Blood Bowl: Team Manager is FINALLY Coming
July 19, 2011 by brennon
Fantasy Flight Games teased us all with the release of Blood Bowl: Team Manager over a year ago, and then it became almost as forgotten as the Gears of War game (before its eventual relaunch of course). We all thought it was gone but Fantasy Flight have come out swinging with a renewed release window and a whole lot more information on the beautiful game!
Coming out in the later end of 2011 Blood Bowl: Team Manager puts you in charge of one of the Old Worlds greatest teams. These are of course the Reikland Reavers, Grudgebearers, Athelorn Avengers, Skavenblight Scramblers, Gouged Eyes, and the devastating Chaos All Stars!
"Blood Bowl: Team Manager – The Card Game is a bone-breaking, breathtaking standalone card game of violence and outright cheating for two to four players. Chaos, Dwarf, Wood Elf, Human, Orc, and Skaven teams compete against each other over the course of a brutal season. Customize your team by drafting Star Players, hiring staff, upgrading facilities, and cheating like mad. Lead your gang of misfits and miscreants to glory over your rivals all to become Spike! Magazine’s Manager of the Year!"
It seems that in typical Fantasy Flight fashion they have managed to get all the essential bits of the table top game down to a tee with their card based iteration. And if this art is anything to go by, we have some amazing top notch production quality to look forwards too as well.
Its looking pretty fantastic even now and with the history that Fantasy Flight have with card games, we should all be pretty excited about this release. With all the essentials of cheating, buying players, upgrading your staff and generally making sure that the crowd are happy; this could be the injection of fun that the world of Blood Bowl has been needing.
Could this bring Blood Bowl back into the spotlight and maybe even push Games Workshop themselves to release the game again?
Any fans of one of Games Workshops greatest games here, and if so what do you think of this interesting direction?
Only time will tell right now but in an awesome turn if you happen to be at Gen Con Indy 2011 you can actually sit down and play this game there before anyone else!
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After the big tease that was the announcement of BB:TM at GenCon last year, they better have some copies of the game being demo’d this year!
I don’t mind if it isn’t on sale, but if it is I’ll be picking up a copy (or two).
looks like they are re-using the artworks of the cyanide game : what a let-down.
Only some of it – there are a few pieces of new art you can see. Will have to wait for more updates on this before we can truly tell, but FFG have a very nice production quality either way.
The Minis version that we all know and love will always be the best. Still hope people who pick it up will enjoy it.
Really good @brennon you have a nice writing style. The art work is awesome, really it is.
Instead of making a BB Card Game they should make new models for the actual Board Game, now that would be awesome.
Their BB miniature range is outdated and they don’t even sell them in GW Stores. It’s a shame that one is forced to buy teams from different companies, but on the other hand you can find something as awesome as a dwarf pirate football team http://www.gaspez-arts.com/?go=details&id=177 ;D
Hopefully with the release of the card game it could create more interest for the table top game itself – and then you never know, we could see a re-release for it like Space Hulk in a new box game….maybe. One thing to bear in mind is that Games Workshop have continued to at least support it through updating the rules pack every so often, and Jervis is totally in love with the game and heralds it as a the best game they have produced (which it totally is lol). So with the old stalwarts in the company still loving… Read more »
Oh and nice dwarf pirate team lol – very cool 🙂
thanks for the link, those are supreme 🙂
I can’t wait for this! A game where wood elves might be competitive! 😀
Loved Blood Bowl and still have my wood elf team but boy is the product line dated. If the GW do bring Blood Bowl back it’ll be a a very limited run like they did with Space Hulk, which to me is utterly pointless. Because unless they’re going to continue to support these games really what the hell is the point? I always thought Space Hulk was the biggest mistake they made, got people really excited about it, generated loads of sales and then failed to release any add ons or expansions. The GW need to look at board game… Read more »
PS I don’t like playing card games and never have, mainly because of the collecting aspect. But some of these card games in a box like this Blood Bowl one the LOTR, Game of Thrones and Cthulu inspired ones are actually tempting as a way of wasting an evening with some mates.
The best part of these is that they are LCG (Living Card Games) compared to the collectable ones. You don’t need anymore than the starter boxes unless you really, really want too – nothing random about it which is fantastic.
Yeah that’s what I was saying, those I’m interested in. Not a big fan of Magic the Gathering and its ilk I’m afraid. Always felt like too much of a con to me… but hey each to their own!!!
This looks so cool! Hopefully it will make GW realize we still want BloodBall
*Blood Bowl*
I largely agree with you all, it looks good and Fantasy Flight are a great company, but it can’t compete with the awesomeness that is the actual Blood Bowl game! Blood Bowl is still popular and is GW’s highest rank game on boardgamegeek – which must tell them something (yeah). I’d go so far to say it’s better than my beloved Warhammer Quest, but not quite 😉 New Blood Bowl sculpts would be awesome, the majority are really starting to look their age, not that I mind much, but newer sculpts would help make this great game more appealing to… Read more »
Looks like it could be fun, but I bet they use the same cheap, crappy, low quality, textured card stock that they used for Space Hulk. 🙁
Oooh FFG don’t do bad quality – their games are top notch in terms of that
Really? Because the quality of the Space Hulk card game was p*** poor.