The Bright Crusaders Hit The Blood Bowl Pitch From Forge World
April 15, 2017 by brennon
Forge World has been working on a new Human team for you to play with when you get down to some Blood Bowl. Here we have the Bright Crusaders...
These fellows are quite different from other Blood Bowl teams...
"The Bright Crusaders could be a truly great Blood Bowl team if it wasn’t for one serious handicap – they never, ever, cheat!
While other teams are preparing for the match by bribing referees, the Bright Crusaders are performing charity matches – a fact that will stop them winning a major tournament until they shape up and learn to play dirty!"
Sometimes it's nice to have a team of good guys although I imagine most of you are going to enjoy pounding them into the dirt rather than joining in on their charity performances.
You can see more of the details on this team as we close in on the details of their faces here. Inside the set, you get two Catchers, two Throwers, two Blitzers and then six Linesmen plus some additional resin parts to upgrade them to fit your own desires.
This effectively puts together the plastic set and the resin kits from Forge World. You don't have to use them as the Bright Crusaders however and you could make your own team up if you do wished.
What do you think of this set?
"...plus some additional resin parts to upgrade them to fit your own desires"
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Nice figures but are they really enough on an improvement on the basic plastic team to justify the cost? No doubt this is someone’s cup of tea, but not for me.
So these are basically the plastic kit players with a new head and torso set?
Entirely pointless when there’s a lot of teams with no minis. Also, no boosters with the missing positional players still. Blood Bowl re-release has been nothing but disappointment for me.
The new Blood Bowl teams are a mixed bunch indeed. Orcs and Skavens are great, the “Dwarf Flying Circus” are hilarious and silly and Humans are by far the worst of them all. So static and boring. And now, we can purchase boring faces to match! xD
I agree they are a mixed bunch, but I cannot stand the orcs I am luke warm on the skaven (ice cold on the rat ogre). Think the humans are ok and actually really like the dwarves having seen them.
I do like these, not something I want as I prefer my own teams, but they are nice. Separate head sprue and a 4 pack to minis to get to 16 players would be much nicer. There seem to be some very odd decision making with the blood bowl releases. To still be at 4 teams 4-5 months after release is a little odd, and those team not having full options stranger still.
Sure those look really nice but those are rather pointless release.
Sigh….another “Jazz Hands” release. I would have expected more from Forge World. If they had just made the arm poses more realistic they might have had more than a few customers (lets face it the Human Team are the most unpopular posed figures).
From the story behind them, it seems like a missed opportunity to do a Bretonnian themed team.
I like them… But they suffer from the bland positioning of the plastics they’re based on. They’re also not actually very different from the originals. Better, yes, but not dramatically different.
I also agree it’s odd that they haven’t produced miniatures to fill in the gaps.
If they are going to do several different upgrade packs – sort of like they did for Heresy Era marines, then this release makes more sense.
Alternatively, I don’t know why they don’t produce some all resin teams. They could be totally amazing.
Likely because they want the base teams all around the same price point. For a full resin team you’d be paying a minimum of twice the price. If it is FW that end up doing blisters for the positionals then you’re probably looking at three resin minis costing the same as your entire plastic team. And it seems to be GW setting the pace with releases and FW just tag on a star player.
I think the human models suffer from stunted arms. They all look short and stubby.