MATCH REPORTS and other stuff

[J-Reedy]

Wellcome to the opening match of the NUL season 8! This exciting game will see the human Getingarna go against the amazon Cougar Kittens! And the amazons kick-off! Ball lands deep downfield and here comes the Getingarna front line! Oh dear...

Yep, I was planning on writing a match report but I'm just too frustrated right now. Had one of those games. Two opening blocks knocked out two of my amazons. 2 more knock outs and 1 serious injury later Getingarna scored. I got 1 player out of knock-out. With some fidgeting and über-dodging I managed to tie the game at the end of first half. Oh, I had suffered 1 more KO and serious injury at that point. So I started the second half with 7 players against 11. Had a run of 4 agility rolls with the result 2-1-1-1 during two turns. Humans took the ball and scored. Oh, and they knocked out 2 more amazons. Lucky me, I got them back and started 7 to 11 again. Blitz+shallow kick = 4 human players around the ball. Score Getingarna. 7 to 11 again. Shallow kick. First pick-up 1, reroll 1. Humans get the ball! Go block'em! Oh, double skulls, no rerolls left. Score. Oh yeah, there was at least 1 KO there, might've been more, I really don't know, I was in living room kicking the couch and hitting my head against the brick wall.

4-1 to Hakos. Good game from Hakos, I had the role of spectator most of the game.

Some key points from the BB Manager: 55% (17/31) of armor rolls agains me succeeded. Out of those 17 armor breaks 10 were KOs or injuries. In 54 rolls of D6 I had rolled a 1 13 times. That's a bit under 29 percent. Luckily I rolled a 2 also 13 times, so that's 1 or 2 with a d6 58% of the time.

[Barmution]

Ouch. Well, on the bright side of things Hakos was due a great match after the horrible stuff he suffered last season. Doesn't make up for your game, but at least you got trounced by someone who deserved a little something from Nuffle. Commiserations, J-man  :(

[Luiggi]

It sucks when you get games like those. Must have been a POW fest as well, considering how there shouldn't be too much Tackle around at this TV. Anyway this luck comes and goes and there's still plenty of season.

Anyway, in a few days I'll visit some of your zons at the hospital after my match vs the undead :D

[tags]

Wow, sounds like a rough game there. I'm dreading the first game with my new Wood Elves where things really go to hell... I hope it's not the first game of the season :D

Anyway, I'm really glad this kind of thread is up again. A couple of seasons back, there were a lot of great match reports. Granted, J-Reedy did most and the best of them, but there were other good ones as well, which really adds a lot to the whole league thing. I will try to find time to write up my matches at least, hope to see others do the same :)

[Mr B]

So a Necromancer actually contacted me some while ago and showed great interest of having me guiding his team.
So in the middle of season 7 we settled for an agreement, a nice pile of gold and extra filled purse after each win settled the deal for the next three seasons.
Little did I know it was Khemri, I was pretty sure it would be undead, but hey a challenge worth the gold.

After my vacation this summer I contacted the Necromancer and meet the team, whow...
A strange encounter that I'd be used to for sure.. I'll hope.

I showed the "Great" plan to keep winning and how to handle the opponents, I only got some smiles back.
They are always smiling... with no skin on the face I'd guess there are no options but keep on smiling.

So, up to the test.
We traveled along the road to the famous stadium "Old Rotthold" one amazing piece of shit.. really.

I understand why the rotters like it, me as a quite living person was disgusted.
My team.. kept on smiling.. no worries there, not one bit.
Entering the arena getting ready for the game.
"Remember the first moves", I shouted to Henyat the ballhandler of the khemri.

"We are the Drop Dead Gorgeous" Hapath explained to the rotters standing in the los.
"We have the perfect bone structure you see" showing his spine and legs.
"You can see it here on the lower part if the spine, The "Boner" the blitzer ended his speech.

Rotters and all burst out in a laughter rarely seen among their kind.
I slapped my face in silliness, geez, what is he saying.
Even Golden Arrow the well known coach of Sweet Sweet Decay was seen smiling wildly.

All members of DDG looked as they look and kept on smiling.
Forsaken the huge mummy took tone, some how magically it sounded impressive, knowing that there is no air ion those lungs of his.
"You can keep the laughter and the ugliness, WE WILL TAKE THE GAME AND YOUR LIFE!"
Ending very booming I was clearly surprised it could sound that much.
Josix the Unclean beast  of SSD, coughed and out came a big living lump of tissue.
That looked like it wanted to flee from the beast.
But it crawled back to it's... parent... whatever.. and became one again.
Smashing his dry hands to gather in load bang, "Lets Rock" Lord Ogloth Fever said.

