North America - League in Montreal Taxal - Jan 08, 2011 - 02:05 PM Post subject: League in Montreal
The new league at La Forge des Jeux in Montreal starts this Febuary 5th 2011.
1 000 000 gp to start and all rules apply
The winner of the league gets to represent the store in a final game against another stores winner. The winning store gets the bragging ritesTaxal - Jan 27, 2011 - 10:19 AM Post subject: RE: League in Montreal
We are now at 16 people in the league and all ready to go. It looks liek its going to be a bashy style league.....
1 Chaos Dwarf
2 Orc
5 Dwarf
1 Undead
1 Ogre
Thats what I know of so far......
There is still room for more coaches that are interested.Lizardcore - Jan 27, 2011 - 10:34 AM Post subject: RE: League in Montreal
jeeez, I wish I could be in this league with necros
Claws Claws Claws ClawsTaxal - Feb 05, 2011 - 03:33 PM Post subject: RE: League in Montreal
League has started and first day we had 5 games played......zerodemon - Feb 06, 2011 - 07:27 PM Post subject: RE: League in Montreal
Is being entirely anglophone and ignorant going to be a problem if I want to join you guys?Taxal - Feb 06, 2011 - 08:14 PM Post subject: RE: League in Montreal
Kind of confused on your question.....ignorant towards what??zerodemon - Feb 06, 2011 - 09:45 PM Post subject: RE: League in Montreal
I've been here three weeks and don't know much French yet. I;m not ignorant in a broad sense and I love Blood Bowl.Taxal - Feb 07, 2011 - 04:21 AM Post subject: RE: League in Montreal
The majority of people at the store speak english and the francophone group speak english (broken but understandable).
I should be at the store this Thursday evening, but you can always go and meet the owner of the store and get signed up and maybe get a game in if another coach is there.jrock56 - Feb 07, 2011 - 11:35 AM Post subject: RE: League in Montreal
Wish I could join Taxal...want to get a league going here as well but it's like gritting teeth. Sounds like you guys have a solid group to start things up.Taxal - Feb 07, 2011 - 12:14 PM Post subject: RE: League in Montreal
Had two games this past Saturday with my Undead team...
Game 1 vs Pat Gilbert (Norse) win 2-0 and cas 5-1 for me. His dice went from bad to worse then nose dived into the abyss of hell. Thought he was going to swallow another set at one point...lol
Game 2 vs Dan Campbell (Necro) tie 1-1 and cas 2-1 for me. Damn hard game to play. Tied the game with a Mummy catching a bouncing ball and taking two turns blitzing and going for it twice each turn. All with no rerolls.zerodemon - Feb 07, 2011 - 06:33 PM Post subject: RE: League in Montreal
What's the league structure? I have a plastic human team until the rest of my teams arrive from the UK. You play Saturdays right?Taxal - Feb 07, 2011 - 08:29 PM Post subject: RE: League in Montreal
All rules except optional.... 1 000 000 to create team.
Play at the store in LaSalle and play any day you wish. Only add on rule is you cannot play the same coach two times in a row. You must play someone else before playing him/her again.
Top 8 make it to the play-offs, but you need a minimum of 6 games played to be eligible for the play offs.Taxal - Feb 10, 2011 - 10:25 PM Post subject: RE: League in Montreal
Game 3 vs Patrick LaForge (Ogres) win 3-0 and cas 2-1 for me. Scored three times in the first half and thought this game was going to be a killing. Second half we both could not get a hold of the ball. Looked like a three Stooges movie with some Monty Python thrown in for good measure.Taxal - Feb 13, 2011 - 09:14 PM Post subject: RE: League in Montreal
WOW.....
Thats all I can say about the first week of Season 2 at the store. First season we had 4 coaches and played a hand full of games between us. Just us four started something that seems to have exploded at the store. We are at 15 coaches to start from last Saturday and there has been just over a dozen games played in the first week of a 2 1/2 month season. I know some will drop out or just stall playing any games in the season, but this has been the best first week of any season I have ever played in. Couple of brand new players that saw us playing and saw how much fun each turn was to watch they decided to stop playing 40k and watch the game instead.
Taking a week off to test play my Skaven team for the DaggerBowl next weekend. Will update next Sunday after I hear the war stories from the store.
Taxal (Dan)Taxal - Mar 04, 2011 - 06:42 AM Post subject: RE: League in Montreal
Game 4 vs Cameron Chaput (Orc) Tie 1-1 Cas 3-2 for me.
Knew this was going to be a tough game. Cameron is in first with his seriously stacked Orc team (Denver Orc-os). 4 blitzers, 4 black orcs, troll was his front line right at the beginning. Received first half and worked my way down and scored on turn 5. He could not score in the first half and we went into the second half still even in numbers. Took him till turn 7 to score (bad dice on ball handling). Two turns to try and score and I set myself up to give it a go. Ghoul with Wight and 1 Skeley goes deep and have the ball with another Ghoul ready to attempt the throw in the last turn. He has one chance to stop me and that is to blitz with his Troll on my ball carrier. Needs 2 go for its and makes the first one, fails the second one and I roll for armour....break!!!....injury roll.....injured....roll again to see....DEAD....regen....fail....doctor....turns it into a badly hurt...DAMN!!!! My turn 8 all I need is a 2 die block with a Wight to get a lineman off my receiver....throw the dice....DOUBLE SKULL!!!!....no injury but what a damn funny ending. All in all I am quite happy that I came out with a tie.
