About
Blood Bowl is a two-player, turn-based board game that typically uses 28 mm miniatures to represent a contest between two teams on a playing field. A board containing a grid overlay represents the field. Using dice, cards, and counters, the players attempt to score higher than each other by entering the opponent's end zone with a player who possesses the ball.
The "Blood" in Blood Bowl is represented by the violent actions available to players. Game play is based on a hybrid of American Football and Rugby. Players may attempt to injure or maim the opposition in order to make scoring easier by reducing the number of enemy players on the field.
The player races are drawn from the ranks of fantasy races and have characteristics that reflect the abilities of those races. Elves tend to be agile and good at scoring, while Dwarfs and Orcs are more suited to a grinding, physical style of play.
All teams offer a choice between player types with different statistics: related races (e.g. skeletons and zombies in undead teams, various lizardmen types), guests of allied races (e.g. trolls in orc and goblin teams), exotic or monstrous units (e.g. ghouls, wights and mummies in undead teams), and specialists of different roles (usually some combination of Blockers, Blitzers, Throwers, Catchers, Runners and Linemen). Teams can include any number of players of the most basic type (usually Linemen), while the stronger units are limited to 1, 2, 4 or 6 per team.
In league play, players gain additional skills and abilities based on their accumulation of experience points. Players face potential injury or even death on the field throughout their careers. Teams improve by the purchase of off-field staff such as cheerleaders, assistant coaches, and apothecaries. Disparity between team values is offset by the purchase of ad hoc star players or mercenaries, as well as bribes and additional temporary support staff, such as wizards or a halfling cook.
Scoring
Players will be awarded points according to the list below: PASSING Standard scoring: · Pass = 1pt · Every 10 passing yards = 1pt · Interceptions Thrown = -2pts RUSHING Standard scoring: · Every 10 rushing yards = 1pt · Reception = 1pt · Interceptions = 2pts SCORING Standard scoring: · TD = 3pts BRUTALIZING Standard scoring: · KO = 1pt · Injury = 3pts · Death = 6pts
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Blood Bowl Week 7 Jacob Kosman - 8:03AM August 27, 2015 Comments The Midseason Review
The Fantasy Blood Bowl Week 7 Review
Since we find ourselves at midseason, we’ll be forgoing This Week’s Big Takeaways in favor of a team-by-team look at the second half of the season. Each team will have their Star Players singled out and try to highlight some potential second-half sleepers. That’s right, this is the tl;dr week of the review, if the other weeks hadn’t already filled that quota.
GAME 1: Snarltoof Smashas Vs Stalking Dead – If you like 1-die blocks, this was the game for you. The Stalking Dead threw eight 1-die blocks this game, while the Snarltoof Smashas threw a more reasonable five. But here’s the best part: none of those ended in an Attacker Down. It ...
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Blood Bowl Week 6 Jacob Kosman - 7:41PM August 17, 2015 Comments Until Death Do Us part
The Fantasy Blood Bowl Week 6 Review
GAME 1: Crazy 8s Vs Re-AWOOOOOOOO-ken – Lets kick off this week’s reviews with the biggest win. RAk played an outstanding game from start to finish and just took the Crazy 8s to the woodshed. Just on the first drive, RAk’s coach JesterTG showed great awareness by getting two separate palyers pushed off the pitch en route to a TD for Awooo, his first of the season. In the second half, he shut down the Crazy 8s offense, took advantage of turnovers and scored twice, spreading the ball around while doing so. The first of these defensive TDs was scored by the other werewolf, Hawroooooooo, giving him his second TD and his second highes...
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Blood Bowl Week 5 Jacob Kosman - 8:54AM August 11, 2015 Comments Final Tally: 11-0
The Fantasy Blood Bowl Week 5 Review
Well, well, well. Everyone seems to be stepping up their FA game, and that’s making it harder to come up with decent suggestions in the pool. So while I *just* cut the number down to 10 last week, its getting cut again to 5 this week. In the event that we actually get more than 5 who could score points in free agency, I’ll adjust it for that week only. I assure you, this is only, like 85% about me wanting to just do less.
GAME 1: Malal’s Mashers Vs Stalking Dead – Remember kids, just because a team wins Blood Bowl Games does not necessarily mean that same team will win you Fantasy games. Malal’s Mashers earned their first W th...
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Blood Bowl Week 4 Jacob Kosman - 8:10AM August 04, 2015 Comments 3 Ties and a Victory
The Fantasy Blood Bowl Week 4 Review
Due to some oddities last week (read: I’m an idiot), I recommended against Lymeolvir and mentioned Papa Reghoul, neither of which actually played this week, because of injury and Coaches choice (again: I’m an idiot). Sorry guys. The list will be fixed this week. I’m 16% sure. There will also be a change to the FA list. Rather than list every free agent available, I’ll be listing the top 10, as well as the Top 5 scorers on the season and a couple random season facts.
GAME 1: Sunday Speedwalkers Vs Stalking Dead – That was an ugly game. All the Stalking Dead had to do was not get cocky, or make huge mistakes. Up 2-0 at the e...
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Blood Bowl Week 3 Jacob Kosman - 8:31PM July 26, 2015 Comments And then there was one
The Fantasy Blood Bowl Week 3 Review
Good news for number junkies: Next week we’ll have legitimate trends to use that should make the Start/Sit analysis sound more official. It will still be wrong, but at least I’ll have numbers to make it sound less wrong.
GAME 1: Nordic Kneecappers Vs Stalking Dead – Well, much to the disappointment of BB fans everywhere, there were no deaths that stuck in this game (though the Kneecappers did almost kill a zombie). However, the lack of deaths didn’t prevent this from being a very physical game, with 12 Casualties/KOs between the teams. While some of this was just poor luck (mostly for the Kneecappers), a good portion of it was ...
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Blood Bowl Week 2 Jacob Kosman - 8:33PM July 20, 2015 Comments New Week, New players
The Fantasy Blood Bowl Week 2 Review
For those devastated at the lack of a week 1 Smashas/Kneecappers review, 1) you’re a liar or don’t exist and 2)an inconveniently time loss of internet left that write-up unfinished before week 2 was underway. Sorry bro or lady.
GAME 1: Coarse Heirs Vs Snarltoof Smashas – It’s not every day you see mastermeus lose, but legend has it there is only one person with consistently worse dice rolls: ComplacentBadger himself. To see how this happened, you only need to see one category: Brutality. 4 KOs, 3 Casualties, and a death can leave any team shorthanded, and combine that with some rough dodge rolls for the Coarse Heirs, and the Sn...
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Blood Bowl Week 1 Jacob Kosman - 9:53AM July 13, 2015 Comments Kicking off
The Fantasy Blood Bowl Week 1 Review
The season has started and we’re one week into it, let’s look at things game-by-game and see how this impacts our fantasy season:
GAME 1: Sunday Speedwalkers vs Malal’s Mashers – The most impressive thing from a BB stance is how close this game was. Samvahn07 was as close to winning this game as possible without actually winning it. For the Mashers, there are two big things of note here. First, you’re going to get some easy points starting Horny, as they made it clear he’s the primary ball carrier to start drives in Game 1. Second, there’s no bigger priority than getting Ivan the Taurable Star Player Points. They attempted 3 han...
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