Blood Bowl Sevens?

Geoff Watson · Post by **Geoff Watson** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:46 am

Who's played Blood Bowl Sevens? (basically BB with seven players instead of eleven)

What's it like?

What teams are particularly bad/good for the format?

Geoff.

Arven · Post by **Arven** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 11:41 am

Me! I've played BB7!

It's best to go for a running team, imo, as the board is smaller and opposing teams don't start within blocking range of each other.

Skaven, Elves and Lizardmen have lots of Fun, and Mummies and Black Ork Blockers feel completely helpless.

rodders · Post by **rodders** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:38 pm

its as high scoring as a rugby 7's match especially for skaven and elf teams

antipixi · Post by **antipixi** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:39 am

Human teams are actually very good in 7's they can become very bashy and a catcher with sure hands as a skill can be aamazing at picking up balls that come loose due to the lack of rerolls.

I am a teacher and help run a monday night 7s league for 9 teams after school. Because of the lack of TZs at kick off the main SPPs are for ball handling, so elves are awesome and skaven GRs are just amazing. In fact all the personal reroll skill become so powerful, since your team doesn't get any.

bound for glory · Post by **bound for glory** » Fri May 19, 2006 5:41 pm

i don't really care for bb7's. to me, and this is just my opinion, its just watered down. what, can't spend 2 or so hours having a good time playing bb...

Fronko · Post by **Fronko** » Fri May 26, 2006 10:48 am

I liked BB7s a lot. Not as intense as the real thing, but quicker and lighter fun action. And yes, my skaven did enormously well in it. Those GRs turn any opponents mistake into a TD immediately.

And as there are no SPPs, no worrying about a single player hogging all of them.

Mo · Post by Mo » Tue May 30, 2006 1:34 am

I like it a lot. Its one of the rounds of play of the Death Bowl Tournament in Montreal. With the short board, it does favour the dashy teams.

Cheers,
Maureen

koji_nanami · Post by **koji_nanami** » Tue May 30, 2006 7:54 am

There is for this variant a ruleset or it's only the same rulebook but only played with 7 players on the pitch?

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Tue May 30, 2006 11:41 am

koji_nanami wrote:There is for this variant a ruleset or it's only the same rulebook but only played with 7 players on the pitch?

Its buried on the SG website but here are the rules:

http://www.specialist-games.com/assets/BB7.pdf

Galak

koji_nanami · Post by **koji_nanami** » Tue May 30, 2006 11:45 am

Perfect... Thanks

magokiron · Post by **magokiron** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:37 pm

we play BB7 a lot.
It's faster and we usually prefer 2 BB7 games rather than only 1 BB.
But beware! In BB if your enemy kills or injuries 2 or 3 players, you can pretty well survive and maybe win, because you still have 8 or 9 player on the field, but in BB7 if you loose 2 players, you only have 5 players left, and it becomes a spiral of death, bacause your opponent has more players and always block at an advantage.

As you begin separate, the faster teams has some sort of advantage over the "kicking" teams.
In BB, for example, you MUST begin with at least 3 players touching the line of scrimage, and if your opponent has mummies or something like that, they undoubtedly will hurt your players, but in BB7, as they are 6 squares away, it will take them 2 turns just to get near you.
Note also that some skills are somehow "toned down" as the players are amateur and not proffessionals.

Hope that help.

Lycos · Post by **Lycos** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:11 pm

I have just got into this. I went into Google and hit BB7 rules and a link similar to Galak posted came up. A PDF on specialist games with some pic in it with Andy Hall looking 5 years younger appears on page 2 or 3!

Its great and take some tips from the posts above. Mummies are all but useless. Lizzies unexpectedly good. (MV6, ST4 players coupled with MV8 stunty guys...hmm, very handy).
And totally agree with post about Humans. Taking a passer, with catchers and blitzers keeps the lack of rr;s out of it. Sure hands and pass, catch and dodge, block for blitzing.....yep, good allrounders.

The over riding reason for liking it is I get in too late from work for a 2 yr game, more likely 3 given the post and pre match stuff for full BB in the week but a BB7 game can be done in an hour.

Podfrey · Post by **Podfrey** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:11 pm

In case anyone wants a revised version (I found some of the original ideas didn't quite work), it can be found here:

http://www.enos.ltd.uk/BB7s_rev.htm

Cheers,

Geoff

Mo · Post by Mo » Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:13 pm

I got a 404 error when I tried to download it

Mo

Darkson · Post by **Darkson** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:20 pm

Glad it wasn't just me then.