Have second place to myself with the tie, so off to my next opponent...who????Rando - Mar 07, 2011 - 09:42 AM Post subject: RE: League in Montreal
I thought I'd add to this thread!
Game 1 My undead vs Pat LaForge (Ogres) 2-0 win for me 1-0 casualties for me
Pat is such a nice guy, and a great host. Who else would play a team with 6 ogres and not cause one casualty against me! An entertaining match which even saw a snotling attempt a long pass to an ogre. Ogres are a tough side to learn with but with so many skills accumulating on his team (multiple block, break tackle) there's a lot of excitement being generated for the playoffs. It'll be a whole new season and I can't wait!!Taxal - Mar 07, 2011 - 11:53 AM Post subject: RE: League in Montreal
This thread is for anyone and everyone Rando. Hope to play you before the play offs in April.Taxal - Mar 18, 2011 - 05:45 AM Post subject: RE: League in Montreal
Game 6 vs Ryan (Undead) My first loss 1-0 Cas 2-2. Ryan handed me my first loss of the season with a very good game played by him. The first half his dice were nice and hot and mine were normal except for one serious crazy dodging Ghoul to blitz his ball carrier.....three dodges through tackle zones....making it with three 6`s and then single die blitz for a KA-POW!!! Brings back memories against Adam Jones a couple years back...LOL. Second half was a bit more even on dice and it turned into a maul in the middle with my highlight of taking both Wights out of the game. With this game I am now in the play-offs, all games from here are just gravy on the potatoes.jrock56 - Mar 18, 2011 - 01:03 PM Post subject: RE: League in Montreal
Lets not talk about that Taxal...with the help and therapy from the Gnome I've been able to block it out Rando - Mar 18, 2011 - 05:39 PM Post subject: RE: League in Montreal
Game 3 for me versus Patrick gilbert. A nail biting 1-1 draw which saw my main mummy, Astaroth, go down to a thrown rock at the start of the game, suffer from a -1 Strength, fail the regen and then, of course, he gets the MVP and levels up! The joys of league play! Patrick's Norse and I gave each other a good thrashing, with a total of 10 players in the knockout box alone. He ran down the clock for the last two turns to get in the tie!Taxal - Mar 25, 2011 - 07:54 AM Post subject: RE: League in Montreal
Game 7 vs Manu (Human) Loss 1-0 Cas 2-1 for me. Very bloody game in hitting. I was very lucky that his armour dice were super cold cause he was knocking me down constantly. Another one of those games you wish you had another brain to replace the one you just wore out from thinking too much with. Wow Manu is a good player and he does not give you any chances if you make a mistake. Highlight for me is killing one of his star player Blitzers and him using his doc to make him only "miss next game", then on the next block against his Ogre injuring him and giving him -1 strength.....NICE!!!!! Three more weeks to go then the play-offs.......Taxal - Apr 08, 2011 - 08:14 AM Post subject: RE: League in Montreal
Game 8 vs Pat Gilbert (Norse) Loss 2-0 Cas 0-3. What can I say about this game. Total 180 turn from my first game against Pat. My go for it`s and dodging was HORRIBLE!!!!! Pat had some crazy great armour breaking dice but I was lucky that his injury dice were not better. I would not have a team left to play with. He was breaking armour like I was not even wearing any. 5 times he rolled 12, 5 times he rolled 11, 4 times he rolled 10. Best I did all game was one KO and thats it. At least I have a full team (thanks to regen) for the next game which might be my play-off game if I cannot get at least one more game before.generaljason - Apr 09, 2011 - 06:04 AM Post subject:
You guys have started a league in Montreal? That's awesome! 16+ players at the start is awesome! I'm assuming it's open league right - play whoever is there? Have all you guys played roughly the same amount of games and do you have a limit per season? Just curious how the other half lives. Glad to see another league in Canada up and running. Taxal - Apr 11, 2011 - 05:43 AM Post subject:
You have to play at least 6 games to get into the play-offs. We have some that played between 1-5 games and 8 that have played the minimum 6+ games.
Play when you against whoever. You cannot play the same coach twicw in a row. Besides that its all rules exept the optional.
From now on we will be playing our league at the same time as the NFL.generaljason - Apr 11, 2011 - 07:36 AM Post subject:
Taxal wrote:
From now on we will be playing our league at the same time as the NFL.
That's hilarious.
That's great that you guys have an outline for play-off eligibility and not just a few guys playing 8 games and a bunch more playing 1-4 games. Inducements or not that is the low-life of open leagues so I'm glad to hear that that's not going on in Montreal. Give me a website when you have one and I'll add it to the Spike! and Thunderbowl webrings!
