A Load of Balls…

Though I'm not a massive fan of real life sports, I've always had a soft spot for ones of the board game variety...unfortunately most of them were crap...then I was introduced to Blood Bowl by a fellow hobbyist and enjoyed it greatly but I'm one of those hobbyists who gets distracted by other things unless there's a consistent flow of new models, rules supplements, etc.


So Blood Bowl (though excellent in many respects) lost my interest due to Games Workshops abandonment of it and my lack of interest in most sports returned...

I was amazed that full contact underwear chess never really caught on...

Fortunately, Mantic Games then gave us Dreadball...


...it was different enough from Blood Bowl to have it's own character but shared it's general appeal in the areas of maiming your opponents and occasionally remembering there was a ball somewhere that we were meant to be doing something with. They've recently started a new Kickstarter in the form of Dreadball Xtreme but by a strange coincidence of timing they're not the only company Kickstarting a game involving balls..

Here's the three I'm looking at currently...