Blood Bowl trailer everything but a blood bath

Yeah I did look like there were WoW trolls in there.
Though I'm sure it's some little known Warhammer Classic race.

"More like World of Warhammer. Online. Craft."

Blood Bowl is older than WoW and Madden. :)

So what are the Warhammer version of Tauren called?

Uhm, minotaurs. See also: Greek mythology.

... I wasn't trolling, that was a genuine question because I saw a race in that trailer which is visually very similar to Warcrafts Tauren, and was just curious to know their name...And yes I know Blizzard is often very um, inspired by the Warhammer licences but I don't care about that either way I still love them.

Aren't Minotaurs human from the waist down though?

Note I'm talking about the creature 58 seconds into the trailer and uh yeah, traditionally Minotaurs are mostly human with a bulls head.

in warhammer there a large group of beastmen

Its a minotaur. Chaos Minotaur too it looks like. Was heavier into Warhammer, 40,000 and Space Hulk than Blood Bowl. And it all depends on the artists depiction on whether they're human from the waist down or not. They aren't for Games Workshop. And they look bad ass that way too imo.

And "um, inspired" is probably the best way to put Blizzards use of Warhammer and 40,000 concepts in their work. My jaw dropped when I saw steam tanks and gyrocopters in Warcraft. I mean, come on.

@ihavepants
Blood Bowl pre-dates WOW by 17 years. If anything happened, WOW modeled their Tauren after the Blood Bowl minotaur rather than the other way around.

Redjack, well the original Minotaur was a mans body with a bulls tail and head. It's sought of like saying a Gryphon doesn't need the bottom half of its body to be a lion- it's what makes it that particular creature. But if that's what they called it... ok. Just don't go all "jsut" on me and cite Greek mythology.

Warlock, I'm not suggesting Blood Bowl copied anything off Blizzard because I know how long Warhammer has been around, I clarified this up there ^.

@ihavepants If you look back in mythology specifically at black and red figure vase painting there is no one way a Minotaur is portrayed typically though they just had a bulls head so yes you are right, and defeating it was one of the great feats of Heracles. What we see in the trailer are Beastmen.

grrr i meant Theseus not Heracles

Aside from taking Greek mythology in college I was an avid reader of Greek mythology when I was young. So I'm well aware of the classical interpretation of the Minotaur. But as I said artistic license was taken. And honestly, just because most Greek art and historians will go on about it being a man with the head of a bull the part of the myth describing the Minotaur does say its half man and half bull and not the body of a man and the head of a bull. That is just how it is depicted in ancient art and historians tend to follow suit. How that is interpreted really depends on who is reading it and the idea they come up with of it.

If you look at ancient interpretations of werebeasts you will notice that they are pretty basic in their interpretation and don't even come close to our modern conception of how something like a werewolf should look like. Did you see the chimera in the God of War 3 trailer? Doesn't that go against classical interpretation of that creature as well? And yet I enjoy the artist's different take on the three heads. I don't think I've ever seen it done that way and I think it works quite nicely.

So if you're resistant to a different artistic interpretation and think everything should be by the book classical interpretation then that's your preference. I, on the other hand, have always and will always enjoy new takes on the beasts of legend.

"@ihavepants If you look back in mythology specifically at black and red figure vase painting there is no one way a Minotaur is portrayed typically though they just had a bulls head so yes you are right, and defeating it was one of the great feats of Heracles. What we see in the trailer are Beastmen."

While I understand that Games Workshop reappropriated the Minotaurs to the Beastmen Army one of the last times they reorganized everything I'm pretty sure they're still called Minotaurs.

There's a psp version as well, hence the playstation tag

As long as I can bribe the ref, eveything will be all right.

I loved Mutant League football, and to some extent, munant league hockey. I miss the days of dodging land mines and holes in the field. I can still hear EA's monster jibberish as they taunt the other team and laugh.

I preferred Mutant League Hockey, but both were great and they're really begging for a current-generation update. This will have to hold me over until EA pull their heads out of their asses.

I hope this game will let you select your rule set. The 2nd rule set seemed to work out well for me and my bro when we played. Though I never tried first or third gen rules. Still I'm excited for this game, now all we need is a new Space Hulk game.

I'm still waiting for an update to Final Liberation. I like the Dawn of War Series, but it doesn't capture the essence of Epic very well.