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Ok, lets summarize what has happened since recap #1. It has not been so much in the miniature market but for my interest in the kickstarter of DreadBall has grown. So most of this blogpost will be a long ramble off my opinion about that kickstarter.
New kids on the pitch
New Norse team from Mano di Porco, 12 players. There are some good new/old models in this team. The Troll has been around for a while but the players are newer. One problem with the team is that there is just one blitzer in those 12 players so you will have to buy one more of those on the side.
Franarscillas Nurgle team has changed manufacture to Meiko-miniature. As it is one of the greatest Nurgle teams on the market it is good to keep tabs on where you can get hold off one. The change off manufacture did bump the prize with 25-40% so I´m glad I already have my Likröta BK.
Willy miniature has released some Goblin secret weapons that are really great. I really like the pogoer but I know that many fancy the chainsaw more.
I met a friend to play a game of BloodBowl as practice for EuroBowl and we talked a little about the Dreadball kickstarter. On the train home the idea that we talked about grow on me and I decided to write this thing. So on to the main course:
DreadBall
(and yeah, I think the name suck)
This upcoming game from Mantic is now reaching the second half of the kickstarter. As it seems it is going to be big as many a pleading. It is kind of new as the rules isn’t BB. And It could even be a good game, but more about that later.
I am a real Blood Bowl fan boy. It is one of the greatest game that I know (with Robo Rally and Puerto Rico). Some of the things I love about BB are things that Dreadball (DB) could repeat. What are the things I love about Blood Bowl then:
What difference will it be, the good and the bad.
If Mantic doesn’t make Gran Wendies mistakes, like giving up on a great game, not supporting the fan community, just will have their own miniatures in their tournaments and so on, Dreadball has a good change to be a new top game. I will gladly play DB when it is released. I will try to get a league running and I will promote it. In five years I know I still will be playing Blood Bowl, but I do not know if I will be playing DreadBall, we will have to see how Mantic handle it.
Bowl overview
NärkeBowl 2012 - 29-30 september - Format Swiss/res TV1250K. NAF
Nordsken - 29 september Swiss/res TV1100K.
EuroBowl - 20 - 31 October - in Copenhagen. Format Swiss/res TV1100K + 3/3 skills. NAF
Stockbowl cup III - 10 November - in the Swedish Capital are today full at 24 coaches. Format Swiss/res TV1100K + 5 skills. NAF
Ready steady go!
The dice for NärkeBowl are in and ready. I have had a lot of reading in my studies so I have just finished 3 more skavens since last and rebuild the blitzers and a rat ogre. You will have to wait for the next update to see them thou and I hope they all will be painted till then.
/Coach M.
With this entry will Bowlesqe Exposure change its focus in some regard. Up to this point it has been a blog mainly following my escapades in miniature gaming – i.e., painting, modeling and playing in tournaments. From here on the topic will be fantasy football but the format will be post every other, every third week with three points of subjects:
That is the idea anyhow. We all know that sometimes life gets in the way and it then will be a longer break than two weeks between posts, sometimes shorter, but that is life.
New kids on the pitch
In the future this section will cover what has happened since last post. As this is the first is it kind of hard to sum up everything this far. Therefore will I just focus on some of the latest teams that are new this fall and point you to my list “Golden age of Blood Bowl” if you want older ones.
Impact Ape-team is a new team with Apes as players. You can use it as a proxy Orc, Chaos Dwarf or really any team. The models are great and reminds me of planet of apes, the old movie. I think I will have to make a human team out of them... As Laughing Ferret most brilliantly already has done.
Bauedas Night Talon is a new team from a new manufacture. Bauedas have something they call Trogball where the Night Talons play and they are announcing that they will be releasing a female orc team in the future. The sculpts of the Night Talons has not convinced me but it is always nice with more manufactures of miniatures.
Neomics have two new teams, a Rat team and an Underworld team. Both teams have great models and that underworld team is also the first underworld team I have seen on the whole market. It I was not building my own I would have bought that.
Franarcilla has six new Ogres and they are all great. The sculpts seems to be inspired from the 2:nd edition blood bowl ogres with I think is the way to go.
Greebo Mawar-team is a team of ratmen in football uniforms. Very nice for a skaven team, now with a big guy.
Greebo also have a Kickstarter for a Nippon Goblin team with some mutated turtles, rats and bebops. I can really recommend you to take a look at this great team!
