AlchemistBB
@alchemistbb.bsky.social
Fan of blood bowl, board games, NFL, synthetic organic chemistry, escape rooms. Will mainly be posting on #bloodbowl. NAF name = Alchemist. Real name = Paul.
MacMillan Cup round up: Most importantly, we raised £820 for cancer support! Lovely tournament run by Big Dan. The hotel gave us the room for free, which was amazing. Dalyo won with Tomb Kings. I finished 4th / 34 at 2-1-0.
February 1, 2026 at 8:50 PM
MacMillan Cup round up: Most importantly, we raised £820 for cancer support! Lovely tournament run by Big Dan. The hotel gave us the room for free, which was amazing. Dalyo won with Tomb Kings. I finished 4th / 34 at 2-1-0.
R3 of MacMillan Cup vs Hexbaron's OWA. For the third game in a row my offence grinds to a halt and it's 0-0 at the half. 2nd half he feels pressured to score on T5. I return the score on T16 with some crazy dice (jump over prone player, 2D uphill needing a push etc) to draw 1-1. #bloodbowl
February 1, 2026 at 8:40 PM
R3 of MacMillan Cup vs Hexbaron's OWA. For the third game in a row my offence grinds to a halt and it's 0-0 at the half. 2nd half he feels pressured to score on T5. I return the score on T16 with some crazy dice (jump over prone player, 2D uphill needing a push etc) to draw 1-1. #bloodbowl
Rd2 vs BB_nut's OWA, almost an exact mirror. I receive, run into trouble again, have to potato on T7. He fails the dodge to blitz with a tackle blitzer and I score. 2nd half Ben is under pressure and goes for a pass play on T3 but fails while using all his rerolls, so it ends 2-0 to me. #bloodbowl
February 1, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Rd2 vs BB_nut's OWA, almost an exact mirror. I receive, run into trouble again, have to potato on T7. He fails the dodge to blitz with a tackle blitzer and I score. 2nd half Ben is under pressure and goes for a pass play on T3 but fails while using all his rerolls, so it ends 2-0 to me. #bloodbowl
R1 of MacMillan cup vs Amazons. I receive but I suffer 4 cas and only a tripwire saves me, 0-0 at the half. 2nd half he's doing fine but makes a crucial mistake of making a sideline cage. I push my thrower into it, who surfs the ball carrier. I run off for the undeserved 1-0 win, 2-6 cas. #blodbowl
February 1, 2026 at 12:41 PM
R1 of MacMillan cup vs Amazons. I receive but I suffer 4 cas and only a tripwire saves me, 0-0 at the half. 2nd half he's doing fine but makes a crucial mistake of making a sideline cage. I push my thrower into it, who surfs the ball carrier. I run off for the undeserved 1-0 win, 2-6 cas. #blodbowl
Going to a #bloodbowl tournament today: The MacMillan Cup, a charity event in Portsmouth. I'm taking Old World Alliance with my freshly painted treeman. People I trust say they're now the best team in this new edition. Let's try them out! It's 1150 and 6 skills for tier 1. Here's the team:
February 1, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Going to a #bloodbowl tournament today: The MacMillan Cup, a charity event in Portsmouth. I'm taking Old World Alliance with my freshly painted treeman. People I trust say they're now the best team in this new edition. Let's try them out! It's 1150 and 6 skills for tier 1. Here's the team:
Picture after the underpainting. After that, it's a couple of highlights with desaturated layers, then thin glazes of the flesh with guilliman flesh and the armour with mantis warriors green. #minipainting
January 31, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Picture after the underpainting. After that, it's a couple of highlights with desaturated layers, then thin glazes of the flesh with guilliman flesh and the armour with mantis warriors green. #minipainting
Last night I did a test model for my nurgle #bloodbowl team and I'm pretty happy with it. I used the underpainting method from Ninjon's recent darkwater video. It was quite quick but also fun to do. #minipainting #miniatures
January 31, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Last night I did a test model for my nurgle #bloodbowl team and I'm pretty happy with it. I used the underpainting method from Ninjon's recent darkwater video. It was quite quick but also fun to do. #minipainting #miniatures
This week at #boardgames night, we returned to Spirit Island. In the first game, I played Hearth Vigil, and we got smashed by the level 2 French. The second I was Many Minds Move as One vs level 1 Habsburgs. I didn't fully grok my spirit's strategy but we got the win mainly thanks to my teammates!
