Fully painted teams

Amazons (also serving as Humans from time to time)

Chaos Dwarfs

Dwarfs

Halflings

Norse

Slann

Undead

Wood Elves (also serving as Pro Elves from time to time)

WC3 - The Usual Rejects

This is my speech for Captaincy of 'The Usual Rejects' ahead of Blood Bowl World Cup 3 i Italy 2015, translated into English for my international friends. Danish Blood Bowl players should read the thread on dbba.dk instead.

As the World Cup is only held every four years, the objective is of course to have fun, but when all is said and done, we travel to Italy to roll some dice. Therefore, our team motto is: "You can have fun while winning!".

My ambition is basically that the team wins at least 20 games combined and achieves a final ranking in the top quartile.

Regarding our choice of teams, it is my ambition that we field 6 of the strongest races at TV110. However, I definitely think that each of us should play the race we feel most comfortable with (as per the team's motto) and I am therefore completely open to people's arguments to play any of the other races.

As far as I know, the team does not have to be composed entirely of people of Danish nationality, and therefore it is not my ambition to make it 100% Danish. Conversely, it is not my ambition to create an international team. It completely depends on the level of interest.

It is important for me to point out that registration with the team is NOT done on a first come, first served basis. I want to field the strongest team possible so you should be prepared to be refused - even if you are fast off the block, is a good friend or buys me heaps of Mozart balls. I am well aware that this may result in someone deselects this team to be sure to participate in WC3 - which of course is quite understandable.

If you want to be a member of this team, please inform me no later than June 30th, 2014 at 11:59pm. As soon as possible thereafter I will set the team and give any rejections so you can find another team quickly.

When the team is set, it is my ambition that we meet on at least three separate occasions. Here we will discuss tactics and skills, play some friendly matches against each other and generally enhance team spirit with good food and beverages. But more on this later.

Send me a message if this sounds like something you would like to be a part of - preferably with an indication of what race you would rather play (a top 3 of races would be excellent).

Malmö Bloodbowl Masters 2013 - recap

The tourney is over and the final standings can be found here. Although I "only" scored 5 pts. (my goal was 6 pts.) I'm quite satisfied with my overall performance. But now for the match reports...

Match I: 0-2 vs. Norse

My opening match was against the team that eventually would go on to win the entire tourney. Somehow I forgot that Norse teams have a few players with the Frenzy skill and as a result of this, a couple of my players ended up getting crowd surfed early on. After a long grinding drive he finally scored to 0-1 with 2 turns left. Unfortunately he rolled a 10 (Blitz) on the following Kick Off and thus made it impossible for me to score a 2-turn TD.
I was put under good pressure in the second half until one of my Ghouls bravely picked up the ball and threw a Long Pass to a Wight downfield. Sadly he tripped over the goalline (damn you 2+ GFI's!), stunning himself and fumbling the ball into the crowd. Unfortunately it was thrown back onto to pitch in a very favorable position for my opponent and he was able to score another TD.

Match II: 2-1 vs. Amazon

This was quite an uneventful game. The only really thrilling moment was at the end when a combined 5+ / 3+ Dodge could have tied the game for the Amazonians but luckily this didn't happen and my first NAF victory was a reality!

Match III: 1-1 vs. Human

I totally dominated the first half of this game and scored quite easily to 1-0. Unfortunately I made a mistake trying to pick up the ball late in the first half and my opponent capitalised on this error and then the score was 1-1 going into the second half. The second half was a mess. The ball stayed in midfield the entire half and the match ended 1-1.

Match IV: 2-2 vs. Undead

Neither of us was able to break armour and thus only recorded 1 CAS the entire match. I trailed both 0-1 and 1-2 (one of my Ghouls once again scored a passing TD much to the surprise of my opponent). Luckily I also managed to score a 2-turn TD at the very end of the game. The opposing coach was not pleased, to say the least...

Match V: 1-1 vs. Khemri

A game of two halfs, to say the least... I completely dominated first half grinding down the turn marker and leading 1-0 at half time. Total domination. And the everything went completely wrong in the second half... I couldn't prevent him from equalising early on but it gave me 5 turns (partially thanks to a Riot) to score the winning TD. However, I completely fucked it up and luckily one of his players tripped over the goal line in the final turn and the match ended in a stallmate (thank you 2+ GFI's!).

