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£65? That's a steal

 BrookM wrote:
€85? Noice!

If it's 65 quid then count me in....

Yeah,
Online discounters will get that down to £50-£55
Which is a great price!

I'll one of everything at launch!

Panic...

Yeah it's set at just the right price IMO, they're going to sell zillions.

Am I alone in thinking this is too expensive? I felt that £95 for warhammer quest with 50 minis a big board and 2 books was a good deal, but £65 for only 12 unique sculpts seems too pricey.
The components look nice but not stunning. If they had gone for £50 they could really have found a broad market, but at this price they will only appeal to gw fans and the bloodbowl faithful.

Chikout wrote:
Am I alone in thinking this is too expensive? I felt that £95 for warhammer quest with 50 minis a big board and 2 books was a good deal, but £65 for only 12 unique sculpts seems too pricey.
The components look nice but not stunning. If they had gone for £50 they could really have found a broad market, but at this price they will only appeal to gw fans and the bloodbowl faithful.

I think it's at a price that will be hard to ignore or resist. Add in the 24 miniatures you get and lots of scope for expansions to come. Compare it to similarly prices sets on the Market: Dropzone Commander and Infinity Operation: Icestorm starter sets. They all offer a similar amount. GW is firmly putting its tanks back on the lawn with this. Plus the amount of replay you'll get from Blood Bowl is, arguably, vastly greater than Warhammer Quest.

I'll be honest, I had planned on letting this one pass what with Thousand Sons and then (allegedly) later sisters, but the price seems solid and if people are still playing the original after all this time it pretty much has to be good.

Guess I'll pick up the starter set at least!

Happy to eat my words, as the dice look good.

Chikout wrote:
Am I alone in thinking this is too expensive? I felt that £95 for warhammer quest with 50 minis a big board and 2 books was a good deal, but £65 for only 12 unique sculpts seems too pricey.
The components look nice but not stunning. If they had gone for £50 they could really have found a broad market, but at this price they will only appeal to gw fans and the bloodbowl faithful.

Will wait until I see a pic of the box contents before judging the price. I expect that as its less than £95 people will pile in with plaudits, but will have to wait and see.

The box is in people's hands for reviews

Like this one

https://www.reddit.com/r/bloodbowl/comments/578qn0/blood_bowl_unboxing/

Content (Photo: War of Sigmar)


https://war-of-sigmar.herokuapp.com/bloggings/1308

To do another comparison, Deathwatch and silver tower are £2 per mini plus all the components for free. The minis cost more than £2 each when bought individually.
Bloodbowl at £2 per mini means the components cost £17 and the minis cost less than £2 each when bought individuallly.

I guess I am dissapointed because the mantra coming out of Gw before launch was that they were doing everything to keep the cost down. I was really hoping that Gw would opt for a brave price and attempt to push the game to people outside the core fanbase.

Hmm, I was hoping for cheaper, given that it's only got 24 models. Oh well, given that I'm almost certainly still going to buy it, can't complain too much.

I think the price is bang on right. Obviously I'd like it cheaper, but in comparison with other boxed sets from GW and elsewhere, it's a very reasonable amount and, lets remember, gives you a whole game, unlike, say the BaC or such, which, while everyone will say 'but it's a game', everyone buys because 'it's a box full of minis I can use in another game'...

As mentioned above, once you then put Blood Bowl through the online discounters, that's a great game at a great price. SOLD!

Not a bad price imho. If the quality of the board/dice/tokens/extras match up like 3ed SH, I think its spot on.

£65?

Yeah... I can see that.

 Ratius wrote:
Not a bad price imho. If the quality of the board/dice/tokens/extras match up like 3ed SH, I think its spot on.

The per-model pricing is right, but there is a slight difference that needs to be accounted for. Reuse... these minis will not be recut and recast and sold separately. That is why it can't be priced like Lost Patrol or Silver Tower. That needs to be taken into account into GW's pricing of the game.
Beyond that, it is going to be a heavy box. The board and tokens are high quality... GW knows that people will play hundreds of matches with this.

 BrookM wrote:
€85? Noice!

That's not too bad.
Any price tag properly below 100€ is fine.
Ill looking at it at Christmas time.

Since GW's currency conversion logic is often suspect... I have to ask... What is the US price?

99 USD

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
I think the price is bang on right. Obviously I'd like it cheaper, but in comparison with other boxed sets from GW and elsewhere, it's a very reasonable amount and, lets remember, gives you a whole game, unlike, say the BaC or such, which, while everyone will say 'but it's a game', everyone buys because 'it's a box full of minis I can use in another game'...

As mentioned above, once you then put Blood Bowl through the online discounters, that's a great game at a great price. SOLD!

B@C is a whole game and a good one IMO and the opinions of the folks who've played it at two FLGSs I've frequented.
But I agree that BB is an excellent value and I'm looking forward to it.

