What is Blood Bowl?
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Blood for the blood......bowl?
Skulls for the skull......zone?
FUCK YEAAAAHHH
Skulls for the skullboard (scoreboard)
BLOOD FOR THE BLOODBOWL!
*korn rage drinking sounds*
Yes. Just yes. You have my vote for winning the internet today
Blood bowl is the Canon timeline. I will not elaborate.
Based
It's why the blood God is angry like a dad in a lazyboy
Agreed
Elaboration is not required. Move along. Move along.
@@JohnAnderson-ev3lp Khorne:"Kick the Head off the bastard! Kick the Bloody Head you Wanker!"
My mom has almost no interest in Warhammer, but she absolutely loves Blood bowl for one simple reason.
Gnomes have their own team.
What a short Queen
you summoned me?
Wait, the WHAT have their own team? This is how I'm learning Gnomes exist in the Old World, and it's making me wonder what other weirdos have been sneaking around behind the furniture.
BLOOD BOWL! Weirdly the most peaceful warhammer setting.
Tell her that she dropped this 👑 she has all my respect
It still tickles me that the God of Bloodbowl is Nuffle. Just NFL pronounced as a word. Fucking gold
How have I never noticed that-
I'm not american, so the thought never really crossed my mind, but still-
@@melonman8999 I'm an Aussie, but I was renting whatever Sega games the video store had so had played some early Madden when 3rd edition of BB came out. If it wasn't for that I don't know if Id have made the link.
@@TheBeardedDoomAs an NFL fan, I would like to, on behalf of the city of Philadelphia, like to thank you Aussies for deciding Jordan Mailata was not cut out for rugby league and sending him our way.
@mistertaz94 Haha, I am an Eagles fan too. Jordan is a champ
Hilarious. That means that our history is somewhat canon to 40k lore😂. They found an old nfl playbook and misunderstood it as they always do
Orcs vs orcs one time.
We had a fight and forgot about the ball for three turns.
"What's this weird pigskin thing?"
Canon
This fits so well I love it!!
The mental image of Karl Franz hitting the griddy after absolutely cooking an orc cornerback has me smiling like a dumbass who made a fart joke
Fun fact: In albion there's a variant of bloodbowl where they play using only their feet.
Freaky, I know.
More fun fact: they always lose in the big tournament of this game, despite being the one to create the game
Fun fact: They always choke against teams from other parts of the old world
Footblood?
No wonder Sigmar disregarded them when he created the Empire,they are clearly godless savages only half a step above Beastmen
@@sombodythatyouusedtoknow9046I mean, one of their notable characters is literally the murder queen. That statement of yours is surprisingly close to actuality.
Bloodbowl is connected to the 40k setting because in a story a wizard made a portal and a imperial catcher (i don't fully remember what he was only that he was human) fell in seen metal skeletons fighting four armed bug men before grabbing the ball and going back through the portal.
Only to have a genestealer follow him rip him apart take the ball and score a touchdown before running off to do who knows what
I just love that in blood bowl there is just a genestealer running around trying to figure wtf he is and hth he can’t feel the hive mind anymore.
Then it starts a gene stealer cult/big extended family around the Warhammer Fantasy world and gains more and more personality now that it's been cut of from the Hivemind for so many years. Eventually it and its progeny (hybrids) catches the attention of Nuffle himself who promises to not obliterate this strange being and his freaky kids/grand kids and descendants...if it swears to limit it's activities (meaning no new infections of people, sticking to just procreating amongst existing hybrids or others from now on) AND they must create a competitive Blood Bowl team (or several..) to apease the great god of the field.
Thus was formed the first professional league BB hybrids' team, *"The Stealers!"* (Couldn't trademark the "Gene" part unfortunately)
For how brutal Blood Bowl is of a sport, it is the closest of noblebright version of Warhammer ever. Like yeah, they tend to kill eachother during the matches quite often, but compared to all the craziness and grimdarkness of WH, it is still really nice solution to deal with the problems without fighting another apocalyptic war.
