Stuffed with a plethora of vivid and vibrantly-coloured goodies, as well as some truly smashing minis and a hardback book, this set is the Blood Bowl fan’s holy grail.įoremost in the box, we have a 136-page hardback Blood Bowl rulebook that contains all the rules of the game, along with more advanced details regarding running a league and developing your team. This box, like a Blood Bowl football that’s been kicked into someone’s groin one too many times, is bursting at the seams.

Blood Bowl Second Season Edition Review – Contents Whilst the game doesn’t have a “story mode”, it does support the growth and development of your team across a league – so all those victories (or defeats) matter. Of course, that’s easier said than done: you only have two halves of the game to accomplish this, and there are only 16 turns per half. To score, one player has to make it to the End Zone with the ball. Factors such as the weather, how many fans are cheering for the teams, and so on, are also taken into account to try and keep the experience as authentic as it can be when rendered on a tabletop using plastic Orcs.

The game is essentially high fantasy tabletop rugby: two teams field eleven players and face off over the line of Scrimmage – for the uninitiated, that’s the line across the middle of the pitch. And they’re under your tutelage and captaincy. Those figures on the board? They aren’t seventeen years old and earning three-hundred grand a week whilst you slave away at your dead-end nine to five they don’t make you feel bitter and old, because they’re plastic.

It’s the real beautiful game: one that neither takes itself too seriously, nor is wrecked by racial abuse scandals and eye-watering sponsorship deals. It’s the perfect means to enable those of us who were routinely picked last for sports at school to, at last, get a rough idea of how it feels to be involved in a team (I didn’t quite have this problem: I was big enough to make the rugby team, but too much of a dweeb to ever be passed to. It’s the game that enabled the acrophobic geek to finally do sports like their pushy father always wanted, but not leave the house. Known for its unique blend of tongue-in-cheek anti-sportsmanship, larger-than-life cartoon violence, and its hilarious take on its own factions, Blood Bowl is the angry nerd’s answer to Subbuteo. Its announcement elbowed its way onto our feeds and inboxes a few weeks ago, and ever since the FauxHammer team has been abuzz with excitement surrounding this release.īlood Bowl is, in many people’s opinions, the best game that Games Workshop has ever made ( FauxHammer: Except Space Hulk). How fitting.īlood Bowl Second Season Edition is the latest instalment in what has been a smashing year for Games Workshop boxed games. To get a good sense of who is saying what, you’ll see a little writer portrait next to the section either myself ( VoltorRWH) or Hellhound wrote as we pass the article back and forth between each other – just like a tiny plastic football in a game of Blood Bowl.

Greetings all! Just as any Blood Bowl game features two teams, in order to give you the best, most comprehensive, and in-depth overview of the brand new Blood Bowl Second Season box we could, this review features two writers.

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