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I went to my local GW, taking a selection of Orc heads with me to check the scale. Even though the Humans are larger than the ones before, they're definitely not big enough to put even the smallest Orc head on. I guess it's back to the drawing board for me

I don't get theidea thatpeople don't want to get in a league because granny has'nt made their teams yet.

Go to ebay. All the teams are there..

 bound for glory wrote:
I don't get theidea thatpeople don't want to get in a league because granny has'nt made their teams yet.

Go to ebay. All the teams are there..

Lizardmen team is ugly as a rat-ogres mother dipped in grease and set on fire.

Some may call that extreme, but compared to this, they make me gag. Even the Videogame models use current Sauras models and even make them look better.

I can convert, but i would definitely like new sculpts.

 Ghaz wrote:

Vorian wrote:
There's a link earlier in this thread to a pdf with all the rules for the teams not in deathzone or the starter

All of which can be found with the other Rules Errata on GW's website.

No rules for daemon teams?

Joyboozer wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:

Vorian wrote:
There's a link earlier in this thread to a pdf with all the rules for the teams not in deathzone or the starter

All of which can be found with the other Rules Errata on GW's website.

No rules for daemon teams?

Off-hand, I don't think there has ever been rules for daemon teams. I know the Rotters have a Beast of Nurgle as an option, but I think that is as far as it went.

*starts timer to see how long before someone proves him wrong about daemon teams*

*Clicks Timer* Eight minutes, twenty one seconds. I thought I was better than that.

I think they may have been referring to the Khorne team on the Video Game version...

They Don't have the new Brettonian Team in the pdf either so we might be waiting a while.

I guess it might be a bit hard to do daemon teams these days given the new bloodthirster size.

Joyboozer wrote:
I guess it might be a bit hard to do daemon teams these days given the new bloodthirster size.

As blood bowl is in its own world they can just come up with something say for example:-
Of all the Daemons of Khorne none can compare to the Bloodbasher while other fowl creatures collect skulls on the battlefield.
This unique creature is only ever seen on the fields of games of Bloodbowl, where they can collect skulls during Khorne's more sporting Arenas.

I wouldn't mind playing against them. Then again ill probably be waiting ages for a Tomb King Team.

S.Y.

jullevi wrote:

 Rayvon wrote:
I hope some of the Elves look better !

I am not going to hold breath while waiting for Elves. I realized that I had 12 unassembled Harlequins from Death Masque boxed set - they should make perfect Elven Union Team! I also bought another set of Human Team sprues and I intend to use extra Thrower and Catcher hands to give Elves some BALLS

I have too many team ideas at the moment! Tzaangor boxed set is released next weekend...

Aye im currently trying to find some suitable Elves to turn into an Elf team at the minute, the harlequins is a good call !


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 bound for glory wrote:
I don't get theidea thatpeople don't want to get in a league because granny has'nt made their teams yet.

Go to ebay. All the teams are there..

The original old teams cost silly money nowadays.

Besides, Ive been using my teams for twenty odd years, getting a bit bored using the same minis and I will need some of grannys teams because i will be playing the game at her place a fair bit.

I am doing much the same, using a ton of different Harlequin, Eldar, and Dark Eldar bits to make a stack of different miniatures which can be used to field all 4 different Elf teams. Just interchange in and out the ones you need for whichever team and you're good to go

Speaking of conversions, anyone able to supply any pictures of the new plastic Blood Bowl Orcs next to some Orruk Brutes? Want to see how easily they could be converted to become Black Orcs. Also if anyone knows if the upper arm bit from a MegaNobz (the bit with the hydraulic piston attached) melds nicely with the shoulder area for the Orruk, I would be grateful to know that too

Snow pitch should be up for preorder tomorrow along with weather rules.

 Carnikang wrote:

 bound for glory wrote:
I don't get theidea thatpeople don't want to get in a league because granny has'nt made their teams yet.

Go to ebay. All the teams are there..

Lizardmen team is ugly as a rat-ogres mother dipped in grease and set on fire.

Some may call that extreme, but compared to this, they make me gag. Even the Videogame models use current Sauras models and even make them look better.

I can convert, but i would definitely like new sculpts.

Yeah a lot of the teams have not aged well. The video game Lizardmen look awesome, I'd love it if they copied that aesthetic (Saurus look proper beefy in the video game unlike the GW Saurus models that look really weedy).

