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 “If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.” ― Mark Twain What is Blood Bowl? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPwMntjyciM In Text Form: Blood Bowl is a Games Workshop game made back in 1995 as a Warhammer parody of American Football. It's gone through several rule changes but the spirit of the game remains the same. You play as a team of Warhammer characters in a turn-based football brawl against an opponent. After one team kicks the ball off at the start of the match, the receiving team takes control of the board. They can choose to move their players, punch opponents and/or pick up/pass/advance the ball. After their turn, the defense takes control and they can punch, move or attempt to get the ball for themselves. Whoever gets the ball into their end zone gets a point. Whoever has the most points, wins. This is Democracy Blood Bowl, though. What's going to happen is, as I play matches (against goons/y'all), my players will level up and get to pick skills. I'll post about levelups after matches happen, and you guys will vote on which skills to give my players. Build to win, build to have fun, or build to have both or neither, it's on you. Can I see the game in motion at least? Yeah sure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR3RRV6tKrg The two points of reference for this game are Football/Rugby and Turn Based Tabletop RPG Combat. There's not a ton of crossover between these two crowds, so you may be walking into this with experience in one, the other, or none, but probably not both. Alright, but what about <certain mechanic or gameplay question> Leading up to and through the first couple of matches, I am going to do a series of posts (and possibly videos) discussing the mechanics of the game. They're intended mostly for the people who are interested less in looking at giant lizards cave in the skulls of small halflings and more in how the game works in terms of numbers, stats, and dice rolls. So what are we doing here, now? Well now that we've chosen a team, Necromantic, I'm gonna start playing and doing commentary on matches with fellow goon and Blood Bowl dude, Seven Deadly Sins. After just about every match, there'll be some voting to do, either to spend some team earnings or to level up a player. So go watch some Blood Bowl and get voting! GNU Order fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Jun 1, 2014 |
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What is Blood Bowl? How to Bloodbowl   (fwiw, this is ~~~my first LP~~~ so the commentary in these first couple matches is kinda rough, sorry)    Post-Match Vote: What do we do with our money? - Save them for a Werewolf    Post-Match Vote: What skill (or stat increase) do we give MacGruff, the Werewolf? - +MA    Post-Match Votes: What skill should we give Beefslab, the Flolem? - Block What skill should we give Santos Von Hammerstein, the Ghoul? - Block What name should we give the new Werewolf? - Hungrylike What do we do with our money? - Second Ghoul    Post-Match Votes: What skill should we give Wight Power, the Wight? - Pass What do we name the new Ghoul - Ra's al What do we do with the newly niggled Pelvis Costello, Zombie? - Keep Him    Post-Match Votes: What skill do we give Dr. Wight, the Wight? - Mighty Blow What do we do with the newly -AV Flesh Prince, Flesh Golem? - Keep Him What do we do with our money? - Save for a new Wolf    Post-Match Votes:What do we name the new Werewolf? - Blitzer What skill do we give MacGruff, the +MA Werewolf? - Block What skill do we give Pelvis Costello, the skill-less, niggled Zombie? - Wrestle What do we do with our money? - Save it    Post-Match Votes: What skill do we give Santos Van Hammerstein, Ghoul? - Diving Catch What do we do with our cash earnings? - Save For Flolem    Post Match Votes: What skill (or statup) do we give Franken Castle, the zombie? - Kick What do we do with our cash earnings - Bought Flesh Gordon, Flesh Golem    Post Match Vote: What do we do with our cash earnings - Save    Post Match Votes: What skill do we give Flesh aaahaah Gordon (Flesh Golem, skill-less, GS access)? - Block What skill do we give MacGruff (Werewolf, +MA and Block, GA