Hi everyone :) After the recent one-off Blood Bowl match I played (you can check out my match report here), I was really excited to build a team of my own. This morning I set about making the 'Orsome Ogres' - I figured that qualifies as a clever team name if you're an ogre :p One quick side note - As you can see from the image above, this wasn't quite as simple as sitting down with a single book - to make the team I needed the Blood Bowl rulebook, the Spike! Almanac and Spike! Issue 8. That's £39 worth of books in addition to the base game (£70). I get that Games Workshop are a company who need to make a profit, but £109 before getting any miniatures is very steep. I was lucky that I got a lot of that as a gift, but it's fair to say that Blood Bowl is not a cheap game to get into. Playing OgresWhen you build a team you are given 1,000,000gp. This sounds like a lot, although it soon starts to disappear when you start buying ogres for your team! Although ogres are the focal point of the team, it is actually comprised of both Ogres and Gnoblars. Ogres are big, violent brutes, while the Gnoblars are tiny creatures capable of little more than filling out the team! The big choice I was faced with was how many ogres to select. Technically you can get 5 ogres with your starting money, although if you choose to do that you can't afford any spare Gnoblars when they are inevitably killed and you can't get any re-rolls or fans. I took what I think is the safer option and selected 4 ogres and 12 gnoblars. Given that you can field 11 players at a time, that means I have 5 spare Gnoblars. Both Ogres and Gnoblars are somewhat...well...inept, so the 2 re-rolls I picked up could definitely be life savers! Each allows a single die to be re-rolled for each half of Blood Bowl played. To be honest, half of the time taken building the team was writing all the skills in for each player! All the players have a number of skills, although not all are positive... Ogres have the 'Bone-Head' ability, which means that every turn they have a chance to stand there and do nothing, while Gnoblars are officially 'Disposable'! In case you're feeling particularly observant and notice that my team value isn't the full 1,000,000 and that the numbers don't quite add up it's because Gnoblars are so rubbish they don't even count towards the team's value. Once I'd figured out all the mechanics of the team I had a bit of fun with the names :) I'm really excited to get playing with my team, and I'm also looking forward to finishing painting my minis. I need to get them to the point where I can tell which mini is which player so that I know which one to swear at when they drop the ball :)
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