Lost? Me?

Sadly it's true. I got hammered last night 3-0 by Skaven. I really don't like Skaven - they have all the advantages my team have in less quantities but slightly more powerfully. As an example, I have about half my team with movement 8. He has some team members who are movement 9 but has less of them.
I'm still not entirely convinced by the inducements part of the game. It works quite well when there isn't a large gap in team rating but when there is a large gap it doesn't work quite so well.
Let me explain:
How it works in BB is this - you have a certian number of men in your team, you have certain skills with each man, you also have a certain amount of money in your treasury. You can increase the amount of money you have in your treasury by winning games, you can increase the number of men by spending money and buying them and you can increase the number of skills your men have by playing well with them.
All of these improvements to your team increase your overall team rating so other players can tell how "good" your team is. Obviously a team that has more players and more skills will be better in a game than a team that has less so the way BB works now is by awarding the player with the lower team rating a load of cash to spend in a one off just for this game.
On the face of it this is a really good system because effectively you are always playing against a team with an equal rating. Unfortunately the one thing you can't buy is skills for your men. You can only have 11 men on the pitch at one time so the team with the higher rating will almost always have "better" men on the pitch as they will no doubt have gained new skills.
In a game with two teams who have close team ratings this doesn't matter so much since you are fairly even anyway but in a game where every man on the opposing team has at least a couple of new skills you can almost guarentee a loss.
Add to that the fact that I was playing Skaven and I didn't really stand a chance. It was still fun and as the game ended he only had about 6 men left on the pitch - I had KOd 3 of them and caused 5 or 6 casualties so even with his reserves he only had 6 men left. It's a shame there wasn't another half left since I almost certainly could have taken out his entire team :-)
In other news, Anya is staying at my mum and dad's house tonight so although I had planned to start work on the second half of my stadium, I will be taking Laura to the cinema. It's nice to go to the cinema together as it's one of the few things we have that we both enjoy but it's a little badly timed as the stadium really wants finishing before the BB tournament.
ttfn