BLood Bowl 2: Dead Ball

[Orinoco]

Having read the first book, I saw this in my local bookshop and against my better judgement bought it

Reading it can be summed up in one word - painful.

You know a book is bad when the author thinks the following names are funny;
Mon Jotson (Albion Commentator), Bavid Deckem (Star Player), Tharg Retmatcher (Dictator)

The plot is poor, and the writer seems to be unfamiliar with bloodbowl (Treemen on a human team?)

I feel like I wasted the 3 hours of my life taken to read the darn thing

Orinoco

[Dark Lord (retired)]

I find it hard to believe GW would allow such garbage to taint their otherwise sparkling image of product quality.

[Chairface]

I find it hard to believe GW would allow such garbage to taint their otherwise sparkling image of product quality.

[Jeremiah Kool]

Please tell us about some other names, there must be some new "original" German ones...

[Djengis_Khan]

isn't "death ball" the name of the heresy ff game??

they can't even think of a good name!

djengis

[Dark Lord (retired)]

"Dead Ball" is a term from american football. It just means that the ball is on the field but not able to be scored with. For example when they are measuring for a first down, the ball is on the field and being used but it is considered 'dead.' (You can't knock the ref out of the way and run it in for a TD. Well you could but you would be fined and the TD wouldn't count. )When a pass is incomplete the ball is considered 'dead' as soon as it hits the turf.

[Grumbledook]

dead ball situations in real football are things like freekicks and corners

i presume it was just used cause of the word dead rather than anything more significant

[Jeremiah Kool]

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The plot is poor, and the writer seems to be unfamiliar with bloodbowl (Treemen on a human team?)
Orinoco

Maybe the writer has only knowledge of second edition...

[Gumbo]

Yep, sorry to hear about the book. The first one was ok (as a blood bowl fan, not as a literary connaiseur) but a few guys have told me that frankly its not worth the papaer its written on. Shame. I wont be buying it.

[Darkson]

You can't knock the ref out of the way and run it in for a TD. Well you could but you would be fined and the TD wouldn't count.

WTF??

I thought Gridiron was a man's sport?

Even in the namby-pamby football we have here (soccer to you on the otherside of the pond) if the ref get's in the way, that's his own fault. Hell, if you kick the ball hard enough to knock the ref over (without making it look to obvious!) then you get a round of applause from both sets of supporters!

[Dark Lord (retired)]

You can nail him if you're running in a TD.

But you can't push him out of the way while he spots the ball!

Though that would make for a more Blood Bowly game.

[Colin]

Yes would be much more blood bowl like, though I doubt you'd get many people wanting to be refs if they suddenly became targets.

I often wondered that about BB, why would anyone want to be a ref? It's safer being a player on the BB field than a ref alot of the times (the 2ed fluff was great, some players rated for ref CAS, etc), how many times do the fans get the ref in a game? I always thought that it would make sense to have the refs be big ogres who would inforce the rules ruthlessly (see Heresy's Deathball Boris ref fig). Bring back Galak Skyscraper (the one in the game, not talking about Tom), a big giant inforcing the rules in a bloody free-for-all game makes sense (but then you'd have to modify the rules, no more getting the ref, he gets you!)

[Gumbo]

Bring back Galak Skyscraper (the one in the game, not talking about Tom), a big giant inforcing the rules in a bloody free-for-all game makes sense

Doesnt that happen in real life anyway

[mrbrownesquire]

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The plot is poor, and the writer seems to be unfamiliar with bloodbowl (Treemen on a human team?)
Orinoco

Maybe the writer has only knowledge of second edition...

I believe the writer only had experience as a sports novelist, I don't think that he had any Blood Bowl experience

[Gumbo]

Is it Matt Forbeck?