Blitz Bowl Ultimate Edtion Board Game Review

Join us as we take a look at the fantasy football themed board game Blitz Bowl Ultimate Edition published by Games Workshop.

[@IlanMuskat]

A couple of thoughts: 1. Blitz Bowl is absolutely the better game. Designed by James Hewitt who also cleaned up the Blood Bowl game for 2016, creating a fantastic new version but also finding all the things he'd change if rebuilding it. 2. James was constrained, when designing Blitz Bowl, to only use components from the original box. Hence the finger pain. 3. Lots of great discussion about the design of Blitz Bowl, and the playtesting and development of Ultimate Edition, on the Kerrunch podcast. 4. For additional teams, there's a big community and tradition of using models from other places (or sculpting new ones). Scavenging D&D Orks, Lizard People or Dwarfs (and just taking off their swords) gets you teams while sparing fingers!

[@theshogunstein6475]

Thanks for the shout out!

[@mickeymyers13]

"Unless it's the white one" 😂 You're mental and I absolutely love it. Another great video, mate.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Cheers geezer 👍🏻

[@thorslam3791]

Excellent review!

[@mih2]

Love Blitz Bowl - it replaces the original

[@MercesLatres]

Great outro music! 🤘💥💥💥

[@kroebocop]

There are also Blood Bowl Sevens, but could be nice to try this one some day😎

[@theshogunstein6475]

glad it made it to the UK

[@petermillen6924]

I never warmed to Blood Bowl despite my friend having oodles of figures and bits for it. Blitz Bowl may be only “Blood Bowl lite” but it suits me much better.

[@stevenkennedy4130]

I like this guy. Subbed.

[@IlanMuskat]

That grape imagery -- brilliantly evocative

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Evocation of Caligula

[@IlanMuskat]

@@BoardGameBollocks Malcolm would approve; no word on how Tinto would feel

[@Paul-ro6py]

As always thanks. Only got to play Blood bowl a few times in the 80s, tired of it due to game length. This may be the answer, if I can find it in Canada!

[@noreasternbrewmaster8705]

Hey!!!! You finally got a copy in the UK! I love this game!

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Friends in the right places 👍🏻

[@noreasternbrewmaster8705]

@@BoardGameBollocks By the way, Barnes & Noble did sell the 6 figure sets for a few of the teams. Also, you may want those extra figures once you finally give Dungeon Bowl a spin. It's also shorter than Blood Bowl and really zany fun, but Blitz Bowl is my favorite of all of the BB titles available.

[@theshogunstein6475]

@@BoardGameBollocks friends in high places

[@dejahthoris1808]

Hi! there were separate team boxes released for the original Blitz Bowl, peoples can find them on Ebay and from a few sellers in the USA, most of the time they are going for cheap prices. I totally agree about the miniature sprues, That is one of the many elements that ultimately turned me off modern GW products.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

I’ve not seen any on eBay. They were discontinued early.

[@Rorschach71lm]

Love your reviews and agree with most points, but mate….GW ain’t gonna be moving away from sprues. Their entire printing process for all figures is built that way. A little bit of patience, some cheap clippers and hobby glue and you’re good. Agree that it’s bloody annoying you can’t buy 6 figures per team though…

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Or just produce completed moulds…I want to play games…not play Operation 😂

[@MattHolstein]

Blitz is fantastic to just sit down and play a game. Blood Bowl is great to get together once a week for a few months at the local club for a progressive league. Oh and you could buy Blitz Bowl teams at B&N. They were literally 1 of the two team sprues from a BB team box at about half the price. When 2nd edition came out I bought every single one that I ever saw come into my local B&N for about 4 months of looking weekly. They just didnt want to push them because I believe GW limited sales on them to force people into Blood Bowl. Still shitty as hell they dont offer this game in the UK. Kind of stupid if you ask me from a sales point of view.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

It’s actually manufactured in the UK and sent to the US but you can’t get it here…utterly batshit

[@bradp6452]

The dungeon bowl boxes give teams that are useful for blitz bowl but one would like need to sell the tiles and books to have it make sense financially.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

DB is £75 here….crazy

[@bradp6452]

@@BoardGameBollocks I think the Deathmatch expansion is more reasonable and it would get you 3 teams up to 4 if you proxy a Treeman and tokens.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Too much effort tbh

[@bradp6452]

@@BoardGameBollocks Retail for Dungeonbowl is currently 170, death bowl like 90 here in the states. Not that one should pay retail for that.

[@dreamofempire2114]

Good to see they have decided to streamline the game as I also haven’t played it for donkeys because it was too long. Glad you are enjoying its renaissance. Millwall 1992 though? Please don’t tell me you are a fan…

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Millwall? Hell no…Pompey.

[@ZytheJR]

Have you guys tried dreadball? Seems like it plays a little faster, slightly more like hockey rather than American football.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Yes. Too complicated compared to this

[@MatthewMouras]

"... unless it's white." LOL!

[@deusex3124]

Completely agree about assembling miniatures being a massive pain, it's pretty obvious GW's games aren't aimed at the board game crowd, but clearly their own masochistic fans who love spending hours faffing about with sprues, clippers and glue before you can even play the game. Also the cynic in me thinks they've intentionally not made Blitz Bowl team packs available so people have to buy expensive Blood Bowl teams. GW's entire business model is about selling miniatures.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

You’re probably right…you can’t even buy it in the UK even though it’s made here. GW are a bunch of clowns imho

[@viktorkm]

How did you get this? Its only sold in america

[@BoardGameBollocks]

A mate from America kindly sent it over

[@PadsandPawns]

You could get blitz bowl teams imported but by the time you did that you’d spent as much as you do on a blood bowl team. I used to split them with a friend down south who also had blitz bowl but some teams you can’t do that on. It’s all very silly. Love the game though. Have season 1 and 2 and a skaven team so I don’t think ultimate is worth hunting down! Also 3 hours? You old.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

They stopped making them apparently

[@PadsandPawns]

Bastards! There’s a site called bits and kits where I think you can get single sprues that they have going spare. It’s uk based too. Just a bit stock dependant.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

👍🏻

[@dwnvwdjvn]

I'm holding out for BGBollocks reviews films... it'll piss all over Mark Kermode 😉

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Funnily enough I have a degree in Film Studies…maybe planted a seed there mate.