Blood Bowl Challenge #5 (Medium)

Terrors of Tarantino vs. Green Spades

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Summary

This Week 3 Old World Football game was a smash hit among the coaches.  Gym-Bo's Terrors were at it again.  This time they had been destroying Damek's Green Spades.  At this point of the game, The Terrors had already inflicted 9 casualties (some regenerated) to the Green Spades and were barreling towards the end-zone.  Damek, however, kept his cool and with some remarkable defensive positioning, outstanding use of rerolls, and a little luck, Damek's Pestigor was able to blitz the ball carrier causing a fumble.  On a subsequent turn, Damek's Pestigor was able to blitz off a defender, followed up to get away from another, and picked up the ball on a mad dash for the end-zone.  Gym-Bo astutely reacted by clearing a way in the scrum for his STR5 Tentacled Chaos Warrior to mark the ball carrier.  Now it's your turn.  You are heavily undermanned, you're on a break away, and you need to stall / possibly position yourself for the score.  What would you do?   

Objective

• It's your move.  You tell me.  Can you position the ball carrier so he cannot get blitzed?

Rules

• For this challenge write down all of your moves and compare them with the actual die rolls in the game (Skip's Answer).  Remember to roll for armor breaks / injury tables if necessary.  Then you can see what would have happened if you were in Damek's shoes.
• Remember, you still have to decide what the best move would be.  Now you have the added luxury of seeing the results if you yourself were playing the game.
• Tentacles Reminder: The player may use this skill when an opposing player attempts to dodge or leap out of any of his tackle zones. The opposing coach rolls 2D6 adding his player’s ST and subtracting the Tentacles player’s ST from the score. If the final results is 5 or less, then the moving player is held firm, and his Action ends immediately. If a player attempts to leave the tackle zone of several players that have the Tentacles skill, only one may attempt to grab him with Tentacles.

Rosters

Terrors of Tarantino (Chaos)
#	Position	MV	STR	AGI	AV	Skills
1	Minotaur	5	6	2	8	Thick Skull, Mighty Blow, Horns, Frenzy, STR+, Tentacles, Claw, Stand Firm, Break Tackle
2	Chaos Warrior	5	5	3	9	Block, Mighty Blow, STR+
4	Chaos Warrior	5	4	3	9	Mighty Blow, Block, Claw
5	Chaos Warrior	4	4	3	9	Mighty Blow, Block, Piling On, Claw, Tackle
6	Chaos Warrior	5	5	3	9	STR+, Guard, Block, Tentacles
7	Beastman	6	3	3	8	Horns
11	Beastman	6	3	3	8	Horns, Block, Piling On
12	Beastman	5	3	4	8	Horns, AGI+, Wrestle
13	Beastman	6	3	3	8	Horns
14	Beastman	6	3	3	8	Horns
15	Beastman	6	3	4	8	Horns, AGI+
16	Beastman	6	3	3	8	Horns
Green Spades (Nurgle)
#	Position	MV	STR	AGI	AV	Skills
3	Nurgle Warrior	4	4	2	9	Mighty Blow, Block, Guard, Foul Appearance Regeneration, Disturbing Presence, Nurgle's Rot
4	Nurgle Warrior	4	4	2	9	Dodge, Stand Firm, Block, Guard, Foul Appearance Regeneration, Disturbing Presence, Nurgle's Rot,
5	Nurgle Warrior	3	4	2	9	Stand Firm, Block, Guard, Foul Appearance Regeneration, Disturbing Presence, Nurgle's Rot,
6	Pestigor	7	3	3	7	Horns, Regeneration, Nurgle's Rot, Mighty Blow Piling On, Block, Tackle, Claw
15	Nurgle Rotter	4	3	2	8	Decay, Nurgle's Rot, Fend

Skip's Answer

6-Sided Roll	Block Result
3	Push
4	Push
3	Push
4	Push
2	Both Down
4	Push
5	Defender Stumbles
3	Push
5	Defender Stumbles
1	Attacker Down
3	Push
6	Defender Down
1	Attacker Down
1	Attacker Down
1	Attacker Down
6	Defender Down
2	Both Down

Damek wisely chose to blitz the STR 5 defender with a 2D block in opponent's favor. Since the Pestigor already had block, the chances of him failing the block was 9.6% with reroll. This is less than failing the tentacle roll (8+) which has a probability of 34.02% failure with a reroll. Also, by going for a blitz, the Pestigor would still have the option to dodge out if a block result was chosen by Gym-bo.

On a special note, Horns only adds +1 STR for BLOCKS. This means your horns ability would not have played a factor in your tentacles roll.

In the actual game Damek blitzed 2d opponent's favor, pushed away, gfi'd twice then did a 1d block with a block result by his rotter..... The rotter knocked himself out and left the beastman prone effectively making his pestigor unblitzable. Gym-Bo attempted to GFI with his Tentacled Chaos Warrior to mark the pestigor, but failed.

In a REE-DIC-U-LOUS twist, however, Damek attempted to stall. He was so concerned about his team getting demolished during the kickoff that he attempted to stall on turn 15... by GFI-ing away from the prone Chaos Warrior and Beastman.... only to roll double 1s on his GFI attempt knocking himself out!!!!!!!!

The game ended in a tie with all spectating coaches yelling, screaming, and gnashing teeth.

Continue to Challenge #6