Blood Bowl

BLOOD BOWL Being a Necromancer isn't easy, especially if you're the type of Necromancer that shuns the associated lifestyle and is uninterested in taking over the old world with a reanimated undead horde. Its worse still when the living turn up at your door, or the entrance to your dungeon, wielding pitch-forks and torches to hound you out of the locality, in the mistaken belief that you're one of these nefarious evil-doers. Makes me wonder why I ever did my studies in the black arts - all I use it for is the associated merits of extending my life-force and for Wilson, my skeletal butler, to fetch my slippers of an evening. All I really want is to be left ...  Read the complete review

***What is Bloodbowl?*** This is most people’s first question. Some of you may be familiar with Games Workshop’s previous games such as Warhammer – a tabletop wargame. Bloodbowl is a table top football (American football) game, based in the fantasy universe. Two people play different teams, where although a ball is used to score touchdowns, it is largely ignored whilst each team is pummelled into the ground by their opponent. The whole game is played on a mixture of tactics with the positioning of players, which players to use etc. but also on the luck of the dice. The game is generally best played in a league or tournament format rather ...  Read the complete review

Games Workshop have been around for 25 years. They changed from being a general games company to designing, producing and selling only their fantasy 'hobby games' in the last 10-15 years. In that time, I don't think they've made anything half as good as Blood Bowl. Blood Bowl's ancestry is the miniature wargame. Move pieces around, fire their guns, roll dice and get tape measures out. Games Workshop have a whole line of fantasy miniature war games, like Warhammer. From the Warhammer world they created Blood Bowl. Blood Bowl is what the fantasy races of the Warhammer world play when they aren't at war. Imagine American ...  Read the complete review

I used to play Blood Bowl many moons ago. It's a lot of fun & has many ways of playing it. The premise of the game is basically American Football on a board game. It is turn based & dice orientated. Roll a 3 or more to pick up the ball for example. It varies however in that it is set the the Warhammer world of games workshop & has all manner of weird & wonderful races who all play Blood Bowl. This include Humans, Orcs, Elfs, Skaven (man size rats!) & others. There are also other additions. Star players with their own attributes. Wizards who can shoot fire balls across the field. Traps can be set. Some players even play with weapons like a ...  Read the complete review

BloodBowl, so many hours spent playing! BloodBowl is a great game. It is produced by Games Workshop in the UK who also produce tabletop wargames such as Warhammer Fantasy and 40k. Bloodbowl I believe to be far superior to both of these games. BloodBowl is a cyberpunk Fantasy Football style game where the aim of the game is to score more touchdowns than your opponent... sounds simple? Right? Add to the mix a huge range of Fantasy races, no rules, meaning that you have things like Bombs, chainsaws, frightening minotaurs, agile elves, magic and a whole host of other things and things start to spice up! The game itself is turn based. You have ...  Read the complete review