Blood Bowl Collection

Greetings,

It has again been a long time updating this blog. Finally got round to it, obviously... Well the last two posts have been about Blood Bowl, this one, is in the same vein.

First up is my Chaos Chosen and Khorne teams.  Both look good on the pitch and they are good smashy teams. 

Chaos are pretty straight forwards as a team, but lacking a defensive combat skill and are not great with ball skills.

Khorne needs to be played by a coach with more skill and luck than me though. I did not play optimally and that led me to some bad frenzy blocks.

Next the Filthy Elveses. The Wood Elves and Elven Union went together quite well and they painted up nicely. 

The Dark Elves were another story. A pain in the butt to build and they took ages to paint because I did not have a colour scheme that I liked. Finally settled on a burgundy with a drybrush of a vibrant red. This contrasts well with the green of the Cold One hide.

Greenskins are some of the most fun and frustrating teams to play for me. They have a lot of strange things going on with them, Goblins and Snotlings especially, but they are massive risk/reward teams. 

The Snotlings have yet to be played because it took me a while to get the impetus to paint them. I do not like playing with unpainted teams.

The Orcs get stuff done, but their Animosity can throw a wrench into the coaches' plans on occasion.

My Black Orcs painted up well. They Black Orcs are great miniatures and they are very simple to paint. The Goblin Bruisers were less fun to paint, but they are decent on the pitch.

Halflings took a while to be finished because I wanted a nice treeman for them. Saw GW's effort, and decided to make my own using the old Treekin kit. 

The Dwarfs were done speedily and I have yet to try them out. 

The Ogres have been played a fair amount and they continue to both annoy and surprise me with their plethora or lack of Bonehead rolls. Gnoblars are annoying to play against, my opponents say.

The Human teams. Imperial Nobility was THE most annoying colour scheme to pull off. Using the vibrant green against charcoal grey and black was likely a dumb idea, but they do look good on the pitch. 

Norse were fun to paint and they are surprisingly good. Block and the Valkeries are the main reasons for my success I think. 

The Human team.... I still do not like their models, but they are a good team to start learning how to play with. I still need to finish off their coins.

The Amazons were my fastest team to paint. 3 hours after building, and undercoating. Contrast paints and a bit of Gold, covered with a wash. They are good to play with as well, although they can struggle against some teams. 

Nurgle and Lizardmen always look good on the pitch. Lots of niggling details on the Lizardmen, but the Lizards are one of my favourite teams to play with.

Nurgle is less fun on the pitch, but they do look awesome.

The Undead teams can also be used as a College of Death team. They have some of the most annoying linemen to put together., but they do paint up nice. I used orange as the unifying colour on both teams so that they can be used as a College of Death team. Not played either of them, but I do like the look of the werewolves...

 Underworld were my go to on Blood Bowl 2. A mess of cheap Goblins for fouls and the Skaven for getting things done. The Troll, when he works, can get stuff done. The addition of the Rat Ogre will be much more entertaining though as a big guy. 

Skaven are one of the easiest teams to pilot for me. Insane speed and ball handling with the thrower and the Gutter Runners, cheap, but fast Linerats and some hitting power in the Rat Ogre and the Blitzers. I would like to see some alternate Skaven Clan teams in the future.

So, that is 22 teams. Only the OWA and Chaos Renegades are not counted amongst the plethora of teams. Blood Bowl scratches an interesting itch for me. It has a simple enough rules set, but a lot of variety in the teams. Also you do not have to go too nuts with painting 847 guys to field a valid force.

We have had a few (2) tournaments with some of the participants using some of my teams for various reasons. We used the Blood Bowl 7's rules as it sped up the games so we could get at least 3 games in per day.

It has been a hell of a journey. Can't wait for the next new things with BB.

Regards,

English Pillock

Ogre BB Team

Greetings,

So.... my upload schedule plan kinda failed.... My camera died. Tried to use my phone, but I was not happy with the results. I was looking at getting a new one, but I only randomly bit the bullet last Saturday. I grabbed a SONY α6000 which had a substantial discount. Thing was, I was looking for a replacement fountain pen... 

Anyway... Ogres...

This is the new BB Ogre team with two of the BB single Ogres 

The scheme for them is very different from the other schemes I have done for the other teams.

The Ogres have a lot more detail on them, mainly because you can see them much easier on the field.

I forgot to take photos of the dice, coins and the 3d logos for the team. Will do so and post them later.

Regards,

English Pillock

Nurgle Blood Bowl Team

Greetings,

  Here is my Nurgle Team. Gloriously draped in a pinkish-purple and a subdued green. I was also playing around with Nurlge's Rot and trying out different skin tones on the Nurgle Blockers.

  The box is pretty good. 4 Blockers, 2 Pestigors and 6 Rotters. It is not quite the best fit for the team but it is passable. More Pestigors and Rotters are needed for more flexibility in starting team builds though. In the box you have 4 Blockers, 2 Pestigors, 6 Rotters and 2 Re-Rolls.

 Blockers I, II, III and IV. Apologies for the asscracks....

The Pestigors. Uglier and Terrifyingly Gross. They kind of grew into their names...

 Mayhaps I used a little too much Nurgle's Rot on these two...

 The Rotters. An unlucky bunch of targets...

 The markers and coins. A liberal use of Nurgle's Rot on these as well....

  These were really quick to paint to be honest. It was also the first time I have used Nurgle's Rot. It is one of the more fun Technical paints to use and also one of the easiest ones to figure out what it looks like while you are still painting it.

Regards,

English Pillock

Blood Bowl Chaos Chosen

Greetings,

 It has been a long time, but I have not been idle. Very much not idle.....

 Here is a start to what I hope to be a prolific resurgence of posts. The next dozen or so should just be about my Blood bowl teams. They are all based around a simple colour combination to unify them as a modern sports team would be.

 The basic colour scheme is orange, brown, black with silver and brass armour. All GW paints, some getting on to be ancient, some will likely disappear soon.

 Icons for the Chaos Chosen and BB coins.

 The 4 Chaos Blockers, who don't have block... because reasons... Numbered I, II, III and IV.

 The first four goat people. I used a variety of different skin tones on the goat people as in the fluff they are meant to be mutated from human stock. Numbered V, VI, VII and VIII.

 The latter four goat people. Numbered IX, X, XI and XII.

 

  The first 12 miniatures are all contained in the plastic team box from GW. You get some variant heads and the build is pretty much what you would want for a starting Chaos Chosen Team.

  Then I went a bit silly and bought the Minotaur Big Guy from Forge World. The miniature was really easy to put together, but it did require the gluing of a coin to the bottom of it as there is a hell of a lean in the pose.
  He is numbered XVI, but that is mainly because he is unlikely to be used in a regular game as Minotaurs, while fun, are not as predictable as people would like.

  I do have the dice as well, but they are currently at work. I Will do a separate post about them soon-ish.

  I hope that this will do as a re-entry into blogging again. I am going to set up a better photo booth and play around with my camera functions a bit more to hopefully take better photos.

Regards,

English Pillock