams look awesome and we are having a blast with the league

RCBBL Elves vs Humans

The next round in the RCBBL started with my humans Ye Olde Giants vs the Elf team the Outriders.  Both coming off a victory and full of confidence. The stadium had more Outrider fans in today giving them the edge in support.

The Giants elected to receive the ball and eagerly awaited the ball. Cheering fans sent an extra re roll the Outriders way.

The Giants scooped up the ball and started a drive up the right side.

The Outriders rushed to contain the drive. The Giants unable to punch a hole through the Outriders line switched the side of attack and pushed forward.

The lightly armoured Giants catcher used his speed to run past the defending elves (with a little help from the linemen). He handed it off to a catcher ready down field and that catcher sprinted for the end zone

Touchdown!!

Ye Olde Giants 1 - 0 The Outriders 

The teams set up again and with a terrible kick the Giants boot the ball as far as just behind the scimmage. The ball bounces happily into the Outrider Blitzers hands who is stood on the line of scrimmage. Not the best start for the Giants! 

Predictably and why the hell not after the gift off a kick off the Outriders plough forward. 

The Giants rush to contain the lightning fast elves. 

The Outriders managed to break away from the Giants defence.

The ball was handed to the Outrider catcher, who put his head down and ran forward.

Touchdown!!!!!

Ye Olde Giants 1 - 1 The Outriders

All this action in just the first 5 Turns!

Ball was kicked off again to the Giants. Who picked it up and made a push forward. The Outrider defence pushed back leaving a Giant lineman in a heap on the floor.  The stretcher bearers carried the lineman to the Injury box.

The Giants pressed onwards. The thrower passed it to the catcher who spotted a gap and made a break for the end zone.

Touchdown!!!!

Ye Olde Giants 2-1 The Outriders

Halftime meant the Outriders were receiving the ball. Just before the kick off the excitement was to much for   the crowd and they invaded the pitch!

Once the crowds had been cleared off the pitch, 4 Outriders and the Giants Ogre were left lying stunned on the ground. The Outriders had a torrid time picking the ball, then trying to throw the ball but missing the intended target and the Giants seized the opportunity given by the pitch invasion. A press forward met they scooped up the ball.

The Outriders players chased after the attacking Giants and managed to get the ball loose.

Players all charged towards the ball.

With  a mix of players surrounding the ball. The Outrider Blitzer stepped forward and picked the ball up right under a linesman nose and launched it out of the crowded area towards the waiting Catcher.

The Giants couldn't believe what had happened with that throw, the whole game turned around. The only players nearby were a thrower and lineman.  Unfortunately they could not take the player down, Only push him back. With time running out the player handed it off to the catcher who dodged away from Giants. He then ran down the edge of the pitch.

The Outriders player ran towards the end zone and after passing 2 Going for It rolls they scored!

Ye Olde Giants 2-2 The Outriders

With only one turn left the Outriders kicked off to the Giants. In the town left the Giants blocked the closest players but no injuries caused. With that the whistle blew for full time!

The match ended with 4 touchdowns and 3 casualties. 2 on the Outriders team and 2 on the Ye Olde Giants. All were just badly hurt and will be back in action again next time. MVPs were worked out. One of the Outriders Blitzers levelled up gaining dodge. One of the Giants lineman levelled up gaining Block.

That was a cracking match. A good number of touchdowns but man those Elves can pull passes and catches out of nowhere! 

15mm Barbarian Force Progress

I finished up a couple of units of 15mm Barbarians last week and putting the on the geek shelves I realised I have a nice little army now. So thought I would show you what I've got so far. Please excuse the photos they were a little bit rushed.

The whole force 

First up is my leader Chief White wolf Asgreth with his 2 wolf companions

Next up is a unit of  12  light spear men

Then there is 2 units of 12 warriors

My missile troops are a unit of 12 archers

My heavy troops are berserker models. These big dudes are my heavy hitters

And lastly my newest addition. A giant bear

I'll be using the Dragon Rampant rules for this force. So far my list looks like this

Elite Foot (Chieftain) - 6pts

Bellicose Foot (warriors) x 2 - 8pts

Light Missile (Archers) - 4pts 

Light Foot (spear men) - 3pts 

Heavy Foot (berserker) - 6pts

Great War beast  (Giant Bear) - 8pts
With fear

Total.          35pts

Favourite Unit in............ TANKS Modern Age

Time for another favourite Unit post.
I've always wanted to play Team Yankee. Been a big fan of the book for a while however the cost of Team Yankee was to high for me at the time. I thought about trying it in 6mm but then I saw the makers of Tanks were producing a modern version of their WW2. I hadn't got into the WW2 game as I have tanks from Bolt Action and didn't want to double up (even though they were different scales).
I preordered the starter set which contains 1 Abrahams US tand and 2 T-64s. Seeing all the different forces being made avaliable I immediately chose the British because I got to use the Chieftain tank.

Britain's main battle tank during the time Modern Age is set (80s) and in fact has its own WW3 novel called Chieftai. Though this book is a bit darker and grittier than Team Yankee. Its a tough solid tank. More expensive in points cost  compared to other tanks but its a strong opponent.
My current platoon has 2 Chieftains at its heart supported by a Scorpion Tank and a Lynx helicopter

I don't play nearly as many games of Tanks as I would like but my oldest son likes it (Thankfully he takes the Russians so he can have more tanks so I get to play my Chieftains)  so hopefully the older he gets the more I get to play.

