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Title: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 05, 2016, 07:58:17 am

Hi all,

I've thought for some time to coach a Blood Bowl II team composed of the forum members. We're going against AI as I have a limited amount of time to play per week, I can probably do 2 to 3 matches per week. Any takers?

Now, what's Blood Bowl you might ask? Well, it's a fictional sports game - don't worry, you haven't heard the best part yet - based on Warhammer whocares universe (and a table top game), carrying some resemblance to actual Super Bowl, but being more violent and lax on the rules. Killing and maiming the opposition is encouraged, though scoring will still be necessary to win a match. The best part? It's not a real time game, but turn based.

So, there's a total of 16 turns per match if it doesn't go to over time, and each side has 10 field players up to a maximum of 16 players on the team. The players have stats and skills, and with most of the teams, the players will have roles, such as linemen, blitzers, catchers and throwers. In addition for standard Super Bowl stuff, there's also the Big Guy, a notoriously unreliable big dude who delivers in physical force what he can't in thoughts.

The game is actually a risk management game where each action has a specific probability of failing. Typically that's 1/6, so if you thought XCOM 95 % to hit missed much too often, all I can say is welcome to Blood Bowl! The game indeed provides quite a random gaming experience with reasonable amount of control for the player. That's not to say there won't be Those Games where you just roll ones all the time.

What I haven't thought yet is what race I'd like to play, as I have access to:

Dwarves (boring except the Death Roller)
High Elves (ridiculous dodging and passing game referred as Elven BS in the circles)
Dark Elves
Orcs
Chaos (ah so malleable)
Skaven (ratmen who excel at speed but also die in scores)
Bretonnians (crusaders and peasants team)
Human (average everything = not good at anything)

My personal preference would be Chaos or Skaven, where Chaos murders and Skaven scores, leading to games with quite a bit going on in them. Oh, there's also Lizardmen and Wood Elves, but **** Cyanide for DLC teams that I can only pay through Steam.

Let's have a vote of a team you'd like to see me coach (and a vote I that can ignore), and your preferred position in the game. The way it goes is:

Linemen are expendable line of scrimmage dudes who stop the opposition offence or tie their players
Blitzers are more skilled players that excel in taking out opposition players from further distance away - but there's only one Blitz per turn
Catchers catch the ball and run (and hope not to get tackled)
Throwers pick-up (in theory) and throw the ball when receiving the kick-off
Big dudes: unreliable, often stupid, and awesome in injuring the opposition. Also, there can be only one big dude in the current teams.

And one last thing: all teams have attrition rates. Skaven and Wood Elves being the most squishy, while Dorfs almost never get knocked out or injured.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Spoon on March 05, 2016, 01:11:40 pm

No lizardmen? Pity. Voting ~~Bretonnians first~~, Orcs second and Chaos third then.
Also voluntering to be a big dumb dude who spends most of his time failing his bone-head rolls.

Edit: psh, no big guy.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 05, 2016, 02:12:51 pm

Unfortunately, the Bretonnians do not get a big guy. Other than that, I'll reserve the big guy slot for you.

And yes, failing Bone-head (or Really Stupid or Wild Animal) rolls shall happen. Who wouldn't love even more unpredictability in the game? :lol:

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Scourge of Ages on March 06, 2016, 12:50:59 am

This sounds like fun! Count me in. I'll cast my vote for Chaos, because of course, and I'll take any role available, preferably something that can dish out the pain.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mammothtank on March 06, 2016, 12:56:41 am

I vote for Chaos and any role since... I don't really know the Blood Bowl mechanics.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: swashmebuckle on March 06, 2016, 01:46:46 am

Orcs and I wish to be a passer so I can carry on my glorious tradition of inaccuracy from the X-COM thread.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 06, 2016, 05:08:04 am

Okay folks so it's 4/10 positionals filled. I'll still be waiting this day, as if I recall, once I've created the team, I can't change the player names any more, and I need ten players.

We can start with 4/10, but once more people join in, I think I'll have to sack some of the worst performing random name players.

I'll follow up next with a post that just shows a couple of basic game concepts.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 06, 2016, 09:48:26 am

Ladies and gentlemen, introducing to you the Blood Bowl commentators, Bob Bifford (ogre) and Jim Johnson (vampire)!

(https://i.imgsafe.org/a23ee5a.jpg)

Bob is a fine lad, and Jim asks the question what most of you likely have in your mind:
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Yes yes, how do you actually play Blood Bowl? Well, it's a game like Super Bowl, but more tactical. And violent.

We deal with the introductions by playing a tutorial match.

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Tutorial match post #1, explaining movement and stats

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Click here to expand part of the post that explains blocking and blitzing

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To be continued

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I don't actually plan to keep this kind of details of the game, but this is more for the introduction of the game mechanics.

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Post by: Mika on March 06, 2016, 01:20:39 pm

Click here to expand the post of basic strategy and ball movement on the pitch

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Coach: Now, we are 1-0 ahead, and have to kick off the ball so that the Orcs are receiving. Thrower Eomund Rudil is kicking, with the arrows indicating the scatter range. Yeah, we gotta do something about it soon... By placing the ball in the middle of the field, it is most likely that the ball will at least land on the field, and a touch back where the ball is directly given to the opposition players (with no chance of failing) is avoided.

Click here to expand kick-off event

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Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 06, 2016, 02:58:47 pm

Click here for post that demonstrates how defensive turn quickly changes for offensive turn. Also some strategy of gripping the ball from the opposition.

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To be continued

I think I'm only going to post the first half here as the idea was to give you a picture what kind of game this is. Which, hopefully, this series does.

I'm seeing Orcs and Chaos being popular, playing Orcs could be fun, Chaos is fun (but you'll be more challenged to write proper bickering between the Chaos beastmen), while Skaven and Dark Elves (a.k.a Emos) could probably offer best role-playing chances for that.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 06, 2016, 05:16:15 pm

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That concludes my introduction to the Blood Bowl mechanics. Randomness and unpredictability is the name of the game, and as a coach you'll have to learn to cope with the uncertainty. The game can indeed infuriate once you play it for the couple of first dozen games, but you'll learn to appreciate the variation and challenges. The replayability is almost infinite, and the game has been played for next to 25 years starting from the table tops, so there won't be that many balancing issues left... I didn't cover lots of the player skills (including the already infamous Really Stupid), but I think we can do it once I create the team. But I'll have to say Block is a good skill.

If you liked this and would like to participate in this LP, just write your preferred role and the favored team option. I'll probably create the team tomorrow.

The players in each team are (with maximum number of each class, 16 players is the cap for players in a team):

Chaos
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Chaos Warriors x 4
Beastmen x 16
Minotaur (Big guy) x1

Skaven
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Linerat x 16
Thrower x 2
Gutter Runner (multipurpose catcher, also the fastest player in the game) x 4
Stormvermin (blitzer) x 2
Rat Ogre (Big guy) x 1

Orcs
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Linemen x 16
Thrower x 2
Black Orc x 4
Blitzer x 4
Goblin (not sure of the numbers)
Troll (Big guy who can throw the goblin - on failure he'll eat him) x 1

Dark elves (aka the Emos)
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Assassin x 2
Line elf x 16 ( I suppose)
Blitzer x 4 (not sure if 4 or 2)
Runners x 2
Witch elf (just wait till you see this one :) ) x2

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Spoon on March 07, 2016, 11:43:00 am

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Troll (Big guy who can throw the goblin - on failure he'll eat him) x 1

Yesssss

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 07, 2016, 01:44:29 pm

Quote from: Spoon on March 07, 2016, 11:43:00 am

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Troll (Big guy who can throw the goblin - on failure he'll eat him) x 1
Yesssss

Know what? You're right!

We shall indeed start with an Orc team, with an overall description such as:

(https://i.imgsafe.org/33bdd43.jpg)

The team is of course HLPBowlers that runs with a motto "Piling modders on!" (Booyah!). You'll realize the pun some games later.

We wear hornet logos 'cuz we dance like butterfly and sting like bee, and the uniform color theme is the always stylish black and red.

(https://i.imgsafe.org/3736de3.jpg)

Our stadium is called Da Big Bowl, 'cuz with Orcs it can't be anything less

(https://i.imgsafe.org/3813067.jpg)

We take three re-rolls (that each allow re-rolling a failed dice roll), trust me, we are going to need all of them! I believe we won't be able to afford an apothecary that allows re-rolling an injury (but there's no guarantee). We can't afford Bloodweiser babes either.

(https://i.imgsafe.org/3905a0f.jpg)

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 07, 2016, 02:01:23 pm

Spoon, meet your new alterego, Spoon the Troll.

(https://i.imgsafe.org/389ae30.jpg)

Your start up skills include:
Loner - Which means team re-rolls have a 50 % chance of working when you screw up. I suppose you're loner because you are big and not so smart. You also look about as dumb as you are.
Throw Team-mate - You can throw team mates who have the skill Right stuff. In this case, that means goblins, the rest of the Orcs are just too big to throw even for you.
Your also Always Hungry, which means that you'll have a 1/6 chance of eating the unfortunate goblin if the throw roll is failed.
You have Mighty Blow, which adds +1 to the result of the armor break roll or injury roll. If the armor roll result itself exceeds the armor value, the +1 is added to the injury roll instead.
You are also Really Stupid, the bane of more reasonable team mates who often have to stand next to you telling you what to do. Effectively this means that without an adjacent player of your own team next to you, you'll have 50 % chance of failing what you were supposed to do. With a team mate next to you, the chance is reduced to 1/6.
Being a Troll, you can also Regenerate, meaning that after receiving an injury or getting killed, you'll have a 50 % chance to regenerate from the injury. Regeneration happens after the apothecary roll has been made if available.

