Blood Bowl match review - humans v dwarves

As mentioned in my previous blogpost, I recently started painting up a human team that have sitting neglected since I bought the first Blood Bowl reboot back in 2017. I went with a chocolate and cream colour scheme, inspired by a retro shirt I saw on a football website. Now they are semi-painted it was time to give them a go and see what they could do. 

As ever, my opposing coach was Bryan, who brought his dwarf team round to play. Whereas I am trying out different teams, Bryan is very loyal to his dwarfs.

The first half was evenly matched. The humans did carve out a great opening at one point, and it looked like they were going to score. However, a dwarf blitzer made two rushing yards and tackled the ball carrier, negating the danger.

For the first time, we started using the 'fouling' rules. This is an opportunity to gain a sneaky advantage but it does carry a risk of being spotted and the player being punished. When the teams lined up for the second half, Bryan was down a player because one of his blitzers had been sent off.

Naughty blitzer in the dug out, top right

The game ground on and it really looked like it was going to end scoreless, until somehow the human thrower gained possession in the dwarf half and was able to throw the ball to an unmarked catcher near the end zone. A short dash later and TOUCHDOWN!!!

The ball was thrown directly over a dwarf player. Bryan could have rolled to try and interfere with the pass, but the dwarf's poor agility rating combined with various modifiers meant that he would have had to roll a seven on a six-sided dice. Obviously, that wasn't possible. Our conclusion - dwarves can't jump!

The game finished 1-0 to the humans so a winning start for them. In the very last turn of the game one of the foul rolls went wrong and a human got sent off to even out the red cards.