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Is Blitz Bowl ever going to be released in the UK? Because it looks just perfect for getting people hooked into a BB game which takes little time, and would round out the main BB box set teams very nicely.

Zetan wrote:
Is there anyone else who would really love them to go back and do a Spike Magazine for each of the teams that came out before it started? If they keep up the "4 teams a year" schedule (so one every 3 months) they could release an issue of Spike every month and a half, switching back and forth between a new team and an old team.

They have 8 teams with minis but no magazine (Humans, Orcs, Skaven, Dwarfs, Goblins, Elf Union, Chaos Renegades and Underworld Denizens) so they could catch up with all of them in 2 years, then go back to only 4 issues a year.

I doubt they'll dedicate a full Spike issue to plastic teams already released but I wouldn't be surprised to see extra bits here and there as they attempt to round out the previously released teams in order to bring their star player count up to around ten (something they committed to when Spike! was announced). There's some crossover with other teams, of course, so Chaos Renegades, Nurgle and Skaven already got some extras with the first Spike!, dedicated to the Chaos Chosen release. There might even be some stuff in the Nurgle one for Chaos Renegades, Skaven, etc.

 Sabotage! wrote:
Interesting to note that we get the Nurgle team for preorder next week, which is a really quick turnaround from preview to release. Maybe the team will get in a 4th team this year after all.

I do think it would be cool to see Spike Magazines for the teams already released also Zetan, though I've heard the BB team is only three writers and four sculptors, so they may have their hands full.

I don't think anyone doubted they would get a fourth team in? They'd committed to the four releases per year already, and the release schedules are planned so far in advance that there's really no reason to doubt them.

Baxx wrote:
Games Workshop is not very committed to consistency. Last year we got some very cool rules for team specific balls. But they only made them for some teams (goblins, orcs, dwarves, chaos, skaven and one generic). Maybe Spike magazine follows the same pattern, only a random selection of teams will be lucky enough to get it, until they start something new and different again. Same with (in)famous coaching staff. Some teams got them, some teams don't.

The special ball rules are contingent on the plastic releases.

As for infamous coaching staff and so on, see my first answer. Spike! will (or won't, according to the developers whims) be sprinkling this stuff in over the coming months, I imagine.

 ekwatts wrote:

 Sabotage! wrote:
Interesting to note that we get the Nurgle team for preorder next week, which is a really quick turnaround from preview to release. Maybe the team will get in a 4th team this year after all.

I do think it would be cool to see Spike Magazines for the teams already released also Zetan, though I've heard the BB team is only three writers and four sculptors, so they may have their hands full.

I don't think anyone doubted they would get a fourth team in? They'd committed to the four releases per year already, and the release schedules are planned so far in advance that there's really no reason to doubt them.

I think a lot of people did (myself included), browsing a variety of different forums (this, TFF, Reddit). GW still has a lot of stuff that we know will be released this year (Rogue Trader, Ork book with new models, Speed Freaks, Space Wolves, Beastmen battle tome w/ new terrain, very likely a new AoS army), and has to fit it in somewhere. Not to mention last year (when they also committed to four teams) they only managed three (Dwarves, Goblins and Elf Union). So with September, October, and November being the release window, it did look pretty unlikely they would put out two teams. Now that we saw the Nurgle preview had a quick turn around on preorder, it is possible we could still get that fourth team in the next two months.

Nice, I wasn't aware.

 Sabotage! wrote:

 ekwatts wrote:

 Sabotage! wrote:
Interesting to note that we get the Nurgle team for preorder next week, which is a really quick turnaround from preview to release. Maybe the team will get in a 4th team this year after all.

I do think it would be cool to see Spike Magazines for the teams already released also Zetan, though I've heard the BB team is only three writers and four sculptors, so they may have their hands full.

I don't think anyone doubted they would get a fourth team in? They'd committed to the four releases per year already, and the release schedules are planned so far in advance that there's really no reason to doubt them.

