Bloodbowl supplies, and where to get them

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**CoI**

I'm looking to get the stuff for bloodbowl, but the boxed set, while cool, costs waaaaaaay to much here in Oz, so I'm making my own pitch. That's the easy part apparently. :/ I've been searching ebay and can't find any of the supplies required. The few times I found something, they were asking for something like $15 a die, and didn't have any templates. So where can I find them? Models I've dealt with, and I have the living rulebook, but the rest... other than just using D6's and saying what each number meant (not a bad thing, but I'd prefer to actually have the dice

) I've got nothing. So, anyone know where to pick that stuff up? I'm in Sydney Australia if you know a place in that area... Thanks in advance guys.

**Noir**

Impact Miniatures. For ALL your Blood Bowl needs, except borads.

**Piousman**

Board & dugouts: You can easily make your own board (I have, on a piece of felt). The squares are approx 29mm wide. Start from there.
There are also a number of dugout prints out there (google it), that you can print on a nice piece of paper and glue on cardboard or laminate (this is what I did).

Blocking Dice:
(1) You can get blocking dice by becoming a member of the NAF. Evey year the NAF gets a new color of block die issued.
(2) You can also get block-like dice from Impact! miniatures or Comixininos.
(3) Use a D6, and assign it values (the simplest to remember is 1- Skull, 2- Both down, 3/4 - Push, 5 - Defender Stumbles, 6 PoW! Defender Down, though technically, if matching the positions on the die, it would be 1- Skull, 2 - Defender Stumbles (push-pow), 3/4 - Push, 5 -PoW!, 6 - Both Down).

Templates:
Passing
(1) You can build your own. I believe that the measures are: width 5cm, overall length 40.6cm; with the quick, short and long passes at 10cm, long bomb at 8cm, and the thrower's area 2.6cm.
(2) Alternatively you can use the passing ruler only for determining interceptions, and use this passing template to figure out quick/short/long:

Scatter & Throw-in:
These are pretty easy, you can just make your own and print them on transparency.

Rule Book
Download the latest version (LRB6.0/CRP) from the GW site.

Let me know if there are any other ones that you have issues with.

- Piousman

**CoI**

Actually with the actual measurements I can build my own. But the scatter and throw in templates, what are the measurements for them? I haven't actually seen the game in person for many a year. I think Bloodbowl was new the last time I played it on an actual board.
Thanks a bunch guys. This will be a huge help.

**Piousman**

The scatter and throw in are not size based. You roll a die (D8 or D3), look at the template to decide the direction.

For example, the scatter looks like this:

1_2_3
4_[]_5
6_7_8

You put the template over the ball (figuratively speaking) before rolling. Hope it makes sense.

For the passing template I would use the chart for passing. It is actually more accurate than the template included with the game (since the original board's squares are not all the same size).

- Piousman

**CoI**

I'll make one based on the size of the squares I'm using. So the template is approx 13 squares long and 3 wide? But the scatter template is pretty much what you use in D&D so I can figure that one out easy enough.

**skrulnik**

Just make sure to get the width of the passing template right.
It is critical to getting interception attempts accurately.

**CoI**

I'll make sure of that. Can someone confirm my 'measurements' for me? 13 long, 3 wide?

**Piousman**

Best as I know, the measurement is in fact in whole mm's, not in squares. So it is 50mm wide, not defined in squares. Considering the squares are on average 29mm, I guess you could say it is 1.725 squares wide.

with the quick, short and long passes at 10cm, long bomb at 8cm, and the thrower's area 2.6cm.

So if you are going, for example, with 40mm squares, you would need to make the template 1.379 time bigger on every dimension.

Also, note that alternate throwing templates could also be purchased from Impact! or Comixininos (look in their accessories area).

- Piousman

**CoI**

hmm... I'll have to measure the squares and compensate. I suck at math though. :/