Learn More About Myth & Goal In First Design Diary

August 24, 2021 by brennon

James Hewitt of Needy Cat Games dived into the first of their Design Diaries for Myth & Goal, the new Fantasy Football game hitting Kickstarter in September. Learn a bit more about the game here and watch out for our interview on Myth & Goal coming soon!

Myth & Goal Teaser // Blacklist Games

One of the core things to take from the first Design Diary is that Needy Cat are looking to bring a great Fantasy Football game to the tabletop that offers up something a little different from Blood Bowl. Portions of the design are based on Blitz Bowl which Hewitt had a hand in but a lot more has been done to build on this to make an approachable and easy-to-learn game with some added depth for veterans to get stuck into.

There are four core teams in the game as it stands, the Durnhold Anvils (Dwarfs), Belhurst Imperials (Humans), Westarch Ruffians (Orcs) and Athrian Sapphires (High Elves), and all someone needs to do to get playing is to pick one of them and start playing. The twist comes in the use of a Team Focus. This modifier gives the team something of a quirk like Mighty or Indomitable.

Myth & Goal Stat Cards // Blacklist Games

Things are then further changed in the flow of play and the way characters work within your team. The core of the game focuses on team management and making sure that you control your team in such a way that they don't become fatigued. You then have to make tough choices. Do you wear your star player out with another push even though they'll run out of puff? Do you let the penalty points build up?

There are also some tweaks to the game itself. Whilst inspired by American Football, there are some changes. You can score either by besting the enemy's Bastion or toss it through the Goal at the end of the field. Play also doesn't stop once you score. Instead of resetting things continue at pace, much like with DreadBall, so you'll need to plan for attack and defence.

I am certainly intrigued by the way they are plotting out the course for this game.

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fightcitymayor

I’m cautiously optimistic, but having rules & traits spread out in tiny type over so many different cards is going to be difficult to learn & keep track of. Would be better as a list on one A4 card, or as a page in a spiral-bound rulebook.

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lagoon83

It’s a very deliberate choice! Dunno if you’ve read the second design diary, but it explains the cards in more detail; having a card for each player lets you use them to track each player’s Fatigue and Infractions (instead of piling up tokens next to the miniatures), and also lets you flip individual cards over to show that a player’s exhausted.

We’ve been keeping a very close eye on it during testing, and we’ve not found any players struggling to keep track of stuff 🙂

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totsuzenheni

I’m curious to know, about this particular game but also about games in this genre in general, if there is any worth in them for someone that doesn’t particularly care for American Football (sic) but is interested in tactical miniature games. Would it be worth such a person’s while to invest in a game such as this or would they be better off sticking with the non American Football (sic) themed games?

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rickabod41

It’s an odd choice in my view. You have so many sports you could theme a fantasy game around, is American Football really popular enough outside of America to justify another game based upon it? I doubt it, the wave of popularity it had in the UK died out long ago!

As I said on another thread this is just an attempt to cash in on the 3rd party BB miniatures market.