Brett Favre retires from Blood Bowl
Ah, Blood Bowl. Brilliant idea: imagine a far-flung future where orcs and elves and dwarfs, goblins and humans all co-exist, and someone in that future manages to unearth an ancient NFL rulebook, believing it to be a holy tome worshiping the ancient god Nuffle, and an even more barbaric interpretation of American football springs forth. It's nine kinds of ridiculous, and if you like gridiron micromanagement, well, all aboard.
So I've been trying to get my head around the new computerized version of Blood Bowl, and the AI is...pretty cunning. As in "not stupid." Unlike me. So after creating about five teams and watching them all get picked apart (occasionally literally), I opted to create a new team with players all named after medications -- called the team the Medicine Cabinet (team motto: "Use Only as Directed"), and I don't know what happened but suddenly we're 3-0, trouncing teams of humans, dwarfs and skaven -- our star player is, unsurprisingly, Lexapro. It's a little thrilling when that revelatory light goes off in your head the first time that the other team is more nimble, faster and more fragile -- they're going after the ball, so you don't need to score the touchdown, you just need to go after them. After winning two games we were able to afford buying better players, so we went from just having 11 linemen (your run-of-the-mill players) to adding a blitzer named Darvocet -- great guy, very powerful, but got sent off at halftime of the next game for fouling a dwarf in an attempt to turn him into tomato paste.
Also, Batman: Arkham Asylum is nine kinds of awesome, but chances are you knew that already. Not much I can add to that. Muffin especially likes being Batman.
Okay. Trivia afternoon ensues; details to follow.
So I've been trying to get my head around the new computerized version of Blood Bowl, and the AI is...pretty cunning. As in "not stupid." Unlike me. So after creating about five teams and watching them all get picked apart (occasionally literally), I opted to create a new team with players all named after medications -- called the team the Medicine Cabinet (team motto: "Use Only as Directed"), and I don't know what happened but suddenly we're 3-0, trouncing teams of humans, dwarfs and skaven -- our star player is, unsurprisingly, Lexapro. It's a little thrilling when that revelatory light goes off in your head the first time that the other team is more nimble, faster and more fragile -- they're going after the ball, so you don't need to score the touchdown, you just need to go after them. After winning two games we were able to afford buying better players, so we went from just having 11 linemen (your run-of-the-mill players) to adding a blitzer named Darvocet -- great guy, very powerful, but got sent off at halftime of the next game for fouling a dwarf in an attempt to turn him into tomato paste.
Also, Batman: Arkham Asylum is nine kinds of awesome, but chances are you knew that already. Not much I can add to that. Muffin especially likes being Batman.
Okay. Trivia afternoon ensues; details to follow.