Anyone who doubts that goats have individual personalities should take a good look at Griff. Born with a boring name like "Clover" or something, he soon earned a new one by dashing in to make flashy plays on the field. If he wasn't a goat, you could call him a ball hog. Griff loves two things: showing off and delicious carrots. And he knows that, if he shows off enough, people will feed him more carrots. It's a combination that has led Griff to Blood Bowl greatness.

Another thing this goat has in common with the original Griff: no matter what damage he takes, he springs back up ready to take on the world. He's been declared dead on the pitch more than once, only to awaken again in the dugout, bleating faintly, and make a full recovery in a matter of days. Goats may come and goats may goat, but you can't count out Griff.

Hulking shepherd Stefan Pfannenschmidt gained local fame in Hochland for an incident in which wolves tried to devour his flock. Instead of scaring them off, he entered the fray, flinging wolves in this direction and that to guard the precious sheep. Now, Farmer Ed has no love for sheep, but he recognizes a skill set that can help his team, and he's always glad to capitalize on publicity. So Stefan joined the team. Not a natural Blood Bowl player, he's content to use his strength to wrangle and subdue the opposition... any damage he causes is just a nice bonus.

Stefan particularly loves to face Norse and Necromantic teams, for obvious reasons.

Johan Bladholm was one of the first men Farmer Ed hired to help him manage the team and train the goats. His fellow goat herder, the late Farm Boy Pete, was a childlike man with a great rapport with the goats, but Johan is a veteran Blood Bowl lineman with no particular farming skills.

Over a decade ago, Johan even played alongside his hero The Mighty Zug, after signing a one-game contract with the Reikland Reavers. Needless to say, it didn't go especially well -- which is why three years later, he's not teaming up with Griff Oberwald and the other legends of the game. He's teaming up with Griff Goaterwald, who is a goat.

It's good to be the owner of the Empire's first and foremost Blood Bowl-playing goat herd. But with the nation's carnivals clogged by copycat competitors ranging from Pietro Porcospino's Pigskin Pigs to Lambert Hamm's Slammin' Rams, Farmer Ed sometimes has to do something a little special to keep the lead. In this case, he's purchased a Great Woolly Goat from the mountains beyond Kislev. Doc has shown little interest in learning how to carry the ball -- he's eaten most of the baskets Farmer Ed has put on him. But he's huge, and fearsome, and really good at hitting people. So that's good!

"The Black Prince" Toby joins the team after impressing in scrimmages on the farm. A very sturdy, well-built goat, he has a calmness that seems unusual for his species... he approaches the game like work, and has little of the playfulness or flash that characterize most of his teammates. Will Toby learn to take a little bit of the spotlight? Probably not... he's a goat, and he's not out there to impress you. He's there to win Blood Bowl games.

While traveling through Orcish lands, Farmer Ed heard stories of a mighty goat living in the nearby mountains. This goat was said to be impossible to catch, and had killed several orcs and possibly even a troll. Ed paid off the members of the Dog Toof Tribe to take him, Griff and Doc to its whereabouts -- and to not try to kill it and eat it.

When Farmer Ed saw Burgzok, he quickly managed to earn the beast's trust, and led him back to the camp, where the Dog Toof Tribe had double-crossed him and planned to eat the goat anyway. A short skirmish later, several orcs lay dead and Farmer Ed was ready to return home with his new player. The action's not all on the field, folks.

Meadow and Veronica are clearly two baby goats, Meadow standing on Veronica's shoulders, both of them wearing an enormous Kislevite overcoat that completely covers Veronica except for her face. In the many games the two have played, no ref has been willing to count them as more than one player. Are Blood Bowl refs really that dumb, or do they find the sight of two goats masquerading as one tall goat too adorable to resist? Nobody knows, but one thing's for certain: Meadow and Veronica are wanted in three provinces of the Empire for multiple on-field murders.

In the Goats' early barnstorming days, before they moved up to face legitimate Blood Bowl teams, they would face teams of volunteers from the local peasantry, whose members were promised twenty gold pieces each if they could defeat the goats. Many men died trying, and few collected on the wager, but there was never a shortage of willing victims, all of whom entered the game thinking something along the lines of, "Goats? How can I lose to some mangy goats? Easy money!"

The one exception was the team's first game after the arrival of Crazy Henrik. The team was in the town of Grunwald, and not a man in the town would sign up to face them. And who could blame them? Look at this goat! He's obviously some sort of bloodthirsty monster! Since then, Farmer Ed has always kept Henrik in the wagon until after the opposing team has been raised.

A good and obedient goat, Boris earned his name from his curly locks and long beard, which resemble those sported by Boris Todbringer, Elector Count of Middenland. It's not clear if this is intended as homage or mockery, but it's noted that the team is not currently allowed to enter Middenland due to outstanding warrants. It's also noted that, when he joined the team, Boris consistently played on the most hazardous parts of the line.

One of the first of the goats Farmer Ed trained specifically for playing football, Cappy is making his Blood Bowl debut later than most. The reason is, he was just too stubborn. He demonstrated strong abilities in blocking, picking up the ball, and even using the basket, but he really didn't do any of those things in an organized way. He'd headbutt an opponent when the ball was right there, then on the next drive he'd pick the ball up and run off the sideline, all with no regard for the game plan or Ed's coaching. He was really frustrating.

But Ed figured out how to keep him on task, and the solution was a surprising one: a simple straw hat. For whatever reason, putting the hat on Cappy conveys to him that now is the time to focus on the game. When he takes off the hat, he's back to being the same stubborn goat, but for the duration of the game, he's a model professional.

If Daniel Gryphon "Dannygoat" Goaterwald doesn't have the greatest pedigree in Blood Bowl history, he definitely has the greatest pedigree of any Blood Bowl-playing goat in history. The eldest son of the legendary Griff Goaterwald, Dannygoat seemed poised to leap into Blood Bowl history.

But while he's an athletic marvel, let's remember that not every son of a Blood Bowl legend goes on to stardom. The pressure of expectations can be a lot to overcome. Just ask Kordell Freshbreeze, or the late Steve'n'Thorg.

Farmer Ed, ever the promoter, did nothing to quell those expectations. A full three months before his newest player made his debut, posters depicting his face were put up throughout the Empire, bearing the slogan "THE SUN SHINES ON DANNYGOAT" -- not sure what that means, though it IS technically accurate.

Despite the hype, Dannygoat has had an extremely slow start to his career. As Farmer's Boy John says, "raw goats become raw meat," but will Danny transcend that?

The death of Longhorn Sue, the fabled "goat the size of a cow," hit fans of the team hard. Now it can be told: Sue was, in fact, a cow the whole time. A fearsome, talented Blood Bowl star of a cow. And it takes a lot to replace a cow. It takes even more to replace a star cow. Enter: THE DREADGOAT.

Doc, the Kislevite Great Woolly Goat, quickly became a fan favorite after joining the team, despite (or perhaps because of) his foul temper and reckless antics. Farmer Ed purchased the Dreadgoat from the same animal dealer who supplied Doc, and added him to the team, billing him as a Greater, Woollier Goat from North Kislev.

While there might have been an ever-so-faint inkling among the most refined Blood Bowl cognoscenti that Sue was not actually a goat, this vast tower of muscle, bone and hair is so clearly something else that even the dimmest fans aren't fooled. They'd accuse Ed of false advertising, but to be honest, they kind of want to know what it is... and they definitely want to see it in action.