/bbg/ - Blood Bowl General

File: 1503494654511.jpg (65KB, 736x483px) Image search: [Google]

65KB, 736x483px

To those in the previous thread about my Ogre post: thanks.

>As soon as you stop having fun, use a better team. In a game about minimizing your need for luck, ogres require you to roll golden dice for an entire game.

Never read a better summary of the team. It definately made me realize how in their own way, the gobs and flings are better in many ways.

I think I will try them again but unlike the other two who have great stars and inducements to help them scale, ogres seem to fall flat at a certain point.

>>55273484

Good luck with them. Just try other team soon. Nothing will up your skills quite as much as playing each style a bit and doing analysis of your own games.

File: season 9(1)r.png (25KB, 571x843px) Image search: [Google]

25KB, 571x843px

Signups list at the moment, we're going all Rookies again this season.

>>55273591

8 or 16 team playoffs?

>>55273647

8 at the moment, 16 from 22/24 seems a lot

>>55273675

What i really wish is that teams that didnt make it into 2nd round of playoffs played a short 2-game round of exhibition matches, to avoid the slippery slope where the strongest teams get into playoffs, play 3-4 extra games and become even stronger as result.

>>55273762
Wish for getting gud skrub

>>55273762

That's not a bad shout, particularly in Vets (if we ever see one again).

In Rookies though I imagine a lot of people who don't make the cut would probably just discard the team anyway.

The Rebbit League (RIP) was trash, but they gave fresh teams a 3 game pre-season. Only problem was it was split geographically not by TV, so it didn't make much difference against the 1800TV teams they then played in the season.

>>55273531
Thanks. I hope this round goes better. I was thinking Vampires or Norse next. That said on

>As soon as you stop having fun, use a better team.

I did. I went Goblins and won 3/5 games. Drew the other two. Was lucky of course (Ripper helped phenomelly) but was a weight off my shoulders using them

>>55273591
>I am still not on the list

Mauled please. FIX YOUR GODDAMN LIST.
reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

If you still don't get it who I am
Skudrinka

>that feel when Nuffle drops trou and sends a steady stream of Unclean Ones down your throat all game
The number of double 1/skulls I got was unreal, which was especially frustrating since I was up against Lizardmen with a fresh Skaven team so not being able to roll a block against skinks meant I was totally screwed.

>>55274154
Use your stormvermin to hunt skinks.

>>55274219
When I got the opportunity I did, it was just Push,Trip, Skull all the way. Should've just conceded after my catcher rolled 4 1's in a row trying to catch and then pick up the ball turn 1.

>>55274287
Sounds rough. Lizards though are brutal to fight at the start so thats expected. Keep on trucking man.

>>55274643
Had another real bad game against Norse after that but Nuffle finally threw me a bone and put me up against a few Vamp and EU teams in quick succession. Nice, fragile teams for my RO, SVs, and a couple lucky linemen to rank up on. There was a Chaos Dwarfs game that could've gone poorly but I got super lucky and injured nearly all of his Hobgoblins in the first half while only suffering a single knockout in turn.

>>55274780
Nice but

>rat ogre
I see what may be contributing to your problem. Granted Norse are a tough team for most. The rat ogre is generally seen as too expensive for his cost. In my view you are better having 3 linerats as insurrance when your team is getting trounced. Which as skaven is expected.

I know this has probably been asked a fuck ton already but I don't wanna sift through the last thread.

Should I get BB1 legendary edition or wait until BB2 is on sale? What's the difference between them, anyway?

>>55274886
bb2 le

>>55274883
Oh I knew he was a poor investment, much like Chaos's Minotaur he's just not worth the cost given the risk he presents. I just tend to turn every team I play into an at least partially bashy team anyway, so if I was gonna hamstring a heavy runner team like that might as well do it right.

>>55274886
BB2 is shinier, has some annoying camera options, and doesn't have Khorne Daemons. Also I think it is kinda on sale atm for 40$ from 45.

>>55274886
Bb2 le has more players, superior league functions, better graphics, a large and active playerbase and a fun little story mode. Its tutorial is better than bb 1 le too. The core game is the same but in bb1 you will only be playing the AI.

Id recommend Bb2 le.

File: 1502111916363.jpg (90KB, 1000x956px) Image search: [Google]

90KB, 1000x956px

>>55275008
>chaos mino not worth taking
>not wanting 3d blitzes nearly every turn
>not wanting a meatgrinder murder machine one skill upgrade later
>not wanting a 8 foot beast mode monster

Excuse you sir!

>>55275076
>av8

>>55275076
I mean I love Mino, he's cool as fuck and practically a cuisinart with hooves once you get Claws and shit but early Chaos really, really needs those rerolls and Mino only shows his true potential on Blitz but
>Wild Animal
>Loner

File: 1502668023639.png (74KB, 243x348px) Image search: [Google]

74KB, 243x348px

>>55275104
Please do not shoot down my post like that. Av8 is still ok. Sort of...

>>55275138
Is Wild Animal really all that bad compared to Really Stupid?

>>55275705
They are both bad for various reasons. Really Stupid is only better because the players with it are better on their teams as opposed to WA players being useless on their teams.

Having to block or blitz to move isn't good, but having to keep two players on top of each other also isn't good. However, keeping tackle zones is very nice.

>>55273875
Ha, you are taking the slow slope up to good teams. Not that that's a bad thing. Learn all you can and maybe you'll be a beast with tier 1 teams.

File: mina.png (1MB, 1496x668px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1496x668px

>>55275834

And since Wild Animal means that you keep your tackle zones tentacles is a good choice on the Minotaur if you want a more passive approach. Not having to worry about activating them and loosing all the tentacled up people is great.

>>55275156
Until you run into Mighty Blow. Or Frenzy. Or pile-up. Or fouling.

>>55276738
That minotaur is beautiful. How many matches has he played?

Is it me or have GW gone a bit quiet?

File: 1501370312793.png (18KB, 223x276px) Image search: [Google]

18KB, 223x276px

>http://naf.talkfantasyfootball.org/lrb6.html
>Chaos in lrb6 have the lowest win % in the game besides stunty
>mfw

What happened? Thats pretty bloody terrible.

Chaos posting is so last season. How do we fix Khemri?

>>55279587
make tomb guard start with mighty blow again

>>55279587
Get rid of decay and regen. Give them G access, +MA, SF and BT

File: 1458510227542.png (242KB, 388x414px) Image search: [Google]

242KB, 388x414px

>mfw found the base game at my campus store for 50 bucks (50% off of 100 which is already below the original price)
What am I in for lads?

Gimme a gimmick team to make that's fun to watch and isn't necessarily a one trick pony like halflings.

>>55280450
Like Goblins? Their entire schtick is fun, questionably viable gimmicks. That, or one of the teams with access to mutations if you enjoy the visual aspect of leveling your dudes.

>>55280553
Yeah I was considering either goblins or underworld. Is there any ways you'd recommend building them for shenanigans?

Are there any supplements or fan pdfs for building high tv/pre leveled teams? Asking cuz a friend and I wanna play, but starting teams are too boring, and a campaign with two people usually leads to one team outshining the other.

File: 439598.png (12KB, 95x147px) Image search: [Google]

12KB, 95x147px

>>55279633

Well, super star tomb guardians already exists, kinda.

https://fumbbl.com/help:ZandriT

>Also 7ma, 3ag, and A access players.

>>55280584
They're both kind intrinsically shenanigans but some obvious things would be taking as many big guys and special weapons as you can, plus making use of the stunty throwing ability.

Which team is better: Dwarves or Chaos Dwarves?

