Hello out there JaR fans! It's been a long week over here at JaR but I'd just like to take a little time to introduce our newest game and Grudge Match III. For those of you who are not aware I love strategy games, on computers, on the tabletop in my own head. When ever I can find a good strategy game I'm sure to spend countless hours playing the game as well as pouring over articles or materials that go along with the game. I'm even more partial to strategy games with squares...Like X-Com, Disgea or one of my personal favorites BLOOD BOWL!
If you've never heard of BB then there's probably a deep forbidding hole in your soul that you've maybe tryed to fill with substance abuse but it won't close, that's were BB goes. And just incase you really haven't a clue what it's about then I'll give you a quick synopsis.
The Blood Bowl universion is the "same" as the Warhammer: A Game of Fantasy Battles universe. Except it's taken with a much more tongue in cheek theory on the background of the teams and technologies of the game. But basically each coach (that's you) chooses one of the 24 races available and creates a team of players from their rosters, like an army list each coach get's the same amount of gold to start their team so everyone starts out with the same strength teams (assumedly). After their teams are ready each coach's goal is to: "Get the Football in the Endzone." -John Madden. A feat that isn't as easy as Madden may have made it sound, the other team will surely try to stop you with all manner of techniques, from breaking the ever living sheet outta your bones with their fists, to using chainsaws and skeletons to take elimate your players. But if you survive all the werewolves and explosions the world has to throw at you and do manage to score the most touchdowns then you'll win the game! In a one off game this is the entire meaning of play, and it will usually feel pretty good, however like all other intensley deep strategy games, the true fun of blood bowl is to develope your team over the course of many games. And so instead of just reseting each time with a new team the survivors of each event get to level up, gain new skills or stats, you can hire additional support characters like wizards, doctors, barbers, assistant cheerleeders and so much more. At it's best Blood Bowl is an extremely deep and vast system of growth and play, you'll never play the same game twice and even if you stick to only 1 race your whole career there's still an almost infinite number of strategies and techniques you can learn to play with. Each team also usually has a distinct tactical advantage in some area: Hurting, Passing, Running, Dieing for example, but most teams can be tailored to support almost any style of play.
So BB is great and I love it, and Monty loves it to. And when we've spent the past week playing our little hearts out in one of the toughest Blood Bowl divisions in the world. The Black Box Division of Fumbbl. If you don't know Fumbbl is, well... it's like Blood Bowl online, actually it's exactly that. It's free to play, free to join, and there's 100s of games played each and everyday, and so many coaches you'll probably never play the same one twice. It's a pretty awesome community that Myself and Monty both are a part of and support. I'll put some links in at the bottom. But back to Monty and I's training. We're each Training up a team in the Black Box to fight against each other in our most heated Grudge Match ever, a game that we are both equally skilled in and both adore. We're each going to train our teams up to 1600 Team value, and then once we reach this goal we're going to construct our teams in Real Life form and pit them against each other in battle for the ages. We'll also doing some "Weekly Report" style blogs about our teams performances over the days and maybe some particular match updates that are rather thrilling. It's going to be E Plurbis Awesome! Don't miss it!
