
While it might not be as fun as having a dining table crammed full of tiny plastic fantasy-based footballers, including cheerleaders, the whole stomping on an elf's back after a spectacular tackle sure looks good. This will give you a chance to work out those frustrations from failed raids and PvP campers, and you can actually tell your friends you're playing football and not hunting for a mystical suit of armor. Maybe this is what Madden has been missing all these years.
You can find out all about the Blood Bowl series at BoardGameGeek, which offers dozens of photos of the plastic models.



















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This game looks genuinely cool, will definitely check it out upon release.
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But really, what I want is a new Epic 40k videogame, or Battlefleet Gothic, or Necromundia, or Inquisitor, or Gorkamorka, or even Mordheim (Mordheim is more far fetched since WAR is kinda close).
Why did we get Blood Bowl anyway? It's up there with Man O'War as GW's abandoned properties. (I think I've named-dropped nearly every obscure GW game there)
I don't see the Undead or Skaven though... I know there was at least an Undead team in the original table top.
But I'm not saying that this game doesn't look good. Just a criticism more towards the title of the post rather than anything. I remember Super Mutant Hockey League for some old system (I think football as well), can't remember which right now. But I had so much fun on that game it was amazing how long I could just play and laugh at the violence and traps in the field and such.
I hope blood bowl is a bit like that, Good Times.
Trust me, I'm an old school (ish) 2nd edition player from the 90s. From elementary school to high school I ate and slept nearly everything GW put out (even the Space Hulk PC game).
40k? That would make fantastic MMO game! I'm having Tyranid-laced flashbacks right about now!
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THANK YOU THANK YOU!
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Thats win.
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And once every year for all eternity they release a new rulebook for Hell that completely borks all you knew from the previous one, and make you rebuy it and all the supplemental books, only to make them obsolete next year with the next edition. Occationally they release rules for Purgatory and the Armageddon, but then they abandon all support for them after a couple months.
WOW + Similar looking IP + ???? = PROFIT!!!!
I've heard of the tabletop game but I never got to try it.
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Wonder if we can still cheat as much as we did in the board game? I think in one game I managed to sneak on an extra 5 players before the other guy noticed.. heh.
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http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=132
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After having several armies in both Warhammer fantasy and 40k I'm kinda surprised now why I never got into Bloodbowl.. other than the fact that there are almost no players left...
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I played this game as the tabletop version and it ruled.
This game was so much fun that me and a few mates had a blood bowl league. We would stay up for hours on end playing.
I am so drooling with anticipation for this
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Blizzards "craft" series was inspired by Warhammer, not vice versa.
It doesn't really matter, Warcraft and Starcraft can completely hold their own and the stories they tell are great. It just slightly irks me when the two are confused by a news outlet.
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Well they're not copied entirely, but alot of the broad strokes clearly are. Zerg are Tyranids, Protoss are eldar, Terrans are the Imperium and so on as well as with the orcs and such.
But countless fantasy games have orcs and elves and whatnot. The devil is in the details and those have not been copied by Blizzard (asexual orcs, fanatically religious and xenophobic humans and so on).
I get your point though, but it's abit harsh.
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'Blood Bowl' was originally released in 1987, 7 years before Warcraft 1 came out. I can not tell if you are being sarcastic, or thick. Perhaps both.
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Did you try reading the post and not just the headline? Give it a whirl.
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I really, really hope that they allow Chainsaw Loonies and have the proper rules in place for Undead teams. Nothing like a Vampire quarterback passing to a skeleton in the endzone.
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