A thin but clear whistle sound pierced all surrounding and the little gobling ref Huff Puff came running with the whistle still in his mouth.
"Sorry guys, the Gate 16962 is stuck and I cannot find anyway to open it.
That means the game is postponed to another day, as it has all the bloodbowl footballs".

"So we are out of balls?" Heror the skeleton asks.
The crowed goes wild with joy!
Ohh no, they are not just dead, they are dead boring also, was my though.
No humor what so ever.

"Well, we will be back Cheers!", and team DDG left the stadium who was already almost empty again.

***
Port errors of course... no game and yet we gave it some tries.
Sunday is scheduled as the next try.
***

[hakos]

With a report like that a delay in the match is quite acceptable. Nice work.

[Lars]

So the Match between the Partly Animals vs the Chaotic Dudes

The match started with my chaos team as receiver. After a bad desision to make a "safe block" at the shirmish line I emidiently suffered a turnover by rolling a double skull followed by a block/skull result. This gave the WE the chance to take contioll over the ball, they where a bit unluckie with dodge rolls but they took controll of the ball and managed to get in some good possitions before suffering a turnover due to a snake eye roll during a dodge. Turn 2 for the chaos team was mostly damage controll, move as many players as possible in unconfortable positions and try to go for the one holding the ball (a wardancer in this case), the blitz on the ball handle required a dodge roll for the beastman  witch of course failed and another turnover was a fact. In turn 2 the WE managed to make a TD. 
After the TD the Chos team started a slow and rather safe walk towards the endzone of the WE nothing spectacular happend the chaotic dudes managed to put the ball in the endzone by round 8 and by that point there wa 1 KO in the Chaos team and 1 in the WE and 1-1 in touchdowns.

The second half started with the WE receiving the ball. the kick placed the ball pretty far back and towards one side of the field. I tried tio push the whole team towards the edge of the field this was going on for about 2 rounds when the elfs suddenly decided thath the wanthed to change what side to push on so they changed side and did a touchdown in round 3 or 4 don't really remember. under the offencive the WE sufferd 2 more KOs and one dead line man (from falling when missing a dodge).
When setting up player for the last couple of rounds the Chaotic dudes ehere allowed to field all 11 players, the Partly animals was reduced to 9. As in first half the Chaos team started to move slowly forward to try to score before the mach ended when last round was about to go off the chaos team had a teoretical chance of scoring if they managed a dodge roll and a GFI, both rolls succeeded and the match ended 2-2.

[Gurgeh]

I have just played agains Gnaarkill and would first like to apologize for my silence during the match. I have actually no idea how to write in the chat since all my matches against live opponents have been accompanied by talking on Skype.

The match finished 1-1. I won the first half but my attack after the equalizing goal in the second half was stopped when I failed a simple handover with a re-roll. After that the ball went around some, but never ended up in the hands of a competent player, apparently, since the ones who actually got hold of it soon fell down or threw it away.

Thanks for the match, good luck in the next one.

/tobias

[Mr B]

I have just played agains Gnaarkill and would first like to apologize for my silence during the match. I have actually no idea how to write in the chat since all my matches against live opponents have been accompanied by talking on Skype.
/tobias

Just press "enter" type some and "enter" again, viola!

Good luck pal!
/B

[tags]

