I don't know about most people... Maybe all people 😁😛

The bodyguards are definitely my favourite pieces on the team. Amazing with just guard and if you can get dodge as well they can be so annoying to get around

Glad you enjoyed it! I have the team too from the box and weirdly have enjoyed them for the (relatively few) games I've played on tabletop even though they definitely aren't a top tier team.

So glad you enjoyed it! And totally agree - I think they're definitely just worse than humans, but that doesn't mean they can't be interesting!

@@misspelledtree155 yeah of course, in our irl league we have a Imperial Nobility team that has been kicking ass. Two season team so far, they've got like 8 skills on their Ogre, insane! And a Blitzer with like 7 skills as well.

I agree about the overpricedness and the general not greatness but I'm not sure I agree about the lack of uniqueness? I don't think there's any team that has basic players quite like the bodyguards with their stand firm and wrestle. The closest is maybe necro who maybe do a better job of that 'just get in the way' thing on defence with the golems and the wraiths and even the zombies just being harder to remove.

@@misspelledtree155 The trick is that they have 1 player classe really unique and nice (even if somewhat hard to level up), good blitzer but small in number. Their thrower is unique but BAD. For some reason their lineman are worse than basic human but not really cheaper and could have benefitted from a special rule like: ganging up (bonus on fouling) or freely avaliable (infinite journeyman avaliable to refill the team to 11) rather than fend. Rather than a thrower that exist only so show up how useless is the new skill up a standard human thrower or no thrower at all. If you want to keep serf/servant linemen then give them animosity and lower the price or change them for squires with better stats. Nobility is not Brettonians after all...

If I was to fix them, I HATE that they have 70k rerolls. I would happily drop their reroll price to 50k, and keep the rest of the team as is.

I always think Games Workshop gets muddled up between trying to be thematic and balanced with Blood Bowl. The 70k rerolls *kinda* make sense to me thematically because I always understood that to be how good the coaching is/how well players work together. It makes sense to me that the nobles would be lazy and presumptuous about training. But if you're going that way then surely the rich nobles would wear better armour than an average human? Maybe they wouldn't give it to the retainers but I would think they would want their body guards well equipped to protect them at least.

The biggest strength in my opinion is really just how good it can be at 'getting in the way'. Stand firm, fend and eventually sidestep on the blitzers can make it really hard for opponents to advance and claim the spaces on the pitch they want. But that only really works if they don't all die, which with average strength and average to low armour they often do 😅

I totally understand how the game can make you feel this way and honestly with how many bugs have got into BB3 at different times since launch I feel like I can't say there's 'no way' the RNG for the dice is not bugged as well. But I will say that if you play enough tabletop you will see dice situations just as crazy. I've had opponents throw triple skull, reroll, triple skull against me before now. And in my last few tabletop tournaments I've thrown so many snakes, even while swapping different dice, that I've started to think there's either something wrong with my rolling technique or my soul. 😅 As much as we want to believe Blood Bowl is all about skill (and good players do win more over time) the reality of every individual game is that luck can play a big part.

@@misspelledtree155 Thanks for taking the time to inform me.