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We have now boars and goats. When will we see ducks and geese? How about chicken? BB has become a farce.

 Tastyfish wrote:
I wonder which Teams Norse will end up in for Dungeonbowl. I've got a vague feeling that they were in some odd teams even when Jade (Life) was all Greenskins.

Maybe the Community College of Ice alongside Kislev players?

 Strg Alt wrote:
We have now boars and goats. When will we see ducks and geese? How about chicken? BB has become a farce.

Has become? <Squints closely at STRG Alt, not sure if serious>

This just in, person who hates Blood Bowl.... hates Blood Bowl! News at 10.

 Strg Alt wrote:
We have now boars and goats. When will we see ducks and geese? How about chicken? BB has become a farce.

Blood Bowl has always been a bit of a joke, we have had mad goblin bombers, trolls that eat teammates, ogres who forget what they are doing... halflings, balls that eat people, crowds that kill players at random sometimes, trained circus bears, a "proper and professional" way to bride referees, and wizards firing spells.

Really not sure what you mean by this being the trash edition, and calling the game a farce. If anything GW now finally has the technology and sculpting capabilities to create miniatures that are just as wacky as the stories the designers and writers have put into every rulebook and piece of literature about the game.

Looks like the Forgeworld Rat Ogre is on Last Chance to Buy:

 zedmeister wrote:
Looks like the Forgeworld Rat Ogre is on Last Chance to Buy:

I don't think anyone's taking that chance Jim.

 zedmeister wrote:
Looks like the Forgeworld Rat Ogre is on Last Chance to Buy:

A bit of a bummer, but really not my favorite Rat Ogre sculpt. The plastic "Rat Ogor" from AoS is a much better model.

I think Rumbelow Sheepskin looks fantastic.

Normally I assume all star players will be FW resin automatically but... that last paragraph of the preview "Rumbelow and Longshanks will be rampaging into stores soon".

Now when they say 'into stores' is that a little typo because the FW store is online? Or could this figure actually be plastic and available in GW stores?

I'm keeping my glimmer of excitement in check and realistic until confirmed otherwise.

 zedmeister wrote:
Looks like the Forgeworld Rat Ogre is on Last Chance to Buy:

Spoiler:

They did already release a second Rat Ogre sculpt, so I'm not overly surprised this one is getting rotated out.

 zedmeister wrote:
Looks like the Forgeworld Rat Ogre is on Last Chance to Buy:

Most likely because they've since done another sculpt which was infinitely better received.

lost_lilliputian wrote:
I think Rumbelow Sheepskin looks fantastic.

Normally I assume all star players will be FW resin automatically but... that last paragraph of the preview "Rumbelow and Longshanks will be rampaging into stores soon".

Now when they say 'into stores' is that a little typo because the FW store is online? Or could this figure actually be plastic and available in GW stores?

I'm keeping my glimmer of excitement in check and realistic until confirmed otherwise.

They confirmed on FB it's FW resin.

^Oh ok, thanks for letting me know. Now I can stop thinking about getting it lol

 GaroRobe wrote:


But the ram's fur is bugging me. It looks like you could paint it pink and purple and it'll look like it was always meant to be a brain

Yup, just looks like intestines to me.

lost_lilliputian wrote:
^Oh ok, thanks for letting me know. Now I can stop thinking about getting it lol

Sadly have to agree. If its fw, then it basically doesnt exist. If i see 9ne in the wild, its a unicorn, and thus, just a figment of my over active imagination.

Norse Team Rules Preview

 Dysartes wrote:
Norse Team Rules Preview

The leak a short while ago was spot on then. I don't mind the changes; keeps the bulk of the roster the same with a few tweaks and the Valkyries amalgamating the previous Thrower/Catcher role whilst also having Strip Ball makes them pretty impressive and plays more into the running game that the Norse should be going for.

 Dysartes wrote:
Norse Team Rules Preview

My Beer Pigs will be named Chumba and Wumba. Because my players may get knocked down but they'll get them back up again.

 Theophony wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:
Norse Team Rules Preview

My Beer Pigs will be named Chumba and Wumba. Because my players may get knocked down but they'll get them back up again.

That is... absolutely great.

Random thought...

The Norse have Ivar Eriksson as a star player, who has lead the Norsca Rampagers to raid various trophy cabinets in the Old World.

Am I over-thinking things that this might be a shout-out to Erik and Ivar, who currently wrestle as the Viking Raiders in WWE?

 Dysartes wrote:
Random thought...

The Norse have Ivar Eriksson as a star player, who has lead the Norsca Rampagers to raid various trophy cabinets in the Old World.

Am I over-thinking things that this might be a shout-out to Erik and Ivar, who currently wrestle as the Viking Raiders in WWE?

