Blood Bowl

Play Classic Turn Based mode, it's what 99% of the online community plays. Blitz and Real Time mode are poorly balanced trash.

I made videos to help with the learning curve, because literally for like a week while playing the game I'd go "Oh, I wish I had known that" and restart my team.


Ignore the part in the video where I picked Blitz mode. Everything else is fine, and it's got a lot of annotations to help you understand what's going on as the game progresses.

I've got 600+ hours into Blood Bowl. It's a fantastic game, but it's definitely not for everyone. RTFM --http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...55534169,d.aWM(and don't get all worked up about the manual being huge...it's just like a player's handbook for D&D. 75% of the information is just that...information on stats and teams and shit.

The forum run by the game company has shitloads of rosters and tactics and shit on there --http://forum.bloodbowl-game.com/BB Tactics is great too, though a little outdated, and there's less of a community there --http://bbtactics.com/

After re-watching that video, I would like to say that it is in no way indicative of my actual skill now. Holy shit what a difference 400 hours makes

Pulling conversation from Steam Thread --

Gavinrad_sl said:

Chaos Dwarves are fucking monsters. Only team that I couldn't run the score up against with my High Elves.

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When you've got this guy carrying the ball, there's no stopping them.



Blitz on a kickoff? This guy is scoring. Failed to pick up the ball? This guy is scoring.

High Elves are okay for a beginner. You need to learn where to pick your fights though, because with pretty average armor, you're not gonna win a lot of fights. It's real easy to get behind on numbers quick if you take a few unlucky rolls. Dark Elf are kind of the professional grade elves. Much bashier, less mobile, a lot more tactics oriented of all the elves.

Humans are actually not a terrible choice for first, just don't load up on catchers, they're the weak spots on the team. I recommend Orcs to start with. They're moderate speed, can pass if they have to, great strength. Ignore the goblins, and skip the troll until much later. You'll get a good feel for how skills all interact playing orcs or humans. Dwarves are kind of a one trick pony...mass smash. They're pretty piss poor at everything else. They're more forgiving of errors at the start, but you'll miss out on learning a lot of the good practices that you should learn, because they're so reliable in their blocking.

And yes, Vampires/Goblin/Underworld/Halflings/Ogre are the teams you play when you think you're hot shit or don't care if you're gonna lose a lot.

Gavinrad_sl said:

For the love of god, don't play halflings unless you are a total masochist.

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There's a guy over on the BB forums that has turned it into an art. He's got a 176spp fling.

http://forum.bloodbowl-game.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=42

It's pretty impressive.

Hatorade_sl said:

+ for Dwarves while they lack movement they all come with "block" for the most part which is key to keeping your turn rolling.

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That's true, but like I said, block + tackle gets you into bad habits because it's so safe. For example, the basic strategy with dwarves is just to get mass guard, and then clump together to win the bash war, by putting every player in base contact with another player...forcing them to dodge away or make a risky block. As dwarfs raise in TV, this is no longer a viable strategy, because 1700 TV Dwarfs will get absolutely destroyed by 1700 TV Chaos or Nurgle with Claw if they play with that strategy (which has been winning them 1-0 games their entire career).

Dwarf is a great team for noobs, but if you decide to start with them, understand that you're gonna need to branch out and do other things relatively early in your career or your play will suffer quite a bit as a result. 1000TV dwarf is pretty safe, but it's a completely different game than 1000 TV anything else, and also a completely different game than 1700 TV dwarf.

Lemmiwinks_sl said:

Picked up this game awhie back on a sale, just now getting to it. Im running through the tutorial, and man, tons of shit to learn. Looks good so far though!

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It is, and unfortunately, the in game tutorial is fucking terrible, so feel free to browse the BB site or ask here. There's way more traffic here than there, so I'll probably respond faster here, although you'll get a lot more different opinions from excellent coaches over there.