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So they still haven't fixed the bug where if one of my players gets injured, I can't actually replace him after halftime and just have to stare at my substitute on the bench? Great.
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Oct 23, 2012 07:36
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TroubledWaters posted:So they still haven't fixed the bug where if one of my players gets injured, I can't actually replace him after halftime and just have to stare at my substitute on the bench? I find the best way to avoid this bug is to not click on any units while your opponent sets up his team. It's annoying to not be able to plan properly but it seems to prevent the bug from occurring to me at least.
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Oct 23, 2012 09:13
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cmndstab posted:I find the best way to avoid this bug is to not click on any units while your opponent sets up his team. This does solve it, you do occasionally get the 12 players on the pitch bug though. Also the bug where certain players refuse to be swapped onto the pitch.
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Oct 23, 2012 09:26
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I find that these happen more often the bigger the roster is and older your team. My vamps with the 16 man roster and 2k team value seem to get it a lot.
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Oct 23, 2012 18:54
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It always seems to happen to me with my back-up thrower. I don't want him in the game. He's not as good. That's why he's a back-up.
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Oct 23, 2012 23:10
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if anyone is on the fence about this game, like I was for a long time. Go for it, the group thats on IRC are awesome and very helpful to newer players
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Oct 23, 2012 23:31
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Also pubbies are just as terrible at this game as any other. I hadn't played in a year and a half and stomped a guy playing Chaos Dwarves. The most important thing I learned from the threads on SA and the LPs is that you should always do the least risky actions first. Sure the guy I played was using a new team but you should also know not to pick up the ball or dodge as your first action with an ag3 lineman and no rerolls. Also trying to dodge and pick up a ball ever with a bull centaur. So consider this another vote for picking this game up! I'm sure a kindly goon can even buy it for  for you. Also for people that don't know already, http://bbtactics.com/ is a great resource for beginners that gives you some good ideas for a starting lineup, explanations of skills and ways to build various players. At the very least, playing Blood Bowl will make any other game's RNG bullshit seem like nothing in comparison. You don't know RNG bullshit until you reroll double skulls into double skulls or see a saurus pick up the ball, dodge then throw an accurate pass to another saurus that catches it to run in for the touchdown.
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Oct 24, 2012 00:21
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Washout posted:Lets continue this dumb what are the best single players in blood bowl conversation we had on IRC. 1. Wardancer (Move 8, leap, blodge, str 3, agi 4) 2. Pro Elf Catchers (Move 8, catch, nerves of steel, str 3, agi 4) 3. Necro Werewolf (Move 8, claw, frenzy, regen) 4. Undead Mummies (str 5, mighty blow, regen and you get 2 on the team) 5. Gutter Runner (Move 9, dodge, agi 4, mutations on doubles, if they were str 3 they'd be the best of the bunch or at least equal to wardancers)
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Oct 24, 2012 00:40
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Gunners are so good because they get mutation access. So on any double they can get horns and they become awesome blitzers. Also because of the crazy mv and agi they are scoring machines. I don't see mummies as being very high on the list since they don't get general access, and they take a very long time to gather spp. Getting one to level 4 is a long slog. If even one mummy gets block you are doing really well but it's pretty rare. Tagichatn posted:Also pubbies are just as terrible at this game as any other. I hadn't played in a year and a half and stomped a guy playing Chaos Dwarves.
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Oct 24, 2012 01:34
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Washout posted:Gunners are so good because they get mutation access. So on any double they can get horns and they become awesome blitzers. Also because of the crazy mv and agi they are scoring machines. MA10, sprint, sure feet, strip ball, wrestle, leap, You can't run, you cannot hide. The other thing with gunners are they're only 80k and you get 4 of them, allowing you to make each one incredibly specialized in ruining the other player's day in a specific fashion. uPen fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Oct 24, 2012 |
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Oct 24, 2012 02:00
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People talk about how good witch elves are but I don't think I've ever had problems with them. They've got some good skills but they're also really fragile and expensive.
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Do you ever see people with wrestle leap witch elves? You should play my DE sometimes, while I don't have any like that they are still amazing.
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Washout posted:Do you ever see people with wrestle leap witch elves? You should play my DE sometimes, while I don't have any like that they are still amazing. My witch elves always take wrestle and strip ball, they are the ultimate ball strippers. Mummies don't take long to build up at all due to str 5 and mighty blow. Granted, doubles for block does stink but even without it, you should be able to get 3 dice blocks fairly easily against most teams and Undead are an inexpensive enough team to get a huge number of rerolls really quickly.
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uPen posted:MA10, sprint, sure feet, strip ball, wrestle, leap, You can't run, you cannot hide. I usually give two wrestle, two block, and make two different kinds of blitzers and two different kinds of ball getters. They always end up being unique though because of the varying levels that they end up with a double and then a mutation.
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Played in a private league once with Skaven and got two Gutter runners with +1 movement, sprint and sure feet. If I got to receive in the first half it was basically a guaranteed win unless double 1s were rolled. Sure enough, rolled double ones three times in a row when going for touchdowns in the final and ended up losing after going undefeated for the last twelve matches or so. Blood Bowl.
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Stupid newbie question: Does Mighty Blow stack with Claws? I have a guy with both and only Claw pops up when he does a block action.
