Blood Bowl report: Only Fangs versus Transylvania Nightmares

 Welcome to probably the final game for my team of hypersexualised Beastly Women and Daemonettes, as due to circumstances, I dropped in the ranks.

 

Real life roared it's ugly head, forcing me to cancel games and as such slip down the rankings without the guaranteed 1-2 points I would pick up even when losing.

 

As a result, before tonight I still hung on in 8th place, but unless I win this game with a full streak for 6 points, at least 1 out of 2 teams will slide past me and bump me out due to sheer volume of games they played over me.  What's worse, I'm for the first time no longer in the lead for Most Beast (casualties caused), and that IS something I can rectify still in this game.

 

But of course, ladies being ladies and expensive as such, we lost 10k out of the treasury first... while he spend inducements on 3 Prayers of Nuffle, a cheerleader and a keg.

 

We had the kicking role for the start of the game, so the plan was to let him score soon, then start grinding his team down in order to equalize at least in the second half.  To that end, the ladies set-up in their FemDom pattern, out to cause as much damage early on as possible. 

  

Though an unlucky bitten thrall was the first to go to the injuries box after taking care of his liege.

  

The Vampires started piling towards my left flank, though his vargheist was kept in check, spending most of the time on the floor. 

 

But then suddenly they broke through on the other flank, the aristocracy of the night making use of their high movement and hypnotic gazes to open up that side of the pitch.

 

However, some of the ladies came over and tried to break off the push there as a result.

 

Peachgardens wasn't so lucky though, as she was carried off the pitch with a severly sprained ankle, which will result in not only missing the next game, but affecting her elegant speed in the future.

  

Sabina Sabok caused an injury on his vargheist, and as his blitzer also went down, forcing him to use his apothecary as he had failed his regeneration roll, so that took that out of the count pretty soon in the game.

  

But his runner went through, and on the fourth turn, the vampires already scored the 0-1, which actually was right down my alley, as I could start bullying now for at least two receives in short order.

  

Deploying once more rather aggresively, I got the Charge kick-off result, meaning all my pieces could slide into contact with his players that had deployed deeper in the field.

  

We picked up the ball as we started a huge slugfest in the center of the field.

  

But one of my ladies was pushed into the crowd.  Now luckily the men all love my girls, so it didn't make any problem and once she awoke from het KO she would be back to extract some female vengeance.  Vampires be warned! 

  

The big scrimmage continued around the middle line, the ball bouncing around at times as Only Fangs wasn't looking for a quick score.  Sabina Sabrok smacked over and badly hurt his Vargheist again, and this time as he failed his regeneration once again, he wouldn't be back for the rest of the game anymore.

  

One of his runners broke through again though, with the erratic scattered ball having fallen in her lap, but couldn't reach the end zone anymore and the first half came to an end, while Veronica Rose was sent off fouling on his thrower, also badly hurting him as he failed his regeneration.

 

With KO's and injuries now strife, the second half began with only 10 players a side present.  Deploying once more close to the line for some extra punching changes, it was now the half to work towards that scoring.

  

And soon his line was being knocked over at the scrimmage, as thrall after thrall was tossed around as a ragged doll. 

 

Steadily advancing into his half, the ladies of pleasure kept his players in check by mostly bowling them over, preventing his team from moving to much around that way.

  

 And slowly but surely started to bring the ball, though it changed hands quite a lot, over the middle and towards his end zone.

  

Helped by the fact that one of his vampire runners badly hurt herself dodging away (and he kept failing those regenerations), strength in numbers really began to count on the field.

  

 Sabina however managed to double skull herself over, only to do so again on the re-roll, but without any harm luckily, as she went after one of his last remaining vampires in search of that needed third caused casualty for the bonus point.

  

 Tanya Virago has placed herself behind his lines now, and all we needed to do was bring the ball to her and she would be able to run into his end zone.

  

 Which happened soon, and in the 14th turn, we drew the score to 1-1 and grabbed that needed point at least.

