SKABB League

This Saturday was the 9th event in the inaugural South East Tournament Series. Last year onysersix, also known as Justin, ran the first Suffolk Subterranean Showcase .  Four of our league went up with a full on assault on the Stunty Cup, and I managed to come away with the trophy with my halfling team.  We had looked at doing similar this year but when one of the four dropped out a month or so ago and then with BeardedLucha getting sick a couple of days before, we weren't going to be going stunty en masse again. Up until around 6pm the night before I was going to be taking gnomes. A combination of an extended drive and the tail end of an illness - along with the fact that you could only take 2 of any one skill (when really you want to be able to spam dodge on the gnomes) meant I didn't fancy a long journey to have my team wiped out three games in a row.  I changed to playing Amazons who I had really enjoyed at UKTC  and felt like I could play even if I wasn't 100%. M...

The weekend just gone, we held the third iteration of our annual two-day October Ogre themed event. For the first time ever, we had a sevens event run by first time TO Matt who did a sterling job, with spot prizes, a simple ruleset and including fewest re-rolls as a tie breaker. It meant that not only did those with re-rolls get tutted at, but they were also potentially going to miss out on glory with their underhanded methods. (Note: I'm aware re-rolls are legal in Sevens, it just doesn't feel like cricket). For the sevens event, I decided to take wood elves as their fast and fun. With my choice for the 2-day event being nurgle who I've not played before, are very slow and have lots of skills that I would forget, I wanted to take something that I knew I would enjoy and be comfortable with. My build was 2 wardancers and 5 linemen. You only got one skill, so I put strip ball on one of the dancers. Game 1 v Stu (beardedlucha) In round 1, I was drawn against my fellow commissi...

This past Saturday was one of the regular events held at Troll Trader in Bromley. The Skull Cup 2 was first held last August  and was run by my fellow host of the Blood Bowl Tavern podcast. Chris Whitehot.  As always with the Troll Trader events, Chris had a series of Really Stupid plays as the first tiebreaker. These are things which you might not do as the most optimum play to help you win the game but are fun things that will keep it interesting.  This time there as a 1200TV build and on the list for me was Chaos Dwarfs which I borrowed from BeardedLucha Stu to play before the change. This was for a few reasons - I would be able to get all the teams played by the end of the year (my painting schedule probably wouldn't allow another team on the table before the end of December), I would be able to play chaos dwarfs before the upcoming change so I would have something to compare them to, and also because 1200TV allows you to get in lots of stuff for them. There were onl...