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Blood Bowl..WTF??

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Blood Bowl..WTF??

Postby killmaimburn » Mon Aug 23, 2010 10:26 am

I recently had a friend long term loan me a bunch of blood bowl stuff.
2x2nd ed box sets (generic human and ork teams) I'm looking after his dwarf team.. there is also most of an elf team about 6 undead (vamp, 2 mummies a few skelebobs) and a few odds and ends of giant tree men (2x) skaven (2)orks (2)
(Optional extra I go back into his attic and get out the blood bowl compendium, but I had assumed all the rules had been updated a bit)
Now what rule set am I supposed to learn??

Last thing I have around the place is..
"Living rulebook 5.0" (rainy day place with a load of the gaming aid wd articles)
but now the specialist games site just has up the
http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_Cus ... _Rules.pdf
"competition rules"

Which states in its intro that its stripped away alot and made a balanced tourney game with most loopholes gone..
So what is the current rulebook? Does everyone just use the tourney book? (can the WD articles for LRB 5 be used with the CRs..or is it a simpler streamlined game that doesn't support the "old" bolt ons)..
Is it still basically just 3rd ed faqed. a lot? (how if it is so cut down no pics or fluff) did 60 pages become 80?)
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Re: Blood Bowl..WTF??

Postby Ljundhammer » Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:30 pm

Well, according the the font of all knowledge, wikipedia:

"The most recent purchasable edition of the game contains a printed copy of Living Rulebook 1.0. However, the latest edition of the game available is the Competition Rules Pack (or LRB6 or Living Rule Book 6.0)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Bowl

Per the power of google, this is available here:
http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_Cus ... lebook.pdf

Don't know if that helps, or muddies the water...
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Re: Blood Bowl..WTF??

Postby Drax » Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:44 pm

yeah, use the competition rules.

its a real pain in the arse, but they are the ones that have been used at the tournies which much as i dislike the thought is these days the only viable and reliable option for GW to streamline/improve (destroy? - delete as appropriate) the system

interestingly i think that the computer game uses LRB 5.0 - go figure!
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Re: Blood Bowl..WTF??

Postby killmaimburn » Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:46 pm

Ok ..so there is a 1-6, and then 6 may also be called the competative rules, but "6" and "competition" look different (in that competitive download has stripped away all the fluff and pictures..For ease of printing and getting the game going)..
I'll need to pick a few random paragraphs and see if they are identical.

oh here are some additional teams they created but aren't allowed to be core
http://www.thenaf.net/files/NewTeams_LRB6.pdf

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Re: Blood Bowl..WTF??

Postby Drax » Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:52 pm

to be honest after all is said and done - as long as you and your oponent agree, just use whichever - you need only worry if you go to BB GT
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