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The easiest grief in Blood Bowl was to just play a Norse or Dwarf team well though. What do you mean? Well in Blood Bowl when you go for a tackle your die can roll either defender down, defender stumbles, defender pushed, attacker down or a both down. The trick here being that most Norse and nearly every Dwarf player come with a skill called block right out of the gate. What block does is that any time a both down is taken, the guy with block gets to go "Nah" and only the other guy goes down. As you would safely assume, this made pubbies very mad, very often, seeing as how every both down, which would normally end your turn early and be a huge pain in the rear end, had basically become a free opponent down in your favor. (Providing they weren't block-heavy too anyway)
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That mostly works at low level teams. Basically the first skill that most players get is Block, simply because it makes attacking much, much safer. Dwarves remain a great way to annoy people, though, just because they're really difficult to injure (and thus, annoying for bash teams taht rely on injuring opponents) and most of them start with the anti-dodging skill called Tackle (and thus, are really annoying for teams that rely on dodging). In #tgbloodbowl, the goon IRC channel for the game, one of the bots has a command that's very applicable to this situation: <Coolguy> !hitler <RadBloodBot> The following items = Hitler. That is all. <RadBloodBot> Ewie: "Dorfs are doublehitlers. Each." Coolguye fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Oct 14, 2015 |
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No other team I've fielded in Blood Bowl quite infuriated my opponents quite like my Amazon team. Like the Norse team they have low armour and average stats so their best performances are against low level teams, but all their players have Dodge which means that one of the types of knockdown only pushes them back, and they get a free reroll when they move through an enemy tackle zone. Their blitzers have block and dodge which means you have only one result you can roll to ever put them down. I had an orc team reduce me to three players on the field and I still managed a 0-0 draw because my Blitzers would not go down, stand where they could easily be tackled or release the ball. More than once I was treated to line upon line of people demanding to know how the hell this kept happening, general angered disbelief that their big dudes were swatting at air a lot and people wanting to know why I was doing this to them or if they had wronged me somehow enought that I would seek this sort of payback. Something about the scantily clad bikini ladies refusing to get murdered just brought out the worst in people and I was asked nicely in the league I fielded them never to play as Amazons again. One guy carried his grudge out of the league and refused to talk to me outside of it except to organise future games. Needless to say I got last turn fouled a lot.
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Oct 14, 2015 04:15
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My last Blood Bowl league I Turn 16 fouled an opponent's best player with a Rotter and killed him. No ragrats. 
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Oct 14, 2015 05:33
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rydiafan posted:My last Blood Bowl league I Turn 16 fouled an opponent's best player with a Rotter and killed him. Dumpy zombie kills are ridiculously satisfying. Quoting myself from like two months ago since we got Blood Bowl talk in full swing here finally. "I fouled a high value Skaven team's rat ogre with a lone Undead babby-level zombie, ogre died, Johnny Rotten the zombie proved himself that day. Skaven guy had already used his doc on a star gutter runner a wight killed, which came out dead again anyway." Good times in warhams fantasy football 
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Oct 14, 2015 06:29
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Yardbomb posted:Good times in warhams fantasy football Haha, this comparison got me a good friend once. I was hanging out in a dumpy dive bar on my personal laptop a few hours after work one time, just quietly drinking some local brews to forget about the 13 hour shift I had just pulled. A pretty cute woman sidled up next to me and started doing much the same thing, and about halfway through my beer I struck up conversation with her and found a common bond in working too goddamn much (she was basically there for the same reason - too many hours in a goddamn cubicle farm). She commented after about 20 minutes of chatting to me how she was enjoying the conversation, and derisively said how most dudes are talking about their fantasy football teams by now. I laughed and said 'the only fantasy football I play is Blood Bowl.' She asked what the gently caress, and after failing to explain it to her for 5 minutes, I booted up the Cyanide game on my laptop and showed her. It took her about 10 minutes of watching tree men throw halflings at dark elves to decide she had to play this game. I helped her roll an Orc team and she spent the next hour delightedly smashing a Wood Elf team into the pitch. She didn't even remotely care that she lost the game 3-1 to a fairly stupid AI. She'd caused 5 casualties on the opposing team, she couldn't be happier. I commented to her that this was 'proper orky' and she laughed and said she needed to get out of there before she got even nerdier. I still talk to her occasionally, she's good people. Freaking weirdest conversation I've ever had in a bar, though.
