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2016-05-21 00:08:41
13 votes, rating 5
13 votes, rating 5
It's Grim Up North (and our ears do not have points)
People are actually reading this, which only goes to show you never can tell.
Anyway, my claims to fame are few, but I do remember playing 1e BB back in 1988 and rapidly growing appalled at how overpowered the Dwarf team was. That said, most of my serious BB playing (well, as serious as I get) happened in 1999-2000 in a small town in the north of England. One of the distinguishing features of the local sensibility was a near-pathological hatred, often expressed in highly non-PC terms, of Elves in general and Wood Elves in particular. Anyone playing them at WFB was roundly mocked in the most scabrous terms (and the local GW staff were even less polite).
The same thing filtered over into BB and I don't think I've ever played Elves before tonight. They are very bit as fiddly as tricksy as I had heard, and the general gist of the anti-Elf tactical guides ('just beat them up') is not as hard to implement as people make it sound. The frequency of Big Guys in the current edition is also something I'm having to adapt to (back in Ye Olden Days they were only available as Star Players).
Well, anyway, I took on some Woodies with my Orc team, the Berserkers, and if sport is the continuation of war by other means, then this example of sport was the continuation of dancing by other means as the Woodies zipped all over the place (apparently only failing one 2+ dodge all game, so apparently the dice did not favour me) and at one point looked like winning 5-0 (you know a game has not gone well when hanging on for a 0-4 defeat feels like a bit of a tactical triumph). Their tree did not do very much smushing, but the sheer presence of the %$£" thing made it hard to come to grips with them. As I said, in the end it was 0-4 to the ridiculous treehuggers, could've been 1-4, but then again could just have easily been 1-5 or 0-5.
What to take away from this? Too early to say. Well, maybe not: kids, here is my advice - if you want to beat Wood Elves, it helps not to grow up playing Blood Bowl in the north of England at the end of the 20th century. Once you've got that part down I imagine the rest should be a cinch.
Anyway, my claims to fame are few, but I do remember playing 1e BB back in 1988 and rapidly growing appalled at how overpowered the Dwarf team was. That said, most of my serious BB playing (well, as serious as I get) happened in 1999-2000 in a small town in the north of England. One of the distinguishing features of the local sensibility was a near-pathological hatred, often expressed in highly non-PC terms, of Elves in general and Wood Elves in particular. Anyone playing them at WFB was roundly mocked in the most scabrous terms (and the local GW staff were even less polite).
The same thing filtered over into BB and I don't think I've ever played Elves before tonight. They are very bit as fiddly as tricksy as I had heard, and the general gist of the anti-Elf tactical guides ('just beat them up') is not as hard to implement as people make it sound. The frequency of Big Guys in the current edition is also something I'm having to adapt to (back in Ye Olden Days they were only available as Star Players).
Well, anyway, I took on some Woodies with my Orc team, the Berserkers, and if sport is the continuation of war by other means, then this example of sport was the continuation of dancing by other means as the Woodies zipped all over the place (apparently only failing one 2+ dodge all game, so apparently the dice did not favour me) and at one point looked like winning 5-0 (you know a game has not gone well when hanging on for a 0-4 defeat feels like a bit of a tactical triumph). Their tree did not do very much smushing, but the sheer presence of the %$£" thing made it hard to come to grips with them. As I said, in the end it was 0-4 to the ridiculous treehuggers, could've been 1-4, but then again could just have easily been 1-5 or 0-5.
What to take away from this? Too early to say. Well, maybe not: kids, here is my advice - if you want to beat Wood Elves, it helps not to grow up playing Blood Bowl in the north of England at the end of the 20th century. Once you've got that part down I imagine the rest should be a cinch.
Comments
Posted by Balle2000 on 2016-05-21 10:42:04
wood elf scum
Posted by keggiemckill on 2016-05-22 14:45:24
Orcs ears are pointed.