I don’t recall using Star Players in league play, but I understand that they might be more viable in tournaments so I’ve decided to have two kitted up and ready to sub in just in case. Any position that has four or more of, I wish came in at least two different poses.įinally, we have the retired player as head coach and a few Star Players. I do wish they had more sculpt variety on the plastic sprues though. The red-plumed player is a Forge World model, and likely team captain for the new look Badlands Blitz. Three models are standard plastic orc blitzers, but two have head swaps for variety.

Here come the stars of the team, the Blitzer core. Here he’s flanked by a brace of orc linemen, never expecting to receive the bladder from their thrower. He seems less likely to deliver solid passes from the backfield. The thrower above has a pretty daft arm throwing position, a damaged skullcap, and an angsty scowl. I’m a bit less than excited about this change, but to reflect this on the field, I’ve opted for the less accurate looking thrower model from Forge World over the awesome plastic thrower mini that comes in the team box. Unfortunately, orc passing has been nurfed a bit under the new BB2020 ruleset as the players generally have animosity toward one another. In the later moments of BB2016, I’ve come to have a lot of fun with the orc passing game. A pair of gobbos hover nearby to keep Miggy inline with the playbook. Probably my favorite of the Big Guy models from recent years. With the hand replacement and lead foot reposition, I like this model quite a bit. Originally molded with a goblin in hand to throw, this mini is pretty divisive in the community. Our troll Miggy is a converted BB16 plastic troll with a hand replacement so he’s got a nice balled fist ready to knock an opponent really stupid. Perhaps the Badlands Blitz are a premier orc team and are treated to the finest kits available? The models are certainly cleaner, and maybe that’s not the first trait one associates with orcs, but for my aging eyes and looking at models at arms length at the table, I prefer the cleaner aesthetic. It wasn’t bad, but I didn’t feel like the models ‘popped’ as well as my older team did.Ĭleaning up the chipped armour and going back to the old-school green rings felt a lot better. There was something about this palette that wasn’t sitting well with me though. The plan was for the new team to stand on earth-brown ringed bases as was popular in the 00s and have paint chipped armour. I originally started the new team about a year and a half ago, beginning with the Black Orc Blockers (now called Big ‘Uns in the even newer Blood Bowl 2020 Ruleset). I simply re-based them on larger 32mm round bases to better match the new team.

They were both slightly larger than the older 28mm models anyway and fit in well with the new squad. Two models have survived the transition to the new version of the franchise, the chainsaw loony player on the left and the beer swilling coach on the right. I liked these models a lot, but as the new game came at a new scale it gave me the opportunity to put paint to plastic again. They’ve accumulated the most casualties as well as taking home a best dressed award. A rowdy bunch of bois who have ended up with more than one piece of celebratory hardware in their trophy case. Now, with tournaments starting to resume again, I decided it was time to finally lace up and charge the pitch.Ībove is the original Badlands Blitz kit. Having not been too involved in the larger Blood Bowl community in recent years, the reboot of my teams in the newer 32mm was put on the bench. With that release, I decided to sell off my old teams and adapt to the new scale. When Blood Bowl was finally revived in 2016, it was reborn in a slightly larger scale from the models I had been coaching on the field for over 25 years.

Blood bowl orc blitzer miniature