Goblins are Nuffle’s favorite Greenskins and the reason for breathing new life into the ruins of the old world. The basic Goblin is fast, cunning and always ready for giving out a gud stomp. The ideal lineman for Blood Bowl.

Despite being already prime players, Goblins can make use of most XXXL’s Black Market cards to boost certain abilities, however they may also become victims of such cards being played against them by other teams.

Due to the alarming development of post-match riots between fans of different XXXL teams, officials have decided to use the opportunity to scout for the most brutal Goblins among these scraps.

‘Ooligans are an annoying plague. They often find ways to disturb opposing players on a complicated team drive and know all the little tricks to disrupt opposition ball handling.

Flight has always been a fascination and a dream for Goblins. The exciting sense of freedom when up in the air can be addictive and one can only hope that wizards or Nuffle themselves will one day reveal the mysterious science on how not to fall back down.

So called Doom Divers are daring (read stupid) enough to test the most modern devices to achieve at least a temporary levitation, instead of just smashing into the ground. Before the End Times Goblin armies would be famous for often winning their battles by propelling Doom Divers with catapults up into the air.

Nowadays they will often try their luck by joining Blood Bowl teams. Lacking a catapult they often rely on Troll team mates to be thrown. Many Divers have been eaten at this process.

Note: If possible play this player with BB16 Swoop Rules.

Looneys are the masters of the chainsaw. Chainsaws are portable gasoline-, electric-, or warpstone-powered saws that cut with a set of teeth attached to a rotating chain driven along a guide bar. They can be used in activities such as tree felling, limbing, bucking, pruning, cutting firebreaks in wildland fire suppression, harvesting of firewood or sawing through armour.

No one remembers when chainsaws were first seen on a Blood Bowl field, but today they are so popular and cheap that even some bleacher fans can be seen bringing them to the games.

Because it is not really legal to use weapons on the pitch, it is very likely that a player who fields a chainsaw gets banned. So many Looneys try to act fast and efficient and waste no time when fielded as they often don’t get to play a full match anyway.

Another fan favourite are the Bommas! Sneaking a large sack of bombs onto the pitch, they are well equipped to cause massive carnage. A single developed Bomma can sometimes terrorise the whole pitch, it’s exciting to watch clumsy Trolls attempting to avoid an explosion, already downed players trying to roll into safety or helpless referees tear up in flames.

It’s also always a highlight when bombs scatter into the guest section. However it has also been well documented that Bommas often injure their own team mates.

Drunk from mugs of deadly Mad Cap Mushroom these Goblins lost their mind but gained incredible strength. They are known for insanely swirling around the Blood Bowl pitch while swinging massive chained iron-balls. Fans love it!

Fanatics are as feared by opponents, team mates, and referees. Even Trolls often try to avoid a collision with these maniacs.

When finally banned by referees, they often just dance back on to the pitch without no one being able to prevent it.

Their popularity among fans is probably the main reason XXXL officials infamously overruled the (back then) independent Referee Tribunal Association when it was about to decide on the future of a Fanatic who was guilty of injuring dozens of referees. Instead of simply banning Fanatics from playing Blood Bowl at all, XXXL officials declared any kind of physical contact with a ball swinging Fanatic to be “mere accidents” that “are about to happen when you do sports” .

This lead to a life endangering situation for many referees as they are now faced with pure disrespect from Fanatics and their cunning coaches. Knowing that they would be unable to have any kind of authority against the huge ball and chain swinging maniacs, referees would begin to avoid any kind of contact and “overlook” them when checking players for illegal weapons.

Some of the greatest XXXL players might actually just be cheaters. At least some critics debate the rightfulness of the usage of a pogostick. But due their high popularity among fans it seems as if league officials never even debated about the possibility to ban players of this type.

Rather jumping than walking these players negate the main disadvantage of being a Goblin, having very small legs. This gives them a speed advantage and makes them popular for the role of ball carriers for many Blood Bowl teams.

The voracious Trolls joined Greenskin societies long before the End Times. In exchange for food they would execute hard physical labour - like smashing someone or something big - for which the smaller Goblins would be too small.
Sometimes they’d eat the Goblins if not fed enough, sometimes they’d eat Goblins despite being fed. It’s not possible to say in these situations if a Troll acts consciously or not. Trolls are known for occasional black outs, having a generally slow comprehension with a lack of ability to focus. Some Goblins dispute if Trolls can even think at all while some hippies believe that Trolls are the really smart ones.

Trolls are big,towering several Goblins, and they are strong, they can easily pick up a Goblin and throw them long distances. An ability that is often used by professional Blood Bowl teams. And their ability to smash someone, that’s also often useful.

Riotous Rookies are young, weak and desperate low cost linemen players that will play for peanuts. They can be hired during regular team management or join for free when a team can’t roster 11 active players for the next match day.

Riotous Rookies are weaker and less athletic than regular Goblin players. They haven’t participated in team training and therefore must succeed a Loner roll before making use of any re-roll.

Last and least, Riotous Rookie have no potential and can never gain any additional skills. However, they provide a cheap alternative to regular players and work well as meat shields.

Inducement with the same name: A team may also buy the same named inducement during a pre-game inducement phase, granting up to 2D3+1 of those unlucky gits to their squad, enabling a team roster to exceed the regular squad limit of 16 players.

Coached Rookies: Rookies playing for a team with Player-Coach Specialist lose Loner. Contact your league officials to update your team accordingly. Note that any Rookies gained via Inducement phase will still be Loner.