After climbing you from under the postbag with the "Norse Blood Bowl letters" stamped on it, my first though was, "What hit me?" Then I thought, "What a good idea!" And to this end I have compiled the best bits of your letters and a few ideas of my own and created this article. You may recognize some of your ideas here and I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who sent in ideas about Norse in Blood Bowl. Without further gibberish here are the wildest humans in the world, the Norse.

Norsca is a frozen land of ice wastes and snowbound plains. High mountains were the wolves howl their chilling calls fill the skyline of the people who call this freezing hell, home. They are the Norse. A wild and barbaric people who have been shaped by the landscape they live in. Oh and they also have a tendency to enter a blood mad frenzy and froth at the mouth.

When Blood Bowl first became popular several decades ago, it was not long before the Norse fell in love with the sheer mayhem of the game. Many teams joined the NAF in force and proved themselves worthy in the Blood Bowl arena. In fact the Vynehiem Valkyres won the Blood Bowl twice before the collapse of the NAF.

After the NAF collapsed the Norse players retuned to their homeland and continued to fight their tribal wars, go off conquesting to far off lands and all the rest of the other Norse type things (Which we shall not mention, this is a family magazine you know). But one day, just after tea, a Norseman got off a boat that had come from the Old World and screamed, "Blood Bowl’s back!" at the top of his voice.

That was it. The Norse were back into the Blood Bowl arena and have taken to the new game even better than the last. They do have a tendency to forget about the ball but this is not a problem because the Norse are not in this for the touchdowns. They are in Blood Bowl to inflict as much pain upon their friends and enemies alike. The bloodier it gets the better they like it!

The Norse are a hard team who hit hard, play hard but ultimately are not that good with the ball and may not necessarily win games this way. But they are a lot of fun! At the bottom of this page is the chart that shows all of the player types that are available to the Norse. You will notice that they have an average AV. This is because they generally don’t wear much armor. Just a spiky codpiece here, a horned helmet here. You know, that kind of thing.

Norse may buy Wizards, Apothecaries, Coaching Staff and Cheerleaders just like any other team. There are also three Norse Star Players included in this article. They may be bought just like other Star Players.

When you roll to determine weather then follow the special rules below if Sweltering Heat or Blizzard are rolled up. Norse are not used to Sweltering Heat at all and so will collapse on the roll of a 1 or 2 instead of 1 after every touchdown. During a blizzard the Norse come into their own and will only slop over on the roll of 1 and can attempt to throw Long Passes.

When you are using the Norse team on the Blood Bowl pitch you can use either the plastic Human team that comes in the Blood bowl game or you can get hold of some Old Norse miniatures and cut their weapons off. You can simply convert a lot of miniatures into suitable poses so they they can represent Huscarls, Berserkers, or even the star players below. Go on have a go! We will welcome any photos of nicely modeled Norse and if we get enough we may do a page of Norsemen in the Journal.

If Ulrik injures a Skeleton and causes an injury result, then he runs off with the Skeleton’s leg bone to bury it in the dug out. Ulrik is placed in the reserves box of the dugout where the coach tries to convince him to go back out there. Nobody is stupid enough to try and get the bone back off Ulrik so the Skeleton cannot be repaired so remove the Skeleton from the team roster. Ulrik will come back on after the next touchdown is scored or the beginning of the second half, whichever comes first.

If there is a Treeman on the pitch then at the beginning of each turn roll a D6. On the result of 1 then Ulrik must head straight towards him to answer the ‘call of Nature’. If Ulrik reaches the Treeman, or if he is already standing adjacent to him, then roll a D6. On a dice roll of Ulrik may do nothing this turn as he lifts his leg and does the natural thing you may find this makes Treemen really angry, Ulric, however, does not know why.