Rules Blitz and Follow up Rules Clarification

[Matt Spencer]

I was wondering if you could help me with some clarification of rules on Blitz for the Tabletop edition of Blood Bowl (2016).

I declared a blitz action with a model and halfway through my move blocked an opponent model. I rolled an outcome that I would expect that I would be able to follow-up. Upon stating that I would follow-up, I was told that I couldn't because it was a blitz action and would need to make a dodge roll to enter into the square instead. Given that I was a new player, I decided not to make a big deal about it, but it seemed disadvantageous given the circumstances.

Is this truly the case? I have read the rules and as far as I could see the rules state that I would perform all of the typical actions of a block, which I assume includes the option to follow-up after a block (if the outcome allows it). Given that Blood Bowl 2 allows it as well, I'm not sure why it isn't the case in tabletop.

I was playing Humans against a Wood Elf team and as far as I could recall the defending model did not have fend.

Thanks for your time.

 

[Dionysian]

There's no dodge roll on the follow-up. You have to decide whether to follow-up before rolling the armour dice tho, so if you'd rolled armour already it's too late to choose to follow-up. Otherwise your opponent was in error (assuming defender did not have and use fend).

 

[Matt Spencer]

Thanks Dionysian,

There was no armour roll applied at that time.

Can anyone else confirm that Dionysian is correct? I believe his position, just would be good to have a consensus on this in the build-up to my next match.

 

[JaspersaurusRex]

Yes

Thanks Dionysian,

There was no armour roll applied at that time.

Can anyone else confirm that Dionysian is correct? I believe his position, just would be good to have a consensus on this in the build-up to my next match.

He is correct

 

[TravelScrabble]

Dio is also quite an experienced TT coach, he would know.

 

[Matt Spencer]

Thanks all,

I'll be sure to pull this thread up should it be disputed again this weekend.

 

[Dionysian]

BTW the rules section you're looking for is on page 5 of BB2016 rules under the subheading 'Follow-Up Moves' which explicitly states both that 'the player can ignore enemy tacklezones' and that 'A player that is blitzing is allowed to make a follow-up move'