Blood Bowl – Improve your planning and risk management skills
Evaluate the risk of taking actions, plan the order in which you will carry them out according to the risk involved and then execute the actions in that order. That is the heart and soul of Blood Bowl. Blood Bowl is a board game for two people where two opposing fantasy teams (as in made up of elves, dwarves and such) play a "football" match. It has a very interesting game mechanic (summarized and simplified): during your turn you can do an action with each of your players on the field, some of which will require a dice roll, and if you fail a roll your turn ends then and there automatically. This implies that when you are going to play your turn, you have to have a clear idea of what you want to do (or the disposition of your players on the field at the end of your turn), and execute your moves in an order according to a "minimum risk - maximum benefit" principle. It's very tactical, but I've chosen it as a "make me better" game for the following reasons: Risk [Read full post...]