Chaos Halfling Followers of Yum Blood Bowl team

Chaos Halfling

Team Concept: Harald Aberg is credited with first coming up with the Chaos Halfling team. These two different version of the Chaos Halfling resulted in a two day discussion on the Blood Bowl Mailing list between by Phil Bowen, Harald Aberg, Chester Zeshonski, David Cook, and Tom Anders.
The Gluttony trait is credited to the BOBBA league as they use this trait for all their normal Halfling teams.
Harald Aberg is credited with the NTAP (Not a Team Player) trait.

Team Description:
Many ages ago, the moot was much as it is today: peaceful, cheerful, and full of life and song. The halflings of the moot have always indulged themselves in the worldly pleasures that come from a life of security and leisure, overindulging in food, drink, play and carousing, but there was once a time when there lived halflings for whom this indulgence became more than mere gluttony.

The oddfellows earned their name, and were always a bit peeved at being referred to as such. But the fact is that these odd little halflings had always been a bit off, it was in their blood. Their gardens were never well-kept, their holes always dirty and smelly, their chores never done. Instead of working hard between bouts of playing hard like any other self-respecting halfling, the oddfellows concentrated their days and nights upon their appetites. They would only do enough work to get by, and often resorted to theft or treachery rather than honest work. over the years, the other clans of the moot began to dislike them more and more, and one day they just had enough of the smelly little drunkards and tossed them right out!

The oddfellows wandered up into the rocky lands east of the moot, and eventually settled in a particularly inhospitable clump of rock near the troll country. They were low on food, lower on beer, and right out of tobacco and growing restless. They began to squabble amongst themselves deep in the jagged caves of their new hole, and in those long nights of furious fighting, madness, and cannibalism, something came into this world that forever changed the oddfellow clan.

That something was brought into being deep within the swirling madness of chaos, drawn to the hole of the oddfellows by their communal avarice and greed, by their desires, their hunger and their passion. What the oddfellows did not know when they settled in their new hole was that they were crawling down into a spire of warpstone, a natural antenna that focused their emotions and projected them into chaos where they took shape, form, and consciousness. the oddfellows had created a god. That god was Yum, the glutton.

Yum fed them in the darkness. Yum gave them drink, gave them song, gave them all manner of treats, thrills, and comforts. and the oddfellows took Yum as their master, devoted themselves to his rapacious hunger, and fed their souls to him.

The covetous one made his people over in his aspect, and released them upon the world to scour the countryside consuming all that could be eaten, to drink all that could be chugged, and rape all that could be, well, you get the picture.

One day, Yum discovered BloodBowl...

While the Chaos Halflings swear up and down that Yum is a legitimate deity, scholars find it far more likely that this is a practical joke played by one of the Chaos gods. Which one lies behind the myth? The gods themselves aren't saying, although Nurgle remains the most likely culprit. More than one religious scholar has pinned the tail on Khorne, however, citing Yum's penchant for sacrificing one of the little guys after a loss, and the number of Chaos Champions who have played for the team following a loss in battle and subsequent 'conversion'. See the bottom of this page for the debate over who Yum might really be from the Chaos God's point of view (thanks to Chet for this bit of humour).

The Chaos God responsible for Yum forces Champions of Chaos to play for the Chaos Halflings as Yum himself. This is part of the punishment of the Champion who has somehow fallen from grace. A champion of Nurgle refusing to rot, a champion of Khorne that is cowardly, a champion of Slaanesh who passes an opportunity to get laid or merely a champion of Tzeentch who wore same pants twice. In fact, the Chaos Gods see Yum as such a good running joke that two different versions of Yum have appeared to Chaos Halfling sects. Both sects of course swear that theirs is the "REAL" Yum. The first Yum promised his followers strength through Gluttony and Victory, the second promised virtual immortality if they would agree to feed his own Gluttony (and the Chaos Gods laughed and laughed to see such sport).

