The stands are packed, the pies are steaming, and the Third Season of Blood Bowl is about to kick off – featuring a brand new box packed with miniatures and slick updated rules that make this the most fun, engaging version of Blood Bowl to date.
Blow the whistle, ref!
Blood Bowl – Third Season Edition!
Blitz into the new edition of Blood Bowl with a boxed set that’s action-packed and bursting at the seams with violent sporting action, headlined by two brand new teams from the fertile lands of Bretonnia and the sweeping sands of Nehekhara. This box contains the complete Blood Bowl experience, with a full 200-page rulebook, double-sided pitch and dugouts, 37 new game tokens for tracking injuries and statuses, templates, dice, and even handy cheat sheets to help you get through your first few games without, ironically enough, cheating.
The third season of Blood Bowl builds upon the strong foundations of its predecessor to refine the game rather than making sweeping changes to its core, with revised rules and page layouts making it easier than ever to join in with the mayhem.
More interested in the new miniatures? Check out a description of each team below.
Blood Bowl: The Official Rulebook – Third Season Edition!
Already have the teams you want and just need to update your rules to the new edition? The Official Rulebook – Third Season Edition! is also available to pre-order separately, containing all of the same rules and background content as the regular book.
The Brionne Barons
The nobles of Bretonnia bring their very best to the Blood Bowl pitch, using heavily armoured Knights and loyal Squires to dominate the field and break through defensive lines before slaying forth to the end zone. Each team comes with 12 multi-part plastic players – six Bretonnian Squire Linemen, two Knight Catchers, two Knight Throwers, and two Grail Knight Blitzers – as well as two double-sided Blood Bowl coins, two Turn and Re-roll Markers, and four balls.
This set also comes with a new Bretonnian Team transfer sheet containing 320 individual transfers.
The Nehekhara Nightmares
The undead lords of Nehekhara rise from the sands and bring a touch of ancient class to the fields of Blood Bowl. They play as a highly technical team that requires each player to do their utmost, and reap grand rewards when their tactical plays pay off. Each team comes with 14 multi-part plastic players – two Tomb Kings Blitzers, two Tomb Kings Throwers, four Tomb Guardians, and six Skeleton Linemen – as well as two double-sided Blood Bowl coins, two Turn and Re-roll Markers, and four balls.
This set also comes with a new Tomb Kings Team transfer sheet containing 298 individual transfers.
Official Game Tokens
Track all-important statuses and game rules with this invaluable set of game tokens, which can tell you at a glance when a player is injured, Stunned, rolling on the floor, or suffering from any manner of other maladies. Each set contains 37 tokens in total, as follows: 14 reversible Stunned or Prone tokens, one Blitz token, six Distracted tokens, five Eye Gouge tokens, four Chomped tokens, two Rooted tokens, two Dodgy Snack tokens, one Thrown Player or Bomb token, one Ball token with possession and loose ball sides, and one Blood Bowl ball.
Blood Bowl Team Double-sided Pitch and Dugouts Sets
Keep your home field advantage by playing on a pitch board themed after your team of choice, with Bretonnians tearing up a castle courtyard decked out in fleur-de-lis symbols and well-worn flagstones while the Tomb Kings play inside one of their own tombs, complete with a darkened Wailing Souls variant on the other side. Each set also comes with two double-sided dugouts themed after both sides of their respective boards, handy for tracking your score, reserves, re-rolls, and knocked out and injured players.
Blood Bowl Team Reference Card Packs
Spend less time flicking through books and more time making bone-crunching plays with the aid of Team Reference Packs for the Bretonnian and Tomb Kings teams. Each pack contains four Player Reference Cards, 16 blank Player Cards, four Ball and Pitch Special Rule Cards, and two Skill Reference Cards.
Blood Bowl Team Dice Sets
Show your support for your team of choice with a pack or two of themed Blood Bowl dice. Each pack contains seven dice – three 6-sided Block dice, two regular 6-sided dice, one 8-sided Scatter dice, and one 16-sided dice – with Bretonnian teams getting rich red swirl-effect dice with white pips and the team logo on the six face, while the Tomb Kings sport gold and brown swirled dice with turquoise pips and their own icon on the six.
Spike! Journal Issues 19 and 20
The next two issues of the in-world Blood Bowl sports journal will be up for pre-order at the same time, with Issue 19 shining a spotlight on the Brionne Barons and other Bretonnian teams while Issue 20 pays homage to the ageless Tomb Kings and their varied undead teams. Each issue also includes rules for thematic league cups played amidst the rolling fields of Bretonnia or the wind-scoured deserts of Nehekhara respectively, accompanied by Mindy Piewhistle’s regular gossip column, the unmissable Chat with the Rat, and more.
Warhammer 40,000 Collector’s Gift Set
Treat the Warhammer fans in your life to a slice of the 41st Millennium with the new Warhammer 40,000 Collector’s Gift Set, containing a 12-month 2026 calendar, an A5 lined notebook, and a pen – all adorned with awesome Warhammer artwork. These gifts are presented in a keepsake box that is also emblazoned with Warhammer art, so you can keep your things tidy or store cards, tokens, and other knick-knacks inside.
Vagabond Squadron
Hard flying, hard fighting, and defiance in the face of all odds are Vagabond trademarks, but their latest deployment – against the overwhelming might of the ork invasion of Kanai Tertius – will test them like never before, in the new novel Vagabond Squadron by Robbie MacNiven. The integration of a fledgling aviator, divisions among high command, and the rising threat of xenos air superiority means the Vagabonds now face their most desperate mission yet, its full details known only to squadron leader Cassandra Elza.
Fighting will be fierce, and this time, not all of Vagabond Squadron will make it home. This exciting novel of airborne derring-do will be up for pre-order in hardback, eBook, and MP3 audiobook editions, while a glamorous special edition will also be available for major fans of the Imperial flying corps.
This special edition features an extra short story – ‘For Luck’ – and is bound in an alternate cover with blue details and a light blue ribbon page marker. It will be available to pre-order alongside all other editions, strictly while stocks last.
Starseer’s Ruin
A determined skink Starseer sets out to locate the wreck of an ancient Seraphon ship in Starseer’s Ruin, the next full-length novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky – author of Day of Ascension. Irixi Starseer, Vael Scar-Helm, and Perlo all seek the wrecked temple-ship in search of power and riches. But unbeknownst to them all, a greater, more insidious enemy arises to threaten the Great Plan.
Starseer’s Ruin will be available in hardback, eBook, and MP3 audiobook editions.
Shadowsword
Honoured Lieutenant Bannick and the crew of the Baneblade Cortein’s Honour are assigned as close support to a company of Shadowsword Titan hunters as they find themselves thrust into a deadly battle for the fate of three star systems. New and deadly allies throw into doubt all that Bannick has been told of the Imperium, while threatening not only his life but also his soul…
Shadowsword by Guy Haley will now be available to pre-order in a new MP3 audiobook edition.
This week on Warhammer+, you can experience the entirety of the excellent Kill Lupercal animation as one unbroken supercut, letting you kick back and watch Titans stomp their way through the Siege of Terra. Elsewhere in the Age of Darkness, A Tale of Four Gamers continues as our quartet finish their 3,000-point armies and send them straight to the front lines for a vicious game of Warhammer: The Horus Heresy.
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