Reply To: All kinds of everything remind me of Blood Bowl!

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The thing is that Blood Bowl doesn’t play like US-style Handegg at all, it’s more like a combination of Rugby League and Soccer.

Which is a good thing, your average Handegg game – which I quit watching about a decade ago – lasts a good 3-4 hours, what with timeouts, resets for each down, replay reviews, gazillions of commercials etc. etc. etc. while official playtime is 60 minutes, of which only about 10 minutes consist of actual activity. ‘Athletes’ my foot. In the 70s and 80s, there were quite a few simulation games that tried to faithfully re-create those mechanics and they were boring as all get-out. Take a look at Strat-O-Matic if you’re the obsessive statistics type……

I don’t even think the newer minis are all that great, haven’t bought many new GW figures since the early 00’s, give me some plastic one-pose Dungeon Elves with David Bowie hair and spiked, thigh-high boots any day.