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I saw this image of the CD team linked on Warseer tonight

Edit: They are conversions?



Via: https://scentofagamer.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/blood-bowl-returns-to-facebook/

From BB on FB

Yeah those are conversions from the FW Chaos Dwarves.

number9dream wrote:
I completely gave up on GW around this time last year... now I take a quick peak back at dakka and see a blood bowl re-release, specialist games coming back, a 40k FAQ, points for AoS (as well as really cool looking faction books)... what a difference a year makes.

this

via

https://twitter.com/Imperial_Truth

Nice work there reds8n.

Loving that Skaven.

Can't wait for this!

Imperial Truth on Twitter

The skaven thrower looks awesome.

Wait....is Forgeworld doing Bloodbowl minis!??!!!??

Alas, my poor wallet....

saw them setting up...

the guys at shop mentioned the marstadon and stormbird too.... next book may be prosparo, so Magnus, Russ, saw a pic of Russ Mini on guys phone. looks impressive.

i went to buy a BAC kit, and well might as well buy at source.

Orcs>Skaven>>>humans?dwarves

Now gimme Chaos, Nurgle, Woodies, Lizzardmen, Vamps, Norse and Undead!

 SlaveToDorkness wrote:
Wait....is Forgeworld doing Bloodbowl minis!??!!!??

Alas, my poor wallet....

The specialist games studio (and the Middle Earth team)mare part of Forge World now.

Binabik15 wrote:
Orcs>Skaven>>>humans?dwarves

Now gimme Chaos, Nurgle, Woodies, Lizzardmen, Vamps, Norse and Undead!

Yeah, Im tired of all this talk about blood bowl skaven humans and whatever, it just goes on and on like the horus heresy.
They really need to move faster to keep up with fanbase attention span.
/sarcasm.

Yes, it's prepesterous to be excited about teams that have been lacking new models for over a decade but have enough demand that probably a dozen or more companies make alternatives of varying quality.

Did a troll vomit into your cereal or what.

 ImAGeek wrote:
Yeah those are conversions from the FW Chaos Dwarves.

Thank goodness, because they look like

I'm looking forward to the rerelease but I really do hope its successful enough to justify enough continued support to get all the old teams out. I'm only marginally interested in the Human team, and not at all interested in the Orc team.

Yeah,
What would be really useful is a empty hand sprue for converting the thousands of WHFB figures that exist!

panic...

According to FW the BB starter set has been finished and is now shipped to GW's depots - release date will be December 2016

This COULD be the box



Photo and info from

http://recalcitrantdaze.blogspot.de/2016/07/forge-world-open-day-part-1-blood-bowl.html

Really excited for this. Looks like I know what I want for Christmas.

The humans look good, but it's the Orcs that steal the show for me. Really looking forward to this box, and there's a lot of interest in my gaming circle.

Those Orcs look awesome. I'm not so sure about the others. I think I'll need to see them up close before I can decide.

I wonder how they've altered any rules? Some teams were a little unbalanced for what they could do and how much they cost. Hopefully they addressed that, although I expect not.

 Breotan wrote:
Those Orcs look awesome. I'm not so sure about the others. I think I'll need to see them up close before I can decide.

I wonder how they've altered any rules? Some teams were a little unbalanced for what they could do and how much they cost. Hopefully they addressed that, although I expect not.

/
I believe FW said at the last event where they showed off the Blood Bowl stuff (Games Day I think?) that the rules are going to be the same as last edition GW put out saying something along the lines "if it isn't broken...." Now as far as making slight tweaks to stat lines and cleaning up ambiguous stuff, I'm not certain if they will do any of that.

That is wonderful news

Those new minis look absolutely fantastic, the orcs in particular. Dead on the artwork that's come out for them recently.

I asked about rules changes yesterday. The core rules are unchanged, but the rules for perpetual leagues have been tweaked quite a bit, as they didn't really work before. Also they said that there will be two or maybe three special play decks.

The four first star players will be Griff Oberwald, The Mighty Zug, Morg'n'Thorg and Varag Ghoulchewer. Zug and Morg are finished and look fantastic.

He said that even with the last versions of star players we got from GW being fantastic sculpts, their new ones are even better! They are planning to release these alongside the main game in December.


I'm looking forward to this game a lot.

https://twitter.com/Imperial_Truth

Guess they decided to make Human Catchers 10k cheaper?

Wonder what made them do the humans as essentially one piece models. They really do not stand up to the orcs and those test sprues show why.

 His Master's Voice wrote:
Wonder what made them do the humans as essentially one piece models. They really do not stand up to the orcs and those test sprues show why.

They want practical plastics that are cheap and easy to fit on a sprue. Then they give 2 spruces of them to give you 12 players. They want you to accept how they look, but not be completely blown away so that they can sell you the boutique resin humans that will come out around the same time. So the box is playable, but they will get add on sales for the resins.

 Theophony wrote:
They want practical plastics that are cheap and easy to fit on a sprue.

That doesn't explain why the orcs are four piece models in dynamic poses, while the humans look like something made in the 80s. There's an internal inconsistency in the product coming from the same box, regardless of any follow up resin teams.

 His Master's Voice wrote:

 Theophony wrote:
They want practical plastics that are cheap and easy to fit on a sprue.

That doesn't explain why the orcs are four piece models in dynamic poses, while the humans look like something made in the 80s. There's an internal inconsistency in the product coming from the same box, regardless of any follow up resin teams.

It does though - you get two sprues and two each of those have to contain both teams. Fitting more human models in means less sprue space for part splitting.

Both teams consist of 12 players. Both sprues have to fit six models. That, and the human sprue has space wasted compared to the orc one.

I guess they really wanted those undercut under the shoulder pads.