I think a lot of people did (myself included), browsing a variety of different forums (this, TFF, Reddit). GW still has a lot of stuff that we know will be released this year (Rogue Trader, Ork book with new models, Speed Freaks, Space Wolves, Beastmen battle tome w/ new terrain, very likely a new AoS army), and has to fit it in somewhere. Not to mention last year (when they also committed to four teams) they only managed three (Dwarves, Goblins and Elf Union). So with September, October, and November being the release window, it did look pretty unlikely they would put out two teams. Now that we saw the Nurgle preview had a quick turn around on preorder, it is possible we could still get that fourth team in the next two months.

Hmm, I guess I see where you're coming from but last year was a little different: BB was still new and they hurriedly had to change their plans around due to the popularity of the game. Once they had announced that there were going to be four plastic team box releases in 2018 then that should effectively be set in stone due to how far in advance these things are planned out. The second half of the year is always "interesting", of course, as the schedules start to presage the pre-Christmas releases that tend to be big money-spinners, but the schedule getting a little crowded shouldn't be any reason to think that the previously committed four team release was going to be missed. I get what you're saying, but I'm generally of the outlook that, unless we're specifically told that plans have changed, then the plans haven't changed. Anything else is pessimism and real life has enough of that to go round right now, I don't need it mixed into my little plastic dudesmen hobby.

Things can change, obviously, but there hasn't been any indication so far in 2018 that GW have had to shuffle anything or make any mad scrambles to reorganise like they did after the release of BB2016. All is well until you see evidence to suggest otherwise.

 ekwatts wrote:

 Sabotage! wrote:

 ekwatts wrote:

 Sabotage! wrote:
Interesting to note that we get the Nurgle team for preorder next week, which is a really quick turnaround from preview to release. Maybe the team will get in a 4th team this year after all.

I do think it would be cool to see Spike Magazines for the teams already released also Zetan, though I've heard the BB team is only three writers and four sculptors, so they may have their hands full.

I don't think anyone doubted they would get a fourth team in? They'd committed to the four releases per year already, and the release schedules are planned so far in advance that there's really no reason to doubt them.

I think a lot of people did (myself included), browsing a variety of different forums (this, TFF, Reddit). GW still has a lot of stuff that we know will be released this year (Rogue Trader, Ork book with new models, Speed Freaks, Space Wolves, Beastmen battle tome w/ new terrain, very likely a new AoS army), and has to fit it in somewhere. Not to mention last year (when they also committed to four teams) they only managed three (Dwarves, Goblins and Elf Union). So with September, October, and November being the release window, it did look pretty unlikely they would put out two teams. Now that we saw the Nurgle preview had a quick turn around on preorder, it is possible we could still get that fourth team in the next two months.

Hmm, I guess I see where you're coming from but last year was a little different: BB was still new and they hurriedly had to change their plans around due to the popularity of the game. Once they had announced that there were going to be four plastic team box releases in 2018 then that should effectively be set in stone due to how far in advance these things are planned out. The second half of the year is always "interesting", of course, as the schedules start to presage the pre-Christmas releases that tend to be big money-spinners, but the schedule getting a little crowded shouldn't be any reason to think that the previously committed four team release was going to be missed. I get what you're saying, but I'm generally of the outlook that, unless we're specifically told that plans have changed, then the plans haven't changed. Anything else is pessimism and real life has enough of that to go round right now, I don't need it mixed into my little plastic dudesmen hobby.

Things can change, obviously, but there hasn't been any indication so far in 2018 that GW have had to shuffle anything or make any mad scrambles to reorganise like they did after the release of BB2016. All is well until you see evidence to suggest otherwise.