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az posted:Stupid newbie question: Does Mighty Blow stack with Claws? I have a guy with both and only Claw pops up when he does a block action. It's hard for me to guess without seeing your dicerolls, but Claw is automatically applied whenever you knock someone over, reducing their effective AV to 7. If Mighty Blow wouldn't have made a difference, maybe you don't see it pop up? Random Hajile fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Oct 25, 2012 |
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Oct 25, 2012 00:49
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Yes, they stack.
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Claw reduces the threshold for breaking the armour to 8+ (assuming it's higher to start with of course), but doesn't influence the roll itself in any way. Mighty Blow adds 1 to the your roll, either for armour (if necessary) or for injury.
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Oct 25, 2012 01:13
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The game does a really awful job of showing how Mighty Blow factors in. If you need 8+ and roll 7, the game will show you applying Mighty Blow to your armor roll. If you roll 8 or more, it will show it applying to the Injury roll you inflict. If you roll 6 or less, it will not show Mighty Blow AT ALL.
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Oct 25, 2012 02:49
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Coolguye posted:The game does a really awful job of showing how Mighty Blow factors in. If you need 8+ and roll 7, the game will show you applying Mighty Blow to your armor roll. If you roll 8 or more, it will show it applying to the Injury roll you inflict. If you roll 6 or less, it will not show Mighty Blow AT ALL. Yeah, one of it's many flaws. Not as bad as telling you that you need 4+ on a dodge when you really need 3+ because dodges automatically have a +1 applied, but still frustrating when you're trying to learn. Also dude, that BB group you used to play in seems to have died in the rear end. Any idea what happened there? There was one more short league which I won and then they never started up again. Probably not a bad thing, I'm a touch busy these days anyway.
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cmndstab posted:Yeah, one of it's many flaws. Not as bad as telling you that you need 4+ on a dodge when you really need 3+ because dodges automatically have a +1 applied, but still frustrating when you're trying to learn. Yeah this drove me nuts for the longest time. I was looking at the die rolls and couldn't figure out what that +1 "bonus" was from. It does come with the official board game rules as a .pdf though, so if you're trying to learn the basics you can always refer to them.
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Oct 25, 2012 15:50
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I'm requesting that everyone play Washout's Chaos Dwarves and try to murder his stupid Ag 3 bull centaur.
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Oct 26, 2012 05:28
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Everyone please play against my Chaos Dwarves, I have a hard time getting games with them.
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Oct 26, 2012 09:53
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Just don't bring Khemri, he kind of needs a recovery match now. 
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Oct 26, 2012 11:19
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5 cas 3 ko before I conceded on turn 10. 2 dead dorfs and 1 dead hob.
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Oct 26, 2012 21:50
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Thanks for the help with substitutes, hopefully this works out! Quick question about Blitz rules competitions, do AI controlled teams have to deal with aging and contracts if you turn those on? Or does that just affect human controlled teams?
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Oct 26, 2012 22:46
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Nobody will answer your question because nobody plays Blitz mode. It is terrible don't play it.
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TroubledWaters posted:Thanks for the help with substitutes, hopefully this works out! Don't play Blitz.
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Not all of us are as angry at singleplayer, it's not completely terrible. And it can even be a challenge if you play one of the Stunty teams like goblins, halflings, or ogres. That said however blitz gives you a bunch of extra stuff that makes the game even easier and I'd bet that you could go undefeated in blitz mode even playing one of the terrible teams. I'd just advise playing classic mode with a Stunty on easy if you just want to gently caress around. (the cpu is so afraid of losing the ball that they won't ever score on hard mode). I even got bored playing underworld after going undefeated for the first two seasons. But if you have too much trouble with a normal stunty team give underworld or Khorne a try. If you have trouble winning against the computer with UW or Khorne then you should come into IRC for advice.
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When are we going to have a new goon tournament? I'm not volunteering to run it, mind you, I just want someone else to do all the work so I can play games.
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Oct 27, 2012 00:48
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cmndstab posted:Also dude, that BB group you used to play in seems to have died in the rear end. Any idea what happened there? You're not missing out on much, honestly. We can pick up with our own group when we all get a little less busy.
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Coolguye posted:Probably exactly as you said. The core group (that is, GRIMNARR's little clique) is pretty insular and I sort of sensed that the second he moved on the league's days were numbered. When it dropped from 22 players one league to 8 players the next, three of which were new, the writing was pretty much on the wall. I'm just wondering what happened to everyone else. Did they start playing elsewhere or did they all just stop talking to each other?
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TroubledWaters posted:Thanks for the help with substitutes, hopefully this works out! I would assume they probably don't, just because I doubt it would be really noticeable either way.
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Leperflesh posted:When are we going to have a new goon tournament? I'd run one, and even do a LP of my games, except I'm moving to Hawaii in like 4 days so :whelp:.
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Oct 27, 2012 08:10
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So many special snowflake players on my teams these days. My rats rolled a +ag gunner now in the same game my Rat Ogre got block. This team is going to break my heart.
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cmndstab posted:When it dropped from 22 players one league to 8 players the next, three of which were new, the writing was pretty much on the wall. I'm just wondering what happened to everyone else. Did they start playing elsewhere or did they all just stop talking to each other? I think they just moved on to another game. I'm not real close with the core clique, but they like Roboky a fair amount so if they were setting up shop somewhere else I probably would've heard about it through him. They'll be around, though, a lot of those people have known eachother for like 3-4 years, and I think GRIMNARR actually decided I was OK when I kept playing my games even though I had the shittiest team in the league.
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Goonbowl 7 signups are good to go for those interested. You can sign up here. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3514108
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Thanks a lot kraken, goblin horns are small and stupid looking.
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