Death Zone season 2, what might be
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 6:53 pm
I think its about time to speculate on what comes next for the world of bloodbowl. We have had time to digest the new rules and Christmas dinner, and process the New Years day hangover, so we should be ready. Now some people here know more about this than they can let on, but hey the rest of us can play
What we have so far
So far we have had the new box set, DZ 1 and Skaven team, with the Dwarf team to follow. Persuably we have other teams to be released from the DZ 1 supplement to be released. If they followed a schedule of one a month that would fill up half a year. And it seems logical to release all the teams from DZ 1 before the release of DZ 2. The urgency of DZ 2 is lessened by the release of the Teams of Legend PDF.
If there was one team that is going to be last for release from this batch I think it will be High Elf, for two reasons. Not much love in the fluff and an article on conversion featuring HE linked on bloodbowl.com, "here kids while you wait a long time for these why not try this..." I am not prejudice I love HE but as I already have a complete HE team, I will be using my resources to fill in the gaps in my library. So no loss to me personally.
What next
So DZ 2, i think a safe bet here is more teams. But which one? Some posters mentioned a while back that Chaos would get something special and that team releases would be theemed. So this could be a potential, with regular chaos, the cyanide Khorne team, we already have nurgle, but what else? A demon team? The other gods Slannesh and Tzench? These would be completly new to us. From the teams of legend we have the Norse who are maybe Chaotic humans, so have an outside chance. Chaos Dwarves have chaos right there in the name. But of all the old teams that they made models for this would seem to be the most vulnerable, for lack of support in the warhammer world, and no miniatures for conversion. But I still expect to see the team at some point, I live in hope. Chaos renegade team, again chaos is in the name and all the minatures available in other ranges by then if goblins come out (see below)
I think an outside choice here is goblins miniatures , their release allows 3 new teams, goblins, chaos renegades and underworld, that they specifically added to the Teams of Legend list. Plus they can be used on an Orc roster. This way you have a reason for people who have purchased Skaven or Orcs to spend some money. Underworld seems kind of Chaosy to me with all the mutation stuff. But maybe instead of releasing a whole team, they release a smaller pack of goblins to go on the other teams and revisist goblin teams later with the release of all the secret weapon players.
Another theme area is the undead. With the undead, necromantic, Khermi and Vampire team. That set clearly go together. But 4 seems too few, and a little limited in scope and play style, but I dont know which other fits naturally.
Lizards go with Amazons and Amazons pair with Norse, and if you make Lizards do you add Slann making a new team?
That leaves Ogres and halflings with maybe goblins. With special weapons distribution to other races? Plus we have the left over Bretonians from BB 2. But will they add that team, i dont know.
Rule addition.
First the missing things still to add, the most obvious being inducements notably wizards.
We also have the Major tournaments, with them mentioned and possible rewards indicated, but under the new league rules system from DZ 1 they would have to be updated.
Now this one is where I go out on a limb. DZ1 states that " this is one way to a league" which presumably means there are others, and maybe, maybe they will give us a different league setup. The options here are perpetual bloodbowl, or open bloodbowl like the 3rd ed rules for league play, which would tie more into the Major tournament play maybe. Or going back to what i saw posted previously, specialised leagues for certain subsets of teams, Chaos, stunties.....
Other less consequential stuff would seem to be more famous team rosters to play with. And we will getting more star players along the way.
It seems logical there will be more special play cards, with a group called magic items appearing at some point. But I wonder how they will be released.
Note all of this is conditional on bloodbowl selling in sufficient numbers to get continued support.
Of the new release I will get all the rules supplements, I will add some teams to my collection, but not all of them. I would like dwarfs, as I use to own one but gave it away to a friend who painted them "while between jobs" and I would like a Skaven team and a different elf team to add more agility to my collection. Beyond that I have a nice range of stuff, so I dont need many more teams, but I would like more. Mission two is to have some of the people I got to play bloodbowl aquire their own teams, maybe pointing them towards some of the gaps in my range for the variety.
