My favorite story is that of Horkon Heartripper: A dark elf assassin who has to dispatch the oppossi g team's blitzer before the game. He couldnt do it so he decided to do it during the game itself. He dispatched his target, half his targets team and scored a touchdown. Then he got hired as an actual player.

@midshipman8654

Жыл бұрын

modern problems require modern solutions.

Blood bowl. The game that makes you fear rolling dice more than a tour of duty on vraks

@shawnm1902

Жыл бұрын

Q: Do I have a re-roll? A: No Q: Is it essential? A: No Q: Do I need to do anything else not requiring dice rolls? A: yes Ok, shit can wait till last or I can just end the turn...

@Gunsong1

Жыл бұрын

@@shawnm1902 At least it's fun to hurl a halfling into a cluster of angry ogres. Either that or beating the crap out a team of amazons or dark elf women with a Norsca team. Who cares how many points are scored? The important number is the casualty count.

The named character law is absolutely a real thing. I recall playing my Necrons against a friend's IG. This was during, I think, 4th or 5th edition. My monolith annihilated a squad of guard on my first turn, and then it was his turn. Enter a heavy weapons team with a lascannon. My friend declares that the team, specifically Jim, will be firing the lascannon on the monolith. Roll to hit, 6. Roll for armor penetration, 6. Roll for effect? Yeah, another 6. And that was how Jim destroyed several hundred points worth of vehicle in a single shot.

@Hippo_Hegemony

Жыл бұрын

Jim sounds like a badass

@blackraven8526

Жыл бұрын

Jim sounds like he had the Emperor's blessing..... or someone's.

@WombatDave

Жыл бұрын

@@blackraven8526 Honestly, I wasn't even mad.

@Elitex62

Жыл бұрын

Of course he nailed that shot. His last name was Raynor.

People always talked about there being a rule where if Goblin players manage to sneak extra players on to the pitch without anybody noticing then it wasn't against the rules until they noticed. Then I found out this rule is just in itself a rule that Goblin players made up which is just a changed version of the official rule. And that's Bloodbowl in a nutshell.

@ZeroFormLak

Ай бұрын

Now thats KUNNING and BRUTAL

I’ve always loved the idea of a Blood bowl 40k just because the idea of Robute in a blue polo and khaki trousers shouting down a headset at calgar to hail emperor the ball

@RinAldrin

Жыл бұрын

Same, also imagining the Tyranid bio weapons being modified to throw the ball really far.

@coreyriegle1328

Жыл бұрын

😂 Throwing hail emperors! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

@thatdoppioguy1825

Жыл бұрын

Are the Ultramarines the fucking Chargers?

Imagine the grudges the dwarves have written down from their losses in Blood Bowl. An entirely new volume to be written and library built to house it, no doubt.

Remember whenever you score a Touchdown in blood bowl you must offer up a sacrament to Nuffle. I choose to do this by Doing the Nuffle Shuffle.

@shawnm1902

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure that's been limited to under a minute these days.

@Immoralsalvage

Жыл бұрын

@@shawnm1902I don't recognize the legitimacy of that ruling so a will do the full 5 minute productions with backing band just as Nuffle Intended.

@AdventfatherGaming

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget to sing Shipoopi

@theenderdestruction2362

7 ай бұрын

I remember a shrine to him on one of the fields, it's supposed to look like him and his "robotic" nature, whatever that means, its still there and I do so love seeing it because it's funny to me

From this we can learn that secret to stopping Chaos and averting the End Times forever was football.

@chocoman45

3 ай бұрын

Even they can't resist. The display of physical prowess pleases Khorne. The deep tactical planning and last second saves and plays brings Tzeentch to tears. The passion and pleasure of everyone involved make Slaneesh giddy. The morbid potato couch fanboys and the cycles of play makes Nurgle glee. Nuffle rules over them all.

All hail Nufle, the diety who created the happiest damn timeline in the greater Warhammer multiverse!

Im a 40k fan but a blood bowl show would be hilarious. Seeing all these lords and heros as focused football players is funny

@Punishthefalse

Жыл бұрын

Karl Franz vs Archaon...on a Blood Bowl pitch. That or Grimgor kicks Archaon in the balls, again, in the middle of the pitch.

