*disclaimer: long blog, read at own risk*

When being in this cheap depot shop, my girlfriend, much to my surprise, came to me with a copy of Cyanide's Blood Bowl for the Nintendo DS. She happens to have one lying around and since the price is 6 euries I decide to make the purchase. Ok I have read the horrendous reports on here and the low price is fishy, but hey, I liked the cover and I know my gf doesnt like the game so I had to have it! :)

First impression wast that bad, nice to see Bob Bifford and Jim Johnson doing the commenting, although they dont do comments at all we just see one of em at the start of a match. Also when the ref catches you with a foul is quite funny! The DS has two screens, the top is where the scoreboard or player info is and the bottom screen is pitch or reserve box.

So first test game in quick mode vs some woodies, the autopathing indeed is worthless unless you like to dodge all over the place but clicking your path individually with that little pen thingy on that little screen is not easy, luckily you can zoom in. In the beginning I was struggeling to get my turns done but once u get used to it its allright. But the way the AI plays feels like you play a noob who doest know the rules properly but lucks you with every move. (the fummble emote; -2d Pow-Pow, me good coach yes comes to mind)

So now its time for Championship mode. Put it on veteran (just means AI is as stupid but your dice are worse :D) cus we playz Fumbbl an weez beatz those Cyanide punkz!


Now for the AI part;

The Ai actually is so bad its not fun to play against, I took Chaos cuz me likes and been lucky to get some mvp's on warriors pretty fast to get them to skill, 2Blodge Guards, a killer (Block-MB-CLAW-Tackle) and a baller Block-Sure hands+AG.
I cant count the times those blodgers have been downed by -2d's, even some-3dice and never no tackle to be seen.

It will never put more than 3 players on the line of scrimmage, not even when receiving, always put one in the middle and two players one square from the wide zone line. And the players they put on it! :D Gobbo's put their saw on the LOS when kicking for crying out loud!!

Also when downed they seldom upright their players if you still have a player adjecent, or blitzing some non important players and not even marking the ballcarrier when he's in front of endzone.

The skill choices they make are ridiculous, almost every player takes strip ball as first skill, followed by something Dalfort would take on one of his mad teams, Catch,Strip-Ball,Pass-block saurus anyone? Catch on Ogre as first skill?!?

At least they do take +stats, AG Skaven lino, where do they put him? On the LOS when kicking, naturally I murked that fool!
Haven had a td against and am up at 2OOO+ tv, the inducements by other teams get spent on rerolls, bribes and extra apo's. Those last two sometimes arent even used apart from goblins who use bribes for the secret weapons.

So your probably asking yourself why the hell did you play it then, well my interwebs was down for a few days and even if its not grade a stuff like Fumbbl, it was enough for me to get my daily fix of Blood Bowl. Sorry for the long blog, just glad to be back! Now for some real Blood Bowl, crushing another humans pixles feels better than some silly Nintendo. (Certainly so the other way around!)