It’s launch week!  So to celebrate, played my first game in anger with the new rules against the eldest.  Here’s what I learned!

• It’s still entirely possible to set up with 10 players.  I did this on my first drive.  Excellent.
• I’m blaming this on the slightly odd imperial team build that I had to use to make an 1100 tournament team: 2 blitzers, 3 bodyguards, 1 thrower, ogre, 3 linemen, 2 rerolls, gubbins
• Both teams ended up with 5k spare.  When I build my tournament packs, I’m going to allow 1 Dedicated Fans to be bought for 5k
• Keeping track of Fan Factor is a bit of a pain – you have to WRITE STUFF DOWN!  This is a step backwards for tournament BB where you didn’t actually need a pen and paper until you submitted your results.  And then it only affects 11 and 12 on the kick off table.  Not a fan.  Opportunity for new swag though.  Or people could use the score track…
• Saying “on it, not through it” is going to be consigned to the dustbin of history.  As is push as slang for GFI, as Rush is just as easy.
• Tournament apo now works on a 1-3 on a d8 basically, instead of 1-3 on a d6, so is slightly worse.
• Assistant coaches are much better than cheerleaders.
• The boy managed an accurate throw team-mate, and then used the goblin to half dice my ball carrier down!  Broken.
• It seems particularly churlish to take dauntless from Imperial blitzers and then put them against 6 S4 players in the box!
• I almost did one jump, then remembered you can’t jump an empty square, only one with a player in.  Makes jump incredibly situational.
• Brawler is good fun!  Especially if you roll a both down and a pow and then reroll the both down just for lolz.
• Vomit is fun too.  “Always vomit before scoring” is a new phrase (as it can’t cause a turnover).