Welcome to Blood Bowl Tactics (previously Blood Bowl Play Book) where you can find Strategy, Team Tactics, Guides and Articles. All information is current which as of now is the Competition Rules Pack (aka LRB6). You can download this from the Blood Bowl Resources section on the Games Workshop site. Any questions then take a look at our forums.


All the best, Coach.

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Cage Breaking

Cages play a big part in lots of Blood Bowl matches, so learning the best way to break or to halt the progress of a cage, are key strategies to know.

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Marking Players

Marking players is a big part of the game, knowing how to do it, along with how to avoid getting marked out of the game is an invaluable strategy.

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Cage Basics

A cage is one of the fundamental strategies for Blood Bowl. This covers the basics of what a cage is, along with how and why you should be using one.

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How To Pick Your Starting Roster

All teams start somewhere and setting up your team right at the beginning can sometimes be the key to short and long term success.

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Bloodweiser Babes

Bloodweiser Babes are new in LRB5 and you can only hire them, either through inducement money or from your own treasury, aiding to your KO recoveries.

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Chaos Dwarf

Chaos Dwarf Bull Centaurs

Posted on 30 August 2011

Chaos Dwarf Bull Centaurs are one of the best Blood Bowl players but different coaches will disagree on how they are best utilised on your team. Continue Reading

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Chaos Dwarf

Chaos Dwarf Blockers

Posted on 26 August 2011

Chaos Dwarf Blockers are much like their counterparts on the Dwarf team, though they have also recently gained access to Mutations as well! Continue Reading

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TV1000 League

TV1000 Goblin Starting Roster

Posted on 26 July 2011

Goblin teams are probably one of the trickiest teams to decide how to start out due to the sheer amount of different options available to them. Continue Reading

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Skaven

Skaven Rat Ogres

Posted on 14 January 2011

Skaven Rat Ogres give the team some strength and a bit more resilience. They are quite expensive considering your team is generally fairly cheap. Continue Reading

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TV1000 Amazon Starting Roster

Posted on 08 January 2011

Amazon teams are one of the better performing teams at low team value, with cheap players and rerolls, you can usually buy everything you want. Continue Reading

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TV1000 High Elf Starting Roster

Posted on 21 December 2010

High Elves are expensive which somewhat limits your options when creating your team, though as you don't need Fan Factor this is now much easier. Continue Reading

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TV1000 Necromantic Starting Roster

Posted on 16 December 2010

Necromantic teams are one of the trickier Blood Bowl races to decide on a starting lineup for, as they have expensive players and costly rerolls. Continue Reading

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TV1000 Underworld Starting Roster

Posted on 14 December 2010

Underworld teams are fairly new but when it comes to creating a starting roster for them there isn't much in the way of decisions to be made. Continue Reading

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TV1000 Nurgle Starting Roster

Posted on 12 December 2010

Nurgle can be a tricky team to start with expensive players and a lack or the core starting skills which can make them weak in their early games. Continue Reading

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TV1000 Ogre Starting Roster

Posted on 06 December 2010

With only two player types to choose from starting an Ogre team can be fairly straightforward. There are still a few decisions to be made though. Continue Reading

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