You are the strongest and slowest dude in the team, starting with Strength 5 and Movement Allowance 4. With Agility 1, there's no hope for you to escape anybody's tackle zone and picking up the ball is akin to a miracle. You also sport a strong Armor Value of 9, meaning that the armor roll has to be at least 10 (with two dice) to break your armor - that means averagely every sixth block you receive can break your armor.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 07, 2016, 02:12:11 pm

Swashmebuckle, you get to be our thrower. While the Orc team doesn't really excel in throwing game, you can always try. The main ball recipients are Orc Blitzers and Goblins, in the abscence of dedicated Catchers in the Orc team.

(https://i.imgsafe.org/387c157.jpg)
Your massive skill set includes Pass and Sure Hands.

Pass means you'll automatically re-roll any passing attempt if you fail it. If you fail even that, it'll cause an instant turnover. Sure Hands means you'll automatically re-roll any ball pick-up attempt after failure. If you fail that re-roll, it's an instant turnover. Since any event can only be re-rolled once, that means the role of these skills is to save the team re-rolls for something more important. Basically, your are likely going to be a turnover machine with occasional wins with game winning passes.

You sport a Movement allowance of 5, which is not great but not slow either, your strength is average 3 that is about the average all teams considered. You sport Agility of 3 that is also average, so you'll have a 67 % chance to pick-up the ball from the ground, and about 67 % chance to succeed throwing it. You'll automatically re-roll those, leading to about 89 % probability of success. Trust me, you'll fail more often than you'd think. However, those failures are likely going to be epic. You have always hoped for being more agile as that would make you a much better thrower, a game changer.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 07, 2016, 02:18:12 pm

Scourge of Ages the Black Orc is our mainstay in the line of scrimmage, ready to punch, block and crush any players foolish enough to venture on to his proximity (well except the Chaos Warriors of whom you shall run like a sissy).

(https://i.imgsafe.org/3863ee8.jpg)

Being a big guy liking the action close by, you don't have any special skills.

That is offset by you having Strength 4, guaranteeing two dice unassisted blocks against any weaklings. With Movement Allowance 4, you are as slow as the Troll. But not as dumb. You have an Agility of 2, meaning you'll have a 50 % of escaping anybody's tackle zone (i.e. guaranteed to fail). But you weren't gonna run anyways, you ain't that sort of guy. With Armor Value 9, you can stand firm on the Line of Scrimmage with relative safety and look down upon the weaklings. And run like a sissy when faced with Chaos Warrior or Beastmen with Claw skill, as your armor is akin to paper mache for them. Anybody else you don't need to worry about. Much.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 07, 2016, 02:26:35 pm

Mammothtank, you'll be our Blitzkrieg machine. Your role is going to be Blitzing, and thus you don the role of Orc Blitzer.

(https://i.imgsafe.org/384411a.jpg)

With a jaw line like that you can probably Blitz with your jaw alone.

You sport Block skill, meaning you'll treat Both down result on any blocks made as if nothing happened. This will decrease your chance of failure for each block by 1/6, meaning that any one die block you make has about 83 % chance to not cause an instant turnover (without Block that would be 67%). Which is much loved. You can still fail one die blocks 17 % of the time, and that will cause me to use a team re-roll as the Blitzer blocks are typically very important. If the team re-roll fails, it's an instant turnover!

You are the fastest Orc on the team with a Movement Allowance of 6, only the Goblin being slightly faster. But that weakling is not an Orc to begin with anyways so it sorta doesn't count.
Your strength is the average 3, so you'll typically need assists. With Agility 3, you pick-up balls with the probability of 67 %, and dodge from tackle zones equally well. You are our make-do ball carrier. With Armor Value 9, it's unlikely they could hurt you. Except the Claw wielding bad guys.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 07, 2016, 02:31:40 pm

Now, late participation in the actual game is going to be more difficult once the team is created. If you think this could be cool, now is the time to join. After the team has been created, you'll either have to wait until we have sufficient cash to hire you or that somebody dies. This is because renaming the players is not possible after they have been hired.

What it comes to the tournament I think we are going to do a Round-Robin tournament where every team plays against every team, with a probable number of teams around 20 - 24. That'll give a couple of months of Blood Bowl gaming.

Perhaps some of you will become superstars during that time.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Scotty on March 07, 2016, 04:39:41 pm

I'll play! I'll be either a Black Orc or a Blitzer, whichever works best.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mammothtank on March 07, 2016, 06:12:43 pm

That class sounds exactly like me. Yay!

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Spoon on March 07, 2016, 07:10:45 pm

Quote from: Mika on March 07, 2016, 02:01:23 pm

Spoon, meet your new alterego, Spoon the Troll.

(https://i.imgsafe.org/389ae30.jpg)

Your start up skills include:
Loner - Which means team re-rolls have a 50 % chance of working when you screw up. I suppose you're loner because you are big and not so smart. You also look about as dumb as you are.

Me no stoopid! Me handsome troll, momma always says so! :hopping:
You look at picture, and tell me that not handsomest troll you ever seen!

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Scourge of Ages on March 07, 2016, 07:28:37 pm

Orc smaaaaaash!

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 08, 2016, 01:04:08 pm

Following the footsteps of Mammothtank the Blitzer, Scotty the Blitzer jump on the team

Scotty, your skills are the same as Mammoth's. It's uncanny, as if you were coming from an assembly line!

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Me no stoopid! Me handsome troll, momma always says so!
You look at picture, and tell me that not handsomest troll you ever seen!

Yes yes, you are indeed quite special!

The team will have a rather unusual (to say the least) composition:
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Gobbo x 1 - ??
Black Orc x 4 - Scourge, 3 x ???
Blitzer x 2 (Orc Blitzers are bloody expensive) - Scotty and Mammothtank
Lineorc x 2 - ???
Troll x 1 - Spoon
Thrower x 1 - Swashmebuckle

Total players: 11, can't afford more at this point. Depending how it goes, I think lineorcs will get replaced by Blitzers when we have the cash. Or not, having extra players is not a bad thing at this point.

You'll have have about 20 minutes to reserve your name while I'm eating, after that IT IS MATCH TIME!

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 08, 2016, 01:24:14 pm

Introducing to you the HLPBowlers team!

(https://i.imgsafe.org/ea1dbdc.jpg)

The team has a focus on line of scrimmage blocking with the aid of the Spoon the Troll, and with the Black Orcs Blackbelt Jones, Black Dynamite, Black Knight and Scourge of Ages.

They are assisted by the Lineorcs Tukost and Rakmar.

Thrower is Swashmebuckle, and our goblin is aptly named Schnack.

Their first match is against Humies, wish them luck!

EDIT: Oh my God if the first match is of any indication, this is gonna be epic

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 08, 2016, 04:01:17 pm

HLPBowlers first game Post #1

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Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Spoon on March 08, 2016, 04:25:25 pm

Hildred Valdred got trolled
That means their team will be down a man for a while right?

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 08, 2016, 05:03:49 pm

HLPBowlers first game Post #2

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Post by: Spoon on March 08, 2016, 05:12:55 pm

Too stoopid too stand up twice :lol:

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 08, 2016, 06:11:37 pm

First game post #3

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Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 08, 2016, 06:33:08 pm

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Too stoopid too stand up twice

Once he failed the roll for the fourth time, I couldn't help but laugh.

This has seriously been one of the more awesome games in the recent history. But the first half doesn't even come close to the second half.

I admit there's foreshadowing, some of the things that will happen could be predicted from the first half.

Unfortunately I do have to sleep, so till tomorrow!

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Scourge of Ages on March 08, 2016, 06:56:41 pm

Scourge... not cord'nated. Put all ability points in big punching, not enough standing up or on pointy-hitty.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 09, 2016, 02:53:29 pm

First game vs Humies, Second half post #1

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Post by: Mika on March 09, 2016, 03:14:46 pm

First game, second half, post #2

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Post by: Mika on March 09, 2016, 03:31:03 pm

First game, second half, Post #3

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Post by: Mika on March 09, 2016, 03:56:33 pm

First game, second half, Post #4

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Post by: Mika on March 09, 2016, 04:13:37 pm

First game, second half, Post #5

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Click here for the match outcome

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EDIT:
Spoon's failure probabilities were
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First block with two skulls (either both down or attacker down): 11 %
Failing to stand up first time due to Really Stupid: 16.6 % (player near)
Failing to stand up second time due to Really Stupid: 16.6 % (player near)
Failing to blitz due to Really Stupid: 50 % (no near players)
Failing the sweltering heat check on second half: 16.6 %

Total probability for this chain of events taking place: 2.5*10^-4 which is 0.25 per mille (= 0.025 %)

Then again, the second half start was so ridiculous that I was laughing out for quite a long time.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 09, 2016, 04:37:16 pm

Interlude
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But even then the Orcs had no concept of their greater role in events. For this was far more than humanity's loss. This day was the day upon which the whole of creation would change forever.

This was the day the High Elves returned.

(https://i.imgsafe.org/22369ae.jpg)

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Spoon on March 09, 2016, 05:34:40 pm

This Spoon-Troll seems like an accurate representation of me. Terrible luck with rng and both lazy and stupid. He's doing me proud.

Of the few blood bowl videos that I've seen online, I don't think I've ever seen one in which both sides were left with so few players like that. Madness.

For those of you who have no idea what is going on (that is probably most of you)
Totalbiscuit did this video once

It's not a short video.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: swashmebuckle on March 10, 2016, 03:37:18 am

As da boss MVP it'z my lot to do da interview so here'z dat. Da boyz played ok out dere but wot really did it wuz dat da humies wuz pink an' puny as humies is. We is green an' tough so we stomped dem good like wot you would expect if you knew wut to expect. It wuz a tuff game mostly becuz sum of our boyz decided it wuz good enuf after da first part an' keeled ova like a buncha lazy grotz so I gotta smash somewun'z bonce at da next teem meeting for dat. Even wen dere wuz humies all ova in da uvver part we wuz all feelin da Waaag! so it wuz a given we wuz gonna give 'em a beatdown.

