Hullo!

Supercollider · Post by **Supercollider** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:25 pm

Hi All,

First post for me on this forum - been incredibly busy since I signed up.

Just got back into blood bowl after a very long hiatus - probably since the first edition

Though I have played loads of other mini games and board games in the meantime.

Now I have re-familiarised myself with the latest rules, it turns out I am relocating from London to Vancouver. I was going to try out a league here, but there doesn't seem to be much point now, only 2 weeks til the big move!

Which brings me to a question: are there any friendly/active BB leagues in Vancouver? I'm really fired up about the game at the moment, and it would be cool to make some new friends in a new city doing something I enjoy.

As all my stuff is now in boxes (and it will be a month before I can get at it), I decided to make a magnetic set to tide me over:

I have enough pawns of various sizes/shapes/colours to play any combo of teams. Note unfinished WE Wardancer holding titchy ruler

(pitch photoshopped from MrBrownsquire's excellent work).

Anway, enough rambling... would be good to hear from any BC BB types!

s031720 · Post by **s031720** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:50 pm

Wow nice minibowl

So you have a passingruler to go with it? Nice.

I did a google and came up with thunder bowl:

http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark? ... 394168&p=2

Think they are in the vancouverarea. Looks pretty big actually.

Supercollider · Post by **Supercollider** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:34 pm

Thanks.

Never thought to google it... figured this would be the best place to ask. Doh!

Looks like it could be a decent league.

s031720 · Post by **s031720** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:51 pm

Now..

tell us exactly how you did your mini-bowl.

A travel BB is just what I need. (no not really, I just want one, ok?)

mrbrownesquire · Post by **mrbrownesquire** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 11:03 pm

Good to see my pitches being put to use, like what you have done!

s031720 · Post by **s031720** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 11:10 pm

Checking out your sig. link right now.

s031720 · Post by **s031720** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 11:11 pm

Looks great, I wish I had some photoshopping skills.

Do you have the same pitches withouth the skull/ball logo in the middle? It would be nice if one could insert ones own logo there.

Supercollider · Post by **Supercollider** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:06 am

s031720 wrote:Now..

tell us exactly how you did your mini-bowl.

A travel BB is just what I need. (no not really, I just want one, ok?)

Well, first of all I rearranged the various elements around the pitch, to make it more central, and to make best use of the space I have (The magnetic dry wipe board measures about 33cm x 24cm). Then I printed out the pitch in two halves on magnetic paper at about 300dpi. The split runs down the line of scrimmage. I can remove the pitch any time, to use the board to play a number of other games I have miniaturised and magnetised, over the years.

Then I got a load of magnetic pawns from dirt cheap magnetic games (the kind you find in a pound/dollar store), and selected some that I thought represented various positions best. Little ones for runner/catchers/throwers, stocky ones for linemen/blockers, and spindly. er, 'athletic' ones for blitzers/special players.

Then I painted their heads using a slight variant of the accepted BB positional colour code, adapting it slightly so that runners and catchers (mutually exclusive in every team) are orange (avoiding yellow paint, as 1 set of pawns is yellow), and blitzers are blue (avoiding red).

So for each side I have: 12 grey linemen (ideally 16, but 12 is fine), 4 blitzers, 4 purple positional (wardancers, Trollslayers, etc), six green blockers, 4 orange catchers, two white throwers, three big guys (larger pawns, no paint), and a partridge in a pear tree *ahem*, and 2 special silver pawns for star players.

You can do more or less any match-up using these.

Small mark on one side of each piece's base, so you can turn it once it has moved. Large white flat pieces to mark prone, red flat pieces to indicate stunned. And away you go!

The ruler is made from a bit of the thick plastic that some warhammer blast templates came in, marked with CD pens, then covered with clear tape, to prevent scratching/smudging.

Took about 2 evenings.

Cramy · Post by **Cramy** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:49 pm

Welcome to Canada.

Check-out the two links below.

http://rubli.ca/MapleLeafTournaments.php

http://rubli.ca/Leagues.php

Supercollider · Post by **Supercollider** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 9:29 pm

Thanks for the welcome, and thanks for the links - I'll have a look.

Blammaham · Post by **Blammaham** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:46 am

Thunder Bowl leauge is incredibly well run and organized group of 20 - 40 coaches in and around the Lower mainland area of Vancouver. Great group of guys and I have no doubt that it is one of the biggest most well run leauges in North America. Welcome to Van city bring your Rain coat

S.

mrbrownesquire · Post by **mrbrownesquire** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:43 pm

s031720 wrote:Looks great, I wish I had some photoshopping skills.

Do you have the same pitches withouth the skull/ball logo in the middle? It would be nice if one could insert ones own logo there.

Which pitch did you want without the centre logo?

s031720 · Post by **s031720** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:46 pm

mk4 and mk5 would be great.

purdindas · Post by **purdindas** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 6:18 pm

Its like travel Blood Bowl

Subhedgehog · Post by **Subhedgehog** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:34 pm

Welcome to Vancouver! PM sent with details about Thunder Bowl, I hope you decide to come out. The TB crew are a pretty good bunch of guys.