QT3 Rookie Cup, Game 2: Skaven v Humans
Game 2 of the Rookie Cup saw my Skaven team, the Jarlsberg Raiders take on Cain’s Humans, the Superstars Deluxe.
Given my post-match woes in the previous match, I was pretty far behind in team ranking and ended up with enough inducements to hire myself a Rat Ogre. Feeling slightly happier about my rats, I looked forward to seeing what we could do against a well-balanced side.
The most notable things about Cain’s side were his Ogre (cancelling out my own on-loan Big Guy) and the fact that he only had one [...]
Cyanide respond to issues over leagues
And it doesn’t make for pretty reading.
The Orca-Cola guys have been liasing with Cyanide over the way leagues are run in Blood Bowl, and they’ve posted some feedback from the devs. Orca-Cola is one of the biggest leagues around and has been going for a long time, so it goes without saying that they know what’s involved when it comes to organising groups of people in Blood Bowl and what the client needs to be able to do.
So, when you get a response like the one Cyanide has given, it’s [...]
3 Moves Ahead Podcast: Blood Bowl Edition
The one and only gaming podcast that I listen to on a regular basis has an episode dedicated to Blood Bowl and sports management & strategy games. Tom Chick, Troy Goodfellow, Julian Murdoch, and Bruce Geryk are joined by Bill Abner in this week’s episode. Go. Listen. Now.
We also have Bill’s review of Blood Bowl, which is hard to argue with. Read it here.
Designing a league site
I’ve been thinking for a while about expanding this site to be more useful for those of you running leagues. Ideally what I’d like is to have a section of the site – or a subdomain – dedicated to people who want to run leagues and be able to keep track of them without logging into the game every time. We’ve also discovered that it can be a better idea to not use the ingame competitions and just use an open format, especially for simple knockouts.
I’ve had a look around [...]