@robrib2682

Жыл бұрын

I'd love 40k bloodbowl as well, and it'd be the same logic that the mechancus uses for tech as well so it could happen as a way of settling imperial disputes xD

@saeyabor

Жыл бұрын

"King Arthur and the Knights of Justice" in reverse lmao

@Elenrai

Жыл бұрын

@@Punishthefalse that is my endtimes headcanon, grimgor stomps off as a ref sends him off the field, smacking the ref lightly into orbit

So here is the Warhammer Fantasy lore video for the month. What a video indeed. Literal Fantasy Football!

@TauShasla

Жыл бұрын

*Rugby football is where u play with a ball & feet ;) greetings from not-America

@gunthergiel7088

Жыл бұрын

@@TauShasla a man of real culture right there, and hopefully don't use feet as a means of measurement

@batboy555

Жыл бұрын

Playing this today. Bloodbowl 3 coming out soon.

@DocWolph

Жыл бұрын

@@TauShasla He meant "American Football" or "Gridiron" Rugby is Gridiron without the body armor and the players need to be quite a bit more careful, albeit while being lighter, and less encumbered during play. The difference is not unlike F1 and IndyCar. They look very similar but are played very differently and the differences in the the players and equipment further reflect that.

@bewawolf19

Жыл бұрын

@@TauShasla it's called "アメフト" not football you bigot Greetings from not Britain.

I have a fond memory while playing BB2. My newly made lizardman team was facing off against a human team. They fumble the kickoff, allowing me to give the ball to whoever I wanted. I chose my Kroxigor, of course. So for the entire first half the human team could do nothing but try to block my big guy's path, which only served to move him closer to the end zone, one lineman at a time. All the while my Saurus kept my skinks protected, knocking out and pushing off any human that dared to get close. In the end we won 2-0. Jurassic Marauders forever!

This is what, year seven of the channel? And we finally got a proper video on Blood Bowl.

@robertnelson9599

Жыл бұрын

Arch's list of discussion videos are like the Administratum's archives. Extremely detailed and unbearably disorganized.

@ornu01

Жыл бұрын

@@robertnelson9599 And a few hundred years behind schedule.

I really want a 40K Blood Bowl. The Eye of Terror League has some pretty fierce rivalries but nobody respects the winners of the Ethereal's Cup no matter how good they are at field goals.

@shawnm1902

Жыл бұрын

Sans space marines? Sure. It would be pretty silly to have a team almost exclusively compromised of chaos warrior equivalents, faster chaos warrior equivalents with less armor, and a dreadnought (minotaur equivalent).

@lordfrostwind3151

Жыл бұрын

@shawnm1902 I have no idea about Blood Bowl's rules but I'm sure you could role them into an Imperium team and just limit the number of Astartes, or keep a straight Astartes team but limit it to half or less the number of men on the field.

@MrMortull

Жыл бұрын

@@lordfrostwind3151 Astartes would be the "Big Guys" of a human/chaos team limited to two, just like Ogres or Trolls in the fantasy version.

@imerror6224

Жыл бұрын

Nobody likes the Ethereal Cup because whenever the tau themselves play they all get turned into a fine blue paste by the other team in the first 2 minutes of the game.

@IsmaelSantos-iy4xi

Жыл бұрын

I say use full Battle brothers and dreadnaughta but most of the team being Neophytes/Scouts

The god Nufle. It seems like a crude pun on the NFL, but it is in fact pretty clever. Many old languages only record consonants in their written form, and experience with the language adds the rest when reading. Reading NFL in, for example, hieroglyphics might yield Nufle. That or language shift over the millenia.

@updfdrakkell143

Жыл бұрын

I agree but I'd angle it to more that they dont know about acronyms. But trying to say nfl while drunk would make the dwarf sound it out and he prob fell on the best sounding word.

@luckyleo25

Жыл бұрын

Nufle is NFL according to the Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Bowl There are other puns in the article - like these: McDonald's (McMurty's), Budweiser (Bloodweiser), Adidas (Orcidas), and Gatorade (Kroxorade) The game is full of them

@DefaultFlame

Жыл бұрын

@@updfdrakkell143 I never accused them of intentional cleverness.

@DefaultFlame

Жыл бұрын

@@luckyleo25 I never said GW were intentionally clever.

@updfdrakkell143

Жыл бұрын

@@DefaultFlame who GW? they couldnt be clever enough lol. Only fans come up with the good stuff lol

The mental image of a literal mountain of hafling corpses made my day.

