KABBAL Game 4: Despoilers Defeat the Wood Elves 4-1

The Despoilers 4th game of the KABBAL season was against a wood elf team, the Panama Pagan Pounders.  This would be another chance for the Despoilers to dispense the lumps instead of taking them.  On the other hand, the wood elves are fast and capable of turning every mistake into a score, so you have to stay on your toes.  It was perfect weather for Blood Bowl and 27,000 fans showed up to watch the match.  Unfortunately, more of them were Pounders fans.

More Blood Bowl Minis

I was inspired by my buddy Mik’s recent posts of his recent Blood Bowl painting projects, so I got the camera out to shoot some pictures of some of my recently finished Blood Bowl stuff.

First up is a preview of my Ogre team, the People Eaters.

Historicon 2009

Historicon is coming up again soon, being held this year from July 16-19 in Lancaster, PA.   The Preliminary Event List has been released and it looks like another fun few days of wall-to-wall gaming.  I had some good fortune this year as  several games I was very interested in playing did not overlap with the games I’m running.

I’m offering three games again this year.

KABBAL Game 3 – Despoilers v. Coldbloods match ends in 1-1 tie

My third KABBAL game was against Eric’s Lizardman team, the Coldbloods.    Eric’s lizardman team is a nicely painted squad converted from stock Warhammer Fantasy Battle lizardman.  I agree with almost everyone else that these minis look a lot better then the dedicated Blood Bowl lizardman team sold by GW.   This was Eric’s first league game, so he was playing with his starting roster of 4 Saurus and 7 skinks, supported by an apothecary and 4 re-rolls.  I was up about $100000 in team value, so Eric added a couple of Bloodwesier Babes to his sideline to help motivate his Knocked Out players back onto the field.

KABBAL game 2 – Despoilers Defeat Hochland Harlots 3-2

I got in my second game in our Blood Bowl league last night, defeating Mike’s human team 3-2.   Mike’s Hochland Harlots were a nicely painted female human team built using Shadowforge minis, along with a GW Ogre for a little heavy hitting power.  After the first week, Mike’s team was the top rated team in the league, thanks in part to his having rolled a +1 Strength skill increase on one pf his blitzers.  Due to some injuries against the orcs, the Despoilers were playing without their runner and with a couple of journeymen signed off the practice squad.  I had some inducement money, so hired a wandering Apothecary to try and keep my players alive.

Dogfights!

Check Your Six! was on the plate again for our gaming group last night.   We had a good crowd of six players and were able to get in two games, one set in New Guinea and a second in the skies over Holland during Operation Market Garden.

KABBAL Kick Off

One of the friendly local gaming stores has started a Blood Bowl league, the Knoxville Area Blood Bowl Action League.  The Nan Dungorthin Despoilers made their debut and won a close (and costly) first game.

I decided to start with this team:  1 Runner, 1 Witch Elf, 2 Blitzers, and 7 Linemen, and 2 team re-rolls.  I could have gotten more Blitzers at the expense of the Witch Elf, but wanted to go ahead and have the Witch Elf on the team since she’s a fun player with several interesting skills.

Blood Bowl Dark Elves

Some time ago I bought a Dark Elves box set for Blood Bowl off EBay and then added in a reinforcement pack from Games Workshop.  They sat around for a long time waiting for the Muse to drop by and gift me with some inspiration.

FOW – PakFront!

Scott and I got together for a FOW game last week.  I had been looking at the Kampfgruppe von Sauken scenario that was posted on the Flames of War website  and thought that the set up and general game conditions seemed interesting.  However, as written the scenario has a major flaw IMO – there are a large number of forces for the table size depicted.  There would essentially be zero maneuver room and the game would be a dice-roling contest.  Not my cup of tea.  So we decided to take the same basic scenario and play it with a much more reasonable force mix.  We ended up inverting the attacker and defender with Scott attacking with Soviets and me playing Germans trying to form a hasty PakFront to hold off the Soviet attack.

CY6! – The Beaufighters Got One

Bob had recently read “Fork Tailed Devil: The P-38″ by Martin Caidin and had requested that the Lightning make an appearance for our next Check Your Six! game, so I wrote a couple of P-38 scenarios and we decided to do this scenario, based on a passage in that book by P-38 pilot Charles King.