Goblin Doomdiver would be cool. I'll spitball some rules for one and say it lets him be thrown further by a troll using Throw Teammate, but each scatter is d3 squares instead of just one.

That would be interesting... a Goblin with a Glider.
I'm really hoping to get some Goblin news out of Forgeworld soon. Early rumors said April for Goblins... I'm doubting that that'll happen. Maybe the Bright Crusaders were bumped up to fill a gap? Who knows.

Next month the Orcland Raiders, month after Goblins - apparently

I think the easy swap parts are cool, at first I thought it was just the upgrade parts, but it appears the price also includes the plastic bodies. I dont play Blood bowl or buy forge world but isnt that unusual for them to also include the plastic with their upgrade kits?

Chopxsticks wrote:
I think the easy swap parts are cool, at first I thought it was just the upgrade parts, but it appears the price also includes the plastic bodies. I dont play Blood bowl or buy forge world but isnt that unusual for them to also include the plastic with their upgrade kits?

No, it isn't unusual at all. Many of their vehicle kits are built upon the literal frame of an existing plastic kit. The Horace Herasy weapons kits are built for the plastic Mk III and Mk IV armor that comes in the Calth and Prospero sets.

Vorian wrote:
Next month the Orcland Raiders, month after Goblins - apparently

Orcland raiders in May? What's your source? I'm on the verge of buying a second orc team to fill out 4 blitxers / blockers, but might hold on if theyre bringing another orc set out. i'm guessing this would be FW.

Just had my dispatch notice for the trophies. Definitely quicker than I thought it would be.

 WarpSpider767 wrote:

Vorian wrote:
Next month the Orcland Raiders, month after Goblins - apparently

Orcland raiders in May? What's your source? I'm on the verge of buying a second orc team to fill out 4 blitxers / blockers, but might hold on if theyre bringing another orc set out. i'm guessing this would be FW.

They'll be another resin add on/upgrade kit like the Crusaders, and presumably come with that additional plastic team as wel.

Possibly old news, but even so worth repeating.

Grak and Crumbleberry will be available at FW Events, not just Warhammer World.

I've bagged two. One for me, one for a friend

 WarpSpider767 wrote:

Vorian wrote:
Next month the Orcland Raiders, month after Goblins - apparently

Orcland raiders in May? What's your source? I'm on the verge of buying a second orc team to fill out 4 blitxers / blockers, but might hold on if theyre bringing another orc set out. i'm guessing this would be FW.

Was a Hastings rumor

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Possibly old news, but even so worth repeating.

Grak and Crumbleberry will be available at FW Events, not just Warhammer World.

I've bagged two. One for me, one for a friend

I know they were at Adepticon. Had friends who picked some up there.

I'm also off to Warhamsfest around this time next month (I'm a busy bunny!) and would be willing to pick up Grak and Crumbleberry for others

Gotta spread the Hobby love!

Were any other exclusives available, MDG? (I'm assuming you were at Salute).

The new alternative teams for Humans and Orcs slightly solves some duplicate problems.

You'll have the same poses, but at least with some different heads/armour.

But what about the color schemes? Would you paint Bright Crusaders in same colors as Reikland Reivers to get full positionals in matching colors? Or make different colours for more variety, but then it would look odd to use additional blitzers/catchers from the other team?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I'm also off to Warhamsfest around this time next month (I'm a busy bunny!) and would be willing to pick up Grak and Crumbleberry for others

Gotta spread the Hobby love!

As somebody who's been to Salute a few times as a reference, is Warhammer fest worth it? I enjoy GW's games and miniature aesthetic but would a trip to Warhammer World be a better investment in time ?

I don't care about the star players so much, what I need is to get someone visiting Warhammer World to grab me one of those exclusive Special Play cards.

This year’s Warhammer Fest will be a great event for fans of the glorious game of Blood Bowl. Not only will the event be playing host to a competitive Blood Bowl tournament, it will also be the first place to pick us a selection of great new miniatures.

We can show you a few of these today, which will be on the way soon from the Forge World studio.

One of these is the first of our team booster packs.

The Skaven Team Booster gives you four more poses for the most used players, and is designed to fill out your Skavenblight Scramblers core team (a collective “Squeak” of joy can be heard from Skaven players the world over at the prospect of more Gutter Runners).



Grim Ironjaw also makes his debut in this edition of Blood Bowl, with an imposing new miniature – that hair alone looks like it could blitz it’s way through some teams…



These are just some of the new Blood Bowl miniatures that will be on sale first at Warhammer Fest, and followed soon after with a general release. We’ll also have some miniatures for a brand new team and a couple of new star players that have never before been seen on the Blood Bowl pitch.

Skaven seem decent. A good way to add a little variety to the poses without impacting the easily recognizable game piece nature of the models. Not super wowed by them but they're nice to have as options.

The jumping gutter runner is particularly good.

theocracity wrote:
Skaven seem decent. A good way to add a little variety to the poses without impacting the easily recognizable game piece nature of the models. Not super wowed by them but they're nice to have as options.

The jumping gutter runner is particularly good.

Jumping??? I thought he was releasing a noxious odor in defense.

I wonder what's the brand new team

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I'm also off to Warhamsfest around this time next month (I'm a busy bunny!) and would be willing to pick up Grak and Crumbleberry for others

Gotta spread the Hobby love!

To beat the scalpers, you must become the scalpers!

When was a "new" team announced?

The Skaven extras are cool, might grab the Gutter Runners for Mordheim is they're not obscenely priced. That Slayer though, bleugh, I just can't love the pinhead anatomy of the newer Dwarfs when it's applied to Old World staples - Dwarf heads should be hideously large, anything else just looks wrong.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I'm also off to Warhamsfest around this time next month (I'm a busy bunny!) and would be willing to pick up Grak and Crumbleberry for others

Gotta spread the Hobby love!

To beat the scalpers, you must become the scalpers!

Scalping implies making a profit, not supplying at cost

Now that dwarf slayer I totally love. Much better than the floating beard pose ones.

The skaven with the eye-guard is phenomenal and tempts me to go rats.

The dwarf is clearly failing at being a star player since he's not holding a ball.

The Skaven aren't blowing me away but maybe I just need to see them painted. They actually look like plastic models rather than resin to me, the details just look really soft.

But I'll buy them either way, need the extra Gutter Runners for my team and the Storm Vermin looks nice (though I don't like the pose, looks like he's in some sort of dance battle).

It's kind of odd they bothered to do a 2nd thrower and 2nd Blitzer since you get 2 in the plastic box and you can only have 2 on a team anyway. It's nice to get alternate poses and all, but surely they should have done something like this for Orcs or Humans first who are really lacking in poses for positionals.

The Skaven are excellent, the Stormvermin looks like a reimagined Split Tendoncutter.. will certainly be after him for the Underworld Creepers team once Goblins show up.

Grim Ironjaw is also another auto buy for me.

Very impressive!

More star players

Why would a sneaky git goblin wearing dark colors tie a bell to his cap? If he's trying to hide why would you do that?

From now on he will be named Mr. Tinkles to me.

That goblin is awesome.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
They actually look like plastic models rather than resin to me, the details just look really soft.

They were probably made with plastic in mind and were ported over to resin later. Those might even be first run prints rather than actual resin casts.

Oh good grief,

they're probably going to look good 'in resin' but those paint jobs do them no favours, especially the Black Goblin

I assume thats Grim Ironjaw. If so, its a step up on the old version.

Whats the other figure?

 bound for glory wrote:
I assume thats Grim Ironjaw. If so, its a step up on the old version.

Whats the other figure?

It's the White Dwarf and the Black Gobbo. Grim Ironjaw is on the last page.

Liking these new star players for a change, I like the paint jobs as well, I wish I could paint half that good !!

These are new Star Players?

Or are they Star Players who had a break for some editions?

By the looks of the Star Player list, it doesn't seem like much has been removed from there.

If they are new, will we see over-powered no-Loner blooper style like Grak & Crumbleberry, or actually balanced Star Players with Loner this time? GW/Forge World has not been consistent on the new line of Star Players.

Will we see some new crazy skills based on appearance? The White Dwarf doesn't seem to be doing much (maybe Stand Firm?), but the gobbo looks like stab and possibly some new "Tinkle" skill

https://19070-presscdn-0-68-pagely.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Special-Play-Card-Variants-v3.pdf.pdf

the Variant Special Play Card rules now include Dirty Tricks & Benefits of Training

 reds8n wrote:
https://19070-presscdn-0-68-pagely.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Special-Play-Card-Variants-v3.pdf.pdf

the Variant Special Play Card rules now include Dirty Tricks & Benefits of Training

Wheres the second page?

 Theophony wrote:
Why would a sneaky git goblin wearing dark colors tie a bell to his cap? If he's trying to hide why would you do that?

From now on he will be named Mr. Tinkles to me.

Probably by his teammates tired of all their gold going missing

I really like the Black Gobbo. Grombinald's BB model is a little... meh, that hair... The paintjob on him isn't that good either, so that might be it.

Especially BG looks perfect

I'm not really a fan of the Black Gobbo, the half falling off hat isn't working for me, and is that a knife poking through his black cloak thingo?

Do we know when those Skaven will be coming out?

Wasn't there supposed to be some sort of cloth pitch coming out as well?

 Theophony wrote:
Why would a sneaky git goblin wearing dark colors tie a bell to his cap? If he's trying to hide why would you do that?

From now on he will be named Mr. Tinkles to me.

Maybe it is a nod to those classic ninja movies where you need to show that you are a true ninja only if you manage to remove all bells from your opponent whilst being blindfolded? Only thing I can think of.

 mindrobber wrote:

 reds8n wrote:
https://19070-presscdn-0-68-pagely.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Special-Play-Card-Variants-v3.pdf.pdf

the Variant Special Play Card rules now include Dirty Tricks & Benefits of Training

Wheres the second page?

The #BloodBowl special play cards variant rules I linked yesterday are missing page 2. My fault! We'll get it fixed after the weekend.

In the meantime, Benefits of Training inducements are 100,000 gold pieces and Dirty Tricks inducements are 50,000 gold pieces.

Why does the Black Gobbo have a golden nose-lengthener?

 Zywus wrote:
Why does the Black Gobbo have a golden nose-lengthener?

Because as Captain Kirk learned, not all races keep their genitals in between their legs

 Theophony wrote:
Why would a sneaky git goblin wearing dark colors tie a bell to his cap? If he's trying to hide why would you do that?

From now on he will be named Mr. Tinkles to me.

He is so good at sneaking he wears bells to make it challenging

 Theophony wrote:
Why would a sneaky git goblin wearing dark colors tie a bell to his cap? If he's trying to hide why would you do that?