access)? - Dodge What skill do we give Blitzer (Werewolf, skill-less, GAPS access on doubles)? - Mighty Blow What skill do we give Dr. Wight (Wight, Mighty Blow, GS access)? - Guard What do we do with our cash earnings? - Spent on THE HEAD CHEERLEADER, Ghoul    Post Match Votes: What do we do with our cash earnings? - Save it    Post Match Votes: What skill do we give Santos Von Hammerstein? - Side Step What do we do with our cash earnings? - Bought Two Zombies, Mykill Jackson and Graverobbin Williams   Post Match Votes: What skill do we give Blitzer? - Block What skill do we give THE HEAD CHEERLEADER? - Wrestle What do we do with our cash earnings (last open call for team purchases)? - Reroll    Post Match Votes: What level do we give Bonecruncher McGraw, skill-less Zombie? - Dirty Player What do we do with our cash earnings? - Save    Post Match Votes: What skill do we give Flesh Gordon (Bock Flolem, GS Normals)? - Guard What skill do we give Wight Power (Pass Wight, GAPS Doubles)? - Accurate What do we name the new Ghoul? - El Hijo    Post Match Votes: What skill should we give Blitzer (Werewolf, Block/MB, Normals)? - Tackle What should we do with Santos Von Hammerstein? - Keep    Post Match Votes: What skill should we give Dr. Wight (Normals, MB/Guard)? - Tackle What skill should we give Graverobbin Williams (Zombie, skillless, normals)? - Kick What do we do with the fresh kill, Clifford Olsen Twins? - Keep What do we do with Wolf Blitzer? - Keep    Post Match Votes: What skill should we give Beefslab (Flolem, Block, Normals)? - Guard What skill should we give El Hijo (Ghoul, Skill-less, Normals)? - Block Which two zombies do we jettison to get back to 13 players? - Pelvis Costello and Navy Blue    Post Match Votes: What do we do with our spare cash? - Bought Block Pride, Wight    Post Match Votes: What do we give MacGruff (+MA, Blodge Wolf) - Sidestep What do we do with the newly -AG Wight Power? - Replaced by Wight Privilege Are we going to jettison one of our gimped superstars? - Replaced Blitzer with The Assistant Coach   Post Match Votes: What do we do with this team in the future? - Option 1, end the LP  Blood Bowl 101 Sometimes I make big ol' posts discussing concepts for people who are interested in picking up and playing Blood Bowl. Here they are. They're meant to be supplementary to the videos, so each lesson might make more sense if you follow the videos in order as well. So, if you're stumbling into this thread right now without having watching any of the videos and have no clue what Blood Bowl is, watch the first or second match, first. Or, it might be better to filter my posts and watch the videos and read the posts in the order I posted them chronologically. Lesson 1 - What Constitutes A Player? Discussing Player Attributes and Skill Access Lesson 2 - Assists, Assist Mechanics, and the Guard Skill Lesson 3 - Goblin Secret Weapons Lesson 3.5 - Throw Teammate Lesson 4 - Strategy 1: Caging Lesson 5 - Strategy 2: Screening The Hall Of Heroes WIP, I'm going to keep note of the players who are no longer on the team, if I'm missing any let me know Hungrylike - Werewolf, Match 3 to Match 5, KIA Ra's Al - Ghoul, Match 4 to Match 10, Fired The Flesh Prince - Flesh Golem, Match 1 to Match 7, KIA Franken Castle - Zombie, Match 1 to Match 12, KIA Riff Raff - Zombie, Match 1 to Match 12, Fired THE HEAD CHEERLEADER - Ghoul, Match 11 to Match 14, KIA Pelvis Costello - Zombie, Match 1 to Match 18, Fired Navy Blue - Zombie, Match 18 to Match 18, Fired Dr. Wight - Wight, Match 1 to Match 19, KIA GNU Order fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Dec 17, 2014 |
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May 2, 2014 04:07
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Lizards so everyone can learn to love the wonderchildren that are skinks. And hate Both Downs.
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May 2, 2014 04:09
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Necro Kill them all. 
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May 2, 2014 04:10
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May 2, 2014 04:12
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High Elf. I haven't seen an elf team done well yet.