  

His injuries and KO box was littered, and when he failed each and every recovery roll even with a keg, it might still be possible to take home the win.

  

We once again deployed very aggressively against barely a handfull of opponents that where left, my beastly women infiltrating his half making use of their horns and helped by a vampire tripping over trying to rush to Tanya Virago.

 

The ball was handed over to her succesfully, and she ran in once again, scoring a final turn 16 winning touchdown for Only Fangs to the exstatic moans of the crowd, as she flashed her assets to them in celebration.

  

 All the few remaining vampires could do was try some very desperate plan involving a lot of chain pushes, but that went down the drain when a vampire fell over in his rush from the very first action...

 

And so ended the game with a 2-1 victory for Only Fangs, but sadly not scoring that third casualty caused, as the Chaos Dwarfs had also won.

 

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For all her dashing all over the place and hornying over a lot of players, the crowd elected Katty West as Only Fangs best performer of the match.  In addition to this award, she also learned the block skill.

 

More skills where obtained, with Sabrina Sabok getting Iron Hard Skin, while Tanya Virago also gained Block, meaning almost my whole starting line-up except the injured Peachgardens now has the block skill...

 

And so the game ended, and as said above, so would my league have been.  Enter Noshi, my darling partner.  Having seen due to circumstances just how much events I had to cancel the past months, she said I should at least try and finish the league.  As a result I planned in games against two of the three players I haven't faced yet this season (the third was unavailable), as well as a return game against the dwarfs.  Redemption perhaps for the claws that failed me in both games of armoured little tanks of either flavour?

 

Now that means, while I'm currently in 8th on tied points with today's opponent, I will always qualify on the merit of getting at least three additional points in, while the Vampires can only play one last game before reaching their maximum allowed amount of 15 games for the season, and I will always qualify for the play-offs quarter final as a result.

 

But first, next week it'll be damage control against that crazy bunch of snotlings with all their high strength big ones, and about a million in inducements to boot for star players and the likes...  my goals are to not lose to many important players, and score the three casualties by going after the snotlings themselves.

 

See you all next week for another game of erotic balls handling! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tangled

 Okay, so next year I'll be watching more Disney movies to catch up to Noshi (see my year goals for 2027 when I post them in december), but now I just wanted to watch this one for Mother Gothel, who is my core of my Lorcana Infinity deck I build.

 

But, first things first, watching some movies...

 

Tangled is the tale of Rapunzel, who was born from a single drop of sunlight.  Whenever she sings, her immensely long golden hair grants healing powers, and Mother Gothel keeps her locked away in a tower in order to use this power to stay eternally young.  But one day, a rogue called Flynn Rider stumbles upon her, and takes her out to see the world, to get his stolen tiara back.

 

However, Mother Gothel learns of this, and wants to stop this, causing Flynn, whose real name is Eugene, to be arrested.  Rapunzel is tricked in thinking he left her, but their friends, led by the horse Maximus, save him from hanging.  Gothel stabs him, but Rapunzel is prevented by a dying Eugene to save him as he cuts her hair, so she won't spend the rest of her life in captivity.  As Gothel falls out of the tower, a tear of Rapunzel falls on Eugene, healing him.  Returning to her original family, as she was a missing princess it turned out, they live happily ever after.

 

So well, yeah.  It isn't a bad movie, but for me personally of all those modern ones so far I only really enjoyed Encanto and Coco.  However, the scenes with the thugs, like the jailbreak, are downright hilarious, so that is that.

 

Is this going in my I love this one drawer?  Nope, but it didn't feel like a waste of time either. 

Yoroi Shin Den Samurai Troopers Part 2

 Not only was I excited for the continuation of the classic anime earlier this year, it was actually rather good as well.

 

And now the second part of the series is in the summer season, so time for some more enjoyment hopefully! 

 

After Ramaga was seemingly defeated at the expense of Gai sacrificing himself, it turns out the Divine World has other plans and the Samurai Troopers must stop them.  Betrayed from within, the Divine Beasts want to overthrow their ruler, who is actually Gai's mother, and bring back an ancient evil.  Gai is freed as a result, and Ryusei has been ressurected, rejoining the Samurai Troopers after Shion dies in battle (and with him, the last of the second generation Samurai).

