If you’ve never played Blood Bowl before, you might initially have trouble sorting your blitzers from your linesmen – especially on the human side of things, where some of the poses and equipment are similar – but after ten minutes or so you’ll quickly learn which is which. The quality of the moulding is fabulously detailed and the poses held by each player lend a fantastic air of energy and aggression to the tabletop layout. Your fingers should also be prepared to suffer, courtesy of the surprisingly prickly spikes on most of the orcs’ armour and footballs – both teams have custom balls which slot into the front hole in each miniature’s base when in possession of the ball, as well as additional separate balls when dropped or scattered onto the field.Īs you might expect from Games Workshop, the miniatures are simply brilliant. By and large, the majority of the three-part figures push together and will hold without any glue necessary – however, the bigger orcs often had their heads fall off when left dry (we nicknamed one such black orc blocker Faceless) so you’ll want to put at least a dab of adhesive on each piece. The box includes 12 plastic players for each side, which you’ll need to clip out of their sprues before even thinking about anything else. This new set drops an edition number, highlighting the evolving state of the game’s rules, but includes reworked orc and human miniatures (other teams will be released via expansions), as well as the board, tokens, cards and everything else you’ll need to get started for the first time as a newcomer. Games Workshop’s sports-meets-combat Warhammer spin-off has been around for decades now, passing through multiple iterations before adopting an evolving set of rules introduced in 2000 to supplement the boxed third edition of the game released way back in the mid-'90s. It may sound like a warzone, but this is simply a football match. Broken bodies and the whimpering injured are dragged from the field. Meanwhile, a group of humans attempts to bring down one of the bigger beasts but fail, merely pushing him back and postponing their suffering. Orcs roar as they charge into human ranks, impaling those unfortunate enough to remain stationary on their spiked armour. Blood pools in boot-stamped wells in the mud.
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