Now what do others think? Or what have I missed?
What we have so far
So far we have had the new box set, DZ 1 and Skaven team, with the Dwarf team to follow. Persuably we have other teams to be released from the DZ 1 supplement to be released. If they followed a schedule of one a month that would fill up half a year. And it seems logical to release all the teams from DZ 1 before the release of DZ 2. The urgency of DZ 2 is lessened by the release of the Teams of Legend PDF.
If there was one team that is going to be last for release from this batch I think it will be High Elf, for two reasons. Not much love in the fluff and an article on conversion featuring HE linked on bloodbowl.com, "here kids while you wait a long time for these why not try this..." I am not prejudice I love HE but as I already have a complete HE team, I will be using my resources to fill in the gaps in my library. So no loss to me personally.
What next
So DZ 2, i think a safe bet here is more teams. But which one? Some posters mentioned a while back that Chaos would get something special and that team releases would be theemed. So this could be a potential, with regular chaos, the cyanide Khorne team, we already have nurgle, but what else? A demon team? The other gods Slannesh and Tzench? These would be completly new to us. From the teams of legend we have the Norse who are maybe Chaotic humans, so have an outside chance. Chaos Dwarves have chaos right there in the name. But of all the old teams that they made models for this would seem to be the most vulnerable, for lack of support in the warhammer world, and no miniatures for conversion. But I still expect to see the team at some point, I live in hope. Chaos renegade team, again chaos is in the name and all the minatures available in other ranges by then if goblins come out (see below)
I think an outside choice here is goblins miniatures , their release allows 3 new teams, goblins, chaos renegades and underworld, that they specifically added to the Teams of Legend list. Plus they can be used on an Orc roster. This way you have a reason for people who have purchased Skaven or Orcs to spend some money. Underworld seems kind of Chaosy to me with all the mutation stuff. But maybe instead of releasing a whole team, they release a smaller pack of goblins to go on the other teams and revisist goblin teams later with the release of all the secret weapon players.
Another theme area is the undead. With the undead, necromantic, Khermi and Vampire team. That set clearly go together. But 4 seems too few, and a little limited in scope and play style, but I dont know which other fits naturally.
Lizards go with Amazons and Amazons pair with Norse, and if you make Lizards do you add Slann making a new team?
That leaves Ogres and halflings with maybe goblins. With special weapons distribution to other races? Plus we have the left over Bretonians from BB 2. But will they add that team, i dont know.
Rule addition.
First the missing things still to add, the most obvious being inducements notably wizards.
We also have the Major tournaments, with them mentioned and possible rewards indicated, but under the new league rules system from DZ 1 they would have to be updated.
Now this one is where I go out on a limb. DZ1 states that " this is one way to a league" which presumably means there are others, and maybe, maybe they will give us a different league setup. The options here are perpetual bloodbowl, or open bloodbowl like the 3rd ed rules for league play, which would tie more into the Major tournament play maybe. Or going back to what i saw posted previously, specialised leagues for certain subsets of teams, Chaos, stunties.....
Other less consequential stuff would seem to be more famous team rosters to play with. And we will getting more star players along the way.
It seems logical there will be more special play cards, with a group called magic items appearing at some point. But I wonder how they will be released.
Note all of this is conditional on bloodbowl selling in sufficient numbers to get continued support.
Of the new release I will get all the rules supplements, I will add some teams to my collection, but not all of them. I would like dwarfs, as I use to own one but gave it away to a friend who painted them "while between jobs" and I would like a Skaven team and a different elf team to add more agility to my collection. Beyond that I have a nice range of stuff, so I dont need many more teams, but I would like more. Mission two is to have some of the people I got to play bloodbowl aquire their own teams, maybe pointing them towards some of the gaps in my range for the variety.
Now what do others think? Or what have I missed?