Also the Blood Bowl 3 trailer with lizardmen kicks ass :D
the fact that the key to (relative) world piece and even advancements in culture is some good ole sportsball
In universe the societies that engage in Blood Bowl are clearly very prosperous. There are all sorts of offshoot commerce as a result of the games. Teams have sponsors, games are shown via Cabalvision and there are dedicated fan bases.
I imagine a hugely wealthy society, akin to peak USA
why do you think rome had the coliseum? Give the populace something to feed their lust for violence and settle disputes in a less destructive way, on top of generating commerce and internal camaraderie and BAM, your entire society is on the up and up.
@@Randomyoutuber-4831betting was a very good way to settle grudges, and getting a little money out of it too!!
"Bro, you play fantasy football?"
"Hell yeah man, want to see my models?"
"Wait, models?"
Fun fact: skaven have their own version of Twitter in Blood Bowl
Ikit Claw would create something that horrible...
So how is like?
feel like it might even be better then current twitter
Is it called Skitter? It better be
@mathewbaez1495 it is!
Arthur is spending too much time with Pancreasnowork
Not too much. I would not want him to be part of the Teclis and Karl Franz allegations.
@@doragonzxWHAT ALLEGATIONS!?!?
"C'mon... FOOTBALL!" -John Madden
"BOWLS FOR THE BOWL THRO- ...wait what where am I?"
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD BOWL
I will fully admit to not being very into Bloodbowl as a game, but the vibes are IMMACULATE, I love the minis, I love the artwork and the whole idea of solving international conflict by literally going "fuck it we ball" tickles me
Bloodbowl feels like the type of table top game orks would make?
Blood Bowl is the most well designed game GW have ever made. The rules are tight with not much room for abuse or disagreement, the skill ceiling is super high (150-175 elo players beat
@Scrombo2 Which is why it's so funny to see Orc team getting into the sport. It just suits them so well. Really only the haughty elves don't seem suited to the spirit of the game. But their athleticism obviously lends itself to the sport
@@trashfire9641honestly something I found ridiculously funny for some reason is that the most diverse team in blood bowl, is chaos dwarfs. You can have a Minotaur (I’m pretty sure) hobgoblins, the CD themselves, and I’m not certain but if they can have black orks (as they made them) that would be dope as hell!!!
@@the_king_of_kings_3413 But Humans have:
Humans
Halflings
Ogres
Please do all the teams... And lore. There can't be much but its oh so cool and funny, especially when you explain it.
we need to have a 40k bloodbowl where it's just lasertag
The funniest story i have was when me and my brother where playung gutterbowl (another spin-off) and it was underworld denizens vs Humans, a scrimmage had formed between his troll and 4 gobins and my 3 linemen and 1 Blitzer (who was the ball carrier). It was my brother's turn and he had his troll pick up one of his goblins and try to throw it in the middle of it all with the hopes that during the deviation the player would hit one of mine knocking it over and setting up a play, he fumbled the throw and dropped the goblin on to one of his own and knocking it out.
It doesn't end there though as a funny thing about throwing a player is that; if it lands on someone, they bounce off, however when determining where they land, the rules don't specify it needs to be unoccupied, so a thown player can bounce onto a another player and contiue to bounce until it finally lands.
The dropped goblin would fall onto my lineman (failed to break armour), then bounce onto another one of his goblins and stun it, bounce onto a third goblin and kill it, bounce back onto the previous goblin stunning it again, and finish by bouncing onto the troll and knocking it out before landing stunning itself. The best part about this was the goblin he'd used i had modeled and painted to look like Jerma985, we had thus named it: "The dumptruck Andy incident".
This is glorious and why I am starting to wonder why I haven’t gotten into blood bowl yet lol!!
That’s a very funny and charming story. Thanks for sharing.
Chaos gods: we shall destroy and remake all of reality!
All the other gods: We shall stop you and preserve what is ours!
Random dwarf: hey, anyone wanna play some footbawl?
All the gods: fuck, we're convinced.
