Talk Fantasy Football

Folks,

I've read about the latest changes at Fanatic, and I haven't seen anyone say which Blood Bowl releases will still come out.

Jervis says the release schedule will move ahead until next June, and whatever they were planning to release will come out. But I'm not sure what that means. Is it all the minis which were being planned, or just the ones set to come out by next June?

Now, we know the new Dwarf secret weapons are coming out.

What about...

-The new Human team
-The new Skaven team
-The Skeleton chainsaw
-The Dark Elves (assassins?)
-The Skaven assassin

Anyone know?

humans are coming out spring time iirc

rest don't have a clue

never heard of a new skaven team, is this a rumour or are there pics of greens?

rumour .. I think we can forget about those tbh ..

I hear there's a 7th chaos dwarf...........wait wrong thread

Dave wrote:rumour .. I think we can forget about those tbh ..

thought so, but I think I've seen everything else on that list (unless I imagined the dark elves)

yup .. the rest exists ..

I've got one of the delfs in my mini case actually ..

The skaven was a price at the BUBBLE (draco got it)

Never seen the skelleton outside the GW store in N'ham ..

yeah we gave away 2 of the rats at the ACC so I know that one exisits

So the answer is...

Humans in the spring, and everything else is a guess?

I believe it was stated soemwhere by GW that the minis that were going to be originally planned to be released up to next summer would still go ahead, so if humans were going to be released in spring, I would presume the SW minis were going to be the summer releases (I believe that I read somewhere that the SWs wrer going to be released sometime in 2005, but I could be wrong).

TBH i'm not bothered now whether they ever see the light of day or not. Its already been 12 months since we saw the first Greens of these models, and The Secret Weapons were on display at the BloodBowl, and i'm getting sick of waiting for them, it was only about 18 months ago when JJ was spouting about how all the teams were going to be redone and mention of a Portable BloodBowl table etc, etc.

The amount of time that Fanatic had/have taken to release these models are absolutely ridiculous. No wonder they have or have had their problems.

Still they managed to produce that best selling mini the Ogre Cheerleader, which probably took up enough resources for Half of a human team, and of course the 8 foot Tall Hubrius Rakarth . is it any wonder GW pulled the plug

The Deathroller was given away at Spiky 2004, and the dark Elf Secret weapons at Spiky 2003 . if i remember correctly.

Hiopefully we can rely on the likes of Phigs,Shadowforge and Heresy to fill the gap that GW/Fanatic cannot or isn't prepared to fill

I'm really irritated by this lack of quality control: can't they order the sculpt designers to stick to one scale? Why they can't try to get some coherence in the style. Some are fine, some are uterly horribly, some are too small, some are gigantious. Even when I don't like 3rd ed minis too much, they had all the same feel (regardless if you liked that feel or not), the same goes for 2nd ed.

Couldn't agree more

narkotic wrote:I'm really irritated by this lack of quality control: can't they order the sculpt designers to stick to one scale? Why they can't try to get some coherence in the style. Some are fine, some are uterly horribly, some are too small, some are gigantious. Even when I don't like 3rd ed minis too much, they had all the same feel (regardless if you liked that feel or not), the same goes for 2nd ed.

Agree completly, still think I will always prefer the 2ed feel, but anything that had a cohesive scale throughout the entire line would be nice. After seeing the Deathroller in person at Underworld it would make an amazing display piece but looks completly impractical for game play. I guess they wanted to make sure it could run over one of the new ogres.

Back on topic
GWUS has preorders for the dwarf weapons with a release of Dec
Last I heard the Human team was May
I assume the other weapons will be inbetween there sometime.

Count Zappa wrote:-The Skeleton chainsaw
-The Dark Elves (assassins?)
-The Skaven assassin

The pics are on the GW French website. Date of release: January 5th.