Casual Underworlds games 19th of august 2026

 So, this has been a while, but I managed to get to the Outpost for the first time in months (yay holidays) and get some causal games of Underworlds in.

 

And I took my Chaos Dwarfs along with the deck I played in Halle consisting of Pillage and Plunder with Emberstone Sentinels, as I haven't touched the game since then.  Still need to see what to filter in that one, so best to give it some mileage first... 

 

My first game of the night was against Peter and his Kanandora's Blades, running Wrack and Ruin together with Deadly Synergies.  I hate this match up, as I am forced to take stagger tokens in order to get my demon dice and inspire, while also needing to delve for my Pillage and Plunder.  And this gives his Bleed effect a field day!

 

Both warbands deployed, and we got ready for the battle. 

 

Morudok and Tokkor led the charge, in order to score a quick Carefull Survey as we went off, and damaging his big guy a little as he drank his healing potion.

 

The Dawi Zharr started their desolation works, inspirng some along the way as a result.  

  

 Morudok canny sapper'ed away, but Tokkor could not hold against the enemy and fell to the Bleed effect of the knife wielding barbarians as a result, while Imnidrin saw them close up on her.

 

But at the end of round 1, it still was a nice 6-4 lead for the Blood of the Bull, though it started to look warm under their feet with the horde of enemies approaching.

 

Imnidrin was the next to fall as slash after slash came her way as she was the chosen skull of the savages, her defences overwhelmed.

 

Soon after, Zuldrakka also fell as she missed her attacks to take down Throkk, and in return her armour was cleaved through by Kamandora herself in a battle of the ladies.

 

Morudok now tried to take down his leader as a result and the score stood now at the end of turn 2 at 11-15 for the Blades, but also failed to cause any significant damage on her, she was truly smiled upon by Khorne.  But the Blades took initiative and before long he fell to the return blows of the Blades' leader.

 

This meant Grisk's moment had come, using Hidden Paths he appeared on the other side of the board and managed to score some surges along the way in doing so.

 

He was pushed back all the way to the edge of the board, staggered and very, very afraid but had scored maybe just enough with his shennanigans in the opposing side.

 

 Because he was killed by Throkk, but as the lumbering brute didn't delve, it allowed me to score Strip the Realm and Torn Landscape, grabbing a further 5 glory and taking a last moment 19-18 win even after being tabled by the Blades. Nice going you brave Hobgrot!

 

And that means I will need to paint up a bare chested marauder for the slave regiment somewhere soonish!

 

My second game put me against Wouter, who brought the Gnarlspirit Pack with Pillage and Plunder and Wrack and Ruin.  That's a lot of and's in that deck description...

 

The warbands deployed, ready to fight each other over tokens to be flipped!

 

Morudok was assaulted on all sides, and he quickly was taken down by the enemy marauders, being the first to fall as even his inspired defences couldn't save him.

 

 The Gnarlspirit Pack celebrated with a little dance around the token he had charged on though, allowing him to at least score two surges before his demise...

 

 He was avenged though, as Zuldrakka took down Lupan, but sadly none of her three successes had a crit to allow her to slide onto the objective.  The first round as such ended on a 6-5 for the Blood of the Bull.

  

 In the second round, Zuldrakka continued her wrecking job, taking down Kheira.

 

 Before being a Canny Sapper and return to her side of the board.

  

 Grisk however was not so lucky, and he was taken out by a superspeedy Sarrakkar.

 

 And then I made a mistake that would cost me the game in all probability.  Sarrakkar, on one wound left, was in range of Tokkor and he fired on her instead of charging adjacent.  He saved the damage so he didn't die, but if I had charged him, I would have been charged out and Zuldrakka could have moved on, and delved, the objective in the centre to allow me to score Supremacy.  Now, I needed to charge with him in his final activation at Gorl on the Aqua token, and he didn't even get him off in the end... resulting in a 10-11 lead for the Pack instead...

 

In the third turn, Sarrakkar did fall though to the flamethrower, but this would prove to little to late.

 

Zuldrakka now did turn the objective she needed to have flipped previous turn.

