Ok. Here it is. Who has the worst horror story involving dice rolls in a game of blood bowl. They are painful memories but bloody funny for every one else. We might even vote on who's story is the worst.

Worst I can think of is actually a friend of mines.

He was new to the game (back in Bad Old 3rd ed. And had taken Dark Elves as he played them in WHFB (also in 3rd Ed i believe )

Dark Elves were very tricky back then only getting 2 Blitzers, 2 Witch Elves and 2 Throwers (with Pass - no dump off and still 90k). He was losing at leadt one elf a game to Permanent injury or Death. I told him repeatedly to get an Apoth before buying more as he would oinly lose them.

So he finally listened and got an apoth and a new Blitzer after one game.

First turn of the next game the Blitzer threw a 1 die hit against unskilled linerat. Skull, reroll skull - fall over and die. I point out isn't he glad he bought the Apo when he rolls the 2+ and he's back on the pitch (Apo used to leave player on the pitch). So first thing he does next turn is stand up and dodge to go after the ball carrier. You can probably say it with me here. 1, reroll 1 - fall down and die.....

As a side note, back in the day 3 die blocks seemed rare as Hen's teeth. So I happened to record the first 23 I saw during our seasons. Of these 21 ended in triple Skulls. After that most people considered them cursed and almost tried to reduce the Dice to only 2 when throwing hits.

You should ask Red Dragon about Dark Elves and bad dice rolls.

that is a funny story. im sure your friend was just rolling around the floor laughing his guts out.....no? didnt think so.

one of my classics was with a norse runner that i had. Game score, 2-2, last turn of the game. i cant remember the sequence of dodges that he had to pull out but it was like a cat on a hot tin roof and he pulled off an amazing sequence of death defying moves and was just short of the endzone. the dice were rolling hot. 4+, 5+ 6+ it didnt matter. he weaved his way through the line like a halfling getting the front of the que at the hotdog stand. All he had to do was survive 1 measley go for it roll of 2+

oh yes i hear you say, i can see what is happening next. "1" ....oh bother. got my last reroll. "1" sorry there goes the win. injury "6" "5" gee thats kinda beats norse armour. Injury roll. hey that looks like dead to me......gee too bad you used your apothecary earlier on in the game.

I carried The offending dice out the front of the hall and threw them into the lake that was across the road.......... didnt bring him back but i felt better. Hope a duck didnt choke on them

LOL! i actualy remeber that...well the throwing the dice in the lake part. which i funnily enough drove past the other day and wondered "are those dice still there..."
funny

Yeah the second Go For It into the endzone with a reroll is THE MOST DANGEROUS ROLL IN BLOOD BOWL!!! (big call but I'm sure anyone playing for any length of time can back me on that ).

My own most shameful that immediately springs to mind is my AG5 Leaping Pro Elf blitzer. Played a game against a fairly punchy Chaos Dwarf team into whose cages which he must have leapt 5 times in the game emerging unscathed, if a little battered. All this so that at the end of the game a single die hit from an unskilled Hobbie killed him dead. Apo had already kicked back on the celebratory post game drinks it seems cause he killed him again.

Cheers

And undead players wonder why we get so perturbed with their regen lol. Death hurts the living! Lol

Oh I'm sure they are in there. And the bloody things can sit there and ROT for all I care!!!!! Lol

19 fumbles with Sure Hands. Including a classic 4 in one match vs Skaven.

Including a classic Dauntless block (1) re-roll (1) single dice skull, collapse on the floor, injure yourself and let the Gutter runner dodge in, get the ball to let you squeeze in the 5th Touchdown.

Dwarf Runner 1:

Season 1 Fumbles: 6
Season 2 Fumbles: 4
Season 3 Fumbles: 4


Dwarf Runner 2:

Season 1 Fumbles: 3
Season 2 Fumbles: 7 (inc 3 in one game)
Season 3 Fumbles: 4

28 fumbles in 33 games. With Sure Hands.

Of course they stopped fumbling until the Season 3 Semi final, when at 0 - 0 they fumbled in front of the oppositions S5 dwarf runner...

LMFAO oh god trying not to laugh here out of respect but failing miserable. Dats funny

I had my unluckiest game of Blood Bowl ever against a Dwarf team in my CCKUP league this season. Including the games I've played probably 300+ games, so my sample size is fairly large.

The "highlights" of my horrible luck included:

- Failing 16 consecutive 4+ KO rolls (a 1 in 65,536 chance of occurring)
- Having my Skaven Blitzer killed, using the apothecary to re-roll the result, only to get a second dead result.
- Only needing to roll a Push on a 2d Block to get my Gutter Runner in a position where he couldn't be caught and would be able to walk in a TD in T8 to tie the game up at half-time. Result - Double Skull.
- Standing up from that Double Skull and making a 2d Blitz with that same player. Result - Double Skull.

