For most Blood Bowl legendary coaches, games are made of sequences, repetitions, similarities, and probabilities. They allow us to roughly predict whether achieving our goal is likely even before activating a single player. However, when probabilities and humans insert glitches in these constants, the result may end up far from anticipated. This is why, to […]
At Blood Bowl, a coach must always combine security and surprise. Security is imperviousness to surprises, but if a coach only plays securely, he will have difficulties achieving a surprise to unbalance his opponent. Blood Bowl can only be played securely and a coach can become very good this way. Blood Bowl can also be
You probably already have experienced this phenomenon: when you respect your opponent, you naturally amp up your game. But why? In the blood bowl world, almost every coach’s development follows a very standard progression. We all start our career by compulsively trying the most foolish plays because, well … we do not know better. Over
It is typical. Either you have played too sketchily, or your opponent is particularly on fire, or luck has blown far too heavily towards the pitch’s other side … Or maybe it is all this combined. Anyway, you are now losing 0-2. Yes, you are in serious trouble! “Help! What do I do?” Blood Bowl
Here is a typical scenario “Help, a gang of lumberjacks trashed my team! They had the Guard skill everywhere and Mighty Blow on almost all their players … Oh! And they two-dice blocked me throughout the game. I won the coin toss and elected to receive the ball. I scored in three game turns because
If you ever wondered, yes, it is better not to grant a touchdown than to grant one. But in the end, it is not that easy because to win a game, you need to score more touchdowns than your opponent … by all means possible. Unfortunately for your pride, granting a touchdown is sometimes a
When Nuffle decides to rot a game by granting too many bad dice, each coach absorbs the insult differently. If some coaches take the outrage without flinching, others will laugh, moan or get angry. Anyway, everyone has to face the facts: Blood Bowl is a “tragic heroic comedy” and sometimes, these three acts are played
Here we are again discussing the eternal dilemma between ball security and freedom of movement! A cage is a simplistic compromise between the two, and it requires no less than five players confined in a 3 x 3 space. Hell, that is almost half of your team! Crazy, no? Bluntly, this is why it is
There are three kinds of draws: the good, the bad and the boring. A good draw is when you coached your team out of the jaws of defeat. A bad draw is when a victory slipped from between your claws. A boring draw is when a game leaves you with nothing to write home about.
Even though mathematics is pretty close to being Nuffle’s language, it is not an absolute truth. Heresy? Not at all! At Blood Bowl, every game turn is different. Sometimes, 1 in 6 odds is what will send you to heaven. Other times, it’s 35 in 36 odds that will send you to hell. “Hey Taureau,
