Gridiron Gazette 1 Vorhexen 2520 Issue #1 : Humans
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Gridiron Gazette 1 Vorhexen 2520 Issue #1 : Humans Everyone knows the Reikland Reavers . but what about the other Human teams who take to the astrogranite?? Edition one of the Gridiron Gazette casts its eye over the ‘lesser’ Human teams to have played the great game. INSIDE __ Middenheim Marauders You can smell the Chaos from here! __ Albion Wanderers Kicking the ball . ? Strange but true. __ Bad Bay Hackers From underdogs to over lords! __ Creeveland Crescents Talent wasted? __ The Other Reavers Prepare to go oooh-la-la at Port D’Acquitaine! __ Who’s Who The full player directory Gridiron Gazette - Humans Trophy Cabinet The Middenheim Marauders Blood Bowl winners (2469) - By Dolf Ungerhaagen Blood Bowl Runners Up The Middenheim Marauders franchise still exists, but they have changed quite a (2477, 2483) lot over the years. We’re covering here their early history where they played as a Human team before a merger and the inclusion of Dwarfs and Halflings on the Whiteskull Challenge Cup roster. Winners (2432) Stadium Chaos Cup Winners (2490) In earlier and simpler times, the Marauders played in the Karl Franz arena, formerly Famous Players known as the Middenheim Arena. It was a large stadium seating up to 83,000 people for each game. The stadium was known for its temperate weather during games and The Marauders have officials who were surprisingly good! always enjoyed the taint of Chaos, despite the fact History they are a Human team. They have never been 2465 – After a successful season, the Marauders were all killed in a mysterious flying afraid to take on players carpet accident. The following season, the Blood Bowl winning Champions of Death who are different to the team looked strangely like the lost Marauders. Tomolandry assured everyone that this ‘norm’ shall we say. was purely a coincidence! Famous faces to have 2472 – Bob Bifford comes out of retirement and is signed for one game by the worn the Marauder jersey Marauders to play against the Chaos All-Stars. The game is famous for the clash includes – between Bob and Morg N’Thorg. Bob came out on top, flattening Morg and scoring the ➢ Bob Bifford (Ogre) winning touchdown while whistling the Middenheim city anthem. ➢ Karla von Kill (Human) 2477 – The Marauders lose the Blood Bowl final to the Skavenblight Scramblers 3-1 in a ➢ Withergrasp torturous match that lasts a massive 9 hours! Exhausting! Doubledrool (Beastman) 2486 – Karla von Kill is signed for the Middenheim Marauders and quickly goes on to ➢ Massif “Hungry” make her name Bofine (Minotaur) ➢ Uthar Hagg (Half 2489 – After the collapse of the NAF, the team get into financial trouble. They change Orc). their name to The Marauders, sell their stadium and become a touring team. The financial troubles continue to follow them however and so in order to stay in business, Staff they merge with the Middenland Maulers. The new team, the Middenheim Maulers, are The Marauders were very multi-racial but the Marauders had rarely just fielded humans historically. coached by Goran Slaver, a man of particularly Cross Code violent tendencies. One season he killed his own The Marauders famously played in a Blood Bowl exhibition match against the Blood Axes assistant with a chainsaw! who are normally a Dungeon Bowl team. The Blood Axes failed to understand the fact that one teams starts with the ball rather than needing to find it. This led to a crushing When the Marauders 15-0 defeat as they frantically tried to find non-existent chests! became the Maulers, ex- club captain Uther Hagg Tanks very much became the Head Coach. The Marauders played in the only game so far to feature a Goblin tank fielded, by the Evil The club’s mascot was a goat named Janet. Alas Gits. Luckily Massif Bofine was on hand to rip open the tank with his horns and scoff the whereabouts of poor Stranglegut the unfortunate goblin tank driver. He was soon spat out however, as Massif Janet remain a mystery! explained later, he didn’t like “canned meat”! Gridiron Gazette - Humans In name only! The Blood Bowl world is vast and so there are loads of teams out there that we know exist . but we don’t know anything about them at all! Here is a quick shout out to the Human teams we know in name only… ➢ Albion All-Stars ➢ Altdorf Griffons ➢ Armageddon Avengers ➢ Bordeleaux Ravens ➢ Carroburg Crusaders ➢ Golden Griffons ➢ Leitdorf United ➢ Lions of Couronne ➢ Middenham United ➢ Nuln River Boaters Albion Wanderers ➢ Paravon Penetrators ➢ Reikland Riot Girls - By Gerhardt Schtumpf ➢ Rostov Renegades ➢ Talabheim Morningstars The Wanderers are a secretive bunch! Hailing from the far-off misty