Blood Bowl: Black Death at Legends of the Thrall

Welcome to Moonday Night Blood Bowl, I am Mik Terrorco and this is my partner Run Grinden.  What do be have in store for ours fans tonight, Run?

We have a great match up of the Black Death visiting the Legends of the Thrall.  I have been really impressed with what I have seen out of the Legends this season.  Most people will tell you that the vampire is an unreliable player and their enthralled human minions are not much better than a hobgoblin but I think it really comes down to coaching.  Legends has a great coach who knows how to keep his vampires focused on the game and not the thralls or spectators.  The Legends have signed Wilhelm Cheney for the game to bring a little more speed and punch with Marisa Hematomei out this week.  He might be able to make some short work of a few dwarves with those claws.

Oozing with Confidence at Black Death

Welcome back for another Blood Bowl game here on Cabalvision, I am Slow Ruck and my partner is Toy Axman.  Looks like we have a lovely day for some Blood Bowl today, Toy.  Unfortunately those gathering on the pitch are not so picturesque.  Lets send it down to our side line report Stab Allover for the info.

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Are you there Stab?

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Stab, What are doing up here?

I am not going down there.  I have not been doing this job this long to get infected with some nasty disease so you can hirer someone prettier.  I am staying right here.

Ok then, Toy, what do we have today?

Alfheimr Aethernaughts at Black Death

Good evening folks and welcome to the first game of the Blood Bowl II season, I am Slow Ruck and this is my partner Toy Axman. Toy, what can we look forward to tonight.

Slow, we have a classic match up of strength vs skill as the chaos dwarves of Black Death face off against the lovely lady elves of Alfheimr Aethernaughts. Both are new comers to the upper divisions and we are hoping for a great match.

Blood Bowl League: Game 3

"Hello and welcome to Blood Bowl Tonight on Cabalvision, your number one stop for all the best on the pitch action. I am your host Sknock Van Pelt. Our lead story is a match between the sinister dark elves of the Gate Gladiators and the twisted ratmen of the Darkthunder Deviants where something unusual appeared to be going on."
"We take you now live to Orkin Andrews on site"

"Thanks Sknock. The Deviants were really able to take it to the Gladiators today. On their opening drive, the ratmen were able to send several of the elves to the bench for the rest of the game. Exploiting this ratpower advantage the Deviants were able to get a quick score. The Gladiators then responded on the ensuing drive to break through the Deviants line with some fancy footwork and a quick pass. Unfortunately, the player in question could not match the speed of the deviants who brought him down. The rats then recovered the ball for another score. Up two nil the Deviants look in good shape to take control of the match early.”

“It was soon noticed that the elves were playing very unelf like. Missing quick passes, tripping over their own feet, failing to grab the ball in the open pitch, all seemed like very un-elven maneuvers. The Gladiator fan heavy crowd got a little angry after the third score for the Deviants and stormed the pitch on the next kick off. They took down almost half of the Deviants which appear to open the field up for Gladiators, who would have the man advantage for the remainder of the drive, but time was short and the elves continued to barely be able to walk straight. So at half time the game was 3-0 for the Deviants.”

“Whatever was wrong with the Gladiators could not be shaken off in the second half when the Deviants were able to recover their kick off to the Gladiators and score making it 4-0. The stupor only deepened as on the next kick off to the Gladiators, the Deviants got the drop on them with the first hits, putting pressure on the ball before the Gladiators even seemed to know it was kicked. While Gladiators recovered the ball, a missed pass caused all hope to be lost. Both sides fans rushed to be the first to get back underground and even the coaches stopped paying attention to the action. “

"Back to you, Sknock"

"Thanks for the report, Orkin. Looks like the Deviants might have slipped something into the Gladiators water cooler."

That pretty much sums up the game. Some lucky blocks initially to knock the dark elves to about 8-9 players the whole game coupled with just the worst luck on the dark elves. Anytime a 2+ was need to do anything the die would come 1 for him. I had my own problems with my Rat Ogre not even wanting to blitz but nothing like his horrible luck.

Blood Bowl League: Game 1

"Hello and welcome to Blood Bowl Tonight on Cabalvision, your number one stop for all the best on the pitch action. I am your host Sknock Van Pelt. Our lead story is a match between the norsemen and beasts of Reddeck Wins and the twisted ratmen of the Darkthunder Deviants where the crowd really took control of the action."

"We take you now live to Orkin Andrews on site"

"Thanks Sknock, We had a very balanced match early today between Reddeck and Darkthunder. The opening kickoff taken by Reddeck managed to score despite the ball being knocked loose twice by those cunning Deviants. Pretty miraculous scopes of the ball off the pitch for the Norse men. While the Norseman had been able to knock down the rats during the drive, they kept getting back up. The heavily norse crowd was getting restless due to the lack of blood shed on the pitch"

"On the insuing kick off, the berserkers in the crowd stormed the pitch and decimated the Deviants leaving only about half standing. A critical loss was the deep man who could not get back to snag the norsemens untrained perfect kick to the back of the endzone. With time in the half running short and having first to fall back significantly to regroup from the mauling done by the crowd, the Deviants were hard pressed to try to score. They came close after some wonderful footwork of runner Tarrik Owns to get free in the back field but he seemed so impressed by this excellent moves that he gave up on his deep route without using all of his speed."

"Had not the Deviants done such a good job harassing the ball carriers on Reddeck's first possession, they might have had more time to recover from the angry fans."

"At the beginning of the second half, the crowd was still looking for blood and upset at how close the rat men came to scoring that they stormed the pitch again. Again the massive norse fan advantage left almost half the skaven down. After recovering the ball and moving to set up a passing lane , skaven thrower Dred Bleedso stopped a few paces too close to the downed snow troll for no good reason. The icy chill caused his pass to just miss the mark. While the ball was recovered and scored by Teary Hold in a few moments, the delay allowed for the norseman to gang up on the skaven rat ogre, Rage Lewds, who had already left 2 norseman in bad shape. Looks like Rage will miss next weeks match also in a critical blow to the Deviants."

"Without Rage to help pressure the ball carrier the Deviants had trouble putting any real pressure on the ball carriers for the hard blocking Norse. The 2 Ulfwerner and snow troll really started to put the hurt on the rats. All told the norseman did 4 injuries to 2 for the skaven in the 2-1 victory. Reddeck played a very solid and conservative game which payed off for them. The coach for the Deviants responded after the game that having the fastest player on the pitch does not matter if you put them in the wrong places."

"Back to you, Sknock"

"Thanks for the report, Orkin. Looks like the Deviants had their hands full with Reddecks 12th man."