The Chaos All Stars 2018

I finished 41st out of 69 people, which is an improvement on last year’s Event.

Lost 1 – 0 against a Nurgle Team in the 1^st round.

Lost 2 – 0 to a Khemri Team in the 2^nd round – even my opponent admitted that it wasn’t a fair result.

Won 2 – 1 against an Orc Team in the 3^rd round

Drew 1 – 1 against a Khorne team in the 4^th round – this game raised much hilarity with me across the space of about 3 turns managing to roll consecutive Double 1’s and using up my 3 re-rolls

Won 2 – 1 against a Dwarf team in the 5^th round.

The tournament overall was won by a Black Orc team, undefeated across the 5 games with a record of WDWWD.

A lot of Orc team’s this year, and about 4 of them finished in the Top 10.

Lot’s of Khorne team’s as well (after Khorne won last year) none of which did very well.

Also 2 Vampire teams turned up, but didn’t crack top 20. Highest placed one was 28th.

Really enjoyed this year, everyone I played or spoke to were an absolute delight, and going in I was thinking I won’t be returning next year, but after the interactions and my performance, I think it’s fair to say “sign me up for 2024 already!”.

Team all finished, skills selected, we are just 8 days to go.

Ogre Team Captain! (ignore the building in the background – totally unrelated!).

I will update when I get back with how we got on!

So, I bought my Ticket to the Full Beard Cup over at the weekend.

Which means work on these fella’s has kicked up a notch.

Got a few finishing touches and the Troll to paint.

So, everything I was waiting for has arrived.

I have hacked and slashed my way through the human players and the skaven player.

I have used some spare Khorne Blood Bowl heads (chopping off the horns so they look a little different). I have used a few spare Norse Blood Bowl heads – again chopping off some of the horns.

I also opened up my Dungeon Bowl box to use the Dark Elf and the Skaven from there. I hacked away at the Skaven lineman to make space for the second head – using the Skaven Thrower head.

Then for the humans, I have scraped away the breast plates on them to make space for a Skull – which I cut in half, and then wrapped chains around them.

I hacked off an arm and remade that using Green Stuff World’s tentacle roller (which I need to glue back on).

My BB3 Chaos Renegades actually have the skull chain combo  as well – so its a neat little nod to that.

Painting wise – I was torn between doing a black colour scheme with white flames to give a nod to Newcastle sports teams, but looking at Blood Bowl 2nd edition I couldn’t help but decide to paint them like the original All Stars.

Colour scheme this time around is different in the sense that my cobbled together team below is more like Phil Lewis’ 88 team – more pink then red flames and a lighter green.

This team uses Kabalite Green with Sybarite Green Highlights and washed with Coelia Greenshade.

The flames are Khorne Red washed with Agrax Earthshade. I added a bit of Evil Sunz Scarlet – but found this was to big of a contrast so I darkened it all again.

Right, we haven’t really done much with this project since 2020, that is about to change!

Last year I attended the Full Beard Cup at Warhammer World – I used Dark Elves and did quite badly Drew 3 Lost 2 out of the 5 games.

Since then my Blood Bowl exploits have been mainly playing BB3 on the PS4.

I have been running a Chaos Renegades team and doing okish Won 10 lost 7 at this point.

That got me thinking, I can I transfer that to the table top – and if so where?

So, I am pulling together a GW approved Renegades team – and I am basing them on …..yeah you guessed it…. Phil Lewis’ classic 1988 line up! (with a few tweaks).

So here is the planned line up:

3 ReRolls.

GW’s new tournament rules mean that as a Tier 2, Renegades get 8 skill points, so I am going to do the following:

Block on 1 Lineman, 1 tentacle, 1 claws, Dark Elf gets Block, and the Skaven gets 2 heads (5 Spp).

the Minotaur gets Block (at 2spp).

1 Spp left. Not sure what to do with the last skill. As I am taking a Thrower I don’t know whether or not to give him Leader for another re-roll, or a passing skill.

If I don’t do that, I dunno whether to go all in on the carnage and give another Lineman Block?

So far when it comes to the mini build, I have chopped up 5 Human Lineman, 1 human thrower, added an extra head to the Skaven Linerat, and glued lots of spikes, chains and skulls onto the Ogre.

Pictures to follow.

I am awaiting the FW Mintour and armoured troll, and an Orc lineman off Ebay.

One player has continued to elude me over the last 2 years, and that is Duke Luthor Von Hawkfire.

So imagine my surprise when I was watched The BoneHead Podcast on The Youtube, and I heard the name of a blood bowl miniatures company I hadn’t come across before “Hungry Troll” Miniatures.

So I thought I would have a quick look, and low and behold, I came across this guy:

Sadly it doesn’t have any size listed for him, and although he is a tad thin looking, he would definitely fill the role of the Duke.

Any bought anything from Hungry Troll before? It lists him as being from 2016, so I am guessing he will the correct size for the current edition of Blood Bowl???

Well the holy grail of my Chaos All Stars has finally arrived.

The Duke himself.

Just got to decide whether or not I want to invest 30 quid into the Snake Sanders Heroforge mini I designed, then I can probably rest on this – unless of course (as previously stated) GW release a Chaos All Star team!

So, back in Step 21 I talked about using HeroForge to custom print some Chaos All Star Minis.

Well the first of which has arrived, and apart from him being quite heavily primed (I am wishing I removed that and primed himself) he has turned out ok.

Looking at it now, I think for what I was going for, I should have made him a bit thicker.

As a normal Chaos Marauder for BB he looks ok, I just wanted my version of “Acid” Scarred Max to be a bit chunkier.

I have included him here with my Rex Farsight – from Impact Miniatures for scale.

If I use HeroForge again, I think custom designing Snake Sanders will be ok as he’s a snake headed mutant so looking slender should work.

But, I may rest on this until I see what / if get’s released for the new Edition of Blood Bowl.

Looking back on almost 2 years of Chaos All Starring (and only having played one game with them!) this has been quite the undertaking and quite the expense ha ha.

Might* have been a lot cheaper to just buy a full Chaos Pact team from one of the other companies and be done with it!

*to note it would have been considerably cheaper! 

The 4 Chaos Star Players from Willy Miniatures Chaos 2.0 kickstarter.

Grashnak Blackhoof

Withergrasp Doubledrool

Scyla Anfingrimm

Gobbler Grimlich