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This doesn’t mean that those cards are gone forever, though. The light of the First Flame also brings the dark of the Abyss. Reach from the Abyss. Reach from the Abyss is a new mechanic that allows you to cast cards that any player owns from exile. The Abyss is a place of absolute darkness that corrupts, and that goes for your opponent’s.
A collection of info, statistics, and standings forthe Blood Bowl league based at the DragonportGames store in Duluth, MN.
The primary league night is Fridays at the store, as many playersare around playing Warhammer. Sundays also seem to be a good bet tofind coaches at gaming tables. Play whenever you and an opponent can,and send the results to the commish(see below for game tickets). New players and teams always welcome!
Reigning Champion - CageMatch
- Tom Maertz's Chaos Dwarves
- Won the Spike! Magazine cup, held May 27 & 30, 2007, after the league's inaugural first 13 game season, beating Weaselicity in the Championship game
League Standings
- The Master League Spreadsheet in .xls format
- The same in html, unfortunately it only displays in IE. Here's a .pdf of the same. The things it keeps track of for us include:
- Overall Standings
- Scores
- Team Rosters (the rosters print out especially nicely from the .pdf, handy for in-game use)
- League Leaders (individual and team stats)
- The results of the first season, in .xls, html, and pdf formats.
- The Preseason standings, in .xls, html, and pdf formats.
League Structure
- Teams are either a 'Rookie' team or a 'Pro' team
- To ensure that there are teams of all levels available to play, so new players/teams can still have fun
- Rookies and Pros may play each other if they want to, but Rookies can refuse a challenge from a Pro team with no penalty
- Pro Teams:
- have played more than 13 games (including regular season and playoffs)
- Are eligible for Pro tournaments
- The current Pro List is:
- Weaselicity
- Cage Match
- The Breeze
- Ground Pounders
- Rookie Teams:
- Have played 13 or fewer games. All teams not listed above as Pro are Rookies.
- Are eligible for Rookie tournaments
The Season
- Started May 2009, will run through the fall sometime
- The first season ran from March 21 to May 27, 2007
- A team can play at most 13 games during the regular season to qualify for the tournament (see above for Rookie/Pro definitions!)
- That's a game or two a week, a prime number, and a lucky/unlucky one as well
- Two teams can play each other no more than three times in a season. That let's you do a best 2 of 3 series, but doesn't let a particularly cheesy matchup get exploited badly.
- The tournament will be seeded by your regular season standings. Those standings are computed as 5 points for a win, 2 for a tie, 1 for a loss - this is the sort order on the 'standings' section of the league spreadsheet.
- Take a look at the league rules in the rulebook to see how your team earns experience and money over time
House Rules & Clarifications
- New Teams: There are three tournament legal teams which aren't in the LRB 5 rules we will use but which will be in LRB 6 (out officially this fall). They are the Slaan, Chaos Pact, and Underworld teams, and can be found here. For completeness, here's a link to the LRB 6 version of the new teams.
- Help for Stunties: Halfling teams can induce a Halfling Chef for only 50k, Goblin teams can induce Bribes for only 50k (stolen from LRB6, to try and entice someone to play one of these fun but hopeless teams)
- Arguing the Call: A head coach can argue the call. If one of your players is sent off by the ref for any reason, you may choose to argue about it. Roll a d6. On a one, the head coach is also booted! On a six, the ref has been intimidated, and the offending player may play on.
- If your head coach is booted, no more arguing the rest of the game, any assistant coaches you might have left are too timid to do so after this display of firm refereeing.
- If you've got no assistants, your team is adrift and confused, so you can't win any Brilliant Coaching kickoff result roll-offs since your Brilliant Coach is off in the showers. If you've got assistants to take over the reins you can still roll, but at an additional -1 modifier.
- Star Players: If you really want to pay the price (and keep around a SPP sponge), you may hire a Star Player permanently to your roster, rather than just being able to induce them one match at a time. In the league roster spreadsheet, this is shown in the Induced Player section for ease of record-keeping.
