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What teams are you going to play in the new edition?

I have all three teams released so far: human, orks, and skaven.
However, in our league to be started next I'll probably play Chaos, a team without many special rules but in the league the skills can stack quickly.

I'm waiting for Chaos as well

Haven't really looked at any of the other teams outside of the BB box so will do some research and see what else appeals.

Going to bring out my 3rd ed plastic orcs for a local league we're hoping to start up:

Apart from that, I've picked up all three teams GW released, but they're on hold until the extra positional packs come out.

I'm still tempted to pick up a third-party team at some point. Maybe Black Scorpion's Chaos or Dark Elf team, or Impact's trollcast Chaos Dwarves.

GOblins and VAmps because they suck,,,

I definitely plan on playing with the starter box teams, getting the big buys for those eventually. Depending on what teams get some love in the form of good models, possibly nurgle...chaos in general (chaos dwarfs might be my favorite). And Lizardmen was my first fantasy army so possibly them as well.

Human team - 4 Blitzers, 2 Throwers, 2 Catchers, the rest Linemen.

Playing Norse right now but Comixinios Chaos Dwarfs for games outside GW store. Dwarfs will be mine when the get released.

I'll be playing Skaven. I still need to learn the game though. I am painting up Orc and Human starter box teams as well to get more people to play locally with me hopefully

The starter box teams and the Skaven team are incomplete. 12 players instead of 16. I'd like to fill out the specialists like 4 Black Orcs instead of 2. Do you buy another starter box or go for eBay?

Currently painting up a Skaven team and an Orc team.

I haven't played much BB, but from what little I've played in the PC game it seems Skaven are a hard team to play, capable of getting quick goals but can be hard to get past a good defence or even worse trying to stop a bashy team from scoring when you're defending.

Orcs on the other hand seem much easier to figure out, bash stuff, pick up the ball, when you've bashed yourself an opening, go for the touchdown.

My mates and I aren't planning on playing a proper league, so the 12 players you get in a box work fine for us.


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 wuestenfux wrote:
The starter box teams and the Skaven team are incomplete. 12 players instead of 16. I'd like to fill out the specialists like 4 Black Orcs instead of 2. Do you buy another starter box or go for eBay?

You could call the Blorcs you get in the starter set Blitzers and then buy a box of Orc Brutes to convert in to Blorcs.

That way you end up with 4 Blitzers and 4 Blorcs, which from what I can see is a pretty common line up.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

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 wuestenfux wrote:
The starter box teams and the Skaven team are incomplete. 12 players instead of 16. I'd like to fill out the specialists like 4 Black Orcs instead of 2. Do you buy another starter box or go for eBay?

You could call the Blorcs you get in the starter set Blitzers and then buy a box of Orc Brutes to convert in to Blorcs.

That way you end up with 4 Blitzers and 4 Blorcs, which from what I can see is a pretty common line up.

This is actually a good idea.

The only thing I'm not sure about is the size of the Brutes, hopefully they aren't too big but still big enough to make the BB Blorc pass for a Blitzer (you don't want your Blorcs being bigger than the Troll you get further down the line, lol).

Another thing I was thinking was to cut the spikes off anything that isn't a Blorc or a Blitzer, that way you can use some of the spikey Linemen as Blorcs and Blitzers and buy some extra linemen off ebay and remove their spikes to call them regular linemen.

But I personally wouldn't go buying 2 starter sets or even 2 boxes of Skaven just yet, you'll end up with a lot of identical models and hopefully GW bring out something in the near future to fill out the team without needing 4 identical duplicates Blorcs or Blitzers.

For the Sklaven I think that four Gutter Runners are really important.
With their skill and speed they can be a pain.

Yeah, Gutter Runners and Blitzers are the meat of a Skaven force it seems. You don't have many Blitzers so what I'm getting is that it's best to leave them hanging back initially then use them alongside a lineman to blitz an opening for the Gutter runners (when in offence) or try and blitz the ball carrier (when in defence) so the Gutter runners can swoop in and get it.

I'm trying to think what I could use as extra Gutter Runners, as it seems 3 or 4 Gutter Runners would be better than the 2 you get in the box.

I think you definitely need four of them.
We had a try out game today. Me, Orks, vs Skaven. The Gutter Runners are amazing with movement 9. Skaven are in trouble with stronger teams when it comes to blocking. Here a Ratogre in a central role could mitigate this.

In the computer game version (I assume the rules are the same or similar) if you go for 4 Gutter Runners initially you can only really afford 11 players and since Skaven are so injury prone, I'm preferring 2 Gutter Runners, a 12 player team, an apothecary and a few rerolls to keep more players on the field.

Same with the Rat Ogre, you get one to make your team more bashy but in the end he costs so much that you end up with fewer linemen who end up injured and can't be replaced.