- Greetings, sports fans!
- ... or, you know, just fans of gratuitous violence.
- Yes, well, fair point Barney.
- Right, I'm Barney Grumblefoot, and with me as always is my colleague Billy Smallwilly
- SmallWILLARD!
- Now, now... there's no need for pedantry. We're here this fine evening for a match between the fierce and glorious chaos team Chaotic dudes and some puny elf team. If you're anything like me, you're looking forward to a spectacular display of ballhandling, manhandling and flying teeth tonight!
- I'll have you know that The Partly Animals are an outstanding group of athletes! I was lucky enough to run into Amy Winemouse earlier, and it's plain to see that we can expect a lot from those well-trained... beautiful... thighs... and...
- Ah, I was wondering why your nose seems broken.
- A simple misunderstanding, nothing more!
- Ironically, those wardancer girls are the only ones with some balls on that team. Let's see if that's enough to make this interesting.
- Well, I for one...
- Shut up. Ah, look at that, Billy... four towering Chaos Warrior hulks at the line of scrimmage, looming tall above three of those skittish sods... the cheering fans going wild for violence, clearly on the side of the chaos team wanting to see some pummelled elves here. Oooh, the anticipation!
- uhm... yes, quite....
- I can't wait for those spiked mailed fists to punch through some pale soft tissue, there's the kick now!
- I can't look!
*crunch*creak*thump*
- What the...
- Is it over?
- That is... not the best of starts, as chaos warrior Maks Myr Shraak has just punched himself in the knee with his spiked fist, and promptly fell over.
- Oooh, look at those elves dodging away from danger!
- Yes, that is quite disappointing indeed. Well, there's some contact at least, Phong Bird the wardancer has just scissor-kicked the Shi-mulgor, forcing him to the ground.
- Ah... to be that goat...
- What's that Billy?
- Ehrm, nothing! Look, she's running deep, and Amy Winemouse is hot on her heels! Very... hot...
- Quite, it appears the elves has chosen to go for the ball, sigh... the two wardancers and a few elves are now running aggressively towards the chaos end zone with the ball, but it looks Rhinoceros Plasty has some trouble dodging away, he's... no, he's just got that one, but Ali Gator falls flat on his face, and the initiative is back with the Chaos! This is going to be... oh... that's some catastrophic dodging from Tramulgors, they're getting nowhere with this kind of play.
- There's Phong Bird blitzing away Far-nogor! And Ms. Winemouse is dashing for the end zone with the ball... it's a touchdown!!
- Ah well, maybe we can get some serious action here as we go into the next drive. Those elves got away way too easy on that one.
- I must admit, I've never seen anyone fumbling quite that much before, not even those clunky warriors.
- There's the kick by Amy, and it's high... it's... VERY high! Far-nogor catches it, War-fagor beats up on Tiger Woods, and he goes down! John Deer takes a fierce hit, he's grounded as well. THIS is what I'm talking about Billy, this is action! Elves are flying left and right as the chaos cage grinds down the pitch.
- Well, but it really is thrilling to see the grace and elegance, and indeed the ease, with which these elves dodge and duck away from those brutish chaos beasts. Look! There's John Deer performing an impressive backwards somersault into a head... plant... and... lying... quite still, actually... oh dear.
- Haha, you're right Billy, that IS entertaining! I've never seen anyone break their own neck in such a spectacular fashion before. He's not getting up again, now or ever, let me tell you! Do you see the way his spine is poking out there? Hilarious!
- Oh dear oh dearie me
- The Chaotic dudes don't seem to have any problems with this drive, Billy. Worm Taos Luy clears Ali Gator out of the way, and Far-nogor runs it in for the touchdown!
- Well that's just in time, Barney, there's the half-time gong!
- Right, so what can we expect from the second half here?
- First of all, The Partly Animals are receiving, and I think we'll see a quick push for a touchdown right away.
- I have to say, it's a bit disappointing that the only dead elf so far is the one that tripped and fell on his own accord, although that was admittedly hilarious. Hang on, looks like we're off again already!
- Quick push up the left flank, Amy Winemouse pushes her way through, Phong Bird following up, Tiger woods gets the pall, passes it to Rhinoceros Plasty and... and...
- Haha, looks like they're surrounded, Billy. This is going to be bloody!
- Oh my, it does indeed look like the elves are left with nowhere to go on the left flank, warriors are surrounding them... but hey, what's this, Plasty is sprinting over to the right flank, others are joining him, the beasts are caught flat-footed! Ball is passed on to Tiger Woods, who catches it, and heads straight for the line... it's a touchdown!
- Well well, look at those cowards, don't have the guts to take their come-uppings like real men... or goats.
- You can't argue with results, though, 2-1 to the woodfolk!
- Well, there are still a few rounds to go here, Billy. We might still have time to see a good thrashin'. There's no doubt that the chaos side is out for blood this time, you can see the hunger in their eyes.
- I do believe that's actually the endless evil in their souls you're seeing there, Barney.
- Be that as it may, we're all set for the kick now... Amy takes it, and the crowd throws rocks at the elves. That is of course amusing, but against regulations. No doubt I'm not the only one upset by the cowardice of these little buggers!
- Where is the referee!? This is outrageous!
- Brashgy Antler has the ball, they are already moving their cage down the pitch, Billy. It does not look like the elves have any idea whatsoever about what to do with this strategy.
- I have to admit, they do look a bit lost out there. They're already closing in on the end zone.
- Elves are scrambling to stop this now, but is it too late? Amy Winemouse is certainly giving as good as she gets, but beastmen are pouring through holes in the defence. Oh, there's a nasty stumble by Mr. Plasty, and Antler makes a run for it... aaaand it's in! That's the equalizer!
- Well, that was just in time, again, there's no time left on the clock. I'm heading down to the team locker rooms to get a good look at...err... to try to get a post-match interview from Amy Winemouse!
- Try to keep some teeth, Billy.

