SKABB League

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...

We took a trip to the Skull Cup run by our friends in the Bromley League on Saturday. The tournament had fairly standard build rules but the quirk of the first tie breaker being the number of Really Stupid Plays you completed. Prior to each game you had to select one of the following things to try to acheive, if you managed it during that game then you got a bonus point: - Have a player sent off for fouling - Complete an accurate pass in your opponent's half - Cause 4+ casualties - Successfully jump over a prone player - Use a re-roll in either turn 8 or turn 16. I decided to get a some practice with my dark elf world cup build so I took a runner with leader, two witch elves (one block and one wrestle), four blitzers (two with dodge and one with tackle), five linemen and two re-rolls. This was slightly different to the roster I took to Thrudball - the key change being having an extra re-roll due to leader.    The other SKABB members took dark elves (Dan, literally copying my r...