Getting tackled after two yards in that situation is a huge win.īlood Bowl really has no equivalent.

With only one yard to go you would choose a short-yardage play that highly likely to gain the one remaining yard, even though it has virtually no chance of making a large gain. Suppose, for example, that you make four yards on your first play, and five yards on the second. Almost everything about American football strategy revolves around managing down and distance. If you manage to do so, then you get another four plays to go another 10 yards (a 'first down'), and so on until you either fail to make a first down in the allotted plays, or you score. In American football you have four plays ('downs') to advance the ball 10 yards. Knowledge of American football strategy is not helpful in Blood Bowl because Blood Bowl lacks the rule that shapes all of American football play, namely, down and distance. Given the large amount of competitive Blood Bowl leagues that exist, and that it has a faithful video game conversion allowing competitive play against a world wide audience, is there any evidence that supports the theory that using tactics and strategies from American Football can be used reliably and repeatedly as winning strategies in Blood Bowl?

(This list isn't exhaustive, please do not just copy and paste it and give an example of each as an answer, especially if that answer is not backed by any evidence of the advantage it gives.)

Style - when to play defensively and when to play aggressively.

Plays - the actions players take between touchdowns to try and score one.

Team Composition - the amount of players in a team that excel at certain skills.

Formations - the layout of players on the pitch.

However, I'm curious if having a reasonable level of knowledge of the tactics and strategies used in real world American Football can be used as an advantage when playing Blood Bowl?Įven with my limited knowledge of the sport there are a number of similarities that spring to my mind that could potentially be transferable from the real pitch to the game one: Although a lot of parallels can be drawn between them and the real world game Blood Bowl is based on, American Football, there is no need to know the rules to the real world game in order to know the rules of, and play, the table top version. The rules of Blood Bowl are fairly short and comprehensive.

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