Norsca Union League

The match started in a rain which continued throughout the first half and well into the 2nd half. Stup...born Undead started on an offence but found themselves on the defending side after the kickoff as the Kislev Blitzed and leadped through the front line to secure the ball. Surprised Undead tried to do what they could, but the slippery Ball Bouncers proved to be slippery beyond belief and secured the go-ahead fast. 2nd kickoff started more normally but now the rain proved to be the undoing of the Undead. First pickup try on the ball failed and suddenly a blitz and bounce later the Beyond Bouncy Ballers were holding the ball. The bouncher holding the ball was soon departed from the prized possession but Undead attempt to secure the ball proved once more futile. Ballers took hold of the ball and simply dumped it close to the Undead goal-line, putting the Stup...born ones off-position. This resulted in the Undead coach changing his goal for the 1st half to be keeping the score 1-0. That tactic proved to be succesfull, though duo of ghouls came a succesfull catch away from ruining the plan with a tying TD.

2nd half and the Beyond Ball Bouncers were on the attack. Kislev crowded both sidelines getting players on the scoring distance. Stup...born ones took down their right side and tried to crowd the left, but Bouncy Ball Beyonders didn't want to have none of that and after taking care of the covering players a quick pass, catch and a dash made the game 2-0 for the Ballsy Bouncers. Stup...born ones followed that with a drive where they actually managed to pickup the ball and get it on the opposite half. Unlike Undead normally are wanting to do, Stup...born ones were going for a quick score which they secured before right at the half point of the half. Then it was time for the Beyond Ballsy Bouncers to go at it again and their coach wisely decided to play for the clock. As the final attempt to reach the scoring distance was made and thwarted on the second to last turn, game was settled and the rest was just senseless bashing (which many in fairness do consider Blood Bowl to be in essance but at least there is the assumption that somone might actually be thinking about doing something with the ball).

Well played by the Beyond Ballsy Baller Barmution, couldn't really do anything to stop him today. Good luck in the rest, mate!

Allrighty, barmy mr. Barmution, time to see if your munchkin mangled men of masterous acrobatics can duct-tape themselves together as well my necromancer administers adhesive materials to my stup...born players. I've had and will have bit of happenings going on, so the available CET gaming times are a bit limited, but let's check them out anyways:

- Saturday, any time if we can get a time settled before Friday
- Sunday any time before 18.00
- Tuesday 17-20

Let me know if any of those suits you, sir. Either Wednesday or Thursday should also be available (17-20) but which one, that is mystery currently.

I'm sorry but I just realized saturday evening is not possible for me. But sunday any time should be doable. What about starting at 10? Or perhaps starting at 14?

When all is said and done, both times work for me, so let's go with 10 unless the later time works better for you.

Do you know how you recognise (note the British spelling in honour of my opponent) a really good Blood Bowl player? I'll tell you how, a really good BB player doesn't even have to play more than the length of a time that it takes for a rock to travel from a side of the field to the line of scrimmage on your average sized Blood Bowl field and he (or she, might be a she, especially when talking about dwarf players, never know what's under those beards) will still get the MVP nudge from the match judges. Just like Know Nothing Jon, the Stup...born Wight who got the MVP honours in the match against the sandier undeads of Khemri simply by getting hit by a rock thrown from the stands during the initial kickoff. Mr. Jon will be celebrating this success by taking a break also from the next game that the Stub...born Undeads will play.

This was truly a match... of some sorts. Real roller-coaster of the game where I gave up the hopes of getting any points two or three times. Stup...born ones started on the offence but after the said rock and a KO later they were really in a pinch with The Khemri Astronauts pushing on the front line with their strength advantage. The standard Undead stalled for a while, keeping the ball-carrier out of blitz-range and trying to find a hole in the midfield. But nothing opened up and when the second wight, Unburnt Duny was also injured, it was time to run to midfield and try to survive the blitzes. Fortunately the Riflegun brother carrying the ball managed to stay on his feet for two blitzes and it even seemed that he might break through. But no such luck as Napoleon finally got the ball out and a desperate scramble started. Luckily the injury machine of the Stup...born ones had also started working and as both teams had decided that regenerating any injuries was foolish, the numbers were evening out. Khemri got the ball on the second to last turn, but in their excitement forgot to make the gfi that the ball-carrier would have needed on the final turn. So, scoreless first half.

2nd half started with 8 vs. 8, which soon turned into 8 vs 7 when the Khemri took to the offence. Oh, I believe there was also a Pitch Invasion there, just to make things more interesting. And to keep things even more interesting, mr. Snake-eyes struck again, first making the Khemri ball-boy, I believe they call them Thro-Ras, fail the pickup twice and then making spaghetti out of the strained legs of the sand Mummy going for it to stop the blitz-bound Ghouls with a blitz of his own. So, suddenly two Ghouls were on the ball and got the instrument of play up. Napoleon wisely gfi'd his skeletons so that they threatened every square on the field, so I was forced to score fast. 2nd kickoff of the 2nd half followed with 8 Khemri going against 6 Stup...born ones. Sure looked like a draw at that point. Guess who decided to interfere? Mr. Snake-eyes. Khemri could'nt get the ball up which opened up pressuring chances for the Stup...born Ghouls and when the Thro-Ra finally got the ball up, he was solo blitzed down by one of the very Ghouls who were very dodgy throughout the game. Napoleon did what he could, and masterfully still got a scoring chance by throwing a Hail-Mary to a Blitz-Ra who actually caught the ball despite tho Ghouls guarding him. Unfortunately the deciding agility feat of dodging proved too hard for this hero.

Really, really chaotic but fun game with really, really weird happenings. It might be that every single Regeneration roll in this match failed. Napoleon rolled double-1s at least four times in the game. Thanks again for this spectacle of a game, Napoleon. Better luck in the rest and good luck in those numerous spp rolls also!

Match day forwarded, so it's time for the glorious 4th game day of the season. Play on, mates!

And let's see, who do the Stup...born are scheduled to meet... All righty, mr. Napoleon, it looks like there will be lots of dead people on the field but let's hope none of them will be re-deaded. I'm a bit busy for few days, but there are some CET starting times available, here you go:
- Sunday 13-18
- Tuesday 17-20
- Wednesday 17-20

Let me know if any of those suits you, sir. Rest of the next week is still hazy, but let's worry about that later if we have to.

wednsday at 19-00 should work

All righty, see you later today!

Another fun match as it always is with the goblins. Highlights of the game included 3 bomb interceptions in a row from AG 1 and 2 players, Fanatic swinging accross the field for max distance to knock down the ball carrier - twice and of course - random violence. Gnaarkill had abysmail dodge dice day and rotten day with the block dice that made the work of undead relatively easy. But even with the bad dice Gnaar-man showed his colors (black and skull white if you were wondering) as a goblin coach and made some brilliant plays to take away the ball twice even though situation seemed desperate. As stated, really fun affair and even friendly with the most serious injury being regenerated. Thanks again for the game Gnaar-mate and better luck with dodging in the future (if I may suggest, maybe give out bigger rum rations when playing on land, getting your gobbos slighty tipsy may balace for the lack of swaying sea).