[Team Blog] Symphony is dead

[Hoverdog]

I didn't write a teamblog of the almighty Quest for the new world, sorry for that! Lizards have some vacation, so now it's turn for the undead musicians to play some bloodbowl.

They've only had two matches before joining CCVII, and now they're in group 2 against teams of value up to 1500! In the first one they drew with Barninho's dwarves (though only a hand-off away from winning that one) and got an astonishing amount of 8 SPPs total. The second match was much better, pitted against GBait's humies the rotten artists made three casualties (including a death-on-the-spot by Miles Davis himself), won 2-1 and got some levels at last.

currently the team looks like this:

Mummies Miles Davis (#15) with guard and John Coltrane (#16)
Wights John Cage (#4) with guard and Sun Ra (#5)
Ghouls Kris Angylus (#1) with block and Gareth Williams (#2)
Zombies Alice Coltrane, Sonny Sharrock, Andrew Hill, Don Cherry & Albert Ayler - no SPPs yet (#9-#13)
Skeleton Iannis Xenakis (#8)
1090 TV.

First match in CCVII is against Viajero's high elves of TV 1270 (10 players, so 1340 with a loner) with a blodge SS +AG blitzer
I'll get at least 250k in cash - I can buy third ghoul before the match, that'd lower it to 180. What should I invest in?

[Barmution]

Just posting here to give you some love for including John Cage

As for player hiring and inducements, I'd say buy the Ghoul and perhaps a bribe and a babe. Or, if you're really mean, you could hire a merc zombie with DP to try to reinforce your number advantage. Can't remember the pricing exactly, but if that costs 90k, you could always get another merc zombie with Tackle or Wrestle and try to stay close to you ball carrier.

[Mico Selva]

Not the best seeding for You there. I certainly understand how You feel.

I think You should definitely buy the third Ghoul. The more You have, the higher the chance You'll actually finish a match with one of them still on the pitch.

Also, get a wizard, as You'll need all the help You can against a more developed High Elf team. You can also consider a Ghoul with Tackle, depending on how much Dodge You face.

[Barmution]

I don't really know about the wizard, as odds are that he will be outscored even with magical intervention. I don't really see Viajero going for a stall/grind in this matchup unless you can force him, which I think will be pretty hard to do. Wrestle or Tackle on a merc would serve you better, IMO.

[Viajero]

Ok, I think u should not spend any money. Also I think u should pass on inducements, that would just mean one more thing to take care of. As a CC finalist u should not have any trouble against pantsy elves. Unbiased opinion totally.

[Hoverdog]

Smurf smurfed some magic and now rather than getting hundreds of inducements I'm in a group with rookie teams
however, first match is still about thrashing elves about. just less experienced ones.

[Nikolai II]

Meanwhile, your team name keeps reminding me about this little ditty. Monty Python Decomposing Composers 20 - YouTube

[Rusty]

Barninho used to have an Undead team in CTA called The De-composers. I cunningly ruined his theme by having one of my players die against him...

[Hoverdog]

Symphony of the dead made an elf dead. and some more mutilations too.

That's the first half (played by Sonny Sharrock)
And the second one (John Cage)

fun fact: both John and Alice Coltrane got MVPs. John went up a level and got guard.

[Hoverdog]

so... update!

second match of the group against Alouatta, standard norse fare: broken armor, broken bones, broken teeth. Alout got close to scoring in the second in a heroplay (4+4+3+2+2+). however, he made a mistake soon after, and rather than trying to dodge out again (4+3+ to score with a RR), he made a whole lot of 1D blocks and then tried to pass the ball, which obviously failed. Alice Coltrane made a cas and rolled kick.

last match played a few hours ago, against Smurf's vamps. First two blocks on the LoS - zombie KOed, zombie BH. His ballcarrier then snake-eyed, but after a bit of a rumble managed to score on the 7th turn. Every hypnogaze was successful. Nothing really worked for me so far.
The second half was completely different, with bloodlust, failed dodges, failed passes and whatnot. Even injured thralls. Gareth Williams and Kris scored to take me 2-1.
Three level-ups after this one: Gareth took Wrestle, John Coltrane (MVP) Break Tackle, while Don Cherry ROLLED MY VERY FIRST +STRENGHT INCREASE!! WOOOHOOOOO!!!