All kinds of everything remind me of Blood Bowl!

[sundancer 42925xp 0]

I don’t know… feels a bit like an unnecessary arms race but I just took a short glimpse.

[blinky465 17028xp 2]

For me, the whole idea of “tournament, matched play” Blood Bowl is unnecessary –

I’d go so far to say it goes against the whole point of the game. It’s supposed to be a fun satire; it’s meant to be unbalanced. There are teams that are hopelessly underpowered (who plays a snotling team to win?) and sometimes the best acheivement you can hope for is not to win, but maybe throw your team-mate into the end zone for a spectacular touchdown.

Trying to make a “tournament” game balanced just feels like it’s squashing all the outrageous fun and silliness out of the game. I got into Blood Bowl because of the fluff and nonsense around it – the actual game itself is… well, let’s be honest, it can be a bit tedious. To reduce the game down to maximising player stats to grind out a win feels like missing the whole point of Blood Bowl (at, tbh, games in general!)

 

[rickabod41Participant 9256xp 0]

@blinky465 Totally agree. I attended the Full Beard Cup at Warhammer World last October, and there was a sense of definite fun about it (even though there was rules and caps in place), this seems a bit over the top.

And also, I am not sure in any tournament you could afford to run 2 star players anyway if one of them is Griff – just to darned expensive! So adding further limits seems silly.

[rickabod41Participant 9256xp 0]

Bryce

Gobbos

More star players, think we are just missing Grashnak and the other 6 from the last almanac now.

Don’t care for the Bryce one (but it might just be the green overpowering everything else), the Gobbos look super fun however.

[doomzombie 5478xp 2]

I have loved BB and DB, from my first games. I play undead in BB, and play a Ork, Gobbo and Troll team in DB. Not played in a while, but that will be getting amended in the near future.

[wolfie65Participant 1230xp 2]

As far as I’m concerned, the second edition of Blood Bowl was the coolest and most visually appealing, but the rules were kind of a mess, scattered over many different publications and often contradictory – which may have had something to do with the fact that the game was published during GW’s most creative phase, the late 80s and early 90s.

3rd edition was the most playable, while still having lots of very nice minis, I haven’t seen much GW have made since about 2000 that I wanted to buy and that includes Blood Bowl.

[rickabod41Participant 9256xp 1]

Withergrasp Doubledrool

Most admit this fella looks great! I really loved the original 2nd edition one, but his looks more fun!

[sundancer 42925xp 1]

The model is probably be a proper PITA to assemble.

[rickabod41Participant 9256xp 2]

@sundancer not going to lie the one bit of the hobby I hate is actually sticking stuff together! Doesn’t matter how simple or complicated the assembly is meant to be, I can guarantee within in minutes I will be throwing stuff down in a mood!

Assembly, Undercoating, basing – hate it!

Side note – also just noticed the original Withergrasp had a tail – (he even still has the prehensile tail skill), but the model doesn’t.

I bought the Willy Miniature version of Doubledrool years ago from their Kickstarter and he didn’t have a tail either – (I used an old Skaven tail and glued it on him).  I am assuming that the the number of tentacles is just meant to represent how tricky he is to get away from, and he just has the prehensile tail skill to really hammer that home, as opposed to actually having a tail?

[somegeezer 18431xp 1]

So a prehensile tail attached to his shoulder. I appreciate that at least in the interest of simplicity in special rules ?

[rickabod41Participant 9256xp 1]

just strikes me as odd – we have saw a few homages to old minis in a lot of GW’s products lately – Nobbla in Blood Bowl as an example, and the most recent Dante in 40K looking pretty much like his mini from decades ago.

This fella seems a total departure from the original design – not against it but it just seems weird not to give him tail ha ha

Be like redoing Galem Goreblade and giving him a face, or Dieter Hammerlash and giving him an actual head rather than a face torso.

[somegeezer 18431xp 1]

I think retro is the way to go. I’m sure there are new Blood bowl fans out there but the nostalgia factor is sky high – especially with the Forge World releaaes.

[rickabod41Participant 9256xp 1]

@somegeezer totally agree! I have banged on about this before, but GW need to up their game when it comes to churning out old star players. They would make (More of) a fortune with Forgeworld releases of some of the 2nd Edition Star Players.

I get BB is quite niche compared to 40K etc. but BB is still huge in over parts of Europe. When I was at the Full Beard cup last year there was a fella who had come from Sweden to play!

And the BB World Cup in Spain this year is looking like its going to have a huge turn out.

So yeah, redesigns of retro star players in Resin is the way to go!

RORSPIR for short….

[somegeezer 18431xp 1]

It’s certainly niche, but that’s what forge world is for. I have Morg’n Thorg waiting for me to finish my orcs and heck he’s a great mini. That purchase was exactly that – nostalgia for the 90s one I have upstairs.

[rickabod41Participant 9256xp 1]

@somegeezer I think I like the Morg one purely just because he has his 80’s Mohawk back that they abandoned for awhile!

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