![]() ![]() It’s a real shame to have to admit that I don’t have any real reason to continue with these for the foreseeable future. When we now only have (as of writing) 23 Star Players and only 4 of them without an official miniature, that really takes the wind out my sails when it comes to the hobby and conversion side of my Star Player Breakdown posts. Naturally, with a thorough gutting of the Star Player rosters across the board, that leaves far less material to work with as I did for BB2016. Having said that, I think there’s a lot of interesting analysis to do but looking at the Star Players we have remaining, so I’ll cover that in a later post. As I said, I get it but it does take a lot of the fun of out of hobby side of Blood Bowl for me personally, which was thinking about and creating suitable conversions to proxy for various Star Players. Blood Bowl and Necromunda for that matter are probably the only games that are currently supported in which a large number of character options didn’t have a model in-range – that was until now anyway. Naturally, since Games Workshop were no longer making Blood Bowl miniatures, let alone selling their old ones, this is where the third-party companies came in to support the game. Blood Bowl itself was mostly unsupported by Games Workshops during that time (albeit there was the Fanatic / Specialist Game releases in the early 2000s), so it left to the community to continue updating the game via the Living Rulebook Book. ![]() It’s no secret that Games Workshop over the last 5-10 years have very much stripped out unit options for their main game Warhammer 40,000 – due to how third-party miniature companies have increased in that timeframe, and obviously the big GDubbs doesn’t want them capitalising on their IP. That really sucks, but I get why it happened. To my count, we went from around 75 Star Players in BB2016 (post-Spike! Magazine #9) all the way down to 23 in BB2020 at launch. However, in a move that does not surprise me but still disappoints none-the-less is just the sheer number of Star Players that were cut from this edition. Now, I would like to say first that I like how the various teams are categorised by new league keywords and this is how you know which Star Players are recruitable by which teams. This makes me so happy!Īlas, for all the changes in which the vast majority I like – there is one particular section of the new edition that disappointed me. Most importantly, Underworld Denizens can now take 0-6 Underworld Snotlings, who have access to Mutations on a Primary Improvement. ![]() Chaos Chsoen have a greater cross-pollination with Chaos Renegades, Underworld Denizens with Skaven etc. Some may argue that this approaches leads to some dilution of character and individuality between comparable teams, but the way I see it is that it’s easier to build a “bank” of various positionals and Big Guys to try out various related teams. Examples, Rat Ogres can be taken on two teams instead of one, Treemen three instead of two, Halfing Hopefuls on three teams instead of two…. Snotlings and a Rat Ogre added to Underworld DenizensĪlready you can see how Games Workshop have by expanding various team rosters, both added new options for building those teams, and an excuse to sell more miniatures to you.Chaos versions of the Troll and Ogre added to the Chaos Chosen team.Again, not necessarily drilling-down in the minutiae here, but more looking at how for many teams that they have received either new positionals, or even some that were once exclusive to only a handful of other teams. The changes I’m most happy about are for the team rosters. I get that some longer-term fans may not, but again that’s fine. I only got into Blood Bowl in the early days of BB2016, so I’m perfectly fine with the large upheaval that the core rules have received. I won’t go in to precise detail as of what and why, but I get a general sense that things across the board have been clarified and tidied up. ![]() Overall, I’m happy with the rule updates in this upcoming addition. This will be a reflection on how the game has changed for me personally the bits I like (many!), the things I don’t (there are some) and more importantly how that’ll affect both my own Blood Bowl hobby as well as that content here on Circus of Paint. Naturally, I’ve been soaking all this information up like a sponge but as we’ve hit the end of the leaks I’ve had some time to reflect on the big shake-ups. Then yesterday (as if writing) the entire rulebook for the new edition was leaked. Well, it’s certainly been quite the maelstrom of change in the Blood Bowl community as of late! We started off with dribs and drabs being leaked (both rules and new team miniatures) with GW responding with a handful of “official” photos and announcements via Warhammer Community. ![]()
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