Match VI: 1-2 vs. Dark Elves

This was a very strange match endeed... I slowly but surely removed his puny AV7 players from the pitch and when I scored the equalising TD in turn 2 of the second half I really thought I had this one in the bag... But then the weather changed to Pouring Rain... Although I was outnumbering my opponent by 11 players to 5 I made some poor decisions and when I failed to pick up the ball he pulled a few elven tricks out of his sleeve and suddently he was in scoring position with most of my players stuck in his half of the field. Combined with some appalling dice rolls from me this had just one outcome...

Overall I'm definately not 100% satisfied with my performance in all 6 matches and I feel I should have scored 8 pts. instead of 5 pts. But when taking into consideration that this was my very first NAF tourney I simply cannot be disappointed with the overall result. I also scored the second-most CAS (15), only 3 CAS behind the coach of the Orc team. This was a great experience and with some added training over the next few months I'm sure I'll be able to improve the 12th placed position come the next tourney.

Malmö Bloodbowl Masters 2013

All right now! It's almost time for Malmö Bloodbowl Masters 2013 which is held this forthcoming weekend in the town of Malmö, Sweden (as the title suggests). I will travel together with Lasse from TRC and we'll try to teach them Swedes a thing or two about the art of blocking! Or something...

It's actually going to be my first NAF sanctioned tourney ever - well, I participated in a couple of tourneys 9 or 10 years ago but I only recently became a member of NAF - and I'm looking SOOOO much forward to it.

Over the last few months I've really re-discovered my lust for Blood Bowl and I've painted quite a few teams to a reasonably high standard (if I do say so myself). Okay, it's not GW quality but it's tabletop quality and it's good enough for me - actually I love my minis but don't tell anyone, okay?

I still have a few unpainted teams hiding in the drawers (Chaos, Dark Elves, Nurgle and Wood Elves) but for this tourney I of course wanted to bring one of the painted ones. That goes without saying. And so the first decision I had to make was to decide which of the following teams I wanted to use for my NAF debut:
Amazon, Chaos Dwarf, Dwarf, Halfling, Human, Norse or Undead.

I've always loved playing Chaos Dwarfs but when I realised that Lasse wanted to play them, I quickly ruled them out. It's been quite some time since I've played Undead but back in the days I really enjoyed them and I think I've re-painted them using a very nice colorscheme.

I then read through the specific rules for this tourney and decided which skill-up's to take. Actually I'm not completely satisfied with the build yet but I'm getting close. Also I'm waiting for some nice number templates to arrive but even if they don't get here in time it should be okay for this tourney.

I'll post some pics, matchreports etc. along the way but for now there's nothing much left to do than relax, get in the Blood Bowl mood and wait for saturday morning to arrive... Cheers!

Projekt: Chaos Dwarf Blood Bowl hold

Chaos Dwarfs har altid været en af mine yndlings-racer i Blood Bowl. Rent faktisk tror jeg, at det ER min yndlings-race i spillet. Så da jeg for nyligt opdagede Army Painter's Quickshade teknik, var jeg ikke i tvivl om, at jeg skulle have nogle nye, fede figurer til dette hold og få dem malet flot.
Efter kort tids søgen, fandt jeg nogle ret fede figurer hos Gaspez Arts - GA er efterhånden blevet min foretrukne leverandør af Blood Bowl figurer, da deres produkter både er fede og har en god størrelse.
Men jeg ville også gøre noget særligt ud af deres baser. I stedet for at bruge almindelige baser med flock, sand osv., gik jeg på jagt efter scenery baser i resin. Hos Dark Art Miniatures fandt jeg nogle flotte lava-baser til billige penge - jeg fik 20 stk. 25mm og 6 stk. 30mm for omkring 110kr incl. levering. Og de er sgu flotte.
Holdet er i skrivende stund ikke helt færdigt, men her er et par stemningsbilleder:

Resin-baserne grundet med hvid primer.

Resin-baser - nu med lava-effekt.

