Two games in a month for me and Bryan. This time I played with my black orc team - a mix of big orcs and runty goblins - with a star player called Varag Ghoulchewer (who finally got to play a game after I built him a year ago). I've called the orcs the Unpainted Horde for now. With any luck, I'll get some time to paint them and they'll get a new name.
Bryan was giving his lizard-men team another go and had borrowed my kroxigor figure (it's a big lizard) to bulk out his team. Not that he really needed Roxy the kroxi, because when it came to tackling, the lizards made mincemeat of the orcs. Five of my team ended up as casualties, including Varag who was badly injured on only the second turn of the first half. A true case of "Black Orc Down" just like the film (that was Cathy's joke, by the way!)
I'm beginning to question bothering with star players because this was the second game in a row when a turn 2 injury meant a star player sat uselessly in the dug out for the majority of the game.
Overall the game was enjoyably chaotic. Possession kept switching. Passes kept being botched. Both teams scored in the first half.
I thought we might be in for a slew of touchdowns, but the second half turned into a funny and frustrating back and forth that ended with a damp fizzle when one of Bryan's saurus blockers ended up on his face after trying to tackle to clear the path for a long-shot attempt at goal.
With Blood Bowl, you're playing against the game itself as much as the other player. And this time the game was the winner; we had to settle for a draw.
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