Yeah, GW definitely did not anticipate the popularity of Blood Bowl, and from my understanding a lot of teams that had been planned to be resin were converted over to plastic, which is apparently quite a bit of work. I'm wasn't trying to be pessimistic, as I agree with you, the world certainly has enough negative factors at the moment. If we don't get a fourth team, I'm not going to be upset, but before we saw how early Nurgle was being released, I would have been pleasantly surprised if we did get one. Honestly I'm happy we are getting anything for BB, because as of three years ago we were getting nothing at all. GW has really come around under the new leadership. As of about five years I never played anything GW other than dead specialist games (Mordheim and Blood Bowl) and bought pretty much nothing from them. Now I'm actively buying things from several of their product lines. In short, I didn't mean to come off critical of the Blood Bowl team, they are doing a very good job, I was just caught off guard by how short of a time between the preview and preorder of Nurgle there was.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/08/29/team-profile-nurgles-rottersfw-homepage-post-2/

Nurgle team highlight. Is the mentioned Rotspawn something we've seen yet? Described as strong, tentacles, Disturbing Presence, and Foul Appearance. The description makes it sound like a Blood Bowl-ified Bloan=b Rotspawn, assuming it will be a FW special model?

I'm really excited for this box even tho I'm not playing Blood Bowl yet. I'm planning on using a box to extend a box of Putrid Blightkings into 10 figures and use the Rotters as Poxwalkers.

 Prometheum5 wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/08/29/team-profile-nurgles-rottersfw-homepage-post-2/

Nurgle team highlight. Is the mentioned Rotspawn something we've seen yet? Described as strong, tentacles, Disturbing Presence, and Foul Appearance. The description makes it sound like a Blood Bowl-ified Bloan=b Rotspawn, assuming it will be a FW special model?

I'm really excited for this box even tho I'm not playing Blood Bowl yet. I'm planning on using a box to extend a box of Putrid Blightkings into 10 figures and use the Rotters as Poxwalkers.

They just renamed the big guy that has been a central part to the Nurgle teams forever, if you're asking if its a "new" player-type.

Yeah, they renamed Nurgle Warriors to Bloaters and renamed Beast of Nurgle to Rotspawn. The former is probably because their stats are not really anything like Chaos Warriors (lower MA and AG) so why not make them distinctive? The latter is presumably because the new Beast of Nurgle is huge; it sits on a 60mm base, and there's no way anything similar would fit on a Blood Bowl base. The Rotspawn will, presumably, be Forgeworld, since all the big guys for teams not in the core box are.

Also, I don't know if it's been mentioned anywhere, but the release date for the Nurgle stuff is 9/8. That's a fair bit sooner than we were expecting; only 8 weeks after the Dark Elves. One more team before the end of the year seems much more doable now!

Zetan wrote:
Yeah, they renamed Nurgle Warriors to Bloaters and renamed Beast of Nurgle to Rotspawn. The former is probably because their stats are not really anything like Chaos Warriors (lower MA and AG) so why not make them distinctive? The latter is presumably because the new Beast of Nurgle is huge; it sits on a 60mm base, and there's no way anything similar would fit on a Blood Bowl base. The Rotspawn will, presumably, be Forgeworld, since all the big guys for teams not in the core box are.

Also, I don't know if it's been mentioned anywhere, but the release date for the Nurgle stuff is 9/8. That's a fair bit sooner than we were expecting; only 8 weeks after the Dark Elves. One more team before the end of the year seems much more doable now!

Thanks! I didn't know they used Beasts previously, so now that description makes sense. Here's hoping for a funky FW Beast model with Blood Bowl gear in a similar aesthetic to the new plastic kit.

When I first saw the pestigor i thought it was the beast. Was confused why there was two for a few minutes, heh.

 Crazyterran wrote:
When I first saw the pestigor i thought it was the beast. Was confused why there was two for a few minutes, heh.

Horrible sculpts in my opinion, they look a bit better from this angle but I am still not a fan, I am going to use some from the chaos team instead.

The sculpt itself seems fine, its the design which is a bit weird.

I think they look great. Tzaangors are very divergent from the typical gor look. Why would pestigors be any different knowing how GW has been redoing past concepts lately? It looks warped and hunched and weird, as a pestigor should. I would prefer they weren't just gors with a pot belly. That look only works if they stuck with the BB2 look for the game, which is WHF units converted to BB. In BB2016 they are designing the models to be more unique to this separate universe.

