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'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
Decent painting guide for the orks, except i'll be using standard highlighting + weathering instead of the drybrushing. Anyone have any ideas on how to do the black orc skin like the eavy metal team? It looks like kabalite green, almost a dark blue sea green skin tone. It looks really cool, hopefully duncan does a 2 minute guide on how to do that skin tone.
I rarely ever see orc skin painted with a slightly blue tint, nice change from the more brown earthy tones i've done in the past.
The app is up. It is unfortunately a little basic in its design but it does have one perk. You can download an Ebook of the rules for £8 or season one for £13. You can get a bundle of both for £15 pounds. So if you already have teams and a pitch you can get all the new rules without having to fork out for the boxed game.
Thargrim wrote: I'm hoping the nurgle team turns out to be plastic and more interesting than the current teams. The Skaven team is cool but i'm not too keen on the tails...those are going to break off for sure. So long as they keep pestigors in and make the team look cool then i'll be happy. I have some spare nurglings waiting to decorate the bases of some nurgle warriors. The fact that they at least had some concept work done for them gives me some hope.
Ehgawds, never thought about plastic Pestigors in the Nurgle team. That and the price of the Skaven team would see me shell out for several boxes more than BB alone needs.
The plastic warriors can be Blightking and Plague Marine spare parts
Just got my WD. I hope the battrep is good.
Looking for a Skaven Doomwheel banner to repair my Nurgle knights.
Finally bought Blood Bowl box with Season 1 book, the skaven box and the skaven dice. Good thing to go after work at my local GW shop on friday.
It's really good stuff. I'm amazed with all the things you get in the skaven team box. The decal paper has plenty of things to put on your models, and in two colors for each! For 25 €, in a GW shop, meaning "full price"! I still don't believe it.
Blood Bowl is back, people! Let's make a Dance of Joy!
If that rumour regarding its availability is true...that seems like a really silly move by GW. Even if they shifted all the extra teams, plastic and resin, to Online/FLGS after a month or so you'd expect them to keep a handful of the main boxes as part of a store's normal shelf stock.
I mean, quite apart from the already mentioned problem that it strongly discourages GW store managers from supporting the game since they can't sell it and their job depends on meeting often ludicrous sales targets, not having the box there in the shops is going to have a serious impact on uptake - back in the day it was seeing the boxes with their incredible artwork that made me look into Mordheim and Battlefleet Gothic in the first place and I went on to buy an inadvisable amount of stuff for both.
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Half way through putting the Humans and Orcs together, got to say I am loving the models. Got Skaven to do after.
Liking some of the touches with the race set up, four Elf teams is great, can't wait to see them turn up over at Forgeworld.. and one of my main asks before the game launched over on the Blood Bowl facebook page, regarding Witch Elves still being in the game, is confirmed, with the added bonus the Dark Elf Star Player is a Witch Elf as well.
The only down side I have stumbled across was in the new White Dwarf, what in the seven hells have they done to Zug.
Other than that, all awesome, trying to get the teams together tonight so me and the boys can play tomorrow.
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"That's not an Ork, its a girl.." - Last words of High General Daran Ul'tharem, battle of Ursha VII.
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Chikout wrote: The app is up. It is unfortunately a little basic in its design but it does have one perk. You can download an Ebook of the rules for £8 or season one for £13. You can get a bundle of both for £15 pounds. So if you already have teams and a pitch you can get all the new rules without having to fork out for the boxed game.
Great news! Thanks for sharing.
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Picked it up at one of the FGSs where I shop. Been putting the orcs together first and so far they've been perfect joins. I only model and paint anything for the purpose of gaming so having these go together so nicely is a real blessing
How about other teams to be released.
I would be interested in Elves and related kin.
Chaos is easy to represent. They have no special models like throwers and whatnot. Just four Chaos Warriors, Beastmen, and one Minotaur. But definitely hard to play.
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Thebiggesthat wrote: Dwarf models are on the app, has this been mentioned yet? They are sweeeet painted up
Could you post some pics? The preview on the App Store page has a pic of the Skaven model painted, but I think the only way to see dwarfs is to purchase it (I'd also love to see more Skaven!).
Edit: I'm assuming the Skaven set on the GW website is just an older one, not the new release, right?
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Regarding the Season One book, damn the Hall of Fame is a great idea.. giving you a 12 man playable team of some of the famous ones of the NAF.. okay so far all we have is the Bright Crusaders and the Orcland Raiders.. but both have all the players noted with team cost to play and a team based Special rule.. absolutely hope we'll see more of them down the road, hell I'd buy a source book based around that concept.. 'Hall of Fame' book full of classic teams with named players, Star Player stats and team rules.. would be amazing.