From now on he will be named Mr. Tinkles to me.

The bell is there so he can march onto the field with the following background music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg92QpjRcJk

Who knew Gobbos were so metal?

Are these figures going to be availabe for a short time or will they stick around as long as Blood Bowl does?

 Breotan wrote:
Wasn't there supposed to be some sort of cloth pitch coming out as well?

The neoprene mat has suffered production delays or something. That issue of white dwarf went to print before they came to light. So yeah, doesn't currently have a release date.

 reds8n wrote:

The #BloodBowl special play cards variant rules I linked yesterday are missing page 2. My fault! We'll get it fixed after the weekend.

In the meantime, Benefits of Training inducements are 100,000 gold pieces and Dirty Tricks inducements are 50,000 gold pieces.

Where is this info coming from?

Why is the updated pdf not from a GW link?

Now that we've seen an example of a booster pack for Skaven, what happens to Bright Crusaders and Orcland raiders? Bright Crusaders only has the same models has the standard human teams with different front armour and heads. Will they get a booster pack too, or just humans?

What is your take on the alternative rules for Bright Crusaders and Orcland Raiders in the Deathzone Season 1 book? Bright crusaders trade fouls, cheating, bribes, Dirty Player, Sneaky Git and Dirty Tricks for a chance to get extra re-rolls if their score is lower than the opposite team. This is not really broken, just a minor bonus. But the Orcland Raiders seems way too good. They roll a D6 and with on a 1, they suffer a KO, but on the other results, bad stuff happen to an opponent! High chance of gaining a potential huge benefit with only a minor chance having one of their own players out and no other penalties.

How are these teams ment to be used? As a fun one-off game, or actually part of a League? Seems like Orcland Raiders has a huge advantage over standard Orcs!

Baxx wrote:

 reds8n wrote:


The #BloodBowl special play cards variant rules I linked yesterday are missing page 2. My fault! We'll get it fixed after the weekend.

In the meantime, Benefits of Training inducements are 100,000 gold pieces and Dirty Tricks inducements are 50,000 gold pieces.

Where is this info coming from?

https://twitter.com/lagoon83/status/857908287009943553

Baxx wrote:
Why is the updated pdf not from a GW link?

It's linked from https://www.bloodbowl.com/ but I'm not sure why they don't use their usual URL for file hosting.

Baxx wrote:
What is your take on the alternative rules for Bright Crusaders and Orcland Raiders in the Deathzone Season 1 book? Bright crusaders trade fouls, cheating, bribes, Dirty Player, Sneaky Git and Dirty Tricks for a chance to get extra re-rolls if their score is lower than the opposite team. This is not really broken, just a minor bonus. But the Orcland Raiders seems way too good. They roll a D6 and with on a 1, they suffer a KO, but on the other results, bad stuff happen to an opponent! High chance of gaining a potential huge benefit with only a minor chance having one of their own players out and no other penalties.

How are these teams ment to be used? As a fun one-off game, or actually part of a League? Seems like Orcland Raiders has a huge advantage over standard Orcs!

I think they're just for one-off games; the teams each start at 2 mil of value, so they'd have a huge advantage regardless. They also don't list things like "seasons completed," even though they are clearly meant to be an experienced team, and it would be crucial to know how experienced each player is for a league for retirement purposes. I can't speak for every league commissioner, but I certainly wouldn't let someone enter a league with one of these teams.

New goblin team:


Are these confirmed to be plastic? the article does not say. If they are plastic its looking like a must buy.. however I don't feel like shelling out for resin right now. I would consider the special weapons if they were resin but a whole resin team? nah...

I don't know about the material, but the body make-up would indicate plastic. Looking for pairs of poses on the body, it looks like the following are duplicates: 2/11, 3/6, 1/22, 4/9, top left/bottom middle, 5/21.

It does look like there are some head options, though - which would make sense, as there will be room on the sprues for Goblins.

GW confirmed on FB that they are indeed plastic, and yes there are head options.

Well I was wrong. Was predicting they'd just be a box of four.

If 12 to a box then that's almost a sure 2 box buy as they are crunchy, but that does mean that there will be extras for bashing and to join the orc teams.

BigDaddio wrote:
GW confirmed on FB that they are indeed plastic, and yes there are head options.

Pretty awesome then, hopefully they do elven union/pro elves in plastic next. Gotta have at least one elf team in plastic, plus the cyber harlequin elf style is cool.

Oh, they're also doing a second round of made to order blood bowl models from ages past. They showed an undead team but didn't list anything else yet.

Excellent figures once again.. will need two boxes for sure, one for the Lowdown Ratz, one to grab some from to mix in with Skaven to make the Underworld Creepers.. will probably have a few left over to add to Orc teams as well.

BigDaddio wrote:
GW confirmed on FB that they are indeed plastic, and yes there are head options.

So more than 12 heads?

Sounds like it. 2 frames of 6 bodies each. Probably at least 8 heads per frame.

MORE Goblins on the Pitch

Yay! GOBBOS!

Also first available at Warhammerfest.


This....is going to get expensive.

pogo where are you? :(

Not a huge fan of the positionals but I love the plastic goblins.

The fact that the required second box of Skaven has the perfect amount of leftovers to make an Underworld team with a box of goblins and troll is perfect, too!

I'm not blown away by the special weapons gobbos

Some days you just can't get of a bomb...

 nudibranch wrote:

Spoiler:

Some days you just can't get of a bomb...

First one to GS a bat mask and cape on this guy wins the internets.

Are they leaking early production runs? I cant even make out what that thing is with the chainsaw..

theocracity wrote:

The fact that the required second box of Skaven has the perfect amount of leftovers to make an Underworld team with a box of goblins and troll is perfect, too!

What required second box of Skaven? Seeing the booster pack, the least required box of anything would be a 2nd Skaven.

Baxx wrote:

theocracity wrote:

The fact that the required second box of Skaven has the perfect amount of leftovers to make an Underworld team with a box of goblins and troll is perfect, too!

What required second box of Skaven? Seeing the booster pack, the least required box of anything would be a 2nd Skaven.

Well, I picked up the second box to finish my team prior to the booster packs being announced, so I guess it was just required for me :p.

I feel like you'd still need a second box if you wanted to fill out your roster with backup Linerats anyway. The fact that the duplicates don't get wasted if you're building an Underworld team as well is a nice perk.

Chopxsticks wrote:
Are they leaking early production runs? I cant even make out what that thing is with the chainsaw..

Yeah it took me a bit to make out as well. I think it's wearing a hockey mask and sort of looking up, so that protrusion is it's nose. Just an odd photo angle. They definitely could have cleaned the flash up a bit prior to the photo.

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:

 nudibranch wrote:

Spoiler:

Some days you just can't get of a bomb...

First one to GS a bat mask and cape on this guy wins the internets.

Heh! I get that reference.

I don't dislike the goblins but is it me or have all the Forge World resins been a bit on the "meh" side? There was a time when their single character models were all sorts of awesome sauce. Lately, not so much.

Man those new resin goblins make me cringe. The smoke coming out of the ball and the chain on the other one are going to break off so easy. It's not that they look bad, they look fine. But where is the pogo stick one?

 Breotan wrote:

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:

 nudibranch wrote:

Spoiler:

Some days you just can't get of a bomb...

First one to GS a bat mask and cape on this guy wins the internets.

Heh! I get that reference.

I don't dislike the goblins but is it me or have all the Forge World resins been a bit on the "meh" side? There was a time when their single character models were all sorts of awesome sauce. Lately, not so much.

They have forgot how to do anything more than Space Marines

 Thargrim wrote:
Man those new resin goblins make me cringe. The smoke coming out of the ball and the chain on the other one are going to break off so easy. It's not that they look bad, they look fine. But where is the pogo stick one?

Those special characters are very underwhelming being honest..fairly disappointed I haven't a clue what's going on with the chainsaw guy's head but maybe the paint jobs will do them more justice. The Ball and Chain model is quite nice but hard to see it not breaking like the Bomb model. Just glad I have the old metal team with all the special characters so a saved expense which will go to getting a hold of that White Dwarf model that was shown earlier in the thread and the Deathroller!

On a side note anybody else think the new design approach to Goblins is basically just large Ogre Kingdoms Gnoblars?? (Huge noses sticking out with the rest of the features being tiny!)
My favourite GW goblins still has to go to the mid 1990s GW design (especially those metal Night Goblin guys) followed closely by the mid noughties ones (thinking of the wonderful Skarsnik and Gobbla model)

booster pack, will be different models?

 Donomar wrote:

 Thargrim wrote:
Man those new resin goblins make me cringe. The smoke coming out of the ball and the chain on the other one are going to break off so easy. It's not that they look bad, they look fine. But where is the pogo stick one?

Those special characters are very underwhelming being honest..fairly disappointed I haven't a clue what's going on with the chainsaw guy's head but maybe the paint jobs will do them more justice. The Ball and Chain model is quite nice but hard to see it not breaking like the Bomb model. Just glad I have the old metal team with all the special characters so a saved expense which will go to getting a hold of that White Dwarf model that was shown earlier in the thread and the Deathroller!

On a side note anybody else think the new design approach to Goblins is basically just large Ogre Kingdoms Gnoblars?? (Huge noses sticking out with the rest of the features being tiny!)
My favourite GW goblins still has to go to the mid 1990s GW design (especially those metal Night Goblin guys) followed closely by the mid noughties ones (thinking of the wonderful Skarsnik and Gobbla model)

You are right in the nose bit. That size of nose is more of Gnoblars than goblins. But they are much more "proportionate". Gnoblas have much tinnier bodys, with a giant head and a even bigger nose.

I said something similar over on Twitter, they look like a cross between Goblins and Gnoblars.

The Goblin Booster Pack is just 4 of the same from the boxed set, based on the photos I have seen.

Also, the pogoer will be in a separate pack with 2 apparently new secret weapons....

 Hragged wrote:
I said something similar over on Twitter, they look like a cross between Goblins and Gnoblars.

That's probably why I'm not really liking them. As a long time fan of Goblins these models just aren't working for me and I think it's a mix of the moon hats and the big noses. Never was a fan of Gnoblars.


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BigDaddio wrote:
The Goblin Booster Pack is just 4 of the same from the boxed set, based on the photos I have seen.

The 4 red painted Goblins look the same as the ones in the team, though it makes me wonder how the sprues are arranged because there's more than 4 distinct poses in the group of 12 (the one in the middle at the back is running with his right foot forward, which is not a pose that seems to exist in the image of 4 red painted goblins).

I was expecting them to be arranged in 2 identical sprues of 6 each.