In WFRP, there's mentions of a sport called Middenball. Depending on who you ask, it's said to also be similar to American football.

@derkrischa3720

Жыл бұрын

don't you mean american football is the boring version of Blood Ball?

The greatest game GW ever made

@shawnm1902

Жыл бұрын

It's endured fewer changes over the decades than any other GW property

I have always loved the lore behind The Blood Bowl; Somehow someway, an NFL rulebook/playbook found its way to that universe, and the denizens of that universe decided that it was just fair and brutal/cunning enough (in their somewhat violent interpretation) to be the perfect alternative to all-out wars. Nuffle be praised.

...A classic presentation by the renowned scholar Arch--on the tail of his success as guest commentator for the match that saw the Norscan's cheerleaders, the Valhalla Chorus, take the field. Bravo sir!

As a U.S. Football fan, this is amazing.

@shawnm1902

Жыл бұрын

The game plays more like rugby, even though forward passing is a thing. You kinda fake punting at times (pass to no one), since there aren't specific rules for it (even though technically there are at each of the resets following scoring, start, or halftime) since kick is a skill that would make such an effort more accurate than actually throwing the ball and having interesting interactions with diving catch and pass block, but I'm getting side tracked. There's also no field goals, but touch backs are a thing at play start, but other times the crowd just kinda plays with the ball until it ends up back on the field. Then, of course, there's the different balls which can hurt the players, different ground/fields, weather, crowd mood, spells, magic sponges.... The works!

@batboy555

Жыл бұрын

You can bribe the ref. The crowd attacks the field.

@harbl99

Жыл бұрын

@@batboy555 You can try to smuggle chainsaws and explosives onto the field, and pogo sticks are a permitted option. Truly the greatest sports TTG.

@batboy555

Жыл бұрын

@@harbl99 the dwarfs manage to smuggle construction equipment with spikes on it

Here's another fun memory! My chaos dwarf team was playing against another human team. My teams' value was far higher, so the other team gets enough inducements (thinks that what they're called) to hire both Griff and Zug. So my teams having a gay old time, until one of my hobgoblins, Rotten Robbie, gets KO'ed. That's when the fun stopped. I swear either a switch must have been turned on in my players heads, or maybe Nuffle wanted vengance for my hobgobbo, because all of a sudden, my team starts knocking out the humans, even managing to injure both the star players! In the end , I think about three humans were left on the pitch, the rest were either KO'ed, injured, or dead. Guess Robbie was everyone's favorite player.

[libationes deis algorithmi] [cruores deo cruoris]

It amazes me how many people refuse to believe in the named character law

@marley7868

Жыл бұрын

observing an action changes it's outcome that's a scientific fact anyone who says luck isn't real is a brainlet

@sadwingsraging3044

Жыл бұрын

**General Murphy giggles**

Normies: Which is better, 40k or Fantasy? True fans: Blood Bowl!

@jameshunter3867

Жыл бұрын

...Nuffle approves!

@batboy555

Жыл бұрын

Goblin refs. End of discussion.

My older brother and his friends used to play Dungeon Bowl and make their own maps with moving traps and custom rules. It was hilarious.

And unlike Fantasy, this universe still exists. Probably cause the Chaos Gods are too busy trying to beat each other in Blood Bowl to do anything else :D

Wait wait.... it has LORE!?!

Makes me think of Pokémon in the sense that it’s a world where literally everyone is obsessed with the same thing. The people not that in to it were probably already burned at the stake for their heresy.

Chaos Dwarves number one!

The way Arch described Blood Bowl it seems that this all started because an Abandoned American Football Stadium got Isekaied into the Warhammer Fantasy world. Possibly from that alternate version of the United States that's like Cyberpunk meets Mad Max (its a car combat game) where there is somehow apparently an Imperial Navy Warship of the spacefaring variety buried under the Ground somewhere within the continental US. It had Chaos cults operating on it so warp fuckery could explain it.

Finally, a big channel doing a video on Blood Bowl. Great work. I hope we get more lore snippets in Blood Bowl 3 and further additions to the tabletop.

@UGNAvalon

Жыл бұрын

Oculus Imperia & Bruce Alfabusa collabing on a Blood Bowl video doesn’t count as big channels! :

It's always good to sort things out with a "friendly" game of blood bowl

I did not know BB has such a lore. As a kid I had the tabletop version. Whatever happened to it I dont know. A couple of years ago I found the Blood Bowl 2 game on Steam. This sparked a sort of nostalgia.

