Reply To: Boardgame vs Tabletop game?

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Most sports games – from Blood Bowl to Guild Ball and Dreadball etc. all play on some kind of board; with hexes or squares. I’d be surprised if this didn’t have a grid to play on. In which case, it’s a board game (albeit a very exciting looking miniatures-based board game).

A tabletop game – with rulers instead of a grid – would play even slower than a board-based game. And the whole point of a sports game is to be fast and exciting, just like the game (it’s partly why something like Blood Bowl had to have a “gateway” version in Blitz Bowl and keeps getting rules revamps as part of the “living rule book” – the more it tries to be a sports simulator instead of an abstract game, the slower it gets, to the point of being almost unplayable).

By putting a sports game on a grid, you allow players to plan ahead quickly – even during their opponents turn. This helps keep the action feeling quicker and more spontaneous, when a player moves. If it’s not being played on a grid….. well, it’s something to consider 😉