My first game of Bloodbowl

What an awesome game Bloodbowl is! Myself and my mate had a barrel of laughs last night. I had never played before and Phil hadn't played in about five years so the game was a slow one as we conventially ignored the four minute a turn rule so I could pick up the rules as we went along. I must have picked them up fairly fast as the Huntsmen recorded their first ever victory 2-0 against Phil's Orc team. I might never play again to keep that 100% record!

The second score clinched it for me halfway through the second half as Phil was experiencing an injury crisis with two orcs stretchered off and one sent of for a particularly brutal play off the ball. The ball was knocked lose in a cruching tackle made by my blitzer against his catcher, it proceed to be fumbled by three pairs of hands. (A black orc, an orc linesman and my second blitzer) before it landed in the bread-basket of my catcher who was lurking dangerously, which left him with a short run in to the line. Phil promptly conceeded.

I only took too pictures as I was having so much fun I forgot the camera for the majority of the evening.

A general shot, the ogre provided a rock solid backbone to the centre of the field

An in action shot of the only pass I threw all game, which my catcher in the distance promptly fumbled. He redeemed himself the following turn by picking up the ball and running in for my first touchdown after some sterling blocking by my linesmen and blitzers.

The Start!

So here I am, internets!

Its not my first blog but this is something that I will hopefully continue for the foreseeable future. My life my not be hugely interesting, and for people who may stumble across this little part of the Internet it may not hold a lot of value. I can see in a couple of years (if I continue that long!) that it may be interesting for me to come back here and have a look at what I was thinking and feeling at the time of writing.

Now, its quite late at night and I don't want to stay up to late as I'm going to Limerick tomorrow for an exhibition my brother is taking part in. It's his first ever public showing of his art and we are all really excited. I hope it goes well, no doubt I will update this blog with the story at a future date and hopefully with pictures! 

So finally Vincent, what do you hope to achieve and do with this blog? To maybe write down interesting stories and thoughts that happen or occur to me. Keep a diary of video games I've been playing with maybe a review post of each one I've finished. But mainly I think (and the name of the blog might give this away) is to post the work I am doing on whatever miniature I might be painting or working on at the time, along with thoughts, paint schemes, techniques and anything else that comes to mind. 

Mind you I hope to link this site to other websites that I frequent to maybe generate some traffic through this places dusty halls. But even if that does not happen I think as a resource for me to refer back to, it will hopefully serve a purpose.

Right that's it for now, the first blog post over and done with! 

Vinny