Hi all,
for those interested, I'm posting my team and background. I hope you like it:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Greetings Sire
I think it is time to re-introduce the Bretonnians into BB. I know that the warhammer world isn't the BB world, but we can still draw inspiration from it. The Bretonnians are one of the major players in the warhammer world, and if we can have an amazon and a norse team in addition to the human team, then we can certainly have Bretonnians too. The race has both fans and miniatures, and I don't think that being in the warhammer game should count against them.
The team presented below is around the 6th incarnation of our Bretonnian team, which has changed along with the rules, feedback from forums, as well as with input from literally hundreds of playtest games.
Most recently, I've taken the above poll to find reasonable acceptance for peasants being AG2.
Also, I've replaced multiple block on the questing knights with juggernaut from the vault. I find it very appropriate that the knights have a "blitzing" skill, and this will also weaken the team slightly early on, which is OK. Coaches in non-vault leagues could house rule Juggernaut as a racial trait, to avoid introducing the skill on other teams.
Finally, I've run it through PinkHorrors power spreadsheet (
http://www.blood-bowl.net/BloodBowlPlayers.html), with good results. For those interested, their stats were:
POW65, VAL64 (block71, throw52, run54, potential62, pricing52).
Enjoy!
Introduction
Today, blood bowl is a very well respected sport in Brettonia. It is considered a great test of martial skills, and is considered equal to jousting, in preparing knights for the rigours of war. Every baron wants his own team, and it is considered a great honour indeed to compete in the royal court leagues. Even fair damsels who set the errants for budding young knights, have started to request "the scoring of many touchdowns".
But this is not how it has always been.
In the early years of Blood Bowl, the brettonians knew little of the game, and indeed it was disdained as a pastime for the commoners and ruffians of lesser nations. This was only changed by a mistake on the part of Jean Pierre Sansfortune - a brave, though unlucky, questing knight. Roaming the grey mountains, he heard of a huge grail adorned with skulls, held in the imperial city of Altdorf.
This was surely the grail he thought.
Jean Pierre travelled to Altdorf, and learned of the terrible ordeal he had to endure in order to lay hands on the grail, a trial worthy of the bravest knight - and so he joined the Reikland Reavers. For many years he struggled, until finally one day, he lead (sort of) his team to victory at Blood Bowl XI. Imagine Jean Pierre's disappointment when he finally held the grail, for there was no liquid in it from which to sip, and no lady of the lake to present it to him. Shattered, and disgraced, he quit the team, to return to his native Brionne.
However, on the first night of his journey home, he had a vision, a true visitation from the lady of the lake herself. She granted him her favour, for succeeding in his arduous quest, having braved all perils, and done what no other knight had done before him.
Back in Brettonia he was greeted a hero, and from that day, the Bloodweiser trophy was considered a worthy alternative to the grail, and blood bowl the sport of the virtuous....
Questing for the Grail
Over the years a number of different Bretonnian teams have been available on the internet, and it seems that there have been 2 approaches to the team: One is to portray the Bretonnians as a team of knights, squires and hangers on, while the other is to make them very similar to the official human team. As the introduction reveals, I prefer a Bretonnian team with knights and squires. I like new teams to offer unique advantages and interesting challenges, rather than duplicate old ones.
It is well worth noting that these "knights" and "squires" are meant as cultural titles, in much the same way as dwarven slayers, runners and longbeards - and are not meant to indicate that the knights are charging onto the pitch on their warhorses in lance formation. Also, these knights are playing in full Blood Bowl kit, not full plate mail. They are of course aristocrats playing Blood Bowl, not misplaced military personnel.
It is important to see this team as a real Blood Bowl team, rather than warriors who stopped for a quick game:
The knights decided to quest for the grail by forming a BB team.
Naturally they practice a lot for this rigorous quest.
Their squires, naturally, train too to best help their leiges.
And the linemen are whichever reasonably fit fillers the knights could hire, but are left to themselves for rudimentary practice.
The Players
The team consists of 2x2 knights, and 4 squires to match these lieges. The rest of the team is made up of lowly peasants, who are terrible blood bowl players. As for the types of knights on the team, the choice was obvious: Knights errant are young reckless knights out to prove their mettle ( - perhaps on the blood bowl pitch?), while questing knights are out there looking for the grail - having formed a team in order to retrieve it! Both of these would have every reason to play Blood Bowl.
The Stats
Being a team of humans, there was no way that the players could have an ST or AG above 3. Instead, their great martial prowess would have to be portrayed with a handful of skills.
The knights errant are the teams flashy recievers, playing for glory, reputation, and the occasional fringe benefit. You know what those Bretonnians say: "Score on the pitch - score with the ladies". Their squires help fetch the ball, so their masters can concentrate on getting those touchdowns.
The questing knights for their part are capable warriors, able to go toe to toe with terrible monsters, and famous for their bone-crunching blitzes. Their squires are trained to help out their lieges in the thick of the fighting.
The peasants? Cannon fodder to tie up the opposition while the knights take care of business.
The team rerolls are very expensive, to show that the peasants are not particularly skilled, while the knights are probably a little too interested in personal glory be labelled team players
The Roster
***The Bretonnian Team***********************************************
The royal court-leagues of bretonnia employ some of the best players
that mankind has to offer. With strong hands and steady nerves, the
brave knights of bretonnia quest for the 'other' grail - the blood
bowl trophy.
# gc title stats access skills
0-2 120K Questing Knights 6339 G,ST block, dauntless, juggernaut
0-2 70K Questor Squires 6338 G,ST guard
0-2 110K Errant Knights 7338 G,AG block, catch
0-2 60K Errant Squires 6338 G,PA Sure Hands
0-12 30K Peasants 6327 G -
ReRolls 70K. Apothecary and Wizard as normal. No Big Guy.
(Juggernaut is a skill from the vault: A player with this skill may treat both down as a push back (and cancels stand firm) when blitzing).
**********************************************************************
The Team
And that's the team. The team combines the very best of players with players that are next to worthless. Sure, the knights are truly awesome blood bowl players, but it will prove quite a challenge to any coach to make do with so few players of notable quality.
Martin
), the knights are bound to be ridiculous. 
