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Blood bowl isn’t the same setting as Age Of Sigmar, so no renaming.

I’m really impressed with the Dark Elf team.

The Dark Elf team looks ok. Miles better than the Chaos team (ugh), but I wish they had kept them closer to the computer game version (cowboy boots ftw!). I played Dark Elves in the early nineties, and am not at all fond or nostalgic of those old helmets. Dark elf aesthetics moved forwards a lot these last (almost) 30 years. A pity they are moving backwards..

The helmets look ace. A very nice nostalgic vibe. I already own a DE team but I will perhaps buy this new team only because of their awesome headgear.

A bit bummed we are very likely not getting Blitz Bowl in July, however I will definitely be picking up the Dark Elves (maybe two boxes to build a full 16 man roster and have max blitzers). They are certainly my favorite team GW has put out since the BB relaunch.

 Sabotage! wrote:
A bit bummed we are very likely not getting Blitz Bowl in July, however I will definitely be picking up the Dark Elves (maybe two boxes to build a full 16 man roster and have max blitzers). They are certainly my favorite team GW has put out since the BB relaunch.

I know what you mean. I’ve always liked the Dark Elves look, but never had a desire to build an army. I don’t even like their play style either , but they are glorious.

 Sabotage! wrote:
A bit bummed we are very likely not getting Blitz Bowl in July, however I will definitely be picking up the Dark Elves (maybe two boxes to build a full 16 man roster and have max blitzers). They are certainly my favorite team GW has put out since the BB relaunch.

Blitz Bowl will likely be one of the late fall pre christmas releases, it just makes sense that it would fit into that holiday boxed set timeframe. If rumors are true we still get two more teams this year after the DE so it looks like a pretty good year for blood bowl. I do like the DE team, but I think it was an odd decision to make the frenzy witch elf in such a static pose. It's a good looking sculpt...but it's just strange to me she isn't charging/leaping forward, she is also missing the iconic thing witch elves always had...the huge big mane of crazy hair. But overall they look good together on the pitch, I just hope the next two teams aren't elfs though.

Very likely that the next team will be Nurgle, they have been teasing them for awhile
As for the witch elf, well I guess they save the charging witch elf pose (and the mane) for the Star Player.

 Thargrim wrote:

 Sabotage! wrote:
A bit bummed we are very likely not getting Blitz Bowl in July, however I will definitely be picking up the Dark Elves (maybe two boxes to build a full 16 man roster and have max blitzers). They are certainly my favorite team GW has put out since the BB relaunch.

Blitz Bowl will likely be one of the late fall pre christmas releases, it just makes sense that it would fit into that holiday boxed set timeframe. If rumors are true we still get two more teams this year after the DE so it looks like a pretty good year for blood bowl. I do like the DE team, but I think it was an odd decision to make the frenzy witch elf in such a static pose. It's a good looking sculpt...but it's just strange to me she isn't charging/leaping forward, she is also missing the iconic thing witch elves always had...the huge big mane of crazy hair. But overall they look good together on the pitch, I just hope the next two teams aren't elfs though.

I also prefer 80s hair on the witches but we are not living in a perfect world.


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 Theophony wrote:

 Sabotage! wrote:
A bit bummed we are very likely not getting Blitz Bowl in July, however I will definitely be picking up the Dark Elves (maybe two boxes to build a full 16 man roster and have max blitzers). They are certainly my favorite team GW has put out since the BB relaunch.

I know what you mean. I’ve always liked the Dark Elves look, but never had a desire to build an army. I don’t even like their play style either , but they are glorious.

What´s so bad about their play style?

 Strg Alt wrote:

 Thargrim wrote:

 Sabotage! wrote:
A bit bummed we are very likely not getting Blitz Bowl in July, however I will definitely be picking up the Dark Elves (maybe two boxes to build a full 16 man roster and have max blitzers). They are certainly my favorite team GW has put out since the BB relaunch.