Mantic Dread Ball may not be great models for BloodBowl as the miniature is too much Science Fiction but the game has got a great backing at the kickstarter and has a possible to be new great game in a Speedball 2 setting. I have already pledged and sat this morning to brainstorm team names. With the team Brutal Delux from Speed ball 2 as a model I had names as “Lunar-Astro Overdrive”, “Endless Cowboys”, “Android runners”, “Multi-motion copy cats”, “Zero polarity”, “Radical swing-robots” and “Jump Rebels 3030” on my pad not before long. The future (year 3030) will se some of this teams come true as I have all four teams coming my way. (me and a friend have pledged at the cheerleader level).
For more Blood Bowl miniature guiding, se The Golden Age of BloodBowl.
Bowl overview
The fall of 2012 has some great possibilities to play Blood Bowl at tournaments in Sweden. One tournament per month is great a allot better then prior years. That 3 out of 4 is NAF-sanctioned is also a great leap forward!
NärkeBowl 2012 - 29-30 september - is the next upcoming tournament in the middle of Sweden. It is the 3:d tournament that I am a part of organizing and we have a lot of coaches registred already. Last registration is 16 september. New for this week is that places 1 to 4 get prizes and that all coaches gets 3 special block dices. Format Swiss/res TV1250K. NAF
NärkeBowl Block dice schematics
Nordsken - 29 september - a Blood bowl tournament on the gaming con Nordsken. Collides with NärkeBowl so I cant attend. Swiss/res TV1100K.
EuroBowl - 20 - 31 October - in Copenhagen, Denmark is the big bang during the fall of 2012. The teams are filing in and it seem to be a great tournament. New for this year is that you can play in a individual tournament. Format Swiss/res TV1100K + 3/3 skills. NAF
Stockbowl cup III - 10 November - in the Swedish Capital have today 14 coaches registred, I am one of those with Ziggurat Showstoppers. Format Swiss/res TV1100K + 5 skills. NAF
Ready steady go!
(or what I have achived...)
The White Thrash Rats are getting they game face on. At the moment 4 converted and painted linerats are completted.
Twitch-ich Run-un and his three friends.
I am still pondering if, or rather how, I should change the prior made blitzers. I am not so keen on their look at the moment. But I also have to paint a linerat, two throwers and four gutter runners so I aint in no hurry to decide.
Thats all for now, bowl on!
/Coach M
Some time ago I wrote a message about where you could buy some lovely blood bowl miniatures. I have now made a new updated list in this post (and i will try to keep it updated in the future [updated: 2013 05 30] ). The homepages are ordered in the order I would visit them. I like franarcilla and Gaspez alot and Shadowforge not that much but feel free to brows thru them in any order you like. Most of the additions to the list comes from http://www.talkfantasyfootball.org/ , a fantastic forum if you are in to fantasy fotboll games.
Games Workshop (for old BB miniatures: Blood Bowl miniature Archive)
Black Scorpion miniatures
Goblin Forge
Green Dog miniatures
Hasslefree Miniatures
Shadowforge Miniatures (miniatures now at Eureka miniatures)
I saw a post on http://www.talkfantasyfootball.org/ where the user Spiky had arranged the diffrent teams by race so you could look into the team you where intressed in. I have rearranged the teams with some recomendations and also added a few he hadnt included but Spiky made the orginal foundament for this next list.
My team: Nun Shall Pass - Shadowforge Nun Gridiron Team
Shadowforge Bunny Gridiron Team
Shadowforge Female Gridiron Team
Chaos
My favorite chaos team: Willy miniatures Chaos team
Games workshops Chaos all stars
Chaos Pact
My favorite chaos pact team: your own custom build
Chaos Dwarf
My team: Ziggurat Showstoppers - Greebo Volmarian and Hobgoblins from Games workshops,
minotaur from Uscarl Miniatures Chaos Dwarves
Dark Elf
My favorite Dark elf team: Gaspez Dark Elves
Shadowforge Wicked Elf Gridiron Team
Games workshop Naggaroth nightmares
Dwarf
My favorite Dwarf teams: Gaspez pirate Dwarfs AND Neomics Biker Dwarfs
Impact! Thunder Hammer Dwarves
Shadowforge Dwarfette Gridiron Team
Games Workshop The grudgebearers
Elf
My favorite Elf team: gaspez-arts Savage Elf And Impact timberline elfs
Gaspez arts Elves
Neomics Elves
Shadowforge Female Elf Gridiron Team
Games workshops orginal Elf team
Goblin
My favorite Goblin team: Greebo Nippon Goblin team
Meiko miniatures Goblin team with 2 trolls
Halfling
My favorite Halfling team: Games workshop Halfling team
Impact! Gnomes
