It legitimately sucks that Blood Bowl is such a less-seen game, because it’s a good one. As of 2017, Blood Bowl is one of that latter muddle of games that, quality aside, gets pushed to the hard-to-see back of the crowd, overshadowed by IPs like X-Wing and, of course, proper Warhammer in its many, many incarnations.īut, you know what? Tradition - and whatever we could reach to label as the mainstream of tabletop - be damned. Blood Bowl is the most-balanced and least-intimidating way to get into complex minifig-based tabletop gamesĮven in the strange, semi-exclusive world of hardcore tabletop gaming, where titles tend to have been around for years and own the brand recognition to prove it, there are those games that get all the attention, and those that don't.