Diary entry #003

Well, I haven't had the opportunity to prepare the pictures from the game at David's.
I will get round to it soon, though.

In the meantime I attended the club, Hartlepool Wargames Society (HWS) on Monday and supported my pal, Dave G., in his first Blood Bowl League game against the young Josh. Both are relatively new to the game and we had Dave using a standard Orc team, while Josh was using an Undead team.
After the pre-game preliminaries, Dave set up his team to receive then Josh set up his team to receive and then Dave kicked off. Yes, you guessed, Dave got it wrong. Josh duly collected the ball and moved the weight of his team towards the left hand side of the pitch. Dave countered by moving his team that way in his turn. So Josh moved to the other side loking for a weakness in the wall of brown flesh. Yes, brown! - my Orcs were painted before the GW green became universal (and ubiquitous) and I would still paint them brown if doing all over again.
Anyway, back to the game. Dave now made an attempt to get involved with little effect. Josh tried a push through the middle and actually started to create a hole, but didn't move to exploit it. Dave now lost the plot, took several haphazard attempts to damage the opposition and ended his turn without moving all his team. The undead used the oppportunity to widen the gap and move their runner through with some back cover for him. The Orcs failed in their attempt to catch the runner which promptly crossed the line in its next turn. The remainder of the half saw some skirmishing on the skrimmage line with a few KOs and the half ended 1-0 to the undead.
The second half went pretty much the same way as the first in reverse. The Orcs collected the ball and ran it slowly up the field to score late in the half. On the way, two Orcs were injured and one sent off the undead suffering only KOs.
So the game took the whole evening and ended 1-1 to the undead. Josh had to leave but Dave stayed and we did the post-match procedures. One injury resulted in lost strength, the other had no effect. The Orcs gained 70GP and bought a goblin.
I had found the evening rather frustrating but fun anyway. Both team owners showed a level of inexperience that doesn't bode well for the campaign. Josh goes on to meet my Dwarves in his next game while Dave is to play Ken's Skaven. Good luck lads, you're going to need it judging by this outing.

TTFN, Yogi