There seem to be 6 body poses, which makes me wonder how the 4 Goblin pack is created (especially when it's half the price of 12 goblins).

Still miffed that we get plastic goblins before any plastic elves at all.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
I was expecting them to be arranged in 2 identical sprues of 6 each.

Me too. If they really have done one sprue of 4 in triplicate then that's kinda pathetic. The box should'a come with a Troll.

There's clearly 2 of each pose. So if it's three sprues it's even weirder.

I just wish every team was 2 sprues: 6 Linemen, 6 Positionals, all different poses. For somethig like Gobbos you could put 6 Gobbos, 4 Special Weapons, and a Troll.

 Hragged wrote:
I said something similar over on Twitter, they look like a cross between Goblins and Gnoblars.

Well the painter gave their noses a darker color, which is a big contrast to the older less exaggerated night goblins. It's a definite change in style, but I honestly like these models..even the forgeworld ones despite looking fragile. They shaded the noses weird though....and it just draws attention to it.

But really there hasn't been a plastic goblin kit like this in a long arse time, so changes in style and look are not too surprising. The great thing is this release has me excited about BB again, which is pretty crazy considering the amazing releases the past month for AoS and the upcoming 40k. Now more than ever I have to think extremely hard about what i'm spending my money on.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
The 4 red painted Goblins look the same as the ones in the team, though it makes me wonder how the sprues are arranged because there's more than 4 distinct poses in the group of 12 (the one in the middle at the back is running with his right foot forward, which is not a pose that seems to exist in the image of 4 red painted goblins).

Those four red ones are either concept artwork or put thru some kind of fancy photo filter.

I don't now if this has been posted yet, buuut, DICES ARE COMING BACK! All of them: orc, human, skaven, gobbo, dwarf. And the skaven/dwarf pitch as well!

And the Orc and Human dice are new sets, not the ones from the starter box.



Personally I like the Goblin ones, good contrast there. The Human ones look alright, a little less contrast but should be alright. The Orc ones look atrocious and they apparently forgot that color blind people exist.

 AduroT wrote:
Personally I like the Goblin ones, good contrast there. The Human ones look alright, a little less contrast but should be alright. The Orc ones look atrocious and they apparently forgot that color blind people exist.

The Gobbo ones look great, the human ones are a nice colour but you're right the contrast is bad and... yeah... I can't fething read those red/green ones.

In general, I feel some of the icons on the new BB dice are too busy. At a recent tournament one of my opponents was using the new dice and on one block thought he rolled a skull-pow but it was actually a pow, meaning my player was actually knocked down. Very good contrast (such as on the Goblin dice) helps in this regard, whereas poor contrast does the opposite.

Got a pic of the dice that comes up on my computer?

Thanks.

 CragHack wrote:
I don't now if this has been posted yet, buuut, DICES ARE COMING BACK! All of them: orc, human, skaven, gobbo, dwarf. And the skaven/dwarf pitch as well!

Where is this info coming from?

It is great news. So far it seems that GW gave up interest in money or have made a deal with ebay scalpers.

I paid about 9 times the original price to get the Skaven dice. I hope the new dice don't end up on ebay at that price again.

So there are quite a few new releases now:

12 Gobbos team
4 Gobbos booster pack
Gobbo secret weapons 1 FW (Chainsaw, Bomb, Fanatic)
Gobbo secreat weapons 2 FW (Pogo and 2 new positionals)
New Gobbo dice
New orc dice (because why?)
New human dice (because why?)
Skaven Booster pack FW
White Dwarf & Black Gobbo FW
Restock of Dwarf/Skaven pitch
Restock of Dwarf/Skaven dice?
Death Zone Season 2

Quite a few changes! Old rumours originally had Gobbos and Death Zone Season 2 to be released in April. Seems like schedule is lagging.

Looking forward to all of these. I sincerely hope there will be enough to buy for everyone and that all will be available to buy online instead of Warhammer event (aka ebay scalp fest).

Also hoping there will be additional booster pack for humans, orcs and dwarves.

Gobbos will desperately need a new troll pose also, because the troll already released has such an unique pose it will look terrible having two of those.

The orc dice would look good on the snow pitch, christmas ornament colors!

But the goblin dice definitely look the best. Though they would only look right if your team is painted in those colors. Can't wait to see this sell out again before I wake up in the morning.

Sorry to jump in like this all of a sudden, but are any rumors of elf teams on the horizon? I gather that they're supposed to be released this year due to their appearance in Season 1...

 Thargrim wrote:
The orc dice would look good on the snow pitch, christmas ornament colors!

But the goblin dice definitely look the best. Though they would only look right if your team is painted in those colors. Can't wait to see this sell out again before I wake up in the morning.

Personally I'm going to stick with the blue white human dice from the starter as I've already painted my templates to match, plus replaced the d6s with white dice with blue pips so I stop grabbing the wrong dice.

 plastictrees wrote:
Still miffed that we get plastic goblins before any plastic elves at all.

It is either a balance thing (stupid AG4 teams), or they're really a universal truth - no-one really likes the pointy-eared ones anyway...

Has anyone heard what teams/rules are going to be in Death Zone Season 2 (barring the goblin stuff)?

zamerion wrote:


booster pack, will be different models?

This suggests no other teams.
Release decisions are getting weirder tbh.

 plastictrees wrote:

zamerion wrote:


booster pack, will be different models?

This suggests no other teams.
Release decisions are getting weirder tbh.

Yeah, it certainly looks that way. It seems like a huge waste of a printed book. Why not release a PDF with the team rules and wait until you have enough substantial content to make a book that is worth printing? This is course speculation, as I haven't seen Season 2, but it just seems odd to release a printed book that includes a whole of one new team.

I would expect another 7 teams in season 2. Season 1 has elf and nurgle teams which are yet to get dedicated models so no kit does not rule out new rules.

 Sabotage! wrote:

Yeah, it certainly looks that way. It seems like a huge waste of a printed book. Why not release a PDF with the team rules and wait until you have enough substantial content to make a book that is worth printing? This is course speculation, as I haven't seen Season 2, but it just seems odd to release a printed book that includes a whole of one new team.

That is not a list of what's included in book! That is a list of new physical products to sell.

The book may very well include the rules for a bunch of teams (same amount as last or more/less). Reprinting teams is not very interesting as they are the same as they've been for years. We may see the return of the Wizard. We may see a modified Gobbo team. Other teams may have changed. We may see new league rules. Maybe they include some of the rules they've released through White Dwarf, pdf or other channels. Could be a couple of new star players in that book too, along with several old ones.

 Dysartes wrote:

 plastictrees wrote:
Still miffed that we get plastic goblins before any plastic elves at all.

It is either a balance thing (stupid AG4 teams), or they're really a universal truth - no-one really likes the pointy-eared ones anyway...

Goblins are part of Orcs, which is a starter box team so it makes sense they get models. Might as well make their team box while you're at it then for the low hanging fruit.

How do Goblins play like in BB?

Cataphract wrote:
How do Goblins play like in BB?

Poorly, but with the stupid fun of being thrown by trolls and getting to use bombs and chainsaws and pogosticks. They're ranked bottom tier along with Halflings and Ogres.

Cataphract wrote:
How do Goblins play like in BB?

Fun. A lot of fun.

You'll spend the game cheating, fouling, throwing yours guys around with a troll or two, and occasionally scoring a TD.

Don't forget goblin hit squads that surround and gang foul any down player.

Don't ever expect to win . But take notes of hilarious stuff that happens in the off chance that your opponent really up and you do .

Hmmm. I'd like to go Gobbo but I've only played a March of BB. Maybe I'll start with Dwarfs and work my way up to Gobbo.

Yeah, with the right attitude, goblin teams are hilarious fun. However, the right attitude is definitely not "must lift the Blood Bowl or die trying!"

Because you will.

Die trying, I mean.

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Yeah, with the right attitude, goblin teams are hilarious fun. However, the right attitude is definitely not "must lift the Blood Bowl or die trying!"

Because you will.

Die trying, I mean.

I don't know, I've seen treemen successfully leap over someone with tentacles, anything is possible

Oh yeah, any Treeman that manages to roll a double gets Jump Up first, but leap is hilarious too.

If only there was a way to unlearn 'skills' like bonehead…

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Oh yeah, any Treeman that manages to roll a double gets Jump Up first, but leap is hilarious too.

If only there was a way to unlearn 'skills' like bonehead…

Agreed, it should be possible once they hit 100+ experience as they become stars.

 Theophony wrote:

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Oh yeah, any Treeman that manages to roll a double gets Jump Up first, but leap is hilarious too.

If only there was a way to unlearn 'skills' like bonehead…

Agreed, it should be possible once they hit 100+ experience as they become stars.

That seems like a pretty good potential rule to suggest to a League commissioner.

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-DE/Blood-Bowl-Hakflem-Skuttlespike-2017

zamerion wrote:


https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-DE/Blood-Bowl-Hakflem-Skuttlespike-2017

I like the miniature, very dynamic.

What's with Forge World's obsession with populating the Skaven team with naked mole rats?

 AduroT wrote:
What's with Forge World's obsession with populating the Skaven team with naked mole rats?

Fur is hard to sculpt/paint ?

soulforged wrote:

zamerion wrote:


https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-DE/Blood-Bowl-Hakflem-Skuttlespike-2017

I like the miniature, very dynamic.

But that paint job is wretched.

Once again, I'm not a fan of the naked mole-rat look.

 Galas wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
What's with Forge World's obsession with populating the Skaven team with naked mole rats?

Fur is hard to sculpt/paint ?

Seems to be a running theme with sculptors if you think back to the FW verminlord and the big rat abomination thingy they did.

It's a bit of a shame, I'd like to see them fit more seamlessly to the plastic range.

 Galas wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
What's with Forge World's obsession with populating the Skaven team with naked mole rats?

Fur is hard to sculpt/paint ?

Forge World should hire me just to sculpt hair.

so much better

Not bad, though it does look like he's got an epic set of mutton chops on him

I personally find it quite tricky to sculpt fur so that it looks like it was supposed to be there and not, well, sculpted on by an amateur afterwards, lol.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
Not bad, though it does look like he's got an epic set of mutton chops on him

I personally find it quite tricky to sculpt fur so that it looks like it was supposed to be there and not, well, sculpted on by an amateur afterwards, lol.

I myself have an epic pair of mutton chops...so it's all good. Lol

And this was really my first time sculpting on a miniature. So yes, very amateur. But I'm happy with it.
Sorry for derailing the post. Carry on.

Anyone got an idea of release dates before someone tries to make money on these?

First thought was "alternative rat ogre model?" due to large image size.

