ReBBLe Teams

Taking allies

A team with a fan factor of 1 can try and hire allied players if the coach wants. Pay out the money for the player and then roll a D6: 1-3 = the player is intimidated by the hate mail he receives and runs off (with his hiring fee, the git!); 4-6 = the player sticks it out and remains with the team. In either case the teams fan factor remains at 1 point.

Chaos teams do not lose fan factor from allies. Big Guys or stunties taken as allies do not cause loss of fan factor because fans love them!

Allies available from each team:

Notes

• Chaos: The fan factor of a Chaos team is not reduced for hiring allied players. However the special rules about team re-rolls do apply.
• Skaven and Chaos Dwarf teams are not allowed to take allied Big Guys, so you can't include allied Trolls in a Skaven team, for example.
• Maximum number of Big Guys allowed for any team is 2 in total. This means that the only type of team allowed to include more than 2 Big Guys in its line-up is a team of Big Guys (i.e an Ogre team etc.)
• Allied players cannot have secret weapons or mutations. So allied skaven linemen cannot have mutations (mutations are granted by chaos god or from warpstone, but do not apply to allied players)

Mixed Teams and Team Rerolls

If a team doesn't have enough team re-rolls to meet the loss, then the opposing team gains re-rolls equal to the shortfall. For example, a team with 4 allied players and only one re-roll manages to get three 1's at the start of a half. This reduces its re-rolls to none, and gives the opposing team an extra two re-rolls to use for the half! Note that this is especially cruel if you go into overtime, as you are unlikely to have any team re-rolls left to give up!

Elven Dislike

Most Big Guys are very slow learners and so must earn double the SPP's to gain a Star Player Roll. For example, a rookie Big Guy needs to earn 11 SPP's to become 'experienced' and gains his first roll.

All Big Guys are limited to taking Strength and General skills only.

In addition, Big Guys are not allowed to use doubles on star player rolls to pick skills from categories not normally allowed to them. Instead a Big Guy can use a double on a star player roll to do one of the following:

• Add +1 to his strength
• Add +1 to his armour value
• Remove any one skill he doesn't want any more!
• Take any strength or general skill, as usual

Considering this it is strange that vampires have proved so singularly unsuccessful at the sport of Blood Bowl. It's true that they are not at their best during the hours of daylight, but they are still deadly opponents none the less. No, it is not the vampires lack of ability on the field that has led to their downfall, but their behaviour off it. The fact of the matter is that the main reason for the vampires failure is their woeful lack of control when confronted by a stadium full of what is (to a vampire at least) their absolute favourite thing to drink - a pint or two of a living creature's nice warm blood! What this means is that at any given time it is not uncommon for the bulk of the vampires in a team to be found in the stands, grabbing a quick bite as it were, rather than playing Blood Bowl on the field like they should be doing. This is, of course, excellent news for the team playing against the vampires, if slightly less good news for the rival teams fans... the vampires, if slightly less good news for the rival teams fans...

None the less vampire teams do play Blood Bowl. All vampire teams are coached by a Vampire Lord, a rather more strong-willed and powerful member of the vampire race. Vampire Lords are exceptionally intelligent creatures who thirst for power over other races. This being the case exactly why they should want to coach a Blood Bowl team is by no means certain, especially as the team under their command rarely does very well, but none the less they do do so.

All of the other players in a vampire team are the Vampire Lord's creations: vampires or human thralls. The vampires were one living creatures, which were almost - but not quite - slain by the Vampire Lord and then brought back to life as lesser vampires under his command. Vampire teams generally also include a number of human thralls; weak-willed mortal creatures that are willing to serve the Vampire Lord in return for the promise of immortality at some time in the future.

Vampire Lords are player coaches, and actually take part in the game rather than simply yelling at the players (and referee) from the sidelines. Although the Vampire Lord represents you, they must still be bought for the team, as shown on the team list below. The team will keep on functioning normally even if the Vampire Lord is killed, it being on functioning normally even if the Vampire Lord is killed, it being assumed that the next in line of the vampires in the team (i.e. the one with the most spps) will take over. The vampire that takes over the team immediately loses the 'off for a bite' negative skill as soon as the old Vampire Lord dies, and it's entry on the roster should be changed straight away to show that it is the new Vampire Lord of the team. Note that since you can only have one Vampire Lord per vampire team, the only time you can ever purchase a Vampire Lord for a team is when it is first created! If for some reason there isn't a vampire to take over the team when the vampire lord dies, then the team will disband after the match.

