The game isn’t especially complicated but you need to read the rules carefully and follow the game turn procedure carefully else you can run into trouble. So strike one for Team Manager for giving us a multi-player fix of fantasy football. To my surprise the two player game works well, three is best, and four turns out to be a little over-long but perfectly playable. It starts out well - the card game plays 2-4 and, it scales pretty well. As a fan of the original game one of the first things I wanted to find out from Blood Bowl: Team Manager was whether it might manage to fill in these gaps. But it’s limited to two players and the aspect of the game that everyone idolises above all - league play, where you manage and gradually improve and grow the same team over repeat seasons - is such a time-sink that most Blood Bowl players have only scratched its surface. The original board game on which this card game is based is a highly-regarded classic in GW’s range and, given it’s wacky subject matter, manages to be a surprisingly cerebral game. The concept behind Blood Bowl is simple yet devilishly endearing: it’s a supposed sport, a little like a no-holds-barred, ultra-violent version of American Football played by fantasy teams in Games Workshop’s Warhammer universe. It’s just occurred to me that reviewing a card game which is supposed to be about a fictional game and in which players play player cards representing fictional players in said fictional game could get confusing fast. Fantasy Flight sent me a copy so I could find out myself whether the transformation has done it any good. Well, many months later the game has hit the shelves and it’s not looking much like a deck-builder at all but something rather different. I haven’t yet found a deck building game that’s interested me greatly, in spite of being impressed the the cleverness of the concept, and it seemed such a natural fit for the theme. When I first heard that Fantasy Flight was going to be exploiting its licence for Games Workshop properties by doing a Blood Bowl deck-builder I was wildly excited.
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