Blood Bowl (1st Edition)
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Blood Bowl is a two-player sport board game, loosely based on American Football and Rugby, and set in an alternative version of the Warhammer Fantasy universe. The first edition of the game was designed by Jervis Johnson and published by Games Workshop in 1986.
Contents
Gameplay
The first edition of Blood Bowl employs a modified version of the second Edition rule set for Warhammer Fantasy Battles. Players (referred to as 'coaches' to avoid confusion with the players in the team) take it in turns to move, pass and tackle before the opposing team does the same, with the aim of getting a player in possession of the ball into the opposing team's Endzone, thus scoring a touchdown. The first team to gain three touchdowns wins the match.
Each team is formed of fifteen players, of which eleven may be on the field at any one time. Players are represented by cardboard stand-up counters with gameplay taking place on a gridded cardboard pitch.
Box Content
The boxed set included:
- Rulebook
- 6-piece playing board
- 119 full-colour stand-up counters
- 30 plastic stand-up counter bases
- Team roster sheets
- Dice
Expansions
The first edition of the game received three expansion in White Dwarf as well as a box set expansion titled Blood Bowl: Death Zone.
- White Dwarf 86 (UK), Skaven Scramblers, pgs. 33-35.
- This issue of White Dwarf included a set of stand up counters to represent a full Skaven team, plus new rules by Jervis Johnson.
- White Dwarf 88 (UK), Pass Interference, Eat Judge Boot Creep, pgs. 50-51.
- Rules for fielding a team of Judges from Judge Dredd in games of Blood Bowl.
- White Dwarf 94 (UK), Blood Bowl, Bloody Blood Bowl, pgs. 77-79.
- New rules by Jervis Johnson and Marc Gascoigne for including Chainsaw armed players and Pit-Traps on the field in games of Blood Bowl.
- A boxed expansion set that included new teams, stats and rules.
Sources
- 1: White Dwarf 85 (UK), Open Box, pg. 2.
