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Not enough tabletop gamers have access to time machines, I say.

Skaven pitch preview, thanks to War of Sigmar:



Sorry if the image is a tad big, well at least you can see some of the detailing. Since i'm linking these i'm not too sure on how to size em down.

Other side is possibly the dwarf pitch, which I have seen on twitter. The dwarf pitch looks really awesome.



edit: also going to take a moment to say, these alternate pitches better NOT be limited. I understand the winter one being a holiday thing they can do every christmas. But if everything Blood Bowl is going to be limited then i'm going to get tired of this real fast.

You guys better get ready for those limited Dwarf team dice though, don't expect those to last long.

I totally agree on the limited edition thing, if GW are stupid enough to make a lot of the Blood Bowl stuff limited I'll just by everything through third parties instead.
I'll happily buy that Skaven pitch direct, but I'm not jumping through hoops. Dice I could care less about, but pitches, teams and players shouldn't be limited.

Joyboozer wrote:
I totally agree on the limited edition thing, if GW are stupid enough to make a lot of the Blood Bowl stuff limited I'll just by everything through third parties instead.
I'll happily buy that Skaven pitch direct, but I'm not jumping through hoops. Dice I could care less about, but pitches, teams and players shouldn't be limited.

Pitches are nothing more than alternate colors on the board so as long as you have the basic one from the box, it shouldn't matter. Same with dice. Too many companies already make 3rd party versions for this to be upsetting to anyone. Now limited edition figures like cheerleaders, coaches, refs, etc. I would like to see more of as they keep interest going by collectors. Star Players probably shouldn't be limited edition stuff but resin FW models are fine.

 Breotan wrote:

Joyboozer wrote:
I totally agree on the limited edition thing, if GW are stupid enough to make a lot of the Blood Bowl stuff limited I'll just by everything through third parties instead.
I'll happily buy that Skaven pitch direct, but I'm not jumping through hoops. Dice I could care less about, but pitches, teams and players shouldn't be limited.

Pitches are nothing more than alternate colors on the board so as long as you have the basic one from the box, it shouldn't matter. Same with dice. Too many companies already make 3rd party versions for this to be upsetting to anyone. Now limited edition figures like cheerleaders, coaches, refs, etc. I would like to see more of as they keep interest going by collectors. Star Players probably shouldn't be limited edition stuff but resin FW models are fine.

Limited stuff is ordinarily fine in the case of established games, but Blood Bowl is currently "new", it has a very limited range for purchase, I know a lot of people who would drop a heap on Blood Bowl direct from GW (which is a small miracle) but there's nothing to buy.
They're seeing the limited stuff and saying nope, why bother buying in.
Blood Bowl needs an infusion of regular product.

GW don't print their own material so they will just order x number from their supplier given expected popularity and available storage. Anything like this will be limited by nature, another question is whether they will do further product runs in the future.

Nice.

That's awesome.

Any sign of prices for Zug or the Halfling/Ogre pair yet?

And that Deathroller is rather cool.

From Garro via War of Sigmar:
Morg:

Griff:

Normal Ogre (plastic I believe)

Varag Ghoul Chewer:

I really like these

The death roller is fantastic! Really like the dwarfs and I don't play BB!

 Dysartes wrote:
Any sign of prices for Zug or the Halfling/Ogre pair yet?

And that Deathroller is rather cool.

3-4 plastic teams coming out this year

Are the core rules for BB in the season 1 book?

 ImAGeek wrote:
Are the core rules for BB in the season 1 book?

No.

So you need the box for the rules?

Morg looks fantastic, much better than that other one. Griff is nice.
What the hell happened with Varag? Either it's bloody awful or that shot was taken at some dimension bending level of bad angle.

 reds8n wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:
Any sign of prices for Zug or the Halfling/Ogre pair yet?

And that Deathroller is rather cool.

3-4 plastic teams coming out this year

Are they giving any idea about which ones? Or when?

Has anyone asked about boosters for the plastic teams?

One of the plastic teams is Gobbos.

Edit: from BattleBunnies:

'Howdy Guys and Girls - Blood Bowl news!

- We will see Dwarfs in January
- We will get the Goblins in April
- Orks and Humans will get seperate releases for their sprues
- Plastic Ogre is done - maybe released in January. Plastic Troll is finished too!

