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Really love this content. I know it's a lot more work then your usual fair so thank you for putting in the time for such valuable content.

Minor thing for Vampires, Bloodlust doesn't apply skills like Mighty Blow since it's not a block action and unlike Animal Savagery, Bloodlust doesn't personally say it works. Meaning MIghty Blow just makes the Varg an AV10 Regen Bloodspawn that can't lose activation (but can end your turn if you aren't careful).

Saw this video linked from the Reddit Bloodbowl sub. I was not prepared to spend an hour and half watching this, but it was really insightful! I've never been to a tourney and only play TT with a few friends, but this video has me very motivated to paint my Greebo Amazon team for a future league with my friends.

Excellent bit of content, would love to see more like this.

Really appreciate all the hard work that was put into that video! It helped us greatly in our preparation since it will be the first time we are putting Team Cyprus to a Blood Bowl event😅

Oh what a video cant wait to tuck in and YA SOU DAVO! Thanks for the upload.

I love when you make videos like this one or your team guides, Andy. I'm one of your purely youtube guys, so it's a joy to hear you get through a complete thought without being interrupted by some wild sound effect or robot voice reading the word 'moist'!

Huge amount of effort gone into this, thanks for your insights!

thanks Andy, really valuable content

Thanks for this! Great insight into what works with this rule set.

Great video Andy, love your contents!

Great work Andy!

This is a really in-depth analasys. Thank you for this. I will now submit Chaos Chosen. We as a team are going there just to have fun without any expectations and have one of us who is only playing flings anyways. And I'm not repeating a single race I played before until I played them all. I'm currently 16 teams in in my first 16 tournaments. And I sadly played most of the teams you valued highly. So maaaaybe I can paint up High Elves until then (part of the stipulation to paint them all myself and I'm currently injured and not sure it will clear up until then) but if not I'm probably stuck with something whacky like Nobillity, Chosen or Slann as a non-Expert slann coach.

Very nice list, made good sense on most of the bits. I played Slann in Malta, and again in Alicante, and it was two completely opposite experiences.. If you roll 3+ you win 4-0, if you dont, you run out of players and lose with the same. So after testing various rosters, ive come to the conclutionthat you need atleast 13 players, and 5 RR, so anything that detracts from those numbers is...wrong. So, with the extra cash you get in Euros, you could take a Blitzer cause they are awesome, but the thing is, when you start leaping, you first run out of RR and then you start to run out of players. 60/40 between 6RR or 14 players, I recon. Possibly 2x Guard Catchers, 2x dodge, and 2xWrestle, Block, Tackle, Strip on the linos. And for Vampires...One Catcher to score, Ivan to Blitz, and then fill up with 4 other Vamps that gets to do one thing, and that is HypG. You give Pro to everybody and just win. Unless you snakeye alot. Sure, you could muck about with block, dodge maybe Frenzy on a blitzer. but you have 10 mv players and the opponent doesnt have skills or TZ on a 2+, 2+. You kick the ball, you let them bring it to you, you take the ball and score, rinse repeat. So by turn 12 you are running out of thralls, but you are already up by 3 so who cares. Though, fast teams might be a problem...and anything with Swarming..

Great vid, really appreciate it

Good work Mon Kapitan! 🍻

Ah yes! I've been waiting for this one :D

Awesome, super useful vid

Amazing!

Hi Andy. Great video! Having played against two different Norse teams in a tournament recently, they are stronger than they appear. Block everywhere against teams that mostly don't have block, and those sneaky beer boars, can be strong.

I remember playing my first tournament. I choose Underworld and nobody else did. Now they get way less less skills and they are still good. 🎉

solid video, no idea why blood bowl dont employ you in general, Thanks for the brilliant upload.

Cool. 👍 We are waiting for you in 2025 in Hungary. 🏈

Always love a halfling friendly tournament with my blue and yellow halflings, and always glad with andy volunteering to be a good ol' sport, to bad it's all the way in greece with us americans getting better at learning the assist rules and my brothers and dads learning how to play too, think I'll paint my norse in hesse colors for courage next though?

I agree with you on tournament rulesets. I would just ban star players entirely and you didn't mention to not allow wizards, though thankfully most tournaments generally already ban these. I'll always bang the drum on allowing some selective skill stacking, at least on the teams that it then makes more viable. That's generally those that don't start with as much Block or Dodge.

Thanks for all this work. How did your HE tournament experiment go?

Not enough meat was sniffed in the making of this video. Nice work Andy

Great work. What would you think about putting guard on the troll instead of a wrestle in the UW build? I like to have the extra assists and it also helps with fouling.

would be nice to have Chaos and Nurgle playable in tournaments

Great work, video, and presentation. I am half way onboard with your High Elves. I think they are actually strong, but there are so many other strong races, and a handful that you underestimate so I doubt High Elves will see much action. A few objections. You seem to be eager to be challenged. :) Vampire runners AND throwers should all pick dodge as first skill. Mobility, not blocking, is the key to vampire success and safe blocks are best made with thralls or blitzers. That is also why the stacked roster is suboptimal - no skilled thralls. Vanilla Woodelves is the optimal roster. The orc troll is good. There are three options for the 6th skill on lizardmen. Chaos Dwarfs are better than Dwarfs. Cheers Tripleskull

Great video! Big fan of your content. I wonder what you think of the idea of making all team rerolls cost 50k across the board. The original idea for having different costs never made much sense to me. I think it was to do with lack of basic starting skills on the team or the fluff (the expensive reroll teams they tend to be stupid, braindead or uncivilised and are thus harder to train). But for a more balanced meta it might help. Would make Undead even cheaper! But would also assist stunty teams (though I’m not sure if it would enough to make them viable). It might shake up the tiers a little though.

