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Bloodbowl: Shadownight All-Stars take on the Scimitars and the Packers

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:40:47 GMT

Two more games for the All-Stars, sadly they are still to score.

First up it was a clash of the low raiting teams with Shadownight taking on the Shareef Scimitars. The All-Stars put up a better game of it, they still can't generate a scoring drive but did hold the Scimitars to 3 TDs, the last grabbed in the final turn of the game.

Game two saw the Packers roll over the All-Stars with a 6-0 win, however they didn't have it all their own way as the Shadownight offensive line killed off two Tolbeck lineman and used a chainsaw to nobble the Ogre, causing to miss most of the game.

All this pushes Shareef and Tolbeck away at the top of the table, with the Northerners taking 3rd place ahead of Shadownight on GD.

Bloodbowl League

Bloodbowl: Scimitars vs Bullz

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:42:33 GMT

The Bullz went into their first game against a lower raited team, but came away with the looser's end of the purse.

Both teams put in a solid first half, with favourable kick off table results building a lead for Shareef, but fumblefest began when the ball was kicked for the second half. From there the Bullz and Scimitars failed over and over to pick up or pass the ball, it was only the fact the ball remained in the Skadayul half that put Shareef in a position to scramble in a few more TDs and lock down the win.

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Bloodbowl: Season 8 so far...

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:55:10 GMT

I've been slack posting Bloodbowl results on the front page this season, sorry about that. The main League page is always updated right after the game, but I keep meaning to post here later and just not doing it.

This season has seen the Reds, Braaaiins and Klean go on hiatus, while the Packers and Hawks return. Also two new teams join the League, The Shadownight All-Stars and The Shareef Scimtars.

Results so far then:

Season 8 kicks off with the defending Blood Bowl Champions, The Tolbeck Packers, taking on the team that has secured every Trophy this year, The New World Wenches. The Packers heavy hitting play did some serious harm to key Wenches and proved that the Champs are planning to keep that Cup.

Match number two was the other end of the spectrum, with the two rookie teams facing off. In the first half it was looking like a close game, with the humans 1-0 up over the elves. But the floodgates opened in the second half as casualties and KOs combined with a lack of reserves started to clear the field for the Scimitars to keep running them in.

Game three saw the Packers take a surprise loss to the Scimitars. Some great inducements in a set of experimental Orcidas Boots and some well timed Lewd Manoeuvres from the Scimitar Cheerleaders, combined with some aggressive tackling carried the underdogs to the big upset.

Number Four was the first Draw of the season, with the heavyweight tackling machine, The Northern Hawks taking on the extremely busy Shareef Scimitars. The Hawks dominated the field while shenanigans and chicanery from the Scimitars stack of inducement cards failed at every turn. In the final turns however lady luck smiled on the newcomers and a last turn dodge-dodge-touchdown evened up the scores and took the game to a 2-2 draw.

And Finally, Season 8, Match 5 saw the Scimitars once again take the field against the Orcish Monsters of The Sixty Whinerz. The Whinerz for the first time taking on a team with a lower team value, started out strong, with some good fortune bouncing a missed pass back into the hands of the receiver in the End Zone for an outstanding Touchdown. Both teams put in a solid passing game with 5 completed each. However in the match of human speed verses orcish strength it was Scimitars clocking up 4 passing TDs for the win.

So that's Season 8 so far. The table is still mostly split up by number of games played, currently only the Hawks and the Scimitars are undefeated and only the Scimitars and the Packers have a Win on the table.

Bloodbowl League

Pathfinder: The Embassy Page

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:33:19 GMT

Added a page for the current Late Game, The Embassy.

Always handy as a way for GMs to keep a track of skills and saves between sessions.

Pathfinder: The Embassy

The Scimitars of Shareef, a Warband for Song of Blades and Heroes

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:46:19 GMT

My new Warband for Song of Blades and Heroes, The Scimitars of Shareef.

I need to add another couple of Skirmishers, then they're ready to go.

Miniatures from Artizan Designs and Games Workshop.

The Scimitars of Shareef

Traveller UWP decoder

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:37:31 GMT

I've added a simple web based UWP (Universal World Profile) decoder, it should turn regular Traveller UWPs into a human readable description of the world.

I've turned all the UWPs on the Machine Parts Transit Solutions page into links that decode them. Which is much more useful than code only Dave can read. :)

Here are a few examples:

• Iderati 0702 A887798-C N I Ht Ri Ag Ga Cap G
• Penelope 0503 C460642-4 I Ri NI De Lt G
• Mirriam 0303 B9998A6-A N I IWS A G
• Emape 0103 B564500-B N I Ag Ga NI A G

Traveller: Machine Parts Transit Solutions

BLAM in Wargames Illustrated

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:55:53 GMT

There is a write up with photos of BLAM 2009 in the latest issue (268) of Wargames Illustrated.

