Released in 1986, it featured card standees and an interlocking board to represent the pitch. The first edition of Blood Bowl was originally born out of Warhammer Fantasy Battles – the now deceased miniature warfare game from Games Workshop. One of the first ‘fantasy football’ games, it sees various races, such as Elves, Goblins and Dwarves playing an ultraviolent version of American Football (I know our Atlantic cousins will just call it football – but back in Old Blighty that’s something different). Small number of teams is an abject lie – as the Nuln Helblasters Red-Eye Facebeataz the Dance Dance Revolution Axlotl Raptors Bilgewater Bottom Feeders the League of Extrashortinary Gentlemen Karneth Cruel Hearts Warptide Pirates Kroakatoa Infernos and the Great Gut Devourers can attest to. Pretty much every expansion, book, journal and a small number of teams have been added to my collection. Since I first played the game, I have been utterly devoted to it. Blood Bowl is easily one of my favourite games of all time – technically being a board game, but having the system designed around a long-running miniatures campaign. So Games Workshop are publishing a new edition of Blood Bowl. Inspired by my recent hamfisted coverage of the new Blood Bowl previewed at Essen on the recent podcast episode Adam rattled out this little ode to one of Games Workshops most enduring and popular releases.
