That's not really what Blood Bowl is about to me but I understand where they're coming from. They always seemed far more focussed on keeping the rules and team lists as stripped down and beige as possible for the purposes of tournament fairness. I was never a big fan of the NAFs stewardship anyway.
I don't think anyone is going to dispute that GW are back in the driving seat at this point they've made changes to the Chaos Renegades and Goblin teams, for instance, that haven't been disputed so I'd say that the ball is back in GWs court as to what's considered official (as is right, considering they own the property). I doubt Season 2 is the last of the books going off prior announcements signifying continuing and more regular BB support, so I expect Chaos Chosen will be popping up at some point in the future, and once that happens, model support of some form will follow.Īt this stage I wouldn't make any assumptions as to which teams are likely to pop up in the Season books.Īs for the NAF, they really only acted as the authority while GW had moved BB into a managed decline during the gradual wind-down of Specialist Games. The in-universe explanation of the game is that during a battle between Dwarfs and Orcs, they found a chest of rulebooks. In-universe, it is a sports game somewhat like American Football but with a level of violence more akin to Canadian Ice Hockey. Some of the old Dungeonbowl teams were pretty interesting, actually. Blood Bowl is set in an alternate timeline of the Warhammer Fantasy Battle universe. I'm personally holding out for a Troll team, similar to the Ogre team, but even more useless and fun. So as some of the classic 3rd+ teams are translated into BB 2016 I wouldn't be surprised to see some small changes and/or new teams altogether, inspired by the 2nd Ed lineups. Dropping an Orc into the Chaos Renegade lineup (basically just to allow Renegade players to field a lineup resembling the Mongrel Horde 2nd edition rulebook art, attached below) is a funny little indicator of that.
On the evidence of the latest releases I wouldn't be too surprised if we saw some more odd-bod teams pop up as the design team in charge appear to have loosened the shackles a little and are taking a huge dollop of inspiration from the 2nd Edition aesthetic and designing teams to match. So, there's a fair bit of history and "in-universe" precedent for the team assembled there. The "Underworld Denizens" team is a similar callback. 2nd Edition BB had more mixed-race teams, allowing you to field some pretty wacky (and/or broken) lineups.
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