SKABB League

This past Sunday, the second event of the South East Tournament Series was held. Four SKABBers (myself, Ross, Marianne and Craig)  took the trip to Surrey to visit the Geek Retreat in Addelstone. It was a lovely games cafe and there was space for 24 coaches.  Unfortuantely due to a drop out, this became 22 with Tournament Organiser Nick unfortunately missing out on playing that day. Which is a shame as I need to get revenge for when his cowardly skaven ran away from my brave brave orcs when we'd previously met at Sevens. This was the first event that Nick (also known and kendrallsharne and the commissioner of the Surbiton league) had put on a tournament, and it all went very smoothly. He's already thinking about the next event. The rulespack that Nick had put together was very chaos focussed. The Wrath of Khorne weather table was being used, and each team got a Chaos Sorcerer to use. This would either grant them chosen mutations on a player of their choice (had to be played at...

Back in October, Oli asked me if I wanted to go to Glowbowl. For anyone not in the know, Glowbowl is essentially a tester event for the Thrudball ruleset, played at the same veneu but as a one-day event rather than the larger two-day event. As I wasn't intending to go to Thrudball this year due to it falling on my partner's birthday, I thought it would be a great idea (despite it being a 6 hour round trip) as the community and people were what made Thrud such a great experience. I decided to play Black Orcs. I'm currently trying to play through all of the teams in NAF tournaments, and they are one of the few that I've got painted but not yet played. They were in tier 5 of 7, along with chaos renegades, old world alliance and perhaps surprisingly, high elves.  I was able to skill up all my black orcs (guard on three and mighty blow on the other three), put sure hands on one goblin, sneaky git on another, hire the star player 'ooligan Gymir and take a bribe. This did ...

The first SKABB event of the year took place on Easter Saturday. It turns out that a large number of people have family plans over Easter - who would have thought it, eh? We still had a well attended event, with 22 coaches taking part. There were a few Easter themed rules. It was a 1200 TV tournament with: - a star player Easter bunny named Fluffy (not too dissimilar to Akhorne the Squirrel) - a free re-roll for anyone wearing an Easter bonnet (similar to the silly hat rule for the Pissed Up Terry Testimonial  which was our spring event last year) - the Spring weather table - one special play card unique to each team to play at one point during the day - a resurrection rule if any player suffered a "DEAD!" result on the casualty table with a 2+ placing them in reserves The last rule was not something I thought about when picking my team. As I'm working through the races that I've not played in tournaments and 1200 is quite nice for them, I went for Necromantic Horror....