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Bloodbowl This Week

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:48:59 GMT

One more match this week, with Real Braaaiins defeating the Sixty Whinerz 4 - 0.

This puts the current standings as:

Braaaiins take the top of the table on Passing Difference, both matches this season being 4 - 0 makes the table very close so far.

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Bloodbowl Award Totals

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:01:36 GMT

For people who don't want to wade through the result tables, here are the outstanding award totals.

The Scimitars were the only team to play in both of the last two seasons, so have two seasons worth of awards. Almost everyone else brought out their heavyweight teams for The Bloodbowl.

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Bloodbowl League Awards

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:08:04 GMT

As promised, here are the League Awards for the last few seasons, I've not posted.

Totals are given at the end of each season, grab the gold and run.

Winter 2010 Awards

Spike! Magazine Trophy 2010

July 2010

That leaves us with Scimitars 2, Klean 1, Braaaiins 0.

2010 Spike! Cup Champions

Shareef Scimitars (Gav)

2010 Spike! Magazine Player of the Year

#13 Kirk of the R'lyeh Reds (Gav)

Second Award

Spring 2010 Awards

So there we have it, all the awards for the last few seasons I'd not updated.

Now someone start throwing the ball around, hitting people and get that table moving again. :-}=

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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Song of Blades and Heroes Rules

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:48:17 GMT

On the subject of Song of Blades and Heroes, I've already got the main rulebook, Dave was going to pick up Song of Wind and Water (weather and terrain) and Song of Gold and Darkness (dungeon bashing, magic items and more magic) and I've ordered Song of Deeds and Glory (detailed campaigns with expanding territory) which means that in a few days we'll have a complete set of rules and be ready to get a rolling start to our campaign.

SBH: Undead Warband

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:23:33 GMT

Another project that people seemed keen on for next year is Fantasy Skirmish, using Song of Blades and Heroes from Ganesha Games.

With a little rooting through draws and a spot of rebasing, I've come up with an Undead Warband.

It's low on numbers but I wanted to use as many of the Wraiths I've collected as possible. I've a whole army of the Undead from an early 90s edition of Warhammer (before Undead was split between Mummies and Vampires) so I've got plenty of monsters to add to the Warband as it grows.

The King of Wraiths and Retinue

Projects for 2010: Pirates

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:20:41 GMT

Avast Ye Scurrvy Dawgs, it looks like we're playing Pirate games next year. Arrgh!

Make ready to set sail, the first port of calls looks to be Games of War to pick up the rules, templates and ships.

(I'll try and pick up a set of the rules and templates in the new year. But feel free to loot a copy from any passing merchant vessel.)

Then plot a course for these filthy rathole islands to pick up a cutthroat crew:

• Artizan Designs
• Hasslefree Miniatures
• Black Scorpion
• Crusader
• Outpost

Then it's nothing but mayhem and rum until we all end up in Davy Jones' Locker!

It was on the Good Ship Venus......

Things I learned about running a game at BLAM

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:56:22 GMT

During our game of Doctor Who at BLAM 09, "The Brokers of Death", and whilst playing some of the other excellent games put on by our fellow Lead Adventurers, I picked up on a few things that I'll change when we come to run another Adventure outside our normal gaming group.

Firstly I learned that while both .45 Adventure and Doctor Who are extremely popular on The Forum, it seems there isn't much crossover between the two groups. Here is a diagram to explain:

The lesson being not to assume that because a certain set of rules or setting are popular, that everyone will know what's going on.

Also try to keep things simple and set things up so they require no prior knowledge other than info you can give people on the day. In less that 3 minutes.

One thing I think we got right was simplifying the NPC character stats down to a single line, from the full sized tables used in Rattrap games. Those tables are great for players who are experienced in playing the game and want to see all the options available, but would be unmanageable for RPG type games with massive supporting casts.

A single player character or guest star NPC looks like this:

Where a group of extras look like this:

All extras, unless otherwise noted have DR 4 in all locations which is normal for unarmoured people. Extras use the standard hit locations, any hit to the head or torso is a kill, any to the arms or legs leave them wounded and unable to go on.

Also included is a picture of the model and a character quirk to give them a little personality.

This really speeds up NPC use and generation and lets us run lots of characters without too much trouble.

Extras are similar to the 1/2 Grade or Hordes of Mooks rules from .45 Adventure, but even simpler and for people who are basically just moving and reusable encounter markers.

The game only had three NPCs with a table of stats, Weird Des the cheap Merc running security, Professor Goatse the Vorlon and our villain The Raxacoricofallapatorian. Everyone else was a one liner.

For K9, I removed the parts of the table that didn't apply, he doesn't have Arms or Legs, then moved the skills he still needed from them around the table:

As I was running as late as a late thing, I realised that the sheet I took with me still said Legs instead of Motor, but you get the idea.

Now that I think about it, I should have applied this logic a bit further and simplified the sheets even more, The Doctor and Katie don't need a HT score, as it's used for shooting for example.

In the best games players either didn't need to look at reference sheets at much after the first few turns, or even at all. Simpler sheets with no unimportant information will really help with this.

On Props and Hats, it should be a wig or hat for everyone, or none at all, they can be of various levels of silliness but it would stop people worrying too much about who has to wear ridiculous looking costume and who doesn't.

Both Props and Costume bits for everyone next time.

Last note is timing, I'd guessed, based on the games we'd played in the past that the scenario would take about 45 minutes for experianced players, or an hour for people new to the system. It actually took around 2 1/2 to 3 hours for a game.

This was mostly down to people having long conversations with all the extras, which is good in a way as that was the point of the game, to have a story based adventure rather than a shootout, but I think next time I'd cut the number of Extras down so Heroes can get to the Guest Stars faster, also find a simple way to mark out who is a Guest Star and who is an Extra. Maybe a sign with the story title, Starring and Guest Starring notes with pictures of the Stars and Guest Stars.

And that's about all I can think of for now, other than have everything ready by August so we have plenty of time for any last minute changes.

I'll post up the full set of Encounter Cards, Guest Star and Extras stats soon. For now our Heroes are available here:

Doctor Who

Crossfire Rules

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:01:55 GMT

Levi the rules we used in Matakishi's Modern African Skirmish are available here:
Crossfire: WWII Rules & Organisations

With more about the scenario here:
Operation: Running Deer @ The Lead Adventure Forum
Operation: Running Deer @ Matakishi's Tea House

We're Off To BLAM 2009

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:17:39 GMT

It's we're off to BLAM in about an hour, just time to finish the scenery. :)

I'll post some pictures when we get back.

For any Lead Adventurers who what a sneak peak at the rules we're using for The Doctor and his Companions, look here.

The Doctor

Bloodbowl: Autumn Week One

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:18:52 GMT

Week One of the new season had the Whinerz pick up two games, and they didn't mess about, going right for the top two teams in the League, the Reds and the Wenches.

The Whinerz did well in the first half of the game against R'lyeh, holding them to two touchdowns, but in the second half the floodgates opened and the top rated offence clocked up another three. Sadly for the Sixty Whinerz it was 0-0 on casualties.

It was a much closer game between the Wenches and the Whinerz, but Wenches skill set and the Whinerz inability to counter the Block/Dodge combo and score those casualties secured a solid win for the New World Wenches.

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