I'd like to dedicate dis win to Gork for helping us smash 'em, an' let's not forget about Mork who made me fast when I scored da winning score. Da fanz can lick my big 'uns, espeshully da ugly gitz in da front row wot tried ta stomp me. I'm da boss of dis gang 'an dey'll know it soon enuf. I'm not gunna talk about da specyulashun dat Spoon sat on da gobbo at halftime, dis interview is over.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 10, 2016, 02:14:38 pm

Quote from: swashmebuckle on March 10, 2016, 03:37:18 am

As da boss MVP it'z my lot to do da interview so here'z dat. Da boyz played ok out dere but wot really did it wuz dat da humies wuz pink an' puny as humies is. We is green an' tough so we stomped dem good like wot you would expect if you knew wut to expect. It wuz a tuff game mostly becuz sum of our boyz decided it wuz good enuf after da first part an' keeled ova like a buncha lazy grotz so I gotta smash somewun'z bonce at da next teem meeting for dat. Even wen dere wuz humies all ova in da uvver part we wuz all feelin da Waaag! so it wuz a given we wuz gonna give 'em a beatdown.

I'd like to dedicate dis win to Gork for helping us smash 'em, an' let's not forget about Mork who made me fast when I scored da winning score. Da fanz can lick my big 'uns, espeshully da ugly gitz in da front row wot tried ta stomp me. I'm da boss of dis gang 'an dey'll know it soon enuf. I'm not gunna talk about da specyulashun dat Spoon sat on da gobbo at halftime, dis interview is over.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

For some reason the mental picture of this interview just cracks me up every time

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 10, 2016, 04:24:07 pm

HLPBowlers vs Incandescent Wings (High Elves), Game 2, Post #1

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Post by: Mika on March 10, 2016, 04:49:41 pm

HLPBowlers vs Incandescent Wings (High Elves), Game 2, Post #2

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Aaand more of this game tomorrow

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Post by: Mika on March 12, 2016, 11:56:43 am

HLPBowlers vs Incandescent Wings (High Elves), Game 2, Post #3

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Post by: Mika on March 12, 2016, 12:25:17 pm

HLPBowlers vs Incandescent Wings (High Elves), Game 2, Post #4

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Post by: Mika on March 12, 2016, 01:00:24 pm

HLPBowlers vs Incandescent Wings (High Elves), Game 2, Post #5

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Post by: Mika on March 12, 2016, 01:17:25 pm

HLPBowlers vs Incandescent Wings (high elves), Game 2, Post #6, Start of second half

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HLPBowlers vs Incandescent Wings (high elves), Game 2, Post #7

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Post by: Mika on March 12, 2016, 02:24:36 pm

HLPBowlers vs. Incandescent Wings (High Elves), Game 2, Post #8

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Post by: Mika on March 12, 2016, 02:43:07 pm

HLPBowlers vs Incandescent Wings (High Elves), Game 2, Post #9

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Click here for match outcome

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Hint for the next time:
(http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/735159-sam-max-hit-the-road-dos-screenshot-minigame-whack-a-rat-how.png)

I'm hungry, anybody up for a rat-on-a-stick?

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 12, 2016, 02:51:20 pm

Oh, and given we won 90 000 in cash, now there's a position open for a Blitzer. Any takers?

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 24, 2016, 03:54:44 pm

Sorry for the break, but I've been busy with 12 hour work days.
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HLPBowlers vs Mouldy Wanderers (Skaven), Game 3, Post #1

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Post by: Mika on March 24, 2016, 04:43:56 pm

HLPBowlers vs Mouldy Wanderers (Skaven), Game 3, Post #2

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Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Spoon on March 24, 2016, 05:10:43 pm

I think I did really well not eating him. That has got to be an accomplishment

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on March 24, 2016, 05:19:44 pm

HLPBowlers vs Mouldy Wanderers (Skaven), Game 3, Post #3

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HLPBowlers vs Mouldy Wanderers (Skaven), Game 3, Post #4

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So there you have it ladies and gentlemen, playing Blood bowl under influence is an awful idea. I mean it was only one beer bottle (8 %), but my performance was noticeably degraded.

Also, that amount of white skulls in the match.

Our next game seems to be against the Bretonnians
(http://www.guarna.net/Quotes/Python/knights2.jpg)

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Post by: Scourge of Ages on March 25, 2016, 07:42:39 pm

Ow. Not expect so much hurty. Thought be more punchy.

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Post by: Mika on March 29, 2016, 01:24:11 pm

Quote from: Scourge of Ages on March 25, 2016, 07:42:39 pm

Ow. Not expect so much hurty. Thought be more punchy.

Well you were only Badly Hurt which means you can't play in the same game again, but will be fine for the next ones.

The probability of them breaking your armor is 1/6, so every sixth block can possibly hurt. When it happens that the armor breaks, then the probability that you'll get a stun is 21/36, for a knock out that is 25% and for an injury that is 17 %. And when the injury happens, the probability it will be just badly hurt is 50 %, miss next game is 17 %, permanent stat decrease is 17 % and death is 17 %.

So in your case, the probability of rolling double skulls at that phase was 4/36, probability of armor break 17 %, probability of injury roughly 17 %, and that it happened to be Badly hurt was 50 %. So the probability for this chain of events was 1.5 per mille. Feeling lucky, eh? The best chain of events I've seen at this point was around 0.05 per mille if I recall... Hilarity almost always ensues when something so improbable happens :lol:

This game will quite handily demonstrate that per mille level probabilities are indeed probabilities which can and will happen. Just when you least expect them, and will thus typically lose you a game. The internet is full of horror stories of rolling double skulls and re-rolling it to another double skulls, affectionally dubbed quad-skulling. That's about 1.2 % probability right there. Some have actually achieved triple skulls with a re-roll, so that's more like 1.4 per mille right there... And it's just because of these events which is why it is also awesome!

Spoon failing to eat that goblin (twice) was quite astonishing given his track record of failing even standing up. :lol:

And now it's MATCH TIME!

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Post by: Mika on March 29, 2016, 01:57:35 pm

HLPBowlers vs Brave Shields (Brettonians), Game 4, Post #1

So the Bretonnian team is made of knight armor toting nobles and peasants, who have likely been ordered to volunteer for blood bowl gaming by their landlords. They posses Fend skill, which is mighty annoying as it prevents following the peasant. Pitchforks and all that I suppose. The peasants are quite useless, and serve only as cannon fodder. However, Blockers and Blitzers in the Bretonnian team are somewhat more capable people, having for example Dauntless, which allows them to blitz somebody stronger than them with equal strength. That skill may fail at any moment.

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HLPBowlers vs Brave Shields (Bretonnians), Game 4, Post #2

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HLPBowlers vs Brave Shields (Bretonnians), Game 4, Post #3

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HLPBowlers vs Brave Shields (Bretonnians), Game 4, Post #4 (start of second half)

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HLPBowlers vs Brave Shields (Bretonnians), Game 4, Post #5

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HLPBowlers vs Brave Shields (Bretonnians), Game 4, Post #6

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HLPBowlers vs Brave Shields (Bretonnians), Game 4, Post #7, the finale

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Next time, if memory serves, we shall be playing against these guys
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Meanwhile, would Scotty have a short comment on his Most Valuable Player award?

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Post by: Spoon on March 29, 2016, 05:30:37 pm

I think my achievements so far have been 3? succesful blocks that didn't do any real injury and failing like countless too stupid rolls.
Amazing. This seems about exactly how I would envision myself in real life, pursuing a rugby career.

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Post by: Mika on March 30, 2016, 12:36:13 pm

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I think my achievements so far have been 3? succesful blocks that didn't do any real injury and failing like countless too stupid rolls.
Amazing. This seems about exactly how I would envision myself in real life, pursuing a rugby career.

Hey, that's how the Big Guys work in this game. I bought a Minotaur to a fully developed Chaos team and he has not received a single SPP yet, after like ten games. It's not like he's been useless, though.

The Orc Big Guy is different in a way that he has Armor value 9 and Regeneration, so he is clearly intended to be actually in the LOS instead of Blitzing. That's different from the others, with the exception of the Kroxigor of Lizardmen, Treeman (treant) of Wood Elves and Beast of Nurgle. Unfortunately, the Troll also has Really Stupid, which loses his tackle zones and support on the surrounding players as he is scratching his head wondering what he was supposed to do. That's not the worst though, the Treeman can get rooted on the pitch and cannot move at all during one drive :lol:

The Big Guy often works as a road block, preventing the access to certain area of the field, which was demonstrated in the game against the Bretonnians. So he is more like area denial player instead of a positional player.

If I were to re-start with Orcs, I'd rather go with four blitzers and two black orcs as the black orcs do not gain levels fast and buy the black orcs later. The Troll has its uses, at least as a threat of a one turn touchdown machine with the aid of a goblin.

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Post by: Scotty on March 30, 2016, 01:04:26 pm

Quote from: Mika on March 29, 2016, 04:42:39 pm

Meanwhile, would Scotty have a short comment on his Most Valuable Player award?

/me walks up to the podium.

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/me walks away from destroyed podium.

