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Off-Topic Discussion => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: TrashMan on September 28, 2009, 07:44:02 am

Title: Blood Bowl?
Post by: TrashMan on September 28, 2009, 07:44:02 am
Anyone hear a bout it?

It's  american footbal (? That names makes no sense. They hardly use the foot and all) set in Warhammer universe.
Lots of blood and mangling your opponent.
Title: Re: Blood Bowl?
Post by: Mefustae on September 28, 2009, 07:50:19 am
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I literally found out about it a few days ago. What the hell are you doing in my head, man?

On a side note, who here knows of Space Hulk? I picked it up on a whim at the behest of some friends, and am told it's now a rarity. I don't actually know what the gameplay entails, or if it's even fun, so any insight would be much appreciated.
Title: Re: Blood Bowl?
Post by: StarSlayer on September 28, 2009, 08:02:57 am
They just reintroduced it with shiny new models and the works.
Title: Re: Blood Bowl?
Post by: Flipside on September 28, 2009, 09:21:47 am
Ohhh, used to play this years ago against my brother, had an Undead team, not fast, but you didn't want to come up against a Mummy blocker ;) Oh, and Vampires were nasty too. My brother originally played High Elves, but they were stopped too easily, even by a Zombie, you had to rely too much on your Star players, so he switched to Empire, which made the game much more challenging.

Nice to know it's making a re-emergence :D
Title: Re: Blood Bowl?
Post by: TrashMan on September 28, 2009, 09:32:23 am
On a side note, who here knows of Space Hulk? I picked it up on a whim at the behest of some friends, and am told it's now a rarity. I don't actually know what the gameplay entails, or if it's even fun, so any insight would be much appreciated.

Space Hulk? The gamplay?
You in a severly nefred Terminator Armor against an endless horde of genestaalers...in the corridors of a space hulk.
Title: Re: Blood Bowl?
Post by: stuart133 on September 28, 2009, 11:42:28 am
All I remember from Blood bowl was getting horribly killed in nearly every game I played!!
Title: Re: Blood Bowl?
Post by: Thaeris on September 28, 2009, 12:21:14 pm
I've known of this for some time... never caught my interest, though. GW makes some pretty cool very-little-known games to my knowledge, though I've never played them. And a whole lotta' money down the hole, there...

I first learned of "Space Hulk" through a game called "Space Crusade" I downloaded from Abandonia.com. DOS-tacular Space Marine action!!! Works really slow on DOSbox... so it proved to be fairly boring. Good challenge, though, and apparently quite similar to the original board game.
Title: Re: Blood Bowl?
Post by: Flipside on September 28, 2009, 02:54:27 pm
Oddly enough, I quite enjoyed playing the Sea-warfare one whose name escapes me, it didn't last long, but I had a Dark-Elf fleet (Ark of Naggaroth ftw) and the models were nice, and great fun to paint ;)
Title: Re: Blood Bowl?
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on September 28, 2009, 09:54:55 pm
Blood Bowl is more akin to Rugby than American Football but yes I've played it though not for years.
I have models for High Elves, Chaos Dwarves, Dark Elves, Khemri Undead, Norse and some other BS team I invented. Though only the CD, HE and Norse are the proper figs. The DE, KU and BS team are all other figs I adapted for the game.