Cheerleaders Hit Pitch-side For Blood Bowl From Forge World
August 10, 2018 by brennon
Forge World has released a whole bunch of new sets for use in Blood Bowl. The first three sets of releases are for a range of Cheerleaders. We start with The Reaverettes!
This gives you a set of Cheerleaders to have at the side of the pitch to cheer your team on. They are pretty much the same across the board but they do have some nice variety in their heads for example.
It isn't just Humans getting some cheer however as the Orcs can rely on The Waaaaghs!
I was thinking that these are less Cheerleaders and indeed more rioters and hooligans. That is very fitting for a band of surly Orcs.
Last but not least we have The Damned Damsels who are Cheerleaders for your Chaos teams.
I really do like those Chaos Cheerleaders and in actual fact, they could be rather awesome used away from the football field as well. Imagine those as a deadly unit of warrior women in your Chaos armies for Age Of Sigmar?
Star Players
Looking towards the Wood Elves of Blood Bowl we also have Eldril Sidewinder, a superb Star Player for your Elven teams.
"Eldril Sidewinder has played Blood Bowl as long as most can remember, partly due to the incredibly long life span of his race, but mainly thanks to his sheer skill on the pitch. The secret of his success (and longevity) lies in his belonging to a singular class within Wood Elf and Sea Elf society – the Wardancers.
These warriors combine athleticism and deadly skill and are capable of dashing through a melee, weaving and leaping about their opponents while transfixing them with their grace such that foes are unable to react or even to think clearly.
So beguiling are the movements of a skilled Wardancer that some claim it to be some manner of boon from the dark gods, a misconception that Sidewinder is ever keen to refute."
I do like that this miniature brings to life that Old World charm and the themes that ran through the old Warhammer Fantasy range, but with a modern twist.
What do you think of the new releases?
"Imagine those as a deadly unit of warrior women in your Chaos armies for Age Of Sigmar?"
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It’s a shame that the human cheerleaders all have the same pose, the other ones are better in that regard. Now I want to see the Dwarfen and Skaven cheerleaders.
+1 to Dwarf and skaven cheerleaders… oh and goblins
Counter point: theory are all following the same routine so it is quite reasonable for them to be in synch!
But yeah, the chaos and ork ones are nicer.
These look great and I do want them quite badly. Going to have to get these and put an order in before the at least 25% price increase for Australians…… please GW just let us pay in pounds the currency exchange system isn’t that hard for us to understand.
These are forgeworld though the prison colony got away without the ‘tax’ on those? (Colonial jokes aside, the antipodian tax is bonkers)
To a point I understand why Citadel miniatures are more expensive (a combination of the fact GW has Australian employees, Australia’s high minimum wage compared to most other western economies, our bonkers shop rental overheads, the expense of maintaining a warehouse here and physically keeping it stocked).
Forgeworld minis have none of those overheads, we are not going to get lauded “faster shipping times” the North Americans and Europeans are going to get and we are STILL going to pay for shipping on an order by order basis. So having us pay more* by fixing the price is just cruel.
With regards to tax to UK VAT is currently 20% (we shouldn’t be paying that) and is added to all UK prices the Aussie GST (same thing, different name) is at 10% ** (we should be paying that). There is talk (unsubstantiated, I will concede) that part of the reason for fixing Aussie prices is to make paying Forgeworld’s Aussie Tax bill slightly easier, but if that IS the case then our prices should cheaper than they are now just on the tax difference alone.
* I will also concede that we don’t know the price is going to rise BUT history would indicate that. The Aussie dollar/Uk Pound exchange rate usually fluctuates in a range of around 10%. GW won’t use the midrate, they will probably build in “insurance” in the low rate. The only thing we have to compare at the moment is the Black Library fixed prices for special editions as they aren’t stored in Australia cost 40 pound in the UK, we pay $90 the equivalent of 51.5 pound and we are currently in the lower third(for us) of the exchange rate. Even at the 10 year low for the exchange rate we would still be paying 41.5 pound. At the top of the exchange rate we were paying 57 pounds.
In conclusion I am begging GW, please let us pay the UK rate in UK pounds, we are (mostly) quite intelligent and having to do little sums to work out the exchange rate really doesn’t bother us. You lose nothing on the current situation, gain a hell of a lot of good will (which HAS taken a massive hit locally over the last week since Forgeworld’s “good news” announcement.
If anyone is still reading this thank you. If anyone from GW is reading this imagine me pleading, this isn’t fair or justifiable.
Humans are the weakest set, as my learned colleagues have already said. I do approve of the blue and white pom-poms though. The others are superb.
I do like those chaos cheerleaders. They look like they came from cover of metal or hard rock album. Those human cheerleaders are solid but nothing special. I am weirded out by those orc cheerleaders. New elf star player does look really good.
bravo for bringing back the cheerleaders. the orcs are real nice but chaos and the humans though are just lazy CAD. same posture mirrored for chaos plus one with the humans pose, the humans are worse still. I expect more from GW and especially forge world. Sidewinder is brilliant and just shows what they can do when they have a mind to.
Not very impressed with the faces on the humans or chaos. Rather featureless.
hmm phone posts seem to be going missing since the site moved to 2.0. Orcs are the pick of the bunch for me.
Second to goblin and dwarf cheer leaders – more green and little hairy women.
To which I add a vote for halflings
The Chaos ones are OK I guess. Kind of bland faces, but I like the Chaos symbols they’re holding.
Next we need some Dark Elf cheerleaders!