SKABB League

For the first Battlebowl last year, I took Dimmy's favourite team - Imperial Nobility. This year, I decided to take their slightly less noble cousins, humans. This was partly based on the fact that I thought they got a reasonable package (seven primaries and one secondary) compared to tier 1 teams who were limited to 5 primary skills. It was also partly because I'd been a bit disappointed with how I had done with them at Superbowl last year and had hoped that I could do a bit better.  As I much prefer fast agile teams, I went for a slightly unconventional build which had 4 catchers, none of whom had skills. The skills went on the ogre (block), blitzers (4 guard) and linemen (2 block). This left me with just 2 players - my thrower and a lineman - who didn't have any defensive skills at all. There was the possibility of both chainpushing and thrown team mate one turn touchdowns. I would have felt confident if I'd managed to get any practice in, however when I tried on B...

Last night, was the playoff final for SKABB Season 11. This was been my vampires (Pitchfork Pines Preschool) and Oli's khorne (Stonefolk Skullhunters). Before I get into talking about the match, I want to add some context. Oli is the person who got me into playing Blood Bowl much more frequently and seriously. He was at the first tournament I ever played in 2017 that two school friends had convinced me to go along to. I took ogres as I thought I'd do badly anyway, and ended up with the wooden spoon. A week or so later, I go to collect a parcel from the post office and he's working there. We have a good chat and I say that I'll try to join up the league after my wedding is out of the way as that plus a long honeymoon meant I couldn't put a lot of time into playing the game for a while. We have played far more times than I can remember, both in person and online, in both competitive and friendly games. We've had games before tournaments where we've talked abou...

This Saturday, I made the trip up to the Big Smoke to play my first event in the London series. The series began this year after the spate of series that started in 2024 and it's great to see so many events and interest being created in the London scene, which is one of the busiest in terms of leagues but has perhaps been a bit underserved by tournaments in recent years. The Condiment Cup was the first tournament run by SaltyMurcutt (aka Rob from the Channelled Fury podcast ). Rob has run the SaltBowl League for many years which bans tier 1 teams, and it was no surprise to see that for his first event whilst they weren't banned, they were given a package such that they wouldn't be very inviting. Only one player took one - Dinlo with orcs - whose focus was to knock the opposition down and foul them every turn if possible to win the most fouls prize. I took the opportunity to try out khorne which I'd just recently finished painting, accidentally in World Eaters colours. I...