Games wed 25th august

[alex]

Woooo Hooo! My new all-halfling team will be ready and rearing to go, who among you has the stones to go up against them?

[ash]

My Gobbos will be there to tear you apart!
All gobbos!
Nothing big... Huzzah for all stunty teams!

[guppyshark]

I'm too scared of the halflings. Well actually I'm on sick leave atm and don't want to share.

[alex]

Very considerate of you Gup, more considerate than ash's gobbos, who did 7 casualties to my halflings, I was whiped off the pitch entirely by turn 5 of the second half.

All looked good at the start, when I managed to sneak 16 halflings onto the pitch and early on in the game my spell caster called down a lightning bolt right onto the fanatic standing next to him (probability was 1 in 48).
The chainsaws carved through my armour of 6 like a steak knife through warm butter.

[guppyshark]

SIXTEEN?!

[alex]

Its a good league to be stunty!

This is one of the more recent house rules for the league,
on average the team will get an extra one or two players on, but if you roll lucky like I did then its pretty sweet (until they start dropping like flies- AV6 and +1 to injury!_

Beneath the ref's attention
THe job of a Blood bowl referee is not easy, it is easy to loose track of the little unimportant things while you are distracted by the horde of bloodthirsty chaos fans who believe chainsaws are a legitimate on field accessory, or by an overzealous Deathroller driver who refuses to depart the pitch after his red card.

The coach of an all stunty team can take advantage of this by using that old "two guys in one uniform" trick to sneak extra players past the officials and onto the pitch.

If there are more than 11 players available the coach may do the following;
1) line up 11 stunties at the sideline
2) place another stunty behind any of the 11 already placed to make a pair
3) repeat stage 2 as often as desired (ie decide how many times pairs to sneak on the pitch
4) for each of the 'double' stunties roll a D6
5) on a 2+ then both of these players sneak past the ref onto the field
6) on a 1 then both players are discovered cheating and are sent off, just as if they had been caught fouling. No other player may be substituted in their stead until the next kickoff.
A bribe can be used to convince the ref not to eject the cheating pair (ie if a 1 is rolled).
therefore there is a chance that the coach will actually have fewer than 11 players on the pitch

Once they have taken the pitch they may move independantly.

Special weapon players and star players can not be set up in this manner.

e.g. no 1
10 individual goblins can freely take the pitch, but the 11th player tries to sneak another gobbo in by walking in on his shoulders, on the D6roll of a 1 the ref spots the trick, sends the both off and only the 10 original players who were not cheating may take the field.

e.g. no2
9 halflings take the field, the 10th and 11th sneak on as two pairs, the first rolls a 2+ and the two halflings take the pitch, the second pair is discovered and sent off (roll of a 1). There will therefore be 11 halflings on the pitch, the original 9 + the first pair to make it through. THe second pair will be in the sin bin and a substitution can not be made until the next kickoff.