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It's not actually all that bad of a game to play once or twice, while enjoying a beer - there's just a huge luck-factor and it gets repetitive rather quickly. For the price, well if you have a use for the sea mat it's worth it, if not, WAY too little replay value for the rather premium price point.
Not a dreadful game - just really disappointing when you compare it to GW's previous boxed game release, space hulk.
Much of the venom originates from that as well; many had hoped for, say, a MoW or BFG rehash, or for models which would have seen additional usa in other systems.
Since that was impossible and the replay value was a bit mehh, DF caught substantially more flak than it deserved. Not to say it's a good game, or worth it's price, but it's nowhere near as bad as some make it out to be

 His Master's Voice wrote:

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
Given the horrible reviews of Dreadfleet I've read

Was it really that bad?

I heard a lot of complaints that it was excessively random to the point where player choices felt meaningless, and that games lasted too long for the amount of fun they were.

Kirasu wrote:
I'm not talking about using the same team for 5 seasons. Just a new team each season which pretty much *always* ends up the same. The teams with good base AGI win the games, the other teams lose because agility is the single most important stat in the game.

Really? I disagree. If you're playing with any sort of competitive people, AV is the most important stat in a league. AGI teams always win? How do they do that when every time they get a player with a level or two, he gets hit and fouled off the pitch? I'll take orcs or dwarves over high AGI teams every time, and while I might lose a game or two, I'll do better over the course of the league.

Remember, they have to kick to you too, and I'm more than happy to play a ball-control offense while I'm beating up their lightly armoured players.

I do like Blood Bowl but I found it a bit insane that my wood elf team could win almost every single game with 3 players on the field. Just because it's a specialist game that is never updated doesn't mean it couldn't use tweaking to make all teams be on even footing. (same goes with necromunda and mordheim which have glaring issues as well)

I just have to wonder about the quality of the opponents you faced.

Agree with the above i played lizardmen last time and i dominated, it is the most success one can have playing the tame violently.
The last time i faced wood elves they scored twice in the first half, in the second half when i was facing about five survivors i scored 4 times.

People wanted Man'o'war, and got Dreadfleet instead. Not a bad game, per say, but just not what people were wanting/expecting.

I'm still finding my footing as a Bloodball coach. I'm attracted to Norse, but I only have access to the humans and orks from the 3rd ed box set. Oh, and my gaming computer is down so I don't even get to play online!