


(Think of this as a league made up of teams similar to the Eagles.)Īnyway, each player is rated for his power and special abilities. There is official cheating and injuring your opponent’s players is a valid tactic. These players are used in up to 4 contests and a tournament in one “week” of league play. From this basic deck he then deals himself a starting formation of 6 unknown players. He then shuffles this deck and gives himself 11 random players. In this spin-off, however, each team is composed of either Chaos, Dwarf, Wood Elf, Human, Orc or Skaven players and each manager starts with his own basic deck of 12 cards, all of which represent average or below average athletes. Each team places their players on their own side of the 4 “weekly events.” Each end of the Highlight Reel contains a deck of card: one end holds the Spike! Magazine deck and the other the Highlight deck. The large rectangular piece in the lower center is a scoreboard and the circular piece in the lower right is the “Golden Coin,” which indicated who went first. Each Highlight consists of a match-up between any two teams, with the only restriction being a team can not play itself. Altogether, the four make up a Highlight Reel. They are the four cards perpendicular to the rest (in the center) and are called “Highlight Cards,” which the players fight over. In this example, four weekly events are shown from left to right. When it was originally published by Games Workshop it ostensibly dealt with a rough and tumble football match between a Human and an Orc team.Ī Blood Bowl: Team Manager – The Card Game set out to play to the right.

“You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.” – John MaddenĪs is obvious from its name this game is part of the famous “Blood Bowl” franchise, which has been around since 1986 and has spawned a dozen versions, expansions and add-ons.
