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I have a load of spare undead bits lying around and I thought I'd build myself a blood bowl team. But I haven't played blood bowl in years and it seems that there are four possible teams I could choose from.

What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of Undead, Necromantic, Khemri and Vampire teams??

Vampire has good, cheaper elite units, cheap thralls..

But the problem is the elite units have a 1/6 chance of needing to be next to a thrall and could cause problems. Not to mention there's only like two options to buy players.

Khemari has a ton of regeneration, able to take four potent S5 models, blitzers with block, and a thrower that has sure hands..

But the whole team has possibly the WORST AGILITY IN THE GAME. AG2 is your best, not to mention the S5 powerhouses have decay.

Not sure enough with the other two. Here's a site that details alotta armies

http://www.plasmoids.dk/bbowl/LRB6Playbooks.htm

Go Necromantic. The werewolves work great, so fast. Wights are good, flesh golems dominate and the AV are pretty good. It is a great mix, and the best undead team by far, in my opinion.

Necros are the Best out of the undead teams,Speed with the Werewolves and Ghouls.Decent blitzers with the Wights and good Blockers with the golems.

Necromantic is one of the best teams out there, but sufferes a bit from not really having a "big guy" (although flesh golems with stand firm can be great for trolling).

Regular undead is also a good team, but not as good. Don't know much about them.

Vampires and Khemeri are both lower end teams, not quite "joke level" like goblins or halflings, but seriously limited. Vampires can be very fun, but they're a massive PITA to manage and you are even more prone to getting messed up by bad rolls than other bloodbowl teams. Playing vampires is very much a balancing act of controlling chaos.

Khemeri are just...bad. It's a shame because I really like tomb kings, but they are literally the exact same thing as the regular undead team, only not as good. Very bashy and durable, but incapable of doing anything like "picking up the ball" let alone actually scoring.

EDIT: I really wish that necromantic wasn't the best undead choice, since when I think undead I think zombies, skeletons, ghosts (that would be an interesting player). Not werewolves.