- Stars are unique. While more than one team can hire the same star, this just means that he's moonlighting and playing for both teams. If the same star is employed by both sides in a match, he sits that match out and neither side has his services that game. However, the Star can be influenced to play by cold hard cash - the teams can offer extra money (from inducement gold or petty cash) to sway him to play that match for their team. Minimum bid - 1/2 his normal hiring cost. Highest bid gets his services for that game.
- As per the Star Player rules, they come equipped with their own personal Super-Apothecaries. Your team's own Apothecary can't be used on a star. Miss next game results mean he doesn't play on your next game (he earned a day off), but says nothing about his job on somebody else's team. Stat decreases don't apply. Killed means he was roughed up enough to terminate his contract with your team, although you could re-hire him later.
- MVPs: Since it's more fun to develop your team this way, this season each team can pick the player on their team who gets the MVP, rather than rolling for it.
- Special Play Cards:Since these are a lot of fun, everyone gets some each game as follows:
- EACH team receives 100,000 gold to be used at the beginning of each match to purchase any Special Play Card they want. They may combine treasury or inducement gold to purchase a better card if desired (example you can use 100,000 of inducement gold + the free 100,000 gold for cards to draw one 200,000 gold card. However, the 100,000 gold that each team receives free cannot be used for any other inducement type other than Special Play Cards.
- Special Play Cards can also be purchased with inducement or treasury cash. Remember the total number of Special Play Cards any team can have is a total of 5.
- Bounties: If you really want to see some player dead, you can add some motivation to your fellow coaches to help out by offering a bounty. You may establish a pot of gold to be given to the team which kills the poor sod, to be held in escrow by the commish. Anyone can also contribute more gold to that pot at any time (minimum donation: 10k). Bounties are public information and will be posted on this website. 'Wanted: Dead or Really Dead!'
Useful Links:
- The online Blood Bowl Living Rulebook, v5 (in .pdf)
- Game result tickets to write down what happened in your match, so the league standings and statistics can be updated
- An Handy Reference Sheet with updated tables to use during a game
- Pass-Blitz-Handoff-Foul cards. Handy cards to remind you if you did these actions already
- Reroll sized Inducement Reminders. Great for those that forget because they don't have the minis
- Inducement cards you can print out and stick in card sleeves, to make drawing them easier
- The league spreadsheet being used to keep track of everything. The 'team' tabs are also great design tools for your team!
- Or, if you want just a spreadsheet for your team alone, here's one and here's another.
- Sites I've sponged material from:
- Specialist Games, the copyright owners and purveyors of official miniatures
- Impact Minis, home of many great football-themed non-GW figures and accessories, also the home of BloodbowlFigs.com, where one can order the individual GW minis which GW itself doesn't sell anymore (although, of course, please patronize our local stores for the team sets which they do carry!)
- The Aros Blood Bowl League (game ticket, team spreadsheet, reference sheet)
- Tim's Blood Bowl Pages (league tracking spreadsheet)
- The CRUMBBL league from the Chicago Battle Bunker (no public website to link to)
- The NAF website (governing body for BB tourneys etc), good forums and reference stuff
- The TalkBloodbowl.com forum, one of the more active online BB forums
- The Blood Bowl Wikipedia entry (history, links)
At GW’s Warhammer Fest this weekend, Andy Hoare and James Hewitt were in attendance. Andy is Head of the Specialist Games Division, and James is heading up the development of Blood Bowl. Many people have posted the results of their conversations on social media, and JT-Y has given lots of the detail here. Hopefully this is the best summary of various sources, and will be updated as more information is released. We won’t reproduce pictures, but have linked to them at the bottom.
- BB will be released at the latest Q1 2017, though more likely to be 2016.
- The box set will contain orc and human teams (12 player, starter teams) and the core rules, 2 double sided dugouts and one double sided pitch giving both orc and human themes, 2 sets of dice one blue and one green (3x Block, 2x D6, 1x D8 and 1x D16, the designs are which are still being finalised), 4 Star player cards (Griff, Zug, Varag & Morg), team tokens to use for turn, reroll, score etc, throw, scatter and throw in templates and the first part of an eventually complete set of Special Play cards.