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Post by: Mika on March 30, 2016, 01:35:26 pm

HLPBowlers vs Iron Head Drillers (Dwarves), Game 5, Post #1

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HLPBowlers vs Iron Head Drillers (Dwarven), Game 5, Post #2

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HLPBowlers vs Iron Head Drillers (Dwarven), Game 5, Post #3, Start of second half

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Post by: Mika on March 30, 2016, 03:42:07 pm

HLPBowlers vs Iron Head Drillers (Dwarven), Game 5, Post #4, finale

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Post by: Mika on March 30, 2016, 03:47:29 pm

Next time:

(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/057/949/CleverGirl_Fullpic_1.gif)

Now, we have 140k spare. I think I'll sack one of the line orcs and buy a new Blitzer. Even You could become as cool as Mammothtank or Scotty, so apply today!

Additionally, the Schnakc the goblin has to retire due to his knee injury - took an elbow to the knee he exclaims.

Any takers?

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Post by: Mika on April 04, 2016, 02:33:43 pm

HLPBowlers vs Tlazcotl Carnosaurus (Lizards), Game 6, intro

Coach prep talk before game:

Now team, we look in da oppositshun team

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Dem are lizardmen. Big and small lizards. You stay away from da big 'uns until da small 'uns are out. Dem haz 15 playas, you'll see why. Dem lizards haz no Kroxigor, so Spoon smacks dem big lizards.

Your primary target iz wat dem lizards call "skinks"

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Dem skinks haz dodge, dat makes 'em harder ta hit. You need clear POW or Skull wiv POW ta drop 'em. Provided you haz block. Dem skinks also haz Stunty like our gobbo, stunty playr dodges more easy. But dem stunty playerz also get hurt fasta.

So it iz time for skink huntin' season. Any questions?

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Post by: Mika on April 04, 2016, 05:38:01 pm

HLPBowlers vs. Tlazcotl Carnosaurus (Lizards), Game 6, Post #1

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(sauruses have AGI 1, so you can expect them to succeed at pick-up 17 % of the time i.e. never)

That 17% chance on the other hand has rarely stopped me from being really stupid :lol:

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I love the size difference in the background. Now if only always hungry would work on skinks....
Also, I think I got water droplets in my eyes there.

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Post by: Mika on April 05, 2016, 04:20:30 pm

HLPBowlers vs Tlazcotl Carnosaurus (Lizard), Game 6, Post #3

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Now would be a good break to taste some refreshing Bloodweiser. The new Bloodweiser bite comes now without the toxic aftertaste of death!

Our emerging star Swashmebuckle is cool, and he drinks Score All The Time. If you want to be as cool as him, so should you!

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Post by: Mika on April 05, 2016, 04:48:21 pm

HLPBowlers vs Tlazcotl Carnosaurus (Lizards), Game 6, Post #4, Start of second half

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HLPBowlers vs Tlazcotl Carnosaurus (Lizard), Game 6, Post #5

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HLPBowlers vs Tlazcotl Carnosaurus (Lizards), Game 6, Post #6

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Post by: Scotty on April 05, 2016, 05:39:45 pm

Gat dang I'm kicking all sorts of ass. C'mon, MVP again!

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Post by: Mika on April 05, 2016, 05:41:56 pm

HLPBowlers vs Tlazcotl Carnosaurus (Lizards), Game 6, Post #7, finale

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Now that was a hilariously incompetent match by both sides, with heavy losses inflicted on the lizard side. I think Scotty was the most consistent on either stunning or KOing the players. The rain did us both this time.

But we won it. Orc style.

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Post by: Mika on April 05, 2016, 05:46:02 pm

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(sauruses have AGI 1, so you can expect them to succeed at pick-up 17 % of the time i.e. never)
That 17% chance on the other hand has rarely stopped me from being really stupid :lol:

(https://i.imgsafe.org/36a8e97.jpg)
I love the size difference in the background. Now if only always hungry would work on skinks....
Also, I think I got water droplets in my eyes there.

The big guys in this game are indeed big. Wait till you see the minotaur. :D That's a scary one. Well actually when you get blocked by any big guy you are always gritting your teeth whether there will be a career ending injury.

It would indeed be hilarious if it was possible to eat the opposition small players were they stupid enough to park next to the troll. But skinks don't have the Right Stuff, so they can't be thrown, thus eaten. I don't think you'd be able to do that to the opposition goblins either.

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Post by: Mika on April 05, 2016, 05:52:59 pm

Quote from: Scotty on April 05, 2016, 05:39:45 pm

Gat dang I'm kicking all sorts of ass. C'mon, MVP again!

Unfortunately, this is not based on stats gathered during the game or anything. It's random as far as I can tell. But it can have hilarious consequences especially if a player dies. He typically gets the MVP then, and the death probably could've been avoided had the MVP been awarded earlier to him.

EDIT: Oh, next match will likely be broadcasted on Saturday.

EDIT^2: Just realized that the Lizard's MVP was Mazda the unconscious lizard, who I think was knocked out on the turn #1 of the match, and remained so until the lizard's 16th turn. :D Talk about contributing there. Perhaps they felt pity towards him? :lol:

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Post by: Scotty on April 05, 2016, 06:00:24 pm

How did I get zero SPPs there? D:

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Post by: Mika on April 05, 2016, 06:04:52 pm

SPPs are awarded by the following actions:

Successful pass: 1 SPP
Injure opposition player: 2 SPPs (You get the same SPPs for opposition player death which we haven't seen yet.)
Score a touchdown: 3 SPPs
MVP: 5 SPPs

So you managed several important KOs and basically carried the team, but these actions do not net you SPPs, despite them being very vital to the team.

It's the Mighty Blow Scotty that carried the team. The unsung hero of this match!

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Post by: Mika on April 10, 2016, 04:18:55 pm

Sorry about not being able to do the match yesterday; I was in Boston and got jet lagged to hell and back, with my last travel day to home lasting some 36 hours straight, netting me an effective loss of Saturday.

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HLPBowlers vs Bloody Skulls (Orcs), Game 7, Post #2

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HLPBowlers vs Bloody Skulls (Orcs), Game 7, Post #3

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HLPBowlers vs Bloody Skulls (Orc), Game 7, Post #4, Start of second half

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HLPBowlers vs Bloody Skulls (Orcs), Game 7, Post #5

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HLPBowlers vs Bloody Skulls (Orcs), Game 7, Post #6

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HLPBowlers vs Bloody Skulls (Orcs), Game 7, Post #7

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Stay tuned for the match against the High Elves tomorrow.

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Post by: Spoon on April 10, 2016, 07:10:46 pm

They really couldn't model a couple of extra faces for the fans? All the fans are humans from the same family it seems :p

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There is just so much troll in this picture ;7
Apparantly I was enraged there was a troll that was prettier than me on the field. I had to rectify that problem at once. It's okay I then forgot what the rest of the match was about. (Seriously, how many times have I failed a 1 out of 6 chance? :p )

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Post by: Scourge of Ages on April 10, 2016, 08:17:14 pm

Scourge is simple Ork, happy to finally make hurty on puny humies and dorfs. Ha!

Side note: close to the end of page 3, I think an image got mixed around for a lady-selfie. I don't think it was intentional?

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Post by: Mika on April 11, 2016, 11:03:14 am

I think that image is ImgSafe doing its stuff the way it does. I've seen another incident earlier with a portrait of an old lady, but that one I picked up before posting. It probably has something to do with people posting images at the same time and poor server timing control on the ImgSafe's side. But it's a free service, so I shouldn't complain too much.

I'll remove that picture from the thread, it doesn't belong here, nor am I affiliated any way with the lady photographed, so I feel this is the best course of action I can do. Please let me know if this happens again.

There's probably one lady somewhere in the world wondering how her selfie got exchanged with a picture of a Black Orc.

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Yep, been thinking the same myself.

What it comes to Really Stupid, it is not actually only a 1/6 chance of failure to complete the action. That's valid only when somebody is standing next to you. When you are alone, you have a 50 % chance of failing the said action. Which is why you often see somebody standing next to Spoon.

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Post by: Mika on April 11, 2016, 05:24:08 pm

Ooh man, this match

HLPBowlers vs Flaming Silverleaves (High Elves), Game 8, Post #1

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HLPBowlers vs Flaming Silverleaves (High Elves), Game 8, Post #3

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HLPBowlers vs Flaming Silverleaves (High Elves), Game 8, Post #4, Start of second half

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HLPBowlers vs Flaming Silverleaves (High Elves), Game 8, Post #5

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HLPBowlers vs Flaming Silverleaves (High Elves), Game 8, Post #6, finale

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Post by: Mika on April 30, 2016, 06:40:36 am

Apologies for sporadic updates with respect to the team, this is because I've switched jobs and partially moved to another location. The internet access has been somewhat limited, due to me not wanting to use the company laptop to do this. Since I'm home this weekend, I'll try to update two more games - however, 1st of May is looming in the horizon, with possible option of me experiencing self induced headache on Sunday.

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Post by: Mika on May 01, 2016, 12:38:29 pm

HLPBowlers vs Flaming Gladiators (High Elves), Game 9, Post #1

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HLPBowlers vs Flaming Gladiators (High Elves), Game 9, Post #3, Start of second half

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HLPBowlers vs Flaming Gladiators (High Elves), Game 9, Post #4

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Mad Max level up skill, well, you'll see it next time when we go once again against the Dorfs!

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HLPBowlers vs Copper Axes (Dwarves), Game 10, Post #1

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Post by: Scourge of Ages on May 02, 2016, 05:10:03 pm

Ha! Take that, dorfs!

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Post by: Spoon on May 02, 2016, 08:09:47 pm

Uuuuuuuuhhhmmmmm

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HLPBowlers vs Copper Axes (Dwarves), Game 10, Post #3, Start of second half

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The next game? That will be against humans.

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He knocks down a dwarf and moves to "assist" Spoon. "Assist" meaning in this case telling Spoon what to do.

