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Author: James Foreman

  • The Best Skill To Take In Blood Bowl

    [Originally posted on Fumbbl back in 2018] I got to thinking, and then I had a pint of fine wine and so much beef I got the meat sweats and my wife had to help me walk home. But I was struck by a revelation, an epiphany you might say about two skills that are […]

  • (Almost) all the books I read in 2023

    All the books I borrowed from the King County Library System or from the Seattle Public Library are logged online, and so are all the books I bought on my Kindle, and physical books I bought from Amazon. There’s some missing (books I bought in local bookshops, or stuff we’ve had around for a few […]

  • Chaos Cup, 2023

    Well, it’s been over a week now, I guess I should write down what I remember of my first trip to Florida in more than 20 years… I took Chaos Dwarfs, a team that never held much aesthetic appeal to me, but when one of my tournament participants at the 2023 Brawl was top drunk […]

  • Some Dark Elf shenanigans

    Here’s half of a recent match I played, with some thoughts… Ball lands deep in our half; there’s a time out, so we have 7 turns to score. A few blocks on the LOS lead to a KO’d lineman and not much else, and everyone bunched up. What I probably should have done is set […]

  • Golden Tentacle 2023

    After planning on taking Nurgle to the Golden Tentacle, I saw a chance to compete for the Stunty Cup instead, and dug my halflings out of storage and sent the little guys in to compete for glory. The GT was over two days for the first time this year, with three matches on the Saturday […]

  • Recommended Blood Bowl Inducements

    Or, “How to avoid getting steamrollered by a team that’s much bigger than yours” Even with teams that are evenly matched on Team Value, Blood Bowl wasn’t designed to provide completely balanced play. Take two rookie teams at 1,000,000 TV; if that’s Dwarfs (well armoured, almost every player comes with Block as standard) vs Khorne […]

  • Resolutions for 2022

    Fashionably late this year, here’s some things to try to achieve: Do better at Blood Bowl, but don’t focus on just winning all the time. In 2021, I played 165 matches: 39 wins, 37 draws, and 89 losses. I’d like to get my lose rate below 50%, but that’s also dependent on a lot (like, […]

  • Resolutions for 2021 – slight return

    When I look back at my resolutions for 2021, they look a lot like what I thought I’d resolve to do. In 2022… I tracked resolution progress for a while, but the spreadsheet went off the rails eventually (which means I can’t talk about every resolution accurately…) I did blog every night, but it wasn’t […]

  • Things to take to the Chaos Cup

    It’s Tuesday night and I’m starting to panic a bit about what I should be taking to the Chaos Cup in Chicago. So far it’s: Three sets of block dice (my Fumbbl ones that are easy to read, my Skaven ones because they’re official GW ones, and another set) Four NAF D6s, a D8 and […]

  • All I ever wanted to know about marking skills in Blood Bowl

    There’s lots of things to worry about before you play your first table top tournament, and a big one is how to mark the skills your players have. Unlike some other games, there’s no WYSIWYG rule – if you roster a team where one guy has tentacles, another has 2 heads and a third has […]