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The ball is too big even on the human team minis. The ones actually held by the catcher and thrower are significantly smaller.
Would have been nice to have some 'conversion' balls on the sprue.
'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
whats to stop a few persons from rampantly cheating?
What would be the point of cheating by submitting games that didn't occur?
'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
What would be the point of cheating by submitting games that didn't occur?
There's a trophy at the end, Games take 3 hours to play, you want to see your team higher on the list than someone elses...really...people will cheat for the most inane reasons.
With this set up. Me and 4 buddies could just make up games and then pop on down to our store and be the best group of players in the country
I just registered(I did it for the LULZ) and called all the stores running leagues in my AO(5 stores). 2 Had no one answer the phone, 1Had a lady that had no idea when the league would start, 1 had another lady say "maybe in Feb., I don't know for sure." The last, I made a plan to play some guy on Saturday morning.
What would be the point of cheating by submitting games that didn't occur?
There's a trophy at the end, Games take 3 hours to play, you want to see your team higher on the list than someone elses...really...people will cheat for the most inane reasons.
With this set up. Me and 4 buddies could just make up games and then pop on down to our store and be the best group of players in the country
The store owners are in charge of putting the results in, so if you come in and say "oh yeah I played 30 games this weekend and won them all, put it in", they'll probably tell you to frak off. Sigmar's Season of War was worldwide with results as well (though admittedly no prizes other than glory), and they store owners did a pretty good job of regulating things. They probably also don't want to piss off GW and then tarnish their relationship.
I mean, it could still happen, and I'm sure someone will try it, but still.
Cool, registered my Skaven team - gives me this weekend to sort out my Ratogres, and I'll see what matches I can arrange. The Special Play promo cards look decent enough a would like to collect a full set. I'll only have time for maybe 2 matches per week, but... gotta show support for these games!
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I rather like he goblin ref rules as well - I recall something like that happening in the videogame (which might have been the inspiration!). The halfling... Not quite as interesting.
I just wish they would hurry up and start rolling out the star players. But in that note, I was in Nottingham for a meeting yesterday, swung by Warhammer World for the first time, and managed to pick up the last Grak and Crumbleberry pair! Definitely needs a little errata (too cheap by far, and the unique skill needs a little tweaking, they've even forgot to mark either as 'Loner'!), but the figures are gorgeous, and you can see where they are coming from with their playing style. ^_^ here's hoping they design plenty of new star players for this edition (but no more near-impossible-to-get exclusives, more timed-limited like the refs)
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I wonder what the chances are of them casting up some of the old metal teams and star players as a gap fill, weird they're offering the service for some things, but not for blood bowl where at the moment, it's sorely needed.
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Souleater wrote: I would rather see the rest of basic teams come out before they start working on Star Players.
Personally I only really care about the basic teams, I'm pretty "meh" on Star Players, but they'll probably use the star players as fillers to stretch out releases.
Some teams I think are difficult to convert and I'd like to see those ones updated. Lizardmen for example, though I'm probably biased on that one
Might be a newbie question, but is there an actual "tier listing" for BB? I keep eyeing up teams but I'm not sure if there are ones that are actually bad and lose more than they win, or are bad for league play.
Requizen wrote: Might be a newbie question, but is there an actual "tier listing" for BB? I keep eyeing up teams but I'm not sure if there are ones that are actually bad and lose more than they win, or are bad for league play.
Plenty of people put the teams into tiers, nothing concrete though, a google search can find you plenty of opinions on this matter.
Not all teams are balanced against each other.
It is harder to win with Halflings, Gobbos, Vampires, Underworld and Ogres, I only play these teams for fun, not competitively.
Requizen wrote: Might be a newbie question, but is there an actual "tier listing" for BB? I keep eyeing up teams but I'm not sure if there are ones that are actually bad and lose more than they win, or are bad for league play.
Plenty of people put the teams into tiers, nothing concrete though, a google search can find you plenty of opinions on this matter.
Not all teams are balanced against each other.
It is harder to win with Halflings, Gobbos, Vampires, Underworld and Ogres, I only play these teams for fun, not competitively.
I would consider Dwarves to be just about the best team out there. All players (except runner) start with block which is a major advantage. The also have high armor so it's harder to lose players. Berserkers can level the field against high strength teams, and all the line dwarves have tackle which hurts the fast agile teams.
LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13
I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14
Requizen wrote: Might be a newbie question, but is there an actual "tier listing" for BB? I keep eyeing up teams but I'm not sure if there are ones that are actually bad and lose more than they win, or are bad for league play.
Plenty of people put the teams into tiers, nothing concrete though, a google search can find you plenty of opinions on this matter.
Not all teams are balanced against each other.
It is harder to win with Halflings, Gobbos, Vampires, Underworld and Ogres, I only play these teams for fun, not competitively.
I would consider Dwarves to be just about the best team out there. All players (except runner) start with block which is a major advantage. The also have high armor so it's harder to lose players. Berserkers can level the field against high strength teams, and all the line dwarves have tackle which hurts the fast agile teams.
I would say they are the best team at low Team value definitely, because of the block on them all and decent armour.
I would not say they the best team out there though, their restricted movement is a big disadvantage which makes it easy for the fast agile teams to get around them.
I get a lot of my elves knocked out by them, but I win more than i lose, I also see well coached skaven and lizard men teams do well against them often.
Chaos teams seem to trump them blocking wise at high TV too, as they can get claw and four ST4 players.
YMMV though ofc, the only thing I can say for sure is that gobbos, flings, Ogres and Vampires can be horrible at times and I would not advise a new player to play them.
Well I have backed the cmon Kickstarter SMOG and it won't ship till next year, but I think I'll have a new bloodbowl team from it. Clowns/goblins
LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13
I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14
What is the status on mighty blow now? Noticed that the wording in the rulebook implied decision, that it wasn't automatic anymore. I've heard this interpretation from some players. Do you decide in advance, or it applies after?
I've never heard of needing to "call" MB in advance.
Can you elaborate?
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feeder wrote: I've never heard of needing to "call" MB in advance.
Can you elaborate?
Can't remember if it's in the book, but we always played that you had to say if you were adding the +1 to armor break or injury before you rolled the armor break test. That's probably what he's referring to.
LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13
I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14
feeder wrote: I've never heard of needing to "call" MB in advance.
Can you elaborate?
Can't remember if it's in the book, but we always played that you had to say if you were adding the +1 to armor break or injury before you rolled the armor break test. That's probably what he's referring to.
"New" wording seems to make that clear as well, at least that was my impression of the rule. Combo with claw is cheap enough as it is without letting you hedge Mighty Blow.
I've seen this rule mistaken many times before GW's Blood Bowl 2016. But back then I knew the answer, MB applies automaticly (once) to where applicable.
Actually I did forget to compare, seems the texts are practically identical. So Mighty Blow works as before.
However, it does not stack with Claw on armor (8+, not 7+). It will however apply to injury if armor roll was 8+ with Claw. Also Piling On now works with both Claw and Mighty Blow, but you still have to use team re-roll to use it.
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