Now it had been a while since I had last played any Blood Bowl
and after my disastrous season during this year’s Rygas Cup I wasn’t going into
the tournament particularly optimistic about my chances. For those of you who don’t know during this year’s
Rygas Cup season I had lost all but one of my games and the one I didn’t lose ended
up as a draw. My dice rolls had not been
with me and over the whole of the season I had only scored 1 touchdown and
caused a handful of injuries. It was not
a good year! Since then I had played no
further Blood Bowl games, this wasn’t by choice (although it is always good to
take a small break from a game) but more through necessity as shortly after the
Blood Bowl season had ended I was asked to take part in the 40K Crusade of Fire
campaign which meant more of my time was being focused towards getting my Blood
Angels army assembled and painted. I was
also keeping my hand in X-Wing as there were a few tournaments which I entered
and it’s also a popular game at the club.
When I was asked if I wanted to take part I only had a few
days to sort out my team. I decided to
use my Necromantic team the Death Stars as they are the team I am most familiar
with (In an ideal world I would have liked to have tried out my new Lizardmen
team but as it stands I don’t have any Skinks for them yet and also I haven’t actually
played any Blood Bowl games with them). With
a bit of consideration I choose my team and filled in my roster. However I would have no time to test them out
in a practice game.
On the day of the tournament I was a little apprehensive, This
was only the second Blood Bowl tournament I had entered and there were a lot of very experienced and
very seasoned coaches at this one.
Luckily there were also a lot of new tournament players as well, so we
ha d a good mixture of coaches. After
renewing my NAF membership (and getting a new free gift!) I was ready for my
first game.
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| My NAF membership free gift :) |
My first match was against Tom, who was a fellow club member
who would be using a Skaven team. This was good as it helped calm my nerves a
bit and it it was a very fun and well spirited game. The match ended 4-1 to Tom (Good work dude)
Match two was against a Human team (I can’t remember the name
of the coach) but it was his first tournament.
This turned out to be the most well balanced game I played during the
tournament which ended in a 1-1 draw. Again
it was well spirited and a lot of fun.
My third and final game was against Dane who was using a Slaan
team. I knew this game was going to be
fun as before we even started the he offered to share a bottle of Doombar with
me. I’d never played against Slaan
before so had no idea what they were like (turns out there pretty agile!). The match turned into a very even comedy of
errors for both of us. His thrower
constantly failed to pass anything and my Dauntless Flesh Golem failed to be
dauntless. The phrase “What the worse
that can happen?” came to be a hilarious premonition of things not going to
plan (For example I almost rolled 2 double skulls in a row!). The game ended 3-1 (or possibly 4-1) to Dane.
Again a
very fun and well spirited game.
I’m not sure where I placed
in the end (I’m guessing somewhere towards the bottom of the table) but I don’t
really care as the tournament was a lot of fun and it definitely re-energized
me into wanting to play some more Blood Bowl (and with the new version of the game
coming out from GW soon we have entered a whole new level of excitement!). Thanks to TD Pete for organising such a great
tournament (and for letting me enter in the zero hour).
Now to finish my Lizardmen team!
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| Coming soon to the 2017 Blood Bowl season! |
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