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Now this is good news, hopefully some big guys are on the list too !

I hope the old death roller and dwarf characters are there. I have a basic dwarf team, but want to flesh it out.

 Theophony wrote:
I hope the old death roller and dwarf characters are there. I have a basic dwarf team, but want to flesh it out.

Indeed, the previous 2 metal death rollers would be auto-purchases but they could affect sales of the newer variant so probably not as likely as some of the other possibilities such as Hthark the Unstoppable in the teaser picture. Hope to see Grim Ironjaw too as that was a class model and holds up well imo.

The troll looks gooood

No comments on the new Team Titans decks Dirty Training and Benefits of Training?

I think they looked awesome, gonna test them later this week. Not sure how they should be valued though. GW have already released multiple variants for selecting cards, but they only apply to the then released decks from starter set and first deck expansion.

So will elves of any kind be coming in plastic?

 NivlacSupreme wrote:
So will elves of any kind be coming in plastic?

The general assumption is that all the teams in Season One will be brought over over the next few months. Seems to be one team a month or so, wondering if the MTO this month is the release or if it's an additional.

Specialist Design Studio had shown design sketches of Nurgle, Elf and Goblin teams (all by Mark Bedford if I remember correctly). Back then it wasn't clear if they would be plastic too. Now with BB being a financial success there is a good chance that these will indeed be plastic kits and FW only makes upgrade kits for them like with the Orc and Human teams.

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Found some of it. Photos and info (but there were some contradicting reports on other websites / from other visitors what would be plastic and what wouldnt)

https://recalcitrantdaze.blogspot.de/2016/05/warhammer-fest-2016-part-one-blood-bowl.html

Most commonly corroborating rumours were as follows:

Goblins -plastic
Nurgle -resin
Elves -either

The elves didn't really get a mention at first, but these are where the rumours have been conflicting.

With the success of Blood Bowl, the Nurgle team may be moved over to plastic. But there's NO firm conformation or even rumour to that effect.

So the only real "strong" bet is plastic goblins.

Really? because the last I heard was Nurgle/Elves in plastic.

I'd be pretty upset if they decided that Nurgle is going to be resin, it's sets a pretty bad precedent.

The only problem I have with resin teams, is the pricing.

Ten FW resin men normally go for £45+ and there needs to be twelve here.

Then you factor in the larger models which are £20-£40 so you end up with a single blood bowl team costing you in the range of 5 start up teams or a about 3 teams including the 0-1 large.

As long as they actually provide the right positionals and no duplicates, that would be fine with me

twistinthunder wrote:
Really? because the last I heard was Nurgle/Elves in plastic.

I'd be pretty upset if they decided that Nurgle is going to be resin, it's sets a pretty bad precedent.

There are rumours that Nurgle is possibly being moved into plastic, which counteracts the very firm early rumours at launch last year that they would be resin.

When I hear these things I always try and factor a nice big dose of reality in: Companies plan their releases far in advance, and models are designed long in advance of their release dates. Prototyping and production runs can happen about a year prior to release. I don't know the intricacies of GWs processes, obviously, so these are variables, but the "concept to shelf" process is not fact.

Let's imagine GW released BB in November, 2016, and it sold blindingly well. Early indications would have been excellent. First quarter figures in 2017 will have effectively cemented any proposed changes in strategy, such as which teams might be produced in resin or plastic (and what would be realistic to produce).

If Nurgle were already on the drawing board at the time of release, it is by no means impossible that they might decide to switch production to plastic (design and modelling is already done at that point, most likely, after all). But until somebody confirms that (ie: has seen sprues) then at this point I'd assume resin.

As for elves, who knows? There were concepts but no real news as to whether to expect them in resin or plastic as, if they were coming (and it was still an "if" back when the rumours came out, as BB was still fresh at that point), they were scheduled well after the Nurgle and Goblin teams.

Goblins were always rumoured in plastic. There's no conflicting information worth considering on that point.

Nurgle is not interesting because it would be among the easiest teams to make out of existing models in Fantasy/AoS/40k range.

Just look at this, they look excellent!

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/01/20/duncan-rhodes-the-stinktown-floaters/



If anyone want a great looking nurgle team, just do that. I'd rather see teams which can not be so easily converted.

