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Post by parrigan on Apr 7, 2015 12:23:41 GMT
Another thing I personally prefer about IP, is you can run as many teams as you like at the same time here. If you have the teams and the time, in the same season you can be in Tin, Bronze, Iron, Immortal, Stretcher, Hospital, and whatever other cups are running (i.e. Fraternity, Rivendell, Reaper, 40 Sec, and even Hudd's fancy new not-a-stunty-league league). For those who are counting, that's 11 weekly leagues, plus you can run as many teams as you can handle in Phoenix Open.
At least until Cyanide says, "That's 32, buddy. Time to stop now."
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Post by Nthomas on Apr 25, 2015 16:09:19 GMT
Got a Question: Today, I logged on in a pretty good mood and immediately got a challenge game from a IP member. To which I was very happy to play. Now, here is where everything goes wrong. On the very first play of the game my star player blitzer dies and I completely lost it. I just stopped playing. So here is my question, how do you all keep yourselves in check and not go over the deep end when things are not going well for you? I literally was so upset over it I deleted a 1600 point team.
Advice please
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Post by Insidious on Apr 25, 2015 16:40:55 GMT
Got a Question: Today, I logged on in a pretty good mood and immediately got a challenge game from a IP member. To which I was very happy to play. Now, here is where everything goes wrong. On the very first play of the game my star player blitzer dies and I completely lost it. I just stopped playing. So here is my question, how do you all keep yourselves in check and not go over the deep end when things are not going well for you? I literally was so upset over it I deleted a 1600 point team. Advice please The best advice is to walk away and do something else for a while if you are that frustrated. Say goodbye to your opponent and come back later. There are some matches where your team will get smashed or you only have one player left on the pitch. There are some matches where all you roll is double skulls and you can't break snotling armour while your orcs are getting maimed. A good way to see if you could have done anything better is to watch the replay and see if your memory was correct. Bbmanager is a great tool,it would be worthwhile downloading it and looking at the stats for the match. Check out the guides on here too they can give you some good insights. Over time you learn how to deal with defeat and crucial player losses. Rebuilding your team is part of the challenge, you never know you may get better skills on the replacement player. Any questions give me a shout
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Post by Squiggy on Apr 25, 2015 16:59:53 GMT
Got a Question: Today, I logged on in a pretty good mood and immediately got a challenge game from a IP member. To which I was very happy to play. Now, here is where everything goes wrong. On the very first play of the game my star player blitzer dies and I completely lost it. I just stopped playing. So here is my question, how do you all keep yourselves in check and not go over the deep end when things are not going well for you? I literally was so upset over it I deleted a 1600 point team. Advice please Just remember that at some point nuffle can, and will, fuck each and every one of us. Prime example- I've seen Dragonvisper roll double skulls, rerolled to double skulls, armour break, cas. Followed next turn immediately by double skull, rerolled to, yes you guessed it, double skulls, armour break, cas. At odds of just under three million to one. I've had five players die in one game to five blocks from one Blitzer. But then on the flipside I've gone for the impossible to win a game (5+ dodge, 4+ dodge, 6 pickup, 5+ dodge, 4+ handoff, 5+ dodge, 5+ pass, 4+ catch, gfi, gfi) and make it without a reroll. Long story short, Shit happens. Often. :-) some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.
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Post by Ren Höek on Apr 25, 2015 17:10:55 GMT
I got a good tip once when you have one of those matches. Pretend your watching a sports-blooper show. It is easier then to distance yourself from the agony.
Also one has to remind onself that even when yuor best players die... all that really happends is that your team is set back in TV. You will buy new players, they will get new skills, all will continue and soon you'll be back on the TV you were before Nuffle laid his eyes on you.
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Post by Deano79 on Apr 25, 2015 17:15:58 GMT
Got a Question: Today, I logged on in a pretty good mood and immediately got a challenge game from a IP member. To which I was very happy to play. Now, here is where everything goes wrong. On the very first play of the game my star player blitzer dies and I completely lost it. I just stopped playing. So here is my question, how do you all keep yourselves in check and not go over the deep end when things are not going well for you? I literally was so upset over it I deleted a 1600 point team. Advice please Well, sometimes BB can just be incredibly frustrating, and you just have to accept that. It is, bottom line, a dice game and therefore you can do lots to minimise the amount of luck involved in the game, but at the end of the day it does come down to the roll of the dice. As for players. Well, you soon learn that players die or have to be retired regularly. I was in fact chatting to CJ last night and he has a Khemri team that has played 100 games and has three original players left, and I thought that was extraordinary that he has that many original players left. So remember, the team is what its all about.... players will come and go, but you have to make sure that if you lose a key player, you have another player behind him of a similar build ready to jump into his place. And if you don't then you have to thrive on the challenge ahead of you, and build one. And the key that I always try and remember is that sometimes you get games where your team gets destroyed, players get injured, you cant pick up the ball etc, etc..... nothing works. But on the other hand sometimes you will get a game where you kick the shit out of the oppo, and everything goes right for you. In my view players tend to put the former down to Nuffle, and the latter down to their skill.... and that's just not the case at all, its always a mixture of both. You have to smile at both, and congratulate the oppo when its not your day, and be humble when it is..... at the end of the day it's about fun, community and enjoying the whole BB experience good and bad. And btw if you have a match where you fall short of that and have a moan, that's cool too, we've all been there.... just try not to dampen the oppo's enjoyment of his match.