Hakflem is some strange character. Stats would suggest he's a kind of super strong gutter runner with loads of mutations. But he doesn't look like a gutter runner here. The model looks very violent, but the only offensive ability he got is prehensive tail. And the possibility to run and dodge to give assist or block, preferably with an assist as he has no real benefit when blitzing (other than what's stated about speed and dodging). Anyone tested him and know if he's good? Stats are certainly nice, but a normal gutter runner with just wrestle/block and possibly Dauntless could be almost as useful. Seems like Hakflem is good at dodging, tagging opponents and picking up the ball. Not sure if he's worth it for 200k though. Please share thoughts!

Danzig8155 wrote:


Forge World should hire me just to sculpt hair.

Yes! Excellent!

I suggested trying to do exactly this when the images of rat ogre first was released. According to memory, the response was something like "no, burn it with fire".

Hakflem is a kind of mutating lab rat though, so maybe more justified as being nude. But if you get him too, do share if you plan to convert further!

 SJM wrote:
Anyone got an idea of release dates before someone tries to make money on these?

Release date for what?

Ahh the dice of course. Also interested in getting the release-date yeah.

Made-to-Order with four Teams and one starplayer

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/New-Exclusive?Nu=product.repositoryId&N=2510756053+663572088&qty=96&sorting=phl&view=table&categoryId=catnewexclusive



Blood Bowl new products

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/New-Exclusive


Death Zone - Season II content

Description
Greetings, sports fans, and welcome to a smashing new season of Blood Bowl! In this 80-page softback book, you’ll find a host of new content with which to expand and enhance your games – new rules, new teams, new Star Players, new Hall of Fame entries – there’s a lot of new stuff to get your teeth into.

In the book

In Blood Bowl Death Zone Season Two you’ll find:

- New teams! Included are rules for Underworld Denizens, Goblins and Chaos Renegades
- 12 Star Players – Dwarf, Skaven, Dark Elf, High Elf, Wood Elf, Amazon, Human, Halfling, Lizardmen, Vampire, Goblin, Chaos Renegade and Norse teams are covered – with background, new artwork and rules for use in games;
- New optional rules! Do you want to keep a Star Player in your team for a while? Now you can have them stick around for a much-needed boost. Running short on gold? Sponsorship deals can help out, if you don’t mind swallowing your pride and shilling McNurty’s Burger Emporium. Looking for a stadium residency? Make enough gold and you can buy your own!
- Rules for well-known referees and coaching staff, with their own quirks and specialities, and rules for different stadium and pitch types;
- History and team rosters for 6 new Hall of Fame entries – The Warpfire Wanderers, The Greenboyz, The Grudgebearers, The Celestial Comets, Chaos All-Stars and The Underworld Creepers;
- The Official Blood Bowl reference guide – an up-to-date summary of available teams, and a Skills Update featuring some corrections, clarifications and new skills following feedback from the Blood Bowl community;
- A ton of all-new background content detailing key teams, players and events in the history of Blood Bowl; facts and figures that every fan needs to know.

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/DEATH-ZONE-SEASON-TWO-ENG-2017



Goblins 4 and 12 player plastic kits - with some new balls on the sprues

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/BLOOD-BOWL-GOBLINS-2017

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/BLOOD-BOWL-SCARCRAG-SNIVELLERS-GOBLIN-TEAM-2017

No dice??

The balls for the goblin team are excellent, oh that poor snotling will be paste when the game is done.

Still bummed the special weapons, the best/most fun aspect of the team are resin and aren't as nice. Not sure whos sculpting this stuff, can't be tom hughes...cause Zug is quite a step above some of this stuff in quality.

Did I hear vampire rules in the book?

Cataphract wrote:
No dice??

Dice will be available later along with other new and rereleased dice that were posted on previous page. July 22nd has been mentioned on internets.

Picked up some cheap gobbo booster packs (pre ordered), going to get a troll and a skaven box. Now i just need a good name for my underworld team...

Very exciting. Was hoping for Stadium and pitch rules as they are quite fun in BB2 digital. Keeping Star Players can be interesting. I don't know what the benefits and drawbacks for Sponsorships are, but can be fun.

Are the rules for referees going to be a re-run of referees from White Dwarf? Or other additional Referee rules? What about new coaching staff rules? Return of the Wizard or anything else?

Not sure if Hall of Fame teams are of any interest. My initial understanding was that these were alterations of the original teams. Like the Bright Crusaders, a Human Team which trades in cheating and foul play and gets situational re-rolls instead. The team listed I saw more as an example of a historic team. The team composition and level-ups are complete garbage. A lineman got pass! Would it not be possible to play this team using a fresh human team and adding the custom rules on top?

You really have to exclude all of the reprinting of old rules to find what's interesting in these books.

Plastic Goblins are amazing, the Forgeworld stuff is truly terrible tbh, I'll buy 2 packs of the standard team and get cutting.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/05/14/more-blood-bowl-at-warhammer-fest/
Orcland raiders


neoprene pitch

I quite like the Raiders. The Black Orc and Blitzer are particularly good looking. No new poses but we expected that after the Crusaders.

Orcland raiders is pretty funny considering the team they are parodying won't have that name much longer!

These guys are some of the better Bloodbowl figures Forgeworld has released, which is a bit of a shame so much of the other stuff haas been a miss.

Oh, does anyone know if they're ever going to release Grak and Crambleberry?

EDIT: the neoprene pitch looks awesome

They're already released - just WHW and event exclusive

Gotcha, I should have clarified I meant released to a wider audience. But I guess Warhammer World exclusive dooms that potential.

I'm sure you could get one through Mad Doc Grotsniks Facebook group (where I got mine).

If you search for one of his posts the link is in his signature

Did I miss the reikland reavers neoprene pitch sometime? I don't think I ever saw it up for sale. The orc one turned out pretty cool though. And the orcland raiders look pretty nice. I hope the pogo stick gobbo turns out better than the other special weapons.

The Reilkand pitch has been delayed or cancelled possibly due to some production problem (was one post about it earlier).

Not very happy about the way GW/FW is releasing some of their products. Seems like Warhammer Fest is bought and paid for by Ebay Scalp Fest. Limited releases, sold out products, event only... Blood Bowl was already quite obsucre and difficult to get your hands on. This new strategy is not always fixing that. You need to really pay attention and have focus to actually pick some of these products up.

Right now there are ALOT of new (or reappearing) releases:

Skaven Booster
Skaven Dice
Skaven Pitch
Hakflem Skuttlespike
Orc Dice (Alternative)
Orcland Raiders
Orc Pitch (Alternative)
Orc Booster (Speculation)
Human Dice (Alternative)
Human Pitch (Alternative) DELAYED
Human Booster (Speculation)
Dwarf Pitch
Dwarf Dice
Grim Ironjaw
Goblin Box
Goblin Dice
Goblin 4-pack
Goblin Secret Weapons 1
Goblin Secret Weapons 2 (Speculation)
White Dwarf & Black Gobbo
Death Zone Season 2

That's a long list, but only one actual new team in that pile.

The Raiders stuff must be resin casts from revised CADs used for the plastics as the sculpting actually looks crisp.

I found the Skaven Pitch (and the Orc side of the starter pitch) almost unusable from a readability perspective.

New positionals for the Goblin team, with new skills to boot! The Doom Diver and 'Ooligan.

https://war-of-sigmar.herokuapp.com/bloggings/2002

'Ooligan is utterly pointless, unless its a misprint and it should be Dirty player.

 SJM wrote:
'Ooligan is utterly pointless, unless its a misprint and it should be Dirty player.

I doubt it's a misprint. Its worth might depend on whether they've changed how Fan Favorite works.

Fan favourite is like having an assistant coach and a cheerleader, plus the bonus on pitch invasion and throw a rock (allowing for 4+ or 5+ pitch invasions if you get FAME naturally). That's a bonus on over 1/3 of kickoff results.

Disturbing presence isn't huge, but it's a nice bonus.

I'm wondering how good swoop has to be for the doom diver to lose Dodge and increase cost by 20k compared to a goblin.

decker_cky wrote:
Fan favourite is like having an assistant coach and a cheerleader, plus the bonus on pitch invasion and throw a rock (allowing for 4+ or 5+ pitch invasions if you get FAME naturally). That's a bonus on over 1/3 of kickoff results.

Disturbing presence isn't huge, but it's a nice bonus.

I'm wondering how good swoop has to be for the doom diver to lose Dodge and increase cost by 20k compared to a goblin.

Being a long time Goblin player, it really doesn't seem worth the 30 extra TV.

Can't wait to see the rules for Swoop! I've always wanted to make the Throw Team-mate play actually work, and if swoop gives you more control over where you land, it could be super helpful. Maybe something like using the throw-in template (in a direction of your choosing) instead of the scatter template for your three scatters? Just guessing.

This could get me to start playing Goblins instead of my usual Lizardmen, just to try and make that skill work...

 SJM wrote:

decker_cky wrote:
Fan favourite is like having an assistant coach and a cheerleader, plus the bonus on pitch invasion and throw a rock (allowing for 4+ or 5+ pitch invasions if you get FAME naturally). That's a bonus on over 1/3 of kickoff results.

Disturbing presence isn't huge, but it's a nice bonus.

I'm wondering how good swoop has to be for the doom diver to lose Dodge and increase cost by 20k compared to a goblin.

Being a long time Goblin player, it really doesn't seem worth the 30 extra TV.

And bombardiers have never been worth anywhere near 40k.

It's a value measurement, and a fun and fluffy option you can take if you're so inclined. As someone who has played with a fan favourite (as a prize that adds 30k to a player's value), let me tell you that it's worth the look on your opponent's face the one time you get a 3+ pitch invasion.

decker_cky wrote:

 SJM wrote:

decker_cky wrote:
Fan favourite is like having an assistant coach and a cheerleader, plus the bonus on pitch invasion and throw a rock (allowing for 4+ or 5+ pitch invasions if you get FAME naturally). That's a bonus on over 1/3 of kickoff results.

Disturbing presence isn't huge, but it's a nice bonus.

I'm wondering how good swoop has to be for the doom diver to lose Dodge and increase cost by 20k compared to a goblin.

Being a long time Goblin player, it really doesn't seem worth the 30 extra TV.

And bombardiers have never been worth anywhere near 40k.

It's a value measurement, and a fun and fluffy option you can take if you're so inclined. As someone who has played with a fan favourite (as a prize that adds 30k to a player's value), let me tell you that it's worth the look on your opponent's face the one time you get a 3+ pitch invasion.

Bombardiers are great value as long as you roll doubles first skill for HMP!

