The lad and I were walking through town today and thought that we should drop into the GW store to see when the new Blood Bowl will be out. Turns out that the release is next week and all the merchandise is now in store, along with a preview set of the game.
We played a quick drive with the lovely new figures. As the Human team coach I won the toss, elected to receive, drove hard down the left side of the pitch and fired a long pass to attacker in the end zone. Touchdown!!!
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| Some of the new plastic figs - really nice |
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| Old rivals face off once again... |
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| The new plastic tokens are very gucci |
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| TD baby - oh yeah, we're back! |
We had a bit of fun and remembered how much we love this game. Reilly even said he would like to try painting the human team, which is a great development, and we are looking forward to picking up our pre-ordered copy at the release next week.
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Blood-Bowl-2016-ENG
http://www.thenaf.net/2016/11/bb2016-preview/
I'm super excited about this as well, and I've already ordered a copy too! Unfortunately, my lovely wife has said it's going under the Christmas tree...
ReplyDeleteI've pre-ordered one of everything, having last played it in the 90s. Looks like you'll have lots of fun with your lad.
ReplyDeleteSounds fun - I played my first game of Blood Bowl last week and really liked it!
ReplyDeleteMinis are nice bit not impressed by the team selection in the Deathzone book. To many elves not enough other stuff. Seems like they were afraid to but a good variety in the first book for fear people would not buy the next one.
ReplyDeleteDon't get me wrong mate, I still think GW's policies and business practices stink. However, I'm not one to bite my nose off to spite my face - for a (very) few old favourites game like Blood Bowl or Space Hulk I'm happy to drop cash.
DeleteWhat will be more interesting will be to see what happens with the massively successful online community (the NAF) when GW starts to exert its IP muscle again in this field. Fingers crossed...
I think I remember them forcing NAF to pull the LRB from the site. Still hosted on the video game site though. No one in our local league is very impressed by the offering since we all have pretty much have pitches and teams but maybe some new blood might appear in the future.
DeleteI am the collector in the group but our election result had me reconsidering expenses so I cancelled my pre pre order at a local shop. Already have 5 GW human teams, 4 GW orc teams, and 2 GW Skaven teams so nothing I need so to speak. Maybe I will put it on my Christmas list and see what happens.
I didn't do the pre-order, but I'm really started to get interested now that there's all the hype about it. Lots of great memories of this game.
ReplyDeleteUs too Rod - I expect much of it will be a rehash, but I'm looking forward to some new community interest in this classic game
DeleteMy wife has, I believe, preordered it for my Christmas Present. One of my all time favourite board games. This makes the fourth box set of it I'll own.
ReplyDeleteWhat good woman! Come to think of it, its my fourth box purchase as well. I still have my 2nd edition polystyrene pitch and we have two copies of 3rd edition - one for the Lad of course!
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