that said he is now fond of Fantasy and adventure and has been asking me to teach him BB for ages.
I finally caved and after several months of talking the basics with him and having him both watch me on Cyanide and play the tutorial himself, we painted some teams together. by which I mean that he would choose the colour scheme and paint the bulk of the model and I would tidy it up and paint the details for him...
he now has a Skaven team and an Orc team and we got the board out and played a simplified game at the weekend. I figured that we could throw together his roster and play against a Norse team I had that had played 2 matches and had 2 skills on it. that way he could get some inducements and I could explain that to him.
he was able to take Varag, as I had been lucky with dice rolls on cash in the previous two games and with the skills and his not having every player to max out his own roster. it was a good chance to explain Loner / Mighty Blow, Jump Up etc whilst he was pounding me (his Phrase
, he called his Orc team The Pounders and named them after Marvel Super Heroes, and he said it's clobbering time every so often....)I kept it very open and ignored some parts of the rules which are hard to explain to him, such as how weather would change during the match from a heat wave to a blizzard etc. he can be a little ocd so I chose to avoid that conversation and lose several hours.
he requested that we take a break every four turns (each) and I think that worked out very well as it allowed us to return to the table and give the situation a fresh look.
he scored the first TD in Turn 5 of the first half when the crowd threw the ball 11 squares into my half to the feet of the lineman, who I had suggested might be able to get the score if something crazy happened....
I scored in Turn 8 but he made it very hard for me, jumping Varag up to block/blitz on a regular basis and KO'ing and BH'ing a few of my AV7 jugheads...
I took it to 2-1 in the second turn of the 2nd half and he proceeded to grind me down to paste, KO'ing a further 2. But he just couldn't get the score, it was frustrating as he had a player in scoring position but the pick up the throw all came up as 1's and I was pushing the "he has sure hands (or pass), you can roll that again...." line a lot, his luck just deserted him. My Snow Troll even killed a lineman, and after I explained the Apothecary to him, he gleefully rolled it to a BH and moved past what I felt was going to be the first hiccup.
but at the end he won 40k and may buy a gobbo, he got a skill on a Black Orc and took Block to give himself a pivot and he is anxiously awaiting the weekend to play his first match with his skaven against my starting Halfling team. that should be a massacre! especially after I explained "Take Root".... he actually rubbed his hands together.
I sense evil genius at work....
best few hours of my life.
I cannot wait either.
