As I mentioned in my last post I’ve been working on a new
Blood Bowl team, specifically a Lizardmen one which I have named the InGen
Interceptors (bonus points go to anyone who gets the geeky reference!).
I decided I wanted to try out another race as I currently only
play with a Necromantic Undead team, who are The Death Stars and an Orc team called
the Axe-Grinder Chiefs. I’ve had
varying degrees of luck with both of these teams but after playing them for so
long I really fancied trying out something new and one on the beauties with
Blood bowl is that there is a great choice of races that you can use to put
together a team.
I finally settled on
Lizardmen after weighing up a few options.
Originally I was going to go for a human team (As I was thinking of
converting up some Cadians). They make a
good all round team with plenty of starting skills and I had some human players
from the boxset lying around that I could also use, however after careful
consideration I decided that it was going to be too tricky to convert up a
whole team. I also wanted a race that didn’t
come in the core starter set, so I decided to leave the humans for another time. I then considered the Chaos team as a
possible choice. Like the Lizardmen they
are a hard hitting strength team (which plays to my style) who have a lot of strength
4/5 players but lack starting skills (they are definitely league team). I almost went for them but several players at
my club also have Chaos teams and as I play chaos on 40K I wanted to try out
something new.
The Lizardmen drew me for a couple of reasons. Firstly, as mentioned before they are similar to
Chaos having a large bulk of strength 4 players (and a Strength 5 Kroxigor!) as
well as some fast players in the Skinks.
They do lack starting skills that could be handy in a game (such as
block or sure hands) but with a good combination of strength and speed they
could be a good team to develop over a league.
Secondly let’s not ignore the fact that they are basically dinosaurs and
everyone loves dinosaurs’ right?
Having decided on my race I now had to get the miniatures. I managed t pick up a box of plastic Sauruses
in a local comic book shop (They were in the sale as they owner was getting rid
of all his Games Workshop stock). I assembled
6 of them (the maximum you can have in your team) kept a couple for spares and
sold the rest on eBay. I was fortunate
to purchase a metal Kroxigor miniature from someone at my local gaming club,
and the Skinks I got from eBay. With some
small conversions (mainly cutting weapons off) I had my new team.
My starting team roster is going to be…
- 1 x Kroxigor
- 5 x Saurus
- 5 x Skinks
2 Re-Rolls, Fan Factor of 4
My plan is that after my first league game I will
purchase an apothecary and then later down the line (one I have some more gold) get a few more Skinks. After that any gold I earn will go towards
some more re-rolls (and eventually another Saurus).
Now all I need to do is get the team painted and start playing some Blood Bowl. Until then though, here’s a sneak peek of them.
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| The InGen Interceptors (And an Orc, though ignore him as he's being painted for Silver Tower) |
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