@Steam Ball
This is confusing... you both play non competitive, then complain about losing. If you don't play to win but to have fun, then why care at all about not winning?
BB even has teams with this in mind (which some hate / want to improve because they lose a lot, and others just love and embrace fully). I have seen people doing experiments like "all linemen" and other things that go against "winning at all costs". All them knew winning is rare that way... but played anyway, because it was about playing.
You didn`t get what I was saying, or I didn`t choose the perfect words (but...english is not my native languague, so I might not always express myself perfectly). I do not care about winning or losing, but I do care about "doing something on the board". "Just being there" isn`t enough for me or for him to play this game. Of course you want to participate in it. How the outcome will turn out can be left to suprise, but if you`re damned to just look it quickly becomes a boring situation which might not be woth the free time one is spending. I feel the special play cards are a great addition to the game this way. Increased randomnes (for me) seemed to be a driving element to more fun. You just never know what you`ll get.
I actually own and play more fun teams than "winning" teams, and I ususally don`t play them in a maximized constellation. My undead team for example was built, because I had parts left. So I had no special constellation in mind, when I did those. I do play ogres and goblins also and want to add an underworld team as well. Since I enjoy converting and painting a lot, a chaos-pact team will also join my number of teams after a while. My favourite team are orcs thou, but not because of their strength on the pitch - I just always liked the way they were presented in the Warhammer Blood Bowl Universe.
@harvestmouse
Which shows how much you know. You're the most anal person I've ever come across regarding what is official, when actually............I really can't see how much it affects you. You play in your own private league where you're free to do what you will. As trolls go........you leave no room under the bridge for others.
There`s obviously enough room for you. At least the way you`re responding implies that he is comunicationg on the right level. Not a fan of it either, but rather be a rolemodel than to insult, right?
@Olaf
I'm not Galak (but I play him on TV!
), but as far as I know, GW didn't include them in the official rules because they didn't have minis for them.
As far as what I`ve heard it was because Slann didn`t fit the background of them being pretty fat lazy asses. It hails from the Warhammer universe background, which BB is based off and is confirmed in Matt Forbeck`s "Rumble in the jungle" novel (no.4 in the chronology of novels).
@MattDakka
FUMBBL uses the CRP, the 21 official teams and the 3 unofficial ones for GW (because they lacked a miniatures range) but official for BBRC.
Doesn`t it also have the apeteam? I read the roster and gotta say I do not like it, but that is because of the teamdescription. I merely describes the function of players and isn`t a real backgroundstory. To me it seems strongly ruleoriented and is lacking a little creativity. After all, even though originating as a board game, this game has it`s roots in a company`s philosophy of combining modelling, painting and playing aspects. At least in the days, when this game was found.
"Official for BBRC" is an expression I am not sure what to think of. I am not a member of the NAF, still I am a part of the Blood Bowl community, which expands far from the borders of the NAF. So what is the BBRC? To my understanding it`s a small group of people thinking about rules (correct me if I`m wrong Galak, since you were part of that group during the development of those teams) working together with the manufacturer. If the gruop doesn`t work with the manufacturer anymore, how official is it? To me something official is, what the manufacturer is ok with. Example: Cyanide works with a license, so as long as GW doesn`t say "no" it is official from my point of view, which makes Slann, Chaospact and Apes inofficial teams.
But that is just way of perception. Personally I like Chaospact and Slann (even thou I`d change "Slann" to "Breedling" in order to align it a little more with the background - something like the youngest generation of Slanns, or the next evolutionary testbreeds) and like seeing them on the pitch.
@Regash
Obviously, there are quite a lot of strange teams around FUMBBL.
The original stunty teams were all playable with the regular rules - all out Skinks, Halflings, Snot or Goblins were possible. I I remember right, the newer stunty teams are not that old. But that is okay in my opinion, since FUMBBL is pretty much a closed community - you can always join, but FUMBBL rules don`t get outside of FUMBBL.
And yes, what I call "official" is really narrowed down to what the owner of the game has released.
So, in my opinion, the 5 teams (Slann, Chaos Pact, Underworld, Khorne and Bretonnian) stay unofficial teams. And according to the team lists provided by GW, they agree!
I`ve just read that. As I expressed earlier, "licensed" seems to be official to me as well. Bretonnians are a great play by the way, quite challenging at the beginning.
@sann0638
Six-X, would be my guess.
Best one so far
Say it fast enough...
