Rumeurs et nouveautés BloodBowl chez GW & FW

Kumulo · Mai 10, 2016, 12:35

Ca commence à sentir le paté.

	Hi Kevin,
I’ve had the question asked elsewhere too, so will give as full an update as I can! I don’t think any of this is secret, so happy to share.

I am in almost daily email contact with Andy Hoare, the head of Specialist Games at GW, and have exchanged emails or other contact with the chaps running the Bugman’s tournament and editing the rulebook. All of these exchanges have been to offer the NAF’s support and advice to make the new box set as good as it can be, and we haven’t heard anything to worry us. I will be attending the event in 2 weeks as well, so will have a good chance to have a chat there, but understand that at Warhammerfest next weekend there will be a chance for BB players to ask questions and see lots of goodies!

While we have offered lots of help, the GW guys across the board are keen to keep the development in house, so are not formally involved in any playtesting or organising events, and the GW rules mean that we can’t do any publicising at Warhammer World, unfortunately.

And yes, we have been asked to take down CRP from thenaf.net, and will do so at the end of June, so we would encourage everyone to download it before then for personal use: thenaf.net/blood-bowl/rules/

Hope that gives a good enough update, and will keep people posted as I can!

Cheers,
Mike

Faites des backups du CRP/LRB6 en local, à partir de juin, la NAF a pour demande de tout virer.
De plus, connaissant GW il vont faire la chasse aux sorcières … on bien parti pour rejouer à Fantasy Bowl … et joyeux noel

Mimic · Mai 10, 2016, 12:47

Connaissant GW depuis un petit moment maintenant, c’est ce que je craignais…

Wait and see

Zebulon · Mai 10, 2016, 1:37

Jusque là ça veut rien dire.

Ils font le ménage sur le net pour que le seul bouquin des règles trouvable soit dans leur boîte.

C’est pas une grande surprise ^^

Ni que la Naf obéisse a la moindre demande.

Croco · Mai 14, 2016, 9:15

belloflostsouls.net/2016/05/ … hting.html

Cases 32 mm, plateau réversible 1 côté orc 1 côté humain

Dés de blocage

Heinrich · Mai 14, 2016, 9:22

Heinrich · Mai 14, 2016, 9:26

On voit clairement avec les orques noirs qu’il y a deux tailles de socles.

On remarque la présence de tokens… ils reprennent la vieille idée de plastique de couleur pour les humains en bleu, les orques en …?

Le terrain a le même nombre de cases. Règle de passe jolie mais en terme de gameplay ?

Zebulon · Mai 14, 2016, 9:44

Sur les fosse. 0-8 tours 1ère et 2nd mi temps.
0-8 RR

Mais à quoi servent les 0-8 tout en haut?

Zebulon · Mai 14, 2016, 9:47

Les positions sont difficilement lisibles.

Croco · Mai 14, 2016, 9:49

Le score

Zebulon · Mai 14, 2016, 9:53

Cool. Pour l’instant, c’est le meme BB.

Reste à être sur qu’ils n’ont pas modifié les rosters humains et Orques.
T’a bien 2 passeurs et 2 receveurs chez les humains.
2 ON et 2 Passeurs chez les Orques.
Mais je suis incapables de voir la différences entre Blitzers et 3/4.

Les poses sont au moins doublé. Un peu déçut, la concurrence fait mieux…

Mais au moins, ma ProBox sera jouable
Et est largement plus classe que ce qu’ils proposent.

Par contre, ça va ammener de nouveaux joueurs!

Zebulon · Mai 14, 2016, 10:04

L’équipe:

Da Coupe!

Heinrich · Mai 14, 2016, 10:06

Je trouve les humains pas trop jolis. Et les orques sont dans le style actuel de AOS donc pas ma tasse de thé. Je vois aussi quelques doublons ou simili doublons dommage.

Wait and see.