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You trolled her by getting her interested in a product associated with Games Workshop, but real-life griefing is just called bullying and doesn't belong in this thread.
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Buschmaki posted:You trolled her by getting her interested in a product associated with Games Workshop, but real-life griefing is just called bullying and doesn't belong in this thread. Next up: twelfth step fouling.
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Actually, it appears to me that he was griefed by nature because he was oblivious to the fact that he was a oval office hair away from hooking up with a cute, overworked chick at dive bar and instead ensured his removal from that particular gene pool by showing her how to play loving Blood Bowl until she left because it was too goony. No offense coolguye but I hope you hung your head in shame when you went home alone that night.
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Oct 14, 2015 07:10
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Buschmaki posted:You trolled her by getting her interested in a product associated with Games Workshop, but real-life griefing is just called bullying and doesn't belong in this thread. Truthfully they probably gave them the most merciful option possible in GW's book, at least you can buy Chaos Edition and you got a full product with nearly all the teams you could want. Now if they'd brought out a tabletop alternative...
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Oct 14, 2015 07:19
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QuarkJets posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD6kV7xC0JY these are funny but it's super loving weird and creepy that these guys get the players' real names and addresses. I don't know how they're getting them so it could just be something like looking at their profile but it's still weird as hell.
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Oct 14, 2015 07:22
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Cowman posted:these are funny but it's super loving weird and creepy that these guys get the players' real names and addresses. I don't know how they're getting them so it could just be something like looking at their profile but it's still weird as hell. There's a google doc for submitting targets in the description.
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That's still pretty weird.
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Captain McStabbin posted:There's a google doc for submitting targets in the description. I just submitted a sweet prank on my lil bro Obama, he's gonna be so rattled!!!
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Dillbag posted:Actually, it appears to me that he was griefed by nature because he was oblivious to the fact that he was a oval office hair away from hooking up with a cute, overworked chick at dive bar and instead ensured his removal from that particular gene pool by showing her how to play loving Blood Bowl until she left because it was too goony. Probably for the best. She was likely going to last turn foul him.
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Oct 14, 2015 10:14
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Usually you have to pay extra for that.
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Dillbag posted:Actually, it appears to me that he was griefed by nature because he was oblivious to the fact that he was a oval office hair away from hooking up with a cute, overworked chick at dive bar and instead ensured his removal from that particular gene pool by showing her how to play loving Blood Bowl until she left because it was too goony. She had/has a one pack a day habit and went through 3 cigarettes in the time we had our initial conversation. I don't have many hang ups, but chain smoking is one of them. I was/am also well looked after as far as 'hooking up'. I won't deny I was thinking about it when I started chatting her up, but after the third cig came out I was done there. Don't get me wrong, she's a good sort and all, but I went home alone by choice, thanks.
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isnt it just nice sometimes to talk to people? does everything have to end in a hookup?
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VideoGames posted:isnt it just nice sometimes to talk to people? does everything have to end in a hookup?
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FactsAreUseless posted:Yes. It's Meet 'n' gently caress, not just Meet. damnit. i guess i should have been loving every last thing with legs for the last two decades. i cant do anything right
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VideoGames posted:damnit. i guess i should have been loving every last thing with legs for the last two decades. i cant do anything right
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FactsAreUseless posted:This guy did NOT select the options that make the busty babes do the sex eyebrows. 
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VideoGames posted:damnit. i guess i should have been loving every last thing with legs for the last two decades. i cant do anything right Double leg amputees not good enough for you, rear end in a top hat?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUEseJ_YWO0
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FactsAreUseless posted:This guy did NOT select the options that make the busty babes do the sex eyebrows. wait busty babes?! ive been talking to shrubs and plants can someone help me with this social and life thing please?
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Nintendo Power top tip: Talk to everyone
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VideoGames posted:damnit. i guess i should have been loving every last thing with legs for the last two decades. i cant do anything right Why do you hate amputees, man? I went to an amputee convention a few years back and got hella laid -- the place was crawling with pussy! 
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Captain McStabbin posted:There's a google doc for submitting targets in the description. that makes it less creepy but still weird
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Screaming Idiot posted:Why do you hate amputees, man? I went to an amputee convention a few years back and got hella laid -- the place was crawling with pussy! 