Qty	Title	Cost	MV	ST	AG	AV	Skills
1	Vampire Lord	180K	6	5	4	9	Block,Dodge,Hypnotic Gaze,Regenerate
0-12	Vampires	110K	6	4	4	8	Hypnotic Gaze,Regenerate, Off For a Bite
0-12	Human Thralls	50K	6	3	3	8	-

Re-roll Counter: 50K

Other Special Rules: Although vampires and Vampire Lords are not considered to be big guys as such, they still earn star player points at half the normal rate (the Undead are such slow learners!), and they can use doubles to get rid of their negative 'off for a bite' skill. Vampires and Vampire Lords may take skills from the General, Agility and Strength catagories. Human thralls are treated as human Lineman for the purposes of gaining skills etc.

Healing Vampires: Vampires are quite undead, and cannot be healed by Apothecaries. Vampire teams may still hire apothecaries to take care of their human thralls.

Vampire Allies: Vampire allies are considered as big guys and thus are limited to 2 in total. In addition, they cause no loss of fan factor for same reason.

Vampire Lord: Vampire lord starts with 0 SPPs and earn them in usual way. If he is killed, bad luck. The next vampire takes command as described above. The cost of the player remains same, it does not rise even if off for a bite is removed.

Negative Skills

Always Hungry

The player is always ravenously hungry - and what's more he'll eat absolutely anything! Should a player with this skill ever use the Throw Team-Mate skill, roll a D6 after he picks the player to be thrown up, but before he throws them. On a roll of 1 he attempts to eat the unfortunate player! Roll the D6 again, a second 1 means that he successfully scoffs the other player down, with obviously fatal results for the latter. On a roll of 2-6 the other player squirms free and should be placed prone in a randomly selected adjacent square (if the square is occupied then the original occupant is pushed back and knocked over).

Bone-Head

Roll a D6 before taking an action for a player with this skill. On a roll of 1 they standing around trying to remember what it is they're meant to be doing. This means that they can't do anything for the turn, and they lose their tackle zone until they managed to roll something other than a '1' at the start of their action, or the drive ends. In addition, if a bone-headed player fails the bone-head test, it causes a turnover. Note that stunned players do not need to roll, but prone ones do.

Off For A Bite

Roll a D6 for each player with this skill each time you wants to set them up on the pitch. On a roll of 3-6 they can be set up normally, but on a roll of 1-2 they've popped into the crowd to bite the lily-white neck of an attractive maiden (and who can blame them!), and can't be used this drive.

Really Stupid

This is treated in exactly the same way as the Bone-Head skill, except that the player can't do anything on a roll of 1-3 instead of only a '1' unless there is a standing friendly player in an adjacent square who is not either a Bone-Head or Really Stupid too (i.e. if there's a sneaky Goblin next to the Troll, treat the Troll as a Bone-Headed rather than really stupid!). In addition, if a really stupid player fails the stupidity test, it causes a turnover.

Take Root

Roll a D6 for the player before the match starts. On a roll of 1-2 the player is slumbering in a wood somewhere and misses the match all together!

Wild Animal

A player with this skill tends to get a bit, erm, carried away during a match, and rather lets his natural enthusiasm overcome him. Wild animals must test if they can control themselves at the start of the turn; otherwise, the opposing coach may call for an illegal procedure. To test, you must roll a D6 for each Wild Animal, in any order. On a roll of '1' he goes berserk. Berserk players immediately drop the ball if they have it, which causes a turnover at the end of their action. The berserk player will then attempt to block the nearest player - friend or foe - attacking them as if he were making a frenzied blitz move (i.e. he keeps blocking until the victim goes down or he runs out of movement). The berserk player will always go for an opposing player if there's a choice, but otherwise decide randomly who he goes for. The berserk move DOES count as the team's blitz action, with the exception that it can be made even if another Wild Animal from the team has already gone beserk and blitzed. Berserk wild animals do have to go for it in order to try and knock their victim over!

If the berserked player succeeds to knock over its target, the coach is free to move the player for the remaining of its move. If the Wild Animal do not berserk or does not knock over any player of its own side, the coach must then test rest of his Wild Animals. After all have been tested, the coach is then free to take a regular turn, selecting a player to take an action etc. Wild Animals that didn't roll '1' are moved after tests, when the coach sees it appropriate.