Well it was fine n sunny, pefect blood bowl weather, this weekend just gone. Lucky that, as trooperwren and I had organised a game at our old club, the Gamers' Guild (www.gamersguild.org.au for anyone in Perth, AU and is looking for some fun, or just pm me :)

Anyway, we'd arranged to play a scratch game, as t/wren is signing on for some local Dungeonbowl glory and I'm looking to restart the club's league. We dusted off our old boots and helmets, polished our block dice and set out for a good old fashoned wallop fest.

Now, its been a while since we'd played and I happened to have only the old Handbook and Playbook with me, so we used the tables from that.

The first half went ok for my humans, i managed to BH two of his blitzers to my BH blitzer and SI lineman. At half time it was 1 - 1 and looking to be a real line call of a game. AG4 wasnt helping him out much as a 1 is pretty much a finisher.

The second half was tense, the scores leveled at 2 - 2. But i'd managed to put 2 linemen and 1 blitzer in the KO box and they werent in a big hurry to leave. I set up to kick for turn 6 and got a Blitz! Under the old rules its great. So i took my free turn, thumped down his line of scrimmage and got a few players under the ball! What a catch!

Well that was pretty much it for the game. The next few turns were low risk plays, and saw two more DE's sent to the KO bin. I scored on my turn 8 and t/wren set up for his turn 8 and we shook hands.

Not a bad way to spend a Saturday afternoon, playing Blood Bowl.

Not to mention the fact that we had spectators, as well. Whenever a pitch gets set up, there's always someone who is intrigued at the concept of the game. They asked their questions about teams, races, strategies, who-is-best-at-what, and we answered, still playing our four minute turns amongst the graphic violence being played out on the field. And they loved the sectacle so much they wanted to play too. Hopefully this weekend! Ahhh Blood Bowl! It brings people together...