Blitz Bowl will likely be one of the late fall pre christmas releases, it just makes sense that it would fit into that holiday boxed set timeframe. If rumors are true we still get two more teams this year after the DE so it looks like a pretty good year for blood bowl. I do like the DE team, but I think it was an odd decision to make the frenzy witch elf in such a static pose. It's a good looking sculpt...but it's just strange to me she isn't charging/leaping forward, she is also missing the iconic thing witch elves always had...the huge big mane of crazy hair. But overall they look good together on the pitch, I just hope the next two teams aren't elfs though.

I also prefer 80s hair on the witches but we are not living in a perfect world.


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 Theophony wrote:

 Sabotage! wrote:
A bit bummed we are very likely not getting Blitz Bowl in July, however I will definitely be picking up the Dark Elves (maybe two boxes to build a full 16 man roster and have max blitzers). They are certainly my favorite team GW has put out since the BB relaunch.

I know what you mean. I’ve always liked the Dark Elves look, but never had a desire to build an army. I don’t even like their play style either , but they are glorious.

What´s so bad about their play style?

I’m more of a smash mouth play style than an agility play style. I love my Dwarves, and will try passing plays when I’m up by two touchdowns, mainly just to watch it happen. I don’t like playing the squishy teams, except halflings (halfling hitman doing fouls just to get off the field alive).

 Thargrim wrote:

 Sabotage! wrote:
A bit bummed we are very likely not getting Blitz Bowl in July, however I will definitely be picking up the Dark Elves (maybe two boxes to build a full 16 man roster and have max blitzers). They are certainly my favorite team GW has put out since the BB relaunch.

Blitz Bowl will likely be one of the late fall pre christmas releases, it just makes sense that it would fit into that holiday boxed set timeframe. If rumors are true we still get two more teams this year after the DE so it looks like a pretty good year for blood bowl. I do like the DE team, but I think it was an odd decision to make the frenzy witch elf in such a static pose. It's a good looking sculpt...but it's just strange to me she isn't charging/leaping forward, she is also missing the iconic thing witch elves always had...the huge big mane of crazy hair. But overall they look good together on the pitch, I just hope the next two teams aren't elfs though.

Yeah, you are probably right on Blitz Bowl. I imagine that Kill Team and various 40k stuff will probably take up most of the year. I'm also with you on no more Elves (especially as the only Elves I like aesthetically and Dark Elves). I'm hoping we get Lizardmen and either Necromantic or Undead around Halloween (and my birthday!). We definitely need the unliving to have a bit of representation. I have a feeling we probably won't see Nurgle for a while, considering they had a bunch of concept art from the get go and didn't ever seem to do anything with it. To be fair if GW didn't release anything Nurgle for the next three years (baring the Rogue Trader box, which looks to have at least a Nurgle aspect to it), I'd be happy. That ship is more than a bit overcrowded.

 Theophony wrote:

 Strg Alt wrote:

 Thargrim wrote:

 Sabotage! wrote:
A bit bummed we are very likely not getting Blitz Bowl in July, however I will definitely be picking up the Dark Elves (maybe two boxes to build a full 16 man roster and have max blitzers). They are certainly my favorite team GW has put out since the BB relaunch.

Blitz Bowl will likely be one of the late fall pre christmas releases, it just makes sense that it would fit into that holiday boxed set timeframe. If rumors are true we still get two more teams this year after the DE so it looks like a pretty good year for blood bowl. I do like the DE team, but I think it was an odd decision to make the frenzy witch elf in such a static pose. It's a good looking sculpt...but it's just strange to me she isn't charging/leaping forward, she is also missing the iconic thing witch elves always had...the huge big mane of crazy hair. But overall they look good together on the pitch, I just hope the next two teams aren't elfs though.

I also prefer 80s hair on the witches but we are not living in a perfect world.