Hot take, anyone else wish there were actual designs for daemons of Nuffle? Like, that feels like a fun design space that I really really want to see folks at least try their hand at...
Theyre just coaches of various teams
Ypu mean Americans?
@@johng8837 Har har. I mean like, vaguely humanoid refs made of black and white tendrils with a hand instead of a head, all three of its hands holding eldritch penalty cards, and a whistle built into their chest, or a hulking giant that's akin to an abstract art parody of a footballer in gear, or cheerleaders covered in feathers and fur like walking pom-poms flailing and uttering their wild adulations, or mascots!
If they did the mascot kit, one of the heads would have to look like legally-distinct Gritty IMO...
You want halfing stories? Heres one. Was playing at a 3 round Charity cup tournament with halflings. Round two go against a high elf team. Game overall goes to whooping score of zero to zero. I managed stall the player to a draw and he refuses to talk to me for months.
Story two. Playing against a goblin team. I take out all of his secret weapon players and managed to pitch clear the goblins and win the game with a score of 5 to zero. The cost? My treemen who lived the whole season, who had block, was killed that game by a mass fouling goblins.
@@snipebob2222these are great lol!!!
Late but I gotta know. How the hell did you stall them to 0? Normally I see the Elves score a few times early on even in games they lose.
@@FatherOfConqs Was certain rule set where in addition standard skill package the charity event had a item they gave one player Daunltess, frenzy and wrestle. mostly stole most of his rerolls, his rolls bombed hard and the treemen held the line. Finally turn 8 second half his runner got by team was about to score till my Super halfling pushed him into side lines dropping the ball.
This is how we decide if the Imperium and Chaos wins. Bloodbowl
No
Spacebowl
I’m honestly amazed GW hasn’t considered making blood bowl in to an animated show.🐱
Thinking something like Mutant League.
That would be fire as hell and I want it now!!!
The comic book went hard for the artstyle
Now this is metal. The casualty rate makes it grimdark too.
Halfling vs Halfling games culminate in the grand championship: The Blooper Bowl
I'd be fully on board with Blood Bowl if there was a 40K version. I want to play the Blood Angels as the Baalite Predators and the players are just Death Company who are convinced that the ball is Horus.
And it could have a small fun little justification.
Like some space marine chapters would send their aspirants to play blood bawl as part of their training.
The space wolves would fucking love blood bowl. I can imagine them organising massive system wide feasts just to get drunk and cheer on their team
Make the ball an actual replica of Horus' head
Quick lore justification: Daemon Planet that is ruled by an Undivided god of games. He traps nearby ships and drags them down. They are incapable of dying outside of games, and the winner of the yearly tournament gets to leave. Some tournament champs choose to stay and play more games after they enjoy it so much.
From what i heard sororitas have something similar to it
"Sometimes the underdog wins, not this time though"
I love the name of the Blood Bowl league, the NAF. This game being a GW product, it comes from "Naff": 'British, informal adjective that means lacking in style or good taste; vulgar and unfashionable.'
British 🤢 😂😂❤
Blood bowl is the best setting that games workshop has ever produced
I think it's worth mentioning that Blood Bowl makes for a far better competitive game than 40K. The amount of interaction, the robust rules plus all the randomness makes for an extremely exciting game. I started playing last year, and I'm in my third season of a local league with my Amazon team. It's an absolute blast!
Blood Bowl Mentioned🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Also I'm not super informed on the lore for blowbowl and got into it when they released the vampire team so if there's lore on them it would be awesome to learn more on them. Also are vampires weak to the sun in BloodBowl? I know Nagash made them weak to the sun in fantasy, so do they retain that weakness in the Bloodbowl alt universe?🤔
"This takes place in year 2500, this team was formed in the year, uh, 31."
Sold.
You say "what do you think of when I say 'Fantasy Football'?" and I'm old and weird enough to immediately think of Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe on the Amiga.
As a fellow old weirdo: wear those Bitmap Shades with _pride._
Mate I still play it to this day with my mate. It never gets boring 😂
Nice
Wouldn’t mind seeing more Blood Bowl videos. It seems fun.
