Let's Play BLOOD BOWL! WAAAAAGH!

It looks like the game plays more like rugby than football.

this looks like the update of "mutant league" i have so yearned for

I'm still waiting for a remake of Base Wars but I guess this looks cool enough.

OldSkoolKamikaze said:

It looks like the game plays more like rugby than football.

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Nah, its closer to american football as I understand it. Forward passes and blocking are integral parts of bloodbowl and American football, but are illegal in rugby.

Excellent. Looks like it's going dandy so far.

I noticed there wasn't an Undead team option in the one team select grab? Well, there goes my Ramtut III mummy of doom like the old DOS version.

Game looks very awesome and entertaining so far, looking forward to the next match. Also decided to buy the game so thanks for explaining everything about in the last update.

I miss the feature from Chaos League where I could see the player's names about their heads. It would certainly make the Let's Play easier when taking my notes as I play.

Taking notes is hard too because the turns still have a time limit.

I have an idea, you can clearly see the jersey numbers, and the numbers do correspond with the roster.

I think at the beginning of each session, I will screengrab the roster and refer to each player by a number.

On another message board, on player gleefully reported that one of his skaven characters got a mutation at level up and selected two heads. The character actually grew another head. nice level of detail.

So now the team has some money and a little respect. Will you go ahead and buy some new teammembers or build up the team treasurey a bit?

Rabidredneck said:

On another message board, on player gleefully reported that one of his skaven characters got a mutation at level up and selected two heads. The character actually grew another head. nice level of detail.

So now the team has some money and a little respect. Will you go ahead and buy some new teammembers or build up the team treasurey a bit?

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I'm going to buy another Lineman for Vortexx.

I am very tempted to grab this. If I've NEVER played Blood Bowl tabletop, how much will I suck at the turn-based style? heh

Also, are you playing with the additional Blitz rules or not?

Silellak said:

I am very tempted to grab this. If I've NEVER played Blood Bowl tabletop, how much will I suck at the turn-based style? heh

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I actually find the turn based harder than the real time version of the game because the score is so much closer. One mistake or bad roll can turn a victory into a tie or a defeat.

In real time, I frequently crush the computer player, to the point the AI is giving him 400,000 gold in inducements per game.

Don't get me wrong, I still love it, the real time game is a hoot and it does get more challenging as your superstars begin to age/ get injured/ get killed.

The turn based portion of the game is not much harder than any other turn based strategy game as far as rules are concerned. I'm only playing on medium and it was a close game with dwarfs at 2 to 0.

Imbecile said:

OldSkoolKamikaze said:

It looks like the game plays more like rugby than football.

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Nah, its closer to american football as I understand it. Forward passes and blocking are integral parts of bloodbowl and American football, but are illegal in rugby.

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Yes, but it looks fun which makes it more like rugby.

GAME TWO! Stunty Rematch!

Good Lord, the dorfs are back. Playing the Dorfs stresses me out because I know what they can do to me. I don't know why they have me playing this team again...but i take solace that one of their players is out with broken ribs from the last game.

Let's get to it.

Our roster. I spent some of our winnings and hired another linemen, welcome to the team Vortexx! I thought a 12th man would be a good idea, give me a little breathing room in the injury department.


Current Stats... not much to see yet.


A new feature n the game is the ability to train a single player before the match. Training allows you to raise one stat by one for the next game only. It is essentially a mini game that has a bar filling up based on the variables set on the left. The bar starts slow, and accelerates very rapidly. Should the bar fill up, the player will take an injury and be unable to play. This is entirely optional. I take a shot of it for the hell of it and end up giving A-Train a chance to gain an extra movement for the next game.


Holy Smokes, the dorfs are getting 280,000 gold for inducements...



Training and inducement results before thegame. Thee dwarves have hired a hero to help them in the match, Olak and his Deathroller...great.


They really mean business this time.


I lost the coin toss so I am kicking off to the dorfs. Notice the skills and stats of that Deathroller...not cool, well at least not cool for me.


The ball carrier runs right up on my wall and starts building his protective cage. At this point I am thinking of just letting him run through and score. the Deathroller is a secret weapon, and as such he gets kicked out of the game after the drive completes or at the end of a half. I really don't want a strength 7 juggernaut out there ready to crush my orks.


Turn One and that stupid Deathroller KO's Hooked Pete. Oh its on now.


I start caging the Deathroller and at the same time I call my left wing over while hoping that my right wing, composed of two Blitzers with support from one black ork can hold the offense long enough.


The runner slips through, BUT! We managed to successfully block and temporarily down the Deathroller. Now I can safely peel off of him and run down the dorf, which is the only team an ork can run down.


The AI screws up and tries to blitz away from kingcomrade, kingcomrade gives him a giant boot to the back and down he goes, majorly stunned and giving us a turnover.


Thanks to the turnover, I now have a chance to cage the dorf runner before he can slip past!


The dorfs are trying to break through, but the Green Wall is having none of it.