It only took like a gazillion games, but I finally got 2 SSP. Huzzah. The troll slays the trollslayer.

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Post by: Mika on May 05, 2016, 02:19:59 pm

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He knocks down a dwarf and moves to "assist" Spoon. "Assist" meaning in this case telling Spoon what to do.

It only took like a gazillion games, but I finally got 2 SSP. Huzzah. The troll slays the trollslayer.

:D

The troll is strong with this one

Coach's prep talk before da next match
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Now lissen up boyz

We are half way bewween da leeg season and I haf some notes of yourr per-for-man-ce
Dem notes sayz dat dis orc team plays betta when it plays like dem sissies elves
Look at youselves, dem best playas iz blitza boyz und da thrower. Dem Black Orcz haf had horribla problemz at improving. Dem troll we not discuss.

Da most decorated playa is da throwa. So bevore next game, da HLPBowlers vill train extra dodge exercizes and dis-en-gage-ment from da contact.
Da throwa must practiz throwin', not only picking, und dem blitzers must practiz catching.
You understand orcz? We are nut gunna hit the oppo-sit-shun playas or hurt dem, but we avoid battle.

It goez against da Orc instinct, but it iz da only way, and I sees dat as da best thing I can do for da team. We beat the oppositshun in da runnin' game and out-smart-ing dem.
You hear me orcz? Good get your azzes on da field and start da run!

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Post by: Mika on May 14, 2016, 07:03:09 am

Allllllright, you know what time it is now, don't you? MATCH TIME!

HLPBowlers vs Heavy Brawlers (humans), Game 11, Post #1

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HLPBowlers vs Heavy Brawlers (Humans), Game 11, Post #2

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Post by: Mammothtank on May 14, 2016, 07:56:38 am

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Goddammit Mammoth!

I do what I want. :p

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HLPBowlers vs Heavy Brawlers (Humans), Game 11, Post #7, Finale

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As the league has progressed to half way point, the league statistics are also here:
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Next time we go against the high elves once again.

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Coaches talk after the game:

Now wat is diz orcz? Stop grinnin', you injured da other team when I asked you da run. That'z not how you obey da coach! You'll get it eazy dis time since we won da game!

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Post by: Spoon on May 14, 2016, 10:23:26 pm

For all my amazing stupidity and general uselessness. I do have it out for their star players. I've taken out 3 of them so far? Clearly there can be only one star on the field!
Mammothtank's pilling on is definitely the best skill we've got on the team so far :lol:

Is my beautiful troll face now 1 spp away from a level up?

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Post by: Mika on May 15, 2016, 06:41:09 am

You are two SPPs away from leveling, so that's one injury.

Technically you are not a Star Player yet, by the game's definition, that would mean you should have +176 SPPs. You currently have 4, so there's a gap. However, you do have a thing with the other teams' Big Guys and Star Players, apparently you just don't like them.

The reason Mammoth the Murdermachine rocks now is the combo of both Mighty Blow and Piling On. Mighty Blow adds one for the armor or injury roll, while Piling On allows re-rolling the injury.
Basically with the current teams, only Chaos is bashier than Orcs (but it's a lot scarier), with their all players having an easy access to Claw, Mighty Blow and Piling On. Making a CPOMBer a concept. Claw reduces the player's armor to 7, regardless what it was before. :shaking: So your AV 10 Deathroller or Treeman is crushed as easily as the Skaven lino, as are AV 9 Orcs. Claw doesn't have any effect on Woodelves or Skaven, though, as their AV is already 7. The balancing thing is that Chaos struggles a lot in the beginning with players having no skills to begin with.

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Post by: Mika on May 21, 2016, 07:50:56 am

Why watch the hockey championship games when you could be playing Blood bowl?

For this game, I have a special request for the viewers. Find your favorite bottle of strong liquor, and take a shot every time somebody rolls a skull.

HLPBowlers vs Bright Princes (High Elves), Game 12, Post #1, Now with a drinking game! Take a shot every time somebody rolls skulls!

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Post by: Mika on May 21, 2016, 08:28:09 am

HLPBowlers vs Bright Princes (High Elves), Game 12, Post #2.

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Post by: Mika on May 21, 2016, 08:50:14 am

HLPBowlers vs Bright Princes (High Elves), Game 12, Post #3

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Post by: Mika on May 21, 2016, 09:59:54 am

HLPBowlers vs Bright Princes (High Elves), Game 12, Post #4, Start of second half

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Post by: Mika on May 21, 2016, 10:45:44 am

HLPBowlers vs Bright Princes (High Elves), Game 12, Post #5

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Post by: Mika on May 21, 2016, 11:07:28 am

HLPBowlers vs Bright Princes (High Elves), Game 12, Post #6, Finale

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Post by: Mika on May 22, 2016, 03:06:00 pm

Today's match will be against the dark elves. AKA the Emos. (It's not that dark elves aren't good, they are actually among the best teams in the game, it's just that the art style reminds me more of emos than anyone actually evil or intimidating)

HLPBowlers vs Evil Talons (Dark Elves), Game 13, Post #1

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Post by: Mika on May 23, 2016, 11:57:40 am

HLPBowlers vs Evil Talons (Dark Elves), Game 13, Post #2

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Post by: Mika on May 29, 2016, 02:59:37 pm

HLPBowlers vs Evil Talons (Dark Elves), Game 13, Post #3, Start of second half

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Post by: Mika on May 29, 2016, 03:40:37 pm

HLPBowlers vs Evil Talons (Dark Elves), Game 13, Post #4, Finale

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And our next match will be....

Oh no

...against Chaos

Dun dun duuuuun (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Kyi0WNg40)
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It was nice to know you guys!

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Post by: Spoon on May 31, 2016, 01:28:34 pm

That's a lot of knocked out dork elves, dayum

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Post by: Mika on May 31, 2016, 02:13:52 pm

HLPBowlers vs Crawling Scorers (Chaos), Game 14, Interlude

Here we go, here we go

Alright, so what does Chaos team have?

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This is a Beastman, who is the mainstay of Chaos players. Due to easy access to mutations, the Chaos players can be developed on a way no other team can, providing massive flexibility, or just outright murder. Note that this individual has Claw. Anyone with this skill is an instant block, and if possible, a foul. These players have to go from the pitch if are to survive this game. Beastmen come with Horns, which adds +1 strength to their blitz. A single beastman can then always blitz STR 3 players such as our throwers and blitzers.

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This is a Chaos Warrior. He is mostly equivalent to our Black Boyz, but more agile and has access to mutations. So Mighty Blow + Claw + Piling On, often shortened CPOMB is a possibility from Chaos. Thus they are likely going to out do our Black Orcs, but luckily this team is less developed and lacks Block. The Chaos Warriors are probably the coolest dudes in the game, and tend to live long.

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This is the Chaos Minotaur. He is a very scary Big Guy, but his negatrait is Wild Animal, meaning that any other action than blocking or blitzing has a 50 % possibility of failing. He does retain his tackle zones though, so this is better than our trolls. The mino comes with Frenzy and Horns, making him able to two die alone pretty much anything in the game as long as he is blitzing. That pretty much anything does include Spoon if you were wondering. Mino just looks mean when he blocks someone!

As the commentator Jim Johnson so eloquently puts it in the game, Chaos hits hard. Really hard.

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Post by: Mika on May 31, 2016, 03:29:08 pm

HLPBowlers vs Crawling Scorers (Chaos), Game 14, Post #1 (GULP!)

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Post by: Spoon on May 31, 2016, 04:17:07 pm

Farewell Tukost , we hardly knew ye

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Post by: Scotty on May 31, 2016, 10:34:16 pm

**** yeah, SPPs from something other than killing elves.

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Post by: Mika on June 04, 2016, 08:20:57 am

Quote from: Spoon on May 31, 2016, 04:17:07 pm

Farewell Tukost , we hardly knew ye

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Quote from: Scotty on May 31, 2016, 10:34:16 pm

**** yeah, SPPs from something other than killing elves.

Snap out of it orc!

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HLPBowlers vs Crawling Scorers (Chaos), Game 14, Part #2, IMAGE LINKS FIXED

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Post by: Mika on June 11, 2016, 09:05:16 am

Sorry about the cliffhanger; this week has been horrible on what it comes to Let's Playing. I did rack up some sleep deprivation during the week, and could not summon the mental energy to write the second half. Thanks for your understanding.

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HLPBowlers vs Crawling Scorers (Chaos), Game 14, Part #3, Start of second half, IMAGE LINKS FIXED

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Post by: Mika on June 11, 2016, 09:42:22 am

HLPBowlers vs Crawling Scorers (Chaos), Game 14, Part #4, Finale, IMAGE LINKS FIXED

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Post by: Spoon on June 11, 2016, 01:07:39 pm

If you dont think that me standing there, scratching my ass and head for half of the game, doesn't somehow make me the most valuable player on the team, then there is clearly something wrong with you.

What do the guard and grab skills do exactly?

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on June 11, 2016, 03:03:22 pm

Quote from: Spoon on June 11, 2016, 01:07:39 pm

If you dont think that me standing there, scratching my ass and head for half of the game, doesn't somehow make me the most valuable player on the team, then there is clearly something wrong with you.

The mental image of that :lol: :lol: :lol:

Guard means your assists cannot be cancelled by other players. If you are standing next to someone, you are going to provide +1 STR to blocks regardless. It is quite valuable for LoS players.

Grab allows to re-position the blocked player. Quite handy skill, but not my first pick usually. For trolls I'd go with Stand Firm after Guard. Since I would not blitz with Trolls, Juggernaut (both down is treated as a push when blitzed) is not as useful.