Favourite Unit in............... Bolt Action

I love Bolt Action after getting back into war gaming with Across the Dead Earth, Bolt Action was a game I always wanted to play as I always have had a love of ww2 history. When I got hold of a box of British infantry I was hooked. £25 and you can make 2 squads a HQ and some support teams is value I love when you are in a budget like me.  The rules set is great and simple to play (I started just as V2 came out).
As in war gaming tends to happen what starts of as a "little" force rapidly turns in to something much bigger. So I now have a decent sized British late war army (To be fair it helped the army could  be used in Konflikt 47 as well) with regular troops, airborne troops, tanks etc.
So onto the blog post my favourite unit in this game is (feel free to make a drum roll noise in your head)

The Universal Carrier

Also known as the Bren Gun Carrier it has many incarnations and with over 113, 000 built. Now the reason this is my favourite Unit in Bolt Action is mainly the rule of cool (My main reason for picking units) . I love the model (Also helps it remains one of the easiest model kits to build. I'm looking at you automated infantry!) and the fact it can zip around the board taking shots with its LMG plus my usual tactic is once thr artillery  observer has dropped his artillery strike he jumps in and can then use the pintle mounted LMG  as well! Or fill it with 5 sub machine gun armed. paras for some quick close up strikes. It has one more armour value than a normal truck so cannot be penetrated by small arms fire though it is still open topped so can be pinned.  Plus having tracks makes it more manoeuvrable and be able to reverse out of a situation quickly.
I have 2 in my army

At the moment I'm probably not going to get any more due to my rapidly shrinking hobby space but you never know!

RCBBL Orcs vs Dark elves

Today the last match of the first round was played. My Orcs the Bearwood Brawlerz took on the Dark elves, Slap and Tickle FC.

10,000 Slap and Tickle fans and 60,000 Brawlerz fans turned up for the match giving the Brawlerz the edge on crowd support.
The elves won the toss and elected to receive the ball

Rallied by their fans both teams got a re roll and the ball was kicked off.  Unfortunately for the Orcs it sailed off thr pitch giving the Elves a touch back. The ball was passed to a runner and the game began.

The Elves try to break through the Orc line 

The witch elf helped bash an Orc Lineman out of the way for the runner to make a break for it. The rest of the Dark Elf team did their best to tie up the other Orc players so their runner had the best chance.

The runner spots a lovely route through the Orc players and scores! 

The runner exploited a hole on the Orc tackle zones and he dashed through to score!

Slap and Tickle FC 1 - 0 Bearwood Brawlerz

The sides reset to go again. The was ball kicked off. The the Orc thrower scooped it up and passed it to the Orc Blitzer. The black Orcs bashed a hole in the Dark Elf line and the Blitzer dashed through.
The Dark Elves had been frustrated that they couldn't get the Orcs to stay down, they even had a blitzer sent off for a foul! So a cheer rang out when they stunned an Orc lineman

The Orc blitzer made it over the half way line before being tackled by Dark Elf doing the ball in the middle of a a scrum of players.

Luckily for the Brawlerz there were more Orcs in the scrum than Elves. The area was cleared and the other  Orc blitzer  grabbed the ball and sprinted into open pitch. Unfortunately Dark elves are quicker than Orcs and he was intercepted and tackled.

With a little help the Dark Elf takes down the blitzer 

The Orcs moved to get the ball while still in a high pitch position and a brutal scrap erupted around the ball.

Amazingly the Dark Elves managed to throw the ball out of the scrum down field. Sadly it was not accurate but the danger had been moved away. The Orcs vented their anger, one Black Orc injured 2 of the Dark Elves with another being knocked out.
One of Slap and Tickle FCs runners picked up the ball and sprinted within metres of the Orc end one!
The Orc thrower and blitzer managed to stop the runner at the last second. Again the Orcs moved the ball up the field, creating a cage around the ball carrier.

Confident the Orcs set their sights on the end zone. Not to be deterred by the cage, a Dark Elf blitzer leapt at the ball carrier and despite a 3 dice block in the Orc favour, the blitzer managed to take down the ball carrier again. Unfortunately being 4 players down meant the Dark Elves were seriously outnumbered and once the Orcs got hold of the ball again they managed in their last turn to run the blitzer I to the end zone for the score!

Final result

Slap and Tickle FC 1-1 Bearwood Brawlerz


The Dark Elf casualties were nothing serious so will be back next match. The Dark Elves earned 10, 000 gold and the Orcs earned 60,000 gold.
The Dark Elf runner who scored  got MVP and levelled up and acquired the Nerves of Steel skill. My Black Orc who caused the 2 casualties got MVP  and leveled up also. I gave him block to help him out.  It the most exciting but a blocker should have block me thinks!

That's the first round done.

New Addition to 15mm Barbarian Force

While I was having a sort through the various odd models I have next to the paint tray and sat side by side were a 28mm bear missing his rider and a 15mm Barbarian. An idea formed in my brain!

How about a giant bear for my 15mm force!! That will show those civilised orcs a thing or too!

I had a few ideas like a platform on top but I though I would try something quick.

A bit bending the legs and we have a rider! 

I don't think it looks to bad at all really!