Tonight, my Sheogorad Saints are being visited by the Lake Bodom Carmelites (proxied by my Sisters of Shallya)!
After our excellently entertaining game against the Griffon Gate Griffons, our lineup is pretty much the same as it was for that game:
#5 Jenassa Samarys - runner (11 SPP, Dodge)
#11 Barenziah Targaryen - witch elf
#27 Vermith Targaryen - blitzer
#33 Raven Dren - assassin (11 SPP, Side Step)
#44 Irileth Targaryen - blitzer (8 SPP, Guard)
#69: Darane Mencele, line-elf (5 SPP)
#71: Hlireni Indavel, line-elf
#73 Brelda Quintella, line-elf
#77: Endroni Dalas, line-elf (1 SPP)
As well as journeyelves #75 Morgiah R'zamenar and #66 Nephithah T'rizaron. The Lake Bodom Carmelites are as follows:
#1 Sister Eleanor Meatpummel, ogre
#2 Sister Consuelo Mandanger, blitzer
#3 Sister Loretta Grundspank, blitzer
#4 Sister Divinia Gulagmangler, thrower
#5 Sister Pearlie Stoneknuckles, thrower
#6 Sister Wilamina Ironbludgeon, catcher
#7 Sister Claire Frankenbarrel, catcher
#8 Sister Cecilia Spitplow, linenun
#9 Sister Geraldine Skull, linenun
#10 Sister Josie Graveberger, linenun
#11 Sister Adaline Trapshard, linenun
#12 Sister Vita Shankcoffin, linenun
With three re-rolls, that adds up to a starting team value of exactly 1,000,000gp, meaning they get a total of 160,000gp in inducements; the Carmelites opted for an extra re-roll and a Bloodweiser babe.
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I still quite like my Shadowforge minis (I've been painting some of the extra positional players) and I'm inordinately fond of silly Blood Bowl sideline figures, like this lovely Shadowforge Wicked Elf Camera Crew, who I mounted on a Citadel cavalry base.
And this Meiko Miniatures camera-goblin.
I also found this fairly ancient Citadel referee model in my collection, and painted him up; we now have a decently sized officiating crew!
With the media and officials in place, we're ready to play some Blood Bowl!
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The weather started out perfect, but as the teams lined up for the kickoff, the few clouds cleared and the sun truly blazed down, hindering any passing attempts. Some ten thousand Saints fans showed up, slightly outnumbered by the 12,000 Carmelites fans who had travelled to the Dagon Fel Superdome to see their team's first ever Turboleague game. The Saints won the coin toss and elected to defer.
The ball landed way in the Bodom backfield, and as they secured it, an incautious Carmelites linenun #8 Sister Cecilia Spitplow was pushed into the stands by witch elf #11 Barenziah Targaryen!
Choosing an aggressive offense, Carmelites thrower #5 Sister Pearlie Stoneknuckles passed the ball forward to catcher #7 Sister Claire Frankenbarrel for her first career completion.
Meanwhile, Carmelites ogre #1 Sister Eleanor Meatpummel failed her third Bone Head test in a row. I improvised a suitable marker out of a Team Yankee die, so that project turned out to not be a total waste of time after all!
The Saints scrambled to stop the Bodom offense, and a mêlée developed on their left, with several elves and nuns falling over and the ball bouncing everywhere.
The Saints blitzers managed to secure the ball, but fumbled the handoff; after several blocks and changes of possession, Saints blitzer #27 Vermith Targaryen blitzed Carmelites thrower Sister Stoneknuckles, knocking the ball behind the Carmelites line, where Saints line-elf #69 Darane Mencele grabbed it.
Mencele, who was the Saints MVP in the previous game, passed the ball to witch elf Barenziah Targaryen, who ran it in for her first career touchdown and a 1-0 game.
At the kickoff, the sun's glare subsided somewhat, which bizarrely seemed to cramp the Carmelites throwing game; thrower #4 Sister Divinia Gulagmangler secured the ball, but twice failed to pass it forward to her receivers. In the midfield battle, however, the Bodom ogre finally got into the game, scoring the Carmelites' first casualty by taking Saints journeyelf #66 Nephithah T'rizaron out of the game.
In the closing minutes of the first half, blitzer #27 Vermith Targaryen again blocked the ball loose, but the Saints were unable to secure it and the first half ended with the home team up a goal and down a player.
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The second half started somewhat ignominiously for the Saints when runner #5 Jenassa Samarys failed to pick up the ball.
Eventually she secured the ball and moved it up the field, and executed a perfect dump-off to line-elf #73 Brelda Quintella when Carmelites ogre Sister Meatpummel blitzed her.
While all this was happening, Carmelites blitzer #2 Sister Consuelo Mandanger dealt Saints assassin #33 Raven Dren such a ferocious block that she was initially feared dead on the spot. Through what was almost certainly Dunmer healing technology so advanced that it only appeared to be sinister necromancy, Saints apothecary Dr. Navaan succeeded in reviving Dren.
On the opposite side of the field, Saints line-elf Quintella managed to escape the rampaging ogre and hand the ball to witch elf Barenzian Targaryen, who ran in for her second touchdown of the game to make it 2-0 Saints.