File: help.png (14KB, 443x779px) Image search: [Google]

14KB, 443x779px

Right, last call.

Going to start the League tonight, currently we're at 25 confirmed, and I'd like an even number.

In the case I don't get any more PM's, chopa will be in.

I don't mind him trying to help me out by acting as a filler when we have two divisions, but he said this whilst not having a fresh team in the League at the moment for me to enter. At the time of him saying this I rolled a d25 on the Create Team page and will expect him to play with Dark Elves.

>>55274886
BB1 is barely viable as a network game these days - you go into the lobby and the same 8 or so whales are sitting there, with their 69% win ratio and 1,000s of matches to their name. So you won't have much fun playing against them.

The differences are a couple of teams (BB2 has Brets and Kislev; BB1 has Khorne), and graphics. BB1 plays waaaaay faster, however.

>>55275076
Chaos mino isn't mandatory, but he is a powerful addition around the 1250-1300 TV range. By then you have a few skills on warriors, and the minotaur basically lets you parachute in an additional, pre-built kill piece to deal with your opponent's better skilled pieces.

After TV1700, if he dies I won't replace him; if he's still alive at tv1850, I give him the boot. That TV drop, at that stage, is when your chaos becomes genuinely competitive.

File: Morg_400x400.jpg (30KB, 400x400px) Image search: [Google]

30KB, 400x400px

This guy pows your gfs ass what do you do

>>55280343
Lots of fun and lots of rage.

File: Untitled.png (167KB, 272x272px) Image search: [Google]

167KB, 272x272px

>>55284887

>Morg went through a mid-life crisis and got two piercings and a nose job

wew

>>55284943
They're lizardmen rings he got lodged in his face after a particularly spirited headbutt.

>>55284943
>Morg became tumblr fat dyke

>>55284182

>Pizza and chopa sign up, get 27

>>55278442
Low TV resurrection tournaments.

>>55284182
I'll make a filler team.

>>55287718

At the moment I've got

>chopa AWOL
>dashergeaux PMing me saying he'd make a team tonight (???)
>nout from Pizza, maybe he's just busy IRL or something

I'm out tonight so if I don't hear anything I'll put a filler in and the first to show up gets it.

>>55288371
>dasher's ghost still haunting fumbbl
Not even death can save u from the suffering of bb

File: Screenshot_2017-09-08-19-25-44.png (433KB, 1200x1920px) Image search: [Google]

433KB, 1200x1920px

Off we go boys

Spess Elves vs Manhellton Bustaz
https://fumbbl.com/ffblive.jnlp?spectate=999746
First game of Season 9

Should I make my underworld/Skaven team Ska themed (because Ska-vens) and call them The Mighty Mighty Warpstones?

>>55290793
Yes and have the troll be reel big troll

>>55290384
Wow injury in the 1st round. To be frank HE atleast got more dolla

>>55291316
Also it was just linemen. If that was a Blitzer with -MA or -AG we would have our "team crippled in the first two rounds" space filled.

File: 8d2[1].png (219KB, 464x435px) Image search: [Google]

219KB, 464x435px

>mfw Urkim has no block or tackle

dead

Beum

File: 1496615703227.jpg (132KB, 760x477px) Image search: [Google]

132KB, 760x477px

Star bump

Dead

Greencliff Grumblers vs K. I. A. of Nuffle
https://fumbbl.com/ffblive.jnlp?spectate=999836

>6/26 teams are dwarf/chorf

You're all monsters.

RIP my Saurus Blitzer. Death by Ogres, you were my only guy with 3 skillups

Buymp

IS there any way to play Bloodbowl on either a 3DS, a PSP or a shitty kindle fire 7? Got a long car trip and would like to play some BB against an AI while I have nothing better to do

>>55300218
There was a blood bowl game for the DS.

Is your logo ready lads?

>>55301030
Yep. MS Paint cringe will happen as soon it will be accepted

File: U3PGsWv_d.png (31KB, 360x450px) Image search: [Google]

31KB, 360x450px

>>55301030

>>55300218

There's a PSP version of Blood Bowl.

>>55301030
Soon.

Naggaroth Ministry of Health vs Chaos Waste Overlords
https://fumbbl.com/ffblive.jnlp?spectate=999911

File: 534513.png (89KB, 360x450px) Image search: [Google]

89KB, 360x450px

>>55301030

>take time colouring an image correctly, only to resize it to about 200px

Don't know why I bothered

File: nobbla_blackwart_by_jasonjuta-d7y0nj9.jpg (269KB, 800x711px) Image search: [Google]

269KB, 800x711px

Naggaroth Ministry of Health vs Chaos Waste Overlords

Match ends 1-1

Painkiller Panic vs Duergar Redcaps in approximately 20 minutes!

Moot's Colourful Escapists vs Gourmand's Delicatessen
https://fumbbl.com/ffblive.jnlp?spectate=999953

Also known as the stunty match

>>55303517
1:0 for the shortstacks. 30k for both of the teams, wew

File: Incase+you+say+_c3344d1d877dff7fc85d7d194198a5f9.jpg (20KB, 292x223px) Image search: [Google]

20KB, 292x223px

>>55304102
Proper shortstacks

https://fumbbl.com/ffblive.jnlp?spectate=999970

Painkiller Panic v Duergar Redcaps now playing!

>>55304376

Game goes 1-0 to Painkiller Panic after an incredibly lucky blitz on an unfortunate Minotaur.

>>55273399
Are there any league games for Blood Bowl 2 ?

>>55305283
It's pretty ded

>>55305864
even with the recent legendary edition ?

>>55305982

The guy who was running it got tired of people mucking up their schedules and matchups, and no one else has stepped up yet.

>>55305992
I don't know shit about hosting or joining a league and frankly I never joined any.

I just want to pop my Blood Bowl league cherry

>>55306248
If BB2 LE has a swiss league format then I'll make one.

Daring Desserts vs Literal卐Hitlers
https://fumbbl.com/ffblive.jnlp?spectate=1000009

Frog kills Hitler, more news at 11.

File: 9lbdEzL.png (9KB, 572x437px) Image search: [Google]

9KB, 572x437px

I need a new league name. Khorneflake Cup got boring. Any ideas?

>>55306413
Dastardly Deed Cup ?

>>55305982
>>55306248
You could probably try to ressurect it, the game is much better with the expansion.

>>55306314

It does, just called 'Wissen' league because that's Warhammer Switzerland.

>>55307035
>implying swiss got buttfucked by equivalent of orcs

Come watch best Dark Elf team get mauled by Chorfs:

https://fumbbl.com/ffblive.jnlp?spectate=1000042

>>55308514
my logo is the best logo

>>55305982
No /tg/ league for Blood Bowl 2 LE but LE has quadrupled the daily playerbase of BB2. From 300-400 to 1600-2000+. Been preddy gud.

dead

File: 06.png (16KB, 95x131px) Image search: [Google]

16KB, 95x131px

HEY! You! Kid who looooves graphics.
(you are terrible btw)

Join the /tg/ Blood Bowl 2 LE league!

Create a new team and apply to the /tg/ castaways league. Just search /tg/

If enough people are signed up when I eventually get power and cable back, I will be running a swiss tournament, or what every cyanide calls it.

Fuck you.

File: BBGingo.png (52KB, 610x663px) Image search: [Google]

52KB, 610x663px

>>55312055

Rolled 1 (1d6)

gfi

File: blood-bowl-2-nurgle-dlc-46758.jpg (2MB, 1680x945px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 1680x945px

Who is the most cost effective Chaos star player?

>>55306353
Wow LiteralHitlers got fucked despite winning.

bump is in the house

>>55312055
At the moment I see there is another /tg/ league with more players

anyone know what's up with that ?