 

Joined by the surviving Ten Warriors of Ramaga, they venture together to the divine realms to stop the attacks and destruction, and while the Warriors fall, they play their part in bringing the ghost of Ramaga back to help the Troopers.  In a fitting tribute, the original five fight back in our realm to keep the invasion in check, and it was great fun to see the old armours back in action, bit like Saint Seiya Omega did with the original saints.  Nostalgic fan service galore.

 

Eventually, they do manage to overcome the evil god though at some great personal losses, but as they prepare themselves to carry on their Troopers duties, peace for now has returned.

 

Now honestly, I'm not to wild about this sequel series.  While the first part still had some good moments, and this has the nostalgia feel, the fact is that it is TO focussed on the Armor of the Emperor, making the four others apart from Gai really be sidecharacters.  Even some of the Ten Warriors get more screentime and development then them.  So that makes it all a bit of a missed opportunity in my opinion, as this show could have been more had it not relied so heavily on the constant summoning of their "ultimate trumph card".

 

But, it was fun to see out of childhood feelings... but what the heck was going on with that boysband opening???? 

Two fresh pieces of terrain finished

 Over the past weeks I have been painting up quite a lot of terrain, and that to prepare already for 2027.

 

Because there will be quite some events run there, meaning more buildings the better!

 

It also helps of course to have some more finally finished for the solo OPR games I will be running here at home, and that also made me decide to "mix and match" on the scale: ruins of both pure 28mm as well as heroic 32mm, which looks huge compared to each other, but melts together on a field of battle in the end.

 

The first one finished was a small ruin in "pure 28" as such, a simple piece painted with some craft acryllics for drybrushing.

 

The second one, and as such much huger, was a 32mm heroic one, three tones acryllics and a mixture of brands of browns for the wood work. 

 

That is some nice additions as such to the tabletop for a bit of home gaming! 

The Mandalorian and Grogu

 Okay, first things first, this isn't a movie, this is literally a prolonged episode.

 

Well no, actually, it's the fourth season seemingly compressed into a movie...

 

You see, you can really tell in the movie where an episode would "end", and I counted 7 of such moments.  That means they probably took the script of the fourth season, and compiled it, but for the same amount it could just have been 7 or 8 episodes of between 30 to 45 minutes, the length it often had in the previous three.

 

Now, the story is that Mando is working for the New Republic, going in to gather Imperial agents and get information from them, based on a deck of cards.  But one very elusive one can only be found with the aid of the Hutt's.  Now, these are of course their criminal selves, and suspected of playing both sides ever since the Twins took over the syndicate from the dead Jabba.  They ask mando to get their cousin Rotta (yeah, the little one from the Clone Wars series), now a big gladiator who is under contract with Commander Coin, Mando's target.  

 

They set him free, but Mando himself is betrayed by the Hutt's and taken captive.  Grogu sets up a rescue mission, and sets him free, healing him back to health before the New Republic arrives to take down the Twins once and for all, as they learned they where actually on the Imperial side.  

 

What you get as such is a movie that combines the usual Mandalorian action, Grogu humour and a cool spacefighter battle at the end, but actually nothing more.  Yes, this would have indeed been better if it had been an actual series in my opinion, now it just felt like a television movie with some unfortunate cuts left or right, and not enough character backstory, as that was probably dropped from the original stories.

 

Enjoyable?  Yes.  Great Star Wars?  No, it diminishes the credit the series had build up before... 

The 2026 Goals: ready for the final stint

 Summer holidays have passed, traditionally a period where paint goals slow down and all the rest picks up, so let's have a look at how things are going.

 

And which goals have become sheer impossible to obtain in the remaining months of the year...

 

For one I can say, that will be painting the Idoneth army, as the Dawi'Zharr have now passed them by big time, and are almost ready for the tournament instead in november.  Guess that counts as finishing a 2k+ army, just not the one I had set out to do...