Kumulo · Mai 14, 2016, 12:02

Je trouve les humains ridicules.
Les orks moyen - bof.

Le terrain réversible est le seul truc sympa.

Avez vous noté les cartes événements ?

Zebulon · Mai 14, 2016, 3:26

On voit un trou dans le socle.
Et sur les ballons, une tige.
Pas cons les gars.

Croco · Mai 14, 2016, 5:43

Plein de détails intéressants ici :
recalcitrantdaze.blogspot.fr/201 … l.html?m=1

Gulix · Mai 14, 2016, 5:56

Zéro changement de règles, donc. En gros, ce sera du matos et un livre de règles en couleur bien illustré.

_Go_The_Hakes · Mai 14, 2016, 6:03

Juste pour chipoter : Bon courage au passeur humain, pour lancer la balle, avec la position de la main droite qui s’apprète à lancer le ballon !!

Croco · Mai 14, 2016, 6:06

Mais l’option ‹ Death Zone › : règles de ligue, 7 nouveaux rosters, ça c’est sympa.

Zebulon · Mai 14, 2016, 6:15

Yep, les règles de bases sont partis pour être les mêmes. Tant mieux.

D’ailleurs, la boîte est parti pour ressembler très très fortement à la boîte V3 de 95.

Les équipes dans la boites sont incomplètes:
-2ON, 2 Blitzers, 2Passeurs et 6 3/4. Tout pareil qu’avant.
-2 Blitzers, 2 receveurs, 2 Passeurs 6 3/4. Tout pareil qu’avant.
La différence, on a 6 poses différentes par équipe au lieu de 4.

Avec les règles on aurait les fiches d’équipes Orques, Humains, Nains, Skav, Nurgle et Elfes.
Au lieu de Orques, Humains, Nains, Skav, HE et EN en V3.
Ça ressemble

Sur les concepts de Nurgle, y’a Blitzer, 3/4, passeurs et Receveurs.
Vont-ils toucher aux Rosters? Pas impossible

En v3, on avait eue Zone Mortelle 6 mois après.
Avec ajout des règles de ligues, cartes de champions et les fiches d’équipe MV, Gob, Half, ES, Ndc et Chaos, soit 6 races.
Là, ils annoncent un zone mortelle avec règles de ligues, cartes de champions et les fiches d’équipes de 7 races…

En tout cas, ils communiquent!

Une boîte intéressante pour un rookie. En espérant que ça amène de nouveaux joueurs sur le jeu.
Moi, je vais juste attendre les fiches d’équipes ^^

At GW’s Warhammer Fest this weekend, Andy Hoare and James Hewitt were in attendance. Andy is Head of the Specialist Games Division, and James is heading up the development of Blood Bowl. Many people have posted the results of their conversations on social media. Hopefully this is the best summary of various sources, and will be updated as more information is released. We won’t reproduce pictures, but have linked to them at the bottom.

BB will be released at the latest Q1 2017, though more likely to be 2016.

The box set will contain orc and human teams (12 player, starter teams) and the core rules, 2 double sided dugouts and one double sided pitch giving both orc and human themes, 2 sets of dice one blue and one green (3x Block, 2x D6, 1x D8 and 1x D16, the designs are which are still being finalised), 4 Star player cards (Griff, Zug, Varag & Morg), team tokens to use for turn, reroll, score etc, throw, scatter and throw in templates and the first part of an eventually complete set of Special Play cards.

The core rules will be the CRP. There will be no changes. This has been confirmed a great many times.

League rules will be part of a Death Zone supplement, released on the same day as the box set. The DZ supplement will contain full rosters for 7 teams. This will include 4 more plastic teams: Nurgle, Dwarf, Skaven, and Elf Union (Pro Elf). The others remain a secret for now. It will also contain rules and complete backgrounds for 20 Star Players, a couple of whom are new additions.

