Monday night Bloodbowl

Monday night is bloodbowl night. Has been for a few years now mostly due to this being the night the league all meets up to play.

For this season, I decided having too much time on my hands is clearly a problem, so I have opted to run two teams. We have my ever experienced but frequent losing team; The pocket Monsters (Necromantic) , and my brand new rage filled First Khornetact.

And from the image above you can see there’s a lot of Necromantic this season. Fortunately it’s all spread over 3 divisions, so not too much repetition of teams.

Pocket monsters was a team I’ve had through a couple of leagues. The name stems from a reach at some kind of pun to do with american football. It’s a real reach but it works enough!

The star of the team though, is my werewolf The black shuck. Named after a local legend from a town not faroff my hometown, he’s managed to not only survive this long, but also hoard all the skills. He is now just a running target and I’m more than sure his days are numbered….

First Khornetact was basically me trying to find a team that might be my playstyle. Necromantic were a tough start in keague play as they are so tough to play until they get skills under there belt. Khorne have one play; smash. Frenzy everywhere reduces decisions. It seemed like a perfect idea. And honestly from the couple of games I have had with them, they’ve been great fun!

I must say one thing I have learned from the last season and this season of the league is that, recurring leagues with teams returning are huge amounts of fun. They create such an interesting challenge as, sure your team is experienced and has skills, but your opponent is too. And they’re never the same. It makes choosing your own skills a real decision.

And now on to the important stuff; Today’s game…

Necromantic Horros Vs Dwarves.

That’s a lot of guard.

So the game started out poorly, we rolled rain. Amazing for the dwarves who aren’t relying on their agility, but for a team that was certainly hoping to lean on it, it wasn’t great.

It was a surprisingly close game. The first half saw us both burn through our re rolls before our respective turn 3, and both having a number of turnovers. I got the ball to the dwarf touchdown line, then fumbled a rush. And that was the first half.

Second half saw a very study cage appear around the dwarves. It got super close and i even managed to put enough pressure on the ball carrier to force him not to stall any longer and go for an earlier touchdown. He needed to rush to get it though and….he did. Of course.

It was my turn 7 on the second half and I was 1-0 down. I had a shot at the touchdown with the werewolves if I could just get the ghoul to get the ball to werewolf and he run for it. Some rushes and it’s a given.

Kick off table roll and….Moles. Great, rain and moles. I think this game was favouring the dwarves!

When the pass was fumbled, it was game.

Congrats to the dwarves!

Until next time 🙂