I played the last 4 turns with only 2 players on the pitch. These 4 turns included receiving the ball twice with both remaining players forced to stand on the LOS (and the first time I had to set up with the 2 players I rolled a 1 on my first action to Dodge away from the LOS! ).

I lost my last league game when, on T16, my Gutter Runner failed a 2+ roll to pick up the ball in the end zone for the winning TD. I had used up my team re-roll on the first action in that turn when I rolled a Double Skull on a 2d Block to try and free the Gutter Runner up and eliminate the 3+ Dodge he would have to make.

In the recent AusBowl tournament I had a game where my Sure Hands Skaven Thrower failed 6 consecutive attempts to pick up the ball. After the 6th failed attempt the ball scattered out of bounds and was thrown back in near the LOS. It was about the only way I could advance the ball!

Olaf the Stout

It's a cruel cruel game.

I'll add one from a game I raged at a few weeks ago
(I should add I have *the* worst luck in dice based games)

Wood Elves (Me) vs Dark Elves (3rd game of the season) - Just the highlights
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* I didn't break armor once even though I have a Tree
* He broke my armor every single roll bar one
* After turn 3, I only had more than 6 players on the field at the beginning of a drive
* The only injury caused to the DE team was when he tried to go for it and fell down.
* He rolled two Blitzes in a row for kick off which both resulted in touchdowns
* My only chance for a TD was lost because my WE Catcher couldn't pass a go for it with a RR
* I lost 4-0, had 4 players MNG, one with -ve AG and one with -AV
* Amusingly none of my players died, which at the end would have been fine because they deserved it!

I made some rookie mistakes which didn't help my cause but not managing to make a single AV8 roll to cause an injury...

I'm playing Chaos Dwarves next season

Raab

It was an online league, but the principle's the same.

I decided to play a finesse team in this league instead of my usual smash-mouth circus, and the team I opted for was Dark Elves. I ended up going 10-1 with that lot ("The B!tches of Eastwitch") with some sensational victories against all odds, but the most enjoyable & memorable game was actually the loss.

Two turns to go against Orcs, and the score was 1-1, but I had absolutely hammered his team so that there were very few of them still actually upright & on the field. My favourite Witch Elf opted to go for it that one extra square to score the winning td & seal a wonderfully executed victory after The Perfect Drive, but rolled a 1. Reroll: another sodding 1. She fell over in the end zone, with the ball lying next to here in the very corner.

I then rolled 1's another six more times straight in that game (attempted interceptions, Dodge rolls - you name it, I fluffed it), while my Orc opponent made every outlandish roll imaginable as he recovered the ball with a Line Orc despite a tackle zone, dodge, dodge, long bomb to player in two tackle zones who swallowed it. Then dodge, dodge, go for it, go for it to get the ball across from one wing to the opposite. Hand off (in tackle zones, of course), dodge, dodge, go for it, go for it, long bomb & catch in the end zone to win with the last play of the game.

He did not use a single reroll in that whole end-to-end transition. He was, to all intents and purposes, an utter six addict!

I will admit to cheerleading remorselessly throughout his audacious length of the field end play, and somewhat unsubtlely encouraged' him to put his faith in Nuffle - especially at points in that sequence where his courage threatened to desert him. He did submit to the dice gods in the end, finally, and Nuffle gifted him a TD for the ages. I was really seriously barracking for his suddenly panzee-wannabe-finnessey Orcs, & really wanted to see the plays pulled off.

My opponent then bombarded me with apologies, but I was laughing so hard my sides were hurting. It was the most sensational game winner I have ever seen, and I just plain enjoyed the whole silly sequence.

If you're gonna lose a game, there is no better way, imo.

i can unfortunately say, i can beat you all.

http://www.brisbane.bloodbowlleague.com/de...?p=m&m=1595

Above is the match report from one of the worst games in blood bowl history.

My team is the Thunderhawks from BABBL and i was playing against a 1st season nurgle team.

This game cost me a total of 594 SPPs lost due to retiring and dead players.

BEAT THAT!

I once rolled a 2

Its safer for everyone if you dont roll bad mango. Many bloodbowl players have died under the fat clenched fist of an angry mango. This man will not tolerate a bad roll lol

I am better now though, therapy helps.

I still have that scar on my hand from where that skeleton penetrated my skin after I executed him for a poor performance

My halfling team (Hobbit Snot) pulled off a similar TD to tie the match and my opponent threw his dice at me!