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Post by Squiggy on Apr 25, 2015 17:20:09 GMT
A friend of mine called Red Baron, who I believe is a member here, once compared blood bowl to baseball. He says if you imagine a one hundred game season, you will lose twenty games, and maybe ten players, and there is nothing you can do about it. And you'll win/kill about the same whatever happens, purely through dice, your mistakes, your opponent's mistakes, etc. What separates average coaches from good is what happens in the other sixty. What separates great from good is how you react to the twenty you will lose.
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Post by Squiggy on Apr 25, 2015 17:26:28 GMT
I got a good tip once when you have one of those matches. Pretend your watching a sports-blooper show. It is easier then to distance yourself from the agony.
Also one has to remind onself that even when yuor best players die... all that really happends is that your team is set back in TV. You will buy new players, they will get new skills, all will continue and soon you'll be back on the TV you were before Nuffle laid his eyes on you. Wise words, I seem to remember you giving me the same advice when our first game playing one another became a comedy of errors and I was close to getting angry :-)
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Post by Deano79 on Apr 25, 2015 17:43:50 GMT
Also, drinking helps.....
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Post by Nthomas on Apr 25, 2015 19:37:51 GMT
again, I really really want to thank each and everyone of you all for taking me in and giving me a league to play in...
I am no where near perfect, but I am learning from you all.
Thank You
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Post by autismawareness/joejohnheath on Apr 25, 2015 20:22:55 GMT
The best way to cope with it is fluff. If you look at it as part of the team's history, it can lighten the load a bit. It will be part of a much larger story. When you write it up, just make sure the death was epic... or at least interesting.
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Post by Squiggy on Apr 25, 2015 21:06:08 GMT
The best way to cope with it is fluff. If you look at it as part of the team's history, it can lighten the load a bit. It will be part of a much larger story. When you write it up, just make sure the death was epic... or at least interesting. Wait til you see Altonmice's "obituary" not posted it yet, as there is one important aspect missing...the return match!
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Post by havol on Apr 26, 2015 0:33:49 GMT
Games like that happen to almost everyone. Shit, Parrigan Niall broke his laptop on a failed dodge in the playoffs. Before the match, try your best to go in with a light-hearted approach. Remember that it's just a dumb fucking game predicated on a 'random' dice generator. We play for fun.... or at least we try to...
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Post by apolloswill on Apr 26, 2015 4:08:46 GMT
Got a Question: Today, I logged on in a pretty good mood and immediately got a challenge game from a IP member. To which I was very happy to play. Now, here is where everything goes wrong. On the very first play of the game my star player blitzer dies and I completely lost it. I just stopped playing. So here is my question, how do you all keep yourselves in check and not go over the deep end when things are not going well for you? I literally was so upset over it I deleted a 1600 point team. Advice please Well, sometimes BB can just be incredibly frustrating, and you just have to accept that. It is, bottom line, a dice game and therefore you can do lots to minimise the amount of luck involved in the game, but at the end of the day it does come down to the roll of the dice. As for players. Well, you soon learn that players die or have to be retired regularly. I was in fact chatting to CJ last night and he has a Khemri team that has played 100 games and has three original players left, and I thought that was extraordinary that he has that many original players left. So remember, the team is what its all about.... players will come and go, but you have to make sure that if you lose a key player, you have another player behind him of a similar build ready to jump into his place. And if you don't then you have to thrive on the challenge ahead of you, and build one. And the key that I always try and remember is that sometimes you get games where your team gets destroyed, players get injured, you cant pick up the ball etc, etc..... nothing works. But on the other hand sometimes you will get a game where you kick the shit out of the oppo, and everything goes right for you. In my view players tend to put the former down to Nuffle, and the latter down to their skill.... and that's just not the case at all, its always a mixture of both. You have to smile at both, and congratulate the oppo when its not your day, and be humble when it is..... at the end of the day it's about fun, community and enjoying the whole BB experience good and bad. And btw if you have a match where you fall short of that and have a moan, that's cool too, we've all been there.... just try not to dampen the oppo's enjoyment of his match. The above quote should be required reading for all that play Blood Bowl.
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Post by comfort_eagle on Apr 26, 2015 7:41:34 GMT
one thing that I found helped with bb rage in general is coaching gobbos for a season or two. Learn how to take the game less seriously; lose well, be competitive when playing from behind, laugh at yourself, and play for fun! (and yes, I'm basically doing anything I can to convince coaches to field gobbo teams in IP). Lil greenskins forever!!
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