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That’s not terrible actually. Especially with 3rd party discounts. Hmmm…

First Dungeon Bowl expansion https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/11/23/its-a-game-of-life-death-and-rabid-werewolves-in-the-first-expansion-for-dungeon-bowl/

If someone watch the guerrilla miniatures almanac review, there are two new goblin star players miniatures.

zamerion wrote:
If someone watch the guerrilla miniatures almanac review, there are two new goblin star players miniatures.

I expect there will be new minis for all of the new star players at some point but it’s good to see some of them are already sculpted.

Edit:
So who on the list is new anyway? Or new to this season, at least.
Puggy Baconbreath – gets a personal re-roll 1/game, same restrictions as a Pro re-roll but it’s automatic
Cindy Piewhistle – can throw two bombs once per game but you have to declare this before making the rolls
Dribl ‘n’ Drull – each get +1 to foul and stab related injury rolls on players they’re both marking
Bilerot Vomitflesh – can vomit 1/game in addition to regular blocks
Ripper Bolgrot – personal re-roll like Puggy but also not stupid or hungry
Nobbla Blackwart – can chainsaw a prone player 1/game, counting as a regular action so no foul rolls
Scrappa Sorehead – 1/game 2+ intercept regardless of modifiers
Withergrasp Doubledrool – counts as having Dodge vs. first block each half

 Shadow Walker wrote:
First Dungeon Bowl expansion https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/11/23/its-a-game-of-life-death-and-rabid-werewolves-in-the-first-expansion-for-dungeon-bowl/

Two teams for $90, a 10% discount from buying standard teams.
Not great but at least it’s cheaper than buying two teams.

Nobbla Blackwart’s Back – A Lethal Legend Returns to Blood Bowl



And before anyone asks, yes, he is a FW resin piece.

 Dysartes wrote:
And before anyone asks, yes, he is a FW resin piece.

Pfft, thanks for taking the fun out of the guaranteed 20 posts asking "PLASTICK OR REZIN?!"

But also, that's a great callback to the 3rd edition miniature. I love it.

 ekwatts wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:
And before anyone asks, yes, he is a FW resin piece.

Pfft, thanks for taking the fun out of the guaranteed 20 posts asking "PLASTICK OR REZIN?!"

But also, that's a great callback to the 3rd edition miniature. I love it.

I see lines on the side of the base. "GW is embracing 3D printing!" will that get the 20 necessary posts you were looking for?

That's a fun figure.

Not always a fan of Blood Bowl minis, but that looks whimsical in a good way.

Blood Bowl 3 is up for pre-order now:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1016950/Blood_Bowl_3/

Probably indicates that Cyanide are finally confident of hitting a release date. What state it actually ships in will be interesting.

Also note the cheaper price but GAAS style seasons approach to introducing new teams, not sure what to make of that really. Guess it'll depend on how predatory their season passes are.

 Londinium wrote:
Blood Bowl 3 is up for pre-order now:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1016950/Blood_Bowl_3/

Probably indicates that Cyanide are finally confident of hitting a release date. What state it actually ships in will be interesting.

Also note the cheaper price but GAAS style seasons approach to introducing new teams, not sure what to make of that really. Guess it'll depend on how predatory their season passes are.

I pre-ordered the first day I could.

I honestly don't think the season passes are predatory at all for BB3. They are free to every player, and the team for that season os free if you complete it. The only advantage to the paid is earlier access to the team, and some cosmetics.

They made sure to clarify that the season passes are only going to offer additional cosmetics and dice skins.

About as non-predatory as it gets for a seasonal pass model.

Games these days cost several orders of magnitude more money to develop, but the cost to the public has gone down significantly (same number + inflation). Popularity is all well and good but I give game devs some room to make up that margin.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Games these days cost several orders of magnitude more money to develop, but the cost to the public has gone down significantly (same number + inflation). Popularity is all well and good but I give game devs some room to make up that margin.

This is a misleading argument, often put out in bad faith by major games publishers to justify increasing their profits. The video game market is far larger these days than when games prices solidified in the 90s, a successful game will generally sell far more units at the same level of success, as it would back then. Furthermore entry to market is much lower, with Steam's 30% cut (reducing for successful games) still better than the old days of having to produce physical goods, deal with stock management, ship them, give a store a cut and give a major publisher a cut.

