Geese & Badgers, This Gnomish Blood Bowl Team Has it ALL!

By Andrew Schrank | March 2nd, 2024 | Categories: 40k News & Articles, Blood Bowl, Games Workshop, Games Workshop Previews, Tabletop Gaming News & Rumors, Warhammer Community

Games Workshop graduates from Silly Goose Academy with their new Blood Bowl Gnome Team, complete with Geese, Badgers, Treemen, and Foxes.

Warhammer Community has revealed a new Blood Bowl team of Gnomes and woodland critters called the Glimdwarrow Groundhogs. This team has a particular rivalry with Halflings and has players who come at a budget cost, allowing coaches to pack out their rosters with more exciting options like access to Altern Forest Treemen to help them win.

GW Graduates From Silly Goose Academy With New Gnome Blood Bowl Team

Warhammer Community gifted the latest on the new Blood Bowl Gnome team models on Warhammer World’s Anniversary 2024.

The Glimdwarrow Groundhogs

We couldn’t hold them back any longer – the strongest Blood Bowl team ever to grace the gridiron has arrived. Gnomes are avid Blood Bowl fans who usually stick to their own secluded burrows, but every once in a while a team will enter the ‘big’ world and make a name for themselves in the leagues – usually through the popularity of their adorable woodland compatriots rather than any actual skill or success.

Gnomes might care a bit, but one thing is for sure. HONEY BADGER DON”T CARE!

Whether it’s a Beastmaster working alongside a ferocious goose to shore up their team’s line of defence or a speedy fox sprinting downfield with the ball in their mouth, Gnomes make use of many furry friends to fill in where their short stature can’t compete. Then if that isn’t enough to secure some touchdowns, their mastery of illusions and capricious tricks surely is.

Like other Stunty teams – the Gnomes have a particular rivalry with Halflings – most of the players come at a budget cost, letting coaches pack out their rosters with the more exciting options available before making up the numbers with Linemen. Even then, regular Gnome Linemen have the Jump Up and Wrestle skills, giving them a surprisingly solid counter-punch despite their poor AV.

With a fearsome force of gnomes, tricky magic, and all the best woodland critters, there’s no possibility of defeat!

Altern Forest Treemen

Luckily, not everyone on the team struggles to reach the average player’s knees, and their connection to the woodland allows Gnomes to enlist the help of Altern Forest Treemen. These giant arboreal brutes are vital for smashing holes in the opposing line that their smaller teammates can surge through, but with exceptionally slow movement and the constant risk of taking root where they stand, they need to be managed carefully.

A whole team of Gnomes might not go over well, but with these huge Treemen, they seem to have all the bases covered!

Beastmasters

Beastmasters are a vital linchpin, and not just because their models sport some of the all-time best companion critters Blood Bowl has ever seen. They’re the only rostered players across the entire game to start with the powerful Guard skill, helping your other players block even when stuck in themselves – no doubt thanks to their goose and badger allies.

Thank goodness they gave us this rear image of the goose model; knowing there is a baby chick is critical information regarding us buying it or not!

Either way, the Glimdwarrow Groundhogs, a new Blood Bowl team of Gnomes and their woodland companions, are on the way. With their mastery of illusions and capricious tricks, they are sure to be a formidable force on the gridiron!