Hi everyone and as time ticks on and I’m coming to the end
of my team review series I thought I’d touch on the unusual teams of bloodbowl.
Vampires and Khemri were born out of Games Workshop splitting the Undead
faction way back in the late 90’s. Khemri were the Egyptian faction and
vampires the Transylvanian factions and both have echo’s of this basis.
Both are harder than the previous selections to use and both
require a little bit of patience and playing. Both of these are in the lower
tiers and you’ll see why in a minute. Both however having played them in
leagues fairly recently are fun and different teams to use.
Vampires
This team is probably the hardest use in Bloodbowl. That is
a debate I think Ogre and Halfling players will dispute but they are difficult
to use. This is because of two reasons and that is because of the two sets of
players they have at their disposal.
Vampires are the main part of this team and you could argue
they are one of the best players in the game. Strength 4 and Agility 4 puts
them above almost every starting player but they also come with the fantastic
skill hypnotic gaze. This basically turns an opposing player bone headed for a
turn. This essentially means that they can allow another player to walk into a
cage and hit the ball carrier.
So why am I saying that these players make the team one of
the worst in bloodbowl? Bloodlust.
On a roll of 1 they have to finish their turn next to a
thrall or they turnover and are removed to the reserves box. Whats more they
then roll a straight injury roll on the player. This means that without rerolls
they will bite injure a player on average 3 times a game. Per vampire.
Fortunately they cant kill your own players they just get badly hurt.
So what you may think? Well a Thrall is a standard human
lineman with av 7. So these guys go down easy which means often vampire teams
will find themselves outnumbered on almost every drive.
Whats more as the thralls
are only ag 3 they will find themselves often isolated. Away from the vampires.
Another issue is that the teams starts with no skills like
block or dodge meaning the chance of turning over early is higher per game.
This leads to Vampires being a great challenge.
They play in a strange play often isolating a weak point in
the defence and using hypnotic gaze and a blitz to get several players through
the line. Each drive is a timebomb with thralls going down from blocks and
bites the skill is to get a touchdown before your thralls disappear!
Mikes starting team
3 Vampires
9 Thralls
4 Rerolls
This is a team that requires a lot of rerolls! Get an
apothecary followed by 2 more vampires. Final get another thrall. It’s
important you have a lot of replacements! Id only play with 4 vampires on the
drive at most and I wouldn’t get all 6. Don’t level your thralls just your
vampires. If thralls do level up provide them with support skills such as
guard/dodge (If you get a double) and kick. The vampires will get a lot of SPP
quickly and so you need to decide how you want to build them. Ball carrier?
Blitzer? Thrower? They can be built into anything. This is probably one of the
players that will take a general skill over a double almost every time (They
can take everything but passing as a double anyway!)
Khemri
Khemri are the most unagile team in bloodbowl with every
positional being at most AG2 and at worst AG1. This totally changes the way you
have to approach this team and as a coach this doesn’t neccesarily mean though
they are horribly difficult to use.
The main event here is the tomb guardians you can have 4
strength 5 mv 4 Armour 9 guys sitting on the line. This team will outmuscle
most sides even dwarf guard lines will struggle to out muscle that. They cant
have general skills but they tend to level up quickly as you will be blocking
almost every turn with each of them.
These blockers are supported by blitz-ra. These are
skeletons with AV8 movement 6 and block. These serve as the teams blitzers and
although limited in manouverability its movement is valuable to the team.
Throw-ras are the other teams player and this is a essential
player. Your ag 2 and so will often need rerolls to pick the ball up which this
player gives for free. He is also as quick as a blitz-ra. So the 4 positionals
can be used as a quick element of the team.
Skeletons well there a bit rubbish but are odd being that
they are linemen but there often just off the line supporting the tom
guardians. Mv 5 and av 7 means these guys are overly usefull although there
cheap have thick skull and regenerate and as such despite their frailty they
are difficult to remove from the game.
This team plays strangely as it may feel like a good idea to
get your guardians in on a brawl you need them near the ball. A cage of
skeletons just isn’t good enough. As such the play of this team simply revolves
around how you play with the big guys.
Often I will keep these guys off the line so they can
support cages and keep them unengaged to try and cut off a enemy attack. 4
movement isn’t too bad as long as they are originally correctly placed.
Unfortunatly the AG of means these guys
once engaged will need to blitz to get away but you can use this to your
advantage.
This is a very tough team for a beginner but for experienced
team this provides a stiff challenge but once you get used to them they are a
very effective team.
Mikes Starter Team
4 Tomb Guardians
1 Blitz-ra
2 Trow-ra
4 Skeletons
3 Rerolls
Get the next Blitz-ra next a skeleton and then get those
rerolls to 4. I’d say 13/14 players is enough for this team despite the low
armour value. Skill your tomb guardians as much as possible and get them mighty
blow Asap. Then well most of the strength skills will be usefull for them s its
just a matter of choice. Throw-ra’s and Blitz-ras will be doing the scoring so
level these guys as much as you can but also evenly. They are your mobile
players after all. Thro-ra’s should start with block so they can double up as a
blitzer then you can tailor them as you see fit. Don’t be scared to go for
passing skills. Once they have accurate they have a legitimate passing game.
Thanks guys and gurls and speak soon
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