"That's not an Ork, its a girl.." - Last words of High General Daran Ul'tharem, battle of Ursha VII.
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Yeah,
The new bigger board is a thing of beauty!
The dice are lovely.
The teams are beautiful!
Had a quick flick through the rules today and don't think I spotted any big changes.
Has anyone started compiling a list?
One thing I noted and I'm quite happy with is the name change to bloodweiser babes,
It's now Bloodweiser Kegs.
What we do need is a few female sculpts.
Fingers crossed we get some team boosters to help get the squads up to 16!
Panic...
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Hmm, I paid $3.99 for the app and in the end I really don't like those dwarf sculpts =/. And it does seem the Skaven team is the final thing, unless I'm missing something? Bummer on both counts!
Mostly the same.. a few minor changes, although one for me is a change for the absolute best, the MVP award. Instead of a random team member often some no hoper who did nothing that game.. this time you pick three players and roll a D3.
Great adjustment in my view.
"That's not an Ork, its a girl.." - Last words of High General Daran Ul'tharem, battle of Ursha VII.
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Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote: Mostly the same.. a few minor changes, although one for me is a change for the absolute best, the MVP award. Instead of a random team member often some no hoper who did nothing that game.. this time you pick three players and roll a D3.
Great adjustment in my view.
Great news! Funny though it was to have MVP repeatedly going to a player that had gone out like a chump in the first round.... Or died.
So the expansion book is worth getting for £12-15 then? Wasn't going to bother, given the lack of rules changes, and being slightly narked that rules for leagues & a basic selection of teams weren't included in the base game.
My wife promptly confiscated it, wrapped it, and wont let me at it until Christmas.
/cry
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I got my expansion book today... here's a rundown.
The teams: Fluff, Team Histories, Star Player, and Roster for each of the "All New" teams, Skaven, Nurgle, Dwarves, Elven Union, High Elf, Dark Elf, and Wood Elf.
Review... nothing much new here. I haven't gone over things with a fine-toothed comb, but I haven't seen any changes that haven't been noted other places. Has the human and ork Star Players at the back as well. Other than the star players, there isn't anything here that isn't in the PDF of the 'old' rosters (available at Bloodbowl.com)
League Rules:
Basics of running a challenge-style league. Drafting, Casualties, Star Player Points, Treasury, and Team value stay the same. As noted, MVP has become choose three and roll off.
Specific pre-game sequence. Specific Post-game sequence.
Expensive mistakes... replaces spiraling expenses... depending on how much you have in the treasury, you may need to spend some of it to hush people up.
Downtime... at the end of any season, you roll for things like the "Wants to Retire", resolve those niggling injuries, determine your starting treasury for the next year, and seeing if your playoff performance has cost you some of those fair-weather fans. In all, very cool. I especially like the idea that some of those 'Bloat" players just become too expensive for you to bring back... they might just become Assistant Coaches!
All the inducements are noted and explained (no wizard, however).
Some optional League Rules (including Piling On).
Skills:
All of the skills explained... this is nice.
Coaching Staff:
If you have a miniature for your Coach (What?!?!) you can argue with the ref when a player is sent off for a foul. On a 6, you get the call reversed. That's cool!
Bonus:
Fluff and special rules for two more teams, the Orkland Raiders and the Bright Crusaders.
A great reference guide.
Final Verdict:
If you are a fan of fluff or running a league, this is a must buy.
If you play one of the 7 races in this book? I'd probably not.
General Blood Bowler? Still, a probably not.
Ultimately, there only needs to be 1 of this book in a league.
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Yes, it's really a nice "old school" book. The fluff of Season 1 focuses on star players and teams not described in the main rulebook but present in this Season 1 book. We have a small history for each emblematic team, including the Hall of Fame ones (Orcland Raiders and Bright Crusaders).
Very few pictures of painted models. We see a halfling and a goblin referee, but otherwise orcs, humans and skaven miniatures. They are on back of the cover (first and last page), exactly like the "old school" books!
There are not many pictures inside the book itself. Mostly logos and a few drawings here and there.
About the rules, the changes are there but few and quite subtle. They didn't touch to the core rules, they just made a few modifications for some skills or league rules. Cheerleaders and Coach Assistants are still near useless (only modifying one result of the Kick Off! table, like before).
Most of the change is rather a new layout of the rules for better understanding, IMHO. They try to be clearer.
The special cards are the same than in the Living Rulebook. I expect the other decks not released right now will be following that road as well. There will be magic items, since they're mentionned in the core rules.
A really good new edition, for what I have read. The only negative thing for me is that the miniatures are quite repetitive. They still can be converted, of course, but you have to cut and experiment since very few parts are actually intended to be switched.
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