>>55318622
It's the old one from 2016, it died when the game was in its meh phase.

>>55318626
Well I just joined the /tg/ castaways with my dwarven Golan Grudgers

File: 41RWpJ2DywL.jpg (22KB, 404x500px) Image search: [Google]

22KB, 404x500px

>tfw you long bomb on turn 16 to get the winning touchdown.

File: 1498141083179.png (317KB, 807x560px) Image search: [Google]

317KB, 807x560px

>>55315862
Please help

File: 1502736995844.jpg (260KB, 1136x811px) Image search: [Google]

260KB, 1136x811px

Teaching my friend Blood Bowl through FUMBBL as sadly he can't afford BB2. He took up Orcs first but I was thinking would giving him Chaos make it easier to learn the basics?

File: chaos allstars.jpg (220KB, 1600x694px) Image search: [Google]

220KB, 1600x694px

So what are your Chaos Renegade "essentials"? I'd think the Orc and the Elf, certainly, but is the goblin worth it for the TTM potential, or is his gold best saved towards more big bastards?
Which non-humans do you guys typically favor?

>>55319685
Hell naw. Give him either orcs, norse or humans.

>>55319685
Chaos is a very straightforward team, and the lack of skills may make it seem useful for learning the basics of moving, blocking and passing, but since the skills are such a huge part of the game anyway, I'd consider learning how to use a player's skills as part of "the basics". I mean, you look at the skills Human and Orc teams start with, and they're all skills people typically level into anyway.
Besides that, the horns make it easy to get careless with your blocks, since a +1 Str on the blitz is a fairly significant bonus.
As a Chaos player, I'd say Orcs are a better learning team. Just gotta have him bear in mind that linemen aren't completely incompetent at a positional's job and that anyone can fill any role in a pinch, which will be important to remember when players start hitting the medic's tent.

>>55319813
>>55319710
Thanks for hat help. I'll keep him to Orcs, just in our practice game, I killed a lineorc, maimed a blitzer and crippled a Black Orc (-1 Str) so was considering alternatives. I got insanely lucky though but still.

>>55319692
It depends. Some people tend to just go the Chaos linemen, dark elf, and maybe one big guy. Two at a pinch. The Line Orc would be an excellent addition now to the roster. If you're going to go the Goblin, he technically comes with the Troll to get bang for your buck so that's 140k. I'd suggest taking Ogre or Troll for being tanky, or Minotaur for offensiveness. Two if you want some extra muscle but not sure on the roster variation on that.

>>55319998
>If you're going to go the Goblin, he technically comes with the Troll to get bang for your buck so that's 140k
In which version? In DZ2, they're separate players. Gob's 40k and Troll's 110k

Right now, my starting build is Ogre, Orc, Goblin, Delf and 8 Humans, with 3 rerolls, a doc, 2 cheerleaders and 2 assistant coaches because I don't have a spare Mino or Troll laying around

>>55320070
Cut the cheerleaders and coaches.

>>55320070
Oh I didn't mean literally but more so the Goblin himself is mainly used for TTM. For some reason I forgot the Ogre can throw him too, so ignore what I said previously.

That roster looks fine actually, just be careful of managing the Goblin.

I would suggest dropping cheerleader and assistant coaches and bank that for a Doctor after the first game.

Dead Kings of Old vs Your Local Beer Provider
https://fumbbl.com/ffblive.jnlp?spectate=1000240

Undead v Dorfs

Myself and Sindrii starting up now lads

File: Rattle.jpg (76KB, 680x680px) Image search: [Google]

76KB, 680x680px

>tfw your ghoul can be surfed, but the opponent ignores it

>>55320556
WTF?! You told me not to surf and you would leave me and mom like my real dad if ur ghoul got killed

>>55320424
Thanks for the game 1-0 Dad! Can we go play catch for real now?

File: sad.jpg (12KB, 300x250px) Image search: [Google]

12KB, 300x250px

>>55321015
>>55320727
pls no bully

File: 20170602_132958.jpg (7MB, 5312x2988px) Image search: [Google]

7MB, 5312x2988px

At least 4 players in the /tg/ castaways, need a significant number more for a real tournament. I'll be back in a few days to check.

File: IMG_20170902_205729879.jpg (1MB, 2560x1440px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 2560x1440px

>>55320070
how many miniatures do i need to make this team
Currently I have
-troll
-mino
-gobo
-orc
-skaven
Beside the ogre and Elf, how many humans do I need? With 6 is enough or do I need more to cover anything that can happen on a league?
Pic related gobo, orc and Ricardo Ferminelli a Easter egg player I will put on each and every team I have unless it has Werewolfs

>>55321971

Most Pact teams don't run every positional. The Dark Elf is probably a must, and at least one Big Guy: most people take the Ogre for sure, but there's debate on whether the Troll is a better choice than Mino or not.

File: IMG_20170902_205350613.jpg (1MB, 2560x1440px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 2560x1440px

>>55321971
From Blood Bowl Compendium
Did you know..
Skeleton Freeboter Ricardo Ferminelli, once of the Pergamo Pastas, made it his ambition to play for every NAF league team once he turned Undead following a five-player gang-up block. Oddly enough, he claime to prefer working with live teammates. He made it through the AFC in 5 seasons, then started on the NFC. Just 3 teams short of his goal, he was tragically buried by a Westside Werewolf. The world is still waiting for him to reappear.

I knew about this thanks to the Both Down Podcast, and really love the idea of having a Skeleton as one of the 0-16/0-12 guys

This is Chaos Chosen Ricardo

File: IMG_20170902_205544760.jpg (1MB, 2560x1440px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 2560x1440px

>>55322057
This is human Ricardo

File: IMG_20170902_204629669.jpg (1MB, 2560x1440px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 2560x1440px

>>55322084
And I'm clueless on how to make Skaven Ricardo and a Orc Ricardo because (for the moment) that's are all the teams I have, Human, Chaos Chosen, Orcs, skaven (not build yet) and Chaos Renegades (because the challenge on how to make look so many different miniatures like they are from one team is really like it )

Pic related vanilla Ricardo

File: 99070112003_DESuccubus360.jpg (87KB, 600x620px) Image search: [Google]

87KB, 600x620px

>>55322035
For what I read, this is true, but my idea is to make a Complete Team with every positional I may use.
I'm thinking on get some human linemen and put chaos marauder heads and (more) spikes on them or maybe buy a box of marauders and began to also build a Norse team

As for the elf I was thinking on get a single witch elf or the dark eldar succubus or dark elf supreme sorceress, any other alternative?

>>55322496
I think just go with the Succubus. Nice change, could do some green stuff to make a cool facial mask for her too.

Rolled 5 (1d6)

>>55314651

team reroll

dead

File: 070295c9ecebb14f1264f190d96b94f1.jpg (64KB, 564x749px) Image search: [Google]

64KB, 564x749px

Whoever told me to go Chaos for this season: Thank you.

>>55327672
That was me.

And you waffled for so long

>>55327672
No it was me.

>>55327793
I know. Just happy I made the more comfortable and better choice.

>>55327818
There was a few of you

Waifu Wars vs Nelson gentleman fight club
https://fumbbl.com/ffblive.jnlp?spectate=1000353

File: whelp.jpg (58KB, 568x426px) Image search: [Google]

58KB, 568x426px

>lv5 Mino dies from double skulls
>Roll Apothecary
>mfw Broken Collarbone

>>55319231
There isn't one, take bribes and foul

blood bowl legendary edition is really fun, I like the vs ai mode, a pity the ai is garbage they actually made it worse

>>55328723
Yeah, they sure love buying trash star players with the massive amounts of free cash they get from you never losing a match. Honestly unless you're as unlucky as me you'll probably never have trouble as most teams.

