Set a new PB at a wet parkrun this morning: 38.56. Getting a little easier each time!

Turns out the last tournament wasn't my farewell to #bloodbowl BB2020: this evening is the away leg of our Bracknell vs Aldershot 10 vs 10 rivalry game. I'm playing orcs vs Hekdar's Norse, same as the home fixture. 1-0 down at the half but 2 players up. Will go for the win ...

Hobby update: after that Slann team speedpaint I fancied doing more of the #bloodbowl stadium. I did the turn, reroll and score boards and all the little numbers. Love these big pieces, where you don't need to be neat, as a palette cleanser.

Planning my roster for my first #bloodbowl third season edition tournament, noticed this amusing free inducement:

Saltmound supreme - fun to go to a tournament with such unusual rules (high gold, progression skills) and glad I got to run the Slann out. I finished 2-1-0 for 6th place out of 26. Congrats to purplechest who won with the only 3-0-0 score. I won Most Touchdowns with 9. #bloodbowl

Game 3 of Saltmound Supreme vs Seb's chorfs. Very much like the last game, I finished the first half 2-0 up on his drive. Scored on T3 if second half, won 3-1 and suffered 8 casualties. Slann have been great today! My opponent took the frogging very well, fun final game of BB2020 #bloodbowl.

Game 2 of Saltmound Supreme vs Monkeyrage's ogres with Varag and Fungus. Before the game my Krox learnt block, a frog wrestle and another frog block. Despite the kroxigor dying in the first half, everything else goes great and I turn him over twice in the first half. Finishes 4-1 to me. #bloodbowl

Game 1 of Saltmound Supreme vs Cyritz's chorfs. My frog 2-uphills the bull with the ball. I have wrestle-strip but roll double pow anyway :). 1-0 at the half. 2nd half I score on turn 3, but he quickly returns with Skitter to make it 2-1. I can't hold out with my few frogs so it ends 2-2 #bloodbowl

This week at #boardgames night we went back to Egypt in the #arkhamhorrorTCG scenario The Night's Usurper. Ursula, Mark and Patrice went on an expedition into the desert, found a gate to the dreamlands, befriended some nighthaunts, then dealt with a nasty cultist to save the earth - you're welcome!

Woohoo, I finished my Slann #bloodbowl team with 3 days to go before the tournament. I finished the bases with some AK Puddles and some tufts, then painted the eyes. Decided not to edge highlight because its a speed-paint and there aren't so many sharp edges that really need it. #minipainting

Slann WIP update, with 4 evenings to go: I daubed everyone with a 1:1 mix of quinacridone magenta and Windsor purple oils (second pic), then after 30 min wiped most off with a sponge. Then a darkline wash with a black/purple oil mix. Then drybrushed the bases with greens. #bloodbowl #minipainting

Slann painting WIP with 5 days to go until my tournament: I got some colours down everywhere with contrasts and inks. I thought liquitex inks would be good for slann skin because they dry satin. Remaining to do: shading, some refinement, and the bases. #bloodbowl #minipainting

Took 2 minutes off my PB at parkrun today, 40.06. Getting better, didn't walk today. Just ran really slowly!

This week at #boardgames night we played Lost Ruins of Arnak with some number of expansions. I was the professor this time, doing lots of things related to artifacts and research. I used two hot air balloons to go fight some monsters. Good game!

Some fairly light stuff- #boardgames played in October:

With the new rules for Season 3 of Blood Bowl out and ready for coaches to work into their next practice, our team sits down to talk out how the...

I like to paint at a leisurely pace - #bloodbowl teams normally take me months. But I decided to paint a Slann team in 2 weeks for a tournament, to get them crossed of the list of teams. So we'll get the contrast paints out and try to do these quickly! Could be a fun challenge?

I got home to see that all of the new season's #bloodbowl rosters had been spoiled, so here's a thread on my scalding hot takes for each team. I've used Nazgob's website which sets out the differences: 2025.nazgob.co.uk.

In a little holding pattern while we wait for the new edition of #bloodbowl, so I painted 2 star players from my unpainted box: Morg and Griff by Agema minis. #minipainting

A good video explaining and giving some good takes on the #bloodbowl roster changes article from warhammer community: youtu.be/9MU6tRvLAOw?...

This week at #boardgames night we played #ArkhamHorrorTCG. 4 investigators visited Cairo, where people were falling asleep and not waking. We checked out the city, had a trip into the desert, then came back again to whack the head cultist causing it all. A good night's work. I played Ursula Downs.

Update on the new season www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

Game 3 of MCC vs Stewart's Undead. I receive and surf 2 players with the rat ogre, scoring on my drive. In the second half I get the sack but can't get it safe. He gets it back to score and I have 3 turns left. We both only have 8 men and I get the winning score from a hand-off! #bloodbowl

Game 2 of MCC vs Garvfield's Orcs. A tricky drive but I get the TD, but Mike scores a throw team mate TD to equalise at the half. My defence is quite good and he can't make a 4,4,3,2 on his T16 to win, so a 1-1 draw and a good game. #bloodbowl

Game 1 of MCC vs 13silver's Snotlings. A great start for my Renegades as I pitch clear him by turn 6. He has a full team in the second half but I get the win 2-0 when he fails a TTM in the second half. #bloodbowl

Getting my team ready for this weekend's #bloodbowl tournament: Manfred's Chaos Cup. A chaos-themed 1-day tournament that is also a birthday party. We must roll on a mutations table before each game. I picked Chaos Renegades, since its on theme and I get to play my recently finished pink dudes:

#Bloodbowl at The Beachhead Expo, Bournemouth, 7 Feb. Run by myself and bb_nut. Tickets from Entoyment's website www.beachheadexpo.com/event-detail...