Zetan wrote:
Can't wait to see the rules for Swoop! I've always wanted to make the Throw Team-mate play actually work, and if swoop gives you more control over where you land, it could be super helpful. Maybe something like using the throw-in template (in a direction of your choosing) instead of the scatter template for your three scatters? Just guessing.

This could get me to start playing Goblins instead of my usual Lizardmen, just to try and make that skill work...

I once pulled off a successful throw with an Orc and Goblin team, managed to tie up opponent's players, threw a goblin, opponent failed a dodge to swap it back to me, squeezed a blitzer through to knock out the ball carrier and the goblin picked up the ball and got a touchdown.

Rare, but entertaining when it happens.

I scored a touchdown throwing a Halfling with the ball in my first game with them. I'm definitely naming the lone goblin on my Renegades team Long Bomb.

I have to say the painting on the new Goblin team on the GW website is absolutly stunning. I just finished painting some grots for 40k and was pretty pleased with them until I saw those pictures, now they look like a pile of gak!

Wish me could paint dat good

I've seen some special event cards (probably for Miscellaneous Mayhem deck) released by something called "Las Vegas Open" or something similar. What is this and how are they able to release new unique cards? Are they official from GW? Or is this some stunt created by event organizers?

Can't seem to find any info about this. What is Las Vegas Open (in context to Blood Bowl)?

Iirc those cards are unofficial promo items. Just something they do for their events for fun.

Thanks!

I've also seen Winter Bowl promo cards. They are slightly different though, cards are just new or altered inducements, not Special Play Cards.

I ask cause I've seen these items pop up on ebay.

The winter cards came with the winter pitch, those are official, just currently out of stock. For official Special Play cards, there's the Blitzmania ones which include three Misc Mayhem and two Random Events, one (bugman's beer or something iirc) that was only available during an event at Warhammer World, and one (early bird) for preorder the starter box when it was first coming back. Would love to get my hands on those other two, but good luck finding actual cards and not reprints of them on eBay.

 AduroT wrote:
The winter cards came with the winter pitch, those are official, just currently out of stock. For official Special Play cards, there's the Blitzmania ones which include three Misc Mayhem and two Random Events, one (bugman's beer or something iirc) that was only available during an event at Warhammer World, and one (early bird) for preorder the starter box when it was first coming back. Would love to get my hands on those other two, but good luck finding actual cards and not reprints of them on eBay.

Great info thanks!

So the Winter Card inducements are official huh.

I'm planning to move over from original printed cards to print out all cards myself. Mainly to be able to sleeve the cards for longevity, make the cards last longer, but also to make them not recognizable. I got the Blitzmania cards but they have a significant different color or shine to them, making them easily recognizable when on top of the deck. Also the GW card dimensions is really awkward with no plastic sleeves available for that size.

If I print the cards myself, it will also be much easier to transport the cards in standard card decks and I can add rare unavailable cards with ease.

Yeah, I wish the color on the two green Blitzmania cards was a better match for the deck. And also that GW would just use normal sized cards so their stuff could be sleeved instead of using unique dimensions for all of them.

Maybe you can use this:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1e2D1Q517AtwSwPQnKXwOKZBVoebW9-e0W54yUZ1hQkE/edit?usp=sharing

I previously used Google Docs. It was horrible and made the editing a nightmare. Refused to download as pdf, if it did manage to convert to pdf, it added line breaks all over the place.

Now I moved to Google Slides with many benefits and less bugs.

Currently working on adding the cards with some color design to them. Later will finish copying the rest of the document.

Got the new Death Zone Season 2! now. The rule set is getting quite advanced. New special character referees with different rules and you typically roll on a table to see how they react.

New stadium rules. New sponsorships giving you some bonuses (like more $$$ or re-rolls but also having a drawback).

Swoop is like some suggested using the throw-in template instead of D8. But they lose stunty for dodge (cumbersome wings).

Rules for keeping Star Players on your team. Pay the price once, then subsequent post matches you pay a much smaller price defined in a table.

New hall of fame teams. A bunch of old star players. Some brand new star players.

Ah man, my preordered DZ2 isn't going to arrive for another week. Lame. I'm excited for details about the sponsorships!

You roll a D16 + Fan Factor.

Apply modifiers:

+2 if you have stadium
+2 if you won or +3 if you won by two or more touch downs
+2 if other team suffered 3-4 casualties or +3 if they suffered 5 or more casualties (no matter the cause)
+3 if the game was part of play-offs or +5 if final

If the result is 20-24, you can choose one-time sponsorship or ongoing sponsorship.

One-time is high award less risk. Ongoing is less award higher risk but you keep it as long as you want.

Reward is typically some $$$ extra and risk is typically a player miss next game.

If you get 25+ you can choose named sponsorships of which there are 4 of. They are quite detailed and span more than a page.

If you add custom ball rules, stadium rules, referee rules and a different weather table and 6 decks of Special Play cards, you'll have quite a lot to remember during the match!

The teams released are the Goblins, Underworld and Chaos Renegade. Goblins have changes already discussed. Underworld seems identical. Chaos Renegade got 0-1 Line Orc now, with Animosity.

Are the ref and ball rules the ones they had in White Dwarf?

Also the Renegade Orc annoys me a bit. It's super bland, trading one less move for one less armor, but then losing access to Strength and Passing skills on normal rolls and getting Animosity vs the Human Linemen. Like he kind of serves a Blocker role where he sits on the line and is slightly harder to stun, but doesn't get Strength skills? Meanwhile it screws with my plans of using a trio of Orc Linemen models as stand ins for some of the Humans (along with a trio of Dwarves) to increase the sculpt/racial diversity of the Renegades. I would mind it much less if it didn't lose access to the same normal skills as Humans or if they had made it a Black Orc.

Baxx wrote:
You roll a D16 + Fan Factor.

Apply modifiers:

+2 if you have stadium
+2 if you won or +3 if you won by two or more touch downs
+2 if other team suffered 3-4 casualties or +3 if they suffered 5 or more casualties (no matter the cause)
+3 if the game was part of play-offs or +5 if final

If the result is 20-24, you can choose one-time sponsorship or ongoing sponsorship.

One-time is high award less risk. Ongoing is less award higher risk but you keep it as long as you want.

Reward is typically some $$$ extra and risk is typically a player miss next game.

If you get 25+ you can choose named sponsorships of which there are 4 of. They are quite detailed and span more than a page.

If you add custom ball rules, stadium rules, referee rules and a different weather table and 6 decks of Special Play cards, you'll have quite a lot to remember during the match!

The teams released are the Goblins, Underworld and Chaos Renegade. Goblins have changes already discussed. Underworld seems identical. Chaos Renegade got 0-1 Line Orc now, with Animosity.

Cool, thanks for the details! I was considering custom sponsorship rules for my league so it'll be nice to have some officials rules / guidelines.

 AduroT wrote:
Are the ref and ball rules the ones they had in White Dwarf?

Also the Renegade Orc annoys me a bit. It's super bland, trading one less move for one less armor, but then losing access to Strength and Passing skills on normal rolls and getting Animosity vs the Human Linemen. Like he kind of serves a Blocker role where he sits on the line and is slightly harder to stun, but doesn't get Strength skills? Meanwhile it screws with my plans of using a trio of Orc Linemen models as stand ins for some of the Humans (along with a trio of Dwarves) to increase the sculpt/racial diversity of the Renegades. I would mind it much less if it didn't lose access to the same normal skills as Humans or if they had made it a Black Orc.

No, the referees in Death Zone Season 2! are named referees and you roll on a table to see which (if any) will judge the match. The ones in White Dwarf are generic "Goblin" or "Halfling" referee.

The ball rules was actually a reference to the White Dwarf you mention. DZ2 does not include ball rules unfortunately.

Hmm yes now that I see the Human line man for Renegades, the Orc doesn't seem to offer much and indeed lose access to alot of skills.

There's a few new star players too.

Glart Smashrip is a more skilled, slower version of Glart Smashrip Jr. Losing 2 MA, 1 AG and cost 20k less, but gaining Grab and Stand Firm. Also playing for Chaos Renegades in addition to Skaven. Not sure if GW plan to keep Jr or not.

Guffle Pusmaw now also available for Chaos Renegades.

Karla von Kill, new blodge jump up dauntless average human with 4 ST for 220'000.

Others are Kreek Rustgouger (Ball & Chain MA5), Madcap Miggz (Squig Hopper!?!) and the Swift Twins (Lucien & Valen).

Darn, aaa hoping they'd have the ball rules in there plus some new ones, at least for the goblins.

And the goblin box comes with 2x2 sprues. 1 of which are sold separate in the 4-pack.

Baxx wrote:
And the goblin box comes with 2x2 sprues. 1 of which are sold separate in the 4-pack.

Yup, just got mine today. They have one sprue that has a coin, a token, two balls, two goblin bodies and three goblins heads.

The other sprue has four goblin bodies, four goblin heads, and one ball.

The regular goblin box has two of each of these sprues, while the little box just has one of the second sprue.

Also, like all the other boxes, it comes with a suggested roster for using only the models in that box, which is as hilarious as you might expect:


YOU HAVE 8 RE-ROLLS AND 4 FAN FACTOR GOOD LUCK SCRUB! XD

Wow, perfectly legit team suited to be pitted against Orcs or Humans (or any team for that matter) haha.

I think GW easily could have pushed more minis into the box. It comes packaged with a lot of air. So far Goblins have the lowest Team Value out of the starter sets:

Goblins: 480
Humans: 740
Orcs: 760
Skaven: 780
Dwarf: 920

Goblins suffer the most for duplicate poses when it comes to Trolls. They really need two trolls and they really need another pose for that troll. It's way too unique, having two will look garbage on pitch.

I doubled down on that problem by picking up two of the skull pass trolls. Horrible models, but at least I won't feel bad about converting them.

Should be very easy to convert the goblin specialists as well if you have any sort of bits box.

Oh, yeah, the Skull Pass troll does have his arms raised to throw a rock or something, doesn't he?
Remove rock, replace with gobbo, job done. Especially since I have the "official" BB troll too...

Baxx wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
Are the ref and ball rules the ones they had in White Dwarf?

Also the Renegade Orc annoys me a bit. It's super bland, trading one less move for one less armor, but then losing access to Strength and Passing skills on normal rolls and getting Animosity vs the Human Linemen. Like he kind of serves a Blocker role where he sits on the line and is slightly harder to stun, but doesn't get Strength skills? Meanwhile it screws with my plans of using a trio of Orc Linemen models as stand ins for some of the Humans (along with a trio of Dwarves) to increase the sculpt/racial diversity of the Renegades. I would mind it much less if it didn't lose access to the same normal skills as Humans or if they had made it a Black Orc.

