Slann

Post by **Thadrin** » Thu May 15, 2003 10:10 am

Used to know a guy who had a Slann WFB army...years ago, in the days when Warhammer armies was ONE book. They were pretty sweet.

Check out those prices though...four infantry for about half what you'd pay these days.

Relborn · Post by **Relborn** » Thu May 15, 2003 12:05 pm

The prices were quite nice then

but unfortunately at those times you could hardly get any GW
minis in Germany (that's why everybody goes nuts here when he
could lay his hands on some old rare BB minis)

Post by **Thadrin** » Thu May 15, 2003 2:32 pm

It was also the days before quality multi-part plastic regiment boxes too. The only one I really remember was the old beaky Space Marines.

pretty much everything apart from 40k vehicles was Metal back then, and even the bikes and stuff were metal. The price of buying an army hasn't changed too much.
(must paint my Space marines...I now finally have 1000 points assembled.)

Relborn · Post by **Relborn** » Thu May 15, 2003 2:48 pm

the minis were in one way much cooler than now ...

just think of the casualities (WH40k and BB)

or

the special christmass space marine

or

the cool imperial guard (metal)

or

the squat exo armor

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BlanchPrez · Post by **BlanchPrez** » Thu May 15, 2003 2:56 pm

Relborn wrote:the special christmass space marine

!?

Really? Does anyone have a picture of this?

Chris

Redfang · Post by **Redfang** » Thu May 15, 2003 3:02 pm

www.solegends.com

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Redfang · Post by **Redfang** » Thu May 15, 2003 3:03 pm

http://www.solegends.com/citle/citrtlespacedmarines.htm

Relborn · Post by **Relborn** » Thu May 15, 2003 4:04 pm

Theese were exactly the guys I meant

BlanchPrez · Post by **BlanchPrez** » Thu May 15, 2003 4:22 pm

Redfang wrote:http://www.solegends.com/citle/citrtlespacedmarines.htm

Funny. I likes 'em.

Chris

gken1 · Post by **gken1** » Thu May 15, 2003 5:49 pm

I just don't think slann fit anymore into bloodbowl....they became big and fat. The lizardmen replaced them and work great.

Darkson · Post by **Darkson** » Thu May 15, 2003 11:07 pm

Yeah, bring 'em back. Sod the big fatties of the WFB world, go with the agile froggies of BB yesteryear.

wesleytj · Post by **wesleytj** » Thu May 15, 2003 11:28 pm

ONLY if a balanced roster is produced BEFORE the minis, not vice-versa... we've seen problems with that too many times before with great minis for teams with stupid rules.

speaking of which...my friend Jeff and I put together a Slann team several years ago which was pretty reasonable...

http://mama.indstate.edu/users/python/bbowl/slann.html

ignore all the ally rules and such, it was written for a different version of BB. you should still be able to get the jist of it tho. not a real powerful team, but not real bad either, and something that makes them unique (the +1 to ints)

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Thu May 15, 2003 11:42 pm

wesleytj wrote:ONLY if a balanced roster is produced BEFORE the minis, not vice-versa... we've seen problems with that too many times before with great minis for teams with stupid rules.

Yours is very close to the one the MBBL2 uses ... I ran a Slann team with this roster and found it very balanced and fun.

http://www.midgardbb.com/MBBLTeams/Slann.html

Galak

wesleytj · Post by **wesleytj** » Thu May 15, 2003 11:47 pm

yeah in some ways it's very scary how similar those rosters are.

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Fri May 16, 2003 12:54 am

wesleytj wrote:yeah in some ways it's very scary how similar those rosters are.

Never had seen your roster .... translated the 2nd edition team to as true as an LRB team as possible. You probably did something similar for 3rd which explains why they are close.

The Diving Tackle, Jump Up Blitzer really makes this team have that "springy" feel though that screams SLANN!

Galak

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