BloodBadger
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Hello BloodBowlers
This week I've had my very first "paws on" with "Blood Bowl" for the PC and so far I'm very pleased with it. Not since "Speed Ball 2" (Back in my Amiga days) has a sports game had me locked to the screen for so long at a time and this is the first game since then which has seen me caring about the individual players.
Having played through the tutorials, I decided to try the single player campaign and creating "Badgers Brawlers", a Dwarf team, I launched myself into my first season. At the end of this titanic struggle my proud warriors have achieved a staggering whitewash, which is to say that we didn't win a single game and moreover...we only scored one touchdown in the whole season! (Which came riiiiight at the end of the final game.) None the less the "Brawlers" have taken to heart their motto, "Dig Deep & Bite Deeper" and are determined to do better in season 2.
Of course the complete ineptitude of their coach is to blame for this debacle. As a closet "War Hammer" fan who only last year bought the reworked "Space Hulk" board game, I was thrilled to hear of an impending "Blood Bowl" title for the PC, but recent problems with my machine have meant that only now have I been able to take to the field.
Nature can be cruel though and she has given me a fascination for this game (and War Hammer in general) but refused to supply me with the smarts to back it up! So despite thoroughly enjoying the warfare on the pitch so far, I'll have to admit that I've been lost to a degree and the manual is only so much help. Which is why I'm hoping that these pages will be a God send.
I wonder if there might be a guide you can point me at, which takes the struggling newbie from the cradle of picking teams, through good tactics to use, to winning that first match, all in one hit. I've already read a hand full of articles, including one about "The Cage" which was very handy. (And I might add, instrumental in scoring that one and only touchdown.) But they do seem aimed at the player who already has a degree of experience under his belt as opposed to the fellow who has barely peeled off the shrink wrap.
Meantime, if I was going to ask you a question right now, it'd be "why do I often move only a couple of players, before suddenly getting little stop sign icons when selecting any of the rest. Oh..... and what does it mean when the dice that appear above the enemies heads, come up red.
Thanks all
Badger
This week I've had my very first "paws on" with "Blood Bowl" for the PC and so far I'm very pleased with it. Not since "Speed Ball 2" (Back in my Amiga days) has a sports game had me locked to the screen for so long at a time and this is the first game since then which has seen me caring about the individual players.
Having played through the tutorials, I decided to try the single player campaign and creating "Badgers Brawlers", a Dwarf team, I launched myself into my first season. At the end of this titanic struggle my proud warriors have achieved a staggering whitewash, which is to say that we didn't win a single game and moreover...we only scored one touchdown in the whole season! (Which came riiiiight at the end of the final game.) None the less the "Brawlers" have taken to heart their motto, "Dig Deep & Bite Deeper" and are determined to do better in season 2.
Of course the complete ineptitude of their coach is to blame for this debacle. As a closet "War Hammer" fan who only last year bought the reworked "Space Hulk" board game, I was thrilled to hear of an impending "Blood Bowl" title for the PC, but recent problems with my machine have meant that only now have I been able to take to the field.
Nature can be cruel though and she has given me a fascination for this game (and War Hammer in general) but refused to supply me with the smarts to back it up! So despite thoroughly enjoying the warfare on the pitch so far, I'll have to admit that I've been lost to a degree and the manual is only so much help. Which is why I'm hoping that these pages will be a God send.
I wonder if there might be a guide you can point me at, which takes the struggling newbie from the cradle of picking teams, through good tactics to use, to winning that first match, all in one hit. I've already read a hand full of articles, including one about "The Cage" which was very handy. (And I might add, instrumental in scoring that one and only touchdown.) But they do seem aimed at the player who already has a degree of experience under his belt as opposed to the fellow who has barely peeled off the shrink wrap.
Meantime, if I was going to ask you a question right now, it'd be "why do I often move only a couple of players, before suddenly getting little stop sign icons when selecting any of the rest. Oh..... and what does it mean when the dice that appear above the enemies heads, come up red.
Thanks all
Badger