![]() ![]() In case I haven’t made it clear, this is anything but. The fun in the lore would count for very little if it were swaddled in a crappy game, however. ![]() If Games Workshop ever releases a team of chivalric knights like the one that comes with the Blood Bowl 2 video game, I’m calling them Olympic Lyonesse (which is a very witty pun on a popular French soccer team and the Arthurian island of legend, for confused readers).īeyond that, there’s a whole bunch of fluff about how playing the sport is actually giving praise to an ancient god called Nuffle whose high priests wore sacred robes of vertical black and white stripes and its subsequent long and ignominious history. Teams, meanwhile, are given affectionate cod-NFL names, clever puns like the Orcland Raiders, the Darkside Cowboys, and the Washington Deadskins. The generous titbits of lore that pepper the rulebook are frequently hilarious, if not entirely changed from the last printed edition. Everything is given a sardonic twist: the elves are haughty princelings, fans watch matches on a network of crystal balls via the Necromancers Broadcasting Circle (NBC) or the Association of Broadcasting Conjurers (ABC), and no one seems to mind playing against teams made up of literal demons. It’s set in a kind of high-fantasy mirror world, where the usual racial tensions tend to be solved on blood-soaked pitches rather than battlefields, and no one seems to be that worried about the body count. The old ones are the bestĮverything is prosecuted with a whopping dollop of wry British humour, all written with a love for both of the game's major tropes: football and fantasy. Happily, there is an enormous secondary market of off-brand fantasy-themed gridiron sports teams out there to buy, and many small miniatures companies will sell you fairly complete teams you’ll be able to use everywhere except for official Games Workshop tournaments, where non-official models are verboten. There are two additional team outs at present, the fast, fragile skaven (ratmen), and the dwarves-slow, tough, and somehow allowed to deploy a machine called a “death-roller”-but various others are apparently on their way. ![]()
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