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LEW BB Game: Chaos vs Humans
New game started today.? Two of Lord Wath's teams: Dark Destroyers of the Warp (Chaos) and the Eagle Legionnaries (Human).
Both teams are recovering somewhat after being rather beaten up in their first two games, with them holding the bottom two places in the league between them.? Lord Wath has asked myself and Prince Xafier to play these teams: I think partially because he couldn't decide which he wanted to play; and partly to get some ideas for tactics as he has not had much success with either of these teams so far.
Although chaos required journeymen to fill out their squad to 11 and the Eagle Legionnaires only avoided this by buying a new thrower, both teams looking pretty balanced, with the more expensive Chaos players and the Dark Destoyers having a pile of gold suitable for a small dragon in their coffers as they're saving up to hire a Minotaur, the Eagle Legionnaires actually managed to land a whopping 350,000 gps of inducements for the game!!? So, extra team training, a Bloodwieser Babe and a one Mercenery Blitzer with Mighty Blow later, the Legionnaires are feeling pretty pumped up!!
We managed to get a quarter of the game played and it was not at all like I expected.? I was expecting with the chaos guys being pretty hard-hitting, but all of those beastmen with relatively weak armour to see plenty of KO's even maybe a couple of casualties somewhere before the first TD was scored.? My Chaos guys kicked off, although I got a free turn before the start of the game from the kick-off table, it was pretty much hit-hit-push back for all four turns, with just three or four Stunned results, before I had a poor roll and re-roll on a block by a Chaos Warrior, putting the human ball carrier out of reach and allowing him to score a touchdown.
I guess we're just both going to have to try harder on the next drive to cause some pain!? At least the chaos team is receiving next time and there is no tricky weather today!
Go , er, Dark Destroyers of the Warp!!
Re: LEW BB Game: Chaos vs Humans
From bad to worse today
Finished the first half, but the Dark Destroyers conceeded another touchdown when a pretty safe looking block from a Chaos Warriro, with two blocking dice and a reroll caused a turnover letting a human runner get free enough with the ball to get in. I managed to get a beastman close enough to force a dodge into the EZ, but it didn't help.
One injury each this time, both from the same "Both Down" result. Amazingly, both injury rolls were 12, and both casualty rolls were 53 - Smashed Hip, -1 MA, Miss Next Game. Pretty weird when both results rolled up the same. Oh, and I lost a beastman to the dungeon for an ineffective foul. More
So, outnumbered and 2-0 down heading into the second half - it is looking like the humans are going to win this one! The main positive points left are that I'll be receiving the ball (again!) from kick-off, not that it has helped me so far! That I'll get my rerolls back for the second half, and that the inducements don't really seem to have helped the humans too much, so far!
More tomorrow, I hope!
Re: LEW BB Game: Chaos vs Humans
Well, even more of a bust this time!
Another touchdown conceeded, making it 3-0 to the humans, now and no prospect of the Chaos team scoring! Before conceeding the third touchdown a beastman did manage to pick up the ball and throw it successfully to a Chaos Warrior, who was promptly surrounded, knocked over and a human received dodged out of the way, nipped up the field to his mate, who then scored the touchdown - even though the Chaos Warrior in question had support from two of his brethren and two beastmen to boot!! Gah!
The fickle Chaos gods of fate have deserted the Dark Destroyers of the Warp this day!
Still, after discussion with all of the lads, we agree that the tactics I am using are not unsound - but the basic Chaos team does seem to be very intollerant of bad dice. We think this is because the players all start with no specialisation at all - apart from the Beastmen having the Horns skill. This should change after another three or four games, once four or five players have picked up at least one skill and are starting to specialise a little.
Anyone else got an opinion on this, or am I just trying to justify being a bad Chaos Coach?
I think you've got it spot
I think you've got it spot on. Chaos teams start slowly but once they get going they become pretty good and start dealing out lots of sharp pointy pain.
Humans are great early on at playing pretty much any style and picking up scraps but they start to struggle later on, especially if they get caught in a punch up.
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Thanks snailracer - its good to know I'm not just making excuses