After-School Special...

New Three Die Block

"After-School Special w/ Nairn Murray

(1:51:21) On this very special episode of Three Die Block, Chance and Drew sit down with Nairn Murray and discuss how he has used Blood Bowl to develop an after-school club for his students. Then Chance and Drew face those painful bully memories as they discuss Dirty Player and Sneaky Git in the Rulebook Revealed segment. Lastly, playoffs time is upon us, and the guys begin to speculate as to who will make it through the quarter- and semi-finals and who they think will take home the cup!

Email us at threedieblock@gmail.com

Music: "Boom (Crystal Method remix)" by P.O.D.

This production was made possible in part by Impact! Miniatures and Critical Hit Games"

Check it out HERE

Apoth preview...

...here´s barnacle111...you got to love the spares bucket :)

And,like i´ve told Tom,he kind of reminds me of a green Dr. Satan

Kony 2012

Reality check because at least sometimes we should.
(Poster obviously customized for BB environments. Feel free to nail it on your wall.)

KONY 2012 from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo.

For more info please check their web site: Kony 2012 - Invisible Children

These guys have some big...

(Main Guy & Other Guy on my PS2)

...podcasts.

I mean,between this one:

Both Down #4 – Wild Night

"Welcome to the longest Both Down episode yet, almost 3 hours of Blood Bowl fun! In this podcast Steve and Scott cover some “Home Brew”. Plus the boys have their first ever Both Down interview segment with Zlurpcast’s Jonny P. Loads of “Tournament Talk” about Bugman’s Bowl and whatever else is on their sick ginger brains. Enough reading about it, click and listen. It’s nice and long just like you like it, and all for you!

Links mentioned in Episode 4

Delphi Forums: Dragonfyre Blood Bowl League (Might need a login name to see)
Blood Bowl Web Manager Example (DFW Blood Bowl League)
BLITZ! Magazine
Calm or Cool? (2nd Edition Blood Bowl see page 15, it was Cool)
Old School Picture Archive link
Da 40 Miners
Grimace’s Uncle on YouTube
Zlurpcast
Chaos Cup
Merry Mayhem News: Both Down, I Hate You
Bugman’s Bowl Website
Bugman’s Bowl Facebook Pictures
Area 51
Bugman’s Bowl Rosters- Stamfordheim Titans (Scott)
Bugman’s Bowl Rosters- Ashfall Scorchers (Steve)
Quintessons from Transformers

Definitely let us know what you think at either twitter (@BothDown) or by email at BothDownPodcast@gmail.com"

And this one:

Zlurpcast #32

"In the recent online mandrama between positive and negative feedback about Zlurpcast, Jonny P and Xtreme had plans to just put out a basic 30min episode for March, regroup for April and get back in the swing of things. Yeahh…. that idea lasted all of 3 days. This episode is 2.5 hours! We are honored to have the NAF President, Dave Downes (aka Lycos) join the show and discuss the NAF, his favorite teams, and even field a question from G-Dub about NAF member steel cage matches! And on the other side of interviews, we were able to finally get arguably the most well-known Star Player of all time, Morg N Thorg to join the show!. Graveyard covers Heroes Challenge, Rat City Rumble, and Bugman’s Bowl, and Around the Old World previews Royal Rumble II, Headbangers Ball II, and NewOrk Challenge, and the West Coast Quake. And the show finishes up with G-Dub’s prank calls. Funny stuff. ”Yall gots Mephisto?!”"

Theres almost 6 hours of Blood Bowl goodness to listen to.This is just fucking awesome.

Now,stop reading this and go listen to them :)

Back for more... Star Players!

Fuelled by the "Give him a Goblin" contest (just click on the link if you still don't know what I'm talking about), I've painted a couple more home brewed Blood Bowl Star Players.

First one on display is Lottabottol, a Lizardmen skink star with all the skills you need for ruining your opponent's perfect pass with an interception.
Its made from GW's Skink Lizardmen plastic sprue, with a few extra bits (old skeleton armour) just to make him stand from the 'regular skink.













The second star of the day is Horkon Heartripper, a Dark Elf star player.
It's a mini from GW's Warhammer Dark Elf range (an assassin), and he'll probably just stand in the shelf for now since I'm not playing any DE team right now.















Hope you like them, and please fell free to comment.

GHAG overdrive contest winners

Well didn't quite get the response I was hoping for, but we had six entries to the "overdrive" contest.