>>55328758
I've only had one draw vs the ai, if you play a mixed team and join a cup that has mixed teams the ai is EVEN WORSE because they don't know how to make mixed teams (they take random shit, so they'll take vampires without thralls) and because the players are mixed they don't know how to use their pieces

>>55328864
They're awful with vamps in general. Even when they've got a thrall in range they'll ignore it to get closer to the ball half the time.

If this current game I'm in wasn't in a knockout league it'd be a draw, I've lost 9 turns to rolling skulls so far.

>>55328908
I've thrown a quad skull and a trip skull in the same game

>>55328953
Yeah I've been there as well. It's up to 11 turns now. It's frustrating to see the dice constantly reward the ai's trashcan plays but Nuffle's a bitch sometimes and there's nothing you can do about it.

>>55328979
Aaaaaand fucking WOW. Finished out the last 3 turns rolling 1's to pick up the balls right next to the endzone and lost the shootout.

>>55329049
what do you do when the AI locks up and refuses to play their turn

>>55330486

Wait patiently, then get fucking annoyed when they cheese the timer for 40 seconds when there's only 20 seconds actually left on the clock.

>>55330830
I waited 30 minutes, then I alt-f4'd

Sometimes if you sit 1 square from the TD the ai breaks and refuses to play its turn

the AI is so bad and it still has to think for so long to make its bad moves, it's bullshit, because I was almost finished this game I just lose 40 minutes of playtime to this bug which has been around since release

>>55328647
How many matches had he played before? Sorry for your loss.

File: mM0uCB4.png (2KB, 138x48px) Image search: [Google]

2KB, 138x48px

What's his endgame?

>>55333280
To be king of the rhumba beat.

File: Untitled.png (315KB, 1074x743px) Image search: [Google]

315KB, 1074x743px

>>55333280

I don't know but whoever made it has an exemplary taste in sandwiches.

I recently signed up for FUMBBL, and saw this guy's profile: https://fumbbl.com/~BillBrasky. He has played 13279 matches. Assuming about 1.5 hours per match, that's over 2 years hunched in front of a computer screen playing Blood Bowl. No wonder he hasn't posted a picture of himself. Imagine what that would do to your face. He probably looks like Gollum's asshole after it suffered a rectal prolapse.

File: thehomeissue_toast021.jpg (164KB, 922x728px) Image search: [Google]

164KB, 922x728px

>>55333871

>Coronation Chicken
>Ploughman's
>Corned Beef
>Egg and Cress
>Spam Fritter
>Fish Fingers

Fucking Britbongs man

File: 1480870651694.jpg (80KB, 1000x539px) Image search: [Google]

80KB, 1000x539px

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/09/11/blood-bowl-preview-the-elven-union-sep11gw-homepage-post-2/
Faggot knife-ears.

>>55334507
They look like they changed the least from the previous teams. Still look good but their aesthetic is pretty much how I expected them.

>>55334507

Not sure if it's the painting or what but these are somewhat underwhelming. Faces and Masks look sub-par.

>>55334507

Hey boss. How would you like the female elves done?

>Just dome out the chest to show they have tits.

Really boss? Maybe we should change the head model and physique a bi-

>NO! That takes effort, money, and money, this way we can use less molds, and more molds for Space Marines!

>>55334890
Huh, just noticed that about the female elves. Good catch.

File: 6a9769b6edcae7dd662227cd77bd6043--blood-bowl-teams-blod.jpg (15KB, 300x400px) Image search: [Google]

15KB, 300x400px

>>55334669
>They look like they changed the least from the previous teams
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

>>55335186
Goddamn that's a nice conversion.

>>55334507

I was looking forward to this release and still kind of am, but they could have punched them up a bit.

Where are the crazy hairstyles? Only the thrower has anything remotely unusual going on. Also nobody told the painter that Elven Union was supposed to be a mixed Elf team and so we ended up with nothing but High Elf looking fuckers.

>>55335478
But all Elves look the same, its just their clothing looks a bit different. Their physicality is identical.

Also how is >>55335186 or
>>55334507
remotely Av7 material? They actually have gear on.

>>55335478
The studio EU teams have always looked like high elf looking fuckers

>>55335507
I think they'd more than likely favor a kit made from lighter-weight materials for ease of movement. Yes they're wearing a full suit, but it could just as easily be dyed leather or thinner sheets of metal rather than the bulkier stuff other teams wear. Maybe it's some ultra-light artificial material that can only stand up to as many hits as the average elf expects he'll fail to dodge away from.

>>55335670
>Yes they're wearing a full suit, but it could just as easily be dyed leather or thinner sheets of metal rather than the bulkier stuff other teams wear. Maybe it's some ultra-light artificial material that can only stand up to as many hits as the average elf expects he'll fail to dodge away from.

Good point. I guess that would make since since Pro Elf teams are dirt broke compared to their High Elven cousins.

>>55335507
>>55335670
>>55335698

AV is about more than just the armour they're wearing anyway. An elf is simply squishier than a dwarf or an orc.

>>55335507

Pallor, hair color, hair styles too but there's not much you can do about that one when you're just painting.

A lot could have been done to make them look more like a motley.

>>55335507
>>55336674

I'd probably blame deadlines for that one. Hard to make the players all look individual if you've only been allocated a day or so to do the lot.

File: 20170911_191357.jpg (4MB, 4128x2322px) Image search: [Google]

4MB, 4128x2322px

Bb2 coaches learning how to fight ogres is becoming painful.

>>55337954
wait for them to roll 1s?

>>55338764
Just murdering them

>>55339779
grinding against ogres is a pretty poor idea unless you have more guard I'd wager

>>55338764
It was Khemri.

>>55340196
ahahahahahahahaha the hard counter to ogres

I think the shitposters who said that BB2 cheats dice rolls versus AI might be right, checking dice logs after the games reveals that I'm consistently short on pows while the AI has much more

>>55343234
It doesnt cheat anon. You can trash the AI with stunty teams consistently if you know whats what.

>>55344308
I'm not saying I lose to the ai, I'm saying the AI rigs dice rolls, but then it doesn't matter because the ai doesn't try to win at all

File: 1461531700985.jpg (455KB, 1024x718px) Image search: [Google]

455KB, 1024x718px

>>55343234
I wanted to check this but the dice tracking was not retroactive for the other AI matches in my log. Still, it's something that can be checked against now.

>>55321806
I added an Orc team for now, but might change it before the start.

Newfag here, can teams from the old edition be played with the new edition? How does one make their own OC team and star players?

>>55345383
yes but they really shouldn't

most coaches think custom teams are stupid

File: Impact Gnome_Team1.jpg (132KB, 600x993px) Image search: [Google]

132KB, 600x993px

>>55345383
>can teams from the old edition be played with the new edition?
Depends on your group, but generally yes. GW's released a "Teams of Legend" PDF that contains rules for teams not yet released in a Death Zone supplement. Almost nobody's gonna care if you use ancient minis or non-GW minis either.