January 29, 2026 at 12:49 PM
This week at #boardgames night, we returned to Spirit Island. In the first game, I played Hearth Vigil, and we got smashed by the level 2 French. The second I was Many Minds Move as One vs level 1 Habsburgs. I didn't fully grok my spirit's strategy but we got the win mainly thanks to my teammates!
I found this snow troll / yheti in my box - it was a freebie at a tournament. Think it's from Brutenfun. I painted it up because he could work as a Skrorg Snowpelt, who seems really good now! #bloodbowl #minipainting
January 24, 2026 at 10:44 PM
I found this snow troll / yheti in my box - it was a freebie at a tournament. Think it's from Brutenfun. I painted it up because he could work as a Skrorg Snowpelt, who seems really good now! #bloodbowl #minipainting
This week at #boardgames night we played 2 x 7-player games of Mysterium. The first was a relaxing time of discussing which cards can relate to which clue. The second, with me as the ghost, was very stressful trying to get semi-meaningful clues out to 6 people quickly!
January 22, 2026 at 11:44 AM
This week at #boardgames night we played 2 x 7-player games of Mysterium. The first was a relaxing time of discussing which cards can relate to which clue. The second, with me as the ghost, was very stressful trying to get semi-meaningful clues out to 6 people quickly!
I bought a great looking Punga Nurgle team from Ebay, the only remaining #bloodbowl team I didn't own until now. Tonight, I watched stranger things while doing my favourite part of the hobby: cleaning, glueing, and basing.
January 12, 2026 at 11:38 PM
I bought a great looking Punga Nurgle team from Ebay, the only remaining #bloodbowl team I didn't own until now. Tonight, I watched stranger things while doing my favourite part of the hobby: cleaning, glueing, and basing.
Got out my minis painted in 2025: all #bloodbowl this time. 2 full teams, some star players, and some extras for existing teams. It was 43 this year, compared to 76 in 2024. I expect to be at around the 40 mark this year too. #minipainting
January 11, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Got out my minis painted in 2025: all #bloodbowl this time. 2 full teams, some star players, and some extras for existing teams. It was 43 this year, compared to 76 in 2024. I expect to be at around the 40 mark this year too. #minipainting
Barton Bowl roundup: Great tournament, great cakes (there was a bake off competition too). I finished 1-2-0, for 19th / 50. Congrats to torquemada for winning another tournament, this time with Old World Alliance. The wood elves felt OK, but I mostly avoided the heavy bash teams. #bloodbowl
January 11, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Barton Bowl roundup: Great tournament, great cakes (there was a bake off competition too). I finished 1-2-0, for 19th / 50. Congrats to torquemada for winning another tournament, this time with Old World Alliance. The wood elves felt OK, but I mostly avoided the heavy bash teams. #bloodbowl
Round 3 of Barton Bowl vs LazyJay346's Chaos with Lord Borak. Things go well here. A based cage gets opened, a 1D blitz springs the ball free and I run off with it. I score again a couple more times to win 3-0. His chaos build seems a little underpowered when Borak isn't killing everyone. #bloodbowl
January 10, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Round 3 of Barton Bowl vs LazyJay346's Chaos with Lord Borak. Things go well here. A based cage gets opened, a 1D blitz springs the ball free and I run off with it. I score again a couple more times to win 3-0. His chaos build seems a little underpowered when Borak isn't killing everyone. #bloodbowl
Round 2 or Barton Bowl vs ceetee's Norse. I receive, lose a dodge elf but get the score on T8 after a hand-off. On his drive I get a blitz on a short kick. I think the ball is safe-ish but he finds a fantastic series of pushes to surf my ball carrier. Many Elves then die and it's 1-1. #bloodbowl
January 10, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Round 2 or Barton Bowl vs ceetee's Norse. I receive, lose a dodge elf but get the score on T8 after a hand-off. On his drive I get a blitz on a short kick. I think the ball is safe-ish but he finds a fantastic series of pushes to surf my ball carrier. Many Elves then die and it's 1-1. #bloodbowl
Round 1 of Barton Bowl was a Wood Elf mirror vs Moose. I kick, get the ball free, but he gets it back and scores on T7. On my 2-turn attempt, my catcher snakes on the tripwire. 2nd half I score on T16. On his 1-turner he gets the pushes but snakes on the tripwire too! Ah, Wood Elves. #bloodbowl.
