Game - Undead vs. Dwarfs - Blood Bowl

Last night my brother had our final game in season 2 of our Blood Bowl league. It was my Undeads versus my brother's Dwarfs. The Undeads just needed 1 point to win the league this season. Unfortunately one of my ghouls was out of the game due to injury, which was a bit of handicap as my 2 ghouls were the starts of the team.

Apart from the actual result the game would, however, have little consequence as we would play with the new BB edition next season and so restart all teams. So naturally we weren't as thoughtful with our players and plays as normal.

The Undeads started with the ball and and started a slow but unstoppable drive towards the endzone, ending with a touchdown in turn 5.

 The Dwarfs had enough time to score in the first half if they made a good drive. Unfortunately for them the kickoff resulted in a pitch invasion. An as the Undeads had +2 to their fame most of the Dwarf team was knocked to the ground.

Since it became almost impossible for the Dwarfs to score, they looked to beat up some opponents instead. They were particularly interested in my remaining ghoul so I decided to give him some protection. (he actually had strength 4, so perhaps a little overkill, but I really liked him). The ghoul survived and first half ended 1-0.

In the second half the Dwarfs brought on a rather unpleasant surprise. (I actually knew it was coming, but it was still unpleasant)

The Deathroller started off very impressively and knocked out a mummy. After that, however, it mostly pushed around a poor zombie. The rest of the Dwarfs managed to knock out or injure several other undead players, so they had no problem in securing a turn 16 goal.

So with one point in the bag the Undeads secured the league win for the second time. But only with a better goal difference than my chaos team. It was a fun and interesting league season, where we were still getting to learn our teams.

Stilling
Hold	Kampe	Vundet	Uafgjort	Tabt	Målscore	Point	Casualties
Deadly Devils	6	3	3	0	11-4	12	10
Sorø Destroyers	6	4	0	2	10-6	12	18
Hardrock Raiders	6	3	2	1	10-7	11	10
Wood Elves	6	2	2	2	10-9	8	7
Dwarfs	6	2	2	2	7-7	8	11
Dodgetown Rats	6	1	1	4	11-17	4	4
Sorø United	6	1	0	5	4-13	3	7

As mentioned we will start playing the new edition in the next season, and will therefore restart all teams. 3 teams will be added to the league: The 2 new teams from the start box, Imperial Nobles and Black Orcs, and my new Necromantic team which I have just assembled. We will, however, split the league in two parts, where the two best teams from each group will advance to semi-finals matches and ending with a final match.

I'm looking forward to trying out the new edition. Since Easter is coming up, I'm unsure when we'll be starting, but at least that gives me some time to read the new rules.

Game - Undead vs. Wood Elves - Blood Bowl

My brother and I had another game of Blood Bowl the other day. My Undeads took on his Wood Elves. While the Elves were missing no less than 3 linemen, their wardancers and catchers were ready to play. The Undeads were missing a wight, but were otherwise fit for fight.

The Undeads started with the ball and the Elves spread to avoid battling it out with their opponents and see where I took the ball.

Uncharacteristically the Elves managed to stay on the field and even gave the Undead a casualty in the first half. That meant that my attack stalled and the Undeads lost the ball.

In a daring play in the last turn of first half a wardancer managed to get the ball in-between 3 opponents, dodge out, run forward and pass the ball to a catcher, who then ran like to hell towards the endzone. Only one go-for-it was needed to score. Unfortunately the Elves had no rerolls left, so the result was almost inevitable.

The Undeads started second half getting a blitz against the Elves, which didn't do much. The Elves started their attack, but somehow the Undeads stopped them, and even more surprisingly a lone skeleton suddenly had the ball only a few steps from the endzone.

 

It was no trouble for the Elves to steal the ball back, and they quickly moved towards the other end again. Time was, however, running out so they needed to be swift. In the final turn of the game they were in a good position to score. All it took was for a wardancer to dodge out and make a blitz. A failed 2+ dodge with reroll later the game somehow ended 0-0.

A crazy tense game with some unlucky rolls at the worst possible times.

