Bright Crusaders Blood Bowl team (sickeningly good)

Bright Crusaders

Credits for the Bright Crusaders team go out to:
Niclas Stenberg for the team concept ... originally presented as the sickeningly good team at YBBL home page.

Team Background:
Almost every new team that appears in the blood bowl world seem to be devoted to evil in some way or at least getting the opposition out of the way by sending them to the dead & injured dugout. In the blood bowl rule book an unsuccesfull human team named 'the bright crusaders' is mentioned, this got my imagination going and here's what I came up with....

The Bright Crusaders is basically a human team that is more interested in playing ball and not at all in hurting fellow Blood Bowl players.

Players:

#	Position	Cost	MA	ST	AG	AV	Skills	Traits	Skills Available
0-12	Lineman	50,000	6	3	3	8	None	Honorable	Special
0-4	Catcher	70,000	8	2	3	7	Dodge, Catch	Honorable	Special
0-2	Thrower	70,000	6	3	3	8	Sure Hands, Pass	Honorable	Special
0-4	Blitzers	90,000	7	3	3	8	Block	Honorable	Special

Rerolls:
50,000

Big Guys:
The Bright Crusader team may not have any Big Guy players.

New skills/traits:
Honorable: The player may never foul or assist in a foul.

Advance:
Sickeningly good players never pick skills from the normal categories, instead ALL players must choose a skill/trait from the Bright Crusaders category.
Bright Crusaders skills:
Accurate, Diving Catch, Diving Tackle, Dodge, Double Blitz, Dump Off, Hail Mary Pass, Jam, Jump Up, Kick, Kickoff Return, Leader, Leap, Nerves of Steel,
Pass, Pass Block, Perfect Spiral, Pooch Kick, Pro, Safe Throw, Shadowing, Side Step, Sprint, Stiff Arm, Strip Ball, Strong Leg, Sure Feet, Sure Hands, Tackle, Trip Up

Whenever a Bright Crusader player rolls a double he may choose the 'Block' skill or ANY stat increase (MA, AG, ST or AV) this represents the hours of extra training the Bright Crusader player spent in the gym. Note: no stat may be increased more than 2 points over its starting value.

Special Rules:

A Bright Crusader coach will never call upon an 'illegal procedure', instead he will kindly point out what the other coach has forgotten in a friendly manner and not cause him a turnover or a re-roll (yes, this is a rule!). Nor will he question the referee's authority (i.e you may never 'argue the call').
As Bright Crusaders teams spend much more time training than normal teams so they never pay double the price for re-rolls.
A Bright Crusader team may of course never cheat with magic or other means, so the team can never use Dirty Trick or Magic Item cards or roll on the BB2k1 Handicap Table. Instead their massive amounts of training allow them a slight edge on the pitch. If the Bright Crusaders are playing a team with a high Team Rating, they draw three Pre-Match Preparations special play cards. If the card 'Grudge Match' is drawn it shall be discarded and replaced.
If you play with Grab Bag cards, the Bright Crusaders may not play Magic Flux, Not-So-Secret Weapon, or The Big One!, these should be discared and a replacement card drawn.
If the opposing teams fans ever attempt to 'get the ref' on a kick-off roll the referee will quickly seek shelter in the Bright Crusaders dugout and is saved from further intimidation. No other team would allowed this as it is commonly considered that the referee is 'unclean' or brings bad luck (if he is not digested correctly that is).
As sickeningly good players are never intent on hurting their fellow sportsmen (no elbows in the face or knees in the groin etc) they always have a -1 modifier on armour rolls that are effects of their blocking.
Death have a great psychological effect on Bright Crusaders teams. If a Bright Crusader player would ever cause the demise of another player as a result of a block (not a crowd injury though) and the dead player is not saved in some way (apothecary or card) the trauma that follows from having taken another person's life will so greatly shake up the player that he will miss the rest of the match (Undead, Daemons, and Artifical beings don't count). If a Bright Crusader kills a player with Regeneration they will miss the rest of the game, but if they recover at the end of the drive, the Crusader sees he is okay and returns to the game as well.
If a Bright Crusader player is killed during a game and is not immediately saved by the apothecary this will affect the whole team. The shocking sight of their dead comrade being carried of the field will leave them in a shaken and unorganized state and all their previous training suddenly seems forgotten. Remove all of their remaining team re-rolls for the rest of the half.
Bright Crusaders teams earn their star player points in a slightly different way. The ability to send another player to the dead and injured dugout is not rewarded with experience in a Bright Crusaders team. Instead, every time a player is badly hurt, seriously injured or killed for any reason, he is awarded two spp's (keep track of these as you would normally do CAS's). If you think of this for a moment it is actually quite logical, a player who gets hurt a lot sooner or later must learn how to step aside or stay on his feet.
Because of their extremely intensive training and discipline, a Bright Crusaders player can play through some pretty bad injuries. If a Bright Crusader player has a niggling injury at the beginning of the match and fails his niggling injury roll to play that game, roll a D6 for each failed niggle roll. If you roll all 6s, the player plays in this game despite the old injury(s) flaring up.

Allies:
The Bright Crusaders team may not have any allied players and they will not play as allies for any other team.

Apothecary:
Standard rules

Head Coach:
The team can have a normal head coach or for 150,000 can hire a Playbook Specialist. This special coach allows the team to draw a free Pre-Match Preparations card at the beginning of the match if your TR is higher than your opponents.

On Pitch Spellcaster:
Bright Crusaders do not use magic and thus do not have Spellcasters instead they have a Specialist. (A specialist does not lose the point of AV but does cost an extra 50,000..
Use the exact same rules for a Specialist as you would a Spellcaster, except instead of spells, the Specialist learns any skill or non-Physical trait that would not normally be available to a Bright Crusaders player (Block is considered normally available). In order to use these "skills", the Specialist makes a casting roll just like a normal Spellcaster. On a 2+, the player may use that skill for the rest of this match. On a 1, the specialist's training has slipped and nothing happens. The starting "spell" for a Specialist is whatever skill they desire. The Specialist may never learn Dirty Player.
Example: After 3 skill rolls, a Specialist has become Casting level 2 and has the spells: Guard, Dauntless, Frenzy. He would be able to cast 2 spells during the game (on different turns of course) which if successful would allow him to use two of those skills for the rest of the match.
The Specialist does still receive 1 SPP for successfully casting a "spell"/skill.

Secret Weapons:
The Bright Crusaders team will not use secret weapons.

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Racial Wizard: (Note: the MBBL does not use Racial Wizards
The Bright Crusaders team may not use a team wizard.

Stadium rules:
Bright Crusader teams may only purchase a Stadium, they may not purchase Terracing or a Grandstand.
The fans at a Bright Crusaders team like to insure a good clean game. As a result, during any home Bright Crusaders' stadium game, the fans will ambush any secret weapon players OR any player with penalty roll (ie Body Shop enchanced players) on the opposing team when they arrive at the stadium and as a result they will miss the game.

Star Players: (Note: the MBBL does not use Star Players)
None

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