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Great (as usual) How to Play video by Rodney.

Really like the look of this game.






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US exclusive! Not available outside US?!!? WTF GW? What are you playing at? What about loyal BB players around the rest of the world?

Looks like a good way to play without a ton of money or time investment.

So for actual Bloodbowl players, how different is this from the game proper?

Watching the video it seems pretty simple and intuitive.

Neither team really strikes my fancy, but it would be a perfect opportunity to go hunt up some of the funkier teams out there (despite the lack of special cards and whatnot).

It's quite different. To be honest this is way more dreadball then bloodbowl. Which may or may not be to your liking. Keep in mind both teams have additional rules for their positionals . Human catcher for example will get a free run when he catches or gets handed a ball.
These rules are on their cards. Or did you mean aesthetically?


edit:
In more Detail whats Dreadball in this:

-Launching the ball in the middle
-no reset after scoring
-limited activations per turn(not enough activations for all players)
-multiple activations of the same player possible
-Bonusplays throu cards which you earn throu "achievments" (Fanchecks in DB)
-said "achievments" come into play in scoring
-Reserves
-Landslide-victory if you get too much ahead



What's this has similar to BB(and not DB):
-squares
-Touchdownzones instead of thowing scorezones
-Diceroll for passing and rangeruler are somewhat similar to BBs
-Blockingdice(sort of) but here every symbol does something different than in BB



BB Key features missing in this from Bloodbowl:
-Blitz (only one player per turn can move AND attack)
-"Push your Luck" (your turn basicly ends as soon as you fail a diceroll)
-Chainpushes and crowdsurfing


I believe this will be a very fun Game and well worth the asked price,, but as it looks, this won t feel anything like a bloodbowlgame. In my Opinion this is a terrible gatewaygame into BB.
So much that you would need to unlearn when "upgrading" to BB. Why the hell did they change the Blockdiceresults, but kept the same symbols?
Ironically this may be a good gateway into Dreadball. The dicemechanics are different there but you will not confuse them with this so you would not need to "unlearn". Plus the whole pacing and learned your strategies will be more in line with this one.

Honestly, look at BB "Sevens" if you want shorter more compact BloodBowl games..


PS: I play both BB and DB (in leagues) for different reasons.