Game - Chaos vs. Humans - Blood Bowl

 The other day my brother and I had another league game of Blood Bowl. I had recently painted my chaos team, so both teams was painted, which is always a nice thing to see.

Both teams were somewhat hurt by casualties and had to use journey(beast)men. Chaos was on the receiving end and immediately began a bloody way towards the end zone. The minotaur managed to blitz the ogre and knock him out.

First half ended with 1-0 lead to chaos. It was a bloody half with 4 casualties in all, and even 2 human players knocked out.

The humans came close to scoring when a brave catcher almost picked up the ball in the end zone, but unfortunately failed.

The beastmen picked up the ball and started moving across the field. The brave human catcher desperately tried to steal the ball but with no success. The rest of the human team was being in check by the chaos players.

The depleted humans team was unable to prevent another goal to the chaos team, who took hime a rather secure 2-0 victory.

Painted - Chaos Blood Bowl team

 The very last thing I have painted in 2020 is a Chaos Blood Bowl team. I was eager to get them done to finish of a rather good painting year (probably the best thing to be said about 2020).

I have used my standard simple painting style with a mix of GW contrast paints and Copper metallic for the armour. I probably should have done more with bases, but I got a bit lazy. The most important thing, however, is that they are painted and ready for a game.

8 Beastmen

4 Chaos Blockers

The Minotaur

Group photos

Game - Blood Bowl Humans vs. Skaven

Another game between my brother and I in other Blood Bowl league. It was my brother's Skaven vs. Humans. Both teams had performed poorly in the league so far having lost all their games.

The Skaven team actually had a much higher Team Value, because they and my Undead team started the league with previous experience. However, the game was very much decided by some unlucky dice rolls for the rats. 

So I got a 3-1 win which leaves the rats at the very bottom of the league table.

Start of the game. Humans receive the ball.

Second half. A fumbled pass from the Skaven team leaves the field wide open for the humans.

Humans take a 2-1 lead and then get a blitz on the following kick-off.

League table.

 

Game - Blood Bowl Undead vs. Chaos

My brother played another league game the other day. This time it was Undead vs. Chaos. These are both my teams, so I to select which one my brother should play. The Undead team is nicely painted and pretty strong, but the Chaos team has a Minotaur, which I love to play with. So in the end I opted for the Chaos team. Naturally, I hoped my teams would get through the game unscathed, but unfortunately that hope was quickly crushed. In my second turn I killed a skeleton and a zombie. Luckily for me, my brother managed to regenerate them. A skill that I had not been so good at utilising so far. But my luck ran out, as not long after I killed one of the Wights who did not regenerate :( Even worse was to come as my brother managed to kill a Chaos Warrior and a Beastman on my Chaos team. So it was a bloody game with 7 casualties in total. The Undead team managed to pull a 2-1 victory which gave them the lead in the league. Now I just need to rebuild the teams again...

Game - Blood Bowl Dwarfs vs. Wood Elves

My Brother and I play Blood Bowl regularly. For now we have 7 teams combined. He has Skaven, Wood Elves and Dwarfs, I have Undead and Chaos, and we kind of share the teams from the box set, Humans and Orcs.

Although it is only the two of us, we still play a league, controlling our own teams when possible. We are still in the (slow) progress of painting the teams, so only 3 teams are painted at the time of writing: Undead, Humans and Dwarfs.

The other night it was Dwarfs vs. Wood Elves. As both teams are my brother's, he had to chose which one I should play. He had just finished painting the Dwarfs, so I got to play the Wood Elves.

Early first half and the Elves still have 11 players on the field

It was a brutal game for the Wood Elves. After an early 1-0 lead the Elves started losing players and was unable to prevent the the Dwarfs taking a 2-1 victory.

 

1-1 at half time. The Elves are already 3 elves short

 

Despite a valiant effort the Elves couldn't prevent the Dwarfs from scoring a late winner

Casualties were very one-sided

 

The League as it stands. It should be noted that the Undead team Deadly Devils and the Skaven team Dodgetown Rats already had some experience when we started the league.