The artwork of the halfling socking a goblin on the gutter bowl box is my favorate piece of fantacy artwork ever. Bilbo has had ENOUGH
Based and blood bowl pilled
What's your team bones daddy
12 hour bold bowl lore video
Bruh, was that a disco elysium sensor noise?... and I thought that I couldn't love this channel more
What is Blood Bowl? Simple, a bowl of blood. What-??? The heck you mean that isn't a "Blood Bowl"?
Omg someone taught Khorne how to type!
@@therudecanadian8068and how to coach a blood bowl team.
I have no idea how to play tabletop warhammer, i have no idea how to play rugby and i am asking for MORE BLOOD BOWL
i didn't know this existed.
but i did have a similar scenario in my head where there was a 40k version of basketball called "Saturn Ring" (ball being saturn, the ring being the basket).
and in my head, sanguinius can JUMP.
40k has scrum ball whotch is basicly rugby with the violence of hockey
@@ArmageddonsteellegionioneriIsn't that just Rugby
Throwing small players was an option for many teams. Halflings could also be tossed. Trolls, treemen etc could toss small players.
Being killed in Blood Bowl is rare. You must roll dice with their Strength against yours, they must fail their Armour and then they must roll the worst critical injury result. But breaking someones arm or gouging an eye so they miss a game, or permanently injuring them with -1 Armour from a fractured skull can happen. Players are largely not carrying weapons. Unless they cheat.
Blood Bowl is a game of risk management. Your initiative lasts until you have activated all players or until a roll fails. You take automatic actions like standing up and moving first. Then you must balance between how risky actions are and how badly you need them. A goblin that fumbles the ball will hand initiative to another player. A troll punching a human is usually safe, but there is a tiny chance the human will wallop the troll and make you cede initiative.
I like how Gnomes haven't been a thing in Warhammer Fantasy in decades, but they got a Blood Bowl team last year.
and instantly became one of the most sold teams lol. Possibly the best decision GW ever made.
@@FlibbidyGiblets I didn't know that, but I'm not surprised. I've seen those models in person, they're adorable.
Andy Law successfully convinced GW to bring back the Gnomes in his "the enemy within" roleplaying book lol
More BLOODBOWL PLEASE
i need the “rats rats we are the rats song remix” immediately.
I remember the old days of youtube, back when TotalBisquit was alive, there were by weekly tournaments. The good ol days.
TB was pretty good at explaining the old dice mechanics under the computer game. BB is a game of risk management. Like in Space Hulk etc there is no predictable hp meter. A bloke can be walloped on a single action.
I love how in the games, there were many times, where at the end of the match, enemy's team was mostly on the "benches" (aka dead/injured)
also, please do the rest of the teams
I find the thought hilarious of just a bunch of halflings vs anything because no matter what they face they are gonna end up a fine red paste on the dirt
The fact that a rule needed to be made to prevent necromancers from stealing talent is just pure gold! Between the zombie team and the pun reptile men I'm loving blood bowl more and more.
8:35 - The Caretakers Everywhere at the end of time playing over Orks was not something I ever thought would happen
KILLED an entire hafling team in the first half with my orcs. Just scored so that the other guy would have to reset a few more. Just kept getting those knock downs, barely even fouled every turn. Ok, I did foul every turn. Goblins took a whole game to kill, so there's that.
So this is a game about a sport that I believe the real "people" call football but fake and fun and less painful with more death
Americans call it Football. Its full name IS Gridiron Football. Everyone else calls it American Football while we call their Football "Soccer" and somehow we call THEM the weird ones.
@@DetectiveLance I thought gridiron is just what australians called american football, but it just sounds so metal that it randomly gets picked up elsewhere
Less death, and less brain damage over many years...just more exploding chunks on the field...sorry Halfling teams.
Fun fact, football refers to sport played on foot, as opposed to horseback.
