Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition (Classic)

This game scratches one specific and hard to find itch - League play with character progression. You and X friends can play round robin or knockout tournaments with AI factions added, where your individual squad characters all level up individually, and also progress as a team - they develop skills, wounds or even get beaten to death. It really generates a story for the individual players and the league itself, and lets you have your own community, which is something fading in modern gaming. The AI does unfortunately stop presenting a threat after a few dozen hours of play, When this game is at its peak, it's the best at what it does - which is a fun, chance mitigation wargame.

Still plays fine while you're waiting for Blood Bowl 3 to get its act together (if it ever does).

i recommend playing this over Blood Bowl 3 any day

boy oh boy it really is a shame they never made a third game after this banger of a title my blitzer paralyzed himself from the neckdown trying to tie his shoelaces

No one is playing this game, dont beleive people saying this is better than BB3, at least BB3 has players. Played 1 match in 7 hours of gametime

Goofy, endearing product with intense depth available to the strategic mind. My friends have built an entire community around playing together. The marriage of long-term emergent narrative and short-term intense tactics is a joy for me. The UI is a little janky, though far improved from Blood Bowl 1. If you can get over the learning curve, or find a friend to help you past it, and embrace runs of bad luck, a world of fun is waiting for you.

Went back to play this to refresh my memory before maybe picking up the third game. Possibly the worst pretence at random number generation I've ever seen. The AI cheats, and does so blatantly. There is absolutely no pretence whatsoever, as it makes you roll consecutive skulls, 1s and makes you waste your rerolls (often from the very first roll of the game). Meanwhile, the AI rolls everything perfectly, flattens your players and makes a series of dodge rolls worthy of a four-leaf clover. There is absolutely no way in this lifetime that people have the bad luck this game seems to think is commonplace. Avoid this like the plague.