No, the referees in Death Zone Season 2! are named referees and you roll on a table to see which (if any) will judge the match. The ones in White Dwarf are generic "Goblin" or "Halfling" referee.

The ball rules was actually a reference to the White Dwarf you mention. DZ2 does not include ball rules unfortunately.

Hmm yes now that I see the Human line man for Renegades, the Orc doesn't seem to offer much and indeed lose access to alot of skills.

There's a few new star players too.

Glart Smashrip is a more skilled, slower version of Glart Smashrip Jr. Losing 2 MA, 1 AG and cost 20k less, but gaining Grab and Stand Firm. Also playing for Chaos Renegades in addition to Skaven. Not sure if GW plan to keep Jr or not.

Guffle Pusmaw now also available for Chaos Renegades.

Karla von Kill, new blodge jump up dauntless average human with 4 ST for 220'000.

Others are Kreek Rustgouger (Ball & Chain MA5), Madcap Miggz (Squig Hopper!?!) and the Swift Twins (Lucien & Valen).

As to the fat skaven Glart Smashrip, my sculptor Rykar Jove, from Spain, has made the figure. PM me and I can give you the contact info to get one.

 bound for glory wrote:

Baxx wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
Are the ref and ball rules the ones they had in White Dwarf?

Also the Renegade Orc annoys me a bit. It's super bland, trading one less move for one less armor, but then losing access to Strength and Passing skills on normal rolls and getting Animosity vs the Human Linemen. Like he kind of serves a Blocker role where he sits on the line and is slightly harder to stun, but doesn't get Strength skills? Meanwhile it screws with my plans of using a trio of Orc Linemen models as stand ins for some of the Humans (along with a trio of Dwarves) to increase the sculpt/racial diversity of the Renegades. I would mind it much less if it didn't lose access to the same normal skills as Humans or if they had made it a Black Orc.

No, the referees in Death Zone Season 2! are named referees and you roll on a table to see which (if any) will judge the match. The ones in White Dwarf are generic "Goblin" or "Halfling" referee.

The ball rules was actually a reference to the White Dwarf you mention. DZ2 does not include ball rules unfortunately.

Hmm yes now that I see the Human line man for Renegades, the Orc doesn't seem to offer much and indeed lose access to alot of skills.

There's a few new star players too.

Glart Smashrip is a more skilled, slower version of Glart Smashrip Jr. Losing 2 MA, 1 AG and cost 20k less, but gaining Grab and Stand Firm. Also playing for Chaos Renegades in addition to Skaven. Not sure if GW plan to keep Jr or not.

Guffle Pusmaw now also available for Chaos Renegades.

Karla von Kill, new blodge jump up dauntless average human with 4 ST for 220'000.

Others are Kreek Rustgouger (Ball & Chain MA5), Madcap Miggz (Squig Hopper!?!) and the Swift Twins (Lucien & Valen).

As to the fat skaven Glart Smashrip, my sculptor Rykar Jove, from Spain, has made the figure. PM me and I can give you the contact info to get one.

Please tell me he looks like a hamster.

I really want Karla von Kill for my Caladian Star Hawks. Unless she's of the same quality as the other forgeworld star players.

 NivlacSupreme wrote:
I really want Karla von Kill for my Caladian Star Hawks. Unless she's of the same quality as the other forgeworld star players.

Apart from Zug for some reason who's one of the best sculpts FW have put out in a while for any system.

 plastictrees wrote:

 NivlacSupreme wrote:
I really want Karla von Kill for my Caladian Star Hawks. Unless she's of the same quality as the other forgeworld star players.

Apart from Zug for some reason who's one of the best sculpts FW have put out in a while for any system.

He really is. Griff is... Well he would make a nice arbitrator.

The new referees are really funny. Specially the incompetent three halflings. If you foul an opponent, they may actually send off the fouled player instead!

I've liked the star players, it's just the Forge World Skaven and Gobbos I've not cared for.

Dwarf Slayer and Skaven Clan Pestilens teams are now available in the My Dugout app.

fattdex wrote:
Dwarf Slayer and Skaven Clan Pestilens teams are now available in the My Dugout app.

So that's four exclusive teams on there now, along with the Bretonnians and the Savage Orcs?

Human Nobility rather than Bretonnians, but yup.

Please share rosters, and skill improvements for standard and double skills!

Baxx wrote:
Please share rosters, and skill improvements for standard and double skills!

Please do NOT share copyrighted material.

No, you misunderstand. Please do! Just like we already have done in the past. This needs to be discussed!

If it's content that you have to pay for, it's not right that it's shared and could land Dakka in trouble surely.

I would have to wait for reddit, youtubers and podcasts to do it then.

Everything else have already been shared here (all WD rules, DZ1, DZ2, special play card decks, pitches, previous app teams...).

Anyway, Beast Slayers, Troll Slayers and Dragon Slayers have GS, Skaven Slayers have GP.

Still looking for doubles on the Dwarf team.

For Skaven, Novitiates got GM, Pox flingers got GP, Poison Keepers got GA, Cardinals got GS and Rat Ogre got S. Everyone have M, except Novitiates.

Still looking for doubles on Novitiates.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/05/27/warhammer-fest-live-blog/

Scroll down to the "What’s next for Blood Bowl?" on that page for some great new preview images.

A few thoughts:
1) Skaven team booster is great. Fill out the Gutter Runners from the core box, and replace the second thrower and blitzer with new unique sculpts. Hard to argue with that!

2) Underworld Denizens and Chaos Renegades - Tokens imply these will be getting their own boxes, instead of just a repack like Underworld has now. Hoping for new sculpts for all the players so the teams feel truly unique, but on the other hand, maybe the it's better if the sculptors are working on teams that don't exist yet?

3) Goblin Pitch - Looks great, wonder what's on the other side. Maybe elves?

4) Human team booster is an odd choice... it looks like it has only one catcher, and includes an extra thrower? I'm all for variety, but needing to buy two of these to make it up to 4 catchers seems bad.

5) Minotaur - Looks great! Probably there mostly for Chaos Renegades, but might he mean that Chaos Chosen teams are around the corner? Of the 11 teams that aren't in a Death Zone book, 2 of them are Chaos (and both use a Minotaur), so that could be a hint at what will be in the next book, maybe with Ogres or something (since you can sorta make an Ogre team now). An Undead book makes sense after that (since there are four undead teams) , followed by a book with a sort of "teams from distant lands" theme for Lizardmen, Amazons, and Norse? Maybe throw Halflings in that last one too, since they're not exactly a priority...

6) Team Card Packs - Not sure how I feel about these. It is neat having a card for each of your players, but how well will pencil erase from them? Or are you expected to use a wet erase marker or something similar? But that seems like it would rub off a little too easily...

7) Elf player - Finally! If they're working on all the elf teams simultaneously (seems likely, they should have a lot in common) that only leaves Nurgle as the only Season One team to be released.

There's some other stuff there too, but most of it we already knew about .

Looks like granny is serious about Blood Bowl....Until they ar'nt.

 bound for glory wrote:
Looks like granny is serious about Blood Bowl....Until they ar'nt.

What do you mean?

Re: goblin pitch, I was lucky enough to attend the seminar today,but was right at the back (which was difficult to hear at times), but I thought the chaps said the reverse was a waterlogged goblin pitch, with something about squiqs depicted on the board and potentially featuring in the unique rules.

Also, someone in the audience asked about the disparate rules appearances, and the team commented that they hoped to compile everything into one complete book - but that would be many years from now.

Love that Glart Smashrip has his own warpstone ball, with a chunk bitten out of it!

Totally not sold on the chainsaw gobbo though. Doesn't look right at all…

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Love that Glart Smashrip has his own warpstone ball, with a chunk bitten out of it!

Totally not sold on the chainsaw gobbo though. Doesn't look right at all…

Nope, not a fan of any of the special weapons. Soon as I saw them I began converting my own.

Zetan wrote:

 bound for glory wrote:
Looks like granny is serious about Blood Bowl....Until they ar'nt.

What do you mean?

Wrote a long post, but...

TL;DR Granny has a crappy track record with Blood Bowl. I've played the game(the best game GW ever made, imo) since the paper stand up days. Still run 2 leagues a year with our club, the thursday night hero's, just a bunch of old friends having fun. But GW will let the game stagnate again.

It does'nt make them enough money. Not everyone will buy everything gw makes for the game(I own over 1,500 BB/FF figures) so it will fail when put up against New, Big, fancy, BIG(Derp) space marines, and thats a shame.

Anyway, I do hope this time the game hangs around. It is really a great game. But not everyone will do much more then the basics*, so who knows?

* I'm into the game so deep I made a team of my own. Designed, sculpted, cast. The Wild Things. Its a "counts as" ogre team with the monsters from the childrens book "where the wild things are" by M Sendak.

The team is in honour of my cousin Mike, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2008. Proceeds go to the wounded warrior fund. PM me if you'd like to see pictures.

 bound for glory wrote:
Wrote a long post, but...

Agree with most of what you said here. I don't even hesitate to say that Blood Bowl is the best game they've ever made.

I'm very optimistic at this point. All indications I've heard is that the game is selling way better than they expected it to, meaning they've been shifting gears and now plan to support it a lot more heavily than they'd initially planned.

I've been super impressed with their recent treatment of the game. They tried to change the rules as little as possible, and all the major changes they did make (like re-drafting) are actually positive changes, IMO. They've had a few missteps (like underproducing the extra pitches and dice) but they're actually going back and making more of them, which is awesome.

This is the only GW game for which I've let my collector mentality run wild; I've purchased every team, every plastic big guy, every card pack, every dice set and pitch I could get at a reasonable price... basically everything. I also have money set aside equal to what it would currently cost to buy every star player and big guy on Forge World, and I'm keeping that fund current, so when the number hits £250, I can buy it all at once with free shipping. I know I'm not the norm by any stretch, most people will just buy a single team and play with that, but apparently there's more of us than GW expected, which will be good for a while.

Anyway, I'm fairly confident at this point that we'll have at least another year or two of steady releases like this, which should be enough to get all the teams out and hopefully get that big compiled rulebook someone mentioned. At that point, if they lose interest and stop supporting it, it won't really break my heart; I'll still have many many games ahead of me, and awesome miniatures to play them with.

Lets hope you are right, friend. Lets hope you are right.

Just looking over my purchase today, and notice something unusual, and probably not-actually-interesting.

The Gobbos wielding the special weapons don't have a tab, but come on a slottabase. But the kit comes with bits of Resin to fill the slot on their slottabase.

How thoughtful/ultimately kind of pointless is that!

The Minotaur looks like it could be plastic to me, but I dont really kbow what tinexpect from blood bowl stuff. Would any og you wonderful people have any idea is it'll be plastic or resin?

