Hello, I have just recently found my way back to Blood Bowl (left during 3rd edition and came back a couple month’s ago. I’ve been trying to catch up to what’s happened during the time I was gone. So far the Official things that changed are: LRB is now the up-to-date rule book; Amazon, Norse and Lizardmen are official teams; The Random Event cards have been replaced with a weak Handicap table; Fouling is a lot harder and with no gain; and some miscellaneous rules have been tweaked. Of all of these I really like: the LRB, Fouls weakened, and the Lizardman team. I don’t mind the Amazon, and Norse but they seem very blank and with no flavor. Amazons = don’t ever fall over, and Norse = Casualties for everyone! I don’t really like the Handicap table as I think it’s a little to weak (you gain a roll by being down 10TR. That’s 100k so either 2 Rerolls or a player should be lost, but some of the results are as lame as That Babes Got Talent!.
Now I’ve been hearing about a ton of experimental and semi-official stuff like: 3 new Undead teams replacing the old one; Lone Chaos team variant; Single Big Guy team; Elves that hit!; Secret Weapons; New miniatures; and a bunch of vaguely mentioned articles from the magazines. I don’t like the new undead teams for various reason that I’ll list for you, but you probable won’t read
. The Khemri team tries having the most Strength on a team, but where quickly surpassed by the Ogres. The Khemri also have very ugly figs IMO. The Necro seems like JJ tried to make a team that was unhealable, Unmovable, Unskillable, and the only player worth letting the ball touch has a 0-1 position slot. I have not heard or seen anything about the Necro teams figs (will probable just go buy some Halloween props). The Vampires seem like the worst of all the Undead teams. I don’t understand why they where added, what niche they fill, or how they are even remotely balanced. I also have yet to see any Vampire figs (I hope they look like BB players and Not Count Chocula; a.k.a. Von Drakenburgh). The Nurgle’s Rotters team looks like they took a Chaos team gave the warriors FA, and made up a really stupid Big Guy and called it a team. I won the teams mini’s at a tournament and am now offering them as a prize in the FUMBBL league because I think I will never use them (I don’t like the rotters and think Chaos Warriors look much better, and they come with only 3! Rotters). The Ogre team I think was released just to prove you can have more strength on a team then the Khemri, and to cause the goblin team to be useless (I think I may have heard the roster is being changed not even a month after it came out). The mini’s on the other hand look fantastic. I haven’t heard much about the elf team only that it’s sapposed to be a “hitty” elf team. Is the whole new elf team female and do they look like the picture in this thread? If thats a "hitty" elf team I must be going insane. Whats with every new team coming out and being more bashy then all the others? I sure hope the elves don’t look like this: 6347 Block G,A. That would surpass all the new teams in Beardyness, along with coping (like Nurgles-Chaos, and Ogre-goblin), but with both trumping Norse and Amazons.
Seeing how the game is still almost the same as when I left and all the teams officially added (Amazon, Norse, Lizardmen) are virtually balanced, though I have a discrepinsy with Norse and Amazon.
In the end I think JJ and the Rules Review Guys will not let to outrageous of teams into the LRB, or I'll be going back to the 3rd edition days when every league had 3001 house rules.
If you read my whole post, well you must not have a whole lot to do in your free time
Yeah, Pariah, I can see how a lot of the female figs aren't "realistic", but they're still not as bad as most of the females on fantasy book covers. Most of that stuff is utter crap.