>How does one make their own OC team
Are you talking about flavor-wise, or rules-wise? Flavor's easy. Pick a race you like, think up some player names and imagine a bit about what each one's like, what their play style's like, what their fans are like, etc... Almost nobody uses stock GW teams like the Reavers or Gouged Eye. Making your own team background is half the fun.
If you're talking rules-wise, best avoided. There's plenty of teams to pick from already, so no shortage of variation. If you REALLY need to, make a team with a similar feel to an existing team, and use the existing team's rules. Basically what the new BB2 expansion did when they used the Slaan team rules to make their Kislev Circus team. Best one I've seen was a team of gnomes piloting giant robots that used the rules for the Ogre team.
("These are my fox-morphs, the Steel Donuts, but rules-wise, they count as dark elves")

>and star players?
If you really, REALLY need to make an OC star player, do the same thing with the counts-as team. Make a cool miniature, give it a bit of backstory, and give him the same stats as somebody already in the book. ("This is star player Lord Edge, playing for the Steel Donuts, but rules-wise he counts as Eldril Sidewinder")

>>55345990
Yeah I was talking fluff wise

>>55346113
Blood Bowl's really a pretty "anything goes" kind of place, and there's not a lot of concrete details about the setting, so by all means get creative. If you want an example, here's the fluff for my team.

>Formerly known as the Blood Drinkers, the team was forced to disband after the "Yopo incident", where several players consumed illicit substances brought in by Amazon team, the Coral Snakes and proceeded to fly into a violent, drug-fueled frenzy during the match, injuring, killing and cannibalizing several opposing players, referees, spectators and teammates before even kicking off. While many former Blood Drinkers received a permanent ban from professional play, a handful of the original players still remain in the new team, the Black Forest Bonebreakers.
>The major condition for the league allowing the team to reform was that their head coach was not allowed to have a monotheistic worship of Khorne on the team. This led their coach, bray shaman Old White, to seek out a former rival. A Warrior of note from the Twisted Claw, Aximand dal Narbath, and disciple of Tzeentch and Nuffle, decided to sign on with the Breakers as assistant coach on the condition that he be allowed to play as well. Now "Affirmative Aximand" helps lead the team on and off the pitch, his razor-sharp cunning turning the thuggish aggression of the team in a more constructive direction.

dead

>>55346113
Blood Bowl is a goldmine for personal fluff. Check out some of the rulebooks like LRB5 for some fun bits for inspiration.

So, it's Bloodbowl season in Huntingdon again, and somebody has decided to take a Chaos Pact team that starts with all 3 Big Guys, the Goblin, Skaven, but no Elf.
He's normally a pretty good player, so is he showboating, or am I looking at some kind of matchfixing?

Not that I have much room for talk, I'm still using Slaan.

>>55351835
He might be doing any of what you said or just wanting to try something different.

File: 1494306992404.jpg (104KB, 270x400px) Image search: [Google]

104KB, 270x400px

So if tzeentch knows everything, why doesnt he make a team to win the Blood Bowl?

>>55353527
Because he knows that sports are shit.

>>55353527

Because you don't win Blood Bowl, you just do a little better each time.

>>55353527

Because Nuffle > Tzeentch.

>>55353527
Because Nuffle is more powerful and makes him fuck off.

>>55353573
The actual game is Ameri-Ball, The Blood Bowl is the huge tournament.

File: 20170912_185211.png (4MB, 1928x1236px) Image search: [Google]

4MB, 1928x1236px

Just smashed a league with these stubby fucks.

Wewdies vs Dead Gangsta Storage
https://fumbbl.com/ffblive.jnlp?spectate=1000750

Watch as a Wardancer quad skulls themself into a MNG

>>55353527
Personally, I'm tempted. I'm gonna need tzaangors and a lot of green stuff.

>>55353527

Well, Cyanide made a Khorne and Slaanesh team. GW made a Nurgle team so they should be making the Tzeentch team as well.

File: Tooby an Artistic Interpretation.jpg (482KB, 1871x2159px) Image search: [Google]

482KB, 1871x2159px

The BB2 League: /tg/ castaways
needs more if were are going to have an actual tournament.

5 so far. Are you fumbbl adverse enough to join a vastly inferior tg tournament?

File: pic1738630_md.jpg (91KB, 500x194px) Image search: [Google]

91KB, 500x194px

How have Ogres remained bottom win % since their inception?

Even in LRB4 they were under Goblins and back then they had 8 or 12 fieldable ogres and 6 goblins. Whats up?

>>55360043
Because Bone Head.

>>55353527
What would his team even be like? Lots of Horrors and passing?

>>55360199
I was thinking mutations, passing and maybe other chaotic stuff.

>>55360199
After line-up you roll d6 for each player
>1) gets Block (S skill of your choice if already has Block)
>2) +1S
>3) gets Dodge (A skill of your choice)
>4) +1A
>5) gets Pass (P skill of your choice)
>6) +1M or AV

Reroll this bonus every time player gets knocked down and at beginning of each drive.

Unique G skill available only for this team that makes the specific player roll on d16 table instead

>>55353628
blood bowl isn't the huge tournament it's the cup

>>55346113
colour + animal + fictional region name

green bay packers
cleavland browns
naggaroth knife-ears
darkside cowboys

File: Dark Heresy investigation.jpg (102KB, 500x1125px) Image search: [Google]

102KB, 500x1125px

>>55360199
I'm thinking:
0-4 Warriors w/ Pro
0-12 Cultists w/ General & Mutation access
0-2 Demagogue w/ SureHands (Gen, Pass & Mutation access)
0-1 Flamer (No Hands/ bombardier)
Discounted Team Wizard

>>55346224
Metalocalypse refrence?

File: brutal.jpg (35KB, 600x600px) Image search: [Google]

35KB, 600x600px

>>55362264
Metalocalypse reference.

>>55362229
Your players are gonna be expensive as shit. New teams are gonna have to pass up a lot of those positionals just to afford to have 11 players on a starting budget.

dead

>very first match ever as goblins in BB2
>opponent is orca
>he kills a regular gobbo and injures 7, but my looney kills a black orc
>I lose 3 to 1

That was a learning experience

>>55365212
Ya its tough as Goblins. Got to dodge to try to make it only 1 blitz a turn for your opponent.

>>55353527
Becuase he is so retarded he struggles to untangle the most basic chainpushes.

>>55365390
>>55365212
I've played about 5 games as goblins and my looney hasn't done anything, not for lack of trying. Are they really even that good? I fucking love fanatics though, maybe my favourite player in the entire game. It's fun to get two of them by grabbing that star player.

Why is there no organized BB2 /tg/ league ?

>>55362755
So what ?

How often do you see DE assassins ?

Having positionals that are competitively unavailable or useless until you win MANY games (or never at all) is a part of the game.

You realize that this is the game where people grind two levels on certain positionals and then fire them if they don't get doubles.

Welcome to BB kid.

>>55365474
looneys is basically a better goblin that doesn't get kicked out for cheating.

What anon said is true.

You need to trust dodge and rarely, if ever, end your turn next to an opponent that's stronger than you. Unless you're literally taking out the ball carry.

Always dodge out of tackle zones, always.

>>55365524
nice meltdown.
Team isn't even that expensive, if cultists are hobs as they should be you can start with all warriors, maybe upgrade a cultist to demagogue too.

>>55354016
suggestions for a newb starting his first league using dorfs?

>>55366961
Cage up, but not if the enemy is all tied down on the midfield and they can't reach you when your ball carrier breaks away.

>>55365474
What teams are you using him against? The Looney is not so hot vs Av9, at least when blitzing with him. Vs av7 he is a straight up murder.

However he is best used as a safety on both offense and defense. As in, keep him at the rear and wait for a break through or a big threat (with low or medium AV), then smack him with the saw. Ideally wait for the opponent to expose their ball carrier then smack him with the saw.

Also what you can do is risk blitzing with the Looney and if he knocks over the opponent, cover him with two goblins to tackle zone/screen him off from retaliation.

