Blood Bowl 3 Brings Violent Fantasy Football To The Nintendo Switch In 2021

There was a Blood Bowl 2? Heh, where did that one go, lol

Oh nice, that’s an announcement that would have at least been nice to see at the dire Opening Night.

Mixing sports with tactical combat and Warhammer ... sign me up!

Looking forward to the arguments over what "football" means.

Great game thats existed since the mid 80s. Great mix of strategy, risk mitigation, and bawdy antics.

Well, EA won't give us a football game.

@JimmySpades I'll start. It's when someone cuts off both your feet and turns them to mulch, then hardens them into a ball. It's a sport played by indigenous tribes. I'm probably making that up.

Definitely something I am interested in....

Nice to have another spiritual successor worthy of the Mutant League Football name.

The idea of a turn based medieval version of football sounds great. However, Blood Bowl games have tended to play slower than molasses with an opaque rule set that demands SERIOUS investment from players.

If they can balance depth with approachability I'm cautiously interested.

I played the board game as a kid. It’s so much fun. And infuriating. When you spend many games making your players better just for them to suddenly die is the worst. Me and my friends spent so many hours with it. Hope this game will have cross play. Then I may be able to play with my brothers And probably be slayed...

@LaytonPuzzle27
Blood bowl first released 86, mlf 93, spiritual successor how???

Blood Bowl is THE BEST! I pray the switch port will work properly... oh well, most likely get it on PC for the multiplayer experience.

I highly recommend getting into the tabletop version as well!

@LaytonPuzzle27 BB predates MLF by 7 years.

@Muddy_4_Ever agree tried it a few times before end up just giving up. idea sounds great the actual game not so.

@TG16_IS_BAE Yes, and it was basically Blood Bowl 1 with improved (read: actually functional) UI.

Huh, there's a female player in the Human team? That's a new one. Kind of lessens the appeal of Amazons. Here's hoping it doesn't muddle up readability (it's already sometimes hard to tell Human linemen from throwers or catchers).
Also I approve of those beer-splashing dwarf cheerleaders, but here's hoping we'll still get regular ones. A game about over the top medieval fantasy football (where deaths are expected especially if you play against Ogres or Orcs) shouldn't be afraid of being "offensive", if you can call depictions of attractive women that.

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And on that subject, the plastic Dark Elf Wytch seems more covered than the rendered one... But that may be because of proportions (more realistic in video games).

@Muddy_4_Ever Blood Bowl isn't that deep. It's very RNG. The video game version sounds a bit more approachable due to the fact that the computer calculates and shows Blocking zones for you, so you don't have to figure out if a spot gives your guy -1 or -2 for yourself. I only played the PC version and I can only imagine how slow the physical one can get if you need to figure all that out by yourself.

OMG. FINALLY ( hopefully) a decent WARHAMMER port to the switch???

football and turn based together, that sounds like that crazy idea and also like american football.

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I am confused as to why you think I didn't know what the title was. Especially since the presense of "Bowl" makes it clear exactly which sport is featured.

@Maulbert
2K is bringing football next year. For all we know that could be in the Spring(6 months away). 2K could be making a NFL Blitz too. They are making two games, it's vague what that means. They now have the ability to use the NFL player's likenesses.

Takes forever to play a game of this. Other than that the second one is relatively fun if you want to get into the strategy aspects of it. Just can't bring myself to take the time to get good at it.

When this is released (as long as it's not a disastrous port) we should get a league going.

@Gorans-Cap EA owns Blitz. And having player likeness rights is not the same as having the team rights. Player rights comes from the NFL Players Association, the players union that is separate from the NFL. Team rights come from the NFL itself, which recently extended it's exclusivity deal with EA.

@Maulbert
Then it won't be called Blitz. 2K can use real players but not teams. It could be something like the classic backyard sports games. That would still be better than what is currently on the Switch in terms of real American style football. All of the current American football games on the Switch has added junk in it, none are authentic American football.

@LaytonPuzzle27 but they actually have the mutant league football game on switch already. It's pretty good, stays true to the original.

@Gorans-Cap "to use in a non simulation game"
Meaning they cant revive the great ESPN nfl 2k5 series. But they can make an arcade blitz-like game. Which has a market. Just not for me.

Excellent! Was hoping we would get blood bowl on the Switch.

I think I had either the first or second game and it was really hard to learn and wasn't geared towards solo play. Maybe if this gets favorable impressions for a single player mode, I'll get it. I love tabletop adaptations, especially when blood bowl isn't exactly a cheap game

@PhhhCough it has so much swearing in it haha. I love the crypt keeper esque announcer even though it's mostly toilet humor.