Teams
Amazon Teams
The Amazons are an-all female human tribe, descended from the Norscans who dwell in the jungles of Lustria. Their origins are mysterious and there are conflicting accounts as to whether they are unaging or simply a normal human society whose culture has developed differently. They are known as ferocious warriors and in Blood Bowl favour a lightly armored, nimble style of play.
- Amazon Brigade: While a few other teams have some female players the Amazons are unique in fielding an entirely female squad.
- Chainmail Bikini: Like their Norscan ancestors the Amazons go into battle (or on the gridiron) wearing next to nothing. In the case of the Amazons a few strategic loincloths and bikinis and tropical bird feathers are basically the only protection against the outside world.
- Glass Cannon: Amazon Blitzers are as good as blocking as their regular human counterparts but like the rest of their team they lack the armour to take a hit.
- Weak, but Skilled: Amazons have no armour worth speaking of and a very average stat line but they do all begin with the crucial Dodge skill, which is one of the most crucial skills in the whole game.
Black Orc Teams
Bretonnian Teams
The human Kingdom of Bretonnia is the centre of chivalry in the Old World and their themes are composed of a mix of armour clad knights and ragged peasants.
- Bodyguarding a Badass: The Yeomen Blockers are supposed to serve as assistants and guards to the Knights, starting with Wrestle - a counter to the ever-popular Block skill that killer players practically require - and easily capable of getting Guard, a skill which allows them to assist their lords in a fight even while the Yeoman is surrounded. Since the Knights are some of the best humans to play the game, they rarely need the help.
- Knight In Shining Armour: The core of the Bretonnian teams are based around an elite group of knights in full heraldic armour.
- Lovable Coward: The Peasant Linemen are human players with the armor value of elves and the agility of dwarves - that is to say, very bad. They start with only one skill - Fend - which makes it so that they can more easily run away when someone tries to hit them. They're still one of the favorite pieces on a Bretonnian roster, because their disposable nature make them great marking and fouling players.
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Only the Creator Does It Right: The Bretonnian team comes from Cyanide's Blood Bowl 2 video game, and is heavily based on a popular fan made Bretonnian team. As a result, some Blood Bowl fans refuse to consider the team legitimate and may go so far as to refuse to play a Bretonnian team outside of the video game.
Chaos Teams
Chaos teams follow the Chaos Gods, hoping to win glory on the gridiron. They tend to enjoy the fighting aspect more the actual play, with the most common Chaos tactic being to knockout, injure or kill as many of the opposition in the first half of the game and concentrate on scoring against the survivors in the second half.
The core of a Chaos team is built around goat headed Beastmen, but they can also hire Chaos Warriors for slower but tougher and harder hitting muscle and expensive and unreliable but ferocious Minotaurs. Chaos teams also benefit from a wide variety of mutations.
- Blood Knight: Canonically Chaos teams love fighting. Their players tend to be short on skills but strong and capable of hitting hard. Chaos Chosen Blockers start with the strength to match a Black Orc but also are complimented with the agility capacity of a standard human. Even a humble starting Beastman, which otherwise is mechanically identical to a generic Human Lineman begins with horns giving it a Strength boost while blitzing.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: Beastmen and Minotaurs begin as this, with Beastmen as humans with the heads and hooves of goats. Easy access to mutation means any player can end up looking very weird with the likes of giant claws, tentacles or a prehensile tail...
- Unskilled, but Strong: Starting Chaos teams have nothing in the way of skills, unless one counts the Horns on the Beastmen, and even they only give a strength bonus while blitzing. A Chaos coach will have to rely on pure muscle, luck and clever strategy until his players start building up skills and/or mutations.
Chaos Dwarf Teams
Dark Elf Teams
Dwarf Teams
The Dwarfs were one of the first races to play Blood Bowl and in many make the perfect Blood Bowl players: tough as rock, fearless and with a healthy love of inflicting violence on their opponents. Unfortunately they are also among the slowest teams in the game with even their fastest members falling short of the average human player. The Dwarfs themselves don't see this as much of a problem given they can win a war of attrition against almost anyone else.
Dwarf teams are very scrupulous about not cheating. Unfortunately for their opponents since it was a Dwarf who found the sacred rules of Nuffle in the first place all Dwarf teams believe they have the absolute right to alter the rules as they see fit which is definitely not cheating.
- Mighty Glacier: Strong, ridiculously tough and well armoured but one of the slowest teams in the entire game.
- Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Short, tough, aggressive, alcoholic and bearded with grudges that are engraved in granite.
Elven Union Teams
Back in the days of the old NAF league Elf teams enjoyed great success. While they lacked the muscle and stamina of many of the other races they made up for it in skill, speed, agility and the best passing game in Blood Bowl.