I prefer using him as a deterrant more so than go buzz crazy unless its an AV7. Vs av9, if you really want you can knock over someone and with 3 assists, try to foul them.

File: 1460917387180.gif (406KB, 500x500px) Image search: [Google]

406KB, 500x500px

Bump

Rolled 3, 1 = 4 (2d6)

>>55368237
Roll for armor break

>>55333925
Sperg

>>55357060

How would that work anyhow? I mean, when we discuss Slaanesh teams, the concept tends to be "Chaos Elves" as in, AG4 access but with mutations.

But what about Tzeentch? Universal Pro skill for everyone? Sometimes free rerolls for everyone?

>>55273399
Say hell to the chad ogre.

> knowing you should take block over +ST
> but anon how will have a st 7 ogre if you dont take st 6!

File: chad_20170913_114421.jpg (217KB, 1920x1104px) Image search: [Google]

217KB, 1920x1104px

>>55369426
Fucked up the picture.

>>55369457
If it's an Ogre team it's different, they don't have loner so you won't get punished as often for not having block as a regular big guy would.

>>55369426
>doesn't understand the meme
You have a Virgin Ogre. Chad Ogre would roll dubs and stat ups then take HMP.

>>55369565
> meme
Completely forgot about that. Was mostly using the term as Chad was used beforehand.

>>55369483
Yeah, I still think block is objectively better since st 6 is less useful in the general case.

>>55370034
yeah block is just straight up better especially on an ogre team where the only goal is to roll as many armor breaks as possible. a 3db without block is worse than a 2d with block

File: 20170913114539_1.jpg (387KB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

387KB, 1920x1080px

Well that was a painful match. Not pictured: the original Brick Hardmeat who was killed

>>55371260
You fight another chaos team or what?

>>55370492
>a 3db without block is worse than a 2d with block
It's worse only if your opponent doesn't have block.

File: 1431635190775.jpg (62KB, 489x604px) Image search: [Google]

62KB, 489x604px

>>55369426
+ST is better than block on non-loners because you can dodge into a cage on a +3 with break tackle and get a 2-DB

>>55372280
ogres straight up cant win against block teams anyway. and if you're developed enough where lots of players have block then you're definitely not winning unless your injury dice are godlike

>>55372890
>ogres straight up cant win against block teams
Yeah, 0% chance. Never ever happens. Not in Blood Bowl. You can always tell the outcome before the game happens.

Aight its fucking salt time, boy.

How do you enjoy this game when the other coach rolls pows, gets injuries and removals and generally just rolls 6?

The dice log makes it horribly obvious when you looking at some fuck ton of pushes and minimal pows/stumbles and they've joined the yellow gravy train.

Have i got blood bowl wrong? i read the guide and it say its a game of risk and the better coach wins but you dont need to be a good fucking coach if i have only 6 mens alive, you dont need to be a good coach if you roll 6s on a retarded play, what the fuck?


But on a serious note, is playing to win a stupid thing in this game? have i got it wrong?

>>55373242

You can play to win, but you absolutely have to accept that the dice gods are real and full of caprice.

The only thing you can do is put as many roadblocks in your opponents way and pray for him to finally roll that 1 or double 1. But sometimes you just have games where you finish a half with 3 of your rerolls remaining unspent.
And you started the game with 2.
There are still hard limits to an opponents turn you can maximise though. He can only make one blitz being the main one. So restrict his block options. Take a step back if you can.

Otherwise, turn this game of fantasy-american football into fantasy Basketball and get into a high speed TD race and hope your dice and skills don't give out before his does.

>>55373242

Blood Bowl's a game about leagues and tournaments, like in sporting seasons. The better coach won't win every game because of variation, but they will win more games overall and not be so fucked over by luck as a new player would be.

On another level, Blood Bowl's a parody game where brutal injuries and horribly unfair matchups are played for comedy value. The game hands you teams like Halflings and Ogres, unapologetically tells you that they are shit, and invites you to see if your skill and the luck of the dice can let you pull off a win with them. The game is deliberately designed so that you can spend months or years building up a player IRL only to have him killed by a thrown rock while setting up a game. In Blood Bowl someone's always going to get fucked in the end, and it'll be brutal, and sometimes it'll be them and sometimes it'll be you. You won't enjoy it if you don't appreciate the humour.

I play Khemri because I find the idea of a bunch of skeletal American football players fumbling for the ball and fucking up hilarious. I also play Dark Elves because I think their positionals are cool, their edgy designs are funny and because I sometimes like to win games.

>>55372945
sorry i meant when youre playing bloodbowl in a skillful enviroment, should have assumed you're a bb2 baby where every game ends in a concession once you get one armor break. ogres probably work really well in that environment

>>55373242
the vast majority of games you lose are not because of dice. sure you can get diced every once in a while, but bloodbowl's all about positioning, and rolling as few dice as possible while forcing your opponent to roll as many dice as possible. if you have 6 guys dead then you're probably a squishy team or against a cpomb stack, in which case you only give him the 1 blitz a turn by dodging, blocking out, or not standing up.

File: Ow.png (569KB, 1128x554px) Image search: [Google]

569KB, 1128x554px

Screenshot of my Dwarf team over 10 games. I was told Dwarfs were tough, yet I suffered 18 injuries in 10 games. Am I doin it right?!

>>55373848
Not him but speaking from a FUMBBL perspective, I've made some coaches swear bloody murder at my Ogres. A Norse coach once typed

>"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!"

When I had pitch wiped his team and kept skipping turns till Turn 16 for the win.

>>55373242
Few important questions anon

- Who are you using?
- How long have you been playing?
- Are you using the best lineup for your team?
- Are you keeping your men in tackle zones?

Playing to win isn't bad at all, part of Blood Bowl is having fun and/or thinking very hard about risk, reward and potentially making a hard call which could pay off hugely with one or two critical dice rolls.

Positioning is also huge to influence or reduce potential disasters which may happen to you. I've gone through winning 9/10 games as rookie Chaos before so its plausible to try to win. It just takes time to adjust.

>>55373931
av9 thick skull =/= base constantly if you don't need to. never ever base someone unless it accomplishes something important. if you're just going to stand up and get knocked down again av9 will break eventually. obviously this rule doesn't apply against some teams like rookie lizards or if you're basing a big guy and keeping him out of the game but yeah

>>55374008
>av9 thick skull =/= base constantly if you don't need to

Friend told me Dwarfs were one of the toughest teams to start so I threw them into the scrum. I was horrified when I got a death and 3 injuries in one game. Not quite as the Blood Bowl team description said.

File: 1462295683648.jpg (464KB, 1536x1152px) Image search: [Google]

464KB, 1536x1152px

>>55291605

>>55374092
they are. they're the toughest team to hurt, but if you're constantly giving away blocks any team will lose players. you lost 4 players in 1 game but if you played like that with pretty much any other team you'd have lost many more. you generally don't want to go big dick manmark with dwarfs until you have a lot of guard on longbeards

File: 16427698_10154991956509793_5985829241716312363_n.png (535KB, 640x640px) Image search: [Google]

535KB, 640x640px

>>55362755
It doesn't seem that bad to me - you're not really supposed to get all the good stuff right away. There's no big-guy option, and the team could get away w/ only 3 warriors to start if someone really wanted to run 2 demagogues and the flamer instead.

Let's say 4 Warriors @ 120k/ea = 480, 1 Demagogue (M5 hobgoblin) @ 60, 7 Cultists (hobgoblins) @ 40 = 280, and 3 re-rolls @ 60/ea = 1,000.

Alternatively, if rerolls are 70/ea, we could take 2 and upgrade a cultist to a 2nd demagogue or start w/ an apothecary to protect the warriors.

