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Calling the older Games Workshop nerds....Bloodbowl!

Now that brings back some memories.....I had the set on the left.


*goes out to buy a copy of White Dwarf*
 
Swarfega said:
Nah - revel in it!

:cool:
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Nah - The ladies view my offer to 'come see my 5000 point undead army' as a very strained sexual metaphor and I'm left clutching a copy of White Dwarf looking at pictures of wood elves's :o
 
bouncer_the_dog said:
No no! The best thing about Blood Bowl, for me anyway, was spending such a long time carefully painting, making and creating your team you never actually got to play a game!
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I loved painting minatures. :cool: The actual games would always descend into nerdy bickering within the first few turns.
 
I remember when i was about 12 i got some of the minatures i'd painted put up in the local Games Workshop display cabinet, i was well chuffed :cool:

i didnt tell them that i'd nicked those minatures from their shop tho........
 
bouncer_the_dog said:
No no! The best thing about Blood Bowl, for me anyway, was spending such a long time carefully painting, making and creating your team you never actually got to play a game! I suppose it wouldn't work with WoW because an ideal Blood Bowl game would have twitch skills, you'd need a controller. But if you could turn that off and run it as a championship manager (with orcs, dwarves and elves) I'd be very happy. I want lots of character screens I can drag and drop different shaped magic gloves and boots onto and an online league that if you win points in you can buy new players like treants and giants. If there could be some solid console gaming too I'd enjoy that also.

As it is the screenshots look OK but theres not enough explosions...
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Not interested without getting to paint up the players. Without all that investment in them it's only a fraction of the fun.

I still have quite a few of my teams despite not having played in over a decade. The Insanitary Bengals (a team of sewer elves), Red Dwarf Belgravia and Surreal Madrid (including various forms of artillery largely made from Milliput).
 
Warhammer online failing so badly was a crime!

Jeez the lore and feel of the game pissed on wow but blizzard have (no sorry had) a1 tech support (thanks for the ban).

If only Blizzard had taken all the lore, graphics and sound from warhammer and made wow2 cos wow is far too manga'ish shitty lore bollocks. GW really stuck with the Tolkein and D&D theme well but Blizzard?? I mean common space ships and fucking gnomes? ..and lore that nobody understands. Still, the user interface and support killed warhammer which makes me sad. SHould have given me that job - Karma you tossers :)
 
I'm going to stick with this for a bit as it's reasonably entertaining. But the biggest problem with it is that it doesn't require the player skill levels of, say, fifa but nor does it have the strategic certainty of chess. I've tried out a few different teams and each game seems slightly weighted in the AI's favour. If a player has a clear run to the touchdown line but is in one player's tackle zone, nine times out of ten the AI will dodge the tackle where as it seems reduced if I find myself in the same position. And that's with my players having the dodge skill.
Hopefully it'll improve as my players level but then I assume my oponents will have levelled too? Just seems loaded in the AI's favour at the moment. I win the odd match. Never had a sniff of any prestige yet from winning a tournament.
 
Citizen66 said:
I'm going to stick with this for a bit as it's reasonably entertaining. But the biggest problem with it is that it doesn't require the player skill levels of, say, fifa but nor does it have the strategic certainty of chess. I've tried out a few different teams and each game seems slightly weighted in the AI's favour. If a player has a clear run to the touchdown line but is in one player's tackle zone, nine times out of ten the AI will dodge the tackle where as it seems reduced if I find myself in the same position. And that's with my players having the dodge skill.
Hopefully it'll improve as my players level but then I assume my oponents will have levelled too? Just seems loaded in the AI's favour at the moment. I win the odd match. Never had a sniff of any prestige yet from winning a tournament.
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My Orcs are still unbeaten in the one player campaign, think they're about 280 point team now... Must just be you :( :D
 
280 point team? Mine are 1,300 point team and have been winning sod all :hmm: don't think i'm playing 'campaign' though. Playing the tournaments.
 
