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What's the third game they mention?

The plastic look kinda cheap. Pre-order price seem to be 45$, that'd be pretty good price.

https://m.barnesandnoble.com/w/toys-games-blitz-bowl-the-game-of-gladatorial-sports-mayhem/32462628?ean=5011921106653

I watched the Let's Play on Blitz Bowl this morning before work and I'm really looking forward to it. It looks like it will be a fun, chaotic, and quickly playing version of Blood Bowl. Between that and Sevens I should be able to get more games in. Hopefully once some more plastic teams come out they will release an expansion card pack to cover some more teams. Maybe every four teams or so release a pack with their cards for 10 or 15 bucks.

That said I won't complain getting the rules for seven teams in the core box.

I personally love BB as it is, but getting other people to sit down with me and play for up to 2 hours straight can be tough. This looks like a good step below that, but still very fun. I might pick it up at that price point. I already have the BB starter set but this has a different look to the pitch and a slightly different vibe.

I definitely hope they continue to release plastic teams, and more rules so they can be used in blitz bowl. I'm hoping we find out which team is next at the upcoming warhammerfest thingy. Fingers crossed for chaos dwarfs/undead/lizardmen.

 Thargrim wrote:
I personally love BB as it is, but getting other people to sit down with me and play for up to 2 hours straight can be tough. This looks like a good step below that, but still very fun. I might pick it up at that price point. I already have the BB starter set but this has a different look to the pitch and a slightly different vibe.

I definitely hope they continue to release plastic teams, and more rules so they can be used in blitz bowl. I'm hoping we find out which team is next at the upcoming warhammerfest thingy. Fingers crossed for chaos dwarfs/undead/lizardmen.

Yeah, I definitely feel you on that one. Most of the people I play games with are pretty casual and don't want to play a two hour Blood Bowl game. They tend to prefer games that can be wrapped up in an hour. For 45 (at full retail I believe) it seems pretty reasonable, especially as if you have any of the other teams available, you can put them to use.

I can't imagine it would cost them too much to put out a card pack every four or so teams to add some variety to Blitz Bowl, or at the very least put them out online as a free PDF. I've also been crossing my fingers that GW will preview the new team at the European Warhammer event thing. I'd be very excited to see any of the teams you mentioned, and if the models are half decent, would buy any of them.

Only releasing in US, Canada, and Germany is quite odd.

http://mezmaronslair.blogspot.com/2018/08/blitz-bowl-contains-cards-but-not.html



I definitely applaud GW for including the cards for additional teams. It will both encourage players to buy more Blood Bowl teams and expand the game.

I wonder if they will sell single sprues in colored plastic (or someone will split existing boxes on Ebay).

Mez

I just went to pre-order a copy of Blitz Bowl on Barnes and Noble to find it's temporarily out of stock online. Hopefully it won't be a limited release product. On the plus side, I imagine that means it has sold pretty well and maybe GW will release cards for further teams and other expansions.

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NL/Forge-World-New

human booster packs etc etc

 reds8n wrote:
https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NL/Forge-World-New

human booster packs etc etc

The naming on the "Reikland Reavers Full Roster" seems dubious, since you still only get 3 catchers. Have they actually read the rulebook?

Oh well. I guess I can get my fourth catcher from Blitz Bowl?

Yay, the human team is "complete" (missing one catcher, but yeah). Took them almost 2 years. Now we need a complete orc team too. And gobbos!

Baxx wrote:
Yay, the human team is "complete" (missing one catcher, but yeah). Took them almost 2 years. Now we need a complete orc team too. And gobbos!

Gobbos most of all. Humans and orcs, you can buy a second box; you'll have some extras of the 0-2 positionals, but you'll have enough of everything else.

Gobbos, there are still 3 positions with no official sculpt. There is literally no official GW product you can buy in any quantity that will allow you to field every position of the Goblin team, a team which released well over a year ago.

But sure, Forge World. Make some cheerleaders.

Forge World works on sculptor interest and enthusiasm, so the cheerleaders came first because one or more of the sculptors really wanted to do them.
What this says about the one behind the orc cheer squad, I’m sure I don’t know…

EDIT: innuendo aside, the Chaos cheerleaders are some of the best female sculpts I’ve seen out of GW/FW in ages. I dunno if it’s ironic or just a really bad paint job, but the human ones are kinda the opposite.

Fingers crossed for the net event revealing some lizardmen!

Hm, the human cheerleaders seem to be all the same sculpt with different heads...

I picked up the Human booster, a Griff Oberwald to make into a team captain/fourth blitzer pose, a cheer leader set, and a second minotaur. Need one for each my chosen and renegades, after all!

 Albertorius wrote:
Hm, the human cheerleaders seem to be all the same sculpt with different heads...

That just means that the Reikland Reavers' cheerleaders are the best at following a routine.

Talk about lazy sculpting, I noticed playing BB2 on pc, a dwarf coach hired a goblin chainsword star player! The developers didn't bother making 3d model for the dwarf chainsword star player, and re-used the goblin one.

On a sidenote, looks like Blitz Bowl is back in stock at Barnes and Noble (just ordered a copy an hour ago).

It's nice to see the Human Booster finally, I'll be picking that up before FW changes to local currencies on the 20th and the price goes up. Hopefully we will get a preview of the Orc Booster this weekend

via GerManticore on facebook

lovely, I shall have them even though I don't play

Guess they took the renaming of 'bloaters' to heart. I think I must have them.

More Nurgle stuff Yeaaah!!!

Sorry.
Nicely done figures perhaps,
but I just feel we got more than enough
Nurgle for now...

I feel the same. I know some people have really wanted the nurgle team, and Im happy for them that they got it... But it's probably the one team that disappoints me.

Carlovonsexron wrote:
I feel the same. I know some people have really wanted the nurgle team, and Im happy for them that they got it... But it's probably the one team that disappoints me.

Yeah......huge bummer to me too. I was really hoping to wake up this morning and see some variety of Undead, Lizardmen, or Chaos Dwarfs. Instead we end up with quite possibly the easiest team to convert in the game (you know, from the faction that has 40K different existing models). Congrats to the people that wanted Nurgle and didn't feel like converting I guess. Odd choice if you ask me.

They had been teasing Nurgle for a very very long time. So their coming is inevitable. There're still 1 more team to be released this year.

Idk why they even go with leather glove, and then paint it orange, look like rubber glove. Big guy look kinda naked/bland.

The Nurgle team looks great.

Heh, I quite like em, much better than the Dark elf release for me.

The models look much nicer in the proper video than the blurry display case video. Still, I can't help but be disappointed we didn't get a team that couldn't be very easily converted.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
lovely, I shall have them even though I don't play

Same here. They're good conversion fodder for 40k and Necromunda - not so overloaded with silly details (extra mouthes, Nurglings...) and branches like certain other Nurgle models.

Will buy at least one for BB even though I never liked the Rotter's and their stupid negative modifiers to play against and one to use for Nurgle pirates and mutants.

And to mould the bodies from the fattoes and use their glorious flab EVERYWHERE.


PS: now do a Lizardmen team with the bulk of the Carnosaur hero pleeeease.