I'm a little stumped on the stats and cost of the Flamer - perhaps a +S +AV Goblin Bombardier @ 100k?

>>55372012
Orcs.

File: Colourful Pansies.jpg (1MB, 1334x567px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1334x567px

How do you play Elven Union properly?

>>55373242
>i read the guide and it say its a game of risk and the better coach wins
don't fall for the memes

>>55374915
Score quickly, dodge much.

>>55374915
2 turn touchdown with nos catchers, elf screen, only give 1 block a turn, wish you were playing woodies.

>>55374821
Ouch. Violent game. Good luck recovering your team. How many games has it played?

Rolled 4 (1d6)

gfi

>>55376850
I'd have to check, but we've lost most matches. Which I expect, a bashy chaos team isn't good until it has the right skills.

>>55379905
Alright I checked, 3 wins 3 draws 17 losses. I suck

>>55373921

agreed, totally.

I have a lot to learn when it comes to positioning, mainly how to stop easy 2 dice but i do count squares and hide shiny people ect.

That said, i was given easy 2 dice blocks which resulted in pushes but the other guy was consistently powing blodgers and the injuries racked up.

>>55373986

>>55373986
>- Who are you using?
Some sort of elves, trying out union currently

>- How long have you been playing?
BB2 is my first blood, haven't played constantly.

>- Are you using the best lineup for your team?
Dunno bout 2 blitzers, 2 catchers, 1 thrower and 3 rerolls sounds about right?

>- Are you keeping your men in tackle zones?
If i'm trying to get the ball, i might base a bit too much but generally no unless doges fail.
If its early into drive, i'll eat the hits but if its turn 4+ ill reroll to hopefully let some other guys escape.

>Playing to win isn't bad at all, part of Blood Bowl is having fun and/or thinking very hard about risk, reward and potentially making a hard call which could pay off hugely with one or two critical dice rolls.
The game last night was a draw, my last turn was to score a TD on a 2+ throw (with pass) and a 3+ catch (due to basing) with a team RR. of course the pass was intercepted on a 6, the guy made some blocks, passed on a 3+, caught on a 3+ scored.

Whats the best team for con pick up games? Thinking of throwing 1 in my bag when going to conventions. any suggestions?

Is it really worth it to field a armor 7 or even 8 teams ? I'm starting to think that it's not and it's best to stick to long lasting teams like Nurgle or Dwarfs

>>55382061
skaven, and woodelves are both top tier teams. norse and zons are top tier at low tv. av7 really doesn't matter all that much if you don't give up pows all the time honestly.

>>55382108
you are right that they are great it's just that seeing your best dudes get rekt and receive permanent damage/death breaks my heart and with AV 7 it can easily happen.

>>55382473

Anon went to GW shareholder meeting, relevant for BB here:

>the success of BB caught them by surprise, which is why there was a fairly big gap between gobbos and elves. The latter are the first team designed entirely since release, they intend to continue releasing about one team per quarter

File: 1481385191036.jpg (22KB, 391x391px) Image search: [Google]

22KB, 391x391px

>>55382623
>4 teams per year

>>55380205
You're fine. Chaos is hard to adjust to unless you were playing a worse team before. You may want to look at potential formations on defence. Something which I also try as any team is to start off as kicker. A good defense can win games far more than a good offense. Though a good offense helps a lot.

>>55381092
Thanks for answering my questions. Ya Elves are pretty good to start with but I can see why things may seem a bit skewered, especially for a squishy team like the Elven Union.

Your lineup is fine, but I am going to guess that maybe you're basing is being a bit too aggro, or at least too aggro for the Elven union guys. Rule of thumb would be to stay out of tackle zones full stop on defence, only really man mark on offense when you're bolting for the end zone and need to trash mark potential interceptors.

Also while I doubt you were in a situation that the opponent couldn't not try to intercept, its best to try to position so there are a number of options you can commit to than try to put all your eggs in one basket. Good luck though.

>>55382868

>Also want to appeal more to female gamers

Amazons soon

>>55383354
Not once is female gamers mentioned in the thread. Would be a clever stunt though, explains the pro elves.

>>55383449

AGManon here, there's a bit about female gamers in one of my first posts in the thread. Someone at the meeting said that their demographic was pretty monocultural and asked if the company was doing anything to attract the other 50% of the population. They said it was something they were aware of and working on, but they didn't want to do at the expense of alienating their existing customers or as tokenism or cliched sexy women. Essentially a kind of 'watch this space' answer.

This was in relation to GW in general rather than BB though. I didn't get anything on the teams that they have lined up after elves.

>>55383524

Yeah, when I read that my first ideas were Amazons for BB, and new Codexes and a few new plastic kits for Sisters and Nids.
Necromunda is getting Eschers right out of the box, and when/if Mordheim get's redone I could see Sisters fo Sigmar if not in the starter then one of the first warbands done. Certainly they never got a plastic kit previously.

Has anyone ever worked out just what it is with Tyranids and female players?

>>55383524
GW should be smart enough to realise that women and men don't like the same things. The only lap they have is for completely different reasons. That's why men like action films and women like romantic comedies. When they try to appeal to women they will just destroy anything the men like.

>>55383626
Women relate to a universe wide plague the consumes everything it touches.

>>55383524
Well I am illiterate and blind. Thanks for that clarification. >>55383449 My bad man.

>>55383354
See >>55384108

>>55383626

A lot of the concept work for escher has been done by a woman, apparently, so there's an awareness that they need to avoid tokenism. They're including female stormcast in several of the upcoming AoS releases, and we can probably expect to see the occasional female model in factions where it makes sense.

>>55383698

Yawn. Nobody wants to trash the games or the setting to appease SJW types, just play up the elements that already exist in the setting that can have a broader appeal. It's the same crowd of unpleasant neckbeards that put off women, new players, and socially adjusted types who decide to get back in to the hobby that they used to like as a kid. A small group of grognards who think they 'own' the hobby are of little use to anyone.

>>55384248
If you don't defend the hobby then you will lose the hobby.

Think of it like playing Soccer. If you really like playing Soccer then what happens if all the new people who join your sports group like playing Rugby? There's only so much time and space you can play it. How long until you're the minority who doesn't want to pick up the game and not everyone just wants to play Rugby?

You have to gate keep or what you had becomes something you don't want. Just look at the oldhammer community and how after 3rd editions switch to be "more mainstream" and more Americanised they got completely side lined. It took them nearly 20 years to recover any sort of real community.

>>55384355
Just to chime in here anon, there is genuine concerns of an outside demograph invading your hobby or industry, which in some cases is partially legit like western comic books and the 1/100th area of video games.

But tabletop games? That's a bit sensational. Even in the western comics here its sensationalized. Because we're on 4chan. So its easy for us to only see the absolute worst and ONLY the worst examples of SJW appeal.

The poster has already said that they aren't aiming to alienate their current customer base so don't go overboard with the whole "WE MUST DEFEND OUR HOBBY BEFORE THEY TAKE IT AWAY!"

Just hysterical.

>>55384382
Did you play Dead Rising 4? They claimed they brought Frank back for the original fan base and how the game totally went back to the original DR while being more accessible. Then they gutted the game from top to bottom and made Frank into a hipster douchebag.

It's not about being hysterical it's about being aware of an oncoming storm. You have to prepare for it or you will get steam rolled by it.

Or are you one of those people who think Will Wheaton and his band of hipsters are a good representative for tabletop gaming?

>>55384420
I don't even follow Will Wheaton or have played Dead Rising 4. But I do keep my ear to the ground. You are just proving my point about the echo chamber.

