All kinds of everything remind me of Blood Bowl!

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I’d forgotten his mohawk. I was a Mail Order Tell at the time so had the run of the entire Citadel catalogue. My Morg has an Imperial Guard Ogryn’s horned helmet for no better reason than I could 😁

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Blood Bowl star players coming in thick and fast now.

 

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/05/15/the-smartest-troll-ever-makes-a-dazzling-return-to-blood-bowl/

and

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/05/08/gore-the-gridiron-in-blood-bowl-with-the-great-black-bull/

I think we are only missing Bilerot Vomitflesh now.

Also to note, was playing BB3 on the Ps4 as Dark Elves and two Star Players from the 2020 Spike! are still in the game, so maybe we might see those previewed with new rules in the coming months.

https://blood-bowl.fandom.com/wiki/Asperon_Thorn

and

https://blood-bowl.fandom.com/wiki/Kiroth_Krakeneye

I am also still hoping for a Hubris Rakarth in the near future!

We are also nearly half way though the year and no “new” Teams yet. Could it be we get that Vampire Team previewed in the run up to Halloween? They have missed that opportunity twice now with the Shambling Undead and Necro so surely they won’t miss it a 3rd time!!?!!

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I bought BB3 on PS5 and play it mostly vis AI…

It’s a really stupid AI… dumber even the BB2 AI… which is saying something!

And the comentary has hardly changed. Disappointing.

Still waiting for the ‘Seasons’ to start and that free unlock we were promised because of buggy game they released.

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season 1 I believe is still due to start next week (25th).

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In terms of just sheer creativity and coolness, nothing beats 2nd edition (1988), although 3rd edition (1991) might have been more playable. Nothing they’ve done since has piqued my interest.

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@wolfie65 – absolutely agree: 2nd Edition with the polystyrene “astrogranite” pitch was really cool.

Maybe it’s just because at the time, American Football was still quite new here in the UK – but had quite a “buzz” around it, with collectable plastic helmets filled with sweets, Panini-type sticker books, and all those cool-looking logos and glitz and glamour around it.

The fluff in 2nd Edition was perfect – just the right blend of sincerity and goofy satire. I loved the whole Blood Bowl universe. It took me about 20 years to realise I loved the idea of Blood Bowl far more than the actual game! Later version miniatures are infinitely cooler-looking but they’ve also taken themselves a little bit too seriously at the same time. It was never better than when it was sending itself up.

 

The Blood Bowl Star Player and Compendium books were great just as a casual read! Really brought the whole game to life.

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The thing is that Blood Bowl doesn’t play like US-style Handegg at all, it’s more like a combination of Rugby League and Soccer.

Which is a good thing, your average Handegg game – which I quit watching about a decade ago – lasts a good 3-4 hours, what with timeouts, resets for each down, replay reviews, gazillions of commercials etc. etc. etc. while official playtime is 60 minutes, of which only about 10 minutes consist of actual activity. ‘Athletes’ my foot. In the 70s and 80s, there were quite a few simulation games that tried to faithfully re-create those mechanics and they were boring as all get-out. Take a look at Strat-O-Matic if you’re the obsessive statistics type……

I don’t even think the newer minis are all that great, haven’t bought many new GW figures since the early 00’s, give me some plastic one-pose Dungeon Elves with David Bowie hair and spiked, thigh-high boots any day.

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