SPALDING WARGAMING CLUB
I enjoy Blood Bowl for many of the reasons I love (American) football. Blood Bowl is, after all, a game of fantasy football. Lineman are replaced with ogres, mummies, zombies, orcs, and even the occasional halfling but the principle is just the same. You win your games of blood bowl in the same place: in the trenches.
Your fine athletes or diminutive goblins are all putting themselves in jeopardy so you, as a coach, can move the ball to the endzone and ultimately win.
Again, just like football, there are many different play-styles to make it to the endzone. You can run the ball like the Dallas Cowboys with an orc or dwarf team, or you can play a high flying passing game like 'A-ron' Rogers and the Green Bay Packers with many of the elvish teams. All of the teams in Blood Bowl have their strengths (except maybe the goblin and halfling teams!) and there’s a lot of enjoyment in finding the system that works for you. I prefer a tougher harder hitting team but it isn’t necessarily going to more successful than a squishier team that just stays out of harm’s way and actually plays the ball!
Again, just like football, there are many different play-styles to make it to the endzone. You can run the ball like the Dallas Cowboys with an orc or dwarf team, or you can play a high flying passing game like 'A-ron' Rogers and the Green Bay Packers with many of the elvish teams. All of the teams in Blood Bowl have their strengths (except maybe the goblin and halfling teams!) and there’s a lot of enjoyment in finding the system that works for you. I prefer a tougher harder hitting team but it isn’t necessarily going to more successful than a squishier team that just stays out of harm’s way and actually plays the ball!
The great thing about Blood Bowl is that the hits are so much more meaty, shockingly violent & utterly fantastic. These tiny plastic players perform feats I could only dream of on the pitch. For example, when your plucky enslaved hobgoblin stands up to that ogre on the other side of the line and fends him off turn after turn. Or when the goblin defence has had enough and starts throwing bombs at the opposition, only to be sent off moments later, his work done! There’s heroism, of sorts, there too.
All of these 11 little figures that make up my team fulfill a different desire. Crushing blows, outrageous catches, mind boggling runs. They’re all there for you and your opponent to share in.