@CosmicFreedoms

Жыл бұрын

GW had one omnibus wrote about it. One of my favorites in the black library honestly.

Blood Bowl - the game that teaches you to plan for failure :)

@shawnm1902

Жыл бұрын

Expect failure. Revel in the (unlikely) success. Until you start hitting, or rather getting hit by, the teams utilizing C(P)OMB. Sure pile on had been toned back, but when something touches the granite with that, it's better than 50% sending the thing off the field. Game snowballs rapidly after that

"Weirdly oversized shoulderpads" or as most Warcraft / Warhammer Fantasy / WH 40k / Starcraft fans would call them: "Standard Issue Shoulderpads"

I would have expected that there would be a "blood hockey" or "blood demolition derby" game at this point to be honest.

@seymourfields3613

Жыл бұрын

I could see a "Streets of Sim City" remake with 40k flavor doing well, if they make it right.

@shawnm1902

Жыл бұрын

Blood bowl on an ice field (yes, it's a thing), is how you'd expect a "hockey" adaptation to go. As for cars? GorkaMorka is a thing

I can just imagine Arch doing a Blood Bowl tournament with his friends and him just steam rolling Kibs with his Skaven.

I mean... I had a skeleton that got up on an agi roll, dodge out, pick up the ball and then pass it to the vampire who then scored :'DDD plus minus a few roll for it's :DD

@s2korpionic

Жыл бұрын

Nuffle was generous that day

I’ve read the comic based on this, it was violent, sadistic and gory. I loved every second

I remember the dark times of the 2010s when blood bowl was maintained by the community and the teams were the oldest models still in print. And you had to make your own pitch. Thank Nuffle GW stated supporting it again.

I don't know the rules of Bloodbowl, and I don't know how you're supposed to lineup your teams; but I would love to have a team full of orks with their spikes and crap and have an Oakland Raiders color scheme. (I refuse to accept their moving to Vegas)

@shawnm1902

Жыл бұрын

You can do that, rather easily actually. In fact the Orkland Raiders have canonical lore...

@Scott_the_Celt

Жыл бұрын

@@shawnm1902 oh hell yes! They are just the perfect team for it

@dionjaywoollaston1349

Жыл бұрын

Anything goes so long as the umpire isn’t looking

@Scott_the_Celt

Жыл бұрын

@@dionjaywoollaston1349 if youz iznt cheetin, ya aint krumpin proply!!!!

@dionjaywoollaston1349

Жыл бұрын

@@Scott_the_Celt it’s only cheating if you get caught or it’s a rule in the first place

Arch. I want to see another Skaven Blood Bowl playthrough. I loved the old ones that you used to have

I'm just glad I'm not the only who names some of his skitarii, and knows that they perform better when I give them the right amount of praise.

BB3 is coming out next month. can't wait to murder stuff while literally ignoring the ball and the score.

blood bowl is indeed the most serendipitous and sublime experience that any creature engage in.

Blood Bowl is 10 percent Strategy and 90 percent luck. That's why it makes you want to pull your hair out.

@topkek996

Жыл бұрын

The Perfect Game

@shawnm1902

Жыл бұрын

​@@topkek996not when your AGL 5 elves fail to pick up a ball with sure hands every turn of the game and the opposing chaos team rolls repeating triple skulls....

@vixthesnarky2885

Жыл бұрын

Nothing like being a bashing team and having pillow fists that never cause an injury. Other games I get turn one kills or cripple people and they instantly rage quit. I don't blame them sometimes I lose a player turn one and rage quit too haha.

@vixthesnarky2885

Жыл бұрын

@@topkek996 facts

@mikkelnpetersen

Жыл бұрын

So pretty much the the same as XCOM games and Mordheim (Player: 95% hit chance when point blank, MISS, - AI:

Wait, did you say... Perfectly Balanced? Damn you Spiffing Brit, you magnificent bastard!

I played a Monk Zen archer last night. He fires all arrows out into the void yet repeatedly rolls max damage in melee. It's... statistically unlikely.

absolutly awesome, love it x) an intro to more bloodbowl teams lore series in the future maybe? ^^ I'd love it, as a BB boardgames and bloodbowl2 pc player myself

Blood Bowl, Rocken Roll Racing, and Cyberstadium Base Wars. Some of my favorite NES games!

