Once you take away the top half, you are greeted by the rules them self. So let us open the sturdy card board box. But enough on this, if you want to take a closer look on the rules, you can find them for free on the Blitz Bowl website. With this mechanics, Blitz Bowl seems to be closer to Mantic's Dreadball than its big brother Blood Bowl. And this is important, as you have card decks, which cover cards who can be activated by fulfilling their conditions on the board (like fouls, successful blocks, scoring a touchdown and so on). This gives you quicker turns and higher scores compared to Blood Bowl. The board itself is more compact, as you 'only' have 11 by 15 squares compared to the full Blood Bowl pitch of 15 by 26 squares.

Which is half a regular Blood Bowl team, so as soon as you have access to a single frame from one of the plastic team boxes, you have a Blitz Bowl team. Instead of 11 players, you have teams of 6. Blood Bowl had faster house rules, for example Blood Bowl 7s, but this is even leaner / quicker and easier to grasp. We will cover a brief comparison between Blood Bowl and Blitz Bowl in this section. It comes with all you need to play some quick rounds of fantasy football, covering a board, card decks, two teams and tokens as well as dice.īlitz Bowl is - as the name suggest - an even faster variant of Blood Bowl. Blitz Bowl is meant to be an introduction game - self enclosed board game - to reach out to new players, therefore it is sold via stores like Barnes & Nobles or Thalia.īlitz Bowl Ultimate Edition has a RRP of 44,99 EUR / 49,99 USD and will be available (for pre-order) at the end of August (depending on your location).

The Ultimate Edition of Blitz Bowl released this year, updates initial the 2018s release (and later update with a second season in 2020) and basically the third season of the game.

So, when Games Workshop offered me the chance to cover the Ultimate Edition of Blitz Bowl in a review, I happily agreed. We've covered multiple teams on here, the Mordheim Marauders, Golden Vultures or Morks Maulers and Dino and I even had the chance to give the older versions of this game a try. 27Aug/22 0 Blood Bowl – BlitzBowl Ultimate Editionīlood Bowl has a very special place on this blog.

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