 

Et par hobgobliner på baser tilsat numre.

Flere billeder følger når holdet er komplet.

BTW - fik jeg nævnt, at jeg eeeeeeeelsker Army Painter's dipping teknik? For det gør jeg altså!

Blood Bowl

Spil:
Blood Bowl 3rd Edition
DeathZone
Blood Bowl Team Manager - The Card Game

Blood Bowl: Dark Elves Edition (PC)

Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition (PC)

GW Figurer - hold:
12 Human players (Blood Bowl 3rd Edition): 6 Linemen, 2 Blitzers, 2 Throwers, 2 Catchers
12 Orc players (Blood Bowl 3rd Edition): 6 Linemen, 2 Blockers, 2 Blitzers, 2 Throwers
12 Dark Elf players (Naggaroth Nightmares): 1 Thrower, 2 Witch Elfs, 2 Blitzers, 7 Linemen
12 Undead players (Champions of Death): 2 Mummys, 2 Wights, 2 Ghouls, 3 Skeletons, 3 Zombies
12 Chaos Dwarf players (Zharr-Naggrund Ziggurats): 4 Chaos Dwarf Blockers, 8 Hobgoblins
12 Dwarf players (Grudgebearers): 2 Troll Slayers, 2 Bliters, 2 Runners, 6 Long Beards
16 Amazon players (The Amazon All-Stars): 2 Throwers, 2 Catchers, 6 Blitzers, 6 Linewomen
17 Wood Elf players (Athelorn Avengers): 3 Wardancers, 3 Catchers, 2 Throwers, 9 Linemen
19 Chaos players (Chaos All-Stars): 6 Chaos Warriors, 13 Beastmen


12 Halfling players: 12 Halflings

GW Figurer - Star Players:
2 Hthark the Unstoppable (Bull Centaur)
2 Count Luthor von Drakenburg (Vampire Lord)
1 Grim Ironjaw (Dwarf Troll Slayer)
1 Horkon Heartripper (Dark Elf Assassin)
1 Griff Oberwald (Human Blitzer)
1 Mighty Zug (Human Blocker)
1 Nobbla Blackwart (Goblin Fanatic)
1 Jordell Freshbreeze (Wood Elf Wardancer)

Figurer - enkelte spillere:
1 Dark Elf Blitzer
1 Dark Elf Thrower
1 Dark Elf Kicker
1 Dark Elf Injured Lineman
2 Ghouls
2 Chaos Dwarfs
1 Dwarf Deathroller
1 Orc Thrower
1 Orc Lineman
1 Kalee (Human Blitzer)

Figurer - staff mv.:
1 Human Apothecary
1 Human Referee
3 Human Cheerleaders
1 Dark Elf Cheerleader
1 Human Bloodweiser Babe
1 Human Strumpet
4 Major Blood Bowl Trophies

Øvrigt:
16 plastik hex-baser med magneter
240 magnetiske skills til hex-baser: 2 Heads (2), Accurate (3), AG - 1 (3), AG + 1 (3), AV - 1 (3), AV + 1 (3), Big Hand (2), Block (12), Break Tackle (3), Catch (3), Claws (4), Dauntless (5), Dirty Player (3), Distrubing Presence (2), Diving Catch (3), Diving Tackle (3), Dodge (12), Dump Off (3), Extra Arms (2), Fend (3), Foul Appearance (2), Frenzy (5), Grab (3), Guard (12), Hail Mary Pass (3), Horns (4), Juggernaut (3), Jump Up (3), Kick (3), Kick Off Return (3), Leader (3), Leap (3), MA - 1 (3), MA + 1 (3), Mighty Blow (12), Multiple Block (3), Nerves Of Steel (3), Niggling Injuries (5), Pass (3), Pass Block (3), Piling On (3), Prehensile Tail (2), Pro (3), Safe Throw (3), Shadowing (3), Side Step (12), Sneaky Git (3), Sprint (3), ST - 1 (3), ST + 1 (3), Stand Firm (3), Strip Ball (5), Strong Arm (3), Sure Feet (3), Sure Hands (3), Tackle (7), Tentacles (2), Thick Skull (3), Very Long Legs (2), Wrestle (12).