SKABB League

This was the first even tin the South East Tournament Series that I was able to play in this year, due to being ill for the Greedy Goblet and running the Kent Team Championship. I was quite excited, although extremely indecisive about what team to take! This is me back to my usual self- my plan of playing through all the teams last year definitely helped make decision making easier! For this event, every team had to take a star player and there was 1200k gold available to spend, but with limited skills. I looked at the teams that I thought wouldn't need many skills and could fit in a star player without compromising on positionals. I tried a couple of games with amazons and Dribl and Drull but it didn't suit my playstyle, so I switched to Norse with my favourite star player - Rumbelow Sheepskin. It meant that I got to use in earnest the amazing model that I was gifted as a Secret SKABBer gift at Christmas 2023.  With the skills I added guard on both ulfwerners, dodge and wrestl...

...how do I know if you're good value for money? I haven’t got a good ending to that joke yet. If I think of one, I’ll come back and amend this. I decided to spend a bit of time looking at all the ways to keep your players in the game through the use of medical sideline staff. I wrote about tge effectiveness (or lack thereof) of Bloodweiser Kegs here. You may want a read through that as well as it is on a similar theme. Apothecaries An apothecary will cost you 50k and let you do one of two things: 1. Keep a KO on the pitch as a stun 2. Re-roll the casualty die Let’s talk about each of these in turn.  Turn a KO into a stun The first, colloquially known as a “power apo” is probably more common in tournament play than league play. In a league, you might hold the apothecary back in case your blodge-stepping additional movement wardancer gets a stat bust. In a tournament, you are probably more concerned with keeping players on the pitch than with the actual result of the injury As such,...