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 Theophony wrote:

 Sabotage! wrote:
A bit bummed we are very likely not getting Blitz Bowl in July, however I will definitely be picking up the Dark Elves (maybe two boxes to build a full 16 man roster and have max blitzers). They are certainly my favorite team GW has put out since the BB relaunch.

I know what you mean. I’ve always liked the Dark Elves look, but never had a desire to build an army. I don’t even like their play style either , but they are glorious.

What´s so bad about their play style?

I’m more of a smash mouth play style than an agility play style. I love my Dwarves, and will try passing plays when I’m up by two touchdowns, mainly just to watch it happen. I don’t like playing the squishy teams, except halflings (halfling hitman doing fouls just to get off the field alive).

Dark Elves are certainly NOT squishy. You can have four blitzers on your team and your linemen have AV8. You can have a fight with everybody apart from the bash teams. Also don´t forget the best DE players: Witch Elves. They are fast and have Frenzy. These gals are perfect to crowdsurf the opposition. DE have only one weakness: Assassins. This killer is only useful against AV7 or worse and therefore he sucks.

Too expensive for what they do in my book. I’d still take dwarves, humans or chaos(full beastmen team) over elves. Especially in leagues.

Naggaroth Nightmares are apparently releasing 14th July, so preorder should be on 7th July

(£20 rrp if we hadn't guessed already)

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Naggaroth Nightmares are apparently releasing 14th August, so preorder should be on 7th August

(£20 rrp if we hadn't guessed already)

You mean July, right?

You mean July? Also this



What happen to the end product? This look so good.

Yup, editing now

 Sabotage! wrote:

 Thargrim wrote:

 Sabotage! wrote:
A bit bummed we are very likely not getting Blitz Bowl in July, however I will definitely be picking up the Dark Elves (maybe two boxes to build a full 16 man roster and have max blitzers). They are certainly my favorite team GW has put out since the BB relaunch.

Blitz Bowl will likely be one of the late fall pre christmas releases, it just makes sense that it would fit into that holiday boxed set timeframe. If rumors are true we still get two more teams this year after the DE so it looks like a pretty good year for blood bowl. I do like the DE team, but I think it was an odd decision to make the frenzy witch elf in such a static pose. It's a good looking sculpt...but it's just strange to me she isn't charging/leaping forward, she is also missing the iconic thing witch elves always had...the huge big mane of crazy hair. But overall they look good together on the pitch, I just hope the next two teams aren't elfs though.

Yeah, you are probably right on Blitz Bowl. I imagine that Kill Team and various 40k stuff will probably take up most of the year. I'm also with you on no more Elves (especially as the only Elves I like aesthetically and Dark Elves). I'm hoping we get Lizardmen and either Necromantic or Undead around Halloween (and my birthday!). We definitely need the unliving to have a bit of representation. I have a feeling we probably won't see Nurgle for a while, considering they had a bunch of concept art from the get go and didn't ever seem to do anything with it. To be fair if GW didn't release anything Nurgle for the next three years (baring the Rogue Trader box, which looks to have at least a Nurgle aspect to it), I'd be happy. That ship is more than a bit overcrowded.

I'd be cool with lizardmen and undead next. Unsure what the deal is with nurgle, some of the earliest concept art we saw was for them. I think they might be trying to figure out how to fit them onto a single sprue. I personally am looking forward to nurgle simply cause i'd imagine a nurgling ball, or a big maggot they could pass around...GWs nurgle stuff is always so characterful so I hope they get it right with that team. Part of me thinks we could see halfings though, 1 treeman per sprue and the rest goofy halflings. Their token could be a hand holding a turkey leg with a bite munched out of it.

I'm not interested in Nurgle at all. It's the one team where we already have a great set of models to use with real simple conversions.

Baxx wrote:
I'm not interested in Nurgle at all. It's the one team where we already have a great set of models to use with real simple conversions.