Maybe it's not a great tactic, but I'm using a thrower to pick up and hand off to one of 2 gutter runners, the 2nd gutter runner is kept a distance from the 1st so you can move the ball a long way if needed (forces them to keep their team spread out) then linemen for crowd control, but mostly I keep them just outside of tackle zones to minimise the number of rats my opponent can block (if nothing's in base contact, he can only blitz 1 model per turn).

I don't think the Rat Ogre does much to help against bashy teams because even a big dude is quickly knocked down when your opponent piles on the assists to get strength bonuses. Your opponent can just push back the linemen you have supporting the Rat Ogre then bash the Ogre pretty easily.

Maybe if you're playing a league and after a few games you can upgrade some of your linemen to have block to support him, the Rat Ogre probably becomes more viable.

EDIT: I would really like a Lizardman team, if GW bring out something that matches the aesthetics of the video game I'd be all over it. I'm tempted by some of the 3rd party Lizardmen teams though, they typically cost ~$150 AUD so GW could squeeze in with something better value.

I will play with my old Chaos, Skaven,a dn Khemri, but I am looking forward to finally having a Human and Orc team.

I have a Norse team converted from Chaos Mauraders, Werewolves from Reaper, and an Impact Werebear. Love the team.
I've got some Impact Dark Elves and Impact Sarcos that I need to paint up. Running those as Dark Elves and Lizardmen eventually.
I have the 3rd edition Orks, but I've never been happy with them. Ultimately, I'll probably get the new set for the humans and orks, shelve my 3rd ed. I'm waiting for a good resin or plastic gobin team... I also want Ogres...may convert those up myself.

But yeah... playing Norse.

The Skaven team is fine with only one box. It gives you everything you need except for two Gutter Runners and a Rat Ogre. Hopefully, with the re-release of IoB figures, the bits sellers will have Rat Ogres up soon. The one without the weapon hand can be used with no modification.

The Orc team needs more. Two more Black Orc Blockers, two more Blitzers, a Troll and a number of goblins. It wouldn't hurt to get two more sprues as that will give you some extra linemen if you need them. I'm not sure if GW has an acceptable looking troll for the updated Orcs. Noblars work fine for Blood Bowl goblins.

The Human team also needs more figures. Two additional Catchers, two more Blitzers, and an Ogre. I've seen a conversion using one of the 40k Ogryns and it looked pretty cool, if a bit involved. Bullgryns are a bit too armored up to work.

Probably the best route for Human and Orc players is to each buy a copy of the boxed game and trade the extra team to each other. Which reminds me, I'm playing Orcs so if there are any Human players out there who want to trade...

I think buying 2 sets of the game (aside from being expensive) will produce too many duplicate models for my liking.

4 identical Orc blitzers? No thanks.

For Orcs I think getting the Brutes is probably the best option, no idea what Humies should do though.


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Just played a game with my Skaven, 2 dead and 2 injured after the first match I won, but it was a very hollow victory, lol.

Do we know yet which other teams they've got planned to release?

Dwarfs are the only ones that have been announced.
It seems that an elf team is likely (all of them were in the Season One book).

Just Dwarves in January, I believe. And then probably the other teams in the Death Zone book.

There's also Nurgle in the Death Zone book, so maybe them.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
There's also Nurgle in the Death Zone book, so maybe them.

Nurgle is pretty much guaranteed to be released, not exactly right around the corner though. We have seen concept art of the team already. Also there was CAD designs for the dwarf deathroller too, which looked pretty interesting. I read some interesting things on thenaf.net, plastic goblins with secret weapon guys in resin, double sided dwarf/skaven pitch, Elven Union may also be in the pipleline...which could likely be based on the hockey mask, harlequin looking elves seen back when the nurgle team concept art was revealed.

I know nurgle warriors got renamed bloaters, but did the pestigors change into something else? What makes me wonder is the lack of any pestigor art in those concepts. They had nurgle linemen, catcher, blitzer etc, all in similar style to the putrid blightkings....which is odd. One that that I liked about the nurgle team is the difference between each type of unit, makes it easy to tell between them. Whereas with the new line of BB models the differences between the models are not too significant.

Well, I bought a box of 10 Beastmen (old Fantasy), today.
They are going to represent the linemen in my Chaos team.

Question: How would you assemble them? With weapons or not?

 wuestenfux wrote:
Well, I bought a box of 10 Beastmen (old Fantasy), today.
They are going to represent the linemen in my Chaos team.

Question: How would you assemble them? With weapons or not?

I did similar with my Marauder/Norse. I cut off weapons and modeled them in athletic poses.

Thanks!

Good to know. I'll try the same.

Are people filling in the holes on the base? I don't really like the idea of trying to shove the balls in to those holes anyway and converted models aren't going to have ball holes to begin with.

Why no holes in the bases?
My Beastmen will be based on 32mm bases and holes are mandatory for me.