Unfortunately for the elves the collapse of the NAF hit many of the old teams hard and by the time professional Blood Bowl started up again many of the veterans had retired and those who hadn't found themselves starved of funding by the emergence of the new noble-born High Elf teams who had money to burn. The disgruntled veteran elf players donned their distinctive facemasks and mohawks and took the gridiron once more to show their snobby cousins they still had what it takes.
- Slobs Versus Snobs: Pro Elves are the 'slobs' at least by elvish standards (to anyone else they would appear incredibly graceful and refined.) In contrast the fabulously wealthy High Elves with their gleaming armour and top tier funding are the 'snobs'.
- Weak, but Skilled: Pro Elves have average at best strength and not a shred of armour but they have excellent Agility and their Catchers and Blitzers begin with more skills than their High Elf or Dark Elf Counterparts and are cheaper points wise.
Goblin Teams
Goblins are infamously scrawny, cowardly and disloyal and on the face of it would make poor Blood Bowl players. However they are also skilled like no other in the arts of cheating and it is rare goblin team indeed who takes the field without half a dozen blatantly illegal 'secret weapons'. When such weapons fail (as they often do in spectacular ways) the diminutive greenskins can call upon brainless but brutal trolls to add some much needed muscle.
- Dumb Muscle: Goblin teams can hire up to two trolls. Said trolls are incredibly strong and durable, not only physically tough but able to regenerate. Unfortunately they are also abysmally stupid and liable to spend much of the game staring vacantly into space or occassionally trying to eat their own team mates.
- Our Goblins Are Different: Small, weak, cowardly but cunning with green skin and big pointed ears.
- Secret Weapon: To make up for their overall terribleness goblins freely employ the widest collection of illegal weaponry and equipment in the game including steam powered chainsaws, an enormous metal ball and chain (wielded by a drugged up goblin who otherwise couldn't possibly lift the thing), actual thrown bombs and pogo sticks. Except for the pogo stick all of these are hideously illegal and totally unreliable but that is considered all part of the fun for fans.
Halfling Teams
High Elf Teams
Human Teams
Imperial Nobility Teams
Khemri Teams
Khorne Teams
Kislev Teams
Lizardman Teams
Necromantic Teams
Norse Teams
Nurgle Teams
Ogre Teams
Orc Teams
Skaven Teams
Snotling Teams
Undead Teams
Underworld Denizen Teams
Vampire Teams
Wood Elf Teams
Star Players
Griff Oberwald
Griff Oberwald is a Human Star Player who is considered among the best and most successful players in Blood Bowl. His skill at the game is unparalleled and he has managed to win numerous Blood Bowl finals and other tournaments.
- The Ace: In the game and in the background, Griff is easily among the absolute best players in the game and can do almost any role very competently.
- One-Man Army: More like One-Man team but Griff can single handedly win a match by himself.
- It's All About Me: Is sometimes depicted as having a massive ego with an arrogant streak, even comparing himself to Sigmar in older media.
- Rigged Contest: Set one up with his human team, the Reikland Reavers, the best team in all of Blood Bowl. An annual competition allowing any team to enter and the winners having the "honour" of competing with the Reikland Reavers. Naturally, Griff Oberwald and his team won every tournament.
- Strongand Skilled: As strong as a Black Orc blocker, as fast as an elf, and as skilled as any blitzer in the game.
- Jerkass: Read above but also has been depicted as being extremely full of himself.
- The Dreaded: More so in-game. If your opponent has Griff on their team and knows how to use him, you are in for a very hard game.
Morg N Thorg
Morg N Thorg is an Ogre Star Player who's popularity and fame is only matched by Griff Oberwald. His brutality of the sport is unmatched by anyone, having the highest injury in the sport at a total of 578 kills/serious injuries
- The Dreaded: The single most infamous Star Player in Blood Bowl for his brutality and violence, backed up by having the highest kill count in Blood Bowl.
- Super-Strength: While many creatures and players in Blood Bowl are well known for their strength, Morg is particularly powerful, gaining a major bonus through the "Mighty Blow +2" skill for when he strikes an opposing player down, greatly increasing the chances they will be removed from the field due to injury.
- Friend to All Children: Despite his brutal demeanour and obscene capacity for violence on the field, Morg has a reputation as being very gentle around children and has a large following of fans of all ages.
- Genius Bruiser: Unlike every other Ogre in Blood Bowl, Morg does not suffer from a chance of going "Bonehead", and can activate freely without rolling a dice.