[hakos]

Great, I really like this kind of match report. Well done.

[Barmution]

Awesome reports, guys!

[Luiggi]

After training an orc squad for three seasons here at the Norsca Union League, coach Luiggi signed for Elfy Way and faced a fearsome undead team led by Barmution in this first match of season 8.

The elves won the coin toss and chose to kick, hoping to pull off a good defence with all 11 players. The Material Ghouls bashed the line of scrimmage and stunned two elves: a grim prologue to what would later be a grim event. However, the first half belonged to the elves, who showed flawless dodging and waited for an opening to mark and sack the ball carrier. They knocked out a wight and finally got hold of the ghoul carrier, who was struck down. The ball flew from his hands into those of an elven lineman, who picked it up despite being surrounded by zombies. They attempted to knock him down again but he could only be shoved around. The melee had already started, and every elf commited to it in an effort to give the lineman an escape route. He found it in the hands of Catcher Niti: the ball was handed off and he rushed his way towards the end-zone. Surprisingly, elves kept going down but they would not leave the pitch yet, except for a knocked-out lineman. The clock was ticking and the elves ran around to let it expire, putting an end to the first half with a 1-0 lead.

The second half started 10 vs 9 for the elves (a KO and an injured ghoul) and the elves made good use of their superior ball handling skills and numbers advantage to score in two turns. It was now the undead's offensive drive, where they truly showed the elves some pain. The crowd was angry and chased the ref, meaning he would not be bothering too much with sending offs and such. That were very bad news for Elfy Way, as the undead horde bashed and fouled everyone they saw. Two linemen were injured and will miss next game, and unfortunately for them, another one joined the ranks of the Material Ghouls after a savage stomp. A few more KO's left the elves defenseless, but they had managed to delay the offence, forcing a ghoul to rush to the end-zone if his team was to have a chance at equalising. He tripped and left the ball one yard away from the end zone. Out of 4 elves, 3 ran away to safety, but one brave blitzer remained and tried to throw a long bomb to prevent the touchdown. He dodged three times but in the end he could not pick the ball up. He was easily knocked down and a Wigh scored the final 2-1.

The last turn was passing practice for the elves, but they lost initiative and let the mummies struck at the linemen. Sarah Jessica Paler injured one of them for a total of 3 in what was a great display of blocking power that translates into a higher salary and skill-set.

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It was a good game, but the first half was way too one-sided. I did not miss a single dodge (and did plenty), got all the blocking dice I needed, the bounces, the hand-offs... As for the other team, they kept rolling skull after skull, push after push, and had 0 luck with injury rolls. The second half was a whole different story but it was too late to come back into the game. In a typical elf game, I ended up with 2 MNG and a dead guy, but luckily for me the positionals are still intact. Won't be for long though, as khemri are coming to town.

[hakos]

Welcome everyone to this special edition of "Meet the coaches". Today we will focus on two new promising coaches and of course their teams who just faced each other in NUL:Season 8. I'm your host Billywilly. And I'm the co-host, Willybilly.

-- Coach Hakos --

First out is Hakos, specializing in coaching of human based teams with a total expereience of 34 matches. He started his career with the amazon team Rödstrumporna and managed to win as much as he losed. Not a bad start. After that it was Suputerna, a norse team where he only managed to get 3 victories in 11 matches, so he was sacked. Which meant that the only team willing to take him in was Getingarna. Yes Billywilly, they were desperate since no coach wanted to lead them for the wage of 1 gold and 3 potatoes, which was what they could afford at that time. First season with Getingarna did not go well with just 1 victory and 6 losses. Yes, it's a wonder he was not killed by the fans. Now it is time for NUL:Season 8, and by the way I heard his new salary is just two potatoes. Although I heard he got a bonus potatoe after the unexpected 4-1 victory against the Cougar Kitten.

