Do you need to understand Football to enjoy this game?

[TheNewJew]

I like games like Xcom (2012) and Jagged aliance etc but I dont understand football or the warcraft lore is this game fun if I don't know these things?

[Stygger]

Hardly know the base rules of american football and I have Blood Bowl (tabletop & digital) as my favorite games!

The lore is Warhammer Fantasy, not Warcraft, regardless the lore and fluff in Blood Bowl is pretty stand alone from what I can tell.

If you enjoy XCOM and know how to manage risks then there could get many hours out of this game, however, even if you are a fast learner it will take quite a number of games/teams before you gain the insights to really play and build your teams.

[TheNewJew]

I see so it isnt required to have fun

[Stygger]

As long as you can laugh at your own misstakes or bad luck then yes

[TheNewJew]

Sweet I will think about it then thanks!

[RabidHobbit]

It actually doesn't use any of the rules from American Football. It has its own set of TBS rules instead. It just has the theme of football. It's more like a comedic X-Com where you laugh when people get hurt (as you cry).

[TheNewJew]

lol

[Jasta]

Not even slightly other than the basic concept of getting the ball to the other end of the field in order to score a touchdown.

Does help to understand this game though. Don't go into it thinking it's like turn based Madden, or pretty much like any other game you can think of. Play the campaign, read up a bit or you'll struggle.

[TheNewJew]

I see I don't have issues with reading guides or seeing tutorials

[BCGaius]

Although it's football, it's NOT the NFL. There are no downs, field goals, pass interference, etc; NFL-specific rules don't apply. NFL positions like tight end, running back, quarter back, exist only in the form of similar Blood Bowl positions like Blitzer or Thrower, and you don't need to be familiar with their NFL version to figure them out.

Knowing Warhammer lore can be helpful, but it isn't necessary at all. Most teams are fairly self-explanatory: Orcs are, well, orcs, dwarfs are dwarfs, elves are elves and they mostly behave how you'd expect. That said, it can be helpful to know a little about Warhammer lore, such as why orcs would be confused about the concept of playing over a ball instead of brutally murdering the other team, or why and how Chaos gets mutation upgrades and other teams don't.

[Samsunaattori]

Get the brown oval thing to the opposite end of field and punch stuff between the ball and opposing endzone. That's all the rules you need to know about handegg to play this game

[Zourin]

Originally posted by Stygger:

As long as you can laugh at your own misstakes or bad luck then yes

A LOT of bad luck. As in, a game where 22 virtually incompetent special-needs people with barely enough INSUFFICIENT mental capacity and manual dexterity to operate a stairway in a downward direction, proceed to engage in fisticuffs over a bar of soap coated with sex lube.

PICKING UP a ball is a feat that only the best and most capable specialists with extensive practice and training can accomplish. Half the time, or less even.