Everyone Needs a Troll: Quick Conversion for Blood Bowl Troll

If your Blood Bowl team can have a troll you are mad not to take it!

110k for a Big Guy? OK, he is really stupid, but at 110k it would also be really stupid not to take him!

That's the cost of a Witch Elf, Elf Blitzer or Flesh Golem, but he's Strength 5! He can throw team mate, which means, you're going to have a goblin. and the Troll & Goblin combo is only the cost of a Minotaur.

Trolls are fun. They can soak up several players' blocks, regenerate, break armor with mighty blow and have the threat of a 1 turn touch down by throwing a goblin with the ball. Plus they might eat the goblin, and that kind of silly fun should never be passed up.

So it's settled: you need a Troll.

You can use a dedicated Blood Bowl troll, but there are other options.

I turned my attention to a neglected Orc team I'd started long time back, and then set aside when I couldn't resist buying a team of the old 2nd edition orcs which became my Badland Bronze Boars.

So I'll be finishing the other Orc team for direct sales, which I've now made a page on this blog for, tab at the top: Bizarre Bazaar.  I've always had a 'for sale' page on the studio site, but now I'll have one here as well.

That way, I won't have to worry about an update with a for-sale item, like yesterday's Vinland Valkyries being buried, and can feel free to keep updating.

So the team needed a Troll.  The one it had I decided to keep and paint up as a potential Star Player for the Boars.  Looking around I found I had an old fantasy Troll. One like this:

But a bit older I think, because the hammer was different, and he has a bell instead of the skull and more earrings. 

Conversion: Cut the weapon from his hands. Angle the raised fist up and the arm up so he has more of a 'threatening to punch you' pose. Angle both feet in, pigeon-toed, so he fits better on the base and looks more awkward. The sculpt some armor: a knee pad, elbow pad, shoulder pad & helmet. 

Like so: 

The only problem is, now that he has some paint on him, and he's looking at me on the painting desk, saying "keep me... I'll play good for ya, I promise"  I'm tempted to find another troll for this orc team.

After all, I don't have a Goblin team yet, and I have plans for a 'classic goblin & troll' team (I've considered several different re-skinning themes for goblins but think I do want basic goblins) and this troll would be great for them... but must resist right?

Because the Orcs Need a Troll.