isle ➢ Team Errant of Albion and coached by Bob Berobsson , they proved to be a better cup than league team. Altdorf All-Stars The Wanderers took a long while to adapt to Blood Bowl outside of Albion The All-Stars were only formed for one where the rules were slightly different. Their first games were a disaster, brief and glorious season. They were including an incident where the Gouged Eye spit roast and ate 3 of their made up of players from the Reikland players in front of them on the sidelines! Reavers, Middenheim Maulers and the Altdorf Avengers. They played in the AFC Northern Division but rarely made an impact. That contrasts heavily to their record in the other majors where they enjoyed Led by Griff Oberwald they made the Blood Bowl final in 2503 only to see significant success. They won the Whiteskull Challenge Cup in 2433 and their dreams crushed at the hands of then after it changed its name to the Chaos Cup, took it home a further 5 Count Luthor von Drakenborg. times (2444, 2454, 2457, 2474, 2488). Fighting Talk! Alas they never survived the collapse of the NAF. Financially destitute, they returned to Albion to take a up strange game where you kicked the ball Both the Nuln Oilers and Nuln instead! Ironflanks are famous for just one thing – losing bar room brawls! Creeveland Crescents This former AFC Eastern team has a long history of underachieving. Yes, they won the Blood Bowl in 2476, but the player strike was just starting and their opponents were the Greenfield Grasshuggers!! The Green and Whites have always boasted rosters full of talent but rarely turn it into results. They were the first outfit Bob Bifford played for in his rookie year, gave a home to Rotten Rick Bupkeis while he was alive and enjoyed the Ninja skills of Hoshi Komi as well as the dancing thrills from the deadly Harry “The Hammer” Kehry. Just a shame they couldn’t build on such talents! Now they’re a shadow of themselves, reduced to being a touring team since 2488 Gridiron Gazette - Humans Trophy Cabinet The Bright Crusaders Whiteskull Challenge Cup - By Rusty Hoelle Winners (2431) The Bright Crusaders have veered between the quiet, noble grace of a Knightly Purity Cup Winners Order and the wide-eyed fanaticism of an extreme cult of Nuffle. Neither Those paying close attention grace nor undiluted faith however seems to have brought them much luck on to the dates will note that the pitch. They play be an extreme code and don’t believe in bending even somehow, the Crusaders won the most minor of laws, making them really stand out from all of their peers. the Whiteskull Challenge Cup 10 years before they History were officially formed. 2417 – An orphaned child is adopted by the Order of the Unchallenged Call, a devout sect in Recruitment Policy the Nuffle faith, she is given the name Ingrid. All players must be extremely 2438 – Now a young woman, Ingrid goes on the Prime Stadium Circuit Pilgrimage but is physically fit (it’s a tough appalled by what she saw. The lack of faith troubled her greatly and so she prayed game after all) and need to prove they are mentally sane 2441 – Having found financial backers, Ingrid sets up the Bright Crusaders and goes about (as outlined in the Holy trying to recruit players who meet her very, very exacting standards Guidelines of the sixth Appendix) and to have 2449 – Finally Ingrid has enough players to start a team! The team don’t perform that well memorized the rules by heart however and results are hard to come by inside out. As the rules currently come in 14 2463 – Results start to change when Peter Lowenhart joins from the Rostov Renegades. The volumes, each 1000 pages star Blitzer brings some actual talent and not just blind faith to the team and introduces the long, that’s a lot of reading! famous “Left Hook” formation, winning many games. Typically, only Humans tend 2472 – The infamous Quagmire incident match takes place against the Elfheim Eagles. The to play on the Bright Eagles wizards cast the Quagmire spell 93 times during the game causing the Crusaders Crusaders but that there have stadium to sink into the earth and never be seen again. The Colleges of Magic were forced to been instances where Dwarfs change the rules, limiting teams to just one wizard per game. have been signed. 2485 – The Crusaders match against the Dark Renegades was abandoned due to lack of balls! Staff Dark Elf Pinespite Venge had a mutation where he secreted a sticky substance from his body and all 19 match balls stuck to him, breaking a NAF record! Ingrid the Pious was the owners and spiritual leader of 2489 – Following the collapse of the NAF, the Crusaders got into financial trouble and called in the Bright Crusaders, but a team of accountants.