- They are currently sculpting Obese for the Skavens (fat rat star player)
- Orks will get Grim Ironjaw (currently sculpted)
- Dead zone season 2 coming in April with 2 Skaven special characters (amongst more).

- There will be a Skaven booster done in Resin but with styles to match the plastic (2-3 new Gutter runners included).
- Zugg was here today (sold out quick)
- Skaven and Dwarf board is being produced now. Will be released soon.
- Snow board will be restocked soon

- Blood Bowl has done better than all GW expectations (they should listen to the community more).'

 ImAGeek wrote:
So you need the box for the rules?

In theory yes. In reality the CRP rules pdf is available online and is 99.9% the same.

So happy to hear BB has beat GWs expectations. The future is bright for Specialist Games!

Also, can't wait to get my hands on the Dwarfs and playing in a league proper.

I hope by obese they mean Vermink stink.

Yay, Boosters!

MaxT wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
So you need the box for the rules?

In theory yes. In reality the CRP rules pdf is available online and is 99.9% the same.

The rules are also available to buy in the app.

Sorry to say but specialist games have a bad touch, at least in our gaming group.
We decided not to play them in our local store. The owner charges 5 Euro per gaming day.

It looks like DeepCut have updated all their Fantasy Football fields to 34mm to match GW's designs. I've never bought from DeepCut before, but they do look nice. So if you miss out on GW's offerings, maybe check these out...

http://www.deepcutstudio.com/product-category/fantasy-football-mats/

 wuestenfux wrote:
Sorry to say but specialist games have a bad touch, at least in our gaming group.
We decided not to play them in our local store. The owner charges 5 Euro per gaming day.

One thing I like about BB is you can play it anywhere, the pitch isn't huge and doesn't cost much, so you don't need a local store with large terrain covered tables set up, just invite people round and play it at home. My kitchen table that is only big enough for a small game of WHFB or 40k is big enough to fit 2 BB pitches with dugouts and whatnot so we can easily have 4 people playing at once just on that. If we wanted we could probably pull out a couple of small trestle tables and get another couple more pitches set up.

My group is has several gamers who have sworn off GW games but I still managed to convince them to get some BB figures and start painting them.

Firstly:

@I'mAGeek - thanks for the update!

Secondly:

- Orks will get Grim Ironjaw (currently sculpted)

Am I wrong or wasn't this dude a dwarf in older editions?

 Funbug No.1 wrote:
Firstly:

@I'mAGeek - thanks for the update!

Secondly:

- Orks will get Grim Ironjaw (currently sculpted)

Am I wrong or wasn't this dude a dwarf in older editions?

Aye

Grim Ironjaw was always a slayer.

Maybe someone has got them mixed up.



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Varag Ghoul Chewer was the Orc star player on display in WW today !

Can't tell if the deathroller is resin or plastic...

3-4 plastic teams this year. So dwarves next, then goblins, anyone have any guesses as to what the others will be? I'd hope they would at least do one elf team in plastic this year.

We did see concept work for elven union and nurgle, so in theory I would think those would be the teams being worked on. The goblins had those moon helmets in the art, hopefully those transfer into model form rather well.

I honestly want to buy all of it, looks like this will be taking over as my #1 game for now. I probably won't get all the star players, as i'm not too crazy about the orc one. But everything else looks good.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 wuestenfux wrote:
Sorry to say but specialist games have a bad touch, at least in our gaming group.
We decided not to play them in our local store. The owner charges 5 Euro per gaming day.

One thing I like about BB is you can play it anywhere, the pitch isn't huge and doesn't cost much, so you don't need a local store with large terrain covered tables set up, just invite people round and play it at home. My kitchen table that is only big enough for a small game of WHFB or 40k is big enough to fit 2 BB pitches with dugouts and whatnot so we can easily have 4 people playing at once just on that. If we wanted we could probably pull out a couple of small trestle tables and get another couple more pitches set up.

My group is has several gamers who have sworn off GW games but I still managed to convince them to get some BB figures and start painting them.

BB has imploded here.
It appears that I will only play it with my nieche atm. She's 14 and very smart.
But I will opt for a local league.
I will definitely get the new dwarf box. They look awesome but the way to play them is extreme