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Strategy guide

On the following pages you'll find many different strategies for a variety of teams, ranging from how best to start a team to how to make a one-turn touchdown with a rookie team.

The Very Basics

• Bloodbowl dictionary
• Moving and dodging (external link)
• Blocking
  • The art of blocking (old but useful guide to a fundamental skill (external link))
  • Short video explanation of blocking (external link)
  • Video version of the art of blocking (external link)
  • All about blocks -buy Taureau Amiral a deepdive into blocking

• The basics of 'caging' (external link)
• Moving your cage forwards (external link)
• More moving cage forward (external link)
• Introduction to defensive setups (external link)
• basics of side-line surfing (external link)
• good all round introduction to bloodbowl (external link)
• guide to which race to start with

General Strategies and Tips

• Strategy Guide for Newbies A great guide to learn the basics.
• Game Management - when to score
• Racial Strategies and Rosters
• One turn touchdown help
• Kick-off Setups
  • Jackassrampants complete guide to defensive setups
  • More Defensive Setups
  • Offensive Setups
• Inducements
  • Star Players
  • Inducement List
  • Choosing inducements

External Resources

• The Tackle Zone (online ressource for the Blood Bowl community)
• Blood Bowl Strategies (tactics, strategies, and musings, both in English and French)
• BBTactics.com (player skills selection guide and forum)
• Plasmoids BB Playbooks (Wayback Machine mirror) (playbooks of variable quality)
• 2020 skills list
• Dave's Action Calculator and Elyod's Action Calculator
• Thousand Losses Playbook (general in-depth playbook)
• The art of blocking (old but useful guide to help understand a fundamental part of bloodbowl)
• General reference site with lots of useful stuff
• Goonhammer's Blood Bowl tactics articles

Roster Creation Rules

• How to create rosters