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01 September 2012

DreadBall - we're in!

If you've heard about this new Kickstarter project, you wont be surprised to hear that Right Stuff and I are pledged up! If you've not heard of it, DreadBall is a new SciFi sports game by Mantic Games
From what I've read it will be a very different game to Blood Bowl - and teams will have actions points and a maximum of 2 actions per players.  The game doesn't reset after each play either so it sound more like Basketball or Ice Hockey than Rugby/Gridiron that Blood Bowl mimics.  There are four initial teams - Humans, Orx, Forge Fathers (aka Dwarves) and Veer-Men (Skaven/Ratmen) with another four planned for the future.

Now of course that are those who claim this is just a rip-off of BB and to be honest I dont know one way or another.  It sounds different enough to be a great companion game and a change of pace.  Plus the minis are cool so how can you go wrong? But make your own mind up by having a look at the info on the following links

DreadBall Kickstarter page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/dreadball-the-futuristic-sports-game

Official website here: http://www.dreadball.com/

There are some playtester notes by the Frontline Gamer here: http://thefrontlinegamer.blogspot.com/2012/08/i-can-talk-about-dreadball-now.html

and also a review here: http://jonathanpeace.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/review-dreadball-gameplay.html

BTW We are pledged for the Striker! package, which includes all these goodies :-)

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12 comments:

  1. HerrodadogSaturday, 01 September, 2012

    ok, so i clicked on the links and all i need is another game to be immersed in. but this looks soooooo cool! great review.

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  2. Laughing FerretSaturday, 01 September, 2012

    I'm pretty tempted by this too.
    I really wish the human team was more 'Tron' and less 'Space Marine' though- the concept art for the female star stretch goal looks ideal- very Tron-like, I wish all of the humans were like that. The rats don't work for me- they are too much like small rat ogres for my taste, but the orcs & goblins are awesome.

    At the moment I'm just watching & waiting- I'll likely go for the box deal with the humans & orcs, but may spring for the 4 team set, depending on what the extra freebees turn out to be.

    the game-play sounds fun. if they come out with more team choices think they'll have a winner on their hands.

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  3. Simon Quinton Saturday, 01 September, 2012

    This looks great. I love the fact there are multiple scoring zones with different points depending on there location. I like the four teams so far I hope they do more at some point or perhaps some different variations of them

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  4. AxtklingeSaturday, 01 September, 2012

    Very, very curious about this one.
    Like Laughing Ferret mentioned I wish human and rat minis were somehow different (I didn't thought of Tron, but that would certainly be a nice surprise).

    Anyway, taking into account the number of fans W40k has, this might end up being a huge success.

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  5. The Angry LurkerSaturday, 01 September, 2012

    I don't know about this but I'll wait for more first!

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  6. Frontline GamerSunday, 02 September, 2012

    Glad to see you've taken the plunge. I hope you and your lad have loads of fun with the game. I've loved play testing it and can't wait to get my grubby little mitts on the finished product.

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  7. The KiwiSunday, 02 September, 2012

    Been getting the updates and following this kickstarter. Getting close to becoming a fellow striker as well.
    Should be cool.
    Cheers

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  8. DuncSunday, 02 September, 2012

    Looks to be heavily inspired by the old Bitmap Bros Speedball 2 on the Commodore. (an excellent game)

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  9. evilleMonkeighTuesday, 04 September, 2012

    Looks like something mildly original from Mantic - i.e. filling the Bloodbowl niche without being a direct ripoff. Seconding the Speedball comparisons...

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  10. Sam PateTuesday, 04 September, 2012

    Thirding Speedball. As for the Tron paintjob, the humans scuplts look like you could get a similar effect (all be it not the correct shape of head) by painting the sunken black lines the electric blue colour and having the main face a dark grey/black perhaps?

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  11. MontyWednesday, 05 September, 2012

    I loved Speedball, but this looks seriously good stuff...

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