Blood Bowl 3 vs. Blood Bowl Second Season Boxed Set

[Psylence]

It's a simple question...which is better? Blood Bowl 3 or Blood Bowl Second Season boxed set? I love assembling my miniatures and painting them and taking them to my local games store with a game room and playing against real people in real time with real components. Is Blood Bowl 3 just for those people that don't have a shred of creativity or is it the next best iteration of an all ready excellent game that they can experience. In the Games Workshop store a team of miniatures costs roughly $60. The Blood Bowl 3 game has (9 ?) playable teams...in table top terms the Blood Bowl 3 teams you get amount to about $500 real dollars (not warp stone) but not including the time and effort you spend assembling and painting your material teams. This digitised version is almost all eye candy...

[VoodooMike]

Originally posted by "Psylence":

It's a simple question...which is better? Blood Bowl 3 or Blood Bowl Second Season boxed set?

Which is better.. an apple or a fork?

If you have a group of people who will play the tabletop game with you then it'll be a good time all around - tabletop Blood Bowl has always been best. However, you'll be playing a small number of games every month if you're lucky - they're long and most people can't dedicate all that many hours to getting together to play boardgames each week.

The video game versions are something you can play any time you want - you don't have to organize (except in certain private leagues), there's no prep time, and there's even a very half-assed solo play mode. You can find opponents with the press of a button, rather than trying to find or establish a tabletop league, and can do so from your computer desk or couch (depending on what sort of machine you use to play).

So what's better depends heavily on your situation.

[Psylence]

That's what I was thinking...convenience wins for the video game and the fun factor in a live game wins because...well...it's just awesome that way.

[Psylence]

A fork wins because it can pick up a slice of apple. The apple cannot pick up a fork. Unless you have a lot of apples then you can save the stems and braid them together and maybe make a little loop that you can snag the fork with and lift it off the ground.

[Gulie]

Box set gets you endless hours of fun and games without any trapdoors (aside of maybe geting addicted to buying super nice 3rd party minatures)!

[VoodooMike]

Originally posted by Psylence:

A fork wins because it can pick up a slice of apple. The apple cannot pick up a fork. Unless you have a lot of apples then you can save the stems and braid them together and maybe make a little loop that you can snag the fork with and lift it off the ground.

If you're starving then you'd trade all the forks in the world for an apple. All comes down to what your situation is.

[Apollo's Will]

The tabletop is fun, but a match takes a VERY long time. At least when we played. The video game still take time, but I feel a match is 1/3 of the time of a TT, (the dice rolls and calculations).
If you have the time and group TT is a blast. If you want to get some quick games in and expand the group you are playing with, go Digital.

[brionl]

Originally posted by Apollo's Will:

The tabletop is fun, but a match takes a VERY long time. At least when we played. The video game still take time, but I feel a match is 1/3 of the time of a TT, (the dice rolls and calculations).
If you have the time and group TT is a blast. If you want to get some quick games in and expand the group you are playing with, go Digital.

Once everybody has the rules down and knows what they're doing, the TT games can go pretty quickly too. After all, the turn timer is a suggested rule from the TT game in the first place.

[peremptor]

This also is very dependent of where you live obviously in certain countries trying to find people interested enough in tabletop BB will be hard enough plus the expenses far too high for the living wages to comfortably accommodate said hobby... digital is the way to go for most of us.

[_oBSOLEte_]

You will never own Blood Bowl 3. It's a rented live service with a set shelf life and IP licence. And it will disappear sooner rather than later looking by the state of things.

So if you want long term investment go for the plastic figurines I guess. At least you'd have something to show for the kids later, or give or sell away, if anything those toys tend to take value with time.

[peremptor]

Originally posted by M4st0d0n:

You will never own Blood Bowl 3. It's a rented live service with a set shelf life and IP licence. And it will disappear sooner rather than later looking by the state of things.

So if you want long term investment go for the plastic figurines I guess. At least you'd have something to show for the kids later, or give or sell away, if anything those toys tend to take value with time.

A wonderful option for those that live in the right places to make this a worthwhile alternative.

[_oBSOLEte_]

Originally posted by peremptor:

Originally posted by M4st0d0n:

You will never own Blood Bowl 3. It's a rented live service with a set shelf life and IP licence. And it will disappear sooner rather than later looking by the state of things.

So if you want long term investment go for the plastic figurines I guess. At least you'd have something to show for the kids later, or give or sell away, if anything those toys tend to take value with time.

A wonderful option for those that live in the right places to make this a worthwhile alternative.

As much as FUMBBL, Tabletop Simulator, or dare I say Blood Bowl 2 if you dont give a crap about the new rules and just want a good time.

[peremptor]

Yeah for sure. Alternatives are great amigo :)

Yeah I wasn't suggesting to buy this game in it's current state my bad.

[_oBSOLEte_]

Originally posted by peremptor:

Yeah for sure. Alternatives are great amigo :)

Yeah I wasn't suggesting to buy this game in it's current state my bad.

No problem buddy. You quoted my answer to OP but of course it's good to talk about all the alternatives indeed.

If you know of one I missed please add.

We also had a nice discussion about 3D printing models and using recasts earlier this week before the launch.

[Psylence]

Apples can be cooked in a pie...better start selling all those silver forks on ebay to buy the crust. It all depends on the state of what you value as currency. And besides that...who wouldn't share their apple if that person is starving.