The thing that stops me converting is the hands. When you cut the weapon off a model it will always look like they're holding something and when you have 12 models all looking like they're supposed to be holding something it just looks a bit derpy.

I guess you could try and sculpt knuckle dusters on them or something.

Knuckle dusters are very easy. Either using plasticard or strips of partially cured greenstuff.

It's also not impossible to fix weapon hands, especially if the fingers completely close over to the palm. You would just partially drill out the top and bottom of where the weapon shaft was and then put back in some skin/scale creases with gs.

Trigger fingers are a different issue.

Whats keeping anyone from buying a 3rd ed metal team(GW made) and using that?

Mean to say, I don't get why not use those if you play at a GW store? I know by buying from ebay, the price per team is higher, but all the teams are there...And from what I've seen lately, the ebay prices are down a bit. I guess ebay sellers are thinking the older teams may be re cast by granny, so they are selling at lower prices.

 plastictrees wrote:
Knuckle dusters are very easy. Either using plasticard or strips of partially cured greenstuff.

It's also not impossible to fix weapon hands, especially if the fingers completely close over to the palm. You would just partially drill out the top and bottom of where the weapon shaft was and then put back in some skin/scale creases with gs.

Trigger fingers are a different issue.

I wouldn't say it's very easy, I'd say it's fiddly and difficult to get them to look like they were supposed to be there rather than stuck on by a primary school kid in arts and crafts. I rarely ever see good looking hands done by a anyone who doesn't already have a lot of experience with sculpting.

I've always thought that one of the third party manufacturers could make a killing by selling gesturing hand or arm sprues for converting Blood Bowl players – pointing, open palm, catching mitts, 'tactical gestures', knuckle dusters, and plain old balled fists would be great.

+Edit+
In fact, thought I'd put those musing into action, and send Spellcrow an email to see if they have any plans for American-football orc hands/arms.

bound for glory wrote:Whats keeping anyone from buying a 3rd ed metal team(GW made) and using that?

Mean to say, I don't get why not use those if you play at a GW store? I know by buying from ebay, the price per team is higher, but all the teams are there...And from what I've seen lately, the ebay prices are down a bit. I guess ebay sellers are thinking the older teams may be re cast by granny, so they are selling at lower prices.

Nothing. Matter of fact, there's no reason that you can't play with converted GW figs... even at a GW event. In home leagues or non-GW store leagues it can really be anything goes!

Apologist wrote:I've always thought that one of the third party manufacturers could make a killing by selling gesturing hand or arm sprues for converting Blood Bowl players – pointing, open palm, catching mitts, 'tactical gestures', knuckle dusters, and plain old balled fists would be great.

+Edit+
In fact, thought I'd put those musing into action, and send Spellcrow an email to see if they have any plans for American-football orc hands/arms.

Hands can be a bit of a problem, but as several others have mentioned you can swap or model stuff yourself. Scale is something that you need to worry about there (which is probably why 3rd party has largely avoided that market). Heads seem to be different though. Different scale heads don't seem to produce the same gut-wrongness that different scale hands do.

I'm sure it'c come up before , but the thread moves fast



https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Rules-Errata

has the FAQ and errata for the BB stuff --as well as the pdf for some of the older teams.

 reds8n wrote:
I'm sure it'c come up before , but the thread moves fast

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Rules-Errata

has the FAQ and errata for the BB stuff --as well as the pdf for some of the older teams.

Still haven't fixed those pesky 7,000 gold Wood Elf Linemen, eh?

 Apologist wrote:
I've always thought that one of the third party manufacturers could make a killing by selling gesturing hand or arm sprues for converting Blood Bowl players – pointing, open palm, catching mitts, 'tactical gestures', knuckle dusters, and plain old balled fists would be great.

Impact do some
http://www.impactminiatures.com/index.php?option=sprues

 Apologist wrote:
I've always thought that one of the third party manufacturers could make a killing by selling gesturing hand or arm sprues for converting Blood Bowl players – pointing, open palm, catching mitts, 'tactical gestures', knuckle dusters, and plain old balled fists would be great.

