It had been a huge build up for the 1st ever Crumb-Bowl one day Blood Bowl event, organised by my good friend Glowworm and held last week in the village of Sutton Benger in Wiltshire UK.
This was mostly linked to him asking me to knock together the trophy bases for all of the awards he had organised. Why did I admit to having so much spare timber....
As planned, I was sticking with my Chaos Dwarves, The Villainous Milliners (I will put up a proper introduction post about them next I promise). You see, had decided at the start of my Blood Bowl journey, that in order to learn the game I should keep it simple for the first year and so its all Chaos Dwarf for 2012.
But, with so many roster options I was lured astray from the simple roster build (that had served me pretty well at the Cake Bowl event only a few months back) by those shiny star players, leading me to taking the 200k and what i now realise, huge waste of gold, Rashnak Backstabber.
The roster rules were pretty simple. 1.1 team value, 1 star player, 4 regular skills and 1 double (no stacking). with this I put together the following:
1x ReRoll
1x Fan Factor
1x Asst Coaches
1x Cheerleaders
2x Bulls: Both with Block. I know allot of people will be screaming Break Tackle at me. But, at the moment I like the dependability of Block on these guys and I am never too worried about that 4+ dodge.
6x Dwarves: 1 with Mighty Blow and one with Leader. Yep that's right no guard for me, which came down to me figuring that with one guarder I was always bound to be sticking him in the wrong spot, as I was often doing in league play.
3x Hobgoblins: 1 with Sure Hands.
1x Rashnak Backstabber: Much of the reason came from me simply having the model and a desire to field it, following its fresh new paint job. I was also keen to see what stab was like.
On paper, to a rookie like me, stab seems awesome. "Whats that.... I just roll for your armour...... No chance of me getting double skulls????". I discovered over the course of my three games, that this is not the super skill that I had imagined it to be.
Game one was against local friend Be4ch (of Nufflelovesdoubleskulls blog fame). A mere week before we had faced off in a Crumb practise match, that had resulted to me winning the game and me dropping my Minotaur from the roster, after him doing little more than growl and snarl at the opposition.
I will admit I was a little confident. But, it was not to be. Be4ch had nailed the tactics for all that Guard he had deployed and I came away from game one with a loss.
However, I also came away with a lovely spot prize of a chainsaw Orc model, following Be4ch's first block of the game resulting in his chainsaw gutting poor Rashnak. Huh, i guess he was good for something.....
Game two and I was pitched against a league friend Kungfupanda, who's Norse simply managed to out pound and skill me, leaving me with my second loss of the day....
It was about this time I was starting to realise I may be in the running for the dreaded spoon..... So far I had only managed two touchdowns and two casualties.
My last game of the day was against a new coach AlanRoy and his Orcs. I had never played against Orc's before and all I thought about was how full our KO and Injury boxes may end up with so much blocking and so few dodges.
Nuffle it seemed, had a different plan. For an entire 32 turns, not one injury occurred. In fact armour was only broken a handful of times. We ended our game on a 1-1 tie. We also ended our game last, which meant a few spectators had gathered to watch my final attempt to long bomb it to my Centaur for a turn 16 winning Touchdown... Thank you Nuffle for letting every dice succeed on that, excluding the very last one.
Even with the not so great results I still loved every minute and came away having learnt a few more tricks from the more skilled players that I was matched up against and those I had watch play.
But..... What about the spoon? Yep I came home with it. On the plus side though, its my 1st Blood Bowl Trophy and there is no way I can do any worse at the next event......... Right?
As for next events. That will be Thrudball on the 11-12th August in Bognor Regis. Sorry Rashnak, no invite for you.
Nice write up. I'll be honest, when I saw you had replaced the Mino with a lovely AV7 chainsaw target I was more than a little happy. The resultant CAS on the first block of the game, possibly the first block of Crumb Bowl, was the icing on the cake. We had a good game though, very tight and very enjoyable. Good luck at Thrud
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