This week at #boardgames night we played Sprit Island again! As usual I took the easy and familiar Spread of Rampant Green and my friends took all kinds of wacky spirits. Beasts were everywhere! We took down those level 2 Prussians good and proper.

Last week at #boardgames night, we played Snowdonia, a worker placement game about building railway. I'm a big fan of Agricola, but I find most other worker-placement games a bit ho-hum, this one included.

My #boardgames played in September. Highlights were the two plays of Deception for a friend's birthday.

The #bloodbowl pitch is almost complete! I'm happy how it turned out. Just need to add some rust effect to the sewer covers and then varnish it. Looking forward to playing on it when the new edition comes out and the league restarts.

Overall I finished 1-0-2 at Back2School Bash, 34/44. So not great, and I won't be picking up the dwarfs again soon. They seem very matchup dependent. The tournament was very well run and gave out a ton of swag and prizes. And, very excitingly, I won Best Painted! Which made my day! #bloodbowl

Round 3 of B2SB vs Col's nurgle with Hackflem and 1 RR. He smashes up my dwarves but I somehow manage to get Hackflem down. When he stands up he can't make a rush to score. 2nd half I roll a gazillion foul appearances and lose 1-0. Tough going with dwarves vs Nurgle. #bloodbowl

Round 2 of B2SB vs Garvfield's Black Orcs, whom I gave a lift to the tournament. It was tough going but we managed to score on our drive, then his drive got bogged down and it ended 2-0 to me. #bloodbowl

Game 1 of B2SB vs Hexbaron's OWA with Griff. My dwarves got in a muddle and a snaked rush caused the drive to collapse. He is 1-0 up at the half. 2nd half I do get the ball off Griff but when my foul doesnt break armour he makes the dice to get it back and I lose 1-0. Gg, grrr @ Griff. #bloodbowl

Getting my #bloodbowl team ready for this weekend's Back to School Bash, a 1-day tournament where we all get a free goblin 'ooligan. I picked dwarves because a) I haven't played them in ages, b) I like my paint job and c) Thick Skull may help vs 'ooligan fouls?? Maybe?

Another #bloodbowl pitch update: I finished the basecoats: VGC succubus skin for the pink/red, VGC steel grey for the end zones. Then drybrushed with ushabti bone + deck tan. I also did the logo of the FLGS that the stadium will be stored at in the centre. Next up: washes, then lines and markings.

Back to the #bloodbowl stadium: I volunteered to do the pitch after enjoying doing the stands. I sprayed all 5 pieces with Chaos Black, then with Ossified Earth from the colour forge.

This evening it's a league rivalry #bloodbowl night, where 10 of our cryptic cabin league take on 10 of the Aldershot league for local bragging rights and (possibly?) a trophy. We are hoping to make it a regular occurrence. I will be playing orcs, my favourite team. tourplay.net/en/blood-bow...

My wishlist for 3rd season edition of #bloodbowl: 1) improve skill progression in leagues, 2) better balanced costs and stats for star players, 3) keep current rules for block and guard skills but improve other less taken skills, 4) simplify or remove (!) throwing bombs, 5) improved kick-off table

With the announcement that Blood Bowl is getting a Season 3 rules update, King_Ghidra and HardyRoach get together and hope/dream/pray on possible changes.

Another member of the leprechaun team finished: the master chef. His red soup will steal 0-3 of your rerolls each half. #bloodbowl #minipainting

At #boardgames night this week we played Heat: Pedal to the Metal and thrashed some cars around the US circuit. One of the best games of the last few years IMO. Since some players were new, we played the most basic version. One player said they were going to buy a copy that evening!

Got back to the painting desk, wanting a break from the stadium, so I knocked out this star player riding a hare for my leprechaun (halfing/gnome) team, a proxy for Rumbelow Sheepskin. From Agema miniatures. #bloodbowl #minipainting #miniaturepainting

My #boardgames played in August: plenty of Bloodbowl from Thrudball and UKTC; some netrunner too. The plays of Winter Kingdom were also a highlight for me.

UKTC summary: we finished 2-2-2, 30/56. I finished 3-2-1, 58/224. The zons felt good to play. Very well run tournament and I enjoyed playing with the Scots again. Looking forward to more team tournaments in the future. #bloodbowl

Round 6 of UKTC vs gustygarrett's Lizards. A really great 1-1 draw to finish the tournament, where we both turned each other over. My 5+ and even 6+ cage dives worked in the second half to save a likely loss from a terrible 1st half. Brilliant game. Team loss though at 0-3-1. #bloodbowl

Round 5 of UKTC vs Orklabe's Dark Elves. Was worried about the matchup because he had a tackle blitzer and assassin, but the tackle was sent off from an officious ref and it turned into a routine 2-0 win with 4 cas to me. Team loss though 1-1-2. #bloodbowl

Game 4 of UKTC vs Celt's Norse. He outplays me on my drive, turning me over, 1-0 to him. 2nd half I KO his snow troll early, then swamp him with zons and he can't keep the ball safe, so I get the TD on his drive to make it 1-1. Really great and educational game! Team win 2-2-0. #bloodbowl

Round 3 of UKTC vs Black Orc Down's orcs. He can't roll any pows and I column defence to keep out his drive. I have a very hairy drive but get there in the end to win 1-0. Team win 2-1-1, leaving the team on 1-2-0 after day 1. #bloodbowl