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May 2, 2014 04:14
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Necromatic
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May 2, 2014 04:18
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Zeroisanumber posted:High Elf. I haven't seen an elf team done well yet. Then you probably shouldn't encourage GNU to play them...
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May 2, 2014 04:21
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I will put in a 3rd vote for Necro.
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May 2, 2014 04:21
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Lizards are really the only choice here if we can't have rats.
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May 2, 2014 04:22
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Gotta go Necromantic, as much as I like the Dark Elves.
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May 2, 2014 04:24
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Yeah we need Lizardmen and we need Saurus to shed all the blood in the name of Sotek. All of it.
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May 2, 2014 04:24
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Lizardmen for maximum Kroxigor glory!
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May 2, 2014 04:29
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Lizardmen. Second vote goes to necromantic.
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May 2, 2014 04:33
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Khorne! Never not frenzy!
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May 2, 2014 04:37
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Lizardmen Skinks never say die!
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May 2, 2014 04:50
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Let's go with Necromantic.
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May 2, 2014 05:03
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All snotlings team not on the ballot? pffff I guess I'll vote for Khorne then.
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May 2, 2014 05:08
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Actually screw that and lets do Undead cause mummies rule and you'd actually have every skill tree to roll on just about. Box wine fucked around with this message at 05:35 on May 2, 2014 |
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May 2, 2014 05:27
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Khorne will probably be the team with the most deaths because of how AV 7 they are and how bashy they are.
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May 2, 2014 05:29
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I wanna see a Lizardman team, probably with dinosaur-themed names.
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May 2, 2014 06:48
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Lizards are boring, once you go Necro you don't go back. Seriously, Werewolves are the funnest unit in the game.
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May 2, 2014 07:49
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Werewolves are definitely fun and lizards are somewhat boring, but since I don't own Chaos edition I'd love to see Khorne.
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May 2, 2014 09:18
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We have not seen an elf team in LP form yet so let's go with Pro Elves. It will be fun to see how perhaps the best scoring team out of the box gets hobbled by the goonocracy.
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May 2, 2014 11:30
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Necromantic Let's see some maulings in here.
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May 2, 2014 11:42
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I can't wrap my head around playing Lizardmen, so that's my vote.
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May 2, 2014 11:43
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May 2, 2014 12:33
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Necromantic. They have some interesting players, and can be both bashy and agi-y. It's not even all about the Werewolves, all of their positionals are useful and show off skills/trees that are worth knowing about. Lot of stuff to vote on with them, too, and most of their bashy players have skills/stats which mean they can get a lot of SPP early (unlike Saurus until 6) and just keep on trucking after that.
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May 2, 2014 12:48
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Necromantic Everybody Loves Werewolves.
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May 2, 2014 13:13
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lizards all the way. I love that team.
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May 2, 2014 13:46
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Necromantic, Undead are my true favorites but Necro is almost as good.
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May 2, 2014 14:07
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Necro. Love my necro team.
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May 2, 2014 14:23
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For democracy, I'd want a team with choice, and choice requires easy GAPS access. M would be nice, but M options outside of previously used teams are limited to Chorfs (who have no AP on normals) and Underworld (who you are racist about). Humans
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May 2, 2014 14:38
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Lizards are the best team.
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May 2, 2014 15:00
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Necromantic is a delightful team. I love every one of their positionals.
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May 2, 2014 15:24
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Necro. I'd really like to see the chaos of Democracy Bowl inflicted on a team where the LPer can't just save the apo for the star of team. Add more randomness! Will a Skeleton regen while your level 4 murderwolf doesn't? Let's find out!
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May 2, 2014 15:29
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Lizards are a poo poo, let's go Necromantic. I would feel more comfortable with easily replaceable players, and have no love for passing game teams. Murderball all the way.
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May 2, 2014 15:51
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One more vote for Necromantic. Fast players, strong players, flexible players. Werewolves are preposterously good, so you can't say no to Necro.
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