Blood Bowl Teams

igirisujin

igirisujin

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In July, I focused my painting on a Blood Bowl Skaven team that I bought in the late 80s. This is the first time that they have had paint on them. I have given them a minotaur as a big guy, in the modern game he will be used as a rat ogre but in 2nd ed the Kingsbury Critters will be supported by Jim `Bully` Bowen the minotaur blitzer.

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Noice! Plenty of subs too. I think this is my favourite era of skaven blood bowl models, the hoods and mail facemasks are great. Tasty colour scheme and lush grass your team has got.
 
Nice looking team. Bought in the 80s and painted only now? That's a long time for them to wait to see some action on the pitch, let's hope they perform well!
 
This is a lovely team. I remember the original White Dwarf advert had the Skaven team in red and yellow strips, so this is spot on. No rules for rat ogres in 2nd Edition as you say - I just use the "normal" ogre rules with mine- but wonder if anyone retconned any stats from later editions.
 
Geroak II said:
Nice looking team. Bought in the 80s and painted only now? That's a long time for them to wait to see some action on the pitch, let's hope they perform well!
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Don’t pile shame! Have you seen most folks collections? Unpainted minis never stopped a game when I was younger… ;)
 
I've seen my collection and am not proud...
Though maybe I should've chosen my words better as I didn't mean my comment as a bad thing (even if it's scientifically proven fact that painted minis perform better). :grin:
 
Geroak II said:
it's scientifically proven fact that painted minis perform better
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That, good sir, is hokum. Instead, a series of scientific experiments has proven conclusively that proudly adding a recently finished and especially nice mini to a force or team will see that very same mini fail a very basic task and die a horrendous death right at the onset of the game.
Also, when it comes to Bloodbowl, unpainted positionals will always outperform painted linemen.
 
Well I say, we must have been reading the same scientific publications as I can confirm your point being partially correct.
However, my take on this is it only underlines need of adding more than one newly painted miniature to existing team/warband/army or by whatever name the game you are playing happens to reference your miniatures as.

While most optimal situation would be, in case of Bloodbowl, a whole team of freshly painted minis, I've learned from reliable sources that, and this might sound unbelievable and borderline insane but, initial testing has given good results with as few as two newly painted miniatures.
In such case it's still of utmost importance that neither mini is of same type or subgroup (in Bloodbowl, for example, one blitzer and one lineman should work just fine).
Would love to share the source but these are only preliminary results and as an ongoing study it's being kept very hush-hush for now, which is understandable considering this could prove to be a nobel prize worthy breakthrough in field of wargaming. ;)

On your second point... I take your word for it. :)
 
I've been frequenting Bloodbowl tournaments for almost 20 years. There used to be one held in summer called the B7. And the saying was:
'You shop up at B7 with pied hands' meaning that every year people would strive to bring ever better-looking and impressive teams (and later on even stadia) or at least some stellar new additions to last years' champs and typically would finish these paint-jobs the night before the tourney and show up with paint residue still on their hands and nails so to speak.
Now, your allegedly 'reliable sources' would claim that with so many nicely (and veeery recently) done-up teams, there would be a lot of stellar plays and matches ending 5-4 on a last-turn nailbiter.
B7 also handed out custome dice to everyone, with the 'B7' logo replacing the 'one' pip. In BB, it's never good to roll a 1 so everyone quipped about rolling 7's. Those in on it would comment such disastrous rolls with mocking jeers of "SEEEEVEN". And all weekend long, that cry went up and on and on. Nobody did well.
Wait, no, that guy who brought his brother's chipped and slathered old skaven team beat his beautiful opponent into complete submittance, eight-nil.
So, and I say this without any ill-will, sir, you and your 'reliable sources' on multiple new minis can shove your reasearch results where the monkey puts his peanuts.
 
Here is my second completed Blood Bowl team. The Morien Storm Warriors a 2nd edition Dark elf team sculpted by Michael Perry. I have added a couple of daemonettes to act as witch elves in the newest version of the game. Now that I have two teams painted I am going to see if anyone fancies a game.

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That's a nice rich purple and I like the addition of the daemonettes, they elevate the team a bit from the "Elves, but with different armour" syndrome that some of the Dark Elves slightly suffered from. I look forward to reading the game write-ups! :)
 
Eric said:
That's a nice rich purple and I like the addition of the daemonettes, they elevate the team a bit from the "Elves, but with different armour" syndrome that some of the Dark Elves slightly suffered from. I look forward to reading the game write-ups! :)
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Thanks, I need to get a copy of the game, so I probably won`t get a game until mid-September. My 2nd edition game is in my younger brother`s house in Dover, so I might just order the newest version to see how they play. I do have 1st edition here and could try them, but on my first reading I wasn`t drawn in by them.
 
I wonder if the "living rulebook" is still a thing? I have half a memory of something existing during BB's twilight years. 2nd edition is where my BB heart is, although to be fair I expect subsequent editions probably have tightened up the gameplay. I only ever played up to to 3rd edition and even then generally tried to encourage friends to stick with 2nd!
 
Eric said:
I wonder if the "living rulebook" is still a thing? I have half a memory of something existing during BB's twilight years. 2nd edition is where my BB heart is, although to be fair I expect subsequent editions probably have tightened up the gameplay. I only ever played up to to 3rd edition and even then generally tried to encourage friends to stick with 2nd!
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I am with you. 2nd edition is the game of my choice, I like the freedom to build the team as I like. I don`t really want to buy a second copy when I know that my stuff is sitting in my brother`s house. That is why I am leaning towards the new version.
 
Eric said:
I wonder if the "living rulebook" is still a thing?
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Yes, in a way.
If I may refresh your memory, the 'living rulebook' was an ongoing project by some guys called the 'Blood Bowl Rules Committee' (BBRC). When GW dropped any and all support of Bloodbowl, players started congregating on the internet, playing a home-made online version and discussing endlessly over which rules should be tweaked, nerfed or whatever. Once a year, they published their efforts in an update. Mr Jervis Johnson, inventor and designer of BB, had kind of an interest in the BBRC, ties were made and by the end, they operated in a kind of tolerated 'grey area' which would be unthinkable for modern slick corp GW.
Eventually, GW decided that they might end up doing something with BB anyway, so they gave a private and sincere 'Thank you and now goodbye' to the BBRC and published the final result of all the playtesting and tweaking, nerfing and whatnot as the 'Blood Bowl Competition Rules Pack' which was indeed the gold standard for BB tourneys as had the LRB been before.
For helping to keep the game alive and update the rules, the BBRC got a big - well, nothing. Back in 2010, this ruffled quite a few feathers, especially once it became aparent that any and all contributions that would be traceable to the BBRC (such as names for new Starplayers) were wiped from the CRP. GW simply pretended that the BBRC never existed which of course also mneant that they didn't sue their asses off for publishing branded material on the internet for years and years.
Aaanyway, the CRP is still available right here:


I'd personally suggest it as the best version of BB there is. It sure isn't perfect but whatever one wishes to put in there will probably fit. There certainly wouldn't be much of a problem mix-matching any and all players from different teams for a special home-brew team (unless somone were obviously min-maxing, which of course can be fun too if both players are into it). All the fun and excitement from 3rd ed without any of the ultra-brutal broken stuff around, great for league play and tourney games alike, I name the CRP a keeper.

Edit: and I completely forgot to commend the use of Demonettes as bitch elves. Was planning on using Wardancers or Harlequins for mine, now I'm not so sure.
 
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