Bryan and I have played our first game of Blood Bowl in 2025 and, just like last year, we have resolved to play more often this year!
Our first 2025 game featured Bryan's unpainted Lizard-men team (with a borrowed kroxigor "big guy") against my Skaven team. This was the first game featuring the Skaven star players I built last year, Hakflem Skuttlespike and Glart Smashrip.
Neither star player added much, to be honest. Hakflem got injured on my second turn of the game and was deposited in the casualty box for the remainder of the match.
Glart spent the entire game grappling with the kroxigor in the centre of the pitch, which at least meant the brute was contained and couldn't wreak havoc on my rats.
Nothing really happened in the first half. The dice weren't with me. The ball got trapped in a melee of players. The lizards inflicted three casualties and that was about it.
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| Ball stuck in melee |
Things changed in the second half. A successful long pass to one of the skaven line-rats saw the rodent free to scuttle into the end zone and spike what would turn out to be the only score of the game.
However, the win hinged on a ludicrous piece of play when a chameleon skink pulled off the longest possible pass direct into the end zone, but unfortunately the recipient was a particularly inept saurus blocker who dropped the ball. One of the skaven throwers then tried to pick the ball up and failed on the very last skaven turn of the game. And then on the final turn for the lizard-men, the saurus punched out the skaven player, stepped over its prone body, went to pick up the ball, flubbed the pick up and ended up scooping the ball to bounce harmlessly away.
It was a gutting end to the game because the successful "long bomb" pass required rolling a 6 - and it was rolled! Any other lizard on the receiving end in the end zone and it would have been a glorious last gasp equaliser.
So, a narrow 1-0 win for the skaven. Next time out I'm going to try playing the black orc team that I built last year.
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