Right on. I've been playing the game for the 360 which is basically a carbon copy of the board game. I like the Lizardmen the bestest.

I played Blood Bowl first about 15 years ago. I have always loved High Elves in the Warhammer Fantasy world, so that's who I like to play in the bloodbowl game as well, though admittedly, they are not the best team (fast yes, good no).

I dont know how the adaptation to console games has gone, but that game, of all the GamesWorkshop games, is best suited to the console I think.

maybe Man O'War too but that was such a short-lived game =(

anyone else here play WH Fantasy?

I've not played WH Fantasy personally, but I've watched it played a few times. Looks perty sweet, to be honest. It would be nice if there was a website where you could build an army and play against other players. Maybe there is one? I've not researched.... Perhaps I will later.

Blood Bowl is one of the best boardgames of all time and one of only a few successful attempts to recreate a sports-like situation in tabletop game form.

I play as Dwarfs and occasionaly Humans. In terms of twinkery the best team is actually the Skaven because it is possible, with a couple of extra skills, to get players who can score a TD in a single turn. To my knowledge no other team can achieve this (excluding halflings and goblins being thrown by huge team-mates, but that's just silly).

Man O'War was a pretty good game, Babak. I also liked Battlefleet Gothic which was in many ways the same thing, just in space.

I used to play WH fantasy when i was in highschool. I would sometimes go to a nearby minature store during breaks and i remember they had a Blood Bowl game playing occasionally. I've never joined, it always looked weird to me. I'm wondering if i missed out? How does it compare to WH fantasy or other games? I enjoy a certain complexity when i play, but even more so when it arises from pretty simple rules (dip, chess and many other boardgames) instead of needing a thumb-thick rulebook :P

@sqrg: BloodBowl's basic rules are very simple and really easy to pick up. The game is basically American Football played with no downs, and added violence. Gameplay is based around fast-flowing unarmed combat based on simple d6 resolution, punctuated by occasional attempts to move the football. It's great fun.

I could always just go and try it ;)

So how much is luck a factor in the eventual outcome? I just can't enjoy a game risk or catan where dice from hell wreak havoc on my furiously planned strategies...

Yeah, definitely good fun for sure. I like how you put "occasional attempts to move the football", haha... Unless you're the elves or Skaven. Then you're relying on football movement.

@sqrg: "So how much is luck a factor in the eventual outcome?"

Not too much. There's enough randomness to make things entertainingly unpredictable, but generally better tactics and play will win more often than not.

Seriously, I cannot push this game hard enough. It's one of the best things GW have ever come out with.

Thanks Jamiet, sounds like i should try it out.

Amon if you ever do let me know. there were a few good PC versions of the fantasy game, but they required way too much of my 'oldish' computers and that was years ago when I had the time to devote to games (alas - no more).

if there was a free version somewhere online or even a new PC version I'd put the time in I think. I always loved GW Fantasy - just sooooo awesome. and I loved reading all the rulebooks cover to cover... man - to be a kid again ;)

didnt know we had so many GW gamers on here... that is sweet.

ps. my favorite ever game was when my brother and I had 6 other ppl over... we played a 30,000pt (total) good vs evil game where my brother and I were the forces of good fortified in the middle while the six others were attacking us from all directions in a HUGE ass game...

it was soooo damn awesome. we really got into it. I even remember creating some new races with new units, new rules, back-stories, details, and everything... we made an Arabia army with Camel riders, Carthiage, Tilea, and even a Southlands army ;)

man those were the days.

anyone else also play Necromunda? loved the Van Saar ;)

The latest Blood Bowl PC version game out a few months back. It was a download only release but scheduled for in store release, I think, this fall. It includes 8 races. More are to follow. You can play online as well. This is the same as the Xbox version.

There are 2 modes: traditional which is just like playing the board game, and real time which is not played in turns. I have not tried the real time version as I love the board game and playing a computer version of the board game makes me happy.

As for other GW games, I am TheMasterGamer, :-) I have run games of all sorts for local gaming stores for years. I once ran a game of Adeptus Titanicus/Space Marine/Epic 40K over a weekend recreating the Siege of Jerusalem by the Romans in 69AD. By recreating I mean that when I design scenarios for a game I often base them on an actual historic battle (terrain layout and the like) but then place them in the setting of the game for forces available.

The table was 8' x 20'. A normal game is between 2 players with about 3000 in forces each. We had 24 players in the game. There were over half a million points in troops involved. It was massive, and it was massively fun.