Team Roster for Chaos Halflings promised the gift of Strength

Players:

#	Position	Cost	MA	ST	AG	AV	Skills	Traits	Skills Available
0-15	Chaos Halfling	40,000	5	2	3	6	Guard, Thick Skull	Gluttony, Claws, Stunty	General, Physical

Big Guy:

#	Position	Cost	MA	ST	AG	AV	Skills	Traits	Skills Available
1	Yum (Champion of Chaos receiving punishment)	100,000	6	5	3	9	BIG GUY, Block, Mighty Blow, Tackle, Thick Skull	OTAP, Double Blitz, Horns	Strength, Physical

Team Roster for Chaos Halflings promised the gift of Immortality

Players:

#	Position	Cost	MA	ST	AG	AV	Skills	Traits	Skills Available
0-15	Chaos Halfling	40,000	5	2	3	6	None	Claws, Regeneration, Stunty	General, Physical

Big Guy:

#	Position	Cost	MA	ST	AG	AV	Skills	Traits	Skills Available
1	Yum (Champion of Chaos receiving punishment)	100,000	5	6	3	10	BIG GUY, Block, Mighty Blow, Multiple Block	NATP, Regeneration, Stomach Pains	Strength, Physical

Reroll for either team:
70,000

Big Guys:
Either team MUST have one Big Guy player on the team. Big Guy players may not use team rerolls.

Advance:
Chaos Halflings and the Champion of Chaos may take Physical mutations on doubles on the star player roll.

New skills/traits:
Double Blitz: A player with this skill may throw one additional block against the same player after the first on a blitz move if neither of the players is knocked down. Unlike a Frenzy, this additional block is optional.

Gluttony: At every Kick-off, roll a D6 for every player with Gluttony that could play in this drive. On a 1, the player is too busy eating to play.

Fangs: Treated the same as Claw(s)

NATP (Not a Team Player): The Champion of Chaos is forced as part of his punishment to eat one Chaos Halfling at the end of each match. The Chaos Halfling eaten can be one that has died during THIS match. Permanently remove the eaten Chaos Halfling from the team roster.

OTAP (On Team As Penance): The Champion of Chaos is forced by his Chaos god to play for Chaos Halflings as the "GREAT GOD - YUM". This angers the Champion of Chaos two fold. First, he has to pretend to be from some pretend God instead of his true and mighty Chaos power, and second, he's playing for a bunch of twisted halflings. Because of this anger, this player has the following penalties:

Will never lend assists on either offense or defense and does not have a tackle zone
Cannot use trophy or Leader re-rolls
Cannot gain the Leader or Guard skills
Will never hand-off off or pass the ball to another player
Can not be moved during a team turn if another player was moved first
Hates losing so much that if the team loses, the Champion demands a Chaos Halfling as a sacrifice. The coach chooses one LIVING player (can be injured but not dead) to feed the Champion. Delete this Chaos Halfling from the roster.

Stomach Pains: The Chaos laced Halflings that this Champion eats regenerate inside his stomach, causing him to bloat to perverse amounts of obesity and suffer from grievous stomach pains. The silver lining is that his damages are repaired by the regenerating halfling flesh inside him, making him almost immortal... oh the agony. If he only could have searched his wardrobe a little longer. Or went without pants, then maybe he could have found refuge with Slaanesh, those broads are hot.

At the end of each of your turns roll a dice. On the roll of 1, the champion is overcome by the agony and has to lie down. Place him prone.
If this Chaos Champion ever suffers a casualty, then D6 Chaos Halflingettes spew forth from him with the follow stats (MA 6 ST 1 AG 3 AV 5 Stunty, Dodge, Foul Appearance, Fangs) using the scatter template for each Halflingette (if no squares are available place them in the first empty square in that direction). They are faster and nimbler than the ordinary chaos halflings after a long slimming cure in the Champion's belly where naught is to eat except other chaos halflings. And having seen the effects of that particular diet first hand so to speak, they avoid it. They may be used as normal players for the rest of the drive (even if this raises the total number of players over 11) after which they wander off to regenerate. They never get rid of the sour smell of stomach acid though.
At the end of the match, one of regenerated Chaos Halflingettes is so devout to Yum that he returns to the team for free. The team gains a rookie Chaos Halfling that also has Foul Appearance (stomach acid stench).
If the Chaos Champion is brought back to the game after the casualty that caused this (examples: regeneration or apothecary), he temporarily loses the Stomach Pains trait for the remainder of this match.

Allies:
No one is crazy enough to be around these guys long enough to ally with them or take them as allies (and the few that have tried didn't last long enough take the field).

