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The May FAQ is out, with some timing clarifications and the exact order of operations for Diving Tackle vs. Dodge.
Article here.

There’s no shortage of weird and wonderful players in the world of Blood Bowl, and gridirons across the world have been trampled by hulking treemen standing firm on the centre line, often hurling halflings in the general direction of the touchline.
We can only assume that the green grass of an NAF regulation pitch makes these lumbering lumber-louts feel like they have a certain affinity to the game, which means that Star Players like Maple Highgrove are a common sight. This fact also goes some way to explaining the appearance of Swiftvine Glimmershard.

The blue swirls make me think we've found the sole survivor from the Runewars universe.

Well, these are just GREAT. Although I buy far too many star players for a guy who only really plays 7's, I'll definitely be picking these up

Always nice to see Blood Bowl getting new releases, and such nice sculpts.

Those are really fun sculpts!

The tree has sort of a growth like innocence look

Why is Maple marked as "available while supplies last"...?

New season anyone

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/gikf8db9/blood-bowl-returns-for-a-new-season-of-mayhem

Well, I'll be! The long-standing rumours that started a couple of years ago around next pairing was true(!!). Here's hoping they continue providing Dungeon Bowl Stats (and maybe another expansion box for that might follow, hopefully)

Oh look, Tomb Kings. That only took forever.

and roster changes

To make your games better, now teams will match exactly what you get in the box!!!

Will it happen this time? It is fated to eventually.

“ The core game is exactly the same”

Hmmm, where have we heard that before…?

The_Real_Chris wrote:

and roster changes

To make your games better, now teams will match exactly what you get in the box!!!

Will it happen this time? It is fated to eventually.

I'm not so certain; surely they'd rather folks fork out for a second box to fill out the roster (for those who want to use the GW kits)?

Not ruling it out mind. The proposed core changes seem relatively sensible so they need to do something incredibly dumb to balance out the usual process of an edition change.

Is this the first Bretonnian team? I think there was one in Citadel Journal, but was a “convert it yourself” job?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Is this the first Bretonnian team? I think there was one in Citadel Journal, but was a “convert it yourself” job?

Bretonnians have been in the game at large for quite a while now. The pseudo-official roster was designed for the BB1 Video Game released in 2009 (along with Khorne, both were also in BB2) and was adopted by the NAF as tournament legal in the decades when GW weren't actively producing the tabletop game and was only fairly recently phased out and replaced by the GW 2020(?) Imperial Nobility team (which was incredibly similar in its ruleset). So it's technically the first Bretonnian team in a GW led tabletop version of BB; just not in an officially licensed version.

It sounds like a High Elf team is on the cards in the near future, which might be very tempting. Not played a game of BB since 2006!

Delighted to see the new edition and I'm keen to see how the teams will change on a skill basis.

The box is an instant buy for me, two new teams for me!

Dang those are two amazing teams

It has all been exhaustively rewritten for clarity. Terminology is familiar, but consistent: there’s never any confusion between players (your miniatures) and coaches (yourself), or declaring and performing actions.

Isn't that what they said about the Horus Heresy 3ed rules? I'm cautiously pessimistic. I second the vote for a Dungeon Bowl rules update too, at least a download on WarComm.

I sure hope the Tomb King skeletons aren't as horrible to build as the Undead skeletons.

New teams! Great!
New Edition? uhhh... well, condensing "has no TZ but is standing" into "distracted" is good, and the "I want to play too" action is also neat. They promised no new stats so we can only hope the changes to the teams are a) gold costs to account for rebalanced rules and b) skill changes to account for some skills being consolidated/split again.
I do kinda wish the TK got an Ushabti Big Guy tho.

Finally, a game that actually deserves the royal "new edition, because!" treatment. Roughly five years, has it not been?

I like how they've mirrored the launch factions for TOW in the season 3 box!

Might have been saving them until that game was out with this box being planned for quite some time.

Going to call Season 4 teams as Cathay vs. Kislev now.

 zedmeister wrote:
“ The core game is exactly the same”

Hmmm, where have we heard that before…?

The changes in Horus Heresy are marginal. But numerous. And then huge.

But okay, this is Blood Bowl. Like with Space Hulk they never changed that much. Or jumped back.

The big question is... will it have the unhinged AI language of Heresy 3?

Oh what was the AI language?

There are other threads for that discussion. We have much more important things to talk about here, like Wildly Inaccurate going away!

I like the picking up the ball mechanic; it seems like a nice quality of life improvement with some sensible limitations.

I wonder if those Bretonnian helmets ornaments solve some of the rumour engine pics?

 Jadenim wrote:
I like the picking up the ball mechanic; it seems like a nice quality of life improvement with some sensible limitations.

I wonder if its presence will lead to Throwers losing the Sure Hands skill, which they mostly only had to facilitate grabbing the ball easily when receiving. In most cases, a 3+ with a built-in re-roll and no turnover on success is better than that Secure The Ball 2+.

 Mr_Rose wrote:

I do kinda wish the TK got an Ushabti Big Guy tho.

They already have 4 Str5 players!