This opens up a different avenue of offense.
It's not uncommon for the ball to sit on the ground, surrounded or guarded behind a defensive line but untouched, as both teams maneuver into a position that will allow them to play with maximum efficiency. And that's usually because one of your players has hit them square on the jaw. The fundamental difference in the ruleset is that a turnover – the handing of control from one team to the other – doesn't take place when the ball hits the floor in Blood Bowl turnovers happen when opponents hit the floor.
That's because the ball isn't particularly mobile and is rarely handed automatically to a specialist player – there's nobody in the mould of the quarterback, commanding and controlling the game at the beginning of each play. In fact, an entire half of Blood Bowl play often feels like a single play in American Football, or a couple of downs at most. Matches are about control of space, locking opponent units down by moving into adjacent squares, and protecting the ball while attempting to move it upfield by passing, kicking or running.Īlthough there are obvious similarities to American Football, Blood Bowl doesn't have the Sisyphean quality of that sport, in which a gain of inches can be cause for celebration. Two teams are attempting to fulfill an identical objective at opposite ends of that arena.
Īt its base, the sporting theme stripped away, Blood Bowl is a turn-based tactical game set in a restrictive and crowded arena. But we're here to talk about the latest digital adaptation so, with consideration for the boardgame and its rules, here's wot I think of Blood Bowl 2. By that, I don't necessarily mean Cyanide's digital adaptations of Blood Bowl – I mean Games Workshop's violent fantasy-sport and the finely poised ruleset that drives it.
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