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Offline Gunnarr

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Re: He shoots he scores! Bloodbowl the game!
« Reply #30 on: April 26, 2009, 08:11:27 AM »
I hope to be available for my first game tonight :)
Look me up if you feel like trashing me - coach name is Gunnarr with my brand new human team Fessbinder's Flagellants! :P
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Re: He shoots he scores! Bloodbowl the game!
« Reply #31 on: April 26, 2009, 09:34:50 AM »
This is starting to look very nice. Hopefully the gameplay will be smooth.
Didn't see this until beta was closed... so meh.

If the game takes off, I hope GW will release a new range of mini's for the actual (by now) Specialist Blood Bowl table top game.

Yet boo to them for not including Halflings. Puggy's Porridge Legion for the win!
There's nothing better than hail marying Halflings into the end zone with your Treeman just to find out that they squish into pretty pink puddles on the grass. Good times.
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Re: He shoots he scores! Bloodbowl the game!
« Reply #32 on: April 26, 2009, 12:42:50 PM »
Btw, my coach name is Praedor and team is called Marienburg Marvels, please add me to your friends list :)

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Re: He shoots he scores! Bloodbowl the game!
« Reply #33 on: April 27, 2009, 07:07:40 PM »
So far I'm not the luckiest coach ;)
First game saw me down to 4 players at one point, with 2 permanent injuries, one of which was a -1 movement penalty to one of my catchers.
I hope it'll pick up later...  :-\
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Re: He shoots he scores! Bloodbowl the game!
« Reply #34 on: April 27, 2009, 08:10:21 PM »
At least you didn't get 3 deaths in one game, like me  ::)
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Re: He shoots he scores! Bloodbowl the game!
« Reply #35 on: April 27, 2009, 08:11:34 PM »
No, I got 1...forgot to mention that one  :-X
Seriously, btw.  >:(
And now it crashed me and won't let me connect . <cry>
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Re: He shoots he scores! Bloodbowl the game!
« Reply #36 on: April 27, 2009, 08:24:09 PM »
I hope you guys aren't playing the meat-sack tactics with humies against orcs. If you do, you will just get hurt. Remember you can dodge out, if the opponent can hit you with just a blitz, then the chances are high you won't suffer that hard :)  It is a tactical game after all :)  Sure, accidents happen, and anybody can be unlucky, but really, if you are down to four players on the field, then you have possibly not been playing in the most optimal way ;)

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Re: He shoots he scores! Bloodbowl the game!
« Reply #37 on: April 27, 2009, 08:39:33 PM »
I'll admit I probably wasn't playing great - hey, I haven't played Bloodbowl since 2nd edition! Give me a break!  :P
Anyway, with around 60% failed armour checks I still blame bad luck, no matter how badly I played! :D

On a side note, anyone else getting "Error : Failed to establish connection" atm?
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Re: He shoots he scores! Bloodbowl the game!
« Reply #38 on: April 27, 2009, 08:41:38 PM »
So is this turn based? Or more realtime like a Fifa game?
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Re: He shoots he scores! Bloodbowl the game!
« Reply #39 on: April 27, 2009, 08:45:10 PM »
Turn based. It's an exact copy of the 5th edition boardgame.
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Re: He shoots he scores! Bloodbowl the game!
« Reply #40 on: April 27, 2009, 09:03:01 PM »
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On a side note, anyone else getting "Error : Failed to establish connection" atm?

On and off, but then again that could be me and my shitty at times connection :)
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Re: He shoots he scores! Bloodbowl the game!
« Reply #41 on: April 27, 2009, 09:13:03 PM »
i saw something in the game somewhere mentioning turnbased turns were 4 minutes and real-time turns 5 minutes. dont know how this would work though
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Re: He shoots he scores! Bloodbowl the game!
« Reply #42 on: April 27, 2009, 10:51:19 PM »
Hehe, I had an evening of great fun, and unbelievable bad luck.
To Warcold: I looked like Marcel with his dwarf army I guess.

I found orcs easier to manage than a human team, at least the injuries stopped (well, excepting my single thrower, which kind of forced me into a running game after 3 turns....)
I even had a good first half going, knocking out 5 humies and it should have ended 1-1, would I not have had an unlucky turnover in the last turn, making halftime come just too early.
Then in the second half, I was merrily mopping up the remaining defense, so I could run my blitzer through, when:
- My troll, with assistance from another orc, lost a block to a lone human lineman, causing an immediate turnover
- Another 3 orcs got knocked down in the next turn, 2 of them in equal blocks

....So I ran my goblin through (Look at that cretin go! He dodges one, two....he's through...and into the endzone!)

- And tossed a medium pass to equalize (5+, but there wasn't a human player near enough to pick up the ball, so I didn't really care if it'd be a loose ball in/near their endzone instead)
.......And fumbled it.

I guess it was just one of these nights.
But it was fun!  ;D

PS: On the connection thingie, resetting my modem helped for me.
PPS: Is the real-time thingie already in game? Haven't encountered the option  yet.
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Re: He shoots he scores! Bloodbowl the game!
« Reply #43 on: April 28, 2009, 04:55:51 AM »
The connection problem happens. There were some rumours there is/was a bug by which scrupulous players can force the connection to the server to be "lost", ie they used it when losing. At least it did happen a lot more often last week, most of my games went un-recorded :(

The game is either a faithful LRB5 turn based game, or a "Blitz" mode. Blitz game is a bit like RTS games. Wether games are played as turn-based or blitz is set by the league GM, and the open league is turn-based. I can set up a blitz league if there is interest for testing it (I haven't seen it in action either), I think we should get four people in easily (from this forum and I'll mention it to my friends too).

BTW, don't block with ogres or trolls unless a possible turnover is something you can live with (and even then I try to get triple dice opportunities only :) ). I usually just let my Ogre stand there and look ugly and intimidating, and he draws attention; his team-mates love him for that :)  The Bone-Head/Really Stupid skills together with Loner and no Block is not such a good combo :D

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Re: He shoots he scores! Bloodbowl the game!
« Reply #44 on: April 28, 2009, 05:03:06 AM »
Ok, created a Blitz league called "Marienburg Invitation Cup". Password is "handsofjustice" (without the "" of course :) ). Seems I can not take part in the cup myself, so please do comment how the blitz games feel like :)