Extra Team Rules:
If Yum is killed during the game, then no players will be eaten that game. HOWEVER, Yum must be replaced at the end of the game after money is received. If there is not enough money to purchase a new Yum, then Chaos Halflings are sacrificed on the altar until they can get Yum's attention. Treat each Chaos Halfling sacrificed as 40k toward purchasing a new Yum. No actual gold is gained by sacrificing Chaos Halflings, just the attention of the Chaos Gods. Sacrificed Chaos Halflings may not attempt to regenerate and may not be apothecaried.

Apothecary:
Standard rules

On Pitch Spellcaster:
The staring spell for a Chaos-Yum Spellcaster is Ravenous Hunger.
Successful Result: If successfully cast, then all players on the opposing team gain the Gluttony trait for the rest of this match. If an opposing player has the Always Hungry trait, they will fail this Gluttony roll on a D6 roll of 1, 2, OR 3 instead of just 1.
Failure Result: The Spellcaster immediately is overcome by hunger and will spend the rest of the entire match eating (thus missing the rest of the game). This will result in a turnover.
Range: Entire opposing team
Succeeds on: 4+
Note:: Make sure for PBeM games to do a stats change to give the players Gluttony.

Secret Weapons:
One Chaos Halfling on the team may use a Chainsaw.

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Wizard:
Use standard Death Zone rules

Stadium rules:
At the end of a stadium home game for either Chaos Halfling team, roll a D6. On a 6, a raving fan comes forward and volunteers to be eaten by the great Yum. If this is Promise of Strength team and they actually had won the game, this fan may be added to the team as a free Cheerleader.

Star Players:
None, Yum has a tendency to eat them!

Suggested miniatures:
Phil's Phigs makes miniatures that are perfect for Chaos Halflings ... the website is www.phigsminiatures.com.
Here is the first complete first fig:

Here is the second complete fig:

WHO IS YUM?

(A breakfast discussion at the homes of the elder Chaos Gods)

by Chet

SCENE I. A kitchen. TZEENTCH and KHORNE sit at the Chaos Breakfast Table, munching on something unspeakable and orange. KHORNE reads a NEWSPAPER, very interested in the OBITUARIES.

Enter SLAANESH, walking in late after a night of debauchery with several Daemonettes. He saunters lazily to the refrigerator and opens it, scanning the interior for something chewy.

SLAANESH [closing the refrigerator door, popping down some Squigs]: "So...anyone catch the Blood Bowl game on the NBC last night?"

TZEENTCH: "No. Who played?"

SLAANESH: "Those crazy 'Chaos Halflings.' What a riot..."

KHORNE [putting down his paper]: "SHUT UP AND PASS THE FREAKIN' OJ!!!"

TZEENTCH passes the orange juice to Khorne. He waits until the Blood God has it on his lips before turning it into a horde of flying spiders. KHORNE sputters furiously. The NEWSPAPER flies everywhere.

TZEENTCH [to Slaanesh]: "C'mon, THOSE guys? Haven't you grown tired of that 'Yum' shtick yet?"

SLAANESH: "I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about."

TZEENTCH: "You mean to tell me you're not the guy having the biggest laugh about this?"

SLAANESH: "No, not at all. I thought -you- were Yum."

TZEENTCH: "Me? Certainly not."

KHORNE [wiping off the last of the spiders]: "SHUT UP AND GIMME SOME FREAKIN' EGGS!!!"

TZEENTCH: "Sure, big guy. Coming right up." He floats a plate of scrambled eggs over to KHORNE, then waits until the Blood God has them in his mouth before turning them into a flock of giant mutant chickens. KHORNE continues to munch away.

SLAANESH: "Maybe it's Nurgle."

TZEENTCH [somewhat irked at KHORNE's apparent nonchalance]: "Fatso? Nah, I couldn't see that in a million millennia..."

SLAANESH: "Where is he, anyway?"

TZEENTCH [looking around]: "I don't know. I think he's in the bathroom."

KHORNE [wiping feathers off his face]: "SHUT UP AND PASS THE FREAKIN' COFFEE!"

TZEENTCH: "Ok, ok...hang on..." He begins to float a giant pot of COFFEE over to KHORNE, who eyes it suspiciously.

Enter NURGLE, fresh from the bathroom. He smells funny. This visibly upsets everyone but KHORNE, who begins sniffing himself as if searching for the source of the new odor.

SLAANESH: "So, Big Daddy TB...whaddya think of those Chaos Halflings?"

NURGLE: "BBBUUURRRPPP!!!"

TZEENTCH [turning the COFFEE into a large purple stranglefish]: "Yeah, that's what I thought..."

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