This was a crazy weekend's Blood Bowl. Spent Friday night at Canteloup's, and played a game of Fumbbl then tabletop with the Khemri to test out the build. Woke up at 5am to play Warpstone in the final of the Zlurpnation Fumbbl league, as he's in Canada. My Khemri were victorious! So far, so good. Off to Newport!

Game 1 v Hawk's Skaven
Received the ball, and managed to cage up and start to trundle up the pitch, but played the Rat Ogre badly. In the back of my mind I could hear my good self saying "feed him skeletons, feed him skeletons" but I paid no heed, and so he ended up standing next to my ball carrier in an annoying way. Hawk tied up the Tomb Guardians, so I ended up blocking him with the ball carrier. Successfully, but this left my cage open enough for a tackling stomrmvermin to one-dice my blodging thro-ra, with the inevitable result. 1-0. Then a bit of a rush of blood led to me trying a passing play to make it 1-1 at the half, but it ended up 2-0 instead. Oops. Kicked to him, 3-0, though not as straightforward as it could have been. Pulled it back to 3-1, but was scant consolation.

Game 2 v SFisher's Ogres
3 Ogres and Morg v 4 Tomb Guardians. RAAAAH! Received and trundled up the pitch, not killing as many snots as I would like despite blitzing one a turn with a tackling Blitz-Ra. C'est la vie. Straightforward first half, but then the second half was a bit too close for comfort with me having to make a few 4+ reroll dodges. They should work, but could easily fail! A close 1-0, and the closest game of the weekend as it turned out.

Game 3 v Eski's Humans
This game was all about the armour, really. I received again (good coin tosses for me!) and drove up the pitch, smashing humans before me. Sort of smashing, in that I broke armour about once out of 30 attempts. Scored as soon as I could, whereas the stall and more smashing would have been the tactically astute thing to do. He scored back before half time, and by that stage my players had started to leave the pitch and not regen. A Blitz result for me did not help, as I chased the ball instead of consolidating, but as I was chasing the win it seemed like a good idea at the time. Turned out not. Not a close second half. Lost 2-1.

Game 4 v Doomy's Undead
Has a Khemri team ever lost 7-0 in casualties before? Probably. Decent drive (though he chose to kick) but this time the stall wasn't on. Thought I had done enough to stop him scoring, but didn't think through his options enough. I thought he would go backwards and consolidate, but he went balls to the wall straight through my line and it paid off. Some fortunate dice, but not ridiculous. The armour dice were ridiculous, and there was quite a lot of grumbling on my part about the Welsh dice (though he's Scottish!). Lost 2-1.

Game 5 v Buggrit's Norse
Then the armour dice turned. I received (there's a trend here) and managed to smash his Snow Troll in turn 2. Happy days. Reasonably straightforward, powing regularly through the armour 7, with the only glitch being my beer-fuelled brain switching off and deciding his Impact Valks were Amazons instead of Norse, which led to me not taking 2-dice blocks that I should have as I did not want the push. Oops. Game ended 3-0 to me.

Game 6 v Canteloup's Skaven
The noisiest game of BB I have ever played, as we were downstairs (because of his wheelchair) in a Welsh pub while Wales were beating Ireland in the last 2 minutes of the game. Crazy. The one game where I kicked first, and almost managed to stop him scoring, but Gutter Runners can do anything! However, it just made the big guys cross, and in turn 8 of the second half I had a choice between fouling the last rat off the pitch or scoring. I'm afraid, BB fans, that I took the score. 2-1 win.

Finished 3-0-3. Bit disappointing, but an entertaining weekend all told.