Bloodbowl

[Embolden]

So I'm thinking of starting BB, I've never really played anything else other than 40k, so its about time I flexed my hobby wings and try something new.

This could be dangerous Rob, as you will quickly realise your error in choosing 40k to start with

Anyway what you'll want to pick up apart from a team is 3 Block dice. They are essential to the game, as they are symbol dice. Other than that 2 D6 and a D8 will do.

For miniatures I would recommend 4 places.
Firstly eBay.
Secondly a trip to Worcester Wargames. They have a huge amount of pre-owned metals from GW, and quite a few BB miniatures amongst them.
Third is Impact miniatures. US based, so delivery time will not be ideal, but the number 1 site, most folk will recommend when it comes to BB. Plenty of alternate teams, as well as pitches, dice, and other bits and bobs.
Finally is Gaspez Arts. A little more pricey, and I wouldn't say they are better sculpts (in fact most of the sculpts you'll find that are not from an established games producer are awful, for all games) but they do have quite a decent range, to select from, and are European based, so delivery is a little faster.

Cheers Gaz!

Hmm I'm thinking Dreadball might be the way to start, it;s like £12 for basically what I need, I can green stuff a couple of NFL balls to represent throwers, maybe paint the gloves on catchers and different bits to represent Blitzers and Linemen.

Gaz has covered a lot of it, but as you mentioned, there is no reason why you couldn't use a Dreadball team as a proxy bloodbowl team.

Also you can get a slightly easier to navigate rulebook (will dropbox it) off that site i can't remember.lol

Cheers if you could do that, that would be awesome!

I'm thinking this team to start with:

Blitzer - 90
Blitzer - 90
Blitzer - 90
Blitzer - 90
Thrower - 70
Catcher - 70
Linemen - 50
Linemen - 50
Linemen - 50
Linemen - 50
Linemen - 50
Linemen - 50
3 Re-Rolls - 150
= 950

Leaves me with 50pts, could get an Apoth or another Linemen to bulk out the team or alternatively, could drop a linemen for another catcher/thrower as a more skilled player.

A good solid start?