High Elf
My favorite High elf team: Greebo Alyon and Black Scorpions Human team
Shadowforge Female Elf Gridiron Team
Games workshop The Galadrieth Gladiators
Human
My favorite Human team: Impact Ape-team
Shadowforge Bunny Gridiron Team
Shadowforge Female Gridiron Team
Khemri
My favorite Khemri team: Willy Egyptian team
Lizardmen
My favorite Lizardmen team: Impact Sarcos (Greebo)
Games workshop Lustrian Cobras
Necromantic
My favorite Necromantic team: Willy miniatures necro
Games workshop Necromancer team
Norse
My favorite Norse team: Greebo Snö team
Games workshop Norse Rampagers
My team: Likröta BK - Franarcilla rotten with beast of Nurgle converted from a Chthonian Larva - rackham miniatures
Games workshop Nurgle rotters & Nurgle team
Ogre
My favorite Ogre team: Impact Scotlings
Franarscillas ogres
Greebo Buggers
Orc
My team: New Orks on the Block: Games workshop Orcs with extra Franarscilla big orcs
Gaspez Arts Orc
Neomics Orcs
Greebo Orcs in uniform
Shadowforge Female Orc Gridiron Team
Impact! Siringit
Games workshop The Orcland raiders
Skaven
My team: White Rat Thrashers: Games workshop clan rats and crypt ghouls
Games workshop Skavenblight scramblers
Slann
My favorite Slann team: Green dogs Thalassianos
Impact! Calasain
Goblinforge French Frogs
Undead
My favorite Undead team: Willy Miniatures Undead
Games workshop Champions of death
Underworld
My favorite underworld team: Neomics underworld
See Goblin and Skaven teams for fitting miniatures.
Vampire
My team: The Super Suckers: Gaspez Vampires and Thralls from FF-store/Neomics humans
Wood Elf
My team: Äppelbo BK: Gaspez savage Elves with Treeman from GW
Maiko miniatures Wood elves with tree man
Shadowforge Female Elf Gridiron Team
Games Workshop The Athelorn Avengers
Other Blood Bowl links
Fantasy Bowl dices - Makes counters for diffrent fantasy fotball teams and some nice sideline figures.
Sanabeso custom fields - If you want to design your own field and dugout
JB deamon studios - makes some nice blood bowl models
Welcome to the golden age of Blood Bowl gaming!
/Coach M.
Playing as number six as a Linerat in White Rat Thrashers are Twitch-itch Run-un. The team comes from the deep under the old world town Pennybridge and as all team members in White Rat Thrashers are he an albino rat who never had seen the light of the sun before he began playing at the Blood Bowl pitch.
Why we have chosen to focus on Twitch-itch is because he also play for the underworld team P.U.L.P (Partnership for Underachivers and Low Performance) there Twitch-itch and some of his fellow Skavens have teamed up with the green skins living in the deep below. As he has taken up playing for two team has he been suffering a lot of injuries but also learned to keep away from the fray with his own sidestepping routine – the twitch-turn-duck-jump.
The next Blood Bowl team to do: a kit-bashed Skaven teams out of parts from Skaven Clanrats and Crypt Ghouls with some shoulder pads from Impact miniatures. The base is one of the cobblestoned bases I made in a prior post. What is the reson to make this team? I would like to have a team that is competitive and playable at NAF championships, and to get there you have to have a team out of models from Gran Wendy.
/Coach M.
The feeling of having finished a whole team is great. In the beginning I thought that this project would be easy and fast but it took six months... Now I just have to practice with Chaos Dwarves so Ziggurat Showstoppers can join both NärkeBowl and StockBowl Cup III and stop some shows, hard.
I have some great possibilities of this because of the Chaos Dwarf player for Eurobowls team Sweden lives in my hometown and we practice a bit to be able to perform at EuroBowl.
/Coach M.
In collaboration with Örebro universitets spelförening, we present
NärkeBowl 2012
29-30 september, Örebro universitets Kårhus.
Scroll down for the rules in swedish.
Register to narkebowl@gmail.com with complete line-up, name, mobile and NAF number. Last day to register is 16/9. Cost 150 sek, payment via paypal to narkebowl@gmail.com. All participating coaches gets 3 special block dices, design as in picture:
Lördag 29/9
09:30 - 10:00 Setup/registrering
10:00 - 12:15 Game 1/Runda 1
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 15:30 Game 2/Runda 2
15:30 - 15:45 Break/Rast
15:45 - 18:00 Game 3/Runda 3
18:00 - 18:15 Break/Rast
18:15 - 20:30 Game 4 /Runda 4
Söndag 30/9
10:00 - 12:15 Game 5/Runda 5
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 15:30 Final/grudgematch
15:30 - 15:45 Break/Rast
15:45 - 16:30 Prize cermony/ Pris utdelning
What should I bring?