While I heard the goblins were plastic, I'd heard the special weapons would be resin.

With the new card decks, we finally have a use for the new trap doors on the pitch. So far only a single card?

Bright crusaders

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/The-Bright-Crusaders-2017

Quite like? But not more than the Reikland Reavers set. No option to buy without human team? Would have thought it would make sense to release a pure upgrade set for those with the boxset... [would also make it easier to get the necessary 4 blitzers]

Stinktown Floaters? Ewww

The great Blight Kings set is exactly WHY I hope for plastic Nurgle players. You could make more varied Kings or Rotters that way, and new beastmen plastics are way past due. Combined with Death Guard kits and the plague zombies AoS, 40k and BB Nurgle could be the the visually most cohesive Cult line-up of all time. GW got Nurgle down to a science once they emulated Brian Nelson's characters and Adrian Smiths artwork for everything instead of silly looking tentacles and crudely sculpted torn bellies (see: Plague Marines and metal Rotters, Beasts).

 WarpSpider767 wrote:
necessary 4 blitzers]

Have I misunderstood the rules for twenty years? I've played humans with two Blitzers all that time; I hadn't realised I was doing it wrong.

Actually, the new human team makes a conversion from LIneman to Blitzer quite easy - cut the knuckledusters off one hand, lengthen the blades on the other to make a punch dagger. I painted the base rims on all my 3rd edition Blood Bowl teams anyway, so that makes it even clearer.

Another identical human team to paint, except different heads...

Edit: And torsoes.

Think I'll go for same colors as my original human team, so I can swap players and make a more unique team.

Baxx wrote:
Another identical human team to paint, except different heads...

And chest, and shoulderpads, that you don't even need to buy in the first place, but yeah.

Oof. The Bright Crusaders release is why I wish the plastic human team had more options for poses.

I guess the Middenheim Marauders will be the same?

At first I was terrified that the upgrade required you to remove the torsos and arms then reattach them, but now I see the regular Reikland Reaver set has separate front torsos so that's not bad. I guess we won't see a similar upgrade for the Orks as they were slightly more awkwardly cut?

But....

 Fugazi wrote:
Oof. The Bright Crusaders release is why I wish the plastic human team had more options for poses.

Yeah, the lack of poses hurt the RR team even before the Bright Crusaders came along, now it's just comically bad. The linemen and blitzers looked way too similar and now they still look way too similar, so if you played the Crusaders vs the RR you have 4 models in identical poses (catchers) 4 other models in identical poses (throwers) and the other 16 models on the field that are all in a very similar as well.

I'd rather FW just created their own unique team and charged 45 to 50 quid instead of making an upgrade.

Leave it to granny to half ass the teams. Mean to say, most independant producers are making teams with all unique poses.

What does GW do? Derp.

 bound for glory wrote:
Leave it to granny to half ass the teams. Mean to say, most independant producers are making teams with all unique poses.

What does GW do? Derp.

To be fair, GW's teams are plastic and cost less than half of the money of the teams from most independent producers.

But when GW decided to go down the monopose plastic route (which IMO was a decent choice) they should have closed the door on making easy resin upgrades and instead just stick to full resin models for the more oddball teams.

yeah,

 AduroT wrote:
While I heard the goblins were plastic, I'd heard the special weapons would be resin.

That sounds good to me!
Sprue with 4 goblins and a troll?
Two sprues and 4 resin special weapons is 14 gobbos and two trolls.

Panic...

There's no way it will include a plastic troll with one already available separately. My bet is what we actually get is a single plastic sprue with four normal goblins in it in a box the same size as the Ogre and troll boxes, and then the special weapons in resin from Forge World.

 Panic wrote:
yeah,

 AduroT wrote:
While I heard the goblins were plastic, I'd heard the special weapons would be resin.

That sounds good to me!
Sprue with 4 goblins and a troll?
Two sprues and 4 resin special weapons is 14 gobbos and two trolls.

Panic...

This is my hope, but my expectation is much more like what AduroT indicated. Buy 2 Trolls, 2 boxes of 4-5 man goblins, and then order the special weapons from Forgeworld. There were also rumors that the number of special weapons would increase to 6... adding 2 more. I have no idea what those would look like, but a goblin deathroller would be interesting.