Blood Bowl 3rd Edition Halflings

Certainly nothing exciting in these guys.  There are 6 different miniatures made up of 2 variations of 3 basic poses.  I lack the tree men to really field this team with just two in total but even if I had them they would be pretty low on the list.  I would probably do goblins first as they at least get the secret weapons which can be fun if not really effective.

Here is the Third edition Treeman Star Player.  Since Halflings generally have a lot in inducements you generally will have 2 tree man plus the tree man star.


This post is really just to fill in the hole in my Blood Bowl Collection Page.

Quality Control vs Customer Service

Tom over at Impact Miniatures announced that there was going to be a delay in shipping out the majority of the Trollcast teams from the kickstarter in the beginning of summer.  He had brought in some help to pack and pick the teams for shipment and tested them out for a first batch of deliveries which where hand delivered to players who went to Chaos Cup this year.  My teams came through this route.

Lego Hobbit Fall 2014 Battle of Five Armies Sets

New Lego Shop At Home Catalog showed up today.  In it were the 4 new Lego Hobbit Battle of Five Armies Movie Tie in Sets.  Above we have Attack on Lake Town.

Battle of Five Armies which looks to take place in the ruins of Dale.

Lonely Mountain with Smaug the Terrible.

Witch-King Battle which I will be getting the first chance I see it.

X-Wing at Meijers

At was at a local Meijers store today and saw that they had copies of the X-Wing starter set.  Meijers is a regional chain which is best described as a real grocery store with a small Target store attached.  They had a couple of other games from FFG, Elder Sign and Netrunner and also had the new D&D starter box.  While I had noticed that they were expanding their boardgames recently I was pretty surprised to see these.  Prices seemed marked up higher than normal though.  I got my 2 X-Wing Starter boxes on clearence at Target and have not stopped buying since.

Blood Bowl 3rd Edition Goblins

Filling in more from my blood bowl collection.  Here we have the third edition Blood Bowl goblins.  There are 5 sculpts to build your team from.  I think I got these guys in blister packs and not a team box so have a couple of each of the bare pewter ones but for some reason that left me without the guy on the end who I had to pick up second hand.  The basic goblins are then upgraded to a team with trolls and special weapons.

X-Wing Miniatures: Z-95 Headhunter

Rebel Swarm time with the Z-95 Headhunter.  Standard blister contents with cards, counters, dials and ship model.

Blood Bowl 3rd Edition Chaos Dwarves

Today we take a look at the Games Workshop Blood Bowl 3rd Edition Chaos Dwarves.  This is the team I am using for my current league since they were assembled and mostly painted (came that way from second hand purchase).  That team's name is Black Death since that is one of the Chaos Dwarf Team names from back in the old days.  The 3rd edition team is from GW's silly period like most of the 3rd edition stuff looks funny compared to the 2nd edition stuff or more modern works.  In the 40K world, it is the time between the Rogue Trader and the Grim Dark phases.

Oozing with Confidence at Black Death

Welcome back for another Blood Bowl game here on Cabalvision, I am Slow Ruck and my partner is Toy Axman.  Looks like we have a lovely day for some Blood Bowl today, Toy.  Unfortunately those gathering on the pitch are not so picturesque.  Lets send it down to our side line report Stab Allover for the info.

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Are you there Stab?

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Stab, What are doing up here?

I am not going down there.  I have not been doing this job this long to get infected with some nasty disease so you can hirer someone prettier.  I am staying right here.

Ok then, Toy, what do we have today?

Impact! Miniatures Trollcast Teams Kickstarter Arrives

Impact! Miniatures has started delivery on their 20 Trollcast Team kickstarter from the early summer.  The first batch of deliveries went to people who were going to be at Chaos Cup but since those are the serious players there were a lot of teams going there.  Our order came back with our leagues attendees and is in the process of being divided up within the league.  Overall the minis look pretty good.  They are resin so they can capture details that you do not see in the things like Reaper Bones, but resin has its quality control issues as anyone with Forgeworld or Finecast products will know.  Our group got like 9+ teams so that is a lot of resin to check so it might take a few weeks to compile our list of any issues.  Some of the minis have lots of little parts so some missing parts are not going to be unexpected given that he got this kickstarter from funding to starting delivery in only a few months.

Look for photos and more a more detailed review in the future.

Anyone Want to be GW CEO?

GW has listed their CEO position which is coming open at the end of the year as Kirby steps back to the boardroom after another stint as CEO for the company everyone loves or loves to hate.  They are just asking for a Letter so polish up your typewriter and tell them why you are the best person to save GW from themselves.  Obvious since Kirby is still Chairman of the Board as far as I can see, it seems unlikely that anyone with ideas drastically different (sane) from his is likely to get past whatever the very first screening is.

This is obviously some kind of farce as you are unlikely to hand over the keys to of a 180 Million Pound Company to someone you meet for the first time at the interview this outstanding letter is supposed to get you but this is GW so maybe anything is possible.  My guess is that 99.99% of anything they get here will go in the digital abyss unread to allow them to say they did an extensive search to name X as the next CEO.  If they look internally I would hope they pick whoever runs the Forge World business since it is the side the is really growing and responsible for GW not being much closer to the red.

I personally, while I have a very high level of education, do not have the right continent of residence or applicable experience in finance, sales, law, management, or corporate governance to be a legitimate candidate but might throw off a letter just for fun. Anyone over on the right side of the pound going to throw a letter GW's way.