 

But Gorl in turn used Canny Sapper, appearing before Imnidrin and taking down my last hope for Supremacy.  With no chance of getting Tokkor to move anymore due to not being able to charge out, I couldn't score that anymore.  My final chance was to focus, with 4 objectives left in my deck, and if Strip the Realm popped up, I would still be able to steal the win on tiebreakers.  But alas, it was the other two that came to my hand, and as such the Blood of the Bull tasted defeat with 15-18.

 

So, a good evening, and I now what I must do with my deck now to have it run a little bit less clunky, so that's a good thing.  The playmistake was purely due to not having played for months now (since Halle in June) so I can sort of live with that as well.

 

Now to see if somehow, sometime I can try out the changed deck before the next event... 

 

 

 

 

 

Burn the Witch

 Burn the Witch is set in the Bleach universe, and was a movie released in 2020, but streamed on Crunchyroll in a 3 piece anime series.

 

So I sat down for the movie, and for some hopefully good fantasy storytelling...

 

In London, dragons are still around, yet unseen to the general populace.  But there is a "mirror dimension" called Reverse London where these creatures are visible and can be hunted down to protect the people.  Ninny is a girl that in our world is member of the band Reverse London, but travels to the other dimension where she is a witch, monitoring those beasts.

 

But together with her partner Noelle, they must protect Balgo, who has a strange connection to the mythical creatures.  The movie has some decent humour, and an okay storyline.  Essentially a side story to Bleach, it does offer another point of view on that world, and was incorporated in the main story through a mobile video game.

 

Well worth the watch for some lazy afternoon anime watching, though I wouldn't say you MUST see this to have your anime life "complete". 

Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Stellar War Part 1

 Time for some good hard science fiction anime, as we continue with the Die Neue These reboot of Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

 

The second season, Stellar War, was actually made as three cinematic movies, later each split in short series of 4 episodes each.

 

Only downside being I only seem to find a dubbed version online overhere, but heck, while not ideal it doesn't distract from once again the fantastic visuals and strong story. 

 

Following immediatly after the huge battle at the end of the first season, the remnants of the fleets are gathering together after their failed invasion.  While Yang keeps organiszing a fighting withdrawal, the losses are catastrophic and shifts the momentum of the war to the Empire.  But when the Kaiser dies without naming an heir, civil war stirs underneath their successes, buying the Alliance time. But the losses also have taken a toll on Alliance leadership, and unrest stirs between the surface there as well...

 

This first part of the second season / first movie kicks off intensely, with the huge battle, but also the politics behind two galactic forces adding a layer of intrigue.

 

I look forward to watching the next instalment for sure! 

Yuru Camp season 2

 In our continueing journey to watch a 1000 anime series before 2030 (meaning that over a period of 42 years I would have seen 25 series a year on average), I finally continued Yuru Camp.

 

A lovely, innocent slice of life series about the Outdoor Activities Club, a small group of school friends that want to go camping outside in Japan.

 

There is nothing bad to say about Yuru Camp actually.  It has no love issues, no drama, and of course no action sequences or even tragic injuries or god forbid, deaths.  No, what you get is a group of school girls going out into the landscape of Japan to go camping, and their journey getting there.  And that is both literally, as by figure of speech, as well as what they learn along those paths with the solemn goal of having a good time and enjoying the view.

 

And that is just fine for me, every now and then you just want to watch that innocent yet enjoyable anime series that just puts so many smiles and good feelings in your head.  From how Rin and Nadeshiko each go solo camping, the first being experienced in this, the latter all learning on what it encompasses.  Before they reunite and go on a big camping trip together after they gathered the necessary funds for the undertaking... and to go enjoy the onsen in the region.

 

And so we are taken along for 13 episodes of pure cuteness and cute adventures, and for the 700th anime I completed in my lifetime, that is just fine! 

 

Blood Bowl Match report: Only Fangs versus Hashut's Homeboys

 Time for the second game in a row against short legged armoured tin cans, so hopefully my Claws will perform better this game round.

 

Facing the Chaos Dwarf team in our league, who had one game more under the belt but a CTV of 100 less, Only Fangs took to the pitch today as such.

 

Now, his team also had a Minotaur, but more importantly his four Iron-hard Skin blockers all had Guard, so the middle section of the field would be a grinder, and one I was planning to avoid, hopefully dismantling the team peacemeal by focussing on the Bull Centaurs and Hobgoblins to take out his scoring potential.  Or at least, that is the game plan. 

