peo2223 wrote:2) I have some women in the team, but feel that a mixture of males and females is far more representative of the multi cultural and anti sexist society we should all aim to embrace
Do you also support PETA for asking miniature makers to remove fur from their miniatures, so kids won't get used to the idea of wearing fur for clothes?
This is Blood Bowl, a game in a different (fantasy) world. Amazons are female, savage characters wear fur, life is as cheap as dirt.
And where is the point of playing Amazons that aren't Amazons?
It just feels like if you'd say "Yeah, those humans are my Black Orc Blockers and those Halflings are the Blitzers. Oh, and the Minotaur stands in for a Goblin."
Designing and converting your own interpretation of a team and just using, in my opinion inappropriate, proxies is not the same.
peo2223 wrote:3) Clearly you have not been playing enough with Goblins or Dwarves (Chainsaws, Bombs and Deathrollers weren't ornaments last time I checked)
Those are players who are supposed to have weapons according to the rules. Amazons don't.
peo2223 wrote:5) Last time I checked this was a fantasy game...where are the rules that your imagination has to be contained?! Let's face it you have moving trees and players with two heads!
Yep, and those are represented by miniatures who have two heads or look like a tree. I can only repeat myself, interpretation and proxies are not the same thing. It somehow reminds me of that one Warhammer 40K tournament we played when a guy came in with just a bag full of bases and had them all labeled with little pieces of paper instead of buying miniatures.