Just wanted to tell you all about an awesome game from Mantic Games called Dreadball!
If you are at all familiar with the Games-Workshop product Blood Bowl, you've got the basic idea. A bloody and ridiculous sports board game that uses miniatures that you paint and build.
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| Run human run! |
Dreadball is set within Mantic Games "Warpath" universe, where the various races collect to watch the spectacular and gruesome games of Dreadball - which resembles football and rugby all mixed together.
The game box itself features the fearsome Marauders (Mantics Orcs) against the Corporation's team (sorta like Marines in Space). It comes with a board to play on, and all the cards and dice that you will need in order to play. The game is fast paced and ridiculous, but really makes for a good way for people to get into the tabletop realm if they have never played any game before, because it combines the miniatures and dice of a wargame with the conventional board and play style of a board game. The investment for buying the full box set is $65. However, if you have a player you are teaching, they can buy a complete team for about $20, and there are currently 8 teams available, so they wont be lacking for options. If they do get one of the 4 "second season" teams, they will have to get the "Second Season" Rulebook - for $15. So, for a price of $30 on average, a completely new tabletop gamer will be born into the game.
Why introduce people to tabletop gaming through Dreadball?
I have read enough accounts about how Bloodbowl was everyone first love affair with tabletops in the 80s and 90s to know that sports games grab everyone from the get go. And what more is Dreadball than a better, cheaper, and more loved by its company Blood Bowl? Dreadball gets people wet in the way of models and painting, yet it keeps it relatively simple with the fact that you really only need about 10 models per side. Then you get eveything else you need in the box. Compared to other hobbies, this seems like the perfect stepping stone into the world of wargaming, with Warpath being the next logical step after Dreadball, launching their fights from the arena to the battlefield in the same fictional universe. Plus the models themselves are absolutely gorgeous, and would make fine places to start learning how to paint and model.
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| Look at them... Awesome! |
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| Board, dice, cards, counters, rules, and theres even some models! |
I really have an inkling to get this game, and love every second of it. And, if you have the same inkling, I would suggest you do the same. Until then, Tarum et clama dimit belli canes!
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