The miniature pictured in the community site article is clearly resin cast, so I'd say that was more likely. Especially given the relative utility of the model as a gaming pice compared to the Ogre and Troll.

Does anybody know the price for the different start players, boosters etc available during the fest?

Skaven Booster - £20.
Star Players - £18 (same as webstore)
SP Duo - £20 (same as Grak and Crumbleberry)
Orcland Raiders - £32 (same as Bright Crusder upgrade sprue)
Neoprene pitches - £40 apiece

Absolutely nothing that deviated from standard pricing.

I like the Neoprene Pitch's designs but it looks as though the grid markings are going to be quite hard to see? They probably should have gone with white instead of black.

Clockpunk wrote:
Skaven Booster - £20.
Star Players - £18 (same as webstore)
SP Duo - £20 (same as Grak and Crumbleberry)
Orcland Raiders - £32 (same as Bright Crusder upgrade sprue)
Neoprene pitches - £40 apiece

Absolutely nothing that deviated from standard pricing.

Thanks! Are the SP duo exclusives? Or will everything be available later in the FG store?

soulforged wrote:

Clockpunk wrote:
Skaven Booster - £20.
Star Players - £18 (same as webstore)
SP Duo - £20 (same as Grak and Crumbleberry)
Orcland Raiders - £32 (same as Bright Crusder upgrade sprue)
Neoprene pitches - £40 apiece

Absolutely nothing that deviated from standard pricing.

Thanks! Are the SP duo exclusives? Or will everything be available later in the FG store?

They're not a limited release - at one of the seminars they said they hoped to release through FW in a couple of weeks time - very quick turn around time (so avoid potential scalper prices on eBay!)

Just assembled my goblin special weapons set, and I have to say - the ball and chain is simply phenomenal! Remind me of he Bow Wow Chain Chomp from Links Awakening. ^_^

Clockpunk wrote:

soulforged wrote:

Clockpunk wrote:
Skaven Booster - £20.
Star Players - £18 (same as webstore)
SP Duo - £20 (same as Grak and Crumbleberry)
Orcland Raiders - £32 (same as Bright Crusder upgrade sprue)
Neoprene pitches - £40 apiece

Absolutely nothing that deviated from standard pricing.

Thanks! Are the SP duo exclusives? Or will everything be available later in the FG store?

They're not a limited release - at one of the seminars they said they hoped to release through FW in a couple of weeks time - very quick turn around time (so avoid potential scalper prices on eBay!)

Just assembled my goblin special weapons set, and I have to say - the ball and chain is simply phenomenal! Remind me of he Bow Wow Chain Chomp from Links Awakening. ^_^

Good to read, I have already seen really overpriced blisters already on ebay... Good to know that everything will be available. Now just wait until I can order 250€ to get free shipping

Clockpunk wrote:
Just assembled my goblin special weapons set, and I have to say - the ball and chain is simply phenomenal! Remind me of he Bow Wow Chain Chomp from Links Awakening. ^_^

Clockpunk, how fragile does the smoke on the Bombadier and the ball & chain on the Fanatic appear to be? They both looked to efatuer quite thing bits of resin on the preview pics.

Also, have you been able to figure out WTF is going on with the Chainsaw Goblin's face?

 Dysartes wrote:

Clockpunk wrote:
Just assembled my goblin special weapons set, and I have to say - the ball and chain is simply phenomenal! Remind me of he Bow Wow Chain Chomp from Links Awakening. ^_^

Clockpunk, how fragile does the smoke on the Bombadier and the ball & chain on the Fanatic appear to be? They both looked to efatuer quite thing bits of resin on the preview pics.

Also, have you been able to figure out WTF is going on with the Chainsaw Goblin's face?

Chainsawer face is just a simple hockey-esque mask - looks a lot better in person than the pics. Ball and chain is sturdy enough - attaches to the fanatic via his wrists and a base chain section, IIRC. The bombers smoke itself is pretty solid, but where it pins into the bomb body... I did find that a little tricky to glue and hold in place - got tbere eventually, but it did require a bit of attention to stop it wobbling.

They're fantastic sculpts full of character - really made me smile once I had finished putting them together!

Any idea when the general release is supposed to be for the goblin special weapons?

How much did the set cost?

 Inanimate wrote:
Any idea when the general release is supposed to be for the goblin special weapons?

How much did the set cost?

Check the Warhammer Fest summary thread but, IIRC, someone said the expansion packs (goblin, human, Skaven) were £18 ea. and we're projecting a couple of weeks to full release.

Surprised no other site has posted these yet, but a big book of Blood Bowl artwork at the game's dedicated stand featured at the end a few render images of Orc cheerleaders. The team kept mentioning cheerleaders in jest in the panel, and I have no idea if these were just concept or are planned for actual release, but... here are the pics I snapped.

Also, I spoke to Tom (the sculptor of Mighty Zug - I believe that was his first name) and got a definitive answer as to his intended vision - it was indeed the hand holding a ball! He admitted it was unusual for Zug, true, but he envisaged Zug scooping up the ball after it had been dropped by a nasty blitz, and using it to lure other opponents to within arms reach.

 Mr_Rose wrote:

 Inanimate wrote:
Any idea when the general release is supposed to be for the goblin special weapons?

How much did the set cost?

Check the Warhammer Fest summary thread but, IIRC, someone said the expansion packs (goblin, human, Skaven) were £18 ea. and we're projecting a couple of weeks to full release.

£20 each

Last couple of thoughts from the show - based on what was said, shown, and intoned (always the rogue element) - were I a gambling man, I would lay money on the following as a likely release schedule for full team sets: Elven Union - Nurgle - Wood Elves - Treeman - Halfings. I didn't see anything Nurgle related, much to my dismay, but they did mention Wood Elves and Halflings a lot, and reiterated all the teams in the book would be released. I suspect they will appear just like the go lins have (big fella for an existing team, which overlaps with them, and a smaller box of 4 for human teams). All my own inference, of course, coupled with long-rumoured double-sided elf/Nurgle pitch - but that would line everything up neatly.

Another chap said they were aiming for a new boxed team every four months - which is a bit oddly slow, given they have hired two dedicated sculptors for the range, but... The huge numbers spending a lot on Blood Bowl at the festival really showed how popular the game is - was very nice to see such support.

Clockpunk wrote:
I suspect they will appear just like the go lins have (big fella for an existing team, which overlaps with them, and a smaller box of 4 for human teams). All my own inference, of course, coupled with long-rumoured double-sided elf/Nurgle pitch - but that would line everything up neatly.

The difference is that Human teams can't take Halflings like the Orcs can with Goblins... unless they're planning to change that? That would be interesting... might make me more interested in humans.

What is the solution for Bright Crusaders and Orcland raiders when it comes to booster packs?

1) Release gimped standard teams
2) Release gimped alternative teams
3) Release booster packs to fix standard teams
4) ?

Also the 2 throwers 1 catcher for human booster is really strange as pointed out.

The booster is 2 blitzes, 1 thrower and a catcher?

Vorian wrote:
The booster is 2 blitzes, 1 thrower and a catcher?

Right, but the base box contains two out of two Throwers and two out of four Catchers. The booster should have been two Blizters and two Catchers as that's what's required to get all positions.

It is a bit hard to see the logic, but at least I'll have a 12 man squad with only one duplication

The Orc booster pack hasn't been officially listed for release yet. Have you tried emailing them or contacting them on FB and suggesting they change the pack contents?

Zetan wrote:

Clockpunk wrote:
I suspect they will appear just like the go lins have (big fella for an existing team, which overlaps with them, and a smaller box of 4 for human teams). All my own inference, of course, coupled with long-rumoured double-sided elf/Nurgle pitch - but that would line everything up neatly.

The difference is that Human teams can't take Halflings like the Orcs can with Goblins... unless they're planning to change that? That would be interesting... might make me more interested in humans.

Added that as a house rule years ago, good stuff.

 AduroT wrote:

Vorian wrote:
The booster is 2 blitzes, 1 thrower and a catcher?

Right, but the base box contains two out of two Throwers and two out of four Catchers. The booster should have been two Blizters and two Catchers as that's what's required to get all positions.

You do realise there's ways to play without filling all positions. I won with one Cather once. He had to roll a 5+ three times to get into the end zone. I rolled three sixes.

 NivlacSupreme wrote:

 AduroT wrote:

Vorian wrote:
The booster is 2 blitzes, 1 thrower and a catcher?

Right, but the base box contains two out of two Throwers and two out of four Catchers. The booster should have been two Blizters and two Catchers as that's what's required to get all positions.

You do realise there's ways to play without filling all positions. I won with one Cather once. He had to roll a 5+ three times to get into the end zone. I rolled three sixes.

If you don't want to fill out all the positional slots then you aren't buying the booster anyway. Literally no-one can use three throwers. Someone just wasn't paying attention.

That, and maybe, just maybe, people want alternate sculpts for specialist players, so when you're on the field you can easily tell one from another.

But that's crazy talk!

The only solution would be to let the booster have 5 models: 1 thrower, 2 catchers, 2 blitzers.

I'd much rather have 2x2 catchers than 2+1 throwers.

What to expect when orc booster comes out? 2 blitzers,1 black orc and a thrower?

These teams rarely even take 2 throwers so there is way more justification for an additional catcher/black orc.

I would like to see a booster pack for bright crusaders/orcland raiders though.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
That, and maybe, just maybe, people want alternate sculpts for specialist players, so when you're on the field you can easily tell one from another.

But that's crazy talk!

I'd love alternate sculpts for every member of the team (including linemen), but it isn't first priority, imo. First priority for me (and obviously others here) is being able to easily buy the models required to field the maximum number of positionals the team is allowed to take.

I'm not a big fan of buying more of a positional than I can field... yes, two throwers with different poses is neat, but then the extra one from the core box feels like wasted plastic.

Forge World finally released White Dwarf & Black Gobbo, Skaven booster and Grim Ironjaw. Funny to see scalpers still trying to get twice the price for these sets on ebay.

This calls for a celebration:

2 of 5 teams are now complete!

Hopefully Humans, Orcs and Goblins follow shortly.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/06/18/blood-bowl-made-to-order-2/


latest made to order stuff.


..never liked that treeman model whatsoever

I have that freeman....don't need another. It's just so far behind the times now.

I could use another 2 of those multi part Ogres(got a friend recovering from cancer)...can they be bought singly or do I need to buy a full team?

That vampire team is a beauty.

I have most of that Vampire team(bought bit by bit on ebay). Any idea what it will cost?

Neoprene Orcland Raiders pitch is showing as Sold Out.

Seems permanently, but this being a GW website, could be awaiting a restock.