 

But I digress, so as we had finished the obtaining a Golden Ticket, paint a 5 points Raid force, complete the Underworlds bands and watch 20 series before this update, what have we been adding to the tally? 

 

The first goal to be utterly smashed, and a bit unexpected, was the read 10 manga target.  Motivated by a badge stack over at MAL, I went through the complete Kimetsu no Yaiba series (the anime is far more prettier though), which is 23 volumes... so that counter now sits on 28 out of the 10 planned ones. 

A second goal that has been obtained is visit 10 parks on Coaster Cloud, as we did quite a few in the summer holiday period, bringing the counter now to 11 visited parks. 

 

But for every success, there is of course a failure, or an impending one.  As I said above, the Idoneth army stranded at 1330/2000 points (pun intended) with no intention to expand on it anytime soon due to the Helmsiths having arrived.  But I also stranded on various other paint projects, because I doubt I will be painting in these final weeks.  Some things that as such are falling by the wayside are the 500th Anniversary White Dwarf, yet again Thorin's Company, and the 50 spaceships even though those will be boosted still this year.

 

Because in a month, my desk will be filled with Gundam Assemble models, and boy am I hyped about that game as you can see in this video I made back in august

 

Now, there are also goals I worked on, though I knew I wouldn't complete this year, like completing the 't Smidje pin series, or others that just won't happen.  Things like winning a tournament with Hrothgorn, for the simple reason I'm not planning on taking him to the few remaining events that I attend this year.  Winning three tournaments will be something hard to achieve as well, unless I win the final two of the year, namely Halle in november and the actual World Championships in december... so fat chance on that as I'm, well, not going to the Worlds, see below on the why, but maybe some might pop up locally I can still attend...

 

Now, that lack of events will also be the reason I will fall just short of the aimed 10 events to participate in as I had to forfeit last week's event in Amsterdam due to the kid falling very sick, though others bar the 10 frituurs will be probably achieved, like the 50 beers, retain number 1 on T3, and but not the actually getting to Barcelona. And I am binging some anime's at a serious rate lately, so that 50 goals will be reached in all probability, the counter now standing at 41 out of 50, nearly doubled from last update and well over the halfway mark!

 

So yeah, we are on a nice course to get a 50/50 ratio of completed goals for this year, and getting about 150+ models painted while doing so.  It's just, as always, a matter of focus as I drifted around (and heat waves in summer period killing the complete schedule) on my goals to much.   

Fantasy Anime League Fall 2026: the selection

 Here we go again, a new season of trying to predict the most popular anime's of the moment.

 

And of course I joined in once more, hoping to keep that streak of the top 25% going!

 

So, which anime did I pick for this this time around?  Well, I first selected one from the four of the Restricted list, my choice falling to the second season of Ao no Hako.  Joining that in the starting line-up, I opted for the second season of A Returner's Magic Should be Special, the third season of Ranma 1/2, the third season of Reincarnated as an Aristocrat with an Appraisal Skill and finally the second season of The Ramparts of Ice.  A pretty safe selection to be honest, made up of continuations of popular series from previous seasons.

 

Benched to fill in are Dragon Ball Super Beerus, because Dragon Ball, the second season of The Detective is Already Dead and finally Revorn as a Space Mercenary, because of course I needed to include at least one scifi series in my choices!

 

So these are the series I began the challenge with today.  The first week is always the most difficult to guess, as you have to take into account launch dates and such, but we will see where we get and then hopefully build up a ramping momentum to end at the target finishing position.

 

See you in 13 weeks with the full results and the course I rode during the season! 

The Haul Report 443: Bulking out on Bulk

 This episode of the haul report is almost all about bulk, bulk, bulk for TCG's!

 

You see, as you could hear on my Youtube channel, I'm dusting off my love for cardgames again with the advent of Noshi discovering Lorcana. 

