Let's Play: Blood Bowl PC - PALELABOR!

[GuppyShark]

To celebrate the PC release of the Blood Bowl game, and my love of the Dwarf Fortress Let's Play championed by MRDOD, I'm starting a Dwarfy Blood Bowl team Let's Play!



I will play one match per day, take screenshots and write up the match result.

The Palelabor Pickaxes need recruits!

Volunteer your name to be attached to a Dwarf and cheer when your player gets the touchdown or clobbers some damned ball-runner. Your character is unlikely to die as Dwarves are tough as nails and there'll be an apothecary on the sidelines waiting to save you if worst comes to worst.

Dwarves in Blood Bowl have three types of player. There's the Dwarf who likes to hit things, the Dwarf who likes to hit things after moving slightly further, and finally the Dwarf who thinks this game is about picking up a ball. If you have a preference let it be known and I will try to accomodate it, but most Dwarves will be the first and that's fine because hitting things is a perfectly satisfying career.

[Starglider]

Sure why not. Dwarven Slayer please. Does the computer version have the Chaos Dwarves? They were cool, but most likely not, given how GW hasn't released anything about them for ages.

I hope there are Skaven cheerleaders in this version. That would be so kawaii

[Temjin]

Oh I have to get in on this. No preference as to a specific type.

[Alan Bolte]

Oh I have to get in on this. No preference as to a specific type.

See above.

[Eris]

I approve of this notion, and volunteer both myself and Duckie (MRDOD) whether she likes it or not. Naturally I am for hitting things in fine dwarfy fashion, whether after running or not.

[UCBooties]

What the hell, make me the kind that picks up the ball

[Vendetta]

Naturally I am for hitting things in fine dwarfy fashion, whether after running or not.

Dwarves aren't much for the running. Traditional dwarfy blood bowl tactics are to make a solid block of beards with the ball carrier in the middle and trudge dourly but inexorably for the endzone.

[White Haven]

I don't know if you can rightly have dwarfs without axes, but on the off-chance that you can, I volunteer as one.

'It's like using an axe, only without the axe.'

[2000AD]

Well this gives me a way to 'play' the game while I wait for the UK price to drop to a reasonable level.
Do I need to change what name is given or are you comfortable with a dwarf named 2000AD? Preferably a Dwarf who hits things when they come to him, not one of those hyper active dwarfs who move to other places to hit things.

Can you also do a quick review of the game too? Is it worth the current high price (assuming you're somewhere where it is above average)?

Oooooohhh, and if it's in can I call dibs on being the deathroller driver if you get one?

[Kuja]

If you've still got a spot, old man Kuja from Palelabor of long ago is willing to throw down.

[consequences]

Dwarf that hits things please(any velocity is fine). Groinstab Ballcrusher or something of the sort if you get to pick names.

[Dargos]

I would like to be a defensive lineman- eh.. dwarf.

[White Haven]

Son, this is Blood Bowl. 'Defense' is something you worry about once you've finished massacring the other team.

[andrewgpaul]

What - no Deathroller pilots?

[Ford Prefect]

As if I could NOT be involved in this. I desire the important job of PICKING UP THE BALL.

[bilateralrope]

If there is still room I'll take a spot.

[Vympel]

Why have I never heard of this game?

[GuppyShark]

Does the computer version have the Chaos Dwarves?

No Chaos Dwarves. I don't know what the final lineup is expected to be, but the current range is:

Humans
Orcs
Goblins
Wood Elves
Dwarves
Lizardmen
Chaos
Skaven

with Dark Elves and something else I've forgotten expected to be included by September when it releases on Steam and retail/consoles.

Can you also do a quick review of the game too? Is it worth the current high price (assuming you're somewhere where it is above average)?

Price seemed pretty reasonable to me. I think the digital download is something of a pre-release version as there's some areas where it still lacks polish and the retail release is not slated until September. Nonetheless, I'm having a lot of fun playing a perfectly faithful replica of Blood Bowl against a surprisingly challenging AI opponent.

Also, it's cheaper than buying the tabletop game and a set of Citadel miniatures...

If you've still got a spot, old man Kuja from Palelabor of long ago is willing to throw down.

The Legend returns!

What - no Deathroller pilots?

At this point I don't intend to include one. It's a starting team so there won't be much in the way of opposing star players to worry about and I don't like the idea of having a player that is only on for one half. Maybe later.

Pick me, pick me!

At twelve requests and a few 'posted but didn't ask for a spot', we're now covered for the starting lineup and some extras.

[Ford Prefect]

If you've still got a spot, old man Kuja from Palelabor of long ago is willing to throw down.

Rockin'. Go dig a gigantic hole in a mountain so I can put some goddamn DOORS on that motherfucker.

Man, I miss the Palelabor threads.

[Lord Relvenous]

I'll be waiting on the sidelines, just in case an Ork gets a lucky swing in. (In other words, an alternate)

[weemadando]

Dwarves? Really?

Fine. Chalk me up as a Blitzer. I'm keen to smash heads.

[Force Lord]

I want to be "the Dwarf who likes to hit things after moving slightly further".

Hopefully I will survive.

[GuppyShark]

Palelabor Pickaxes

The Palelabor Pickaxes are the first team from the fledging Dwarf Fortress of Palelabor to compete in the Blood Bowl. The team would not have gotten off the ground if not for the efforts of such revered and ancient dwarves as Kuja, Ford Prefect and bilateralrope. These three dwarves, having gotten bored, assembled together a team to be coached by the equally bored farmer GuppyShark.

They found eight more dwarves too stupid or useless to do rewarding and productive things like carry rock and polish stone, and started out on their journey to greatness!

Representatives from a local brewery approached the team after a drunken brawl erupted into an impromptu sporting match. We have accepted the sponsorship deal with Bugman's Brewers which will net us some extra income.

Coach Guppyshark was careful not to promise anything.

The Clean Cup

The first event of the season is "The Clean Cup", so called because of its (relatively) draconian rules. It's also the preferred entry point for most new teams - many of the most successful Blood Bowl teams started out in the fields of the Clean Cup before going on to major tournaments.

The Palelabor Pickaxes first match is against the "Skrits Razorclaws", a new Skaven team. It will likely be an entertaining match, a contest of opposites. Will the ratkin be able to penetrate the iron wall?

Match One

Wow, what a match. Writeup will come tomorrow, but it was amazing. I cannot believe the result.

EDIT: Ford Prefect is the first Dwarf in the Palelabor Pickaxes to level up. Congratulations, you've been appointed team captain!

[weemadando]

Dude, we got Bugman's sponsorship?

They're the largest brewer in the GW-verse. Fuck yeah!

Bugman's XXXXXX for ALL!

[consequences]

Let me guess, the Pickaxes somehow scored five or six touchdowns? Or the Skaven managed to kill a Dwarf?