January 10, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Round 1 of Barton Bowl was a Wood Elf mirror vs Moose. I kick, get the ball free, but he gets it back and scores on T7. On my 2-turn attempt, my catcher snakes on the tripwire. 2nd half I score on T16. On his 1-turner he gets the pushes but snakes on the tripwire too! Ah, Wood Elves. #bloodbowl.
Tonight at #boardgames night we played, one of my Christmas presents, Twilight Inscription at 2-players. This is the heaviest roll & write I've played! Good fun though and I don't think I explored some bits of the game at all so keen to try again. Photo is of the setup.
January 9, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Tonight at #boardgames night we played, one of my Christmas presents, Twilight Inscription at 2-players. This is the heaviest roll & write I've played! Good fun though and I don't think I explored some bits of the game at all so keen to try again. Photo is of the setup.
It's Barton Bowl tomorrow: 3 games, 50 coaches and a strong field playing #bloodbowl. See rosters and follow the results here: tourplay.net/en/blood-bow.... I'm playing Wood Elves to see how it is to Elf in this new edition. They're the most popular race tomorrow, which is unexpected.
January 9, 2026 at 8:22 AM
It's Barton Bowl tomorrow: 3 games, 50 coaches and a strong field playing #bloodbowl. See rosters and follow the results here: tourplay.net/en/blood-bow.... I'm playing Wood Elves to see how it is to Elf in this new edition. They're the most popular race tomorrow, which is unexpected.
Not sure how easy it is to see from this pic but this is what I meant about swapping the wheels for the second wagon
January 6, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Not sure how easy it is to see from this pic but this is what I meant about swapping the wheels for the second wagon
My youngest son likes to be organised so we bought him a label maker for Christmas. Now I can't believe how long we'd lived without a label maker in our lives! To tie it in to #hobby, here's a pic of my labelled #bloodbowl teams in their boxes.
January 4, 2026 at 4:36 PM
My youngest son likes to be organised so we bought him a label maker for Christmas. Now I can't believe how long we'd lived without a label maker in our lives! To tie it in to #hobby, here's a pic of my labelled #bloodbowl teams in their boxes.
I've decided to play Lizardmen in my next #bloodbowl league so I painted up this Anqi Panqi star player model in case I need him. He's purple to stand out from the other sauruses. #minipainting
January 3, 2026 at 4:05 PM
I've decided to play Lizardmen in my next #bloodbowl league so I painted up this Anqi Panqi star player model in case I need him. He's purple to stand out from the other sauruses. #minipainting
Here are my #boardgames five & dimes for 2025 (games I played 5 and 10 times each):
January 1, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Here are my #boardgames five & dimes for 2025 (games I played 5 and 10 times each):
Played a practice game of #bloodbowl today to escape our houses - my Wood Elves vs Mike's orcs. Mike was playing his first BB2025 game and I was taking my Barton Bowl roster. We played out a 1-1 draw but I was down to 2 elves and a tree by the end - those new orcs are brutal!
December 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Played a practice game of #bloodbowl today to escape our houses - my Wood Elves vs Mike's orcs. Mike was playing his first BB2025 game and I was taking my Barton Bowl roster. We played out a 1-1 draw but I was down to 2 elves and a tree by the end - those new orcs are brutal!
Also for Christmas, my wife got me this incredible Greebo Chaos #bloodbowl team. They detail from the greebonite is really fantastic, and they don't come with all the annoying pock-marks, brittleness or printing imperfections from etsy/ebay 3D prints. Going to take my time making these look good.
December 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Also for Christmas, my wife got me this incredible Greebo Chaos #bloodbowl team. They detail from the greebonite is really fantastic, and they don't come with all the annoying pock-marks, brittleness or printing imperfections from etsy/ebay 3D prints. Going to take my time making these look good.
I got a couple of new #boardgames from Santa: Twighlight Inscription and Cheese Thief. The former should be fun because I have a friend who is a big fan of roll & writes (as am I). Cheese thief, we played 8-player with the family today and loved the cheese stealing and timing-based arguments!
December 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I got a couple of new #boardgames from Santa: Twighlight Inscription and Cheese Thief. The former should be fun because I have a friend who is a big fan of roll & writes (as am I). Cheese thief, we played 8-player with the family today and loved the cheese stealing and timing-based arguments!