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[lordcooper]

 That option exists.

[Tack]

Well, the only  "skins" available for teams are jerseys belonging to LRB teams.
That being said, you get cyans per level until level cap, and from then on you can only win 'em in tournaments.

[lordcooper]

Having a pretty successful run with my Bretonnian team.  I've running four blitzers (ofc); two have agi 4 so I made them into the equivalent of HE throwers and catchers, one is a str 4 killing machine with frenzy, tackle and shadowing, the fourth just has leader for an extra rr and dodge so far.  I have 16 linemen, half with dirty player and half with wrestle so my TV is ridiculously low for the strength I can project, and I can pretty safely foul on two out of three turns.

I'm at about 1450 TV and just played 1750 TV Chaos.

Spoiler: You could say it went okay. (click to show/hide)

  Not pictured, my single injury.  A dead lineman i didn't bothher using an apoc for.  Both apocs were used to stop my blitzers being knocked out later on in the game.

[Wiles]

Looks like the game is getting 4 new races (Norse, Undead, Nurgle and Necromantic). If you own the game on PC you'll be getting them for free as long as you buy the game before said DLC are released (source).

Blood Bowl 2 got a lot of flak but it feels like Cyanide have been doing a lot to make things right with the community. The last few patches have added a lot of requested features.

[Tack]

So BB2 is about to run it's first national tournament. Apparently the prize pool is ~$30,000.00.

If it wasn't so luck-based this could go on my big TV.

(Also sambojin really needs to update the dusty-ass OP on this sucker.)

[Wiles]

The Norse team came out today. It's free on PC if you already own Blood Bowl II. The Norse are a high damage/low defense team with werewolves (Ulfwereners) and Snow Trolls (Yhetee). I am looking forward to booting up the game again for the first time in a long while to try out the new team!

[Teneb]

Snow Trolls (Yhetee)

Yhetees are snow ogres though? /nitpick

[ZebioLizard2]

Not really, they can work with Ogre's but they aren't actually Ogre's. They are like their own little species that can use frost magic, special ice shards that never freeze and they have this freezing aura around them.

[Teneb]

Not really, they can work with Ogre's but they aren't actually Ogre's. They are like their own little species that can use frost magic, special ice shards that never freeze and they have this freezing aura around them.

According to the ogre armybook yhetees are an offshoot of ogres that decided staying on mountaintops was a good idea and every now and then come down to go out with their furless kin to find new and exciting things to eat. But BloodBowl isn't exactly that concerned with fluff (see: Slann teams).

[Wiles]

I don't know much about Warhammer lore, I was just repeating what I read in Cyanide's announcement.

[monk12]

Yeah, Warhammer lore does not really map to Bloodbowl apart from the broad strokes. Yhetees used to be called Snow Trolls, but they don't have any Troll racial traits (Really Stupid, Regeneration,) nor do they have classic Ogre traits (Bonehead.) Mechanically they're more like Minotaurs with lower armor, no mutation access but starting with Claw instead of MB and Disturbing Presence for funzies. Or at least that's how it was in BB1.

[ZebioLizard2]

Better question, are they any good in bloodbowl? I've never played Norse and I've never seen them used.

[monk12]

I always found them valuable additions to my Norse teams, but it does depend a bit on your build. Unlike Minotaurs, you can't reliably build them to be roadblocks; no M access means no Tentacles, no possibility of combining that with Diving Tackle, Frenzy means no Grab and less positioning control, etc. If you take a Yhetee on your team, you are taking it to keep your bashing strategy viable against other, more heavily armored bash teams; Claw and Frenzy out of the box are scary for teams that want to get up close and personal with your guys, and adding Mighty Blow with your first level gives you a strong player remover not available on the rest of the roster. In my experience, Norse love to hit but hate to get hit, so they also love intimidation factor to keep from getting sucked into sustained scrums; fouling is one arrow in that quiver, and the Yhetee is another.

The risk is that using him as a beatstick means he'll be using most of your blitzes (particularly to take advantage of Juggernaut if you don't roll doubles for Block early on) which in turn means that when Wild Animal triggers, it hurts twice as badly compared to a safer Roadblock-type Big Guy. Fortunately Wild Animal is the best negatrait for blitzing Big Guys since you reduce it to Bonehead-level odds by attacking every turn but you keep your tackle zone even if you fail. Remember that just declaring a Blitz with him reduces that negatrait, you don't actually have to throw a block or even be in range if the situation just requires him to stand somewhere.

Personally, I'd take them for any "balanced" list that expects to go against heavily armored bash on a regular basis (Dwarves, Chaos, Nurgle, etc.) They would come at the expense of probably an Ulfwerner on my teams- I prefer playing both Runners and Berserkers and letting stat increases influence my playstyle. If I were playing in a league environment against mostly AV7 teams I might trade the other way since Claw is less valuable and Ulfwerners have better skill access.

[Tack]

Yeah, had all of my elf teams get invited to a French team "no puissance?" which had no teams more bashy than brettonians.
Unfortunately the league is too small/probably foreign to have a nice player pool, but if I were to try throw up my own elf-league, would the Norse be a smart addition?
Or are S4 linebackers where the line is drawn?

[Kanil]

Norse would demolish the shit out of that league. They're glass cannons, they hit about as hard as the orcs and dwarves, they just don't take hits nearly as well.