Citizen66 said:
280 point team? Mine are 1,300 point team and have been winning sod all :hmm: don't think i'm playing 'campaign' though. Playing the tournaments.
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Yeh, sorry.. meant 2,800point. Cant stop reverting it to the old school points system. That is the 'campaign' as such, I haven't lost a tournament yet (or a match for that matter, drawn one or two). Maybe down to team choice or something, who knows.
 
From what I've been reading online some guy had similar problems until he started playing with the lizardmen. I've played with a few different teams and skaven the most. Would like to start winning with high elves as they have finesse. They get touchdowns easily but find it hard to tackle. I was trying to avoid the strategy of brute force and ignorance as that approach seems favoured by most. Perhaps it is that strategy that wins the most hence people use it?
 
I play with Dark Elves - nice combination of brawn and skill. I stopped playing just before the Blood Bowl. Might go back and finish it off. If you get dodge and block it improves the life span of your players loads.
 
Well I play Orcs, because I've pretty much always played Orcs (or Skaven) in BB. My team is very specifically geared up though. They are not all about brute force, although the line of scrimmage is very strong, 1 troll, 3 black orcs, all with skills like guard, block, stand firm etc etc.

However, beyond that its essentially a running team... Couple of goblins with insane skill levels as they score so many TD's, both have mine have block/dodge, nerves of steel, sure feet, ex MA... and more.

Then blitzers with ex MA and dodge, other skills to boot.

A catcher who, again, has looooads of skills because he picks up points fast.

Then the linesman are a mix, ones a kicker, couple defence inclined, couple to add to the scrimmage if needed.

You just need a really clear idea of how your teams going to play, mine is strong up front, flood the opponents half, get the ball as quick as possible, score. My teams a winning team but they always concede, don't think I've ever kept a clean sheet (especially against quick teams).

Hmm, dunno about Lizardmen... I seem to beat them fairly easily, chaos are more of a challenge ime.
 
Yeah, I struggle against strong teams like Chaos. Dark Elves don't have any "monsters" up front. Nobody has strength above 3. You have to get round it with skills.

Elves are easy, they might score at the start but before long they're in a bloody heap in their medical centre.
 
Have any of you played multi-player yet? Do you take the team you've built up on there or start again afresh? One of the things that put me off story mode was the fact you're not building up and levelling a team.
 
Citizen66 said:
Have any of you played multi-player yet? Do you take the team you've built up on there or start again afresh? One of the things that put me off story mode was the fact you're not building up and levelling a team.
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Online? No, haven't had a good enough net connection for a while to do that... From what I understand though, you can take teams that you've levelled up yourself and play them online.
 
Citizen66 said:
One of the things that put me off story mode was the fact you're not building up and levelling a team.
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:confused: What's story mode? Is it not the same as campaign? (I am not playing legendary btw, just the dark elves edition)
 
tommers said:
:confused: What's story mode? Is it not the same as campaign? (I am not playing legendary btw, just the dark elves edition)
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Me too, how is legendary different, is it worth getting?


E2a - ah, so 20 races instead of 9, and a story mode seems to be about it.
 
So we're not even discussing the same game? :facepalm: :D

Although, we are. Except I have 11 more races than you, a story mode, and altered game mechanics that brings it closer to the current living rulebook than the dark elves edition attempted (I think).

Which may explain why you're undefeated and I'm getting my arse handed to me on a plate nine games out of ten.
 
DaRealSpoon said:
. Must just be you :( :D
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It was :( :D

Made sure I read the living rulebook from cover to cover and some online guides and now winning more games. I hadn't realised about the helping people with an attack thing where your strength increased by one per adjacent player. The other thing I did wrong was in the buying of my initial team. I blew all my money on the expensive players where I've since learned that (certainly with chaos) you're better off just buying the bog standard players and using most of the excess on buying re-rolls. Then buy the stronger players with your winnings and you still have the re-rolls that you initially purchased. :cool:
 
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