A few photos of my stuff made it into the magazine, my TARDIS console, The Doctor, Katie, Vic and K9 from our Doctor Who game, as well as my Goa'uld and a few Jaffa and from the Stargate 1895 game.

More photos of the minis are available here:

• The Doctor
• The Goa'uld

I'll try and get some shots of the full TARDIS interior up soon.

Also I wanted to make sure and credit Rattrap Productions for the rules we used for Doctor Who, The Brokers of Death used the .45 Adventure rules with the Amazing War Stories supplement.

One last note on the Stargate credits, that Goa'uld is a Priest model from the Crocodile Games Wargods range.

Chaos Cup Final: New World Wenches Retain

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:23:27 GMT

For the first time in our League's short history, a team has retained a championship.

The New World Wenches dominate the R'lyeh Reds to claim the Chaos Cup for a second time. Wenches took an early lead and held right through the game, killing Reds lineman Olob in the process.

Yet again the Reds show they just can't win a Cup, while the Wenches having won every tournament this year and are looking to get a complete set of silverware by picking up the Bloodbowl in March.

Bloodbowl League

Chaos Cup Semi Finals

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:41:08 GMT

The Chaos Cup 2009

2010-01

Semi-Finals completed and it's on to the Cup Final, possibly Saturday.

Bloodbowl League

Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:58:38 GMT

Thanks to a comment on /. from Lloyd Bryant in a thread about Microsoft DDoS'ing CPAN, I've discovered a variant of Clarke's 3rd Law, Clark's Law:

From the famous original:

It made me laugh so I thought I'd share.

Taveller: MPTS Inc Jump to Mirriam

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:12:29 GMT

MPTS Inc make their second jump, another two parsecs, this time from Penelope to Mirriam.

  Penelope    0503 C460642-4 I Ri NI De Lt G
  Mirriam     0303 B9998A6-A N I IWS A G

On the water world of Mirriam they met up with two new members of the crew, the Doppler Cousins, old contacts of Bradley.

So far Orion took a submarine tour, while Ansarii and D'Lombard made some contacts to sell on their dodgy wares.

The Chaos Cup 2009, playoff round

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:46:51 GMT

It's a bit late starting, but it's Chaos Cup 2009 time!

Just the one TD this game, with opportunities for either side to take more but unending fail from both sides leaves the Orcs ahead when the whistle blows.

Next Wednesday it's the semi finals, Whinerz vs Reds and Klean vs Wenches.

Bloodbowl League

Machine Parts Transit Solution: Actually tranport machine parts

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:04:25 GMT

We had the first proper week of the Machine Parts Transit Solutions game this week, six brave travellers making a two parsec mail and passenger run from Iderati to Penelope.

  Iderati     0702 A887798-C N I Ht Ri Ag Ga Cap G
  Penelope    0503 C460642-4 I Ri NI De Lt G

On the way exploring a derilict space station, buying some alien artifacts and trading in machine parts.

Here is a small plan of the ship, with character quarters marked on it:

I'll get the proper stats for the ship up in a few days.

When we come back to the game, it's the jump to the high tech water world of Mirriam.

  Mirriam     0303 B9998A6-A N I IWS A G

It Worked!

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:41:26 GMT

Awesome.

Rage Against the Machine beat X Factor winner in charts

Blade Runner is on the iPlayer

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:26:22 GMT

This is fairly fucking awesome, the BBC are showing Blade Runner on the iPlayer this week.

Nice one BBC Two.

Blade Runner

Traveller MPTS Homeworlds

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:37:48 GMT

Just so you can see where your homeworlds are on the Traveller Map and what others known about them, here are the UWPs (Universal World Profiles).

Gloria     0405 D7738BA-6 Ri G
Hanjol     0706 C785453-8 S Ga NI
Whitefall  0806 B401110-9 N IC Va Lo

All of these are in the Spinward Marches, Gloria is in the Cronor subsector and Hanjol and Whitefall are in Mora.

To find yourself, search for that Subsector name and the four digit number listed is the Hex you came from.

To confuse matters, Mongoose and the Map use slightly different Hex codes, Gloria is correct for both but Hanjol on the map is in 3127 and Whitefall 3227.

Traveller Universe Map

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:56:43 GMT

Something really handy for Space Travellers, a Traveller Universe Map in the style of Google Maps.

Traveller Map

How Awesome is that?

Bloodbowl: Reds 9 - 1 Klean

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:23:06 GMT

A massive team raiting difference and two Blitz resuts on the kickoff table pushed the R'lyeh Reds to a 9-1 win over Squeeky Klean this week. Even the world's most tactically sound Rat Ogre couldn't help the Skaven grab a second TD.

