Rules

The West Middenland Open will abide by the latest guidelines for all NAF tournaments, last published in January 2024. The event will follow Games Workshop’s Designer’s Commentary from May 2024 and current Teams of Legend documents. Any publications released by Games Workshop before October 31st, 2024 (such as a new Spike! magazine or rules in miniature packs) are also eligible for use. 

Team Building

Rosters are purchased with a treasury of 1,200,000 gold crowns to buy players, team rerolls, and staff such as apothecaries, cheerleaders and assistant coaches.

If you have an official Percy The Troll due to winning the wooden spoon, you may count it as 1 free Assistant coach.

All teams currently approved for tournaments will be allowed to play. This includes the teams in the Blood Bowl 2020 Rule book, the Teams of Legend and the NAF-approved Slann roster.

The only inducements allowed are:

• 0–1 Halfing Master Chef

• 0–3 Bribes

• 0–1 Biased Ref

• 0–2 Bloodweiser Kegs

• 0–2 Star Players

• 0-1 Riotous Rookies

• 0-1 Weather Mage

• 0-1 Team Mascot

• 0-1 Waaagh! Drummer

• 0-1 Plague Doctor

• 0-3 Cavorting Nurglings

• 0-1 Mortuary Assistant

Star players may only be added after 11 regular players have been purchased

All Star Players with Games Workshop published rules for Blood Bowl 2020 will be accepted except:

• Morg n Thorg

• Griff Oberwald

• Bomber Dribblesnot

• Hackflem Skuttlespike

• Cindy Piewhistle

• Kreek Rustgouger

• Dribl & Drul

Rosters must be submitted via email to PercyTheTroll@Gmail.Com. For every part day the roster is late past midnight on Friday the 22nd November, 1 skill will be randomly deleted from your team.

• Tier 1 teams are: 

  • Amazons

  • Chaos Dwarf

  • Dark Elf

  • Dwarf

  • Elven Union

  • High Elf

  • Human

  • Lizardmen

  • Necromantic Horror

  • Norse

  • Orc

  • Shambling Undead

  • Skaven

  • Underworld

  • Wood Elf

• Tier 2 teams are:

  • Black Orc

  • Chaos Chosen

  • Chaos Renegades

  • Halfling

  • Imperial Nobility

  • Khorne

  • Nurgle

  • Old World Alliance

  • Slann

  • Tomb Kings

  • Vampires

• Tier 3 teams are:

  • Gnomes

  • Goblin

  • Ogre

  • Snotling

  • Tier 1 teams may add 6 primary skills 

  • Tier 2 teams may add 5 primary skills and 1 secondary skill

  • Tier 3 teams may add 5 primary skills and 2 secondary skills

  • Only 1 skill may be taken per player.

  • Star Players cannot take extra skills.

You Will Need

• A painted team (minimum 3 colours)

• Board and dugout

• Dice

• Templates

• At least ONE printed roster

Tournament Scoring

Each match in the tournament will be scored as follows:

• 15 points for a win

• 7 points for a draw

• 0 points for a loss

• 1 point per touchdown (up to a maximum of 3)

• 1 point per CAS† caused (up to a maximum of 3)

• 1 point for a clean sheet

† Any and every action that causes a casualty counts – including fouls, surfs and bombs as well as good old-fashioned hitting people hard.

Awards

The following prizes will be awarded:

• First Place

• Second Place

• Third Place

• Most Brutal 

• Best Defence

• Best Offense

• Stunty cup 

• Best Painted 

It is only possible to win one prize per team (except Best Painted). If the overall winner also scores most touch- downs, the latter will cascade down to the next best.

Match Rules

If either coach would usually roll on the Prayers to Nuffle table, they must instead roll on the Percy the Troll table.

Expected Behaviours

Timing

Rounds are 2 hours and 15 minutes. Whilst some leeway can be provided you risk missing lunch (Percy is after all, Always Hungry) and causing the whole tournament to run late. If the refs ask you to put your dice down and report the match as it is, unfortunately that’s it.

Respect

Respect your opponents and the coaches around you. Blood Bowl is a stressful game and tempers can fray but it’s up to you to manage yourself.

Dice

Your opponent is fully entitled to ask to share your dice, and vice versa. If you’re not willing to share a set of dice, don’t use them.