Marienburg Corsairs

Close up shots of a couple of players:

Detlef Seirck Jr. Catcher and leader of the Marienburg Corsairs.

Hans Orf, Thrower.

Wulf Armin. Lineman.

Time to take a break from Fantasy football and focus on Historicals.....

Marienburg Corsairs starting roster

OK while waiting for a technical issue to clear up before I can post pictures up, here is the starting roster for the Marienburg Corsairs.  Using the 12 models from the starter box I have the following:

Marienburg Corsairs:

1) Catcher: Detlef Sierck jnr.  Team Leader
2) Catcher: Joost Van Der Graaf
3) Blitzer Senyo the Southlander
4) Blitzer: "Dirty" Haraald Van Bellen
5) Thrower: Hans Orf
6) Thrower: Mattias Arabier
7) Lineman: Wulf Armin
8) Lineman: Lukas Bavaro
9) Lineman: Riker Van Bavik
10) Lineman: Luc Hervoise
11) Lineman: Yan Nicot
12) Lineman: Tomaz Boon

Pictures to follow soon... honest!

Introducing the Marienburg Corsairs

So to show progress so far, here are my first few painted miniatures for 2017.  Although I have been interested in war-games from as far back as Games Workshop's Rogue Trader days, I missed out on the original Blood Bowl Game and its subsequent editions.  In recent years I have only looked at Games Workshop games sparingly as I thought the settings were getting increasingly daft, and the rules for Warhammer 40,000 were becoming unplayable.  However, with the new edition of Blood Bowl, I was tempted by the idea of having a self contained game, and liked the new models, so made a purchase.

The Blood Bowl boxed game comes with two teams - one Human and one Orc.  I put together the Human team first, and after some thought named them the Marienburg Corsairs.  I was always a fan of the independent city-state of Marienburg in the old Warhammer world, and thought that the city-state would have the financial clout to set up a team.  With Marienburg being a major port, I thought a nautical sounding name would be appropriate, and chose the Corsairs... although the Marienburg Buccaneers or Marienburg Freebooters were close contenders.  As for team colours... well I am a fan of the Minnesota Vikings, so figured a purple, white and gold colour scheme would work well.

Now the Marienburg Corsairs are done, next up is the orc team... provisionally named the Nu Orc Jetz.  Any ideas for a colour scheme?