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Post by: Spoon on June 12, 2016, 08:47:40 am

Gotcha
I was hoping Grab be something like grabbing an opponent the same way a troll can grab a goblin :drevil: alas
Well, now at least I can do something just by standing there, adding to my MVP value :p

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Post by: Mika on June 18, 2016, 02:20:44 pm

HLPBowlers vs Bronze Breakers (Dwarves), Game 15, Post #1, IMAGE LINKS FIXED

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Post by: Mika on June 18, 2016, 03:01:54 pm

HLPBowlers vs Bronze Breakers (Dwarves), Game 15, Post #2, IMAGE LINKS FIXED. Episode: How to roll skulls

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Post by: Mika on June 22, 2016, 04:30:41 pm

HLPBowlers vs Bronze Breakers (Dwarves), Game 15, Post #3, Start of second half, IMAGE LINKS FIXED

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Post by: Mika on June 22, 2016, 04:53:21 pm

HLPBowlers vs Bronze Breakers (Dwarves), Game 15, Post #4, Finale, IMAGE LINKS FIXED

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Post by: swashmebuckle on June 23, 2016, 02:09:17 am

I'm da real MVP.

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Post by: Mika on June 25, 2016, 06:11:51 pm

HLPBowlers vs Copper Hammers (Dwarves), Game 16, Post #1, IMAGE LINKS FIXED

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Post by: Mika on June 25, 2016, 06:53:45 pm

HLPBowlers vs Copper Hammers (Dwarves), Game 16, Post #2, IMAGE LINKS FIXED

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Post by: Spoon on June 26, 2016, 09:36:50 am

Uhm mister farseer, can u do perdi- preda-... can u see wot for dinner tonight? Coach promised goblin snacks but he never gief.

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Post by: Mika on June 26, 2016, 12:29:55 pm

HLPBowlers vs Copper Hammers (Dwarves), Game 16, Post #3, Where good trolls go to die - IMAGE LINKS FIXED

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Post by: Spoon on June 26, 2016, 12:44:20 pm

x_X

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Post by: Mika on June 26, 2016, 06:59:10 pm

HLPBowlers vs Copper Hammers (Dwarves), Game 16, Part #4 - Where Apothecary is not your friend - IMAGE LINKS FIXED

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Post by: Spoon on June 26, 2016, 07:45:14 pm

I'm so bad at this game, I can't even regenerate my skull properly like other trolls can. I can't even die properly

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Post by: Mika on August 28, 2016, 04:19:02 pm

Alright. I've been on summer vacation, and continued to a conference in Germany, got bit by a tick on early August, and then I got an issue related to my wisdom tooth. They usually say those should pop up around 25, but apparently my body age is younger than I am. Because of working with a laptop which I usually don't do, I developed some symptoms for the tension neck. I have to say that getting both of them at the time of the tick bite tends to ring off a couple of your alarm bells. A couple of them too many.

All in all, what I'm trying to say, I didn't feel playing or expanding this thread was such a good idea under those conditions.

However, I'm bringing the HLPBowlers back to the game and plan to finish the tournament on September. I'm also switching back to normal displays. I'll post the end of this game perhaps tomorrow or on Tuesday, and then we have the last four games, one of them likely on the next weekend. It is already certain that HLPBowlers will be in the top three teams.

Meanwhile, if you have been following, Blood Bowl 2 has received a couple of extra teams. One of them being Norse (yay!) and the other is the Undead.

And yes Spoon, that's the way it goes with the troll. He really can't even properly die as you only lost your armor value. It makes you less resilient than the normal Orcs. Armor value 8 isn't bad, but it isn't that great either. Expect more injuries in the future, but there's only four more games. You'll be attending only three of them if everything works out for you, as an injury this serious will ground you for a game.

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Post by: Mika on August 29, 2016, 04:53:37 pm

OK, I noted that the last match image links have somehow became broken at least on my computer. However, they are the only ones that have been broken, and the images on earlier pages are still accessible. Don't know what happened with ImgSafe here.

Anyways, as today's time was spent chasing on the possible broken links on earlier pages, the update and the conclusion of the match will happen tomorrow.

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Post by: Mika on August 30, 2016, 01:57:51 pm

Let's DO THIS!

HLPBowlers vs Copper Hammers (Dwarves), Game 16, Post #5, Finale

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Post by: Mika on September 03, 2016, 03:37:30 pm

HLPBowlers vs. Gashed Jaws (orc), Game 17, First quarter (up to turn 4)

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Post by: Mika on September 03, 2016, 04:52:25 pm

HLPBowlers vs. Gashed Jaw (orcs), Game 17, 2nd quarter. (Up to turn 8)

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Post by: Scourge of Ages on September 03, 2016, 06:25:56 pm

Yus! Crush da dirty orcz! Er, da other, dirtier orcz!

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Post by: Mika on September 05, 2016, 04:19:08 pm

HLPBowlers vs Gashed Jaw (orcs), Game 17, third quarter (up to turn 12).

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Post by: Mika on September 06, 2016, 03:35:22 pm

HLPBowlers vs Gashed Jaw (orcs), Game 17, final quarter.

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Post by: swashmebuckle on September 07, 2016, 05:49:56 am

That's what happens when you try to play floopsy dodgy elf moves in a game against fellow orcs. It might have looked like I fell down, but rest assured I felt the mighty hand of Gork rightly smacking me in that horrible moment. I want it noted that I played this game under protest for being asked to perform such unorcish actions. I mean uh...we is green and mean and uh...make a Gorkamorka great again?

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Post by: Mika on September 08, 2016, 12:47:54 pm

Quote from: swashmebuckle on September 07, 2016, 05:49:56 am

That's what happens when you try to play floopsy dodgy elf moves in a game against fellow orcs. It might have looked like I fell down, but rest assured I felt the mighty hand of Gork rightly smacking me in that horrible moment. I want it noted that I played this game under protest for being asked to perform such unorcish actions. I mean uh...we is green and mean and uh...make a Gorkamorka great again?

(https://s22.postimg.org/wbjtqq00h/Blood_Bowl2_DX_32_2016_06_12_12_36_34_78_960x540.jpg)

If me knew no better, me says that Gork hand was da oppositshun Black Orc. Not hiz hand, but his feet.

But it iz o-kay, you has da weakest armor

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Post by: swashmebuckle on September 09, 2016, 01:19:46 am

Quote from: Mika on September 08, 2016, 12:47:54 pm

Not hiz hand, but his feet.

Da Krunch!

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Post by: Mika on September 09, 2016, 01:55:45 pm

HLP Bowlers vs Raging Smasher (humies), Game 18, first quarter (up to turn 4)

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Post by: Mika on September 09, 2016, 02:37:01 pm

HLPBowlers vs Raging Smashers (humie), Game 18, second quarter (up to turn 8).

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Post by: Spoon on September 09, 2016, 03:21:37 pm

Dying once has made me leaner, meaner and less stupid

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Post by: Scotty on September 09, 2016, 03:31:31 pm

Mike can I make the request that you make these posts somewhere off-site and the link them here? I'm trying to read the most recent post, but that many pictures (several posts' worth) is taking a stupidly long time to load.

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Post by: Scotty on September 09, 2016, 03:48:15 pm

Also like half of the pictures are broken so that ended up being a complete waste of time. :(

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Post by: Spoon on September 09, 2016, 05:40:05 pm

Putting posts in hidden tags might help too

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Post by: Mika on September 11, 2016, 03:02:35 pm

Alright, I've seen broken links related to one game, but I haven't seen that happen to other games. ImgSafe seems to be offline occasionally, and I had to switch to PostImage, which seems to be running under Yandex... There might be a regional control going on there, but it is not on the options available to me.

What it comes to means of reducing the image and reading overhead, rest assured, I've been thinking about how to do this easier and there definitely is a motivation to do that. I thought writing them with single screen shots could be the fastest way for the audience, but I may be mistaken here. It's just that even the movements occasionally matter in this game, and not showing them takes away from the tactical dimension. The only feasible way I can think of would be to directly stream the games to YouTube in the future, but even then you are looking at one hour watching session per game. Hidden tags could be another option, though, but clicking could become annoying too. Didn't think of that.

However, HLPBowlers have only four games (in reality, two) to be played until the 24 team round robin cup is over. If there's will be a Season 2, that might be the option to use there.

The current match will be concluded on Monday when I'm anyways on painkillers due to removal of a wisdom tooth (and only 10 years late, yay me).

Once the season is over, there will be some end season statistics, including the time spent from my part.

EDIT: Ah, I do see that the problem could be the load times with the images. I'll think we'll try the hidden tags tomorrow. Modifying the posts for that for the earlier 1-8 pages could take a while, but I think I'll do that at some point.

Please next time inform me faster about the problematic load times, I'd have wanted to hear that after the first couple of games.

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Post by: Scotty on September 11, 2016, 03:21:01 pm

There's also this handy thing (http://lpix.org/sslptest/) for hosting an LP-post off-site for individual post loading.

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Post by: Spoon on September 11, 2016, 03:23:47 pm

loading times aren't really much of an issue for me personally.

Also my suggest with hidden tags is to put the whole post into it, so you can expand the whole post, not individual images.

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Post by: Scotty on September 11, 2016, 03:29:10 pm

Loading times are a massively deal-breaking issue for me right now, since it took nearly five minutes for this page to stabilize enough to actually type my first response today.

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Post by: Mika on September 11, 2016, 03:48:05 pm

OK, as a quick remedy, I've now added Hidden tags to all games within the page 9. Let me know if it works.

Please don't venture to former pages as they'll load slowly, only page 9 has been dealt with Hidden tags.

I'll probably do this for the rest of the pages when I have time.

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Post by: Mika on September 12, 2016, 02:01:16 pm

HLPBowlers vs Raging Smashers (humie), Game 18, third quarter (up to turn 12).

