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Hi, just played my first game of Blood Bowl since the second edition back in the late 80's, bless that grey polystyrene board. I have to say the current rules are great. Anyway the group I play in are going to set up a league and I'll be playing Orcs and was wondering if you could give me some pointers for a good starting roster?

Cheers

Hi there,

Generally speaking roster advice will get more responses in the tactics/team development forum at the bottom but I'll get you started anyways:

320 4 Black Orcs
320 4 Blitzers

should always be in your team. Your best players by a long way.

I also think 3 rerolls (180) are a must.

After that, some people like linos (very resistant side), some the thrower (for the Surehands skill & early access to the Leader skills) and some prefer Gobbos (for fun really but they're mobile).

Personally, I prefer to start with:

320 4 Black Orcs
320 4 Blitzers
70 1 Thrower
100 2 Lineman
180 3 rerolls
10 FF1

But you have a lot of options with Orcs.

Enjoy!

Welcome Robbos Glad you're back playing the wonderful game, that is BB! Re: Line-up, I would echo PubBowler's thoughts.

And I'll echo them further. That's the line up I started with recently, though I banked the extra 10K. Check out some of the threads in the tactics section. During the last month or so there have been some great ones on player development and defensive setups.

Welcome to the board )

Welcome back to the game.

For my thoughts on rejoining read thread viewtopic.php?t=24988 if you haven't already.

Of course, if you played 2nd ed in the 80s you got out of the game before I even played my first game, so I don't know how relevant my thoughts on the adjustment will be.

My starting roster for 1100k tv was:

4 Blitzers
3 Black orcs
2 Throwers
2 Line
2 Gobbos

3 RR


I used the line on defence and the gobbos on offence and it worked really well for me.