House Rules for BB7s

As all projects, the Blood Bowl Sevens project began on paper.  I'm using the base Sevens rules, with:

• A budget of $600k 
• No more than four positional players  
• Double cost rerolls - No team has purchased one. 
• between seven and eleven players. 

Of course I could let well enough alone....but I didn't. 

• Each Team will get two base skills and one doubles skill or stat increase. I selected these based on what felt right than attempting to make killer teams. 
• Teams can trade the skills in for their cash value ($20k/$30k) allowing those $615k builds to work, but at a cost. 
• While there are 23 base teams and 3 expansion teams, I decided to go ahead an add the FUMBBL Secret League.  A luxury of options, and Blood Bowl is not about balance. 
• I decided to tweak the Vampire Thralls per Plasmoid's Narrow Tier rules. 
• There's been a few other tweaks, such as Plague Ogres and other bits of fun, but we'll explain them when we get there. 

From there I've created 24 teams, divided into two conferences, each made up of three divisions each. This is the Autarch's Challenge League. 

Northern March Conference
Steel Gate		Black Peak		The Mirk
New Order Taints		Behmorr Murder		Psychadelic Shrooms
Bright College Phoenix		Warpspawn Bloodkin		Saythathiel Starhawks
Consolidated Briars		Pitborn Slavers		Wychwood Morrigan
Grotway Hackers		West Kha'Zam Ironbreakers		Allied Underwood
Southern Reaches Conference
Graveborn		Far Sea		Unbroken
Molag Night Keenings		Ry'leh Kracken		Bloated Dread Pox
Barrowland Reapers		Apex BBC		Lost Coast Inevitables
Canopic City Griefs		Nakakura Preadators		Manslayer United
Umgaut Volunteers		Bloodtide & Hulk Albion		Tzeench Seen Tyrants

BB7s with a 6YO

There's a reason I call it Dusty Dice.

I am impacted by Covid, as so many others.  While it's been a frustration on so many fronts, the Hobby has not been one of them.  With a three and six year old, painting turned out to be a good art extra-curricular.  Then, in a moment of desperation, I introduced the six year old to Blood Bowl (in its Sevens incarnation).  Given the speed of play and the limited number of models, it's gone well (spotting the boyo two rerolls doesn't hurt).  I'll claim it's teaching him math, logic, and strategy, but honestly it's fun to play with the little guy.

Blood Bowl Sevens (BB7s going forward) is a nice mix from the normal game, quick enough to keep a young kid's attention while still having the meat and balance one expects from Blood Bowl.   So...as in all things I proceeded to jump in the deep end and start drilling.  I had already picked up 8 teams for BB7s at the start of the lockdown.  I am now sitting on 24 either on hand or ordered.  What's more unusual is that I actually have painted six teams, with two more almost done and more on the way.  Plus the kiddos "painted" three between them.

Over the near future I'll be showing some of them and my mediocre painting skills.