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Leperflesh posted:There's dozens of goons in the Giant Goon League, of all skill levels from rank beginner to seasoned veterans of a thousand games. Get on IRC, go to #tgbloodbowl on synirc.net, get games with goons, have fun. It is the right thing to do regardless of your experience with Bloodbowl. I'm biased I guess because every time I play Khemri, the most skilled mummy I have always dies from a random failed block.
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deathbagel posted:I'm biased I guess because every time I play Khemri, the most skilled mummy I have always dies from a random failed block. This, but Tomb Guardians.
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Mar 2, 2013 00:40
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Tomb Guardians are Khemri mummies aren't they?
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deathbagel posted:I'm biased I guess because every time I play Khemri, the most skilled mummy I have always dies from a random failed block. That does happen, yes. All things are dust. Give your tomb guardians skills that will make them better at being tomb guardians, and accept that nothing lasts forever (you're playing blood bowl, this is the game). I mean go ahead and take +AV if it makes you feel better... but we're discussing optimization strategies here, and mathematically it's not an optimal choice.
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Cowcaster posted:Tomb Guardians are Khemri mummies aren't they? Yes, they are. They used to be normal mummies, but for some reason GW thought they needed to be given decay and an extra point of move...
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The thing you'll realize about Bloodbowl is that all players, regarldess of AV and whatever skills they have, will die. Nobody lives forever in this game. Taking AV doesn't help a player that much so you might as well ignore it and pick stuff that is actually fun.
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deathbagel posted:Yes, they are. They used to be normal mummies, but for some reason GW thought they needed to be given decay and an extra point of move...
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LRB4 mummies had G access as well! So yeah someone thought it was ok to have 4 strength 5 block mb guys backed up by a huge stack of 30k fouling assist machines on the same team.
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In fairness, given Khemri don't really have any other options other than slow bashing taking away G access and MB was probably a little harsh.
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RabidWeasel posted:LRB4 mummies had G access as well! So yeah someone thought it was ok to have 4 strength 5 block mb guys backed up by a huge stack of 30k fouling assist machines on the same team. Fouling was much more brutal in LRB4 as well, so khemri was just hosed up. Forums Terrorist posted:In fairness, given Khemri don't really have any other options other than slow bashing taking away G access and MB was probably a little harsh. Yeah the khemri nerf was way to harsh, they went from a really op team to only being slightly better than the joke teams. ZigZag fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Mar 2, 2013 |
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My goblin team just fought a dwarf coach who had just started playing recently because of that TGS thing. He quit on turn 4 after I knocked the ball loose with my bombadier and was going to touchdown. He told me he was quitting and was polite about it, but he quit before I could even explain that he'd be forfeiting his MVP and all that other stuff. Edit: Cyanide just put me in a 40 second timer match on a team that, like all my teams, is set to never go in 40 second timer matches. And making rushed decisions I naturally get the only player I care about on my team killed. LibbyM fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Mar 3, 2013 |
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LibbyM posted:Edit: Cyanide just put me in a 40 second timer match on a team that, like all my teams, is set to never go in 40 second timer matches. Cyanide really really likes to reset your turn counter preferences. So my advice is to always make sure after each match/matchmaking session that you reset to 4 minutes. Or just play goons in GGL
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GNU Order posted:Cyanide really really likes to reset your turn counter preferences. So my advice is to always make sure after each match/matchmaking session that you reset to 4 minutes. Or just play goons in GGL Yep, the game did reset my timer preferences as it turns out. I've also just had a best of 3 series with some random guy through naggaroth matchmaking because we're the only ones playing right now.
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Teams can freely join/leave a league inbetween the prior season and the next season right? EDIT: Cup Leagues to be exact.
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So apparently Agent355's been running a new Bloodbowl LP for quite a while now. Nobody told me!
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I am just dropping in to remind you all that Nuffle is a fickle and angry God, and that he hates all of us equally, but especially equally does he hate Dwarves.   And be careful because I have no idea why but it seems like how big these things are varies depending on when you open them because I think I did something stupid and or dumb. So basically par for the course.
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That's what you get for trying to grind a chorf team to throw against agent's rats.
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Forums Terrorist posted:That's what you get for trying to grind a chorf team to throw against agent's rats. It's not 'grinding'. I'm playing real serious games with people. It just also happens to be the team that I want to use to kill all of Agent's dudes.
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I really need to discern what's worth a reroll and what isn't. That and understanding how to set up tackle zones that limit my opponent's options...
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Is it vital to THE PLAN? Use a reroll. Otherwise, don't. Unless it's the last turn of a half and you have one left and it would be cool. Or you just really want to see if that snotling can surf a minotaur.
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goatface posted:Is it vital to THE PLAN? Use a reroll. Otherwise, don't. It's a little more complicated than that. If you're short on rerolls you have to evaluate how much time is left in the half and how much you really need it. Say it's turn 3 in the first half and you have 4 rerolls left. After doing some blocking you have the opportunity to blitz the ballcarrier in their own territory and get the ball loose, although you're not in position to anything with it this turn. DOUBLE SKULLS! Rerolling this one is a no-brainer. Now take the same situation, except you're on your last reroll. It would be really sweet to take out the ballcarrier, but let's face it--it's not going to mean you get a touchdown even if you do, and the opponent is in no immediate danger of scoring even if you don't (unless they're skaven or something.) There's 5 turns left in the half, there's an excellent chance that you'll need that reroll for a more important roll later; save it for when it counts.
