Blood Bowl!

[BanzaiCat]

Actually, I'm sorry to say this, but I don't think I'll be able to participate for now. I need to be judicious in the budgeting of my time and between the B-29 AAR, the BOTF AAR, and some upcoming reviews, I should probably not add something else to take up my gaming schedule. At least for now. As KyzBP said, I will watch with great interest though, especially if you guys do a narrative of your game results and the League overall.

[KyzBP]

Actually, I'm sorry to say this, but I don't think I'll be able to participate for now. I need to be judicious in the budgeting of my time and between the B-29 AAR, the BOTF AAR, and some upcoming reviews, I should probably not add something else to take up my gaming schedule. At least for now. As KyzBP said, I will watch with great interest though, especially if you guys do a narrative of your game results and the League overall.

Nice try Banzai but you're not getting out of it that easy.  I have absolutely no time right now but, somehow, someway, I'm going to find time to participate in this league.  Oh, and so are you.

[GJK]

We're thinking two weeks to complete a game (pbem or live).  Pbem turns take about 10 minutes to run.  There's 16 logs for the turns (8 per side plus the kickoff's add a few logs but are simply the kicking team lining up for the kick, the receiving team lining up to receive the kick, the kicking team placing the ball and rolling for scatter and then the receiving team begins a regular turn so if you average two logs a day (about 20 minutes/day), you should be able to complete a game.  If you can budget that time, we'd love to have you guys! 
If interested, you can join the league on our page here:  http://vabbl.org/obblm/index.php?section=main

[BanzaiCat]

Well, ok...but I might need a nudge every so often.  :)

[GJK]

Well, ok...but I might need a nudge every so often.  :)

Awesome!  A turn does play really quickly via pbem.  I was getting out turns during my 15 min breaks at work all week long.  :)

Damien (Outcast) is our commish.  When you register on the site, he'll get the notice and approve you (I've already asked him to look out for you guys).  He's across the pond but strangely he seemed to be online during the same hours (CST) that I was so we had no difficulties at all getting our turns done.

[BanzaiCat]

I went to the VABBL site and requested a registration. Beyond that I haven't thought much about what kind of a team I want to field, nor am I certain how to go about building it. I am certain you've provided this info already so give me a day or two to go back through everything. You had sent me a link to your dropbox a couple of times I believe.

[GJK]

Yeah, in the dropbox folder (link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/alob72vrrisz8ds/AAB7c0rwbglvgszWrMlNTWGHa?dl=0) is a spreadsheet titled "Zen7.1 LRB6.0.xls".  Pull down a copy of that.  It will price out your team for you.  You can view my roster as a reference (74 Dalir Audhumlaboys.xls) which is my Norse team.  This is based off of the 1974 Dallas Cowboys team that I  watched as a kid growing up. The player names have been modified to fit the Norse naming convention and the logo is an Anglo-Saxon rune that means "Cattle". "Audhumla"  was a primeval cow that was worshipped in Norse mythology and Dalir was one of their largest cities.

Anyways, in the folder called "Rules and reference material" is a copy of CRP (Competition Rules Pack) in pdf and also what I think is my more useful .chm file that has extras called "Blood_Bowl_LRB6.chm" (Living Rulebook v6, the last).  At the bottom is the "Teams".  Pick a team and you will see the players available to that team and the cost for each positional player.  The spreadsheet will plug in those numbers but for a starting team, our cap is $1,000,000 (that includes the players, re-rolls, apothocary, fan factor, etc).  Also the "Skills" section is a great reference to see what the various skills do for whatever team it is that you do choose.

"Three Die Block" is a great BB podcast.  If you have an idea for a team that you want, Google "3 die block <team race>" and you'll get a link to the podcast(s) that talk about that team, it's strengths and weakenesses, what they suggest for a build out and what they suggest for the skill ups (or just go to http://threedieblock.libsyn.com/ and then type in the team type in their search box....probably a better route to go).  Invaluable information.  I used it to put together my Norse team.

[GJK]

I might of mentioned it (too lazy to look), but there's a folder called "Blood Bowl vs Outcast".  That has the game logs from a pbem that I have going with Outcast now.  If you grab the vassal module, you can go through the logs to get a real good idea of how the module works and how the game turns flow.  It may also give you some good scouting info on us.  ;)

[BanzaiCat]

Thanks, GJK, for regurgitating that info again, much appreciated. I hope to get to it in the next day or so.

[undercovergeek]

Thanks, GJK, for regurgitating that info again, much appreciated. I hope to get to it in the next day or so.

same here, shit weekend and i need to gather the info and get my ass in gear

as a deadline man - is there one by which it all needs doing and thatll probably give me the kick up the arse i need?

[GJK]

Thanks, GJK, for regurgitating that info again, much appreciated. I hope to get to it in the next day or so.

same here, shit weekend and i need to gather the info and get my ass in gear

as a deadline man - is there one by which it all needs doing and thatll probably give me the kick up the arse i need?

If you're really interested in playing - please do so! Would love to have you.  We can fit in one more for the league so I'd suggest getting to the vabbl.org site and registering.  I'll let Outcast know that we might have one more. 

Other than that, he's putting together a message forum for us on the site and we're also hammering out the league rules (most of which will be taken from various other leagues since it's tried and tested already). 

I've found Outcast to be very easy going and very energetic about the game.  I don't see things such as "if you don't submit your match by xyz date, then you are disqualified" type of stuff at all.  I'm fairly new to BB and you guys are either new or rusty so it's going to be a beginner's learning league.  I've picked up quite a bit just over the past few weeks and I can share what I've learned about team building, etc. and pass that along to you guys.

As for teams, I've picked Norse.  My brother is going with his Wood Elf team.  Outcast is playing as Orcs against me in a game right now but not sure if that's what he's going to take to the league or not.  Of course, you can select those same team races as well, it doesn't matter aside from it may get confusing on the vassaal board about who belongs to who but if need be, I can add a 2nd set of teams that have alternate markings to distinguish them.

[undercovergeek]

thanks for your patience, ill be along tonight UK time 20:00 ish to do the necessaries

[GJK]

thanks for your patience, ill be along tonight UK time 20:00 ish to do the necessaries

Great!  Outcast won't feel so left out then (he's in the UK as well).  Maybe we can have a fun "All Star" game mid season, Team USA vs Team UK with an assortment of our best players for the season to date.  We could move our pieces that are from our individual teams and then pass the log around until the full team is done for it's side.  That would be pretty cool!

[undercovergeek]

thanks for your patience, ill be along tonight UK time 20:00 ish to do the necessaries

Great!  Outcast won't feel so left out then (he's in the UK as well).  Maybe we can have a fun "All Star" game mid season, Team USA vs Team UK with an assortment of our best players for the season to date.  We could move our pieces that are from our individual teams and then pass the log around until the full team is done for it's side.  That would be pretty cool!

you see, that sounds awesome!

[BanzaiCat]

I'm thinking of a Halfling or Goblin team, just because. I'd rather not do a team that someone else has and I'm more fond of bashy teams than prancing nancy elves. ;)