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TheLastRoboKy posted:One guy carried his grudge out of the league and refused to talk to me outside of it except to organise future games. loving nerds I tell you what.
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rydiafan posted:Double leg amputees not good enough for you, rear end in a top hat? Double amputees are the best. You can put 'em on top and spin them like a dreidel.
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Wild T posted:Double amputees are the best. You can put 'em on top and spin them like a dreidel. what if it's their arms?
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There's another way to grief in Blood Bowl as well which uses an exploit in the league design to farm teams. Basically, what you can do is simulate a ton of games really quickly in order to level players. What would take a normal player 30 games (at about an hour a piece) you can do in about 5 minutes by running a league over and over again and simulating all the games. Now, this wouldn't mean much other than being able to skip a lot of hard work, except that the system can be exploited, because teams are matched based on their Team Value (TV). In other words, a 1250 team value team will be matched with other teams of about 1200-1300tv. Usually, a team at about 1300 tv has most positional players with a level or 2 and maybe a couple of other random levels. Each level on a team adds between 20-50 to the team value. So a 1300 team would have about 10-15 levels on the team normally. What TV doesn't account for is that you could have 15 levels split between 3 players (so each player at level 6) and still have a 1300 TV. What this means is that you can afford to min/max your team with a few superstars combined with rookies, and fire all the players you don't want because you didn't have to spend any time actually leveling them. This is used to great effect with 'bashy' teams (teams that are better at injuring the other team than they are a scoring) and will let you create a team where you have 2-6 specialized murder beasts, and the rest of the team of unskilled rookies, and you'll be facing generally harmless teams with 1-2 levels per player and will be able to dismantle them piece by piece. While it's fun to kill teams at 1300tv, when you start getting to about 1600tv, that's when the other player has actually put a fairly significant amount of time into playing that team, and you can really reap the benefits from destroying his special snowflakes permanently. Just to show you what this looks like, here are a few pictures from one goon that likes to play murder bowl:  
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Holy poo poo in that second one did you kill four of his players That's beautiful
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Magres posted:Holy poo poo in that second one did you kill four of his players I wish it was me, but yes, 4 players dead in that one. Pitch clearing happens fairly often when rolling murder e: The comments from that one are the best. quote:YOU,RE BIF MOTHERFUCKER, NO BRO!! PotatoManJack fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Oct 15, 2015 |
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If you maim, kill, or otherwise disable the entire opposing team do you just automatically win?
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Magres posted:If you maim, kill, or otherwise disable the entire opposing team do you just automatically win? Spiritually yes. But technically, you'd still have to score enough TDs to win. It's much easier to do that though when the opponent has no players.
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That dead, mohawked Wardancer in the top picture (whose card is in the lower right) is a max SPP double +AG player. That is a player who has probably been in at least 50 hour+ long Blood Bowl matches without getting killed or crippled, which is enough of a feat. However, to roll +AG, +AG through the course of reaching legend is something like one in a thousand (as in a thousand Wardancers could reach legend and never get the levelup rolls to become AG6). This dude has spent literally dozens of hours getting this rare player to this position, only to be loving murdered by some bozo who blinked into existence a half an hour ago and got turboleveled to become a perfect killing machine. Blood Bowl murder is the best murder because you can feel the sheer time and emotional investment put into every team as you crush their heads in
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Screaming Idiot posted:Why do you hate amputees, man? I went to an amputee convention a few years back and got hella laid -- the place was crawling with pussy! 
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PotatoManJack posted:Spiritually yes. But technically, you'd still have to score enough TDs to win. It's much easier to do that though when the opponent has no players. There's a rule for that! If, at the beginning of a drive (i.e. when setting up to kick or receive), a team cannot field any players, the opponent is given a free touchdown and the clock advances two turns. Then KOs get the opportunity to wake up and you try again - if one team STILL cannot field enough players, you repeat, scoring another TD to the opponents and advancing the clock and rolling for KOs and repeating as necessary until the game is over or both teams have sufficient players to field. It's possible for this rule to come into play while the team who can't field any players still wins by having scored enough TDs that the opposing team can't tie or win in the time remaining. It's theoretically possible for neither team to be able to field any players, but it's so astronomically unlikely that there actually isn't a rule for it.
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