The majority of leagues ignore them, and leave the lower tier teams as challenges for more experienced coaches (or those who don’t mind about winning). However, in tournaments and one-off games, since 2010 there have often been allowances made to weaker teams to give them more of a chance of competing. So how do these tiers affect the game? In league play, usually not at all. Tier 3: Halflings, Ogres, Goblins (the Stunties) Tier 2: Chaos Chosen, Humans, Tomb Kings, Chaos Renegades, Slann, High Elfs, Nurgle, Necromantic Horror, Elven Union, Vampires, Underworld Denziens Tier 1: Chaos Dwarfs, Dwarfs, Wood Elfs, Skaven, Norse, Lizardmen, Orcs, Shambling Undead, Amazons, Dark Elfs ‘Tier 1’ refers to the strongest, most forgiving races, and ‘Tier 3’ the weakest, most difficult to use teams:

Traditionally, the races are split into three tiers representing their rough relative strength, although several other systems of differing numbers of tiers exist. The term ‘Tiers’ is used to refer to the different relative strengths of groups of the different races. By design, some of the 23 / 26 teams are more difficult to coach than others. This page will eventually be updated to reflect the new edition, but for now, much of the content and direction remains applicable, even if some examples are out of date.īlood Bowl is a game where not all races were created equal.

This page was written during the BB2016 edition, so some of the examples presented are out of date for BB2020.

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