 

Now, he had spend his inducements on 4 cheerleaders, a team mascot, a weather mage and 3 Prayers to Nuffle, whom would allow him to throw a rock, have his top blocker up to AV11 and gave Peachgardens greasy cleats meaning she would be at minus one movement for the game.  Not the most terrible of results I must say.

 

As both teams lined up for a first half, it would soon become apparent that the claws where once again having an off day, passing through armour only twice during the game for a stunned and a KO result... yeah, great investment that has been in the past two games where they where skilled up for...

 

This all resulted in a long, drawn out first half where for most of the time, nothing seem to happen.  Blockers on both side knocked each other over, drawing the speed out of the game, but also failing to do any serious damage.

 

Until in turn 6 his Minotaur broke the armour of Kleio Valentien, badly hurting her and sending her to the casualties box as a result.

 

This opened a hole in the defensive line, and one of his Bull Centaurs managed to break through with the ball, scoring the 1-0 after a series of succesful rushes.

 

 

One blocker down as a result, my tackle Beastly Women had to take to the pitch, whom I had tried to keep safe for the future games against dodgy vampires and the likes.  We lined up in our Femdom formation, but he got a Charge on the kick-off table, and his Minotaur badly hurt Proxy Paige as a result of that.

 

Now two blockers down, crap, the girls knocked over the raging cow, and Raven Black, assisted by about half the team, fouled the big beast.  When the dust settled and the Chaos Dwarf apothecary had had a look at the beast... it was pronounced deceased as a stiletto of one of the ladies boots had perforated it's windpipe.

 

But the half ended after that, and Only Fangs was trailing still.

 

The second half told a likewise story, with the ladies keeping the ball in the team, using their slightly higher movement speed to pull his team slowly overstretched by going left to right and back behind their line.

  

But the an opening started to form, and my opponent hadn't expected that I would try that play.  Cat Coxx pushed over the hobgoblin next to her, in order to blitz into the end zone.  Raven Black then moved up with the ball, threw a perfect 6 pass, and Cat Coxx duly caught it right in the endzone, equalising the score on the board to 1-1 and 4 turns left for the Chaos Dwarfs.

 

The teams went to the line again, and Only Fangs went for a very deep, defensive positioning.  As my claws had done nearly nothing, I didn't want to go into the slugfest anymore as no way I would grab those three casualties for the bonus points. 

 

Instead, I kept the field boxed in, forcing him to have to make a series of dodges to get through.

 

And right at the end, due to Frenzy that pushed Sabrina Sabok past his Bull Centaur (I forgot to grab a re-roll here, I was fishing for a both down on the second roll, as we both had block and that would obstruct the Bull Centaur so he couldn't score anymore), and instead she ended in the crowd in return, with no consequences bar perhaps a finger stuck in front or aft.  It might come down to his final turn...

 

But the Bull Centaur would need to dodge three times, and then rush for 2 more, and at the second dodge he already failed.  I broke through his armour, but he was only stunned, oh what a poetic justice that would have been... 

 

But no problem, the game ended at 1 to 1, leaving me nicely in 6th and certainty of qualification, while the Chaos Dwarfs still have to look back for the upcoming snotling teams...

 

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And for this game, the crowd elected none other then Veronica Rose as MVP, for her brave game of tying up his grinder block in the center all match long.

 

So, for the next game I'm down one inexperienced linewoman, who was fouled into a Miss next game at the end of the match, so that is okay for me.  This could have been far worse, especially as my claws kept failing spectacularly. 

 

League wise, I expect one of the two snotling teams to jump over me in the coming weeks, putting em still solid in 7th at that moment, and the second team of snotlings is coming up through the ranks at the moment.  I actually am aiming to qualify for the play-offs either as 8th in the ranking, which would knock these Chaos Dwarfs out, and get me a quarter final against the Wood Elves.  That would come down to opening round brutality on how much we can damage that team, OR qualify as 5th or 6th to be probably be put against the Dwarf team I faced last match, for a hopefully better performance of my Claws.

 

I'm just trying to avoid either the Skaven or the Necromantic Horror teams in those quarter finals, as they are both to fast or to solid for my poor T3 ladies team to handle...

 

But let's see how it goes next game!