I saw E3 and its "diverse" characters. It was creatively bankrupt but nothing to put a trench helmet on me or start screaming the world is falling.

Just chill man. I mean, we're in BLOOD BOWL general. We're a niche of an already extremely niche hobby.

>>55384442
I never said the sky was falling, you're adding hyperbole where it doesn't belong. What I'm saying is if you don't gate keep then you will lose your hobby to those most passionate about changing it.

>>55384473
My bad. I misunderstood. I understand your point but goddamn. If we were to look at hobbies currently under the eyesight of the "diversity" crowd as a dart board, we're literally at the very edge of the damn thing. There is nothing to worry about.

And 100%, god forbid worst case we do get hit with the bat? There are plenty of other hobbies and there is nothing stopping you playing with your friends still.

>>55384509
We're actually being targeted now. Tabletop games are growing and the likes of X wing are bringing attention to it. I would expect 5 years max before we see "Gamers are dead" type articles coming at us. The ground work is already laid and as you said video games are now negroid simulators at E3. There's not much more to push in vidya so they will move to the next hobby. Games like Malifaux already have a SJW community, they just aren't big enough for any one to care about.

I don't think you can say "there's always other hobbies". How many hobbies must you flee before you run out of things you enjoy? Some of us only have 2-3 hobbies and are dedicated to them.

>>55384550
>5 years

I swear to god anon if I am still mega involved in this hobby, either I've done very well for myself or I haven't budged at all.

I can't really add much to what you're saying besides I think you're blowing it out of proportion. Cause we aren't going to convince the other I am afraid I can only agree to disagree at best.

>>55384593
Some of us have been in this hobby for decades made. We're not here for a few games of blood bowl and then off to the next fad. We're looking at long term community changes

To try and drag this back to the subject of Blood Bowl, let's talk about Slaan.

Taking the subject of Kislev Circus aside for a moment: How would you bring the Slaan, or a Slaan like team, back into Bloodbowl?

Chaos God team? (Tzeentch? Slaanesh?)
Skaven Eshin Clan (replace the Krox with the Rat Ogre, rename the Blitzers something other than that,because they just aren't etc)

Personally? I'd go for an entire team of Night Goblin Squig Hoppers and Pogo-ers.

>>55384667
Makes two of us.

>>55384952
Maybe bring back the fat slann?

>>55384952
Slaanesh would be agile beast men. get cheaper cheerleaders. Maybe give them demonettes who can amp gaze people.

tzeench? Doesn't have an identity beyond "I cast duh spells". No way to make them interesting. Default Chaos is basically a Tzeench team.

File: picture042.jpg (46KB, 789x533px) Image search: [Google]

46KB, 789x533px

>>55383626
>Has anyone ever worked out just what it is with Tyranids and female players?
I think it's got something to do with the 'nids obvious homage to Alien, thus linking 'nids and women by way of phallic symbolism and rape fantasy.

>>55385422

Best idea for Slaanesh was basically Chaos Elves. Agi4 but with mutation access. Daemonettes with Claw (MAYBE Hypnogaze, but it would amp up their cost and probably restrict them to 0-2 only) replace Pestigor/Beastmen, with some kind of Slaanesh Warrior who trades armour for speed maybe? Av8-7 in return for MA7-8? Then have some kind of basic cultist (Jesters?) with generic Lineman stats and AV7 in return for GAM basic skill access.

Have a Fiend of Slaanesh with Claws, Disturbing Prescence, Foul Appearance, No Hands, Wild Animal as the big guy.

As for Tzeentch, yeah, short of giving them an entire team of Horrors that can split apart which would be hilarious, but expensive in real world terms I've got nothing.
Flamers acting as Bombardiers? Maybe have Tzeentch warriors all have Pro? Cheaper Wizards (50k instead of 150k, this would be for LRB6 obvs)
I dunno, it's hard to get a hook on them. Maybe have a Spawn as a big guy. Maybe not even bother with a big guy at all, but give the other positionals decent all round stats?

>>55385795
Slaanesh has always had a strong connection to beast men, dropping them would be a mistake. The whole fertile bull thing is just too close to them.

You could include a fiend. instead of a minotaur but I like the bull theme. Maybe even drop the warriors entirely. Beastmen become the brawlers and demonette runners.

>>55385906

Honestly, it sounds like you more want a dedicated Beastman BB team. Which I wouldn't be unopposed to.

Consider the following:
Centigors in as AV8 AG3 Bull Centaurs
Normal Beastmen Blitzers
Minotaur
Ungors as goblins with horns for Linos

>>55385795

Could give Tzeench a low stat runner with a limited ability to teleport/avoid block zones.

>>55386231
Nah. I just think the fertile bull image works best with Slaanesh.

Hey there, im a pretty new player to all this and I was wondering if there was any point to playing amazons?
I really like them in concept, an agility focused glass canon type team(+ Tall girl is best girl) but it seems like they lose any and all advantages in the late game. It seems like I'd be better off playing normal humies or something, thoughts?

File: bloodbowl_beastmenteam.jpg (64KB, 628x404px) Image search: [Google]

64KB, 628x404px

>>55386231

This was a Beastmen team from the 90's

>>55388704

Since most leagues work at low team value, Amazons are great. For longer development Humans ARE better, but if you want a good agility team with some bash that's good at higher team value would be Dark Elves.

>>55388819
Thank you so much kind anon.

>>55389541
if you're playing bb2 zons can still compete at high tv since literally noone gets tackle it seems. its just super bloated cpomb teams with a couple tackle max.

Got a bull centaur that leveled up, got +ma on the first level, now rolled 6 6 5 (using steelhelm sponsor). Strength, agility or dodge, No idea which one to pick.

>>55390676
>Taking +MA on a ma6 with sprint and sure feet
AG or ST. AG is if you want safer ball picking up, ST is if you want a st5 bull with break tackle.

>>55384667
Preach it brother.

File: the smuggest loli.jpg (3MB, 2560x2880px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 2560x2880px

>tfw you lose the match 3-0 but cause so many injuries that the opposing team only has 3 players on the field by the end so you still feel like a winner.

>>55390676
+str. 4+ cagebreaks with break tackle

>>55388796

That's pretty nice actually. Speed 6 Str 4 Bestigors with Agility 3? That's well worth their asking price.
Ungors don't really seem to have a point to them though, on the other hand those other positionals are pretty pricey.

Yeah I like this.

>>55391855

>Ungors don't really seem to have a point to them though, on the other hand those other positionals are pretty pricey.

Note the GA access. They're fragile, but you can take one or two and pretty easily build them into reliable screeners/safeties.

File: c2c38beastmenx-01.jpg (98KB, 1000x433px) Image search: [Google]

98KB, 1000x433px

>>55392370

Yup, also A Chaos team with agility access. Also, at only 40k and general access you can use them for fouling with dirty player or just cheap spares.

Odd the regular Beastmen don't have strength access, I know all the mutations are on doubles but strength?

File: Blood_Bowl_Ball.png (159KB, 338x406px) Image search: [Google]

159KB, 338x406px

Pegs, magnets or free-standing? How does anon ball?

>>55392820

> Also, at only 40k and general access you can use them for fouling with dirty player or just cheap spares.


With GA access and at 40k, I could give them Dirty Player AND Sneaky Git. Something I've often thought should be available easier to Hobgoblins.

>>55393149

Yeah, but sneaky git isn't that good. Better money spent on spares.

>>55388796

There was a beastmen team in an earlier edition? Why isn't it used anymore?

>>55394314
Same reason they canned Bretonnia and Sisters of Battle. Nobody liked it.