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Forest Goblin Teams
| 0-16 | Forest Goblin | 40,000 | 7 | 2 | 3+ | 4+ | 7+ | Dodge, Stunty, Right Stuff | A | GSP |
| 0-4 | Savage Orc | 50,000 | 6 | 3 | 3+ | 4+ | 8+ | Frenzy, Thick Skull, Tribal Tattoos (Iron Hard Skin) | GS | AP |
| 0-2 | Spider Riders | 120,000 | 7 | 4 | 3+ | - | 9+ | Shadowing, Tentacles | AS | G |
| 0-1 | Trained River Troll | 125,000 | 4 | 5 | 5+ | 5+ | 10+ | Loner(3+), Always Hungry, Mighty Blow(+1), Really Stupid, Regeneration, Throw Team-Mate, Disturbing Presence, Foul Appearence, Projectile Vomit | S | GAP |
| Re-roll counter | 60,000 gold pieces each | |||||||||
| Special Rules | Badlands Brawl | |||||||||
| Tier | 2 | |||||||||
- Tentacles is the spiders' web ability.
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Forest Goblins
Savage Orcs
Spider Rider
River Troll
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Background
Throughout the forests and dense jungles of The Old World, Southlands, and Hinterlands live the Forest Goblins; a feral race of Goblins adorned in feathers and bone. They live off their natural surroundings, the spider forming the corner stone of their society; small ones are eaten, larger ones are kept as pets and giant spiders are ridden. Unlike normal Orcs and Goblins who worship Gork and Mork the Spider is worshipped as their god.
Forest Goblin teams are few and far between but occasionally a band of Forest Goblins, Spider Riders, and Savage Orcs leave the security of their home lands with a River Troll in toe. In days gone by they would have raided and looted nearby settlements but now they challenge the settlements to a game of Bloodbowl and the winner takes home the spoils.
Rationale
I wanted the Forest Goblins to be slightly different to the standard Goblins. Living in jungles in the wild rather than in strongholds I felt a slightly increased Ma made sense while reducing their Av because they are less well equipped.
Savage Orcs are the same as in the Savage Orc roster. So check the rationale for them in the Savage Orc page. They were added to the roster as they occupy the same areas in The World and are long standing allies of the Forest Goblins so they fit perfectly.
While I do not like mounts playing Bloodbowl I felt I had to make an exception here. Mounts were banned from participating from Bloodbowl after a Khorne team riding Juggernauts were too powerful and killed an entire team, this is in the official fluff for the game in one of the magazines. However Goblins are cheats and I just felt that Spiders are too important for Forest Goblins fluff to omit from the roster. Also a giant spider team was mentioned in 2nd edition. I have them tentacles to represent their web ability and shadowing has a very nice synergy with tentacles and felt appropriate for this player type as it conjures up images of players being stalked by the Spiders. Ma7 was given to them as they are a fast moving creature and also so shadowing was not too easy to escape. St4 was a given as they are huge creatures and again tentacles would be pointless on St3 and Ag3 was a must as they are agile too. I felt that A and S access was the most fitting skill access to give them, G would make them too good and it wouldn't fit as they are creatures being ridden by Stunty players. They are very very good players but this was intentional as I wanted the spiders to be the focal point of the team even though there are only 2 of them.
The Troll is just your standard Troll though I called them a River Troll because they both live in the same areas in The World and felt more in keeping with the Forest Goblin theme.
Season 2 (2020 Edition) Changes
Roster changed inline with 2020 edition, Pa stat added, no further change needed. Spider Riders lose the ability to pass.
2020 Edition Further Changes (2024)
Tribal Tattoos (Iron Hard Skin) - added to Savage Orcs. I always wanted to have tribal tattoos represent Feel No Pain, once Chaos Dwarf got their new roster this was now possible via Iron Hard Skin.
Team design by Garion and Harvestmouse
Artwork by Knut Rockie and coloured by Garion
Icons by Whatball and Kingmad