Tournament format:
Team creation:
Extra rules during gameplay
Scoring
After each match
65pts - Win
30pts - Draw
10 pts - Loss
2pts - per TD made
2pts - per CAS made from a block
Tiebreakers: If two teams have the same score the order is determined with following tiebreakers in descending order: number of game won, TD balance, CAS balance, first registered.
Final / Grudgematch
The two teams with the highest score (pts) after five rounds will meet in the final where the winner become NärkeBowl champion.
The two coaches who end up 3rd and 4th in points after five rounds meet in a game for third prize.
Other coaches will be play a final grudgematch against someone they have not met during the tournament.
Prizes / awards
NärkeBowl will award prizes for:
A coach can only win one prize / award. Most CAS goes to the outside of the top 3 that have scored the most CAS and so on.
Prices are from Gaspez arts - http://www.gaspez-arts.com
Sleeping
There are no sleeping facilities at the school but you can sleep at the home of participants from Örebro, air mattress or in a guest bed / on the couch. If interested, give us a notice and you will be contacted with one Örebro coach. For those of you who want a little more comfortable, there are hotels nearby, but we have no special deal with any hotel.
NärkeBowl 2012
29-30 september, Örebro universitets Kårhuset.
Anmälan sker till Narkebowl@gmail.com med komplett laguppställning, namn, mobilnummer och ev. NAF -nummer senast 16/9. Kostnad 150 kr, betalning sker via paypal till narkebowl@gmail.com. Alla deltagare får tre specialdesignade blocktärningar, som är designade enligt nedan bild:
Schema
Lördag 29/9
09:30 - 10:00 Setup/registrering
10:00 - 12:15 Runda 1
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 15:30 Runda 2
15:30 - 15:45 Rast
15:45 - 18:00 Runda 3
18:00 - 18:15 Rast
18:15 - 20:30 Runda 4
Söndag 30/9
10:00 - 12:15 Runda 5
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 15:30 Final/grudgematch
15:30 - 15:45 Rast
15:45 - 16:30 Pris utdelning
Vad ska man ta med sig?
Ditt lag - Modellerna får komma från vilket företag som helst. Alla modellerna måste vara tydligt numrerade och igenkänningsbara som det de ska föreställa.
2 kopior av din team roster - En som du använder under turneringen och en till domarna. Alla spelare ska vara namngivna.
Tärningar (block/d8/d6), templates - Matcher ska spelas med standard blocktärningar (från GW eller NAF) om inte de spelande coacherna själva kommer överrens om annat.
Blood bowl plan, dugouts - Ni kommer förmodligen inte behöva använda era egna men det är aldrig fel med extra.
Tournament format:
Team creation:
Extra rules during gameplay
Om två lag som möter varandra har hyrt in samma starplayer är denne inte med i något av lagen under matchen då den sitter på läktaren och räknar sina pengar.
Scoring
Efter varje match
65pts - Vinst
30pts - Oavgjort
10 pts - Förlust
2pts - per TD gjord
2pts - per CAS motståndaren får mot sig
Tiebreakers: Om man har samma poäng avgörs ordningen i tabellen genom i fallande ordning: antal vunna matcher, TD balans, CAS balans, först anmäld.
De två som har högst poäng (pts) efter fem omgångar kommer mötas i final där vinnaren blir NärkeBowl mästare.
De två spelare som hamnar 3:a och 4:a i poäng efter fem omgångar möts i en match om tredje pris.
Övriga spelare lottas att spela en avslutande match mot någon de hittills inte mött under turneringen.
Priser/utmärkelser
Närkebowl kommer dela ut priser och utmärkelser för:
En coach kan bara vinna ett pris/utmärkelse. Flest TD tillfaller därför den utanför top 3 som gjort flest TD:s. Flest CAS tillfaller den utanför top 3 som inte gjort flest TD osv.
Priserna kommer från Gaspez arts - http://www.gaspez-arts.com
Sovmöjligheter:
Det finns sovmöjligheter i anslutning till skolan hemma hos deltagare, golv på medtagen luftmadrass eller i en gästsäng/på en soffa. Vid intresse skriv det i anmälan så kommer du sättas i kontakt med en Örebroare som ordnar sovplats.
För er som vill ha det lite bekvämare finns det hotell i närheten, men vi har inget speciellt avtal med något hotell.
/Coach M
I will have to have this Goblin team from Greebo (see the kickstarter page). I have an old Goblin team name I have had in mind for a long time: AB Tjuv & Nyp
(translated directly as AB Thief and Pinch - it is a great name because the swedish word "tjuvnyp"-"thiefpinch" means "sucker-punch/by-blow". An english parable should be AB Sucker & Punch. The name is also a referese to this great swedish punk song.)
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