![]() I’ve played Blood Bowl with a lot of different teams, but my Halfling squad – the Chicken Chasers – have only ever won a single match and consider each draw a triumph. He might even survive that and score a touchdown, but not often. Treemen are thick-barked enough to take a beating, and can pick up a Halfling who has somehow fluked his way into possession of the ball and hurl him down the pitch. The main things they have on their side are a roly-poly agility that helps them tumble out of tackle zones to delay the inevitable, a master chef who at least feeds them well, and their Treemen allies. They are Martin Prince from The Simpsons, and about as good at sport. Halfling players are soft doughy lumps, too weak to stand up to the beef-armed warriors of other teams, too small to pass the ball accurately, too wobble-belly slow to play the running game. If football at its finest is poetry in motion, a Halfling team playing Blood Bowl is a drunken limerick slurred by a barfly midway through toppling from a stool. When I want a challenge though, I play as Halflings. They aren’t just evil in the moral sense they’re evil in the sense of being hard bastards. Orcs are straightforward brawlers while the Undead are relatively versatile, strong but slow Mummies balanced by agile but fragile Ghouls, and most of their players have a Regeneration skill that lets them bounce back from injuries. ![]() When I want to win at Blood Bowl I pick Orcs or Undead. “Right,” I say, like I have him all figured out. I will say that Skaven and Vampires are my favourite.” “They’re not a very popular team but I think they are mighty fun to play, with the Thralls and all this stuff. ![]() “I really like Vampires as well,” he continues. Skaven are a popular team, partly because they have the fastest players in the game but also because they are hilarious paranoid ratmen obsessed with cheese. It’s a sentence you might hear any Blood Bowl coach say. “I really like Skaven,” says Sylvain Sechi. I wanted to selfishly hassle him about not including some of my favourite teams and also present my pet theory about the appeal of Blood Bowl: that what makes it fun is that it’s the most unbalanced strategy game ever made. I didn’t just want to ask him about when the game is coming out and what the new team will be like. I recently spoke to Sylvain Sechi, project manager of Cyanide Studio’s forthcoming Blood Bowl 2, about their new adaptation of Games Workshop’s game of fantasy football. ![]()
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