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Games Workshop Scarborough Town Center has been doing a bout of Specialist Games, cycling through each one every two months. The months of June and July are Blood Bowl, a happy game that inspires fits of rage and incoherent ramblings as blocks (and dice, and glasses, and models, and whatever else we can get our hands on) are thrown willy nilly across the pitch.

My team is based on the Dallas Cowboyz, drawing upon a roster of All-Stars that have graced the ranks of the well-known team:

None other than Roger Staubach leads the team, filling in the role of Thrower at #12.

With the jobs of holding the line of scrimmage, tanking hits, and throwing blows, Rayfield Wright and Larry Allen perform as Black Orc Blockers, #70 and #77 respectively.

The stars of the team, the roles of Blitzers are filled by Dave Edwards, Chuck Howley, Lee Roy Jordan, and Thomas Henderson, #52, #54, #55 and #56.

Lending assists across the pitch are my Linemen: Larry Cole, George Andrie, Bob Lilly, and Jethro Pugh, #64, #66, #74, and #75.

Taking the place of Troll is Michael Irvin, #88, his presence dominating the line of scrimmage. Supporting him is his Goblin sidekick Mel Renfro, #20.

In addition to being All-Stars, the astute Dallas Cowboy fans will note that my Blitzers and Linemen are hand-picked from what formed the famous Dallas Cowboys "Doomsday Defense".


Dallas Cowboyz - 2011 Starting Lineup



#12 - Roger Staubach, Thrower



#70 - Rayfield Wright, Black Orc Blocker



#73 - Larry Allen, Black Orc Blocker



#52 - Dave Edwards, Blitzer



#54 - Chuck Howley, Blitzer



#55 - Lee Roy Jordan, Blitzer



#56 - Thomas Henderson, Blitzer



#64 - Larry Cole, Lineman



#66 - George Andrie, Lineman



#74 - Bob Lilly, Lineman



#75 - Jethro Pugh, Lineman



#88 - Michael Irvin, Troll



#20 - Mel Renfro, Goblin



DV8

As a life time Cowboys fan I approve! Fantastic work!

Ive always wanted to pick up blood bowl to do this exact same thing! (except with a different team....)

as another die hard cowboy fan this is awesome!! you should make a backup qb troy aikeman!!

Awesome. I love this.

Damn, I've been wanting to try Bloodbowl, and these models make it look amazing!

Makes me wish I was in Toronto again so I could play some Specialist Games. The team looks great, but that goes without saying.

SoG

OMG I hate the cowboys so much, how I cringe at the sound of their name. If it wasn't for them the 49ers would have at least made 5 more super bowl appearances if not won them.

But it looks good...except for that disgusting cowboy star

How do you not have DeMarcus Ware as a blitzer!?!?!?! Otherwise good job!

They look awesome! such cool models and an amazing paint job.

Those look amazing, nicely done.

I think I love that Irvin is a Troll!!

Truly amazing and I think its an awesome idea!

Funny.... no current Cowboiz on the team? Are they really that sad this year?
Hopefully Your "Cowboyz" have a better season than the real ones......

Oh and "Fly Eagles Fly....."

Haha I hate the cowboys and this is still just awesome! Great job all around, DV8! Are the band-aids on Michael Irvin just freehanded? They look really good and that was a great use of that Games Day mini.

Haha as a nearby dallas resident, this is great! Its fun to see people still having some great works on bloodbowl

dierolanddie wrote:as another die hard cowboy fan this is awesome!! you should make a backup qb troy aikeman!!

That is the plan, once I start leveling up my players and getting enough with decent skills, I'll expand with another Thrower (#8 Troy Aikman) and 2 more Black Orcs (#77 Tyron Smith, #79 Erik Williams)

xxACHILLES231xx wrote:How do you not have DeMarcus Ware as a blitzer!?!?!?! Otherwise good job!

Who with the what-now? I will confess I care very little for Football, and know even less about it. The only experience I have with it is Blood Bowl, and the only reason I picked the Dallas Cowboys is because their team has one of the more aesthetically pleasing color schemes (I had also considered the Oakland Raiders (boring color scheme, the rulebook already has a pun on them, plus their logo would be an absolute nightmare to paint!), the San Diego Chargers (I hate that lightning bolt, but I'd play their disco theme song every time I score a TD), and the Pittsburgh Steelers (but that logo would be a pain to paint 32 times)).

As for DeMarcus Ware, I have no idea who he is (actually, I don't know who any of the players are on my team other than what Wikipedia has told me). I basically spent a week researching the team, and Googling up the all-time favorite Cowboys players rated by fans etc. and cross-referencing across about a dozen lists, picked my players based on their background, importance/relevance to their team, and the number (I needed to avoid duplicates).

helgrenze wrote:Funny.... no current Cowboiz on the team? Are they really that sad this year?
Hopefully Your "Cowboyz" have a better season than the real ones......

Oh and "Fly Eagles Fly....."

Well again I was going more for "classic" All-Stars. I don't follow the sport as a whole so I have no idea who's on the current roster of the real team.

And actually this is my first time at the game, so I'm pretty bad at it. I'm very quickly picking up the feel of it, but there's a lot of tactical and positional nuances I'm still getting the hang of.

Moltar wrote:Haha I hate the cowboys and this is still just awesome! Great job all around, DV8! Are the band-aids on Michael Irvin just freehanded? They look really good and that was a great use of that Games Day mini.

Yes those bandaids are free-handed on. It was a last-minute detail I hadn't planned on adding. My first thought was, he has big burly arms, he would look good with some scars and cuts. Then I figured, what's more awesome than scars? Bandaids. If I could paint a Scooby-Doo face on those things I would.


DV8

I was just thinking those band-aids needed Scooby Doo, or the Power Puff Girls. Those models rule, and I'm even more amused to see you don't really care about the Cowboys. That is by far the most detailed, well painted Blood Bowl army I've ever seen. Awesome work.

Painting isnt too bad but i think they would be better green... and with an eagle on it.. just a thought ya know since the eagle is THE american bird and well greens a good color you know. The armor is nicely weatherd skin is good its nice to see an ork that ist so green, although in this case with the armor it probiby should be green to balane the paleish skin. Still its actually really good.

I don't like Bloodbowl or the Cowboys but those are awesome!

Hate the Cowboys.

Love your squad!

:-)

Bob Lilly cracks me up... well done.