Right as my store starts a bloodbowl league!!!

i cant tell if this is high tier satire and sarcasm or actual lore either way i was highly entertained

Please do a video talking about the various teams and famous players.

I'll always cherish my lizardmen team, those skinks carried me well.

Praise Nuffle. He has treated me well blessed me and taken his tol in blood.

It only just occurred to me that Blood Bowl is basically the Warhammer equivalent to the setting in No Game No Life.

The skaven luck tanget was amazing

oooooo the possibilities of lore now, Thank you, Arch. Are we going to be graced with the history of the Reikland Reavers at some point?

WOO BLOOD BOWL!!!

The Real Lore of Blood Bowl: One day, The Emperor wanted to play some Blitz 2000 but he forgot his RF Modulator at his Horus's House so couldn't plug in his N64s three prong cable into his old TV. Him and Horus were having a bit of a Tiff so instead he went out and gathered some neighborhood Kids.

I was playing blood bowl 2 lizardmen today. The announcers Jim and Bob are great.

Was actually just listening to the Bull Centaur video! Chaos Dwarf superiority!!

Good stuff arch, always fun to hear about the bit often talked about games

I love blood bowl. it also makes a great setting for strange and silly happenings backdrop or adventure for WHFRP. especially if you get the players get involved in all the sneaky backstabbing that goes on, before and around the match.

@Isnak

10 ай бұрын

I love that they preserved all the old school GW silliness and humour in the new editions

Can't think 3 horn had a long retirement being surrounded by Dark Elf Cheerleaders

I loved playing Blood Bowl years ago

Lol this was my intro into Warhammer mythos.

football and blood? sounds good

@shawnm1902

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget the literal fantasy component of this football (plays more like rugby though)

A week after buying myself a Nurgle Team, we get a vid. Awesome

There seems to be a certain amount of FORCE and BITTER LOATHING about those jezails you were talking about

This is cool, ya know I've been playin warhammer since 5th edition fantasy, and I had no idea Bloodbowl was a different universe . Great video!

Ah Blood Bowl. Where cheating is not only allowed, it’s actively encouraged.

Robot Jox comes to mind now that I've watched this, instead of fighting on the battlefield you settle international resource disputes and dick size arguments in one on one giant Mecha combat.

I was not expecting this video this week, and I am plesently surprised

woo yeah baby thats what I've been waiting for that's what it's all about woo

Great video and I never played bloodbowl but it always looked interesting

The dice gods are something my friends have acknowledged after managing to inject a cyborg with chaos mutagen and getting the exact number in the d1000 to accidentally make it lose all the cybernetic upgrades due to shapeshifting to look like a daemon

They had a cartoon in the late 80 early 90 think it was called mutant bowl

I have this game, but I never played it because it was for Windows 98 and by the time my parents allowed me on PC thry all had XP

absolutely amazing timing

Can't wait for BloodBowl3. i hope they keep their promise of 23.02.23 release

This video seems a littler personal and I love it hahaha

My dad and his friend played blood bowl when i was around 8 years old (89') I asked what it was..... AAANNNNDDDD was escorted promptly from the den.

"Orks, who's greymatter can be measured in picograms" Yeh well, it's gonna be green init

Well done Arch, this is one of the funniest videos you have made. Hopefully we get more BB faction videos closer to BB3 release.

I still have the first Dragon Magazine with blood bowl.

Oh, thank ye for finally covering this hilarious and punishing game!

Casual reminder that I will make a Bickering Bunch + Arch blood bowl league one day

Nothing like a game of Blood Bowl where a goblin somehow kills your Big guy in the first turn with a light smack on the head.

I love this game and wish sports games were still like this, miss playing these ovwr the top takes on real world sports

Thanks for the laughs, I needed this!

I started wheezing when he mentioned the (correction) description of the anti-luck community

Blood Bowl timeline > Sigmar timeline

What? Blood Bowl tryouts happen in the underhive every time an urchin actually snags a loaf of 🍞

This reminds me of mutant. League Football on Sega i played in the 90's

Now I need to rewatch The Blood of Heroes.

When your dude GFI's and he falls down and dies that's bloodbowl!

I miss my doge, side step, sure hands +1 agility +1 strength bull centaur.

Let's also not forget that Bloodbowl introduced us to Ork cheerleaders. Female Orks.