-- Coach Lasseman --

The opponent in the featured match is the coach Lasseman. With 35 matches played he is just as (un)experienced as Hakos but arguably with better results. His win percentage is 47%. Lasseman seems to prefer the more heavyweight teams since he have been coaching Lizards, Necro's and now a brand new Chaos team. Yes Billywilly, it will be very interesting too see what he can do with the Chaotic Dudes since it started ok with a 2-2 draw against the "The Partly Animals". Previously he have showed his skill with the lizards, Jura United, where he managed to win the final of the Thymus Legends Cup. A very unexpected victory indeed since his lizard team was way outmuscled in both the quarterfinal and semifinal (more than 400 in TV difference) but well deserved indeed.

-- Pre Match Talk --

And these two coaches of course have some history against each other. Before todays match they had met each other three times. First in the league Pestbollen where Hakos Rödstrumporna won a very even match against the Jura United of Lasseman with 2-1. But Lasseman got his revenge in the Thymus Legend Cup where the lizards won over Rödstrumporna in the final with 2-1. The last meeting was in the tournament of Vinterbucklan. Here Nuffle smiled towards Hakos since his norse smashed Lassemans necro's with 4-0. Yes, I bet Lasseman is eager for revenge now.

So, lets look at todays match. On paper it seems to be very even. 12 Chaos guys vs 11 humans, one guard player each, one mighty blow player each and 4 RR each. The main difference lies in the chaos teams reliance on brute strength with 5 str 4 guys (counting the beastman with horn who will make a blitz every time) vs the humans reliance on skills with 5 Block players. What will be most important? Strength or skills? Actually, Willybilly, I think it will be Getingarnas secret weapon, the AG 4 thrower Gothard Rainer. Ah, you are wrong as always Billywilly, of course it will be brute strength, this is Blood Bowl we are talking about.

-- First Half --

The first half clearly belongs to Getingarna. They quickly catches the ball and attacks on the right flank. In turn 3 they seem to be squeezed tightly towards the border and ready to be pushed into the crowd, but it was all part of the tactic. First the ball was handed over to Gothard who then quickly proceeded to dodge, run backards out of the trap, into the own half, back into the chaos half and after a go for it twice he was able to throw the ball to Sigric. Sigric was the only free player not marked by the chaos guys and he was now able to sprint very close to the enemy td zone. So close in fact that no chaos guy could even reach him. The TD was finalized the next turn. Then it was the Ogre's turn to shine when he removed one of the chaos warriors from the game and made him a little bit slower for the future. After that it was rather simple to stop the chaos drive and the first half ended 1-0 to Getingarna.

I said so, I said so, Gothard for the win. Billywilly, do you want to keep your job? Eh, yes. Ok then shut your pie hole.

-- Second Half --

The second half started strong for the Chaotic dudes when they damaged one blitzer for Getingarna severely and knocked out a lineman immediately after that which got them a 11-9 advantage. However, they forgot to pick up the ball, which would come back to haunt them later on. One interesting side battle started on the left flank there the mighty blow chaos guy found himself pushed towards the border. Lasseman decided to save him with a blitz the first thing he did in t10, however, it failed, even after a RR which meant the ball was still free. Getingarna seized on this opportunity. Pushed one beastman out from the game and then knocked down some more and finally started to get towards the ball. Suddenly the chaos guys were outnumbered 7 to 9 and had to play defence instead of trying to score. They managed to get the ball but their cage was marked on all corners and could not move. Mar Skin-Tearer, the Ogre, opened the cage. With four turns left the ball was free and now it seemed Getingarna would be able to score. This was not to be however. Brillian, and desperate, defence from Lasseman coupled with bad positioning from Hakos caused the second half to end inconclusively with no one scoring or even in control of the ball.

All in all the match therefore ended Getingarna 1 vs Chaotic Dudes 0.

-- Interviews --

So, time for the obligatory post-match interviews. Hakos, what decided this match?

- Two things. The agile play of the thrower Gothard and a clever ogre who actually played and just didn't stay put and looked on the match.

Lasseman, what do you think decided this even match?

- The second half there I tried to save my mighty blow beastman from being removed from the turf and failed. Which led to very bad positioning for me. Also being two beasts shorter than the opponent played some role. I lost count on how many the Ogre removed from the game in the second half.

Hakos, what will you improve to the next game?

- The team will need some extra dodge training. 7 times we failed to dodge.

Lasseman, what will you improve to the next game?

- We will hurt more players.

And with these words of wisdom this special edition of "Meet the Coaches" is done.

[Mr B]

hehe lovely,  ;D
J-man, you see the challenge  ::)