 

And that also reignited my drive to complete my own collections, namely of various Weiss Schwarz as well as Gundam TCG series.  But that means trade stuff was needed, as I had only kept "the good ones" from my previous stint in the TCG life, and I went out to obtain bulk for about every cardgame listed on CardMarket, to create a flow of trades in and out.  The goal?  To complete my decks, get rid off cards we don't need from Sealed events, and eventually fill out the gaps in my own collections!

 

There are generally two ways to obtain this: play on low volume, high hitting cards, OR go for the steady but low value stream of bulk.  The latter is the path I choose, less volatile in value but more work to get sorted and listed though.  And I picked up a heap of bulk lots as such in this period, let's have a look at what to expect on my CardMarket page as such in the coming weeks and months as I go through them... 

 

The first game I have been buying from was Riftbound, the League of Legends cardgame.  Scoring some lots from various sources, this gives a solid foundation to trade around with.

 

Of course, you need the staples of the TCG hobby as well, and a big box of Magic cards was collected.

 

Another big lot is also from the "big three", but all in the spanish edition: Yu-Gi-Oh cards, another staple in the TCG hobby. And of which I forgot to take a picture as I was cursing through the gazillion expansions they have to select and list from...

 

Now, as this is all to make volume first, I ain't to picky on the actual languages of the cards, though that might mean a bit more work listing them as they will need to be checked to their english names, but the price per card was a big incentive in "liberating" these from closets and dark forgotten corners of collections.  I need to take into account after all the fact they trade away, if they go, at between 2 to 5 eurocent, so I need to keep my buy in low as a result, and the goal is by january to be able to start trading around for the above mentioned collections.

 

But yes, the coming days (and especially nightshifts) I'll be shifting through quite a few cards it seems... 

My Hero Academia season 7

 We are nearing the completion of the series, with the 7th season being the penultimate of this highly enjoyable superheroes anime series.

 

And it is one that is all about the big clash between good and evil, redemption arcs and sadly also farewell to quite some characters...

 

And Japan gets help against Shigaraki, All for One and the jailbreakers, as America's number one hero, Stars and Stripes, comes to aid no matter her government reacts to it.  Unfortunatly, while a student of All Might from his time overthere, she falls as well, but not before revealing important things on Shigaraki's current powers.  The heroes go about to spread out the League of Villains, trapping them in seperate locations but Toga manages to sneak to another place, causing a rift in the plan.

 

As Deku as a result finds himself at the wrong place, he must rusg to the "Coffin in the Sky" build around UA to face Shigaraki, where Bakugo and the others make a standoff against this totally overpowered villain, and one by one they start falling.  But Deku, enraged seeing Bakugo mortally wounded, arrives in the nick of time, while Gentle Criminal (hello back, second favorite character of the series for me) and La Brava redeem themselves by aiding the heroes.  La Brava overrules the hack by Sceptic and his team easily, while Gentle prevents UA from crashing and allowing the fight to go on, aided as well by Lady Nagant, another redeeming criminal.

 

All for One in the meantime stops Hawks, stelaing his powers, after a fight with Endeavour, and it shows that the more All for One gets damaged, the more he rewinds in age due to Eri's quirk he stole.  Endeavour and his family must stop Dabi though, he went out of control and is about to go nuclear, and at grave injuries manage to do this, though Dabi refuses to forgive his family before passing.

 

Himiko Toga, who took Twice's form, uleashes the Sad Man's Parade, which makes thousands of copies overrunning the heroes.  But Ochaco gets through to her, and while she is gravely wounded by Himiko, the girl repents and gives her life to save Ochaco (farewell, favorite character of the series).  Spinner, mutated by All for One, is stopped in the meantime at the hospital, but manages to free Kurogiri.  But as the League is rounded up or killed, the main battle between Shigaraki and Deku unfolds.  When All for One nears them to merge with Shigariaki though, and armoured quirkless All Might faces him, uncovering the weakness of his evil nemesis as they gear up for the apocalyptic battle between good and evil...

 

Now we only have to wait for the final season, as the ultimate battle between both All for One and All Might on the one hand, and Shigaraki and Deku on the other in the final season of My Hero Academia!