Blood Bowl made-to-order preorders are up.

Those price are just plain slowed. Mean to say, I have all those teams except the Vampire team, which I have about 10 figures, but its not complete, but I would like another Ogre team for a friend recovering from a fight with cancer. We nicknamed Kyle Ogre because he is a modern day caveman. I have a million funny stories about Kyle, and I pray for him, because the cancer will come back...

Anyway, I can't believe those prices. I have 2 High Elf teams and 2 of a couple other GW teams. Might have to EBAY them, so I can buy teams from GASPEZ ARTS.

 bound for glory wrote:
Those price are just plain slowed. Mean to say, I have all those teams except the Vampire team, which I have about 10 figures, but its not complete, but I would like another Ogre team for a friend recovering from a fight with cancer. We nicknamed Kyle Ogre because he is a modern day caveman. I have a million funny stories about Kyle, and I pray for him, because the cancer will come back...

Anyway, I can't believe those prices. I have 2 High Elf teams and 2 of a couple other GW teams. Might have to EBAY them, so I can buy teams from GASPEZ ARTS.

You do realize you're looking at the NEW ZEALAND prices?

Derp. Sorry boys.

That Ogre team is one of the best modern Blood Bowl releases GW have made, and stands up well against the new plastic kits they've been pumping out. Might actually drop some cash on that.

Apparently it only comes with five Ogres though, not a full six.

Can someone please link me to US prices on those teams? I keep getting New Zealand prices.

thanks.

 bound for glory wrote:
Can someone please link me to US prices on those teams? I keep getting New Zealand prices.

thanks.

They're not up yet in the US.

Go to the flag in the top right corner on the GW webstore where it says "Delivering To". Set it back to US.

Preorders will go up somewhere between 1230pm Eastern and 1pm Eastern.

 AduroT wrote:
Apparently it only comes with five Ogres though, not a full six.

I know, which is a shame, but I can just use the new plastic ogre to fill it out, so it's all good in the end.

Any word on when the other three goblin positionals will be released? Probably waiting until then to place my big Forge World order.

Later this year.

Seems like the new pitch was withdrawn from FW because failing quality control...

Baxx wrote:
Seems like the new pitch was withdrawn from FW because failing quality control...

I noticed almost all of their neoprene mats are marked as temporarily out of stock on the GW site. Even the new soulblight necropolis.

I saw a post somewhere where someone's order for a mat was canceled and refunded by GW for a stated reason of production issues or quality failures. They seem to have a hard time getting the things made.

Cheaper and nicer Ogres here!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wordforgegames/gore-ball-ogres

WFG DRMR wrote:
Cheaper and nicer Ogres here!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wordforgegames/gore-ball-ogres

Not a fan of those at all. The GW ones are great figures.

yeah,
I caved and bought the GW ogre team, I then spent £18 on ebay buying a sixth ogre.
now I need to decide on what I'll use as runts... probability converted gnoblars?

Can't take fake teams to nottingham and ogres would be a fun team to play at the full beard cup.

Panic...

Goblins work fine. I think this is why they changed the position name from "Snotlings" to "Runts" so you can justify whatever smallish greenskin you want to throw in there. From Teams of Legend: "Ogre teams are bulked out with Gnoblars, Snotlings and similar ‘runts’"

I would just buy the 12-pack of goblins, it's a fun kit.

 Panic wrote:
yeah,
I caved and bought the GW ogre team, I then spent £18 on ebay buying a sixth ogre.
now I need to decide on what I'll use as runts... probability converted gnoblars?

Can't take fake teams to nottingham and ogres would be a fun team to play at the full beard cup.

Panic...

I have to say Im disapointed the neoprene pitch has been withdrawn. My standard card one is getting pretty beaten up being carried around to club nights, at least they are cheap to replace via ebay. Glad i didnt get the dwarf pitch i wanted, id just get upset seeing it get damaged

Anyway, with boosters now being a thing (i was more than surprised peoples hope for boosters actually turned into a product!) what boosters are we getting? Skaven and Human confirmed, goblin? (is that just the special weapons?), what about Orcs? they need positionals. Id hope for Dwarf but it would just be more blockers.

Boosters were always part of the official rumours.

I imagine Forgeworld are intending to supply all teams with the necessary boosters at some point.

Annnnd all of them are no longer available.

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Boxed-Games?Nu=product.repositoryId&N=2192287784+1894043718&qty=12&sorting=rec&view=table&categoryId=catboxedgames

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Annnnd all of them are no longer available.

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Boxed-Games?Nu=product.repositoryId&N=2192287784+1894043718&qty=12&sorting=rec&view=table&categoryId=catboxedgames

They went live on the 24th, i was surprised they were not down on the 1st, as they were one week only.

Yeah, that's standard practice so far for the "Made to Order" ranges.

Once all orders are in, GW casts up the required amounts and sends them out. Hence the finite sale time and the length of time from purchase to receipt of the goods.

I'm now going to sit here patiently twiddling my thumbs 'til the Ogre team gets here....

 Ghaz wrote:
Blood Bowl made-to-order preorders are up.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Annnnd all of them are no longer available.

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Boxed-Games?Nu=product.repositoryId&N=2192287784+1894043718&qty=12&sorting=rec&view=table&categoryId=catboxedgames

I go on vacation for a couple weeks, and the BB team I've wanted for freaking YEARS (Ogres) goes on sale and OOP again before I even know about it!!!

Thanks, GW.

We all knew they were limited but someone had to make it official

Luckily saw the vampires in time... just need the amazons now... if they'll make em.

Mdauben, you are probably better off with the Hungry Troll Ogre team anyway.

Glart Smashrip is now available for pre-orders.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/07/07/the-skavens-biggest-star-available-to-pre-order-today/

I really want new teams... Come on GW!

soulforged wrote:
Glart Smashrip is now available for pre-orders.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/07/07/the-skavens-biggest-star-available-to-pre-order-today/

I really want new teams... Come on GW!

Ugly as sin.

Great model, much anticipated.

Now Skaven got 2 star players. Humans got 2. Orcs got 1. Dwarves got 1. And then there's Morg for almost all teams.

Looks like the Skaven and Dwarf pitch is back in stock along with the Dwarf Giants dice:

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Blood-Bowl-Skaven-and-Dwarf-Pitch

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Dwarf-Giants-Blood-Bowl-Dice

... and already out of stock. (8min by my email to failed checkout attempt)

Hopefully just an IT error and they marked it as in stock too early so removed again. Otherwise... Goddamnit!

Blimey they vanished fast!

I've received the 'you asked' email, so hopefully they've not just flown out.

Not an essential for me personally, but a nice enough thing to have, especially if you're playing in a league. Everyone having their own unique 'home stadium' certainly adds an extra degree of cool!

I was about to by them and then think, ok I will wait for my online shop to add them so I get them with some discount... And now I see they are again out of stock

From a post on facebook blood bowl page, someone rang them and the really have sold out, again.

Blimey!

Wonder how many are about to show up on eBay at grossly inflated prices?

Funny, I thought it was mentioned the last time they sold out of these they'd solved the shortage issues and it wouldn't happen the next time they restocked. Whoops.

Joyboozer wrote:
Funny, I thought it was mentioned the last time they sold out of these they'd solved the shortage issues and it wouldn't happen the next time they restocked. Whoops.

There is always the possibility these will now be getting restocked in small numbers on a regular schedule, so more may be available in a few weeks (rather than 6+ months). Proof is in the pudding though.

If the pudding smells like bs, it's probably not pudding.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Blimey!

Wonder how many are about to show up on eBay at grossly inflated prices?

A few, but not many. They were limited to one per customer. Besides, if GW are doing regular restocks, those who are patient won't pay ebay prices...

Anyone who wants a fat rat...

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-DE/Glart-Smashrip-2017

Probably the Star Player I most like

something new about plastic teams or new star players?

May had gobbos and dzs2. Then there were a handfull of star players and alternative orc team. For july, only gobbo dice and alternative human and orc dice.

Just had an email...

Dear Customer,

On 12th July, due to a systems error, you may have noticed that the Blood Bowl Dwarf Dice and the Dwarf and Skaven Pitch you showed interest in appeared to be available on our website ahead of their official release. Unfortunately, you’ll have to wait a little bit longer before you can get your hands on these; they’ll be properly released on the 22nd of July. We’d like to say sorry for this.

Thank you for your patience,

Games Workshop

Same here.

Same message on their Facebook BB page too.

New dice sets available tomorrow. Reikland Reavers, Gouged Eye and Gobbo teams.

Also, Skavenblight dice back in stock too. Different packaging cube than the original, but at least it's not an arm and a leg like eBay.

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/Boxed-Games?N=3139375953+3129408095&_requestid=1080773


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Actually, that looks to be a new set of Skavenblight dice. The original set has the BB logo for the sixth side. The new set has the skaven symbol instead.

I'm not sure which set I like better. I have the originals...but if all the sets are going to have the symbols now.....damn you GW. Take more of my money.

Danzig8155 wrote:
New dice sets available tomorrow. Reikland Reavers, Gouged Eye and Gobbo teams.

Also, Skavenblight dice back in stock too. Different packaging cube than the original, but at least it's not an arm and a leg like eBay.

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/Boxed-Games?N=3139375953+3129408095&_requestid=1080773


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Actually, that looks to be a new set of Skavenblight dice. The original set has the BB logo for the sixth side. The new set has the skaven symbol instead.

I'm not sure which set I like better. I have the originals...but if all the sets are going to have the symbols now.....damn you GW. Take more of my money.

Same problem/solution here, just ordered all the dice sets... the old Skaven dice can be use for any team.

soulforged wrote:
Same problem/solution here, just ordered all the dice sets... the old Skaven dice can be use for any team.

Same. Why am I such a collector?

I guess the old ones will be Lizardmen dice for a while, since that's what I've been using them for anyway.

Something interesting from twitch?

I feel that there's a link missing fella?

Reckon I might order the pitch. Nice to have alternatives, no?

zamerion wrote:
Something interesting from twitch?

Sure alot of things. What specifically related to this thread did you have in mind?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I feel that there's a link missing fella?

Reckon I might order the pitch. Nice to have alternatives, no?

What link is missing? What pitch is up for order? Alternatives are nice yes.

FYI, as above Dwarf pitches are available on 22nd, however my FLGS actually got his previous order (from when they went out of stock!) delivered this week, so check with your local stores if as they may now have stock.

Some pics from this week :

Is the goblin pitch on the moon? Or are the craters just doom diver landing spots?

 Theophony wrote:
Is the goblin pitch on the moon? Or are the craters just doom diver landing spots?

Yes.

Also, bomma target practice.