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Post by: Mika on September 12, 2016, 02:58:48 pm

HLPBowlers vs Raging Smasher (humie), Game 18, Final quarter (up to turn 16 with outcome)

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Next we go against da elfies!

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Post by: Mika on September 12, 2016, 05:05:06 pm

Alright, I have added hidden tags to all matches played. You should have easier time in browsing through the games played with this modification.

Page 8 image links are indeed broken and not recoverable through ImgSafe. Luckily Blood Bowl 2 has a built in recorder that allows replaying the matches, hopefully allowing me to take new screen shots. However, I'd first like to get the rest of the matches out of the way before fixing those.

And whoa there's been a lot of writing in the exploits of HLPBowlers. Being divided over half a year, it hasn't felt like that much at any point, it's just that when you try to go through them in a single evening...

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Scotty on September 12, 2016, 05:23:28 pm

Hiding the posts made this whole thread instantly more readable, thank you.

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Post by: Mika on September 13, 2016, 03:51:22 pm

Hey, it's better that people can read the thread! Thanks for bringing that to my attention.

I've also repaired the image links in the game against Crawling Scorers on Page 8. Since there is two other games to fix, I might do that tomorrow.

EDIT: Links to the Bronze Breakers match are now repaired.

EDIT^2: Links to Copper Hammers match are now repaired. All matches played should now be accessible.

Given the strong painkillers I've had to use to endure the pain associated with the wisdom tooth removal, we will have to see whether I can post the elf game tomorrow.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on September 17, 2016, 03:19:42 pm

Blood Bowl II has been updated, and the team roster is more easy to follow. Everybody is visible, their skills and their player value is too! It's a welcome change! Additionally, the Necromantic team has been launched. So during the writing of this Let's Play, three more teams have been added to the game (Norse, Undead and Necromantic)

The current HLPBowlers roster looks like this:
(https://s16.postimg.org/cce1xlrfp/Blood_Bowl2_DX_32_2016_09_08_21_03_14_91_960x540.jpg)

Now you can boast your player value to everybody!

HLPBowlers vs Bright Silverleaves (High Elves), Game 19, First quarter (up to turn #4)

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Post by: Mika on September 17, 2016, 04:22:39 pm

HLPBowlers vs Bright Silverleaves (High Elves), Game 19, Second quarter (Turns 5-8)

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Post by: Spoon on September 17, 2016, 05:24:47 pm

Death really seemed to have cured my stupidity :p

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Post by: Mika on September 18, 2016, 09:04:52 am

Quote from: Spoon on September 17, 2016, 05:24:47 pm

Death really seemed to have cured my stupidity :p

You are now vulnerable, and that makes you more dangerous than ever.

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Post by: Mika on September 18, 2016, 09:57:34 am

HLPBowlers vs Bright Silverleaves (High Elves), Game 19, Third quarter (turns 9-12)

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Post by: Mika on September 18, 2016, 10:54:55 am

HLPBowlers vs Bright Silverleaves (High Elves), Game 19, Final quarter (Turns 13-16)

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Post by: Mika on September 18, 2016, 11:00:39 am

The HLPBowlers level ups are as follows:

Click here for Scourge's level up

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Click here for Swashmebuckle's level up!

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The HLPBowlers roster looks like this after the game
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Post by: Mika on September 19, 2016, 12:02:17 pm

The next match is against the ~~dark~~ dork elves

HLPBowlers vs Lighting Hearts (dark elves), Game 20, First quarter (turns 1-4)

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Post by: Mika on September 19, 2016, 01:05:24 pm

HLPBowlers vs Lighting Hearts (Dark Elves), Game 20, Second quarter (Turns 5-8)

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Post by: Scotty on September 19, 2016, 01:25:47 pm

Wooooo, getting **** done!

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Post by: Spoon on September 19, 2016, 04:03:23 pm

haha, not a lot left of the elf team :lol:

When a player gets injured by getting shoved off the field, does that still grant SSP to the one that pushed?

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Post by: Mika on September 20, 2016, 05:15:50 pm

Quote from: Spoon on September 19, 2016, 04:03:23 pm

haha, not a lot left of the elf team :lol:

When a player gets injured by getting shoved off the field, does that still grant SSP to the one that pushed?

No, SPPs are always granted to the person doing the injuring, which in this case would be the crowd. I bet the crowd is enjoying their hard earned SPPs in the booze tent next to the border that HLPBowlers set up for them (crowd surf injury rolls +1). That tent offering cheap bad tasting strong moonshine is of course only valid on our home turf.

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Post by: Mika on September 21, 2016, 01:01:53 pm

HLPBowlers vs Lighting Hearts (Dark Elves), Third quarter (turns 9-12)

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HLPBowlers vs Lighting Hearts (Dark Elves), Final Quarter (turns 13-16)

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Post by: Mika on September 21, 2016, 02:04:53 pm

Click here to see Black Dynamite's level up

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Click here to see Scotty's level up

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This is the current HLPBowlers roster
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Our most expensive players are Mammothtank and Swashmebuckle, with Scotty and Srihag trailing behind

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on September 23, 2016, 12:48:01 pm

Today we are mostly punching elves

HLPBowlers vs Vicious Hydras (Dark Elves), Game 21, First quarter (turns 1-4), In the name of turnovers...

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Post by: Mika on September 23, 2016, 01:36:55 pm

HLPBowlers vs Vicious Hydras (Dark Elves), Game 21, Second Quarter (Turns 5-8)

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Post by: Mika on September 23, 2016, 02:41:28 pm

HLPBowlers vs Vicious Hydras (Dark Elves), Game 21, Third quarter (Turns 9-12)

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Post by: Mika on September 23, 2016, 03:25:43 pm

HLPBowlers vs Vicious Hydras (Dark Elves), Game 21, Final Quarter (turns 13-16)

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This is the HLPBowlers roster after the match. Spoon and Trak level up! Congratulations!

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Post by: Mika on September 23, 2016, 03:34:48 pm

Click here to see Spoon's level up

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Click here for Blackbelt's level up

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Click here to see Trak's level up

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Remeber Rakclaw, our niggled line orc? I'm sorry to say this Rakclaw, but I'm going to have to let you go. Team, say farewell to Rakclaw. He won't be able to keep up with the rest of us with that injury of his.

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Our next match will be against dorfs. Relatively well developed dorfs with Mighty Blow and Guard it seems. This might become painful!
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Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Spoon on September 23, 2016, 03:44:43 pm

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Good boy Spoon!

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Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on September 25, 2016, 08:36:25 am

Today's match up is against the Black Anvils, a successful dorf team in the Top 5 of the tournament. This match has potential for catastrophical loss where several of our players are injured. But the Armor Value 9 is what we trust.

HLPBowlers vs Black Anvils (Dwarfs), Game 22, First Quarter (Turns 1-4)

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Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on September 25, 2016, 09:28:23 am

HLPBowlers vs Black Anvils (Dwarfs), Game 22, Turns (5-8), They roll over us!

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Phew, that was a difficult offence!

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on September 29, 2016, 02:16:46 pm

HLPBowlers vs Black Anvils (Dwarfs), Game 22, Turns (9-12)

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Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on September 29, 2016, 02:57:54 pm

HLPBowlers vs Black Anvils (Dwarfs), Game 22, Final Quarter (Turns 13-16)

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Click here for the match outcome

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HLPBowlers team roster looks like this after this match, with Mad Max and Moktrak levelling up
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Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on September 29, 2016, 03:11:24 pm

Click here for Mad Max's level up

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Click here for ~~Mok crak's~~ Moktrak's level up

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Moktrak who? Doesn't ring a bell :lol:

The next match will be the season finale. 23rd game is now a reality, and we go against the Poisoned Tadpoles

Tadpoles?

* Mika runs to the translator to check that he understood the word correctly *

Yeah, Tadpoles. Really

The T-rex there is a Kroxigor beast. It's a Big Guy like Spoon, but slightly less retarded, him being just boneheaded in comparison to really stupid
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Uhuh, this might be difficult. 6 sauruses and a Kroxigor, meaning 7 (!) buff players! With four players with Mighty Blow to boot with! They outstrength us from the beginning, and the Orcs do not get claw to punch through that armor of theirs!

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See the exiting season conclusion tomorrow!

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Scourge of Ages on September 29, 2016, 07:29:08 pm

Dey look mean, but we meaner!

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on September 30, 2016, 06:34:54 pm

HLPBowlers vs Poisoned Tadpoles (Lizardmen), Game 24, Season Finale, Turns 1-4

This is it boyz! Today we play for the championship! Everybody stay on your toes, we gotta do this, and we gunna do it good Orc style! Today we try to hunt down the opposition skinks, in the name of the great Orc strategist Zun Zun, we attack where the opposition is weakest! If we take out a number of their skinks, the saurus cannot play the ball. Yes they can still punch, but the team scoring more wins the game.

Everybody clear about that? Good! Let's go play some BLOOD BOWL!

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Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on September 30, 2016, 07:22:36 pm

HLPBowlers vs Poisoned Tadpoles (Lizardmen), Game 23, Season Finale, Turns 5-8

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Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on October 01, 2016, 07:02:55 am

HLPBowlers vs Poisoned Tadpoles (Lizardmen), Game 23, Season finale, Turns 9-12

Hope you boyz got refreshed in the changing rooms, you did good on the first half, but we still have to manage through the second half. It ain't gonna be easy.

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Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on October 01, 2016, 07:56:07 am

HLPBowlers vs Poisoned Tadpoles (Lizardmen), Game 24, Season Finale, Final Quarter (Turns 13-16)

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Click here for over the season team statistics

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Write up here if you'd like to see your player final statistics at the end of season.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on October 01, 2016, 08:15:41 am

Then some more real life statistics:

Averagely, one Blood Bowl game takes about one hour. Writing the match takes about four hours, one hour per quarter. So a single game took 5 hours in total, and given 23 games, this was an effort of 115 hours. However, I had to correct the broken links at some point so I think we are talking about 120+ hours adventure here.