Grashnak Blackhoof
Grashnak Blackhoof is a famous Star Player Minotaur who has garnered a ferocious reputation on the field of Blood Bowl as one of the most violent and feared figures of the sport. This is reflected with Grashnak having the second highest fatalities garnered in Blood Bowl, totalling at 471 and authorities having lost track on the amount of injuries he has caused.
- Our Minotaurs Are Different: A giant Minotaur which stands more than 9 foot tall with immense strength but also fully capable of speech.
- Jumped at the Call: Villanous example. Grashnak was supposedly contacted by a bloody faced manifestation of the god Nuffle while he stood guard over the great Herdstone, urging him to leave the forest and play Blood Bowl in the most violent way possible.
- The Dreaded: Several teams have outright refused to enter the field knowing Grashnak was present while others have attempted to hide in their dug-outs (which failed to save them!)
- Horn Attack: Has an ability called Horns which makes a Blitz action by him add additional power and has an ability specifically called "Gored by the Bull"
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Grashnak done this to an entire Goblin team after accidentally slipping on some of their slop on the pitch. Has also done this to an Ogre who attempted to compete with him in fatalities through a season, disemboweling him when they finally faced off on the field.
- Super-Strength: Being a giant Minotaur helps but also in-game he has the single highest strength in the game while blitzing, tied only with Deeproot Strongbranch, the treeman star and the Deathroller, a gigantic gas powered steamroller.
- Body-Count Competition: He is attempting to gain more fatalities than Morg N Thorg, the only other player in the history of the sport with a higher body count.
- Blood Knight: By his very nature, Grashnak loves and revels in violence and bloodshed.
- The Berserker: Naturally as a Minotaur. This was further increased after Grashnak failed to obtain a Blood Bowl winner's medal, pushing the already rage filled minotaur to even greater heights of aggression. Also reflected in his trait, Unchanneled Fury.
Ripper Bolgrot
A troll star player renowned for his extraordinary intellect, Ripper Bolgrot has become (in)famous in the sport of Blood Bowl for a mixture of both his extraordinary mix of tactical plays and brutality as well as his shockingly well spoken nature which runs in conflict with his brutish nature.
- Arch-Enemy: Ripper Bolgrot engaged with another famous player, Ugroth "Ripper" Bolgrot, a chainsaw wielding Orc celebrity. After there was confusion where both players were booked in under the same name (Ripper Bolgrot), Ripper the troll brought Ripper the Orc to court and forced him to remove the Ripper part of his name.
- Genius Bruiser: Ripper is well known for his exceptional intellect after undergoing experimental brain operations under a wizard.
- Super-Strength: Trolls are already strong. Ripper is even stronger than the average troll.
- Characterization Marches On: Was introduced as an exceptional player due to being a troll with no negative traits in the form of Really Stupid but with no backstory. Now Ripper's intellect is explained through undergoing a special operation with a wizard who tried to make him smarter.
- Healing Factor: Like all trolls, Ripper can regenerate. Represented in the game where he can recover from an injury on a 4+ and in the background where he is murdered but heals himself thanks to trolls inherent regeneration.
- Only a Flesh Wound: Was brutally decapitated by Ugroth Bolgrot after winning a court case but regenerated his head and carried on as normal.
- Good Thing You Can Heal
Lord Borak the Despoiler
Famous for both his on-field brutality and popular magazine agony uncle column "Ask Lord Borak", Lord Borak has become a recognisable and reputable player of Blood Bowl. A Chaos Lord who chose to turn to the world of Blood Bowl to seek glory in the name of the Dark Gods.
- Genius Bruiser: While Lord Borak is well known for accumulating an exceptionally high body count, he also is surprisingly well spoken and shows sympathy for some people who write in for his advice.
- Bruiser with a Soft Center: Lord Borak, infamous Chaos Lord, bodycount in the hundreds. He also attends charity events and is rumoured to be married to ex-star player Zara the Slayer.
- Happily Married: Rumoured to be married with Zara the Slayer
- Villain with Good Publicity: While not exactly a villain, Borak is a Chaos Lord who adores nothing more than violence and carnage. However he also has become quite popular among Chaos fans and the general public alike for his surprisingly sound or cheeky advice which he writes for in SPIKE! Magazine.
- Witty Banter: What much of his advice column "Ask Lord Borak" consists of mixed with advice.
- Characterization Marches On: Used to be a little more snide in his magazine responses and kept his personal life very private. Since Blood Bowl 2016 edition, Lord Borak regularly attends public events and loves being in the limelight. His dialogue has remained fundamentally the same however.
- Kick Them While They Are Down: Lord Borak is exceptionally good at booting players while they are down and receives a huge bonus for doing so in the game, while also having a significantly lower risk of being caught by the ref.
