Blood Bowl - Hellbound Heart
Ever since I played Blood Bowl I have played strength teams. So finally I thought that it was time to play an agility team. So I looked into the different flavors of Elf available (Dark Elf,High Elf, Pro Elf and Wood Elf) and finally settled on Dark Elf - the Elf team that plays like a strength team - no need to get too experimental.
As always I did not like the officially available Dark Elf models. The team currently available was originally sculpted for the 3rd edition of the game. And I think they were some of the worst looking models that GW ever produced. So I had to make my own team again. The new WHFB Dark Elf plastics looked very good, so i decided to make a team based on the plastic Corsairs and Cold One Knights with the odd metal model thrown in. As usual all models were based on Heresy Flagstone bases.
The picture shows the assembled team. For the main team color I had chosen Warlock Purple, shaded with a wash of black. To give it a nice contrast I chose bone and black stripes as the secondary color. This was also done to cover up the rather bland pants of the Corsairs. Since the back of the original models was meant to be covered by the sea dragon cloaks the pants were mostly feature-less and the striped pattern would help to cover that. The team name had to be suitably “Dark Elvish” enough, so I named them the “Hellbound Heart”.
The Blitzers were made from Knight torsos and arms and corsair legs. The heads/masks were converted with green stuff. They all had the Knight crests added or two or three horns sculpted/added from the existing helmets. They were also painted with all the metal parts in gold color to show their specialist status (or the fact that they would be of noble origin).
The Linemen were also made with Knight torsos, to show that they also had AV8. Only in their case I used arms from the Corsair sprue instead of the Knights sprue. I also gave all of them the classical Dark Elf helmets with the single spike/crest on the front, so that they could be the “rank and file”. For the same reason all their metallic bits were painted in silver color.
The Witchelves were metal WHFB models taken straight out of the blister. The only thing I had to do was clip the weapons off. I particularly liked the taunting witch - and I liked her with the dagger behind her back, so I left it in place. The color scheme was slightly reversed on them, since their clothing was different from the rest of the team.
The runners were made with Corsair parts alone, to show their low AV7. However I though that having a model with a cloak on the field would not look right (that is not an Assassin). So I made the back of the armor/model with green stuff. I also sculpted the single shoulder pad on each model. I also used the heads without helmets on them, again to show their low armor value.
The assassins were metal WHFB models - this time without any modification. The assassin with the running pose was pretty much a perfect fit for use in Blood Bowl. Again, the slightly different equipment and clothing required a slight change in the way they were painted, but in general I stuck to the overall colors and paint scheme.
The team also had coaching staff added. I did not get around to actually painting the assistant coaches, so only the cheerleaders were added. The models were 2nd Edition Dark Elf Cheerleaders, as available from GW. No change or conversion was necessary. In their case I changed the striping a little bit, to accommodate the different sculpt.
Our league allowed 1,000,000 gc as the starting team value. So for my initial line up I decided to go for four Blitzers, seven Linemen and two rerolls with 10,000 left in the treasury. The initial purchases were to be the Witchelves and the Apothecary followed by the third reroll. And then - depending on the opponents in the league - I would purchase the Runners and/or Assassins.
Until next time - Lamenter
