First feelings

Will all the colleges of magic be in the game from the start, or are cyanide starting off with a reduced number and hoping to add more later?

It will begin with a reduced number (not sure how many). Depending on the success of DB, more will be added.

Oh dear.

What did you expect?

The real question is how well will it work?

Have to say that the fact they're not releasing all (just) 12 teams is a disappointment for me (and I've been really enthused about DB from the outset). No real re-modelling required for this now chaos dwarfs are being released so no real reason for it not to be included...

It is disappointing that we're not getting all 12 teams - but I guess what's happened is that cyanide have been working on getting the dungeon rules right, and haven't had the time to balance all the teams (as we've already seen they are going with some fast and loose rules for positionals, rather than mapping the different racial positionals onto the standard lineman, blockers, blitzers, etc) or to add the more recent races. So hopefully this release will be the teams which they weren't planning on modifying, and cyanide will discuss with us on the forums how the positional limitations are going, and how to modify the remaining teams to add in the newer races. Hopefully...

If they give you all the teams now there will not be much incentive for you to spend more money on Dungeon Bowl II.

I'm happy to play with a few teams to begin.

My memories of mixed race sides was that effectivly everyone played with the same template. Having 4 options is already 3 more than needed.

ALL of my sides had elf blitzers, dwarf blockers and big guys.

Still overall I can't wait

Will secret weapons be sent off ever? Deathroller looks amazing if they can't be!

I read somewhere that secret weapons must roll a 2+ after each turn to stay on the pitch.

I think that was a house rule we were discussing.

[Tristelune]

Yes in the game you doesn't have roll to secret weapon. The players stayed in game.

Couple of questions for the OP:

What was Cyanide's ruling on the Deathroller?

In the original rules, each college was allowed to include one Star Player in their permanent roster. Is this possible in Cyanide's version?