My personal favorite is Thoron Korensson who as a cranky old ref will eject an additional player off the field if coaches fail to argue the call. The refs also seem like a good opportunity to spice up league play. Star Insurance Guild comes with the possibility of insurance agents showing up to collect or McMurty’s causing your players to lose a point of movement from all the free fast food they have been inhaling are just a couple of examples of how they are balanced out. The sponsorships can offer you an income stream but none come cheap and all have the possibility to go bad. The sponsorship and famous ref rules are light and fair in my opinion. These rules seem to add a level of micromanagement that 2nd edition Blood Bowl was (in)famous for adding, but any permanent boosts to your team are offset by the very high price of the stadium and also the possibility of getting booted out of the stadium if your team fails to perform. The rules go more in-depth to allow teams to purchase the stadium that they played in during the post sequence. The options are varied and allow you to play in luxurious stadiums where you can collect extra income to less desirable fields where the field is unlevel and bouncing balls will always scatter downhill. A random roll determines the stadium type and another quick roll will give you the stadium quirk. GW has now offered up random tables to determine the type of stadium you are playing in and I must say that I think they are great. For years we have experimented with rules to spice up our seasons with stadium and weather varieties. Strength 4?Moving on to the Optional Rules, I must say this section alone made me happy with my purchase. From the sheer size of the model I had imagined him being on par with most ‘Big Guys’ but having both Block and Claw and a moderate price I could certainly see him being taken in tournaments instead of a Rat Ogre. Valen Swift sports a 5 agility combined with Safe Throw and Accurate, I’m not sure how anyone would defend against that kind of nastiness! Glart Smashrip was a bit of a surprise coming in with only Strength of 4. For a small fortune the Swift Twins will give you two very talented Elves that will certainly pump up any offense. Of the new Stars there was certainly some creativity used when putting them together. In my particular group of gaming friends we shun the use of Star Players in league play but we all routinely will put them on the field during tournaments. Starting with Star Players, the book offers a total of 12 star players with half being new or at least the first time offering any information on their backgrounds. The layout of the book includes a total of eight sections: New Star Players, New Optional Rules, New Rules, New Teams, Skills Update, Hall of Fame, Official Reference Guide, and Star Player Summary. In classic Games Workshop style both inside covers are sporting some sweet minis-porn to remind me of my inadequacies with the paint brush but nothing that hasn’t already been seen on the Games Workshop websites. It comes in at 80 pages and despite not being a hard back it has a good solid weight to it. The quality and materials is on par with the Season 1 book and I was surprised with the overall feel of the book. Anyhow, enough rambling from me and on to the review. If Season 2 had come out a couple of months earlier I am not sure I would have ordered it, but whenever I’m out of civilization and money starts to pile up in the bank account the need to blow cash on game stuff becomes uncontrollable. Blood Bowl players of old have been sticking with the game over the long haul so sometimes it can feel weird when the winds of change begin to blow. This disappointment had nothing to do with the content or format (although typos are always disappointing) but just with the lack of ‘new stuff.’ I will admit that this feeling was probably more of the grumpy old man not liking change. This feeling was compounded when Death Zone Season 1 also didn’t do much to woo me over. I couldn’t help but be reminded of the Blood Bowl Video game and how many times it seemed I had to repurchase the game just to add an additional handful of teams. I’ll be honest that from the initial re-launch of Blood Bowl I have been a little skeptical of the ‘Season’ book concept. Why dose this feel familiar asks my wallet?
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