I'll get it sorted this week.

Problem with Chaos is lack of skills on a fresh team. Beastmen can be trained into pretty much any position though.

Last turn winning touchdown passing play from Chaos.

Booooom!

I know. Such a great strategy game more people should be on it. Perfect for forum leagues. Could have legendary players born that other teams but bounties on

The dice rolls in XCOM are abstracted because they're a percentage. BB works because it's a real dice game, and the intricacies of that system put people off. You have to work out the chance for success in your head rather than being presented with a number that shows how likely your success will be. It's important in bloodbowl to know what stats are effecting your dice, but in XCOM I imagine very few ever open the tab that explains why your percentage is what it is.

Despite a similar heritage of 'minimising risks whilst maximising favourable outcomes' i think a fundamental difference is that in XCOM you're actively trying to optimise your rolls with modifiers and gain more rolls per enemy by eliminating targets to give you more attempts per attack. Conversely, true success in BB comes from making as few rolls as possible, and those that you do make are as secure as they can be. There's probably a lot to be written about turn based games and the methodology and approaches they encourage.

Plus y'know, it's Orcs and GW nerdiness. I'd like to see Frozen Cortex with the class and skill based role playing of BB, that might be the hook for the casual.

Is there a way of turning the grid on?

FranticPea wrote:

Your chances to do things are presented as percentages in this temps so its a bit closer to xcom. Dice rolls are shown after the event. Obviously it's still important to know what stats are affecting that but might ease newer players in a bit easier.

The only dice you see rolled are for blocks, which you do need to learn the special symbols for obviously.

Ah I did t realise they'd changed this, I hadn't seen it in a review. That's an interesting decision as unlike XCOM the raw numbers are important from the get go, rather than at higher difficulties

FranticPea wrote:

I wish there were more of us

This game is top of my list once I'm not quite as screwed cash wise.

Yeah, but that's no bad thing with something as esoteric as BB

5 players knocked out at half time and only one woke up... Constant 1s rolled... This is bullshit!

I was playing Enchanted Forest earlier with my lad, he rolled about 8 sixes out of 12 rolls. Unbelieveable.

Might sneak it despite only having half my team left... Unlikely, but as you say, that's Blood Bowl.

Gonna be close. Need a turn in luck.

What team are u?

Only had 5 players left on the pitch, haha! Got a mauling by a human team...

Cracking though. Just like my first game, I pulled off a passing move to take the win on the final turn. Unbelievable... after a game of no good rolls, I finally manage all the 50/50's and take it.

Will the league just be "keep playing each other ad infinitum" I assume?

Are we all going to start new teams?

I'll go Dark Elves or Dwarves if so.

Cue Swirly - "Don't pick up the ball. 'it them. 'it them again. When there's nobody left to 'it, get the round thing."