The box includes cards containing the rules for both the Dwarves and Humans, but also 11 other teams, allowing you to use any Blood Bowl teams you might already own in the streamlined Blitz Bowl.Īnother important simplification in Blitz Bowl is that each turn you can only make 3 actions, unlike potentially an action for every player per turn in Blood Bowl, which makes turns substantially quicker. I believe the Dwarf team was actually recut to make them snap-fit, from their original release in 2016. They are cast in colored plastic and are snap-fit, not requiring glue. The human and dwarf teams are identical to the plastic Blood Bowl models, simply giving you one sprue of each, enough to make a team of six players. The included dice are reminiscent to those included with Blood Bowl, however, the Block dice are unique, reflecting the simplified ruleset. The playing pitch is a double-sided mounted game board, giving you additional play options. Unlike before, it also comes with a convenient plastic organizer to store the cards, dice, models, and other cardboard components. Like the re-release of Blood Bowl in 2016, Blitz Bowl has high production values, from a glossy, heavy cardboard box, to a vast assortment of nicely-printed cards. With a Dark Elf team largely assembled, we decided to get the second season of Blitz Bowl and give the game a try! Using half the number of models of Blood Bowl (6 rather than 12), Blitz Bowl seemed like an obvious place to get into the Blood Bowl universe. Hewitt, known for writing the rules for the new version of Adeptus Titanicus and the Hellboy board game, Blitz Bowl streamlines and simplifies the mechanics of Blood Bowl, creating a game with a similar feeling that can be played in 30-45 minutes rather than two hours. This changed when we saw that Games Workshop just released the second season of their Barnes and Noble exclusive game Blitz Bowl, set in the Blood Bowl universe. With the COVID pandemic keeping us home, coupled with the long playtime for a single game, we had resolved to put off Blood Bowl for another year.
Despite this, every year we get the desire to get some tiny athlete models and roll some dice with friends. Multiple times In the past, we have tried to play Blood Bowl, both in the form of single games and in a league, but always struggled to continue after a few games.
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