It..might? There's certainly WWE fans in the studio (or at least the community team) and they had some of the roster visiting when over in the UK last year (Shayna's various 40k related ring gears always make me pop).

I think it's far more likely that they just threw a dart at a wall chart of some very, very generic viking names and that's what we ended up with.

Besides, they're still Rowe and Hanson and called the War Raiders to me dammit!

 Dysartes wrote:
Random thought...

The Norse have Ivar Eriksson as a star player, who has lead the Norsca Rampagers to raid various trophy cabinets in the Old World.

Am I over-thinking things that this might be a shout-out to Erik and Ivar, who currently wrestle as the Viking Raiders in WWE?

It is more likely his name is derived from famous/historic vikings Erik the Red, Leif Erikson, and Ivar the Boneless.

 Dysartes wrote:
Random thought...

The Norse have Ivar Eriksson as a star player, who has lead the Norsca Rampagers to raid various trophy cabinets in the Old World.

Am I over-thinking things that this might be a shout-out to Erik and Ivar, who currently wrestle as the Viking Raiders in WWE?

Could be.

But I think it's more probable that the Viking Raiders and GW both has just chosen to use viking-suitable names.

Rumbellow Sheepskin on pre-order next week

I'm genuinely surprised a Patreon sculptor hasn't just taken to sculpting Blood Bowl star players and missing teams given the whole Forge World situation (GW uses Forge World). Punga Miniatures insists on doing almost entirely niche nautical themed Blood Bowl teams with no Star Player extras and they have 600 patrons currently. Somebody who made stuff people really want would get 1,000. And at $10 each, it's a living.

 frankelee wrote:
I'm genuinely surprised a Patreon sculptor hasn't just taken to sculpting Blood Bowl star players and missing teams given the whole Forge World situation (GW uses Forge World).

...what do you mean by "the whole Forge World situation"?

You are aware that FW is a division of the wider GW corporate entity, right?

 Dysartes wrote:

 frankelee wrote:
I'm genuinely surprised a Patreon sculptor hasn't just taken to sculpting Blood Bowl star players and missing teams given the whole Forge World situation (GW uses Forge World).

...what do you mean by "the whole Forge World situation"?

You are aware that FW is a division of the wider GW corporate entity, right?

Yes, you've misunderstood. As I allude to in my post, the whole Forge World situation is that GW uses Forge World. Read the above page of posts to understand my context.

 frankelee wrote:
I'm genuinely surprised a Patreon sculptor hasn't just taken to sculpting Blood Bowl star players and missing teams given the whole Forge World situation (GW uses Forge World). Punga Miniatures insists on doing almost entirely niche nautical themed Blood Bowl teams with no Star Player extras and they have 600 patrons currently. Somebody who made stuff people really want would get 1,000. And at $10 each, it's a living.

Lots of companies make missing Star Players under altered names. Certainly, every 'fantasy football' team Kickstarter has come will the full suite of 'names changed to protect the innocent' SPs.

....yeah, there are dozens of Italian and Spanish companies that the living of dozens of employees making third party "fantasy football" and "fantasy football star player" sculpts with the names changed around.

Entire websites dedicated to organizing the hundreds of full team options from around the world too.

Shakalooloo wrote:

 frankelee wrote:
I'm genuinely surprised a Patreon sculptor hasn't just taken to sculpting Blood Bowl star players and missing teams given the whole Forge World situation (GW uses Forge World). Punga Miniatures insists on doing almost entirely niche nautical themed Blood Bowl teams with no Star Player extras and they have 600 patrons currently. Somebody who made stuff people really want would get 1,000. And at $10 each, it's a living.

Lots of companies make missing Star Players under altered names. Certainly, every 'fantasy football' team Kickstarter has come will the full suite of 'names changed to protect the innocent' SPs.

NH Gunsmith wrote:....yeah, there are dozens of Italian and Spanish companies that the living of dozens of employees making third party "fantasy football" and "fantasy football star player" sculpts with the names changed around.

Entire websites dedicated to organizing the hundreds of full team options from around the world too.

Sure, there's 3rd party suppliers and some Kickstarters and such. I guess my comment was aimed a little more at people really into the game and therefore knowledgeable about the details of supply as opposed to the broader generalities.

 frankelee wrote:
I'm genuinely surprised a Patreon sculptor hasn't just taken to sculpting Blood Bowl star players and missing teams given the whole Forge World situation (GW uses Forge World). Punga Miniatures insists on doing almost entirely niche nautical themed Blood Bowl teams with no Star Player extras and they have 600 patrons currently. Somebody who made stuff people really want would get 1,000. And at $10 each, it's a living.

There are honestly plenty of those in existence and the STLs are everywhere. There's a Morg sculpt, for example, from Brutefun that's become pretty damn popular as an alternative to the FW one (with good reason). 30 seconds on somewhere like Etsy and you can browse that sort of thing to your heart's content.