+1 for not taking BB too seriously

Cent. Coast Corsairs league a few years ago -- migrating from Lrb 4 to 5, I was allowed to keep Razor Sharp Claws (+2 to injury roll) on 2 of my Beastmen - I argued against it, pointing out that Mighty Blow stacks in LRB 5 & it could be overpowered. Then I decided to prove it by taking MB & Claw on those two beastmen. I loved that team *sigh*

A few games later I played Vimes' Rats -- 5 players killed inc Rat Ogre, over 600kgp just gone.

Memorably KOing a line rat with a couple of niggling injuries on an injury roll of 3.

Chaos Warrior 5 4 3 9 Block, Mighty Blow
Chaos Warrior 5 4 3 9 Block, Mighty Blow,Guard
Chaos Warrior 5 4 3 9 Block, Mighty Blow
Chaos Warrior 5 4 3 8 Block, Mighty Blow
Beastman 6 3 3 8 Horns *RSC, Block, Mighty Blow,Claw
Beastman 6 3 3 8 Horns Big Hand, Sure Hands, Block,Extra Arms
Beastman 6 3 3 8 Horns Kick
Beastman 6 3 3 8 Horns Block, Tackle,Mighty Blow
Beastman 6 3 3 8 Horns
Beastman 6 3 3 8 Horns Block, Tackle
Beastman 6 3 3 8 Horns *RSC, Block, Mighty Blow
Beastman 6 3 3 8 Horns

This happend last night.

I use the Darkies (I just love those evil pixies) and was plaing against the Orc team of Doooommm!!!!1

I won the toss and chose to recieve. It was raining by the way... So after a couple of blocks and a failed go GFI roll with one of his black orcs my left wing was open and I scored Turn 4. 1-0

Reset. He puts all bar his thrower on the LOS and both wings. Kickoff table result. Blitz. Managed to get a witch elf next to the ball after a blitz block opens a gap. He blitzes the witch elf with his thrower. Skull-reroll-skull again. Which elf picks up the ball and scores turn five 2-0.

Reset. The EXACT same thing happens again in turn 6 and the same witch elf gets through. Is blitzed by the thrower and again skull with a re-roll. Witch Elf scores. 3-0

Second Half

After taking a couple of casulaties each I manage to once again get the same again Witch Elf next to the ball carrying Orc Thrower (who's spent 3 turns trying to pick the ball up) by turn 13. It's still raining. By the way I have never seen so many 2 dice blocks come up push. So I've manged to tie up the rest of his team so it's a risky dodge roll to get to the thrower to assist a block.

Thrower tries to dodge rather than throwing a block (remember what happend last time) and fails, with a re-roll, falls over and is badly hurt. Witch Elf picks up the ball (with a re-roll) and scores. 4-0

Reset. No blitz this time. The Orc team then proceeds to injure another 3 of my players and score a TD by turn 16. 4-1

Reset. Changing weather. Blizzard!!!!

Throw a couple of blocks and it's game.

My opponent was about to crush my Witch Elf under his shoe. It was a game of black and white luck for both of us.

As soon as the weather was known the Orcs were going to sruggle. But getting two blitzes combined with the orc thrower copping it from the Witch Elf didn't help his cause.

If I had been the orc players I'd have been in therapy by now....

Cheers
H

This happened to me at AUSCON.

I was playing Halfings and I was going for a OTTD on halftime to equalise.

Pick up the ball, do the hand-off, go for the 'Fling throw, re-roll the landing, had an average scatter so was going to have to use 3 GFI ('Fling had Sprint) and the path took me straight past a player so 3 Dodge Rolls as well.

Dodge 1 (success)
Dodge 2 (needed Dodge Reroll)
Dodge 3 (success)
GFI 1 (success)
GFI 2 (success)
GFI 3 to get the TD (a big F### you)

Then the poor little guy knocks himself out and stays off for 3 more drives...

As a 'Fling player I'm used to disappointment but this was just cruel.

It takes a certain kind of twisted to think like that! I'm just relieved that I'm not the only one!

And what the Witch Elf would have been saying to that beleaguered Orc Thrower would have been priceless.

Yeah, your right. I'm not the most 'normal' person....

With a sexy, sweat glistening, half naked Witch Elf panting form exertion standing next to you I'm not sure she needed to say anything....

Especially with the absolute look of total hunger she'd have in her eyes...

Wow...

I think I over thought that one..

Cheers
H

That's his problem right there. If you set up against Elves in the rain with noone back to help cover the ball then you're going to lose. BIG.

It didn't even need the blitz, just a failed pick up (in the wet) and you're almost bound to have done the same thing to him. Then to set up the same way again....

@ LDP - yeah that always seems the way. The last die roll needed to get it after a long sting of success comes a cropper! . That or you work out the 12 step plan to score and then the first roll fails (after all that thinking it through ).

It's why I firmly believe that pushing into the end zone to score is the most Dangerous roll in BB (heck in probably any game). Nuffle is a cruel...

"Vicious, but fair."