Curry Bowl roundup: I finished 1-1-1 for 16th/28 and have now "done the 31" races. Highlights were the lamb samosas and the chicken karahi. Lowlights were playing Nurgle! Too slow for my tastes. #bloodbowl

Game 3 of Curry Bowl vs CaptainFalcon's Khorne. I kick, pressure him and remove 2 linos. He can't get the ball safe and I get it and score. My drive was quite straightforward being against 8 players. A bit of a dicing for a 2-0 win. #bloodbowl

Game 2 of Curry Bowl vs Fumblestiltskin's elf union. He scores in 2 turns and I just can't get far enough to score back. 2nd half he puts a lot of pressure on. I escape but have to use all rerolls. He sacks me when I have to extend and it finished 1-0 to him. Didn't play well at all! #bloodbowl

Game 1 of Curry Bowl vs KendralaSharne's black orcs. 1st half is great as he fails a gazillion foul appearance rolls and I score. 2nd half he removes much of my team and I can't defend well. A fun game ends 1-1. #bloodbowl

But before Curry Bowl tomorrow it's game 4 of my league this evening. We're missing a saurus again and need to play Tomb Kings again. This time the Tomb Kings are on 2-1-0 and are in the other division. Hopefully it goes as well as last time! We now at least have 2 rerolls from Leader. #bloodbowl

I got my Nurgle team finished in time for Curry Bowl on Saturday! Happy with how these came out and they were a fun paint. #bloodbowl #minipainting

This Saturday I'll be at a #bloodbowl tournament at a London curry house. It sounded too delicious and unique not to sign up! The ruleset is suitably spicy and can be summarised in the two shown charts :). I'll be playing Nurgle, which will complete all 31 teams for me.

Our family has played this 15 times over the Easter weekend: It's called Fiction and it's is essentially Wordle, but the setter makes one lie with their clues each round. My kids have surprisingly really taken to it! #boardgames

And away-day #parkrun today as we're staying with my parents over easter. 4.5 laps of my old secondary school's field! Felt quite good today, finished in 38.53 with only one short walking bit.

It's the third game of my #bloodbowl league tonight. I'm on 2 wins but tonight we have to play Tomb Kings while missing a Saurus. I have one block saurus, he has a mighty blow tomb guardian. Could be a tricky one, hopefully we can use our speed to outflank the slow Khemri.

And improvement in a cold but sunny #parkrun today at 38.44 min. Still walked a bit but felt a little fitter than recently.

I've completed a few more bits and pieces for our FLGS's #bloodbowl stadium: two KO boxes and a weather board.

At a 2-player #boardgames night this weekend we played Welcome to the Moon, Duel of Cardia and Splendor Duel. Duel of Cardia (pictured) was new to me and seems good fun for a quick battling game. Ill try to pick up my own copy.

Back to painting the Nurgle: I've now finished all of the rotter linemen. #bloodbowl #minipainting

Runnymede Rumble round-up: I know I seemingly give every #bloodbowl tournament a thumbs-up review, but they're all great! Exfellent vanue, organisation, prizes. My halfings ended 12th / 24 with a 1-1-1 record. Amsel won with Humans with Ivar. I was very chuffed to take home the best painted prize!

R3 of Runnymede Rumble vs Lachlan's Snotlings for the Stunty Cup! I kill his troll but he kills my treeman and Rumbelow, so that's not good! Great game and I have a chance to equalise with a passing play on T16 but can't make the pass, so I lose 2-1. #bloodbowl

R2 of Runnymede Rumble vs Lee's dwarfs in Sweltering Heat! (great for me). He scores easily on T5 but I equalise before half time. With the heat and 2 cas from Rumbelow I can wander down the pitch vs his 7 dwarves for the 2-1 win. 2-3 cas. #bloodbowl

R1 of Runnymede Rumble vs Primhak's OWA. 1st half he wrecks my team and my 1TTD attempt fails. 2nd half I do many 5+ dodges from DT to score on T7. On his 2-turner, he cages in my half but a halfling toss takes out the ball carrier and other scoring threat, securing the 1-1 draw. 1-9 cas! #bloodbowl

It's the Runnymede Rumble #bloodbowl tournament tomorrow and I'm playing halflings as race 30/31. Got some smol CV skill bands too! The guy at the back on the hare is Rumbelow.

