It took me a long time to wake up to what the world of table top gaming had to offer. Its not that I had no idea, its just that I had spent most my youth buying, building, what can loosely be described as painting and then displaying my 28mm characters, rather than reading most of the rule books that accompanied them. There was simply not enough time to learn all these games, when all you want to read is the latest issue of Spider-Man.
It was only really five years ago that I discovered how much more was on offer and that's mostly thanks to a work colleague (and now great friend) who used to be a minion of GW and who at the time had run short of local gaming buddies.
It didn't take him long to persuade me. To be honest, when it comes to stuff like this I am pretty easy to convince.
So, with a gap of over fifteen years, I leapt back into the table top hobby world, excited and thinking the same way I am sure most of us big kids think, which is that now as a grown-up you can buy all the things your shitty paper round earnings had denied you all those years ago.
So, with a gap of over fifteen years, I leapt back into the table top hobby world, excited and thinking the same way I am sure most of us big kids think, which is that now as a grown-up you can buy all the things your shitty paper round earnings had denied you all those years ago.
This all meant that I started big and within a matter of a few months I had gathered together a huge Warhammer Fantasy Empire army. At the same time I had also convinced my younger brother to join in with the madness and he also ventured into the FLGS leaving with more models than he should have.
But, I could no longer get away with just sticking all these lovely new models on a shelf. I had committed to learn some rules and add to that I had discovered that I had become far more fussy about the quality of a painted figure. This is great if you know what you are doing. I however no longer did it seemed. Nostalgia was telling me I was a master at this. My sausage fingers where telling me a very different story.
It didn't matter to much though, you can still play games with primed models and if they had all waited for me to paint everything, I am sure we would all still be waiting. In fact I know it, as they to this day remain unfinished.
Grasping the rules was not so bad. I am more of a learn as you go person and I picked things up okay. As a kid I had played a little D&D (I realise now not so well). So things didn't seem to alien. But, that WHFB rule book ain't so small.
2010 ended with me moving away from what had become a great Warhammer gaming group. Luckily however, we had all started to look beyond Fantasy and the Cyanide Blood Bowl game had reminded that very same work mate what he should have got us all playing to start with.
I loved the game, I never got into the on line league side of things. But I love the fantasy aspect of it all (much of the reason I enjoyed WHFB) along with a simplicity and speed that is fantastic when compared to the Warhammer marathons I was used to. It also meant I could keep gaming with my now distant mates.
The only thing that was lacking however was that tactile interface. To me there is nothing that compares to rolling the dice and moving the miniature. So an evening on ebay later and I had won myself a Chaos Dwarf team, with no real idea if they were any good at all. I just wanted them, as they were a race I liked from the fantasy game. I was also ecstatic that I only needed to paint what seemed like a handful of models.
It was at this point that I started reading everything I could find on line about Blood Bowl. It didn't take to long to find TFF, The NAF and most importantly my local league Cakebowl and I was soon finding every journey filled with the soothing tones of the Three Die Block guys or the Zlurpcast crew (and now also Both Down).
In the roughly twelve months that I have been playing this awesome game, I have completed my very 1st league season, coming in 4th and played my 1st Tournament, where I managed what I felt was a respectable mid-ish table finish.
What I have discovered, is that the community is hugely welcoming and great at helping a rookie like me learn the ropes and its those experiences that I want to share in this Blog.
The only thing that was lacking however was that tactile interface. To me there is nothing that compares to rolling the dice and moving the miniature. So an evening on ebay later and I had won myself a Chaos Dwarf team, with no real idea if they were any good at all. I just wanted them, as they were a race I liked from the fantasy game. I was also ecstatic that I only needed to paint what seemed like a handful of models.
It was at this point that I started reading everything I could find on line about Blood Bowl. It didn't take to long to find TFF, The NAF and most importantly my local league Cakebowl and I was soon finding every journey filled with the soothing tones of the Three Die Block guys or the Zlurpcast crew (and now also Both Down).
In the roughly twelve months that I have been playing this awesome game, I have completed my very 1st league season, coming in 4th and played my 1st Tournament, where I managed what I felt was a respectable mid-ish table finish.
What I have discovered, is that the community is hugely welcoming and great at helping a rookie like me learn the ropes and its those experiences that I want to share in this Blog.
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