A new 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Blood Bowl President has been elected. The three candidates duked it out in a fight to the death, punching, kickiღng, and chainsawing their way through the meat and bones of their competition until one winner emerged, bloody and victorious. Not really, there was a vote on the NAF (Nuffle Amorical Football) forum.
The NAF is the governing body of tabletop Blood Bowl at a tournament level. The organisation is a huge part of Blood Bowl’s history, as it kept the tournament scene running for 14 years between 2002 and 2016, the dark times when 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Games Workshop practically abandoned the game, and an independent ‘Living Rulebook’ was updated by the Blood Bowl Rules Committee, a group founded and overseen by the game’s crea🎀tor, Jervis Johnson.
Without this combination of rule tweaks and regular competition, Blood Bowl could well have been left locked in Grombrindal’s cellar with Mordheim, rather than being revived by Games Workshop in 2016.ജ I firmly believe the fan support is what co🍷nvinced the company to revive the game – why would it produce so many new miniatures if it didn’t think there was an audience to buy them?
NAF also publishes 🅰an online magazine called Sports Killerstrated. I just thought you should know 🃏that.
All this is to say NAF is a big deal. The NAF President is a big deal. And the newly-elected President has a lot of changes ꦇplanned for the game.
NAF members voted for the Spanish Daniel ‘Shirokov’ Pérez as President, who won by 50 votes. His ꩲmanifest✤o includes pledges to support non-English speaking players, creating an independent ruleset for NAF tournaments, and immediately reinstating the Brettonian team.
“We have had a NAF led by Anglo-Saxons for many years, with a vision of the game very different from ours.” - Daniel &lsquo𓆉;Shirokov’ Pérez, NAF President, on .
There’s lots of great ideas in Pérez’ manifesto, including wanting to “imp🥀rove the website and improve communication using new social networks and streaming channels”༒ and thinking of “ideas to attract new players, especially young people, and also women”. Let’s take those examples each in turn.
NAF’s current website looks like it’s from the ‘90s. Because it is. It’s a nice blast of forum nostalgia, but updating it would more readily welcome new, younger players. Better use of streaming and social networks is also a no-brainer. While Pérez’s intentionsꦿ are good when it comes to wanting to welcome young players and women on board, he currently presents no concrete plans beyond this for fostering a more diverse community. That said, it’s an important point for him to think about over his tenure, and I’m glad he brought it up.
In the manifesto posted on the NAF foru𝄹m, Pérez referred to “females”, which is usually a red flag that numerous players brought up. However, Google translates his manifesto a๊s posted on X as saying “women”, so I put this down to a language barrier and/or translation issue.
Pérez wants to work on translations of the rules and website, provide ai♐d to tournament organisers, and generally help the World Cup become a more global affair. That all sounds great. However, it’s a couple of his more extreme policies that have people talking.
Firstly, and most impactfully, he wants to separate NAF tournament rules from the official Games Workshop ruleset. While Blood Bowl (2016) used the Living Rulebook rules pretty much word for word, the 2nd Edition made sweeping changes, some more popular than others. However, Pérez’s specific example of wanting to allow players to use more than one Team Reroll per turn is particularly contentious. Blood Bowl is a game of playing averages and only rolling dice when absolutely necessary, and being able t𒉰o waste three or four rerolls on a risky play is seen as against the spirit of the game.
On a macro level, this point seems to counteract Pérez’s ideas to encourage “collaboration with FUMBBL and BB3 and help unite the board and gami🌺ng communities”. Splintering away from the rulesets that those tournaments use will only cause d𓄧ivision and misunderstandings between the communities, and feels like an odd hill to die on. We’re all here because we play Games Workshop’s fantasy football game, whether we like every rule or not.
The other contentious t🍃opic in Pérez’s manifesto was his commitment to reinstating the Bretonnians as a tournament team. While it’s fun to use some teams of old – Chaos Dwarves are another popular roster – there are no official rules for the models. Pérez maintains that, despite being replaced by the Imperial Nobles, no current team comes close to the Bretonnians’ unique playstyle. However, who’s to say NAF will be able to balance a new roster any better than Games Workshop?
With the recent release of The Old World and the Bretonnian revival fro🥀m Games Workshop, it’s understandable that Blood Bowl players have latched onto this small detail of Pérez’s manifesto. In my opinion, the rules split seems like a bigger deal, but the rest of his goals are honourable and achievable. NAF voters can’t have been too bothered by his passion for the faction of French nobility, or else they wouldn’t have voted for him.
It’s no sure thing that we’ll see Bretonnians in Bꦇlood Bowl tournaments in 2024, and it’s not the en🔯d of the world either way. Rather than getting hung up on which flavour of toy soldiers we can field on the tabletop, the Blood Bowl community should focus on welcoming new players to the fold. Pérez’s focus on bridging language barriers and gender gaps might just be enough to do that, as long as he doesn’t get too distracted by the rest of his plans.
