Blood Bowl!
Left to right: Yorrick, Boney M, Berty Brae and Pelvis Deathsley |
There's a plan afoot on the blog to start a little league of this splendid game (the usual social distance provisos apply, of course). Seeing as I don't have a copy of it but know a man who does, and being an over-excitable type, the next step was obvious. Buy a team and paint it!
Wight Shultz and Barry |
The Undead teams always appealed to me. There's just something extra funny about zombie linesmen, somehow. After a bit of wavering to and fro (Ogres are also ridiculous, Wood Elves are known to actually win games), I chose the Shambling Undead. These might be my team, but they aren't going to be my models.
Ted Houisded, Fred Deddrop, Ned Moulders, Zane Doe and Eustace B Breethin |
Stylus originally started this blog, and he's the man who does all the backstage work and promoting of it. I just write here. He's also the man with the copy of Blood Bowl's latest edition, and as we've been blogging together for ten (glorious!) years, I reckoned he was due some kind of trophy.
Happy Ghoulmore, Razzle and Charles D'Ghoul |
These are the Nevermore Ravens, then, and have been packed off to their new Stadium at Stylus's house where I can blame his luck if they lose. They are based on a real team, colours-wise, and I'm sure they'll do just as well as their counterparts in any league they take part in.
The Black Pharoah (BP for short) |
King Stankh XL |
A Blood Bowl team can fit sixteen on its roster, but the kit only does fourteen. GW, you shameless money-grubbers! Still, nothing that a bit of ingenuity can't fix. I've added in an extra Ghoul, which is just a Reaper Bones cast done in the team colours. One rising zombie with a tombstone completes the gang, clutching one of the spare team balls, then a few very small conversions (zombie missing an arm, zombie holding its head) and the team is full. If I have the costs right, it's dead on the starting money too - sixteen players and no rerolls is exactly what I should be running with my luck.
Now all that's left is to actually learn the rules and play a game! Something I haven't done with models since I was fifteen, although I have played the recent computer version enough to be familiar with it all. Bring it on!
Thank you - it was an absolute thriller to receive them and I'm sure we'll be playing Blood Bowl twenty-eight days later.
ReplyDeleteUntil i lose, then the game will be left 4 dead.
DeleteOooo, they look great! I'm intrigued as to what the hands reaching out of the earth do
ReplyDeleteScore and turn markers!
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