- There will also be a set of transfers with numbers etc.
- The core rules will be the CRP. There will be no changes. This has been confirmed a great many times.
- League rules will be part of a Death Zone supplement book, released on the same day as the box set. The DZ supplement will contain full rosters for 7 teams, some of which will be released in plastic and some in resin: Nurgle, Dwarf, Skaven, and Elf Union (Pro Elf). It will also contain rules and complete backgrounds for 20 Star Players, a couple of whom are new additions.
- League rules are the same as the CRP, so once again the game remains the game we know and love. However, additional content has been added. Some of this was written by Jervis a few years ago, some is new. The intention is to add more narrative and more fun to leagues, adding new ways to play. This will very much be the theme going forward; to add to league play with variations and options whilst sticking with the core game we know and love.
- There are more supplements planned and more content to come. Supplements will bring in more rosters we recognise from the CRP complete with new models, along with new and old star players, all in resin, until all 21 teams are available, and more.
- Special Play cards will be released in due course, along with Star Player cards, again to give a complete deck.
- The rate at which new supplements is released depends upon sales and being able to fit them into the release schedule alongside AoS and 40k releases.
- There is no reason to expect new teams to follow Cyanide’s past releases. The team have their own plans influenced by their love of the game and the setting.
- Plastic teams will be added to with resin releases to fill out positionals, Big Guys, etc..
- Star Players will be released in Resin.
- Some plastic teams will receive resin conversion kits which will enable players to build famous teams should they wish. These teams may be supported by additional rules in later league supplements.
- The pitch will have 34mm squares, rather than the current 29mm, but the square count will be the same. The total length will be about 13cm longer than currently (26 x 5mm). The box will contain a larger range ruler to match the larger squares, made in hard plastic rather than the classic flexible one. The board in the box will be hard cardboard, double sided with 2 different pitches, and folding into 6.
- Bases for the new figures are 32mm, which is a style choice. There is nothing preventing the use of 25mm bases or any size you choose. Size of miniatures is also a style choice.
- The miniatures are slightly larger than in previous editions, but we must remember that the previous edition was released in 1994. To give an idea of scale, the humans are about 30mm to the eye level, the same scale as current 40k Guardsmen. Orcs are the same size as current orcs for other ranges, and Black orcs are big, bad ST4 models.
- The miniatures’ bases will have holes in that the ball can be attached to. There are a lot of balls in the starter set, and balls have their own optional rules based on who they belong to (biting orc squig ball?).
- The setting remains the same. What does that mean? Well, Blood Bowl has always been set in an alternative Warhammer World where football has replaced war. It’s a grim, darkly humorous pastiche of the Warhammer setting and that isn’t changing. More importantly it is being expanded upon by a team of people who have known and loved the Warhammer World for many years. As an example Eldril Sidewinder has had his original background restored, he is a Sea Elf Wardancer turned to football, and his Hypnotic Gaze is a racial ability to mesmerize others that Wood and Sea Elf Wardancers possessed in WFB 3rd edition.
- There will be new pitches, possibly even in neoprene (mouse mat material). The plan is to release racial pitches to tie in with all the teams. Also, there is a hidden Easter Egg present on all pitches which in due course might give a hint to potential new DungeonBowl league rules still in the planning stages.
- The Specialist Brands Studio plans to support the community through supporting gaming and events, be they in stores or elsewhere. Plans are being laid to offer sideline staff as exclusive miniatures at events or for a set period of time, something Forge World already does with its Event Exclusive miniatures.
- No information yet on price points, although the starter set has been kept deliberately light to ensure the price point is much lower than some other recent releases.
Pics on Bell of Lost Souls: http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2016/05/warhammer-fest-2016-blood-bowl-sighting.html
Pics and discussion on Recalcitrant Daze: http://recalcitrantdaze.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/warhammer-fest-2016-part-one-blood-bowl.html?m=1
Blood Bowl Community on Facebook, lots of pics and discussion: https://www.facebook.com/groups/154786034573932/