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New patch today, match making is finally fixed and so is league schedules  gonna get undead back as the nr 1 ranked team in auld
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Cyanide is also making a multi-platform free-to-play Blood Bowl team management game I guess? http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/05/and-also-blood-to-bowl-manager-revealed/
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Steve Holt! posted:Cyanide is also making a multi-platform free-to-play Blood Bowl team management game I guess? We were talking about this in the IRC earlier and I can't wait to see how they gently caress it up.
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Is that just going to be the Blood Bowl Team Manager game by Fantasy Flight but on computers/adroid/iOS/whatever else they mean by multiplatform? It's the same 6 races so I think it could be. Also good on Cyanide for using the wrong team logos for Dwarfs and Skaven. Classic Cyanide. Also IIRC that game uses artwork from the Cyanide games so there is probably some existing business relationship between the two somehow. e: p sure the chaos logo is wrong too, it seems like the ogre logo. Circle Nine fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Mar 6, 2013 |
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Are they adapting the card game that is on Fantasy Flight's webpage? Anyone know how good it is? Cyanide will probably turn it into horrible freemium bullshit either way (Dungeonbowl for example seems to ahve a billion DLC on top of its not being good-ness), but maybe they have something good to start from.
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Team Manager (the card game) is pretty well-received in the board game community from what I can tell, even among players who have never heard of BB before.
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Nothing in the releases so far suggests this is the very, very good BloodBowl Team Manager game which FFG makes.
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I started a tabletop league of Blood Bowl at my FNGS, and despite the inherent flaky nature of gamers, it's going fairly well. I'm currently leading the table with my Halfling team, which has prompted some owners to remark that "It's really not worth winning" and raising your team value. While I know how WRONG that statement is, with our league's small sample size and many lurkers, it appears to be true; in part because I've played 100's of games to everyone else's 10 or less. With this in mind, a couple of questions for people who might have tried the in-person route before: a) How do you keep people interested in what can be a very unforgiving game? (i.e. My Halflings were essentially the last straw to a neophyte Lizardman squad who lost a Skink and Saurus against us. I told him to start over, keeping his 0-3 record. but his enthusiasm has dimmed) b) What kind of in-game prizes should you reward to people who stuck it out, and played the season/playoffs? I'm thinking cash for their treasuries, but I could also run things Chaos Cup style, and give out mutations...
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NutShellBill posted:I started a tabletop league of Blood Bowl at my FNGS, and despite the inherent flaky nature of gamers, it's going fairly well. I'm currently leading the table with my Halfling team, which has prompted some owners to remark that "It's really not worth winning" and raising your team value. Helmets with +1 av, some boots with sprint built into them, (rather than free skills/mkutations) that sort of thing work really well as prizes. If they have the actual boardgame, then nicely printed and laminated endzone strips are awesome, and we gave one player a new board hand-painted with paint and sand, very nice. Funso Banjo fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Mar 6, 2013 |
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The Orange Mage posted:Team Manager (the card game) is pretty well-received in the board game community from what I can tell, even among players who have never heard of BB before. It's a fun game and it's a loving crime they've still not expanded on the six starting races.
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Rutkowski posted:It's a fun game and it's a loving crime they've still not expanded on the six starting races. Actually the first expansion is set to release very very soon from what BoardGameGeek tells me, and will include Undead, Vamps, and Dark Elves.
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The Sudden Death expansion added 3 new races according to its description, but it doesn't say which ones. e: It's Undead, Dark Elves, and Vampires, according to a review of it.
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NutShellBill posted:I started a tabletop league of Blood Bowl at my FNGS, and despite the inherent flaky nature of gamers, it's going fairly well. I'm currently leading the table with my Halfling team, which has prompted some owners to remark that "It's really not worth winning" and raising your team value. I suggest that, first, you shouldn't play a team whose primary method of winning games is fouling the poo poo out of the opposing team until they're so crippled you can actually manage to score plus stealing all their rerolls (which is especially crippling to a newbie player); and, second, as a much more experienced player, you should consider handicapping yourself significantly. I'd say play an elfy team so you can still win but not through fouling/murder, if you really want to win. Otherwise play one of the substandard jokey teams; maybe vampires? There's lots of ways you can handicap yourself.
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Funso Banjo posted:Nothing in the releases so far suggests this is the very, very good BloodBowl Team Manager game which FFG makes. Over/under on it just being a frontend for whatever sim Cyanide BB uses for AI vs. AI matches?
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The Orange Mage posted:Actually the first expansion is set to release very very soon from what BoardGameGeek tells me, and will include Undead, Vamps, and Dark Elves. But nice that they're finally expanding the game.
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Having trouble getting your block for your big guy? Pay $10 to get a FREE doubles upgrade for any player! Comes with free cheerleader DLC outfit! This game is going to be amazing, I can just tell 
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Tagichatn posted:Having trouble getting your block for your big guy? Pay $10 to get a FREE doubles upgrade for any player! Comes with free cheerleader DLC outfit! This game is going to be amazing, I can just tell Is this a joke or has cyanide actually said they are going to do poo poo like this for BB2?
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Internet Kraken posted:Is this a joke or has cyanide actually said they are going to do poo poo like this for BB2? I think he's talking about the team manager game which is FTP so there is most likely going to be some sort of pay-for-advantage system. I can't see a huge market for cosmetic upgrades for a fake blood bowl team. Steve Holt! fucked around with this message at 07:27 on Mar 7, 2013 |
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