Originally printed in Blood Bowl Compendium #1

Copyright Games Workshop LTD 1997

For those of you that can remember as far back as White Dwarf 197 (yes, I know it’s an extremely long time for some of you to cast your minds back to! – Ed), you will recall the Gary Morley interview within which you got just a tiny glimpse of Gary’s truly amazing 90mm Blood Bowl miniature (Shouldn’t that be Blood Bowl massive? – Ed). Well, we liked it so much that we ‘lifted’ it to do out rather splendid cover!

As ***’s Law would have it Gary found out, so we had to give it back (Yah! Boo! N’ stuff! – Ed). It did give us ample opportunity to ‘grill’ Gary about his bloomin’ marvelous bit of sculpting though…

Gary introduced us to his long running an highly successful Blood Bowl team ‘Morley’s Marauders’, that had ‘kicked the stuffing’ out of most of the other Studio teams. Gary had become particularly attached to a certain player by the name of ‘Deathblow’, a sixty-six match veteran, who was made ‘Most Valuable Player’ fifteen times and became the only player to make it all the way through the Studio League without being killed, retired, or out because of continuous injury. Considering that the Studio is made up of some of the most bloodthirsty, unhinged miscreants imaginable, that’s some feat! (I would like to take this opportunity to state that I in no way endorse this most nefarious opinion Mr. Dews, Sir – Ed) Anyway, back to the story, it was this player that so inspired Gary that he just had to immortalize Deathblow in some way, and so he did… by making a special 90mm tall model of this model of this amazing player. Being a modest fellow and in no way narcissistic Gary modeled Deathblow on… himself!

Naturally, we decided to make Deathblow into a Star player for all of you smart enough to buy this seriously groovy publication! Now of course, you have to decide whether you want to cut up your ‘special, limited edition, probably worth 16p in a few years time Compendium’ to use him in one of your games or reach into your very deep pockets with those deceptively short arms of your and buy another one! Alternatively you could just photocopy it, because we suppose we’ll give you permission.