Every Wednesday I try and get in a game of Squash... you know the game where you whack a black rubber ball up against a wall and get all sweaty running round a small room with white walls. In some ways it does feel like a lunatic asylum as well.

So what has this got to do with Blood Bowl? well pretty much nothing,................... other than the fact that the way I play Blood Bowl is similar to how I play squash.

1. I am not very fit, so the whole running around like a rabbit, bouncing here and there to return the ball is not possible.
2. I am not really built for squash. Being 6'3" and 105kg (230lb or so) means that want to avoid walls and hence try and avoid too much lateral running.
3. Based on 1 & 2, my game consists on trying to win my points with hard to return serves, or going for winners rather than setting up better shots. Which probably to be a little honest is because I am a lazy player.

So my Blood Bowl is similar (although my actual lack of fitness and size doesn't really count).
1. I am just too busy with other "life gets in the way" stuff to practice the mental aspects of the game.
2. Therefore I am too much in the immediate state of the game to plan things out too far... I can barely see through to the end of a turn ;-)
3. I therefore try to go for the high risk, killer blow or unexpected move early rather than stick things out with a steady plan.
4. that wouldn't work anyway since I tend to lose track of which turn it is on.... how can you do that with a turn counter right in front of you?????

However the most important thing is this......

I enjoy my squash, even if I am crap.
I enjoy my Blood Bowl because I am crap. Hence I can get immense pleasure out of every little win during the game and if I draw Fantastic, and if I win... I go and grab a beer to celebrate.

BTW, I broke the strings on my racket tonight and the loners they give you are bloody awful.... just like journeymen ;-)