Tourplay's brilliant. Deals with all the league management, injury, skills, and tracking. It does have a monthly cost, but it's worth it. Usually works out around £2 to £2.50 per person for the whole of a 12 person league I run. They've not confirmed exactly what's in the rule book, but have confirmed it's 200 pages, so bigger than the last one and highly likely to have all the rosters in. Except for High Elves which are getting a pdf. There's a few changes confirmed that are likely to shake things up, but the core rules are the same. If you want an overview of what's been confirmed so far (changes have been posted in 3 different places) let me know and I'll find the blood bowl thread to update. The edit point is a long standing rumour that's now been confirmed. They've changed the rosters to match what's in the team boxes, which has reduced positional you can take for teams with older boxes. Skaven can only take 2 gutters. Dark elves only 2 blitzers. Undead only 2 ghouls. Other players get boosted to compensate, with improved stats and new skills. Orks, humans, wood elves, nurgle, and a few other teams will be losing positionals to match the boxes too, just not confirmed exactly how, or what they're getting to balance the loss.
I still try to keep up to date with releases and news and so on, but there is so little that interests me these days, which is kinda sad as I have been involved in this hobby for 36 years now. Everything seems to be just getting churned around and around, and yes, I know that their business has always been about the models and it is the figures that is where the big money is (after all it was Citadel miniatures that bought out Games Workshop way back when), but over the past few years it has just felt more and more like the "supporting" part of the hobby - the books and rules, has just been going around with the aim to only sell more models. Now we all know only too well that this is the case, i just wish that it didn't feel so obvious. Oh, and please bring back the silly fun, bring back the obvious tongue in cheek satire, bring back the models that are just made to be cool - not everything needs rules... Meh, old fart signing off again...
ive felt this way about GW since, ~5th edition where the friend who got me into the hoppy was basically kicked out overnight, because when Age of Sigmar kicked off, both his Bretonians and his Tomb kings army didnt make it to the new setting and his store rmanager responded by....trying to sell him Sigmar marines then around the same time Grav came out and his large Dark angel plasma based marines were basically rendered obsolete in competitive play because Grav was just 'better plasma that didnt explode' and after those 2 blows he flogged everything and quit the hobby, i picked up a land raider off him and when i asked about why he was quitting he said the immortal phrase Games workshop are not a Games company, they are a model company, who make a game to SELL You those models, and they will just remove your multi thousand pound army off the tabletop if they think there is a chance you will buy a new army and its only gotten worse because recently they have put the focus on the Competitive players, who frequently sell entire armies because of a balance change and will froth at the mouth to buy the latest FOMO box because it contains one new Meta unit. There is still alot of fun to be had, but ive very much never been into the competitive scene, i can have competitive games but i also really enjoy dumb games that are more social event where we throw buckets of dice at each other
According to the Blood Bowl Blurb, those were the two that kicked off the whole new AoS reboot, which is why they're being used to launch the new money grab game/season? Unless I'm missing a bit somewhere...? Completely agree on casual vs competitive. I picked up Star Wars Armada a couple of Christmases ago as thought it might be fun to play with the kids. On a whim I looked up whether there was a championship and of course there was. By the God Emperor though - those two guys in the final of the Worlds looked like they were having precisely zero fun. At all. It was just measuring sticks and rules referencing and I'm not sure I saw a single smile.
he played Bretonians and Tomb kings in WH Fantasy, before Age of Sigmar was a thing, then when the old world died and Age of Sigmar was a thing and took over, neither of the 2 armies he had spend 15 years collecting, converting, painting and playing, were legal options in the new setting, and he was upset, so he went to ask GW employee if they will be added back in later, to which the employee ( ever looking to hump money out of your wallet ) suggested instead of playing his old multi thousand pound army, he should instead BUY A NEW ARMY