A mighty blow from the Deathroller sends jaesade to the pitch, could have been worse.


The runner is taken down and the ball goes out of bounds! This could potentially be bad as a throw in is mostly random and it can really hurt slow teams like dorfs and orks, thankfully our team is faster than the dorf team...and we are still vertical.


Darth Roxor sweeps in and scoops up the ball. Notice there are noow only two orks tying up the Deathroller. Potential for injury is very, very high.


I try to pull one of the orks off of the Deathroller and he gets a spike in the back causing a turnover.


I tried to screengrab it, but I failzored. The Deathroller sent King Comrade to the hospital with a major injury. His status says there is no lasting injury, thankfully. Players can lose stats permanently through injury. You can also see in this photo that Darth Roxor and the rest of the offense are swing around to the left and trying to prevent the dorfs from taking out my ball runner.


Going for it!


Thanks to some excellent blocks and pushes which prevent the dorfs from coming with even 3 squares of Darth Rocor, he is home free!


...and not a moment too soon as Half-Time approaches at turn 8!


TOUCHDOWN DARTH ROXOR!


Gratuitous Cheerleader shot!


You can see King Comrade out cold in our high tech medical facility...and look at this! Hooked Pete is back on his feet!

"Put me in the game coach!"
"Well...we are down a man..."


Thankfully this jerkface is out of the game.


Getting ready to receive the kick off! Thanks to my investment in Vortexx and Hooked Pete's remarkable recovery, The Codex Orks can field 11 players, the Bugmen's Best...only 10. Time to press the advantage.


Nice, a quick snap. Those cheerleaders and fans are paying for themselves.


The dorfs boot it deep into our own territory where A-Train scoops it. A-Train also have a +1 move for this game which should comein handy.


The Green Wall forms up and starts to hook around to create a vertical screen for A-Train to run behind.


Sovard turns the tables on an offensive block forcing a turnover!


The dorfs are applying pressure...


the dorfs get some pushes in, but cause no tackles or stumbles...the wall holds!


A timely blitz from Jaesade clears the tunnel of dorfs, just barely.


A couple of good blocks from the rest of the line and the A-Train blasts through!


While A-Train runs for the glory...the rest of the team send another dorf to the pitch, this time they gave him a severe concussion as a going away present! How thoughtful.


TOUCHDOWN!


Alright! Let's see if we have enough time get another score and teach these dorfs a thing or...two...what the...a pitch invasion from a rival team?! FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU


Well, they came running out and beat the hell out of my line. They only beat up one dorf near as I could tell...


Time is ticking away as we are reminded that the match end is eminent.


This time we go full bore! If we can hit him hard enough close to his own line, we can force a turnover and then walk it in for the easy score!


Remarkably quick for a dorf, he manages to allude the line...however A-Train has been training for this moment! He's fast, faster than he has ever been! This is HIS MOMENT!


Time is ticking away! A-Train plans his route and blitzes! HE GOES FOR IT!


...and fails, ending the game. Oh well, those historic moments will come again, right?


Huh, look at that! Hooked Pete was the MVP for a single tackle. The tackle tha ended their offensive drive I think...I'm not sure. I gotta take better notes.


The final tally.


A-Train and Darth Roxor both level up. A-Train rolls doubles and which allows him to chose from the Agility tree. He goes with Dodge.


Darth Roxor rolls a 10 which is high enough to chose a skill or a stat point. I chose armor for him, which brings his armor to 9 making him as tough as a black ork or a blitzer.


Final Tally.

YEAH EAT IT YOU DORF FUCK!


Ahem. So the reward was far less than last game. Hmm. And I still have no SPP. Very well.

Keep it up, enjoying this immensely and wishing I didn't have to save money right now.

Sovard said:

YEAH EAT IT YOU DORF FUCK!


Ahem. So the reward was far less than last game. Hmm. And I still have no SPP. Very well.

Keep it up, enjoying this immensely and wishing I didn't have to save money right now.

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Yeah, I was reading on the blood bowl forums and SPPs are hard to come by in the turn based game.

I think with the defensive players it takes being in the right place at the right time.

Excellent work so far, I'm enjoying this.

Yep, good work. Game looks neat.

Good work beating those stunties.

Looking forward to your updates.

Rabidredneck said:

On another message board, on player gleefully reported that one of his skaven characters got a mutation at level up and selected two heads. The character actually grew another head. nice level of detail.

So now the team has some money and a little respect. Will you go ahead and buy some new teammembers or build up the team treasurey a bit?

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One of my doods has a second head, another dood has a third arm. My minotaur has a tentacle! Now all I need is a Japanese school girl!

I wish any of the teams could get mutations...

any of my teams I mean.

I read on the forums that Chaos were absolute ball busting monsters in the tougher late game leagues.

They may not mutate, but do the orks get any sort of waaagh bonuses? Maybe you can reach a critical mass of cheerleaders and send your team into a frenzy?

Looks awesome, keep it up.

Very nice lp, keep it going.

Great!

Less bowl, more blood.

Please.