"American football" was modified rugby, the forward pass was later added to the sport. Soccer, was actually coined by the british, slang for "asSOCiation football" (soc'er) to delineate a difference from "rugby football." Football is just a very ambiguous term and doesnt actually describe a single sport specifically.
Great video! I’d love to see more videos about Blood Bowl, or whatever you want to cover. I really enjoy watching your content.
Blood Bowl seems really fun, but I’m not ready to start up another game while I’m still working on Old World and 40K.
Since I learned about this game Blood Bowl, back in 3rd edition, late 90's, if I'm correct. I am sold to this game: role-play, player and team development.
I call it playing chess with dice, since it's turn based and all important moves require a dice roll. And the coolest mechanic is the Turn-over: if you of you 11 players fucks up, the turn abruptly ends and it's the oppositions turn.
Even if it was the first players you activated that turn. This leeds to many meaningful choices and make it hard to predict what tactic is the best for winning a certain match.
BB was one of those skirmish-scale specialist games you could role play. Same with Mordheim, Necromunda, Full Tilt and Gorkamorka. They created funky little stories.
Gorkamorka created takes of serial crashes, orks clinging to trukks and rising up.
Okay, that intro part with the Ork's playing Football/Soccer/maybe HandEgg just dug up deep memories of playing "Mutant League Football" on the Sega with my Uncle.
For that alone, you get an upvote and, if I'm not already subscribed, my subscription.
I played a goblin team and ended up killing my mates chaos Minotaur. He was pissed.
So cool I didn't really know anything about this Blood Bowl but it is hilarious and charming. I would love to hear more about this wacky setting.
NGL I didn't know blood bowl tabletop was still a thing but I tried bb3 and i couldn't get into it but more power to anyone who loves it
40k needs an equivalent but idk what sport would work
football could still work but theirs the option of baseball and hockey as well
Maybe hockey
For maximum grimdark while still keeping the theme, literally change nothing rugby is good enough lol
Ultimate Frisbee would be sick. It’s basically football but you can have a flying power disk so it’s highly dangerous.
Laser tag?
You don't understand how desperately I want 40K blood bowl.
Absolutely love bloodbowl and would love to see you cover more of it! I love how you can show up to a league and just laugh your way through a game as some downright bonkers stuff unfolds.
Whilst I don't have any halfling stories for you I do have my own Lizardmen pun-named team for you.
Painted in bright pink and orange I call them,
The Pepto Biz-Mauls
I've been interested in various Warhammer stuff since about 2001 when I was a kid & honestly Blood Bowl was so badass & iconic it has long remained imo THE MOST warhammer thing in all of warhammer lmao
wish we had a 40k blood bowl, Nemesor Zahndrekh playing football is the best thing i can think of
I wanna see more of this for sure, I've always been interested in it since finding out about it and I wanna see more of the wholesome goofiness of this incredibly fair and honest sport
Blood in a bowl
I mean if you wanted a faster, cheaper solution to 40k show the orks this and then say the nids stole the ball. Guaranteed break long enough to let Big E take a break on being a flashlight and actually fully rest and recover
I’ve been playing bloodbowl for 15 years. I love it. And my sons (11 & 8) both play in my local league.
I cherish that I get to share my hobby with them.
Great video! This is a decent primer for people who are unfamiliar with the greatest game ever
I for one would LOVE to see the rest of the BloodBowl teams
Its a rare moment to get some Blood Bowl lore!
Ok here me out! Blood bowl in 40k but instead of American Football it's a soccer!
More Blood Bowl would be much appreciated. You know you want to!
Things you can and should talk about:
- the rest of the teams, possibly including those GW has not done models for (yet)
- Dungeon Bowl
- Blitz Bowl!
- extended lore on teams of your choosing
- ???
- profit!
Prase be to nuffle, may your fickle temper ever be soothed by the customary rubbing of the dice no less than 4 times and throwing them always at a right angle
How would 40K Blood Bowl work?
I'd imagine they'd be fairly similar, it's just whether guns are banned or not.
How would the Nids even work in Blood Bowl though? XD
@@kamiwriterleonardo6345 probably like the ogres where their goal is more so to eat the other team. A genestealer or two can be there to be there to catch/throw the ball.
