Blood Bowl Dark Elves Edition is $10 even for the next few days, and I might take advantage of it if it lives up to the Amiga version's legacy (no, I haven't played the tabletop version, I could never find a shop that had any GW games besides Warhammer and 40K). I was less than impressed with the Speedball remake, and frankly, I'm concerned with the way companies are creating mediocre rehashes of what were once pretty great classics and calling them "upgrades for the modern era" or whatever the selling phrase is.
So anyway, back to the original inquiry: Does this version of the game stick to the original without too many unnecessary artistic liberties? Or should I save my money for a quarter tank of petrol?

A new and better (probably in every way :p) version is on the way. So you may want to wait.

If you're not stuck on Blood Bowl specifically for tabletop, go for a Privateer Press game, they don't treat their fans and customers like dirt.

In turn based mode it's pretty close to the tabletop game, basicly the company that made it first made a rip off game (chaos league i think it was) there was a lawsuit which GW won basicly they then ignored the settlement and did a deal to make a fully autherised version which is what we have now that uses the then current rules from the tabletop game.

I thought I was pretty clear that I HADN'T played the tabletop version, even offering a pretty good reason.
No, my question was whether or not it stands up to the Amiga version. High Def doesn't necessarily mean High Quality. Try playing Speedball 2 Tournament, for example. It totally ruins the reputation of the Bitmap Brothers original.

As far as the game goes, its a reasonably good implementation of the game but I'm not sure how the PC version works as I have the xbox one which strips out the multiplayer tournaments which was the one and only reason I bought the piece of shit.
What the fuck were they thinking?

they weren't it was a stupid move the only thing i can think of is they intended to add it as DLC

I didn't play the official Blood Bowl game, but I did play the developpers' previous game, Chaos League, and it was fun. The official game should be about the same, but with less teams to choose from.
It's not really anything like Speedball, by the way. It's much more slow-paced, especially in turn-based mode.
The game is all about creating a tactic to win based on your team's playstyle, so if you like tactical games, don't mind violence and slapstick humor, then go for it.

Wait. A newer version is being developed with more league options, better multi player, more races to play as, and (hopefully) an AI that knows how to play the game. And the devs have made it clear owners of previous versions will have to pony up full price for this more complete edition when it drops.

www.fumbbl.com - online Bloodbowl league [using java client] that's been around for 8 years now. It doesn't have the fancy graphics, but it has the community and online features that cyanide lacks [and a new game client updated to latest rules is almost done].
Closest you can get to tabletop aside actually playing the boardgame (there's a steep learning curve for most people though ... as should be expected playing against others that now have thousands of games experience.)

Wait for the legendary edition wich will include all tabletop teams, better AI and hopefully will fix some annoying bugs.

Keep in mind that in the UK on Steam it's £4.25 ($6.50). So if you do decide to get it, get it gifted by someone in the UK.

Yeah, that part is somewhat making me mad, as I bought the collector's edition (nice T-shirt by the way) of the original game, then learned that a better one will be released. I'm not sure I'll be ready to pay again for almost the same game. If they had developped the new version of the full game full price AND a "new features, new teams, new fixes" only edition at "add-on price", I would have jumped on the last one...

Well if you like miniatures, go for the table top, you can find the rules somewhere on the internet and making your own team out of warhammer miniatures is pretty easy, sure you need some pals to play it but it's better than the PC game in it's current state.