Customizing teams

[Psychochink]

OK, this is driving me nuts.

In the previous Blood Bowl, you could create a team and then customise them as you saw fit (level up players, etc.). It was a really good way of testing out different builds, or just for playing a custom League against the AI. Is there no longer a way to do this any more?

Is there even a workaround by editing files or something? I don't care if I have to edit a file and then never go online again because it will conflict with my profile on the servers or something, I bought this game to play single player only.

If they've removed that functionality entirely, I'm just going to return the game during the 14 day Steam refund period.

[Psychochink]

So after more searching and fiddling around in all the menus I can think of, I take it that's a yes?

Well that's stupid. There is no logical reason for removing the ability to edit teams.

[Grug Bigflex]

You can edit offline teams by opening the management.db found in your documents in the blood bowl 2 folder under profiles. It's not the guest folder though for some reason one of the two gibberish folders. You have to do it manually in a sql browser though and I haven't quite worked out all of it yet, but it looks like offline leagues and test builds are technically possible still. team listing, player listing, player casualties, and player skills seem to the relevant parts for this.
Seems like every casualty is represented by a number 1-18, you can find the information in the main game's db folder in the rules.db (for instance putting casualty 18 on a player number should make them die). Likewise all skills are a number 1-66, you can find that information in the rules for player types.
Haven't tested it out yet but this should mean you can run a league with your friends offline and manually edit the db so the results of your friendly hotseat match stick.
I miss bbedit :(

[Psychochink]

Excellent - thanks mate!