Blood Bowl Rumours

[eldargal]

Rumours of a new edition of Blood Bowl. (This deserves its own thread)

I posted this lot in July last year .... seems I got a bit ahead of myself. Over excited.
As this year is the 25th anniversay of Blood Bowl 2nd edition (The one with the astrogranite pitch) I am confident this is happening this time.

I first heard about this in 2007.
At the time I was writing articles for The watchman and this is what I said in a rumours article:

Blood Bowl was first released in 1987 That would make this year its 20th Anniversary (if my dates/maths are correct!) There were a lot of updates to the ‘living rulebook’ (online). I think this activity may have been due to the intended re-release of Blood Bowl this year although I can not say this for certain (but I can’t see Games Workshop waiting 5 years until the 25th anniversary).
This is just a hunch. (For those that don’t know me from Warseer my hunches are wrong most of the time!)
Aly Morrison and Mark Bedford have been working on new teams for some of the races with all individual players like the new Human team. And I think a number of these are completed and ready to go.

So it would seem I was wrong about them waiting another 5 years then.

I later found out I was also wrong about the teams being completed.
They were only 'planned' at this time.

But it seems like this is happening now:

75hastings69 has posted to say Blood Bowl is coming next year so that will be in 2012 for the 25th anniversary.

He also said this:

Originally Posted by 75hastings69

So four teams of completely individual minis and a spammy new pitch wouldn't interest you?

As for rules why try and fix what isn't broken?
For those who don't know Hastings rumours are 99% fact.

So all we know so far is four nice new plastic teams, a new pitch and not much change to the rules.

Exactly what the four teams are has not been posted.
If the pitch is card, "astrogranite", plastic or cloth like the new Dread fleet also remains a mystery.

EDIT: Additional clarification/speculation from hastings

"The original rumours I heard on this suggested only two teams of individual models in the box - orcs & humans, it's only later mutterings I've heard that suggest there might be four teams."

I love Blood Bowl so have only one more thing to say ....

BRING IT ON!

UPDATE:

I said this in the last thread:

"Space Hulk was in 2009 ....
... Dread Fleet is in 2011 ....
I am not expecting the next NEW, LIMITED big box game until 2013

My understanding is that Blood Bowl is something different".

Now as it did not come last year .... and IS coming this year ... I am now thinking it will be the next LIMITED big Box game.

I have also heard from one source that he heard from someone else that someone they know had seen the CAD for a plastic pitch.
(So a really solid rumour! ) but I am imagining a cross between the astrogranite pitch and the battle board.

Finally I can confirm what hastings told us last year that two of the teams are Orcs and Humans.
But Like hastings I have also heard that there are four teams in the box.

I hear the story is that the four teams are the ones to make it to the play-offs for a specific cup/competition.

UPDATE from Hastings

I love blood bowl too.... especially now my willy miniatures Chaos BB team is on its way!!

Originally I was told....

Cardboard pitch (high production quality style)
Orc Team (all individual sculpts)
Human Team (again all individual sculpts)

Then I was told.....

Also Elf Team (individual sculpts)
Chaos All-Stars team (once more all individual sculpts)
And that the game would play out as a run up to final sort of scenario/mini league with the end game being vs chaos all stars for the cup, and that the game also had rules for just "straight vs play" instead of the campaign.

However.... I was then told....

"It's not happening" due in the most part to the retail failure of Dreadfleet.

So if this is indeed "back on" I have three words for you.......

BRING. IT. ON

So, Blood Bowl. Yay!

[Wolfshade]

I so want this to be true.

I really liked BB but had no one to play it with.

I've been toying getting my gaming group to play, we already play BB online.

But the models are about "old" shall we say.

But yay!

[Nuffle_Hate_Me]

As an avid Table Top Blood Bowl player I would love for this to happen but I really doubt there is anything to it. Blood Bowl is the red headed step child of even the Specialist line.

[ysambart]

As an avid Table Top Blood Bowl player I would love for this to happen but I really doubt there is anything to it. Blood Bowl is the red headed step child of even the Specialist line.

Great analogy. People either love or hate red heads. Blood Bowl is part of the marriage of gaming and sports. And you just can't seem to kill a red headed step child.

I have ten blood bowl teams. All of them were constructed from one or two Warhammer Fantasy Plastic Regiment boxes. Where does that show on GW's books? Not in the Blood Bowl/ Specialist games column...

[Matt Adlard]

Looks like with the sucess of Dreadball and kings hold from mantic, Gw will be looking to re-release Bloodball and Warhammer quest inorder to have alternative products.

[eldargal]

Except for the fact that the new Blood Bowl edition has been in the works for years already according to Harry, long before Dreadball was a twinkle in Mantics eye.

[odinsgrandson]

Yeah, but it was cancelled before Dreadball was a success too. GW like to act like they don't know that other games exist, but I've never believed them.

A game like this would do well. It would sell well, and they could pull it off. But GW hasn't had a reason to do another board game, and new Blood Bowl stuff sits 'in the works' perpetually.

[Aenir]

If it does come to pass, Im excited for it, Hopefully with a rules update, and some nifty Khemri minis! (Not metal, please, skeletons in metal are horrible!)

[eldargal]

Yeah, but it was cancelled before Dreadball was a success too. GW like to act like they don't know that other games exist, but I've never believed them.

A game like this would do well. It would sell well, and they could pull it off. But GW hasn't had a reason to do another board game, and new Blood Bowl stuff sits 'in the works' perpetually.

You can still get the third edition box set on the GW website, hardly cancelled. They just don't support it anymore, and they don't really need to thanks to the living rulebook.

[Aenir]

You can still get the third edition box set on the GW website, hardly cancelled. They just don't support it anymore, and they don't really need to thanks to the living rulebook.

LRB committee was canned a while back, they've been on LRB6 (also called CRP I think) for a while now