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Waterbowl, 15th and 16th February 2025

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I normally like to write these up a day or two after the event. However a long drive to visit family over half term (straight after the long drive to and from Stockport) meant that this is over a week ago. At my age, my memory will struggle and so these may or may not be accurate recollections of all of the proceedings This was my first time at Waterbowl. It's about a 5 hour drive (a bit quicker by train - but they were potentially striking), which is a long way and I've resolved to try to stay a bit more local for BloodBowl events for the near future, so whilst the event was great and really well run, I'm not sure if I'll be looking to go back next year. With there being no tiering, the sensible option for anyone wanting to be competitive is a tier 1 team. I selected Amazons a fair while ago for this, although nearer to the time I'd started to wish I'd gone for wood elves as I've been enjoying them a lot on BloodBowl 3 recently. My zon roster was bit far fr...
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BBBL Winter Cup III, 1st February 2025

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This Saturday was my first event of the calendar year. I had hoped to go to the Greedy Goblet but Papa Nurgle had taken me under his wing and it wasn't to be unfortunately.  We took a trip up to our neighbouring league, the Bromley Blood Bowl League and had a ruddy good day out. I'm saying that now as I might complain a bit about the results! There was a 1,000 TV limit for purchasing and also a limit on the number of repeated skills. Last time there had been a similar limit, I had wanted to take halflings on the assumption that some good master chef rolls could steal all the limited re-rolls that my opponents had. I had backed out at the time, so I committed to it for this one and stuck with it.  Oli decided to steal my roster. He's like that. Marianne had humans, Elliott had norse and Stu had skaven. All good choices that I had considered but then decided to stick to my guns. Yes sir, never had any doubts in my mind at all! I took a build with Karla von Kill for a couple o...
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Nufflenomics: Bloodweiser Kegs

The Bloodweiser Keg (or its less politically correctly named predecessor) has been a mainstay of BloodBowl inducements for as long as I’ve been playing the game. If you’ve got some inducement cash and you don’t know what to do with it, one or – even better – two kegs is the way to go. It is a great fallback, and never really looked upon as a bad decision. I was wondering if the maths backs this up. What is it? A Bloodweiser Keg allows you to add +1 to any knockout recovery rolls made during the game, meaning a player returns to the game on a 3+. If you buy two, then you are making all recovery rolls on a 2+. Each keg costs 50,000, and you cannot buy more than 2.  The mathematics Each keg you buy means you will return a player to the game on average 1 in 6 times more than you would have previously. Looking at this on a percentage basis, we have the following return rates: Number of kegs Returns on Return % 0 4+ 50%...
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