The game also produced the League's first Legend status player, scoring four Touchdowns and one Pass in his Legendary Game, #13 Kirk of the R'lyeh Reds crosses the 176 with style.

With that result, the League table looks like this:

Up soon is the Chaos Cup 2009, can the Wenches retain the trophy?

We'll have to find a weekend everyone is free soon.

Should there be no shift on the table and just the teams currently with a game be playing the cup would be, a playoff game between Real Braaaiins and the Sixty Whinerz for the semi-final against the R'lyeh Reds, then New World Wenches vs Squeeky Klean in the other semi-final.

We should sort out a date soon.

Bloodbowl League

More Bloodbowl Results

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:26:45 GMT

More results from the Bloodbowl League. While the League page has been kept up top date, I've not been posting results on the front page for a while, so here is a catchup.

Of special note there is the monster 5 - 5 draw between Wenches and Klean, a new record for the league!

These give us a league table that looks like this:

Only four teams on the table so far and only a few weeks until the Chaos Cup. The Wenches have been the most active team with four games and the Whinerz are the laziest with two. Slightly strange to see such a high positive Casualty Difference for the Reds, but it seems that Armour 7 is finally starting to haunt the Skaven and Amazons.

Hopefully we'll see Braaiiins enter the table and have the first meeting of the season between the Whinerz and Klean over the next week.

Bloodbowl League

General Beard this week

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:25:08 GMT

It's a General Beard this week in the early session on Tuesday, instead of the regular game.

The plan is to sort out what's going on in the FarStar game and try to get everyone on the same page.

Also Jak has a few ideas about games he's thinking of running that he'd like some feedback on, more on them later.

Anyone else with good ideas, bring them along on Tuesday, or email them to me so I can post them up here for people to have a look at.

Jak's Plot ideas, have a read of them and we can bitch about why we hate them Tuesday. :)

Hi-tech SF. Unknown Stars (stopping short of PL9 stuff, though some of it may be included):
You are explorers, going into dangerous and uncharted territory. Your ship (you can name and design it, just bear in mind that you will be the crew save for a few droids) is one of the best available, though there are alien civilisations with weird and terrifying technologies hiding in the darkness of space. Humanity has just developed powerful stardrives – powerful enough to pass beyond our spiral arm of the galaxy and make exploration of the rest of the galaxy both possible and profitable. New technologies can make be used to make your fortune (though a lot of that will go on running the ship) but there is a lot that can go wrong in space travel. Will you find the alien technologies that could form the basis for humanity's next leap forward, or will you find only death between the stars?

Mid-tech SF. Dystopia (around the beginning of PL6 with some PL7 elements):
You are freedom fighters, working against increasing government control of your lives. The shepherd chip was a device for paying for goods in shops, but it was expanded to include GPS, then a listening device. They cannot monitor everyone all the time, however. The shepherd chip was just the beginning, what seemed like a sensible method of preventing theft turned into a tool of the state, and the state turned nasty. As dissidents began to vanish and the chips became more and more evolved a new political underclass evolved – the forgotten. These unchipped few live outside society, with more and more members each day as it dawns on the people that government is not your friend. You will aid the railroad, meet contacts in the VRNet, experience fierce gun battles with vengeful police and wreak havoc on your opressors.

D&D (well, Pathfinder). Hexes and Black Powder:
The great divide between the Nature worshipping Druids and the Forge loved of the cities is rarely overcome. Most live their whole lives in some sprawling Metropolis or under a forest canopy, never truly understanding how the other half lives. Your prowess and steadfast willingness to do good have been noticed by some of those few untouched by prejudice and entrusted with dangerous knowledge – the secret masters of the world are coming back. You must fight these great pillars of evil by gun and by sword, by wand and by staff, lest they reamake the world in their own vile image. You will uncover ancient secrets, ride in airships and steam powered mechs, see the strange reflections of technology the druid-folk have made to compete and face a threat of epic proportions.

D&D (well, Pathfinder. An utterly inaccurate history, with magic). A Shadow Over Rome:
It is whispered that Nero is cursed by Saturn. That when he saw Rome burn and could not stop it his mind snapped and his divinity was lost. Such thoughts are treason, of course, none can doubt that the power of Rome flows from this son of Mars. And yet... there are still barbarians on all sides. The Goths raid from the north, getting bolder each year. The Huns scream their war cries and ride freely through the eastern territories. Vandals raid from the south destroying all they can of civilised lands. To the west the Iberian tribes rise up in revolt, and far to the north, across the sea, something terrible stirs in Albion. You are a crack unit of the Empire's most trusted Praetorians, an elite of the elite, you are sent on special assignments to foreign lands to quell rebellion and make them fear the Emperor. You will uncover devious plots within and without the Empire, see mythic beasts and monsters and fight the mad, screaming barbarian hordes.

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