I have my second game in the local #bloodbowl league tonight vs Orcs, for whom a big'un has learnt Block and a troll Guard. We now have 1 block on a saurus but still only 1 reroll and no apothecary. Hopefully we come though without too much damage!

A muddy #parkrun this morning; pleased with myself that I ran all the way round for the first time this year. Not a good time though (40.01 min): a minute slower than last time when I walked some of it! Need to run faster I guess!

At #boardgames night this week, 4 investigators went to Hollywood in Film Fatale for #ArkhamHorrorTCG. I was Tony Morgan, the bounty hunter. We had a look around, but the gothic horror film set was quite, arguably too, realistic. We couldn't beat the vampire countess and lost! Fun scenario.

Here's a lollypop plot showing BB2020 win rates vs BB2025. Certainly not what I expected! Nurgle, OWA, Chaos, Orcs and Humans with big jumps. Will need to see if this holds up over time after TOs adjust their tiering. #bloodbowl

Game 3 of CCCG vs CaptainFalcon's Khorne. He received but a solid defense put him in trouble and I turned him over to lead 1-0 at half time. 2nd half he rolled a Charge! but it was disastrous because his bloodspawn killed himself on it. Ended 3-0 to me. #bloodbowl

Game 2 of CCCG vs Inderol's skaven. He receives and scores T3. I drive back and score but lose players and I'm down to 8 to start the 2nd half. A Charge! puts me in big trouble and he's able to turn me over to score. I lose 2-1 to some top ratting by Joe. #bloodbowl

Game 1 of CCCG vs JKaen's Wood Elves. A difficult matchup and he out cas'd me 4-1, but I get a 2-0 win thanks to (a) a skink dodge into a sideline cage to surf the ball carrier and (b) a Saurus interception in the 2nd half after the elves extracted the ball. Well done the big lad! #bloodbowl

A small local #bloodbowl tournament tomorrow at the same shop I play in the league. I'm playing lizardmen to keep in the 🦎 mindset. I've taken 5 block saurus, krox, chameleon, 11 players, apothecary and a mascot. I painted up an apo and mascot for it too.

The first #bloodbowl league game was a fun game vs Brets. His dauntless was useful but a crucial skull meant that I stopped his drive. 2nd half I was a few players up and won 2-0. I got 2 cas on Saurus, one of whom also was named MVP and learned block.

Our new #bloodbowl league has started and I have my first game tomorrow. I've chosen Lizardmen and have gone for the 1 reroll, all the big guys, 3 skinks and a chameleon build. Ill need to get leader on the chameleon ASAP, and also buy an apothecary. Oh, and block on saurus too. First game vs Brets.

At #boardgames night we played Fjords, which ended in a 3-way tie. But not in a good way - it felt like we all did reasonable actions to give us about a point per turn and the tie didn't seem that unexpected. But we finished with a favourite: Cartographers, this time with the islands expansion.

A quirk of a low sample size: In the 3 months of #bloodbowl 3rd season edition, the most popular played race was Orcs. And they're pretty good, having the 5th highest win-rate. The best team *against* Orcs has been .... Halflings!

A nice #parkrun this morning. Lots of woodchip down and some football matches to see on the way round. Slight improvement over last week at 39.03 min. Want to get back to running the whole distance like I did last year.

Nurgle painting update: I finished both pestigors and also did all the basecoats / underpainting for the rest of the team. #minipainting #bloodbowl

Got back to #parkrun today after many weeks of bad weather and kids football getting in the way. A little rusty though, and I had to walk some of the second lap. Still enjoyed getting out in the sunshine though. 39.08 min, for 239/291 runners.