I just paid a 10 euros on eBay for plastic sprue including 3 balls, 4 right and 3 left handed knuckle dusters, 1 thrower hand, 1 cather hand, 3 open palms, 12 shoulder pads and 6 Blood Bowl helmets for base decoration. It is also known as "Human Team Sprue".

jullevi wrote:

 Apologist wrote:
I've always thought that one of the third party manufacturers could make a killing by selling gesturing hand or arm sprues for converting Blood Bowl players – pointing, open palm, catching mitts, 'tactical gestures', knuckle dusters, and plain old balled fists would be great.

I just paid a 10 euros on eBay for plastic sprue including 3 balls, 4 right and 3 left handed knuckle dusters, 1 thrower hand, 1 cather hand, 3 open palms, 12 shoulder pads and 6 Blood Bowl helmets for base decoration. It is also known as "Human Team Sprue".

Yeah but where's the Lizardman, Goblin, Elf, etc versions?

I tried looking for that exact sprue name and couldn't find it anywhere. Able to enlighten us with a link?

I think jullevi is referring to one human sprue from the new BB box set, to be used for parts/conversions

Derp... I should have read that better. I genuinely thought someone was enterprising enough to make something like that to cast and sell.

I love the new Blood Bowl, and I love that it's revitalised the game, but man, I can't stand the amount of long spikes on fists that I am seeing. I am a sucker for the old style where it was mostly knuckle dusters at most unless it was a Star Player or the like. The new models look like they'd be injuring opposition players every time they connected, not just some of the time.

I am going to try a new tack with making my own BB Orc team now. Savage Orruk's for the Linemen/Thrower, where I can add stuff over their bare bodies if I need to, or leave their muscles showing; SO Boarboyz for Blitzer main bodies (their legs are really well defined as well, so would be great to convert them to running poses); and Ironjaw Orruk Brutes with armour sculpted over the top for Black Orc Blockers. Troll will be done up from a cheap Reaper Bones Troll, and Goblins/Star Players I will likely see what I think when GW/FW release them.

Costs a bit more, but I get the team I fully want this way. I am very interested to see whether they do plastic to beef up the three current teams, or if all of that is going to go to FW for them to come up with a few small designs here and there.

The snow pitch sold out overnight before I could buy it, same thing happened with the skaven dice. Consider me...a bit frustrated. I'm highly annoyed GW keeps releasing apparently limited quantities of a product that would obviously sell so well. I feel like people are buying 5-10 of these and are gonna load em up on ebay for 100 bucks each. If GW plans on doing this limited joke for every new style of pitch they release then I guess I can forget about getting any of them.

 Thargrim wrote:
The snow pitch sold out overnight before I could buy it...

Its on preorder and is still showing as available on the US web store.

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Blood-on-the-Snow

 Thargrim wrote:
The snow pitch sold out overnight before I could buy it...

I'm also still seeing it available for pre-order on the US site. I don't pre-order direct from GW any more so I'll be calling my LFGS instead.

I'm not seeing any Death Zone DLC on iTunes. Does anyone have a link? I'd like to be able to manage my Skaven on my phone.

 Thargrim wrote:
The snow pitch sold out overnight before I could buy it, same thing happened with the skaven dice. Consider me...a bit frustrated. I'm highly annoyed GW keeps releasing apparently limited quantities of a product that would obviously sell so well. I feel like people are buying 5-10 of these and are gonna load em up on ebay for 100 bucks each. If GW plans on doing this limited joke for every new style of pitch they release then I guess I can forget about getting any of them.

Our FGS got in extra dice sets - but no skaven teams, go figure--- so I picked up extra (will use one set as my Orc dice).
Just listed it on the trade forums. Looking for either a ten-man mark III squad from Prospero or a single complete sprue (6 miniatures, balls, etc.), bases and blue dice of the new BB humans.

 Fenriswulf wrote:
I love the new Blood Bowl, and I love that it's revitalised the game, but man, I can't stand the amount of long spikes on fists that I am seeing. I am a sucker for the old style where it was mostly knuckle dusters at most unless it was a Star Player or the like. The new models look like they'd be injuring opposition players every time they connected, not just some of the time.

Yeah it is a bit silly.

Aside from looking silly it also makes different types of players indistinguishable from each other.

"Which one's the Blitzer?"
"The one with spikes"
"They all have spikes...."

It seems the only distinguishing feature of a human blitzer is the size of the crest on the helmet and for an Orc blitzer it's just that he's running compared to the linemen who are standing?