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I'm thinking about getting into the game with the Ogres, but it isn't clear to me if their rules come in the Fire Mountain gutbuster box set. If I have to buy some book to get them I may just convert my own custom team, though the GW box set does look like good value. Anyone know where team rules reside? Is that your "team roster" which the box does seem to include?

Thanks!

Once upon a time, in a previous generation, the team lists were included in the rulebook. I haven’t played the current generation of Blood Bowl, but I would expect that has stayed the same.

Right now they're in Spike! Journal Issue 8, but I don't know if they're also in the box (the book calls it a team roster rather than roster sheet). Also keep in mind there's a new version of BB coming out in a few weeks...

Yes, the boxes comes with a team roster that has all the team stats, costs, and rules on it. You can also find them in Spike! Issue 8. The team rules in the current rulebook are for the old team before their rerelease, so don't go off that.

These team rules, along with all existing team rules, will all be invalidated by the Blood Bowl rulebook coming out within the next month or so. It's been leaked... and I don't think the Ogre team rules have changed much if at all.

Thanks for the info! Nothing defines this hobby better than discovering that you've missed an entire edition while waiting for your enthusiast friend to get the basic figures assembled. : )

 kestral wrote:
Thanks for the info! Nothing defines this hobby better than discovering that you've missed an entire edition while waiting for your enthusiast friend to get the basic figures assembled. : )

Btw, in case it wasn’t clear, the new edition will have the rules for all of the teams currently available as a plastic kit included in the rule book, plus three new ones (the two in the boxed set and one released shortly thereafter), and the three “mixed” teams (Chaos Renegades, Old World Alliance, Underworld Denizens) for 21 total rosters. This includes the Ogres who haven’t changed much from Spike! #8 except for their snotlings and runt-punter both getting 5k cheaper.

It does not have the rules for the other teams that used to be in the game during 4th edition and the LRB era which were grandfathered in as teams of legend in the 2016 edition, so no chaos dwarfs for example. However, we do know from GW’s official preview that Spike! Magazine will be continuing and will be providing new content so hopefully the remaining older teams will appear eventually, assuming they don’t get themselves another “teams of legend” update.

Edit: they got themselves another “teams of legend” update.