Reply To: A future project with James Hewitt & Sophie Williams

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I don’t know – one of the joys of Blood Bowl (at least, when I got it, in the late 80s) was the unbalanced teams; it was a bit of silliness. Nobody expected to win by scoring touchdowns playing as dwarves – the joy was in getting the deathroller onto the pitch and maiming your opponents. Trolls would eat the ball. Sometimes their goblin team-mates. Nobody expected to stand a chance playing as halflings – it wasn’t *supposed* to be taken seriously. It was quite a bit of a piss-take (American football was still quite a novelty in the UK, as it had only just started being shown on Channel 4 as a bit of a curiosity).

 

I got really excited by Dreadball when it came out. Then I opened the human team and the orc team and was dismayed at the awful quality of the minis. I’ve since given them away. I never actually played a game. More than anything, I just hope they make the game fun again.