At its core, Blood Bowl is a risk management game. Every action that involves a dice roll can be failed, and if you fail, your turn is over, and your opponent gets to take their turn. This is called a Turnover, and it is absolutely central to how the game is played. Fortunately, there is a system of Skills and Rerolls in place that will allow coaches to mitigate risk as they navigate their turn. However, it is always good practice to start your turn with the least risky activities, and work your way up to riskier activities as your turn progresses. Hey all. Ive been wanting to get into miniatures for a while and decided to give Blood Bowl a try. Was looking at buying the Blood Bowl starter box but, after learning that a new addition with some rule changes will be out around the end of the year, it seems smarter to hold off until then. Ive watched a bunch of rule videos and whole match videos but wanna learn as much as I can about how to play. What would be the best way to go about this? Ive considered just buying the starter box but Im not 100% sure what all will be changing and I dont necessarily want to have to buy replacements if the humans and orcs teams end up being different. Also looking at buying Blood Bowl 2 and just playing on my Xbox till the new edition drops, as well as buying a team to paint and get ready in the meantime. Not sure how close the videogame rules are to the tabletop rules. Any suggestions or advice as to what I can do and or which teams I can look at to buy that will still be compatible with the new edition so I can start painting them would be more than appreciated. Thank you so much in advance. If you want a closer look at the team, Warhammer TV also dropped a video preview on their YouTube channel:

We’ve got a first look at the cover art for the new Blood Bowl starter box set. Pitting what looks like Orc against the Bogenhafen Barons, we’ll be taking a closer look at those Imperials on the left in just a minute. We’ve got the new cover art for the official rules showing an Imperial and an Orc in some classic art style.You’d think that a team made up of mostly Ogres would be a shoe-in for best team in the game, but the truth is actually rather far afield from that. Ogres are incredibly stupid, and will fail to do anything at all 1/6th of the time. They’re also prohibitively expensive, meaning that Ogre coaches have to fill out the rest of their rosters with diminutive Gnoblar, who are amongst the worst players in the game. At least Gnoblar are cheap! That being said, Ogres are still a terrifying force on the pitch, and any smart coach will think twice about standing toe to toe against one. Old World Alliance Teams

There’s a new Imperial team on the way called The Bogenhafen Barons. Their colors look like gold, white, and purple. We’re not sure if this is the whole team but eight models probably mean they’re a “middle of the road” team. Not too tanky but won’t roll over for anyone like the Halflings. GW Unveils New Blood Bowl Boxed Set & Models For the New Edition When you’re building your starter roster, be sure you add around 3 re-rolls. The value of re-rolls is evident, but also once you start playing it costs twice as much to buy a re-roll later.Because your players are so cheap, you can roll the dice on primary skills with one TD and dump and replace players that don’t get anything useful. This can let you really explode out of the gates early in the season but not end up with too pricy of a team, since your breaks are rolls. You can swap one gob for a lineman if the gob is feel to weak to you, but on both defense and offense I find other coaches willing to make bad choices to get blitzes on gobos hunting for SPP rather than thinking about the ball and scoring, which is more reliable points and better for winning and getting a bigger treasury. Orcs can be almost as good as humans at spreading the SPP around and yet a lot more durable. Reply

Orc Throwers can often be shunned players by some Orc coaches. The reason being is that they are slower than Blitzers and coaches always want to get star player points on the Blitzers as well. Even though the Thrower has been made a bit cheaper which should make them more desirable, the fact they have Animosity will mean they refuse to hand off, or pass the ball on a D6 roll of a 1. I personally never had much a problem with the slower movement of a Thrower as a standard game plan meant slow advancement of the ball anyway. It also meant that I had that extra Blitzer free on the outside of the cage, rather than an Orc Lineman. Animosity can be a pain but it shouldn’t cause that many problems. QTYA variation on this would be to leave out the Apothecary at the start, spend 15k to upgrade a Lineman to a Thrower. You would then have 35k left over to either bank for the Apothecary or get some Dedicated Fans. As Orc teams have really high armour they are less likely to suffer playing the first game without an Apothecary. Throw Team Mate Orcs Quantity Blood Bowl is easily the most unique game that Games Workshop produces, and you will not get a similar experience anywhere else in the GW catalog. Additionally, Blood Bowl is the second-most accessible game to play from GW, behind only Warhammer Underworlds. All you need is a team of 16 or fewer players, a flat pitch, and a handful of dice! In Blood Bowl you have: Linemen (grunts), Positionals (specialists), and Big Guys (smashy, smashy!).