In addition to the various cards, the game comes with a number of cardboard tokens and a set of scoring dials for each manager to keep track of their fans. These provide unique powers an abilities for you to use during the matches and scoring incentives. The Staff Upgrades and Team Upgrades are the smaller sized cards that Fantasy Flight is known for. What’s not to love? The cards are also well laid out and some even contain entertaining quotes. The artwork on the cards is fantastic and features thematic drawings of fantasy races playing football. Each manager starts with their base team and will recruit Star Players during the course of the game. The Team Cards and Star Players are all football players that managers will use and recruit during the game. There are a six different types of cards that come with the game: Highlight Cards, Tournament Cards, Team Cards, Star Players, Team Upgrades, and Staff Upgrades. Components:Īs with any game published by Fantasy Flight Games, the components in Blood Bowl: Team Manager are all top notch. The game is played over five rounds, after which, the player with the most fans is the winner. These payouts come in the form of star players added to their team, staff, and team upgrades that give players special abilities to use and more fans (victory points). During the game, managers will be committing football players to match ups to try and score the payout awarded to the winner. In Blood Bowl: Team Manager you are trying to score the most fans throughout the football season.
Note: To help avoid confusion, for the rest of this review, any mention of the word ‘players’ will refer to a football player card in the game, while any mention of the word ‘manager’ will refer to someone actually playing Blood Bowl: Team Manager.
Game Overview: Blood Bowl: Team Manager comes with a number of different cards, all well illustrated. Blood Bowl: Team Manager plays best with any number of players. Is running a team of orcs or dwarves as much fun as playing the teams on the field? Read on to find out!īlood Bowl: Team Manager is a card drafting and area control game for 2-4 players that plays in about 75 minutes. In Blood Bowl: Team Manager you aren’t controlling your team in a game of football, you are actually managing your team throughout the Blood Bowl season. I’m a huge NFL fan (Go Bears!), so the thought of combining football with fantasy monsters is immediately appealing. I never had a chance to play Blood Bowl back in the day, but was always drawn to the concept. One of the surprise hits to come out of Gen Con 2011 was the card game Blood Bowl: Team Manager.
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