Blood Bowl match report - farce and failures for the Norse

On the final Friday in May Bryan and I played our monthly Blood Bowl game. I decided to take my Norse team, the Ragnarockers, as last month I boosted my Norse roster!  

I'd played Norse twice before (my first game with them was in May last year) and I was yet to win with them. Surely, having a yhetee big guy and a star player would swing the odds in my favour.

Sadly not. And, as is often the case with Blood Bowl, hubris and sheer awful luck did for both my new players. 

As early as turn 3 my yhetee went on a blitz. I rolled a skull, Bryan got two decent dice rolls and my big guy was flat on his back in the seriously injured box.

Previously I have felt the Norse are under-powered. Bryan was playing with the Tomb Kings where almost half the team are strength 5 giving them an advantage in any scraps. Losing my big guy was a bitter blow.

However, my valkyrie was able to run in a down in the first half. 

If losing the yhetee was terrible luck, losing my star player Thorsson Stoutmead was farcical. Thorsson has a special move where he can hurl a keg of beer at an opponent to try and take them out. He successfully knocked someone over in the first half. At the very start of the second half he tried again.

But I rolled a 1. That meant Thorsson hit himself with a keg. Bryan made another two good dice rolls and Thorsson joined the yhetee in the box of seriously injured players. It was a disaster.

We have discovered a weakness in the Tomb Kings "regeneration" skill, in that it makes it more likely for an injured player to be removed from the pitch. Bryan only had 3 players left on the field when my team scored their first half down. 

But this was a high carnage game for both sides. I ran out of reserves in the second half so had to field one of my cute-but-pretty-much-useless beer boars for the final couple of turns after the Tomb Kings had equalised. 

One of my knocked out players 

Desperate times call for beer boars

Honours even, then, with a 1-1 draw. Still no wins for the Ragnarockers. 

Game snack report

Chipotle and lime mini-cheddars. None survived the game.