I'd had a few Orc teams of my own (hence the coveting of these minis - especially the Cheerleaders!!). I didn't ever paint a logo on them anywhere, but I seem to recall red and white might have been the colours of one of the Orc Blood Bowl teams mentioned in the GW fluff.? The Gouged Eye, maybe.? All miniatures from Citadel/Games Workshop. So, he tracked down a pair of metal Warhammer Fantasy Goblin Wizards (or Shamans.?) so they at least look a little like the rest of the war band. I point out he should either track down some old metal Blood Bowl Orc Throwers (as they'd fit right in and kind of look like they're casting a spell.? (One hand balled into a fist, the other pointing (as in pointing where they're going to throw that ball) or, at the very least, get some Warhammer Fantasy (or Age of Sigmar) Orc or Goblin wizards. It was as in: "No, I'm not painting those ugly-ass miniature that look nothing like the rest of the war band" - I've got a certain sense of aesthetic, you know. (because it ISN'T stupid, it's AWESOME!!!). Not as in: "No, you can't use them as a Frostgrave Warband because that is stupid" He says: "Remember that goblinoid blood bowl team/warband you painted for me years ago.? I want to use them as a Frostgrave Warband!" I converted the lot of them, pinning and gluing weapons and hands on to each one - the results can be seen below.įlash forward another 15 years and John is back in Saskatoon and stops by one day and gives me a pack of two plastic D&D Hobgoblin Shamans that he just picked up at the Dragon's Den (our current FLGS that just celebrated its 25TH ANNIVERSARY!!! WOW!!) so he hands them to me with a bunch of plastic weapon bitz and says "Make me a Mordheim Warband" - the backstory being that this is what the team did in the off season - went REaving about the Empire and made their way to Mordheim to plunder the ruins. and when we do get together we play Mordheim. less so.).įlash forward 10-15 years and John has all these awesome Blood Bowl minis. So I have (mostly) very fond and happy memories of blood bowl (of some of the dudes that played in those leagues. I mean, a LOT!!! I ran the first few leagues through the Wizard's Corner (the original FLGS in Saskatoon that john, at that time, was managing and I worked at 3 hours a week on Thursday evenings - but generally hung out there every waking hour that it was open and I wasn't in school!). but I can't remember if we ever actually got to PLAYING WFB before Blood bowl (Second Edition) came out.? (this was THIRTY YEARS AGO now, I have trouble remembering things Amanda told me this morning!). ![]() We'd known each other for a while, and played role-playing games together, and I know we'd PLANNED to play Warhammer Fantasy, and had started collecting minis for that. I should back up even further: Blood Bowl, I think, may have been the first miniatures game John and I had ever played together. Oh man, there were minis in there that I'd seen in White Dwarfs and had coveted, but had never seen in person. Another time he scored a bunch of old metal Orc and Goblin and Hobgoblin Blood Bowl players. battalion box?)- BEFORE they'd been officially released (it was an accident, the dude auctioning it off picked it up out of the wrong pile in the back, or something.?). ![]() One of those times he got a Tomb Kings starter army (or. Once or twice a year we'd get together and when we did we'd usually play Mordheim - which had been introduced to us by another friend - who was by then in Edomonton, CVT (CVT had run the Mordheim league here in Saskatoon and continued to come back and run tournaments at the Hero's Gambit convention in Saskatoon for a year or two after he moved to Edmonton).Īt that time, the Games Workshop store in Calgary apparently had monthly auctions to ditch old stock. A little over a decade and a half ago, before this blog was even started, my friend John was living in Calgary.
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