Space Marine Adventures & BlitzBowl Land At Gen Con
August 2, 2018 by brennon
Games Workshop is bringing two new boxed games to Gen Con this year. The first of these is Space Marine Adventures which sees a team of Space Marines delving down into the darkness of a Necron labyrinth.
One to four players can dive into this game which features a team of pre-coloured plastic Space Marines. You will play through an entire adventure and game book which shows your characters levelling up as they delve deeper into the world of the Necrons.
The miniatures themselves are also from the Japanese Space Marine Hero range and this is the first time they've arrived anywhere else in the world.
Importantly, this will not be available in Warhammer/Games Workshop stores. You will be able to find this, for the time being, in stores like Barnes & Noble over in the States during the Autumn.
BlitzBowl
As well as Space Marine Adventures we also have a new quick way to get into Blood Bowl with BitzBowl.
Again, this isn't going to be available in typical stores and instead will once again pop up overseas in Barnes & Noble stores. It will contain rules to play as an array of different teams but the box will contain Humans and Orcs.
If you're interested in finding out just how BlitzBowl works and what makes it different to traditional Blood Bowl you can check out the Watch It Played video below...
Are you going to be checking both of these out over in the US?
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Very interesting. I love the way new GW is flexing styles and product type to make them easier to impulse buy, or for family members to pick something up in a bookshop.
I’m really interested in BlitzBowl and hope it’ll be available in the UK.
I completely agree with you and I also hope BlitzBowl is available in the U.K.
I would have liked to have enemy models in Space Marine Adventure, might still get it as the Warhammer Community site says it will be available at specific distributors in Germany.
Will be interesting to see the alternative spacemarines.
Those seem interesting.
I’ve never really been interested in Bloodbowl but Blitzbowl grabbed my interest straight away, it looks fun. I love that the rules for other teams are included in the box and straight away I could see myself collecting them all as a little homage to classic Fantasy.
…then I spotted it was US only. Oh well, maybe one day…
Once all the main gangs are out I wonder if Necromunda will get a small set like Blitzbowl…that might be good.
Back in the early ’90s I remember finding a bunch of smaller GW games on sale at the chain book store (Ultramarine, Space Fleet, Dungeon Bowl, etc).
This looks like a move in that direction.