Brett Favre retires from Blood Bowl

[sigma7]

Ah, Blood Bowl. Brilliant idea: imagine a far-flung future where orcs and elves and dwarfs, goblins and humans all co-exist, and someone in that future manages to unearth an ancient NFL rulebook, believing it to be a holy tome worshiping the ancient god Nuffle, and an even more barbaric interpretation of American football springs forth. It's nine kinds of ridiculous, and if you like gridiron micromanagement, well, all aboard.

So I've been trying to get my head around the new computerized version of Blood Bowl, and the AI is...pretty cunning. As in "not stupid." Unlike me. So after creating about five teams and watching them all get picked apart (occasionally literally), I opted to create a new team with players all named after medications -- called the team the Medicine Cabinet (team motto: "Use Only as Directed"), and I don't know what happened but suddenly we're 3-0, trouncing teams of humans, dwarfs and skaven -- our star player is, unsurprisingly, Lexapro. It's a little thrilling when that revelatory light goes off in your head the first time that the other team is more nimble, faster and more fragile -- they're going after the ball, so you don't need to score the touchdown, you just need to go after them. After winning two games we were able to afford buying better players, so we went from just having 11 linemen (your run-of-the-mill players) to adding a blitzer named Darvocet -- great guy, very powerful, but got sent off at halftime of the next game for fouling a dwarf in an attempt to turn him into tomato paste.

Also, Batman: Arkham Asylum is nine kinds of awesome, but chances are you knew that already. Not much I can add to that. Muffin especially likes being Batman.

Okay. Trivia afternoon ensues; details to follow.

Comments

[sanity-cheque.livejournal.com]

Ahhh grasshopper. You have made the first step in the road to the blood bowl cup, realizing that you don't have to beat the other team to the ball, you just have to kill them before they score!

[samson-of-5.livejournal.com]

Awww, no screenshots? I wanna see Darvocet devastate the other team.

[ronwe.livejournal.com]

Upon watching gameplay videos, I think I've finally found a football game I can envision myself playing.

[ronwe.livejournal.com]

As in, I bought it and I'm downloading it now.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Just a word of warning: I actually own the original board game (some great times in my younger years with it, though I probably had more fun painting the figurines than with the actual game), and the digital version kicked me around the pitch for the better part of a week. And that's after having played Cyanide's real-time precursor, Chaos League, to death.

I'm finally getting the hang of it, I think, but either the dice are extremely fickle, I'm extremely thick, or there are several layers of strategy to this game that I still don't get. Possibly a combo platter thereof.

[(Anonymous)]

Just finished my first match - real-time as I feel I'll actually need to read the manual to get a decent grasp of strategy - and wow.... Fun game, but the opposing teams are brutal - and the ref is a douchebag haha.

I won my first match 10-2, but within the first minute of the round I had one of my wardancers killer two of my catchers injured, and my tree red flagged for the rest of the game. This is on Easy. I have a feeling my team would be so many red splotches on the field on the other difficulties.

I'd be interested in having my ass handed to me by you in an online match, but the automatic patch process fails every time I do it so I'm not "up to date". I can still play, but I think there'd be compatability issues in an online match.

[ronwe.livejournal.com]

Manually downloading the 1.01.7 patch now. Hopefully that works. Sometimes I forget about manually patching since every other game I play is either an MMO, or on Steam [or a Steam-like service] so automatically updates with no problems.

Sorry for clogging the email with obsessive amounts of commentage heh

[ronwe.livejournal.com]

^-- That was me. Firefox isn't keeping me logged into sites any more, and the vista fix for that relies on deleting a file I don't have *gt;.<

Think I might try a Skaven team. Always liked the Skaven - fun-loving plague-bearing Nimh-ites. Only went with the elves for my theme. All the players are named after power metal bands - the kind that sing about elves heh

[lacrimaeveneris.livejournal.com]

Oh this sounds EXCELLENT, haha. We need commentaried screenshots!