The kickoff result was Changing Weather, as it was for every single other kickoff in the entire game, and the weather table result was "nice", as it was for every single kickoff in the entire game after the first one. The Carmelites were left with six turns to mount a comeback. To make things worse, the kickoff landed all the way in their end zone, where thrower Sister Stoneknuckles retrieved it.
Back at center field, rejuvenated Saints assassin Dren stabbed Carmelites #12 Sister Vita Shankcoffin, knocking her out. Witch elf Barenziah Targaryen collided with linenun #9 Sister Geraldine Skull, knocking both players down. The frenzied witch elf jumped up to block Sister Skull again and scored the first casualty in Saints franchise history, breaking the Bodom linenun's ribs and causing her to miss her team's next game.
Looking to close up the two-score deficit, the now outnumbered Carmelites sent their catchers toward the Saints end zone, and the Saints rushed back to cover them.
Saints assassin Dren, on an absolute tear, disposed of Carmelites catcher Sister Frankenbarrel by stabbing her; the Bodom player was carried off the field badly hurt. Carmelites blitzer #3 Sister Loretta Grundspank retaliated by knocking out line-elf Quintella. With the Saints clustered in a tight defence, it was all up to Carmelites catcher #6 Sister Wilamina Ironbludgeon, surrounded by dark elves.
Through an excellent series of dodges, and escaping an initially successful shadowing attempt by the Saints assassin, she made it clear of the Sheogorad coverage, and caught a perfect pass from Sister Stoneknuckles for the Carmelites first touchdown!
And so the Lake Bodom Carmelites Turboleague debut ended with a score of 2-1 for the home team, and a casualty differential of 2-1 for the visitors. Winnings were a miserly 20,000gp for Lake Bodom and 40,000gp for the Saints; MVP honors went to Saints blitzer Irileth Targaryen and Carmelites catcher Sister Frankenbarrel.
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That was a fun game of Blood Bowl, and a real pleasure to introduce the game to another new player. I'm delighted that my witch elf, who's mostly been useless or absent until now, decided to really go all out in this game; two touchdowns and a casualty is a pretty amazing result for a single game, and it means she goes straight from 0 SPP to a level. The completion I luckily got the perfect opportunity for last game's MVP to score means I got two improvement rolls out of this game; both were new skills, no doubles.
The line-elf is an easy choice: I agree entirely with bbtactics.com that the first line-elf to get a regular skill should be a kicker, so Darane Mencele gets Kick. To mark her new skill, I made a running shoe out of green stuff and stuck it to her base with a magnet.
I quite like my skill markers, by the way; especially the Guard one has been invaluable!
The witch elf is a bit tougher; I'd love to have someone with Wrestle so I could bring opposing ball carriers down more reliably, but I've already been fouled so many times this season that I'm not exactly happy about having my witch elf lying around on the Astrogranite! So I think that as boring as it is, this time I kind of have to play it safe and just take Block. I'll think up a suitable skill marker for them for my next game.
That and another fan factor increase bring my team value up to 1,210,000gp, so I'm really hoping some of the other teams in the league get around to playing each other as well, or the team value gap will start getting uncomfortably wide. Still, it's been really good to play Blood Bowl again, and I hope there's more to come.
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League table [pts, goal differential, casualty differential, fatalities, completions, interceptions, sacks]
Sheogorad Saints (Dark Elf) (2-0-2) 12 pts, 6-4, 1-6, 0, 5, 1, 0
Griffon Gate Griffons (High Elf) (0-0-1) 2 pts, 2-2, 0-0, 0, 2, 0, 0
Reid Death (Human) (0-0-1) 2 pts, 1-1, 3-0, 1, 1, 0, 0
Lake Bodom Carmelites (Human) (0-1-0) 1 pts, 1-2, 2-1, 0, 2, 0, 0
Vindaaagh Pulling (Orc) (0-1-0) 1 pts, 0-1, 1-0, 0, 1, 0, 0
Touchdowns:
Barenziah Targaryen (Saints) 2
Raven Dren (Saints) 2
Bel-Zothius the Beast (Griffons) 1
Harry E Mitchell (Death) 1
Irileth Targaryen (Saints) 1
Jenassa Samarys (Saints) 1
Sister Wilamina Ironbludgeon (Carmelites) 1
Tarec the Artist (Griffons) 1
Casualties:
Barenziah Targaryen (Saints) 1
Ed Ranger (Death) 1
Ernie R Jaurigui (Death) 1
Jay Blanchard (Death) 1
Sister Consuelo Mandanger (Carmelites) 1
Sister Eleanor Meatpummel (Carmelites) 1
VIP#52 (Pulling) 1
Fatalities:
Ernie R Jaurigui (Death) 1
Interceptions:
Irileth Targaryen (Saints) 1
Completions:
Jenassa Samarys (Saints) 4
Ferreha the Particular (Griffons) 2
Sister Pearlie Stoneknuckles (Carmelites) 2
Darane Mencele (Saints) 1
Randall Gnant (Death) 1
VIP#8 (Pulling) 1
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