Ok I will stand here and admit it, puffing out my chest and holding my head high... I play Blood Bowl. There, I said it. Wasn't so bad after all.
Basically a good mate of mine turned round to me when I was around his house a few months back and asked: "By the way have you ever played Blood Bowl?". Recalling from some distant memory that it was a Games Workshop table-top game, and that he may be a player himself, I chose my words wisely: "No, it's for ****ing nerds isn't it?". After being subjected to mild abuse and the odd glower I relented and asked him to show me.
At first for the initial couple of games... I was seriously like: "wtf is this and how can I escape without offending him", I was playing as Dark Elves thinking that they looked cool and not realising that they are about as useful to a beginner as a screen-door on a submarine. But I stuck at it anyway and then all of a sudden I started to learn the rules and it sort of well... clicked really.
I now realise that it is one of the most replayable and tactful games I have ever had the good grace to play, and I game every other week or so. After an executive management decision (ie: not wanting to get whipped by anything and everything), Orcs are my main team and I even managed to do an amateurish paint-job on a few of them, it's taken me a good 10 games to get anything remotely close to scoring in amatch and forming some tactics, but now that I have, and that I have a fearsome front line, i'm starting to do some real damage against even the feared Lizardmen and Undead, and almost annihilated Chaos (stay with me readers).
So... anyone else here managed to get around to playing this underappreciated and oft-overlooked gem?
Basically a good mate of mine turned round to me when I was around his house a few months back and asked: "By the way have you ever played Blood Bowl?". Recalling from some distant memory that it was a Games Workshop table-top game, and that he may be a player himself, I chose my words wisely: "No, it's for ****ing nerds isn't it?". After being subjected to mild abuse and the odd glower I relented and asked him to show me.
At first for the initial couple of games... I was seriously like: "wtf is this and how can I escape without offending him", I was playing as Dark Elves thinking that they looked cool and not realising that they are about as useful to a beginner as a screen-door on a submarine. But I stuck at it anyway and then all of a sudden I started to learn the rules and it sort of well... clicked really.
I now realise that it is one of the most replayable and tactful games I have ever had the good grace to play, and I game every other week or so. After an executive management decision (ie: not wanting to get whipped by anything and everything), Orcs are my main team and I even managed to do an amateurish paint-job on a few of them, it's taken me a good 10 games to get anything remotely close to scoring in amatch and forming some tactics, but now that I have, and that I have a fearsome front line, i'm starting to do some real damage against even the feared Lizardmen and Undead, and almost annihilated Chaos (stay with me readers).
So... anyone else here managed to get around to playing this underappreciated and oft-overlooked gem?