It's true they are the easiest team to convert, but IMO the current zombie kit is terrible and hasn't aged well. I was hoping they could go for a more sports kit look and give nurgle it's own style in BB. But maybe GW realized they are easy to convert and decided to focus on other teams first.

Zombie kit? Why not do the plague bearers? They're great! And the line of nurgle warriors is just epic. Throw in the beast too, complete team.

Halflings could be an excellent team for GW team, though I personally would like to see them do more of the at least somewhat competitive teams first. That said I was really shocked we got goblins so early. I do love Thagrim's idea of a turkey drumstick marker for the team. I hope they have one with a saucepan helmet too.

Nurgle would be hard to fit on one Sprue. That's probably the issue. They are really easy to convert also, especially now that poxwalkers can be used as Rotters (because the old zombie kit is pretty awful by today's standards).

 Sabotage! wrote:
Halflings could be an excellent team for GW team, though I personally would like to see them do more of the at least somewhat competitive teams first. That said I was really shocked we got goblins so early. I do love Thagrim's idea of a turkey drumstick marker for the team. I hope they have one with a saucepan helmet too.

Nurgle would be hard to fit on one Sprue. That's probably the issue. They are really easy to convert also, especially now that poxwalkers can be used as Rotters (because the old zombie kit is pretty awful by today's standards).

Goblins probably released so early because they can be used in multiple teams. They could be added into Orcs, Underworld (Skaven were the first boxed team, weren't they?) and their own Goblin team.

As for Nurgle, if we think back to the initial Blood Bowl release, the plan was to have a couple of plastic box sets while some teams might actually be completely resin. Those plans were hastily changed when Blood Bowl was a massive hit, so I wonder if the plan was always for Nurgle to have been a resin team, and while the concepts for other plastic boxes were already well-formed, or easier to conceptualise due to the team positionals, the uniqueness of a complete team of resin players hasn't yet been re-tooled to fit neatly onto a sprue of six players.

I believe that alongside Humans and Orcs, the Skaven, Goblins, Dwarves and Pro Elves teams were already quite far down the production/release pipeline even when BB2016 was announced. Beyond those, I would imagine that Doom Lords and Dark Elves were conceptualised and designed some time last year. If the plastic production for BB is moving full pelt then Nurgle could easily have been pushed way out of the schedule. They're going to happen, but I wouldn't put money on them being "next". Could be, though!

Elven Union was the first team for Blood Bowl wave 2, that's why it took awhile to release them.

I think the art of the lineman looks better than the final models, look at that more interesting helmet detailing and more shifty snakey torso. Overall now that i've seen the sprues and 360 spins i'd say the kit is decent, could be better but considering they are plastic and stuff that is a bonus. Problem I have is they seem kinda stubby, like the witch elf has a big head and short legs. The finger claws are an interesting idea but i'm worried they will break eventually, cause in BB you generally lay the models face up/down and they receive a lot of handling compared to some other games.

I'm very tempted to get this team, but because I don't know what the next 2 teams are I am hesitant to dive in. I wish they would give us more of a roadmap or idea of what is coming.

I would be very likely to make a dive into bloodbiwl if they released a lizardman team of good quality. Or at the very least pick it up for conversion purposes (Ive been on a kick lately!)

 Thargrim wrote:

I think the art of the lineman looks better than the final models,

I think all of the concept art for this team probably look better than the product. Part of it might be because the guy who made this is new according to interview. All of the previous sculptor did a great job tho.

I'm really quite underwhelmed with these. I've bought all of the teams for this edition and I nearly didn't buy these (and DE are my favourite team).

Eh, I'll still get the team for the legs alone. Elven Union with a bunch of Corsair and Wych bits will do the rest.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/07/31/gencon-carnage-on-the-pitchgw-homepage-post-3/

Surprised no one posted this before me, but here's some more blitz bowl info...particularly the how to play. There is also rules included for most other teams that have new models in the box, except it seems dark elves got left out.