Cheers,
Gj.Rando - Apr 18, 2011 - 06:27 AM Post subject:
The play offs have begun and I really like the format Taxal has choosen. The top 8 play eachother (as say in the NHL). So that's 4 games, 4 winners and 4 losers. The 4 winners face off in a deathbowl match to determine the champ. That winner then goes on to play in a championship match versus the winner of a similar league from a neighbouring store!Taxal - Apr 18, 2011 - 07:31 AM Post subject:
So the play-offs are here.......
Final standings
1. Patrick Gilbert -Norse
2. Manu Leclerc -Human
3. Ryan Mackenzie -Undead
4. Cameron Chaput -Orc
5. Dan Chaput -Undead
6. Sam Durant -Human
7. Dan Campbell -Necromantic
8. Patrick Laforge -Ogre
The next round is 1st vs 8th, 2nd vs 7th, etc etcRando - Apr 27, 2011 - 09:24 PM Post subject:
OVERTIME 2-1 nail bitter win for my undead versus sam's humans. Sam was the only player to beat me during the regular season and this now has the makings of a major rivalry. We will meet again in the Necromunda league Taxal is running in May. A stalemate game, going into overtime, it was going to be the first guy who made a mistake that lost, and Sam made a huge one. Pat and Pat were playing next to us and Montreal was playing Boston on the TV. Great vibe going into this game.
I received to start the match and broke out down the right side. He boxed me in and made a 4+ dodge, a 4+ dodge, a 4+ dodge and a one die block to hit my ball carrier and knocked the ball loose with a pow and picked it up too! I managed to knock his ball carrier down, the ball went off the side, came back in and went off the end, then rocketed right back to the centre of the pitch. Luckily my mummies hadn't gone to far and covered up the ball until a ghoul grabbed it and then made the long dash to score.
Sam fought hard to cross the centre line, picked up the ball in two tackle zones, threw it while in those two zones to a catcher who was also in two zones who caught it and then dodged out to score.
In overtime I went hard left, when he covered me up I broke threw the middle and went as far as I could. Now in scoring position he had a blitzer far away that would knock me down but he needed to dodge and go for it twice ... unless a stray zombie was knocked out of his way he wouldn't have to make the dodge or one of the go for its. In a real gaffe he used a different blitzer to blitz this stray zombie to open up the route for his main blitzer ... but this would also use his blitz move! He got a both down but we both had block so he re-rolled, got a skull and only then realized that this whole blitz action, even if succesful would prevent him from blitzing the ball carrier!
Good game, see you all in the final. Thank you Sam for an excellent match!Taxal - Apr 28, 2011 - 06:00 AM Post subject:
Wow!!!
Wish I would have seen that game.Taxal - May 06, 2011 - 07:45 AM Post subject:
Semi-Final game vs Cameron (Orc)
OVERTIME win for me 2-1
I win the kick off and decide to recieve in the first half. We basically start to kick the SH$T out of each other. Just could not get the ball to go further than three squares into his half. End the half with both of us down 1 player and 2 each in the KO. We go into the second half knowing its going to be another blood bath and well it starts right away. he injures a Mummy and is out for the game. I KO a Black Orc and a Lineman and get some pressure on his thrower. the thrower gets clear and attempts to throw to a nice open lineman with no one in front of him. Nuffle was shining down on me cause he messes up the throw and it lands right beside a ghoul. My turn I pick up and take off for a TD. He has 3 turns to score and I set up in a very tight defensive formation. Kick off ends off being a high kick and he gets the ball to a blitzer. Hands off to a lineman who in turn takes off and he ends up scoring on his last turn.
Overtime is 4 turns per half with only one reroll each. First team to score wins.
Cameron wins the kick off and I get lucky with a deep kick and it causes him to rush down the field but cannot get the ball
to far. On my half I get the ball and get a ghoul deep right away. Next turn I get my ball carrier free and hand of to a ghoul in a tackle zone .Complete hand off and with one dodge he is free and takes off for a TD. What a game we both had ups and downs. Now into Death Bowl finals at the end of the month. So far we have a Norse team and 2 Undead teams, waiting on the last team....which will be Human or Necro.Taxal - May 09, 2011 - 11:51 AM Post subject:
So the 4 semi-final games have all been played and now May 29 at 10:00 am at La Forge des Jeux the final game will be played a la DEATH BOWL style.
The four finalists are......
Patrick Gilbert (Norse)
Ryan Mckenzie (Undead)
Dan Chaput (Undead)
Dan Campbell (Necro)
With a combined 35+ cas count between the 4 teams its going to be a serious blood bath.
STAY TUNED!!!!!!!!!!Taxal - May 24, 2011 - 02:33 PM Post subject:
This Saturday (29th) start time 10am.....DEATH BOWL FINALS!!!!!!
UNDEAD VS NORSE
sorry Pat had to throw that one inTaxal - May 30, 2011 - 07:36 AM Post subject:
Well the game was done and it was a great one. Abit lackluster in casualty count but had some great moments too.
Congrats to Ryan to winning it in overtime. Death Bowl overtime is CRAZY!!!!!....only 1 reroll each made each go for it and dodge nail biting fun.
Give me a website when you have one and I'll add it to the Spike! and Thunderbowl webrings!