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You know, by the time Blood Bowl became any sort of thing among the folk I gamed with, the first Blood Bowl PC game was already out, and after BB2 I honestly never saw any need to start playing the tabletop version.

Having seen the unboxing though(which was almost bang on, though they really need to have a closecam setup focused on the table so they can cut to detail shots of the sprues), I'm going to have to actively resist the temptation to revive the Mordheim Comets in miniature form. Credit where it's due, good work GW.

yeah,

 bound for glory wrote:
I've been playing blood bowl since the paper standups, and I can tell you its a great game.

Do yourself a favor: build 16 players. 12 players are more for "one off's".

He's right!
when painting up a team you wanna over kill your options.
Once a league starts you'll have all positional options covered.
So when your team wins and makes money you can pick a choose more player to build your team, depending on how the other teams are doing.
Without the need to dash off and get the new guys painted.

My Orc team has 21 players to choose from!
4 Black orcs, 4 Blitzers, 7 Linemen, 1 Chucker a Troll and 4 Goblins
So I can build bashy getting up to a full set of 4 black orcs and 4 blitzers!
or sneaky with a troll and few goblins..

The number of guys in the BloodBowl starter set is pretty good.
A team sheet can have 16 players.
Positions have limits!

Orcs
6/16 linemen
2/4 black orcs
2/4 blitzers
2/2 throwers
0/1 troll
0/4 goblins

Humans
6/16 linemen
2/4 blitzers
2/2 thrower
2/4 catchers
0/1 ogre

6 Linemen is probably enough although 8 would be better.

While the number of guys in the starter is pretty good.
However to make a expanded flexible team, it almost requires us to buy two core sets! unless they have team boosters available.
Like with 40k boxes trading out half the sets is an option.


Orcs
12/16 linemen (probabily paint 6-8, you'll never use them all!)
4/4 black orcs
4/4 blitzers
4/2 throwers (too many!)
0/1 troll
0/4 goblins

Humans
12/16 linemen (again too many!)
4/4 blitzers
4/2 thrower (too many!)
4/4 catchers
0/1 ogre

Panic...

Cheers guys

I'll more than likely end up buying the set for a quick few games to get into it then work on building a proper team as stuff comes out for it.

I have got a fair sized lizardmen army to pillage, including a whole unit of bloodbowl skinks lol.

I wanted to mirror templeguard in my skink army and the bloodbowl skinks happened to have the skull helmets, so I have 20 of those laying around lol.

Gonna be lots of players trading orc or human sprues. I want both.

Yes! I'm really impressed with the contents of that box. This is a game you can take to one of those boardgame pubs and have a few pints with. Good pedigree, FW backing the Specialist Games arm, very open and friendly attitude from the whole thing.

I'm in, all the way. I still cannot decide on a team, but given the size of teams, that doesn't matter, I can get several.

While Blood Bowl is kind of played out for me, the figs are stunning. My only complaint is that the orcs are way too big for a team that is barely above average in combat.

Do they say in the unboxing video there will be only be rules for humans & orc teams in the starter set? Could someone see details which are? Did they mention anything new about the Death Zone expansion at the Euro Open Day? There were seminar reports from earlier events saying Death Zone would be released with the starter set






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New photos (from Spiel in Essen I guess) - via War of Sigmar blog

Dwarfs and Skaven

https://war-of-sigmar.herokuapp.com/bloggings/1227



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The dwarfs are fabulous imo

I am sooooo turning those Skaven into a Mordheim warband.

The reveal of the minis for this has been humans - fine, orcs- cool, skaven - fantastic, dwarves- oh my God, take my money now!

We'll, I guess I'm going to need two boxes of skaven!
Mordheim and blood bowl
And I didn't expect dwarves to look so great!!! I'm tempted to buy them as well... The only team I find lackluster is humans.. They are kinda boring, especially next to their opponents

Damn, I want some of those dwarves as character miniatures for D&D; They look so freakin' badass! These new BB miniatures look so damn good!

Wow those dwarfs... please do a Tomb King Team...

Do they say in the unboxing video there will be only be rules for humans & orc teams in the starter set?

They will release rules for all teams that ever existed, but maybe just online (which is probably the best way). No squating of teams. Can't wait for resin dark elfs and lizardmen now (and chaos dwarfs in the far distant future :< ).

Good God, those dwarves!

I've dug my old metal models out, they'll be getting replaced as soon as those are released

The Dwarves and Skaven are excellent

Some better photos of the dwarves. Edit why is this not working?

One by one then

One more. My favourite.

Wow, those look awesome!

Not a huge fan of the Dwarfs myself, but that's an aesthetics thing rather than quality - I like my stunties with big heads and no knees, rather than the modern LotR-ish scaling.

The Skaven though, those are getting pillaged for Mordheim for sure.

Ok, with quality photos I'm even more in love with those Dwarves. The one with the metal beard helmet is absolutely fantastic!

 Atia wrote:

Do they say in the unboxing video there will be only be rules for humans & orc teams in the starter set?

They will release rules for all teams that ever existed, but maybe just online (which is probably the best way). No squating of teams. Can't wait for resin dark elfs and lizardmen now (and chaos dwarfs in the far distant future :< ).

I see, and it is a better idea than print, good point.

This is great news!

What will the deal be here?

Rules same as Blood Bowl 2 on pc? Which is almost identical to Living Rulebook 6? Or do they take one step further and make a new edition? Or half a step, similar but somewhat different?

Where are the big guys? Rat burger, deathroller, troll, ogre?

Will the same models be sold outside the box? Will you be able to buy additional miniatures to fill complete teams of orcs and humans? Will all the teams be made? When can we expect Norse? Halflings? Goblins? Ogres? Necromantic?

Seems like the starter box may be missing some players and be in shortage of others.

Will Star Players be sold separately? Will we see a complete set of Star Players or just a small selection?

I have a couple of 2nd and 3rd edition teams, they'll be shelfed instantly. I also have a team from an independent studio. The things out there on kickstarter, ebay and other shops are quite impressive.

But I think once again GW will take the 1st place when it comes to miniature quality, details, design and poses.

The teams in the starter box, you get 2 identical sprues, so there will be duplicate poses?

Yes, (mostly the) same rules

Some new photos - by Grimscull on Tabletopwelt.de - referees and more of the teams

Halfling with sandwich wins my vote for best mini

@Baxx, you will find all the answers on the last two pages

 jreilly89 wrote:
Halfling with sandwich wins my vote for best mini

Yup Looking forward to the chef...

Really like those dwarfs! I wonder if you will be able to kit bash them with the iron breakers etc.. Do they come in an expansion alongside Skaven or as an individual box?

Baxx wrote:
This is great news!

What will the deal be here?

Rules same as Blood Bowl 2 on pc? Which is almost identical to Living Rulebook 6? Or do they take one step further and make a new edition? Or half a step, similar but somewhat different?

One thing that has been pointed out to me by a friend, in the examples given on the website (the drills pdf) it gives an example of a Human Catcher dodging into two tacklezones needing a 6+.
This was previously a 5+ (Starting on a 3+ for an empty square and then +1 difficulty for each tacklezone)

This is either 1) a change to the rules meaning you no longer get the +1 to the roll when dodging or 2) a mistake.

Think I'm a little Bloodbowled out to get excited about this, not changing the rules seems lazy.

So much wrong with the game, which I'm sure has been covered.