WUBBLE Blood Bowl Game 3: Sandhill Serpents (Lizards) vs Da Basha Boyz (Orc)

Sorry!  My Pictures didn't turn out this time!  I'll try to do better next time!

So, after a couple weeks (or a month), I finally got a chance for another Blood Bowl Game with the ragged Sandhill Serpents!  Up until now, the Serpents have had 5 Dead or Retired Due To Injury players.  I was starting with 2 Journeymen Skinks (#7 & #14), just to get my required 11 players onto the pitch.

Da Basha Boyz have played a game or 2 since we last met, so I’m sure they’ve gained a skill or two.

So, doing all that Pre-Game stuff:
Basha Boyz had a Team Value of 1110, whereas the Serpents had only 920.  This let the Serpents buy an extra re-roll and a Bloodweiser Babe (+1 to recover my KO’d players) for team inducements.

Da Boyz had 14,000 fans show up to the Serpent’s 13,000, giving Da Boyz the +1 FAVE rating and a total gate of 27,000 screaming fans!  We therefore rolled to play the match at Naggarond Arena, in a BLIZZARD!!!  (-1 on all “Go For It” rolls and only Quick and Short passes allowed.)

Sandhill won the coin toss and elected to receive the ball first!

First Half – First Drive:

Da Boys blew the kick – giving the Serpents a “Touchback” (gave the ball to a Skink in the back field).  Cheering fans were so enthusiastic that Da Basha Boyz got an extra re-roll.

The Blizzard made things so slippery, that a Skink tripped and fell near the line of scrimmage, before all the moves were done to form a pocket around the ball carrier.  Quick Turnover to Da Boyz!

Orc Blitzer #4 “Grabba Doug” blitzed the ball carrier, scattering the ball!  A little pushing and shoving later and Black Orc Blocker #5 “Derp”slipped on an ice patch and stunned himself trying to throw a block!  Another Turnover!

As the Serpents start to move around, Saurus #2 “Krak Kee” threw a block and knocked himself down as well as his target – Another Turnover!

Back and forth the pushing, slipping and sliding went – with quick turnovers and lots of players knocked down.  Finally, Orc Blitzer #4 “Grabba Doug” earned some Star Points by Badly Shaking Skink 11 “A Dder” – causing the Skink to miss the rest of the game.  Finally Orc Lineman #7 “Zerp Da Lucky” skidded across the goal line, getting Da Basha Boyz on the board with first Touchdown!

First Half – Drive 2:

The Serpents didn’t let the Touchdown go unchallenged.  Two Turns later, Skink #12 caught an accurate pass and ran unopposed across the goal line!  Touchdown!  1 ALL!!!

(I’m embarrassed!  We forgot to roll on the Kickoff Table AND nothing significant was recorded!  I do remember the ball landed within 1 square of the Line of Scrimmage, barely avoiding another Touchback!  A Skink managed to run up, grab the ball from under the eyes of some orcs and dodge successfully back out with the ball, then did a Short Pass the next turn.)

First Half – Drive 3:

Well, this was just the last 2 turns of the first half.  After a High Kick that the Orc Thrower failed to catch, the Serpents managed to stall the Orcs long enough to wind down the clock without any significant injuries.

Second half – Drive 4:

Lizardmen kicked off to the Orcs and the fun began right away!  Da Basha Boyz won an extra re-roll due to Brilliant Coaching.

It was a slow, rough knock-em down bar brawl, but after 6 turns, Orc Blitzer #3 “Bob Hitta” crossed the goal line with the ball, getting the 2^nd touchdown for the Da Basha Boyz!  In the process, they managed to smash another Skink’s Collar Bone, knocked out 2 other Skinks and another skink injured himself trying to dodge away from the Orcs!

(Technically, this was turn 6 – we had 2 more turns to play.  However, I had to pick up my wife from work and we had been delayed when my opponent’s 2-year-old Cheerleader kept us hopping all through the game.  Gotta love kids but sometimes they slow things down.)  ;)

Great Game!

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Well, that was rough.

2-1 for Da Basha Boyz, they also gained another Fan Factor (7 total now) and the troll “Pretty Pete” won MVP while the team went home with 60,000 Gold Pieces.

The Serpents went home with only 20,000 Gold Pieces, but had suffered another disabling injury to a Skink.  At Strength 1, Skink #13 would be retired.

HOWEVER:

This poor team has been so brutalized, I can’t catch up.  I didn’t get enough cash to replace my last casualty so I would need to get ANOTHER Journeyman (3 total on the team) and it’s just not viable anymore.

So with a heavy heart, I’ve decided to retire the Sandhill Serpents at this time.  I’ll have to come up with a new team now and start from scratch, but at least it will be worth 1,000,000 Gold Pieces, whereas the Serpents had dropped to less than 850,000.