Blood Bowl Match report: Only Fangs versus Swift as Lead

 The downside of not having played for almost 3 months is that some teams have caught up, and even passed, in skills, yet due to me not having any Miss Next Game players still are lower in TV.

  

And that is today against, well, the second hardest hitting team in the League after Only Fangs at time of writing, Swift as Lead, a Dwarf team with a Steamroller to boot.

 

So the prime targets for the claws is to take out the two with Guard, then survive long enough with my key players to have it being send off... meaning that I'll keep the minotaur, Sabrina Sabok, out of it's way until then hopefully. OR I bring Grashnak Blackhoof and give that Steamroller two things to think about...

 

I opted for the second, as that seemed fun and chaotic.  This meant he had a mountain of petty cash though, which he spend on 3 Cheerleaders, 3 Prayers to Nuffle (extra SP for completions, one guy getting pro, and the trapdoors are active), a Team Mascot, a Bribe, a Dodgy Ref and Josef Bugman himself coaching the team).  Adding to the game, it would be played in Pouring Rain, something we would love to have here actually...

 

The Dwarfs opted to receive, and both teams drew to the line of scrimmage and get the game going, ready for some serious mayhem as we both fielded the hardest hitting teams of the League at current.  And with Sabrina Sabok and his star Blitzer vying for the most casualties honor... 

 

 

 

And it began not that great, with one of my beastwomen immediatly been knocked out cold.  Now, as would be a thing during the whole game, no matter how many block dice he threw, he would always have at least one pow result... only a single time did he get double skulls, but each and every block for the rest of the match, my teammembers spend time down on the floor... 

 

 

He started out the slugfest of "who could make the most casualties" (apparently, it was said this game also included a ball it seems), his Blitzer Badly Hurting Cat Coxx, while his Deathroller knocked Sabrina Sabok into the injuries box, only to have her pumped full of stimulants by the Apothecary and get her back on the pitch as soon as possible.

 

Not to be outdone though, Only Fangs replied with badly hurting two of his linemen in return, courtesy of Katty West and Grashnak Blackhoof himself.  The pitch was starting to look quite empty though...

 

 

Soon after, Val Steele was injured as well though by his star Slayer, and his runner had picked up the ball, breaking through towards the end zone to try and score at the very end.  Sabien DeMonia though had hung back just for this eventuallity, and while she bowled him over, her claws didn't get through the armour, something that was my fate for almost the entire match by the way.

  

The teams went to the half time as such with a 0-0 score, but Only Fangs was one player up now, numbering 11 to 10 to get the drive going.  By the way, the linewoman at the back right in this picture was moved one to the left for legal deployment after the picture was taken.

 

 

The half started immediatly with an angry Sabrina Sabok injuring one his Troll Slayers, because that feud with his Blitzer... 

 

His other Blitzer though replied, badly hurting Sofi VonDoom as Only Fangs kept the ball behind their lines, trying to form a corridor on their right flank to get it through.

 

 

 

This was actually a distraction, as they wanted to run over on the other side once most of the dwarves had been pulled aside, but his Runner stopped the attempt right at the end. But I had to lure his star Troll Slayer into the middle to have a fair go at the breakthrough, and he had a LOT of needed re-rolling to be done to get the Runner there... and then of course took her down on a single blockdice...

  

Sabrina Sabok put another notch on her casualty tally, smashing his second Troll Slayer into the injury box as well.  It looked all like a fair game, it would be sheer impossible to still score, so it would remain 0-0, and we kept badly hurting each other so no miss next games or so, and grabbing the 3+ casualty points each as we both had scored 4 by now.

  

But never underestimate the ferocity of women!  Not content on this perfect draw for both teams, Abella Danger threw a last turn block on his lineman with tackle, punching her nailed fingers through his eye sockets and instantly killing him right before the referee brought the slugfest to an end...

 

So, three points for both teams in the League ranking, with 2 for a draw and one bonus for the amount of casualties.  I can definitly live with that, as after months of not playing and other teams catching up, this meant I can consolidate my play off spot some more.

 

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And then the crowd went to elect their star of the game, picking Raven Black for her valiant, but ultimately stopped, attempt at scoring in the closing stages of the game, and obtaining Block as a result.

 

So, this leaves me in a good place to face the other armoured tincans team of the League, the Chaos Dwarfs, in two weeks.  While I won't have that much use for my claws with his 4 Iron-hard Skin blockers and pile of Hobgoblins, we are both on the same number of points.  Except he has more matches played, so if I can draw or win that one, I'm mathematically assured of qualification and can start saving players from the risks of getting injured (looking at that Snotling team after him with 2 pump wagons, 2 trolls, morg'n'thorg and more of that muscled shennanigans).  It also means I can start selecting more Beastly Women for the MVP points, and get them to obtain Block with the eye of the teams that come after the Chaos Dwarfs, being a stunty team and two vampire teams where my claws are of less use anyways. 

 

But most importantly, Sabina took a further two casualty lead on his Blitzer in the chase of that particular League honour...