Joyboozer wrote:

 SpinCycleDreadnought wrote:
Do we know if we have an AUD price for this? $150 sounds about right from the current US and CAD prices, but if it's $120-$135 that would be even better. Nevertheless I'm keen for the game regardless, it's just knowing beforehand how much the wallet is going to be hit for.

Really? I'm expecting $200-$250.

I gotta ask.. do you play any board games? There is no way a company would release a board game between 200-250$ as the base set price. Might as well burn it and throw it in the trash at that price point.

Anyway, I'm glad it's a reasonable price! Might actually sell.

 Kirasu wrote:

Joyboozer wrote:

 SpinCycleDreadnought wrote:
Do we know if we have an AUD price for this? $150 sounds about right from the current US and CAD prices, but if it's $120-$135 that would be even better. Nevertheless I'm keen for the game regardless, it's just knowing beforehand how much the wallet is going to be hit for.

Really? I'm expecting $200-$250.

I gotta ask.. do you play any board games? There is no way a company would release a board game between 200-250$ as the base set price. Might as well burn it and throw it in the trash at that price point.

Anyway, I'm glad it's a reasonable price! Might actually sell.

I'm not sure if you're trying to be funny? Did you see my flag? GW already sells its board games for more.

Really, really glad that it sounds like the game (format and rules) is going to remain unmolested.

My main fear was that GW would make a move like adding an extra few squares to the length of the pitch (or remove them altogether), just to feth with the people who have custom pitches and all of the 3rd party pitch makers, or reduce the game to a 'Fisher Price My First Wargame' level of something like AoS.

While we would have been free to ignore the new (probably rubbish) rules, the fragmenting of the WHFB tournament community following the launch of AoS shows that any community, no matter how strong (and the Blood Bowl community is very much that), will be divided if a 'replacement' product comes along with that company logo branded onto the box.

So, for all of those thousands of people that make up the community, this is really great news.

Breotan wrote:

 feeder wrote:
As the only teams I don't already own are Halfling, Amazon, Norse and Dwarfs (#NeverDwarf) I don't forsee me buying this.

The models are awesome. You might be able to snag the Human and Orc teams off eBay fairly cheap if you ever feel the desire to update your team.

My Orcs and Humies are already top notch I would be interested in replacing my Skaven as they are kitbashed from older plastic models and don't really have a lot of character.

tneva82 wrote:Look at the size of new orcs. Plus big guys like ogres.

I'm not a big fan of this scale creep TBH. I'm supposed to believe the Orcs and Humies from the new box are both S3?

Pacific wrote:Really, really glad that it sounds like the game (format and rules) is going to remain unmolested.

My main fear was that GW would make a move like adding an extra few squares to the length of the pitch (or remove them altogether), just to feth with the people who have custom pitches and all of the 3rd party pitch makers, or reduce the game to a 'Fisher Price My First Wargame' level of something like AoS.

While we would have been free to ignore the new (probably rubbish) rules, the fragmenting of the WHFB tournament community following the launch of AoS shows that any community, no matter how strong (and the Blood Bowl community is very much that), will be divided if a 'replacement' product comes along with that company logo branded onto the box.

So, for all of those thousands of people that make up the community, this is really great news.

I'm right there with you, Pacific. I was very nervous during the run up to this that they would make some fundamental change that would split the community. As a confirmed 40mm pitch coach, (as your wife if bigger is better! tm ) I like the fact they have gone in that direction with the new pitch.

A pretty decent price. I'll probably pick it up in a few months, my current funds are already earmarked.

Am I the only one planning on making some of the unreleased teams from AoS models?

 Resin Glazed Guardsman wrote:
Am I the only one planning on making some of the unreleased teams from AoS models?

Been there, done that with my Norse. There are also a lot of teams made by 3rd party companies that are just plain awesome too.
I may need to paint my Impact Miniatures Dark Elves, for instance. Though this plastic scaven team is making me rethink my pre-order.

So what does the price of BB say for the future price of a new Necromunda?

Iain.

Definitely on my Xmas list I've already converted up a elf team and halfway through chaos atm

guru wrote:
my FLGS wrote this on facebook

Ok, it’s confirmed. We just talked with our Games Workshop salesman and gave us the following information:
12/11/16 Pre-Orders
25/11/16 Official Release of the following 4 items:
Blood Bowl Boxed Set: retail price 85€
Death Zone Season 1 gaming supplement: retail price 20€
Skaven Team (12 Players): retail price 25€
Skaven Dice (Set of 10 Dice): retail price 9€

25€ for the skaven team with 12 players? Wow. That's far lower than I expected.

This is really nice if that's confirmed, and I would definitely buy it all to support them on that project. I want to have more teams in good plastic, and that's with the purse we will vote the best.