League rules are the same as the CRP, so once again the game remains the game we know and love. However, additional content has been added. Some of this was written by Jervis a few years ago, some is new. The intention is to add more narrative and more fun to leagues, adding new ways to play. This will very much be the theme going forward; to add to league play with variations and options whilst sticking with the core game we know and love.

There are more supplements planned and more content to come. Supplements will bring in more rosters we recognise from the CRP complete with new models, along with new and old star players, all in resin, until all 21 teams are available, and more.

Special Play cards will be released in due course, along with Star Player cards, again to give a complete deck.

The rate at which new supplements is released depends upon sales and being able to fit them into the release schedule alongside AoS and 40k releases.

There is no reason to expect new teams to follow Cyanide’s past releases. The team have their own plans influenced by their love of the game and the setting.

Plastic teams will be added to with resin releases to fill out positionals, Big Guys, etc…

Star Players will be released in Resin.

Some plastic teams will receive resin conversion kits which will enable players to build famous teams should they wish. These teams may be supported by additional rules in later league supplements.

The pitch will have 32 mm squares, rather than the current 29mm, but the square count will be the same. The total length will be about 8cm longer than currently. The box will contain a larger range ruler to match the larger squares, made in hard plastic rather than the classic flexible one. The board in the box will be hard cardboard, double sided with 2 different pitches, and folding into 6.

The miniatures are slightly larger than in previous editions, but we must remember that the previous edition was released in 1994. To give an idea of scale, the humans are about 30mm to the eye level, the same scale as current 40k Guardsmen. Orcs are the same size as current orcs for other ranges, and Black orcs are big, bad ST4 models.

Bases for the new figures are 32mm, which is a style choice. There is nothing preventing the use of 25mm bases or any size you choose. Size of miniatures is also a style choice.

The miniatures’ bases will have holes in that the ball can be attached to. There are a lot of balls in the starter set, and balls have their own optional rules based on who they belong to (biting orc squig ball?).

The setting remains the same. What does that mean? Well, Blood Bowl has always been set in an alternative Warhammer World where football has replaced war. It’s a grim, darkly humorous pastiche of the Warhammer setting and that isn’t changing. More importantly it is being expanded upon by a team of people who have known and loved the Warhammer World for many years. As an example Eldril Sidewinder has had his original background restored, he is a Sea Elf Wardancer turned to football, and his Hypnotic Gaze is a racial ability to mesmerize others that Wood and Sea Elf Wardancers possessed in WFB 3rdedition.

There will be new pitches, possibly even in neoprene (mouse mat material). The plan is to release racial pitches to tie in with all the teams. Also, there is a hidden Easter Egg present on all pitches which in due course might give a hint to potential new DungeonBowl league rules still in the planning stages.

The Specialist Brands Studio plans to support the community through supporting gaming and events, be they in stores or elsewhere. Plans are being laid to offer sideline staff as exclusive miniatures at events or for a set period of time, something Forge World already does with its Event Exclusive miniatures.

No information yet on price points, although the starter set has been kept deliberately light to ensure the price point is much lower than some other recent releases.

Zebulon · Mai 17, 2016, 3:12

	To stop this becoming even more bogged down in nonsense...
As we know there are 9 teams in the initial wave of releases: 2 rosters in the starter set, 7 in DZ. 6 plastic teams, 3 resin.
Plastic teams are Human, Orc, Skaven, Dwarf, Nurgle and Elf Union (the new name for Pro Elves). But what are the 3 resin teams?

High Elf, Dark Elf, and Wood Elf.

Now, who wants to know about the team roster app?

	They're doing an app that'll allow you to manage league rosters. When you tap on the players you'll get a detailed cad view showing basic rules, all the gained stuff, and so on. When you tap something on that card the full rules will come up.
It’ll update as they release new stuff, and all being well should have all the useful stuff you need during a game in one place.

There’s loads of apps out there, but this is something GW do particularly well and if it’s owt like stuff they’ve released for their core games it’ll be really swanky and useful.