I'm not particularly accusing Cyanide/Nacon of anything here, I'll wait to see what their actions are before judging them. However the argument that microtransactions are necessary to fund modern games is nonsense, especially outside of the AAA space.

 Londinium wrote:
Furthermore entry to market is much lower, with Steam's 30% cut (reducing for successful games) still better than the old days of having to produce physical goods, deal with stock management, ship them, give a store a cut and give a major publisher a cut.

Um, you are aware that publishers are absolutely still a thing? Who do you think funds games, money starved studios?

Also, what steam is doing is absolute parasitism for nothing (these clowns refuse to invest even peanuts of the billions they steal into infrastructure out of greed, resulting in store and item servers constantly clogging and crashing - just watch how the whole gak will become unusable except past midnight once holiday sales will start) and while you do have a point with store cut (though it went to actual, real city location helping local economy, not to double sandwich tax laundry scam in Luxembourg steam pulls) the production of CDs cost cents, and stock/shipping was done by major store networks and wholesalers. Even then, the retail cut wasn't much higher than 30% and covered actual costs (that, again, benefited real economy). Gabe charges ridiculous sums for terrible service to both sides of the deal and does nothing to improve it, spending all his energy thinking how to part gullible teens from their money (people whine about EA and lootboxes but it was valve that really got the practice running with their 'first dose is free' games, then you have monetized user profiles, profile lootboxes, hell, they even tried to monetize free game mods!)

 Irbis wrote:

 Londinium wrote:
Furthermore entry to market is much lower, with Steam's 30% cut (reducing for successful games) still better than the old days of having to produce physical goods, deal with stock management, ship them, give a store a cut and give a major publisher a cut.

Um, you are aware that publishers are absolutely still a thing? Who do you think funds games, money starved studios?

Plenty of indie devs self fund their games, Early Access is a thing, non traditional funders, then you have the new breed of AA/indie publishers like Devolver which offer much better deals than the old major publishers of the 90s/00s, where there were about 15-20 major companies offering crap terms and you had to go to one of them to reach the market. The point wasn't that publishers no longer exist but that the route to releasing a game is far more varied and less exploitative of developers and developer/publisher combined companies, then it was 20 years ago.

Anyone remember those "ooze" toys from the 80's and 90's? Ninja Turtles had "mutagen". The Ghostbuster toys had "Ectoplasm".

Horrible stuff.

It would appear that one of the designers at GW still has nightmares about it, because that's about the only explanation I can give for this new BB mini:





I get that it's meant to be ghostly flames, but that's not what it looks like...

Probably my least favorite Blood Bowl mini to come out in recent years... yikes.

That looks like a sculpt straight from the 80s, and not a good one at that.

I love it! Proper mental looking Spoopy Ghost.

It may need a better paint job to really pop, but as a fan of Spooky Things, I’m tempted.

The art looks really nice. The mini... not so much...

Tsagualsa wrote:
That looks like a sculpt straight from the 80s, and not a good one at that.

I was just about to post the same. That looks like a mediocre retro inspired mini at best. Wow...

The skeleton looks like it got tangled in a large blanket.

Looks more like a stinky skeleton than flaming one, but I guess they don’t want to get him confused with Ghost rider.

How flame can be done with a skeleton (with thanks for the pic to dakka member KeX)

 NH Gunsmith wrote:
Probably my least favorite Blood Bowl mini to come out in recent years... yikes.

I wonder how it'll look with a good paint job.

Maybe paint the swirly gak as smoke instead of green glowy stuff, or if it is green glowy stuff the model probably needs to be painted in a night time scheme with OSL. Or maybe go for a ghostly scheme a la LOTR army of the dead.

GW's in house painting style looks horrible on certain models, this is one of those certain models. It doesn't look ethereal, it looks like it's trying to escape from a puddle of snot.

That’s as bad as the winding up troll sculpt.

They should've just redone Hack Enslash.

I actually quite like it. Must be going mad.

Two new Halfing Star Players



Cindy Piewhistle and Puggy Baconbreath - I'll let you figure out which is which...

Article confirms they'll be in Forge World resin.