A quick post to wrap up Day 2 of Cakebowl – congratulations to the winners and a big well done to Hudson for his organising skills!
Winner – Dionysian (Dwarf)
2nd – Hawk (Skaven)
3rd – SFisher (Lizards)
International scared of the ruleset award – Hobnail (Amazons)
Most Cas – Landrover (not sure of race or number)
Most TDs – scs.sam (Pro Elf, 15)
Spoon – Bron (Norse)
Sunday comeback (DaPiranha)
Some pics:
Start of Day 2 – Dionysian v Hobnail
Slann v Skaven – krox spent most of the game sideways (signifying bonehead) or prone (signifying useless).
One of Alex’s wins! Vs Waddywoos Slann
Spoon to Bron!
Dionysian with first choice of cake;
Hawk with second choice of cake:
sfisher with 3rd choice of cake
What of my games after an unbeaten Saturday? It all went wrong against Hawk’s Skaven, with the newly Blocked up Krox failing boneheads when I asked him to do stuff, but mostly just standing up and getting whacked until he finally gave up and left the pitch. His one contribution was with his prehensile tongue, causing a GR to fail a dodge and allowing me to equalise just before half time. It was looking pretty good at that point, but then the 1s rained down on my team, and it finished 2-1. Or possibly 3-1. Hoping to have my revenge in the league game next week, either way…
Heff’s Lizards put up a good fight, recovering the ball well after an early sack of the ball carrier, but again I scored back and went in 1-1. His Saurus started leaving the pitch half way through the second half, but it still went down to the wire after a cheeky skink blitz. 2-1 win.
The weather was an absolute git in game 6 v Wobert’s Necro, making for a very tricky last game. He had a mostly solid drive, firmly in control once I rolled a whole series of pushes against his golems, leaving too many of my players in contact, who promptly got KO’d or Injured. He scored in turn 7 however, allowing me the 2-turner. Should have been in control in my drive, but failed two pickups in a row with rerolls and then double-downed with my first block of the 3rd turn, leaving all my players in contact. Disaster, and the game was over, though a series of lucky leapy blitzes meant it did get to turn 15 with him needing a 4+ with reroll to win, which he managed with ease.
2/2/2 for me, 2/1/3 for Alex and 1/2/3 for Linus, and happily there were no inter-Davies matches at all in the weekend!
The dice made this a ridiculously eventful weekend, with things working that shouldn’t and failing that should work. I won every kick-off roll, and chose to kick each time, which was a solid strategy and I would do that again. No complaints about my build, either. I made only a couple of major positioning mistakes, which there is no real excuse for, but as ever do need to leave sweepers back more often, rather than pressurising the ball with everyone or thinking I need everyone on offence. Might learn sometime.
Thanks to all the boys’ opponents, especially the ones who were kind enough to let them win – I will invest in some more dice cups before Thrud, to keep the volume down a notch. Can’t do a lot about the vocal volume though…
No tournaments until Thrud now (everyone come to that!), and then just Exebowl and the World Cup left in an eventful 2015, as September to January is my BB off-season.