I think 15 - 20 liters of Czech and German beer was consumed during the write ups.

The total run time of the season was roughly half a year, with a possibility of hastening it to five months had I remained healthy in August.

If we are to play a next season, I'd like to make it more role-playing oriented, and focus less on the movements on the pitch. Possible teams are the Norse (bashy but fragile warriors), and the High Elves in the truest Game of Thrones fashion (you never know who dies next). The Orcs as a role playing team isn't that good, as their motivations are single sided, and there's not really much what you could imagine would be the chit chat of the Orcs. However, High Elves and the Norse are probably better for this, especially the filthy rich arrogant better-than-thou SOBs known as the high elves. Blood Bowl game design would definitely provide sufficient number of unexpected twists to that tale. :lol:

Before the HLPBowlers, I haven't played an orc team, and it turned out to work well up to 1800-1900 team value, but as you could see from the last matches, the other teams started to catch up with bash, and if we were to continue with HLPBowlers to a second season, we would see more injuries, more blood and more dead orcs - which is not necessarily a bad thing. Specifically Chaos team will rip through our lines next time, and dorfs and lizards weren't too shabby either at the end.

Had the finale game lasted much longer, we would have been out-muscled from the pitch given they still had four sauruses, and we got two black orcs. Then again, Spoon started to be cool at the end with Stand Firm and Guard, missing only the essential Block skill. Our black orcs started to function only around the middle of the season with their block level ups, while the blitzers were at it from the beginning. The goblins turned out to be quite useless, and often blocked due to their STR 2, hence I had to get rid of them regardless of how much Spoon wanted to eat them.

If we are to play another season, now that the game's been introduced here, I'll also give some amount of control for you on how to develop your players.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Scourge of Ages on October 01, 2016, 04:37:11 pm

Great work, Mika! It's always impressive when an LP gets finished, because I know how much work they are to produce...

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: swashmebuckle on October 01, 2016, 05:20:17 pm

That was fun, thanks Mika!

If you do another season, I don't think we'd lose much entertainment value if you summarized the matches' overall movements with just the key plays being highlighted rather than illustrating almost every player move. Might reduce the workload for you.

Norse Norse Norse!

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on October 02, 2016, 12:56:59 pm

Here's the final statistics for your players.

Click here to see Spoon's statistics

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Swashmebuckle the reliable thrower who only got to throw... quite a little?
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With his block and dodge skills, Swashmebuckle became difficult to knock down much to the dismay of our opposition. With the Accurate skill, he improved the throwing game a little. We could have made a better use of his final skill Guard. However, after the experiences with the Orc team, the question to be asked is does the Orc team need a thrower to begin with? There's little passing game to talk about, as there are no good receivers unless one counts the blitzers.

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Swashmebuckle was awarded the Most Valuable Player three times during this season. He also played in all of our matches. During the course of the season, Swashmebuckle passed the ball two times, but skill scored 12 touchdowns, roughly 33 % of the total amount of touchdowns. His favorite tactic thus far was to pick up the ball with the aid of Sure Hands, and get in the middle of the cage, to be escorted by the more buff Black Orcs to the end line, and then take a short spurt to the actual touchdown.

He made a total of 28 blocks during the season, of which 7 got to injury rolls, and caused a single injury. He managed to crowdsurf two players, and passed the ball a grand total of 12 yards.

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In return, Swashmebuckle was blocked 30 times, of which 8 got to injury roll stage. However, Swashmebuckle was never actually injured, only knocked out once, the rest of the times stunned.
Given his Armor Value 8, the probability of breaking it is 10/36, leading to 8 expected injury rolls. The statistics match this. Once his armor is broken, the probability of rolling an actual injury is 25 %. So it can be said that Swashmebuckle was lucky, flunking out twice of an injury roll. The combined probability that he receives no injury of those 8 rolls is a mere 10 %, so it's quite likely that the following couple of blocks would have injured him, leading to a visit in Apothecary.

Given his tendency of staying behind the wall of muscle and the actual dodge skill, Swashmebuckle's life expectancy in the Blood Bowl pitch could have been long, but then again, lucky blitzes are known to happen. Additionally, his lucky streak of getting no casualities in the injury rolls might have ended shortly.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on October 02, 2016, 01:25:50 pm

Click here to see Scourge's statistics

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Scourge of Ages, the ever reliant Black Orc who refused to be injured, and refused to budge when we most needed him. He gained Block and Mighty Blow skills during the season. Given the general agility of the Black Orcs, they are difficult to score with. Feeding touchdowns to the black orcs is difficult, but not insurmountable if there is a re-roll. With agility 2, the pick up probability is 50 %, and with a re-roll this increases to 75 %. Thus Black Orcs could be given the ball if the risk is low. Most of the time it wasn't. If I were to play Orcs again, I'd likely try to give Black Orcs more touchdowns to get them to Mighty Blow faster, as they mainly skill up from the injuries.

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Scourge got the Most Valuable Player award twice, and played all 23 matches. He even scored a single touch down, and caused two actual injuries throughout the season. He committed a total of 148(!) blocks, of which 25 went to the injury roll stage, and 5 of those were knock outs, and 2 were injuries. He crowd surfed 6 players in total. This makes him probably the most clean game Black Orc we have given the small number of injuries committed. Scourge was likely facing more tough opponents in the Line of Scrimmage duty, and those opponents were averagely better armored.

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Scourge sustained 1 casualty, which I think was Badly Hurt, not causing him to miss a game. In total, he got blocked 82 times, and 6 of those got to injury rolls. He got KO'd twice, so he got stunned thrice. Assuming he got block skill early, out of those 82 blocks, roughly 55,6 % (Defender Stumbles and Clear POW) could have broken his armor (assuming two die block). That means 46 armor rolls, and of which 1/6 would get to injury roll stage. Averagely, Scourge should have seen 7,6 injury rolls, but actually saw 6. This is not a big departure from the norm given the statistical point of view and low number of armor rolls, and that not all blocks against him were two die blocks.

During the season, Scourge was often instrumental in tying the opposition players on their positions. Given that he is a Black Orc, that tended to get the opposition interested. He even got once surrounded by four skinks and a saurus, and lived to tell the tale!

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on October 02, 2016, 01:53:52 pm

Click here to see Scotty's statistics

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Click here to see Mammothtank's statistics

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Mammothtank, the HLPBowlers finest blitzer, striking fear in the hearts of our enemies. Mammothtank played the left flank, getting supported by Mad Max, and as with right flank, both Mammothtank and Mad Max blitzed the opposition depending on the need. Mammothtank was our first blitzer to reach the actual player killer status, and he managed to hog sufficient SPPs in the beginning to pull the team through the tough early games. He even gained extra speed to add up his mobility.

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Mammothtank was awarded the Most Valuable Player award two times over the season. He also played in all of our games. He managed to get four touchdowns over the season, netting him 12 SPPs directly from there. He blocked a total of 157 times, pushes and both down included. He injured a total of 18(!) players over the season, slightly less than one / match. He knocked out 18 players, and crowdsurfed 5. He killed a total of three players. His abnormally high number of injury rolls is related to acquiring the skill of Piling On early, this re-rolls an armor break roll or an injury roll if the opposition got knocked down.

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Mammothtank was never injured in the matches. He received a total of 62 blocks, of which 6 broke his armor, and 2 of those knocked him out, the rest being stuns. Assuming two die blocks against him with block, the probability of knocking him down is 55.6 %. Thus 34 of those blocks went to the armor roll. Of those 34 blocks, roughly 6 would have caused an injury roll, and this we observe. One in four of those injury rolls should cause an injury, but Mammothtank got lucky there, but this departure is not significant.

Given his extra mobility and superior armor, Mammothtank would remain the terror of elves and rats for years to come. His skill set could be improved with Guard, Stand Firm and Jump Up to make him even more strong. However, the best that could happen to him is a strength boost. Averagely, Mammoth thus removed about two players per game, one of them being knocked out, and one of them being injured.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Mika on October 02, 2016, 02:17:42 pm

Thanks for the support!

I actually had quite a bit of fun on illustrating the things happening on the pitch, but as time passed on I noted that it was hard to get to the actual motivation of the orcs to add that personal level of things. That could have made this run even more awesome to write about.

What it comes to possible season two, the race introductions for high elves and the norse are as follows:

High elves

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High Elf teams have some of the most arrogant players in the Blood Bowl leagues, but they can afford to be haughty. Rich beyond the wildest dreams of most other teams, generously scattered amongst their numbers are the likes of princes, lords and other noble born Elves. And what they can’t beat, they buy!

They have no big guy, and none of the high elves is particularly good in the beginning. Their stats, though, are quite good. High elves excel at throwing game, which is unusual in the blood bowl pitch.

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The average Norseman is a homicidal maniac at the best of times - such is their fondness for battle and the stomach-stripping beer of their homeland. It’s no wonder then that when the snows descend upon Norsca and hostilities cease for winter, that the Blood Bowl leagues find their numbers swelled by the marauding north men intent on a bit of mayhem and destruction elsewhere.

The Norse do have a big guy who is considerably better than Troll, and they have strong positional players like the werewolves (yes, we grow a lot of hair here in the North :lol: ) and blitzers.

Title: Re: Let's play Blood Bowl 2
Post by: Scotty on October 02, 2016, 02:43:53 pm

I put my vote in for continuing with the players we have now. The Orcs are the caricaturized epitome of all things football, and that is both Cool and Good.

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