A thread on the #bloodbowl Season 3 meta, based on about 3 months of data. I was certainly wrong about orcs, who I thought were hosed but people are getting them to win. I should play them again! Same for Dark Elves. I was right about goblins still being the worst team in the game. Thread continues:

Tonight at #boardgames night, we played Saltfjord, a puzzly dice drafting game. Very thinky, quite quick, and I enjoyed it. Now I'm home, and its time for the Super Bowl! Got my beer and snacks ready, and tomorrow booked off work.

MacMillan Cup round up: Most importantly, we raised £820 for cancer support! Lovely tournament run by Big Dan. The hotel gave us the room for free, which was amazing. Dalyo won with Tomb Kings. I finished 4th / 34 at 2-1-0.

R3 of MacMillan Cup vs Hexbaron's OWA. For the third game in a row my offence grinds to a halt and it's 0-0 at the half. 2nd half he feels pressured to score on T5. I return the score on T16 with some crazy dice (jump over prone player, 2D uphill needing a push etc) to draw 1-1. #bloodbowl

Rd2 vs BB_nut's OWA, almost an exact mirror. I receive, run into trouble again, have to potato on T7. He fails the dodge to blitz with a tackle blitzer and I score. 2nd half Ben is under pressure and goes for a pass play on T3 but fails while using all his rerolls, so it ends 2-0 to me. #bloodbowl

R1 of MacMillan cup vs Amazons. I receive but I suffer 4 cas and only a tripwire saves me, 0-0 at the half. 2nd half he's doing fine but makes a crucial mistake of making a sideline cage. I push my thrower into it, who surfs the ball carrier. I run off for the undeserved 1-0 win, 2-6 cas. #blodbowl

Going to a #bloodbowl tournament today: The MacMillan Cup, a charity event in Portsmouth. I'm taking Old World Alliance with my freshly painted treeman. People I trust say they're now the best team in this new edition. Let's try them out! It's 1150 and 6 skills for tier 1. Here's the team:

Last night I did a test model for my nurgle #bloodbowl team and I'm pretty happy with it. I used the underpainting method from Ninjon's recent darkwater video. It was quite quick but also fun to do. #minipainting #miniatures

This week at #boardgames night, we returned to Spirit Island. In the first game, I played Hearth Vigil, and we got smashed by the level 2 French. The second I was Many Minds Move as One vs level 1 Habsburgs. I didn't fully grok my spirit's strategy but we got the win mainly thanks to my teammates!

I found this snow troll / yheti in my box - it was a freebie at a tournament. Think it's from Brutenfun. I painted it up because he could work as a Skrorg Snowpelt, who seems really good now! #bloodbowl #minipainting

This week at #boardgames night we played 2 x 7-player games of Mysterium. The first was a relaxing time of discussing which cards can relate to which clue. The second, with me as the ghost, was very stressful trying to get semi-meaningful clues out to 6 people quickly!

I bought a great looking Punga Nurgle team from Ebay, the only remaining #bloodbowl team I didn't own until now. Tonight, I watched stranger things while doing my favourite part of the hobby: cleaning, glueing, and basing.

Got out my minis painted in 2025: all #bloodbowl this time. 2 full teams, some star players, and some extras for existing teams. It was 43 this year, compared to 76 in 2024. I expect to be at around the 40 mark this year too. #minipainting

Barton Bowl roundup: Great tournament, great cakes (there was a bake off competition too). I finished 1-2-0, for 19th / 50. Congrats to torquemada for winning another tournament, this time with Old World Alliance. The wood elves felt OK, but I mostly avoided the heavy bash teams. #bloodbowl

Round 3 of Barton Bowl vs LazyJay346's Chaos with Lord Borak. Things go well here. A based cage gets opened, a 1D blitz springs the ball free and I run off with it. I score again a couple more times to win 3-0. His chaos build seems a little underpowered when Borak isn't killing everyone. #bloodbowl

Round 2 or Barton Bowl vs ceetee's Norse. I receive, lose a dodge elf but get the score on T8 after a hand-off. On his drive I get a blitz on a short kick. I think the ball is safe-ish but he finds a fantastic series of pushes to surf my ball carrier. Many Elves then die and it's 1-1. #bloodbowl