Using the "correct" minis

Stingger · Post by **Stingger** » Thu Oct 03, 2002 11:26 pm

Are there any tips on buying GW mini's to act as coaches, wizards etc?

Or do you just browse GW looking for what you thing would make
an appropriate figure, do people have any favourites they want to
share ???

SBG · Post by **SBG** » Fri Oct 04, 2002 4:24 am

Hi there !

In a perfect world, everybody would have a painted team with GW minis. Unfortunately, we don't live in suvch a world...

For players like me and the rest of the guys in my league who just discovered BB a couple of months ago, it's expansive to get started. Some guys can't afford buying their team, or don't want to pay 5 $ per mini plus shipping to get more than 12 on their team. Plus, they don't make those funny hooligans figs anymore !

We use what we have. I would say that 90 % of what we use is GW stuff. But if we need an extra Black Orc, we'll use the Reaper mini we have. Griff can be a Blitzer for a game. As for coaches, we use whatecer we have, we don't even care if the 12 cheerleaders on the roster sheet aren't physically there.

What's more important : play BB with friends or play BB with the proper minis ? I know what I prefer...

Fred

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Fri Oct 04, 2002 4:36 am

I like using proxies as long as they are fairly accurate. A proxy on an elf team should in fact be an elf mini. On my human team I use the Griff mini, not as a star player, but as a catcher and the Zug mini as a rookie blocker. I have been looking into some of the Gorka Orks for use on my Orc team. I love that guy with the unicycle wheel legs and the steel torso! Also the ones with mechanical legs and steel jaws will serve fine as generic orcs with character!

Thom. . .
Rescue the Zoo Crew!

Zombie · Post by **Zombie** » Fri Oct 04, 2002 5:59 am

Around here, nobody gives a damn about the miniatures. Actually, nobody had any team at all and we were all just playing with the plastic orcs and humans from the box, no matter what race we had on paper. Then i decided to go on buying figs for myself. Now i have every race in about two copies, and i just land everyone the right minis if they want, but some people still prefer to use the plastic ones because they never know when they're gonna play and they don't want to always carry the minis around. I also provide paint for anyone who wants to paint their (my) figs, but nobody has tried that yet. I have painted one (1!) chaos dwarf fig for myself so far, and i hate painting.

The whole thing is just a none issue for us. We don't play Blood Bowl for the figs. We play Blood Bowl for the strategy.

Joshua Dyal · Post by **Joshua Dyal** » Fri Oct 04, 2002 12:43 pm

Oddly enough, perhaps, I got into the Games Workshop hobby because of the miniatures, ages ago, not the games. And Blood Bowl was initially what I selected, because for the same investment in money and time that I'd spend on one army for WHFB or 40k, I could get every race for Blood Bowl. Not that I've come anywhere close to that, of course!

I also spend more time than I need putting together my teams because I like to convert them from Warhammer minis whenever possible instead of just use the stock BB minis. Except, of course, when the BB minis are better than the alternative!

Darkson · Post by **Darkson** » Fri Oct 04, 2002 8:15 pm

As it was the first time in years most of us had played BB (and the 1st time period for some) we just used whatever mini's we had to hand. Most of the coaches had access to a WFB army (except me, but I'd brought a BB Norse box years ago) so they used these to represent their team. As someone said earlier, if it comes down to playng BB with my mates or not playing cos I don't have the right figures, I know what I'd choose.

However, I do agree in a "competative" tournament I.E. like Resurrection or the Reading Spikey having the correct models is a must, as you probably won't know for oppo from Adam.

Joshua Dyal · Post by **Joshua Dyal** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 3:41 pm

See, I'd say the opposite -- in a tournament or other "one-off" situation, the correct minis aren't nearly as important, because you might be trying out something new that you don't have the minis for. As long as their clearly differentiated in some way, then you're fine. For regular long-term play, with minis you're going to be seeing every time you play, though, having the right mini is much more important to me.

Marcus · Post by **Marcus** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 4:33 pm

Rule of thumb for me is you should be making the game as easy and enjoyable for your opponent as possible. If a miniature is an accurate representation of the player, and is painted to a standard that makes it easy to differentiate, and preferably good to look at, then you've covered that rule.

We occassionally toy with a rule that an unpainted miniature can't use any new skills, they count as a rookie until painted. This gives coaches some time and a target to work to, so they at least get base colours on the minis.

May have to roll out that rule again, our human coach is starting to extract the urine....

Joshua Dyal · Post by **Joshua Dyal** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 4:34 pm

Marcus wrote:May have to roll out that rule again, our human coach is starting to extract the urine....

I have to say that I'm not familiar with that phrase...

Darkson · Post by **Darkson** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 7:25 pm

Joshua Dyal wrote:
Marcus wrote:May have to roll out that rule again, our human coach is starting to extract the urine....
I have to say that I'm not familiar with that phrase...

Extracting the urine = taking the P**S

Joshua Dyal · Post by **Joshua Dyal** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 8:51 pm

All that does is say the same thing in with different words; it still doesn't explain what the phrase means.

Unless, of course, this guy has very poor hygiene and/or social graces and plays BloodBowl in the 'loo.

Post by **Thadrin** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 8:54 pm

It means "having a joke at our expense".

Ironically, its also literally what I'm doing at work at the moment.

Darkson · Post by **Darkson** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 9:49 pm

To much information

Da Scum · Post by **Da Scum** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 4:49 am

I find the TBBF has a pretty good policy about painted figs and teams. They're flexible about the figures and allow a good amount of time painting them. Mind you we've got one character who's a legend for saying "Priming" was painting, and remained so for over six months! This same character then cried foul against another team for using "Non-GW" figures and wanted penalties assessed! Ironically, the team he called foul on happened to ALL be GW figures, they just happened to all be custom jobs.

There shouldn't be anything wrong with letting a player add a good theme and paint job to their team, even if it takes a little time. Hell it's made for some great looking teams on the pitch. But in fairness to the ones who do spend the effort there should be some incentive, or penalty, for those who don't even bother.

Valen · Post by **Valen** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 8:13 am

In our league we haven't come across this kind of problem, as all our coaches have pretty much all bought the teams they use, there are a few incidencies where we have had to use some figures to stand in, but no one seems to care.

And as for the painting, it is very time consuming, too fit it in with family life and work commitments, s we very relaxed on this, it seems to help create a very friendly atmosphere.