
Or maybe there are only the regular matches, but a random rainstorm means you can't over-commit. It might be that there's a tournament, and the winner is going to get a whole mess of bloodthirsty fans. This part seems pretty basic, but what happens here makes a big difference in what happens next. You draw your cards (the guys who will be your team for this go-round), find out which matches are available, and plan your approach to the week ahead. Your team will learn new tricks, obtain sponsors, and otherwise get better at the sport of Blood Bowl, and in the end, the team with the most fans wins the game.Īt first, there's an intimidating amount of stuff happening. You'll recruit hard-hitting dwarf linebackers, swift elf quarterbacks, and brutal orcish knee-breakers. Every game turn is an entire week of a five-week season, so you'll be handling your team as they head out to various matches and tournaments. Combine my distaste for sports games with my general lack of interest in Blood Bowl, and the odds of me liking Blood Bowl Team Manager were about the same as becoming an astronaut.īlood Bowl Team Manager is, I suppose, essentially a sports game, but rather than fighting your way through a single game, you're competing in an entire season. I never did like the original Blood Bowl, because it was basically a clusterhump football game with tomes of rules and obscene violence. The latest game to challenge my dislike of board-game sports is Blood Bowl Team Manager. Hell, a while back, I even liked one about hockey (though in my defense, that was just barely about hockey). There are just too many oddball sports games out there that I wind up liking.

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I still don't want to play a game about soccer or baseball or cricket or professional curling, but I'm considering changing my opinion about sports games in general.

So far, 2012 has been the year I had to keep making exceptions about not liking sports games.
