Dwarves are ready for the World Cup

TRAUMA Legion is going to be attending the NAF World Cup in Lucca, Italy on Nov 6-8, as part of Team TRAUMA.  Wish us luck!

Here's a handy guide to positions if it isn't obvious enough with the figures:

Lizards are Painted!

Looks like I made my goal of finishing by mid-September ... ... 11 months early.  Heh.

The Staff / Rerolls / Ball / Slibli

The Heavies (Kroxigor and Saurus)

The Quick (and hopefully not dead)

Anyway, best of luck to (Team to be named later)!

Models based and ready to spray

Just a short post today.  Models are all on their bases and ready to spray.

Lizardmen, Assembled!

I've assembled and cleaned the models, and added some putty shoulder pads:

I was going to add a ridge around the shoulder pads, but I kind of like them the way they are.  I'll file them smooth and just go with it as is.

Next step after that is basing.  I've already put the star player and the Krox on their bases, it looks a lot better than I thought it would:

Once that's done, I spray and start painting!  Still need a color scheme.  Right now I'm thinking simple white and gold.  Should offset well with the green-to-yellow skin.

The Lizardmen

Our league has a rookie division, every "season" everyone creates a brand-new rookie team.  This is a problem for me, since all of my teams already play in the league.  I could "restart" one of my experienced teams and have multiple instances of different races.  Or I could just make another team.

Guess which I chose!

Back in the 90s some time, my brother and I bought several boxed sets of Warhammer Fantasy.  This was a brand spanking new edition, which came with a fairly impressive number of Brettonnians and Lizardmen.
Also, this was when two high school students could afford multiple boxed sets of a new game from GW.  It was a different time.

Anyway, we started to paint these armies, but the lizardmen never really got played and eventually wound up spending the better part of two decades in boxes, being transported around.  I figured I'd save some money, and give old miniatures new life, and turn those old figures into a Blood Bowl team!


Saurus

Saurus are the big, bad, scary enforcers of the Lizardman team.  They are fast, strong, and tough, although they might never end up touching the ball.
I only need six of them, so I have a few spare parts.  And a few metal figures, if I want to make some unique players (or a figure for Slibli, possibly the most cost-effective Star Player in the game).

Skinks

I can already tell that the Skinks are going to be as much effort as the rest of the team together.  The quivers are going to have to be hand-carved off of their backs, the bows needs to be snipped, and the hack job that you see on the left is going to have to be patched with putty.  I'm thinking that I'll give them smooth, salamander-style backs and shoulder pads.

Kroxigor

"The Big Guy" aka "The Big Cheese".  Expensive but possibly the best "big guy" in the game.

Bases

I have 30 mm bases for the Kroxigor and Saurus, and 25mm bases for the skinks.

Rerolls

With all the money I saved on buying Lizardmen and Skinks, I bought some lizardman skulls.  They'll make better rerolls than the little cardboard tokens at least :)

Bloodweiser Babe

Teams can sometimes pay the Bloodweiser brewery to send babes serving beer; they help inspire and revive knocked out players.
What, was I going to NOT buy this figure??

The Ungrateful Undead

I haven't posted in a while, mostly due to laziness, but also because for the longest time I couldn't find my camera charger.  I kept putting off buying a new one, over and over again, and recently found it while cleaning up and installing some new equipment.
Procrastination pays, boys and girls!

Anyway, since then, I've painted several teams, and an very far behind on this log ... so to make up for lost time, here are the Ungrateful Undead!

Tomb Guardians

These big guys are the main (only?) reason to play a Khemri team.  In the league, they have a depressing habit of getting killed, and of not rolling doubles.  But at least I have plenty of cash to replace them ...

Blitz-Ras and Thro-Ras

Generally the most competent players on the field at any given time.  The Blitzers hit hard, the Throwers ... ok, I guess I should call them Runners.  Calling them Throwers and giving them Passing skills is actually a sick joke on the part of the makers of Blood Bowl.

Skeletons

They're cheap, they're ST3, they're surprisingly durable ... what more do you want?  Skills?  Heck, I get those too, because my Skeletons are notorious glory hounds and receive a disproportionate share of the MVP awards.

Staff & Extras

Everything I need to assist me coaching up another glorious and brilliant game plan.  Usually "Hit the other guys until we get the ball and score".

Star Players

Sometimes my opponents field teams which are rated even higher than mine!  How dare they!  For games like that, I hire some excessively violent freelancers to cut them down to size.