@@kamiwriterleonardo6345 ya the only way Nids would work would be as a genestealer cult.
Why would they play Blood Bowl? Probably so they could spread their cult to new people as a propaganda move or something.
Mario strikers charged but even grittier
Please do an episode on the true and known history of bloodbowl, it is amazing. I know you went over it but the finer details are hilarious. The rules and armor for bloodbowl were found because the orcs and dwarfs were having a battle and both decided that they would take a break for a bit. I am not kidding, orcs and dwarfs were getting tired from all the fighting and decided to have a water break.
the bloodbowl omnibus is SOOO GOOD. I love the lore.
"Sometimes you just look at a thing and go Hell Yeah!" Fantastic. Spot on.
See, now all we need is for this to be in 40k and see just how competitive the Space Marines and Orks can get with each other
As someone who watched a lot of football, the Lizardmen are probably up my alley as all their players are specialized to specific roles and you can have the beefy linemen protect the backfield and control the line of scrimmage to get the speedsters the ball in open space.
We need a Blood Bowl animated series.
I might be the only person who knew Blood Bowl before any form of Warhammer.
That’s insane
Dude, this vid is getting me all fired up to dig into my steam backlog, and finally give my pc copy a try.
Blood bowl was my first introduction to the setting. I've since become a full on lore nerd for all of GW's settings, even buying 40k models and painting them, knowing full well that I'm the only one in my friend group who'd actually play a game with them. But that's ok. I enjoy it, and eventually I'll find someone who will actually play a game with me (in any setting) :p
I got absolutely smashed by a khorn team once. Brutally. I was playing dwarves too.
My favourite game when I played back in the 90s. The classic 1994 edition was my jam. With the classic box art
Remember old video game magazines back in the day? In one of our locally available ones, someone was reviewing the pc version of this, and using funny quips for each pic, stuff like "not looking bright for a surrounded skaven", "bless this spiked pogača(type of stout slightly flat south slavic bread)", or "armored midget vs armored green brute", fun times :P
Teams look...interesting, curious now for the rest of them.
Lastly, that's no fantasy football, it's fantasy RUGBY! Football(calling it soccer is both an insult and "burn at the stake" kind of heresy) is supposed to be played mostly by foot(and only occasionally head), not carried by hand(except by the goalkeeper).
The thought of a goblin just popping after an ork “passes” that hall to them
"What is Blood Bowl?" Simply the greatest table top game ever made.
Blood Bowl is what happens when GW gets a shipment of nose candy instead of suggar for its office cafeteria and by God is it glorious!
There was a fair bit of LSD involved in the early days of GW.
Its like a bowl, but woth bloods
Arthur, I'll have you know that I've been sitting on an unpainted nurgle team for something like, 3 years now. Bought it during the team rehash because I love Papa Nurgle, had no friends locally to play with, but just enjoyed having the models. Well, this video (and just your enthusiasm for the absurdity we know and love as Blood Bowl) has got me painting them tomorrow. Because I want to crash my big unga bunga bloaters into some guys at the LGS and fulfill my nerd-given right to enjoy the most absurd version of American sports possible. So thank you, I plan to report back on how Professor Putricide's Poorest Performers do in their first few games.
I'd like to express interest in hearing about the chaos teams specifically
I wonder what the Blood bowl version of the end times was like.
Verick Verickson is a fine name...... I don't have any issue with it.
-Signed William Williamson
They should make Blood Bowl canon on trayzyns planet
In the grim darkness of the 41st millennium there is only THE SUPERBOWL YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
40k version could be crazy
A team of norn embassaries v warlord Titians
We, the indigenous subscribers of your channel, request more Blood Bowl.
Blood Bowl is fun at the most basic level.
Yes, more blood bowl lore is needed! If you like silly halfling games, I play exclusively halflings on my channel. Sometimes it goes bad. Sometimes it’s less than bad.
Arthur, please talk about the Brazen Anihilators