Blood Bowl 3 continues to trundle alongside someplace between life and loss of life, receiving a seasonal move replace each three months together with a brand new staff. Following final season’s addition of the Shambling Undead, Season 4 brings us an agility staff: Wooden Elves.
In earlier editions of tabletop Blood Bowl the Wooden Elves have been high tier, and whereas they’ve slipped a bit of within the rating since there are nonetheless causes to choose them. Purpose primary being they’re really respectable at selecting up and passing the ball, when you’re a kind of sickos who’s into profitable a match by scoring factors fairly than by murdering the opposition—although their Wardancers and particularly Treemen are able to performing some harm in the event that they get the prospect.
One weak spot of groups just like the Wooden Elves was how costly their gamers have been. They died simply and value quite a bit to interchange, that means that when you bought matched with an influence staff proper off the bat you can simply wind up struggling to afford replacements for injured or lifeless gamers. A technique round that’s to play in Resurrection Mode, a format the place groups reset their roster after every match, which has additionally been added to Blood Bowl 3 as a part of Season 4.
The patch notes point out the addition of customized groups and tweaks like “Numerous minor ai enhancements.” There’s additionally a brand new roadmap for 2024, outlining this yr’s upcoming seasonal updates. Frustratingly, crossplay has been moved again to Season 5, starting June 11, after having been promised on the earlier roadmap as a Season 3 addition due in November of final yr. And if like me you have been ready for the return of Everlasting Leagues so you do not have to maintain beginning new ones, they will not be right here till Season 7 in December.