Once vamps come to bb3... I'm going to be really happy! On that roster I miss a kicker on one thrall, with gazes at 2+ can't be really nice.

Thanks for this amazing video! I'm in the process of writing a ruleset and now you've given me homework: now I have to meticulously check whether my tiering structure is fair enough q': I do have an actual question though: the NAF do not allow banning of skill combos. It is part of their general restrictions for getting NAF approval. From a casual reading of the Eurobowl rules, it seems that things like stacking Tackle-MB or SG-DP is allowed; their main limitations that are skirting the edges of this NAF guideline is disallowing the bribe-SG combo and adding an extra SP cost to stacking skills in general. So, for any of those TOs that want to try to limit kill-bowl while still getting NAF approval, how would you advise going about this?

Lastly, I wonder if this could be a potential Tomb Kings roster with the Star Player package. It misses Mighty Blow and is only 12 players, but Ivan is an excellent addition, and because of his addition it's kind of fine that the Blitz-Ras don't have more skills, and everyone has Regen anyway. 4x Tomb Guardians with Guard 2x Blitz Ras 2x Throw Ras (one Block, one Leader) Ivan 'the Animal' Deathshroud 3 Skeletons 2 Rerolls 1170 on the dot.

Nobs are definitely good to go. 6 guard (one on a lino), 2 blodgers and a block lino for an extra blitz piece. You take 13 players with no throwers and 3rr, 1190k on the nose. If you want to block the ogre just drop the block lino.

I’m super curious to see a custom AndyDavo ruleset for tournament bloodbowl

Hi Andy I'm going to be taking 1150 wood elves to my first tournie. Can you explain to me why you value sidestep over sprint for the 1TTD? Cheers.

Really interesting video! Do you think Norse are just a bit rubbish in this ruleset or in general? I've been trying them recently and struggling to find a roster that feels *good* - the Valks are an odd positional

Where will you play a high elves? Which Tournament it is?

After thinking about this for some time I wonder if there are anny good star roster. Maybe I will build some examples, if someone is interested.

With what pague You Made thebrosters they seems so clean Algo very good video this kind of mode Olson can go with a league ? Or only tornament m ?😊

As a side thought, if the meta is going to be as high on Skaven/Underworld/Amazons/Dark Elves as you predict, does that meta call boost the relative value of the Dwarf and Chaos Dwarf teams? Tackle is typically a 1-of skill, maybe, when purchased in tournament rosters, but the inbuilt-tackle that the C/Dwarfs have seems like good value if you're playing into a lot of those teams and not just all bash-heavy lists. An all Guard/Block Orc team is going to be hard to beat but then every team will probably struggle against them.

Drop Guard from a Khorngor for Strip Ball. You have plenty of strength for the bash game, you need something to get the ball from annoying elves and such.

BTW, been looking at vampires a lot recently (feels like I have to play them if I'm going to represent my country), and there's one thing that confuses me: why take a 6th, unskilled vampire? Especially one with Bloodlust 3+? Wouldn't a bunch more thralls just be better? I dont think you want 6 vampires on the field, 2 of them bloodlusting on 3+...

Did you consider Thomb Kings with Chaney? Having a Mv8 Ag3+ catch player might add a lot.

On the OWA build, is there any mileage in running an Ogre rather than a tree? Also, as a general thing, do you build a team then apply the skills or do you have an idea what key players/skills you want to fit in and then build the full roster?

Do you think Norse could actually be more competitive if you cut the Yeti out?

For khorne I like three rerolls. Two block guard seekers, 2 with just block wrestle on one or two linemen. Maybe mighty blow on a gor or DP for a lineman. Spawn sucks up too much tv and adds a lot variance to an unreliable team.

Gonna need more Blodge on those high elf catchers I think, I definitely would of had block on all my big un blockers, instead of two or whatever with just gaurd, and maybe double up with frenzy or gaurd on as many as you can with no more than one tackle; in that last disaster of a tournament and as I'd have to play orcs just to show andy how to play orcs; most of my ancestry is from europe and I'm gonna have one of the nicest blood bowl collections around pretty soon anyway though, lol?

Any chance of you doing a post event analysis for the high elves?

WAIT WAIT WAIT, how is it possibile to not put goblin in this video? Where are my beautiful chainsaws 😩

How did that tournament with the High Elves turn out?

A lot of your rosters have 12 or 13 players and an Apothecary. Is that just because at a high-powered level you're expecting more carnage? Maybe it's because of a different rules or level of play but I don't always see rosters with more than 12 and the Apothecary feels like a luxury.

Why not sneaky git on the ghoul or mighty blow on the wight when you do the extra skill undead rooster, 3 wrestle ghouls seems a little to much

Where are the gobbos tho? :D

Sad that you are not taking frenzy on an Ork Blitzer😢.

Nobs in the bin?! How dare you!!!! @dimmy Will go bananas when he sees this!

Nobs op

So just pick the meta team. ;v

are you supporting AI ? because this illustration is made out of AI...

Immediately your rosters are illegal: max 3 of any given skill. You can't have 4+ Block on Nurgle or Chaos.