Two New Blood Bowl Celebrities Available From Forge World
January 4, 2019 by brennon
Forge World has revealed two new special characters for you to use in your games of Blood Bowl. Both of these can be used by a variety of different teams but their main allegiance is to their Human teams.
Here's some of the background on this awesome looking character, Karla Von Kill.
"In 2483 Karla helped the Hellfires quit the backwater circuit and start hitting some of the bigger stadiums. She has proven herself a natural Blitzer, always leading the team from the front. When they came up against the Bloodskull Brutes, she coordinated the front offence to bring down both of the team’s Trolls in short order, and was awarded the position of team captain in recognition of her efforts."
She looks like an awesome player to throw into the mix, setting herself for the rush as she powers forward to tackle her foes and score a touchdown. She will play alongside Amazon, Halfling, Human, Norse teams.
Chainsaw Crazies
As well as Karla we also have Helmut Wulf. This fellow has picked up an experimental weapon for his team and has used it to good effect in many a game.
As you might imagine, a man of his stature is quite powerful in the front line of your team...
"In 2483 it is the height of the chainsaw craze and Helmut Wulf has risen to prominence as a master of his craft. In a memorable match against the now-disbanded Bogstaff Beardlings, he broke a strong cage formation single-handedly by leaping into the middle and spinning around wildly. How he survived (especially considering how very slippery it suddenly gets) is a mystery, but there’s no doubt that the man’s got style."
Helmut Wulf plays for Amazon, Chaos Renegades, Human, Lizardmen, Norse, and Vampire teams with that dangerous looking weapon in his hands.
I'm not sure if it is meant to be so but the chainsaw here looks really weird compared to the rest of the miniature. It looks a little warped. Whilst this is meant to be a warped and well-used weapon I think as part of the miniature it just doesn't work for me.
What do you make of these new Star Players?
"...setting herself for the rush as she powers forward to tackle her foes and score a touchdown"
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yeah that chainsaw is shite, and I don’t think the paint job helps any. If people want to see what they should have done google Nobbla Blackwart, a chainsaw wielding goblin from 26 years ago that is a far better sculpt than fatlad here.
This.
Or they could have used a 40k Chainsword… like this:
(on the far right)
Those look really good but not enough to make me pay what FW asks from those because it’s far too much from those.
Karla looks good, but I’m not sure if she is that good to make me pay forgeworld prices. Maybe it’s the angle or paintjob but the Helmut miniature looks really poor.
I’m loving the look of Karla, think I’ll get her even if its just to paint 🙂
Another thumbs down for the chainsaw guy. I like a fat not-so-mini now and then – tabletop games of all things should have realistic body standards 🙂 but that chainsaw is not so good. The goblin one wasn’t much good either.
Karla looks great but Helmut’s chainsaw and paintjob are bad.
Karla von kill would make a good alternative flash ?
like a female Jay Garrick ^^
There must definitely be a trainee in the Forge World painting team. Between Mr Chainsaw here and that manky looking HH Space Wolf there’s been a slip in quality. That said, the Space Wolf mini looked pretty decent when I saw the unpainted version. I’ll wait and see can bare resin save this guy too.
Forge world paint jobs for the display and promo models are not very good overall. They don’t seem to have or lack a single standard like ‘Eavy Metal or the Army painting team does in GW. These models would look so much better if the ‘Eavy Metal team did them.