1. Marco Preto
2. Axtlinge
3. Laughing Ferret
4. Be4ch
5. Mathias
6. dokumitsukai

I used random.org and got the following winners.
Prize 1: #6 dokumisukai wins...

spike limited edition 4 armed goblin

Prize 2: #5 Mathias wins...


a set of impact blood bowl dice (3 block dice + d8 + d16)

Prize 3: #1 Marco Preto wins...

an original blood bowl undead sketch/storyboard draft

Winners, please contact me -> natsirtdm [@] gmail [dott] com with your mailing address.

Both Down, I hate you

by Nazgob

I really, really do.

You pointed out a huge flaw in my gaming. In my hobby life, I try to put fluff first; mycetic spores, radical Daemonhunters, D&D characters that do more than stab things with sticks. However, my fumbbl activities of late have been woefully inadequate. Where once my teams and players had stories, now thar are simply a means to an end:

Chaos at the World Cup - Wood Elf practive

Waterbowl testers - Any idea why I made these?

Team Choas at the World Cup - I can't spell, but you still get the idea.

And then, Both Down dedicated an entire segment on why (and how) Blood Bowl teams deserve fluff. I felt ashamed. I can power-game as well as anyone else,* but I do like to have a theme going as well. Even worse, I knew what they were talking about. I help to run the Zlurp Nation Blood Bowl league over on fumbbl and a lot of the gingers' comments were ringing home. My very own, brand new league team, the Knife Sharpeners, had a theme so skeletal, it resembled the Death himself. Guilt made me delete them and start anew.

Both Down, how I hate you.

I have spent hours on my team since then. First, I started looking for a logo. Then, I realised I needed a name first and had to spend time with a map of the Warhammer World to find my little green guys' home town. Having settled on the Badlands to the south of the Empire, a quick google search came up with a variety of lovely icons. With a little bit of judicious editing, the Badland Outlaws were born.

Both Down, I still hate you.

Because I wasn't done there. I still hadn't got a back story for the team, so I had to spend another couple of hours writing (and formatting the HTML) for this little doozy:

Famous Orc Team Profile BADLAND OUTLAWS

Team Colours: Black and Orange Team Owner: Rark Snotling-Muncher Head Coach: Nazgob Players: Black Orcs, Orcs and Trolls

2499	Rark Snotling-Muncher becomes the head of his clan, the Gibbering Moon, by virtue of being the biggest, the ugliest and the smelliest Orc around. Not being able to spell did not affect his ability to fulfill his electoral promises.
2499-2501	Rampaging around the Badlands, Rark beats up several other clans, swelling his ranks.
2501	The Border Princes move against the growing Waaagh. Displaying a stubborn tenacity and stupidity that would make him famous, Rark leads his troops on a suicidal charge against the Empire gunline. The Waaagh over and clan destroyed, Rark retreats into the wilderness, disgraced.
2502-2509	Rark disappears from record during this period and the Gibbering Moon ceases to exist. It is surmised that at some point, during the years 2502-2509, Rark met disgraced Orcland Raiders coach Nazgob. The Black Orc later said that "Nazgob sed we wuz gonna die. I fort, I mite as well die rich and fame-uhs."
2510	The Badland Outlaws begin their career in the minor leagues. Beating up Skaven and Goblins came naturally and the Outlaws made the play-offs. However, in a catastrophic accident with a Slaaneshi wizard and a Halfling Master Chef, many of the Orcs' best players were turned into Chaos Spawn.
2511	Looking to rebuild, head coach Nazgob told Rark about a new opportunity; the Zlurp Nation league. With the money, women, drugs and fame on offer, the Outlaws moved north, stopping only in the Halfling Moot for supplies of fresh meat.

So eventually, I finish and I'm actually feeling pretty pleased. Inspired.

Even stranger, I find myself filled with a warm fuzzy glow, a positive sentiment directed towards the source of all this labour. I might even say, "Both Down, I love you!"

Filled with happiness and confidence, I played my first league game today, and the stupid green-skins lost. As disappointed as I was, I am solaced by the fact that the defeat can be woven into a story; it seems that as the owner and biggest Orc on the team, Rark disapproves of weakness and sacks any player without armour 9.

The moral of the story? Add some fluff and game with style.

And now, the Outlaw's theme tune:

I particularly like these lines:

From their holes and caverns creep

Ten million Orc and Goblin feet

With hungry hearts and sharpened knives

They come to take your worthless lives

Should anyone wish to sponsor the Badland Outlaws or any of their players, they simply have to ask.

*I know how to power-game; use Wood Elves. Whether I am as successful as anyone else is another matter entirely.