I like the Pestigors as a complete package very much, but the heads are very hard to read. It might be the paintjob or it might be the sculpt, but a headswap for one of the great Nurgle heads ranging from fly to demon to unholy knight or a regular beastman head is easy in any case.

The not-BoN I don't have high hopes for, though, the BB Ogre and Troll are great, but the resin big uns and new star player so far were...not so hot.

Carlovonsexron wrote:
The sculpt itself seems fine, its the design which is a bit weird.

I think you might be right there, twisted and all over the place is how chaos should be, I guess im just not a fan of the designs and upset that I waited for the nurgle team and then when it finally came, the only part I like is the rotters.


I reckon im just going to use the chaos team instead and add the rotters.

The (german) White Dwarf has the DarkElf-Teamcards for Blitzbowl as a Bonus.
Strangely not a single article, mention or report about it otherwise.

forgeworlds resin rotspawn model has been spotted on fb.

Wow, that is actually pretty cool.

The tentacles might look better replaced with horns, but the rest fits BB very well while being similiar to the pc version and the current BoN.

It was nice that GW offered Dark Elf player cards for Blitz Bowl in the latest White Dwarf. Anyone think we'll get Nurgle next?

I just picked up the new WD myself and was very happy to see the Dark Elf cards included. I hope they include Nurgle in the next WD. It would be great to see them do this for every team that is released as they come out, or even have them throw the cards in the boxed sets in the future.

I thoroughly enjoy Blitz Bowl, and even more so, my wife, who isn't much of a miniature gamer, loves it. I also got another friend who is skeptical on minis playing BB7s through it. I really appreciate seeing the game get a bit of support.

Do we know if this nice Nurgle Rotspawn will be in plastic or resin ?

 HorticulusDK wrote:
Do we know if this nice Nurgle Rotspawn will be in plastic or resin ?

Resin, most likely.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 HorticulusDK wrote:
Do we know if this nice Nurgle Rotspawn will be in plastic or resin ?

Resin, most likely.

Looking at the model, I almost hopped it was plastic ; the shape, the granularity of details...

We have at least the Troll and the Ogre that are plastic, right ?

 Sabotage! wrote:
I just picked up the new WD myself and was very happy to see the Dark Elf cards included. I hope they include Nurgle in the next WD. It would be great to see them do this for every team that is released as they come out, or even have them throw the cards in the boxed sets in the future.

I thoroughly enjoy Blitz Bowl, and even more so, my wife, who isn't much of a miniature gamer, loves it. I also got another friend who is skeptical on minis playing BB7s through it. I really appreciate seeing the game get a bit of support.

Agreed. My family and non-wargamer friends gladly play Blood Bowl, but won't touch a game like Frostgrave, Kill Team, Warhammer, Age of Sigmar, etc.

 Thargrim wrote:


forgeworlds resin rotspawn model has been spotted on fb.

Wow, so much better than the regular beast of Nurgle

This thursday news on twitch.

I hope to see some star player

Some updates to the new Nurgle content:
The plague doctor and nurgling inducements have 0-1 limitation
Chaos Renegade can have plague doctor, but with limited usage (troll has ressurection)
Some publications (translated and digital) have conflicting/ambiguous team access to the new pestigor star player, this is however only availablen to Nurgle (as per the english physical version).

News and previews on Thursday huh?

I have no doubt we'll get the Rotspawn preview, since it's out in the wild. I wonder if there will be any more previews? I can't imagine they will preview the year's last team on Twitch, especially because I doubt it will be released until November as we just got Nurgle.

Maybe another Star Player or something? I'm crossing my fingers for the next team, but not getting my hopes up.

So....no news and previews shown today? Guess they didn't really reveal squat, otherwise someone would have posted something by now. Weird they had an hour section for blood bowl news and previews but there's nothing to show for it.