Greebo: Tutatis - Spanish Rules available Pag2

[Greebo]

Tutatis is a genial, strategic, crazy game that is fun to play. The 2 coaches face each other on a fantasy style Gaelic football pitch in order to ascertain the most powerful Realm.
King Theodor, with the help of the Gods, has decided to reanimate a sport called Tutatis.
By choosing one of the 27 fantasy races and building your team with the right combination of players, heroes and mercenaries, each one with special skills, you can overcome your enemy’s teams both in a sporting and physical way driving your team to championship’s victory!
Triskearth is a world divided into various Realms inhabited by different races such as orcs, dwarves, undeads, daemons, mages, alchemists, retired people, ‘even some humans’! That’s not all folks...the Realms are in competition with each other using all of their local heroes and subjects.
Let the game begin!

Tutatis is a fantasy Gaelic football.
What does this mean? The main rules are the same as for Gaelic football, but transported into a fantasy world, Triskearth, where creatures of every kind and with all sorts of strange abilities face each other on the pitch using all of their power for the victory of their Realm. Between the 27 different races and available teams, 7 players against 7 players, the referee throws the ball in the center of the pitch and the fighting begins.
The game will see players trying to score points and goals without forgetting to ‘smash’ their opponents during the match.
At any one time, each race has 1 of its 3 heroes fielding the pitch; using their unique skills they can change the outcome of the match. And let us not forget about mercenaries, players hired to strengthen the team!
Tutatis is a very strategic game, where you have to think about every move if you do not want your opponent to have an easy counter attack and subsequent victory.
The manual, a free PDF download or purchasable in the store, is made up of lots of background information creating an interesting frame to the game and a few pages of rules.
This is because Tutatis is a very simple game; after a little practice, it takes only a few minutes to explain the rules to someone.
No ruler, no special dice, just a table and 2d6!
The game is made for people who do not have much time, for family people or people with limited space at home.
You can play a game of the base version of Tutatis in only 20/40 minutes and its scale lets you store the game board and miniatures in restricted spaces, making it truly portable.
Championships, for experts, will have a list of skills for players, specific rules for all 27 pitches (one per race), special referees, team’s staff, all of this to reach very high levels of tactical skills.
Sing-in to our forum to update on everything connected with Tutatis, to make suggestions or to ask questions. Remember that the game is born and grows with you!

Ok people, we are ready! Tutatis will come out this Week End! Free PDF rules and background, we will add field on our store and soon new big team: Thornwell, the reptilians council.


T. Mareck , the undertaker


Hulianov, the red vampire


Krong, the Arena’s warlord

And first reptilian from Thornwel.






Tartalar from Thwornwell




The Big Lizard


and two very very little turtle for the team.

[Chris]

Look forward to having a gander at the rules.

[fitch-face]

Since I'm a player and big fan of real-life Gaelic, I'm actually pretty excited for this. I've not read the rules, though I've heard from a mate that pretty much the only thing in there that's similar to Gaelic is the pitch. But it might still be worth a look. Plus, any alternative to Granny Wendy has to have some merit.

Should be good.

[fitch-face]

I mean that rules are from Gaelic football, but story and background is more fun and interesting.

So, you're saying that a large part of my culture is less fun and interesting than a board game?

Just read the rules in Italian (I couldn't wait and my Spanish and Latin got me through surprisingly well) and I have a few comments. I have to say, in my opinion it looks incredibly similar to Blood Bowl. The injury chart, push-back/bouncing ball directions, turnovers, catching/passing/picking up the ball etc are all very similar to Blood Bowl. Even the fouling rules are the same but with a strength modifier instead of an assist modifier. The two novel aspects come from blocking and scoring.

Blocking The blocking rules are pretty interesting but seem a little over-complicated. It'll be much harder to know strategically what to do in terms of blocking in Tutatis than it is in Blood Bowl because there are more possible outcomes for each block and much more random chance. There is far less advantage to having assists and blocking in Tutatis could easily be more about luck and less about tactics. I guess it's personal preference as to whether that's good or bad!

Scoring The scoring has a really cool mechanic and this is what I think will make this game tactically interesting rather than blocking; knowing how close to get and when to go for a goal. I do, however, think this aspect just has the feel of a Blood Bowl Expansion. As though Jervis Johnson had written an article called "Rules for Using Soccer Nets in Your Games of Blood Bowl" or something.


And this isn't really a problem but the pedant in me would like to point out that this is nothing like Gaelic. This is a cross between rugby, gridiron and soccer... Essentially, this is Blood Bowl with a soccer net.

It's a cool concept and I guess I'll have to see it played before I judge properly. Just my two pence.

[Greebo]

Basic Rules

Here first Basic Rules.

To be constructive with comment I suggest to FIRST play one game, than comment. All Italian BB player that have play to Tutatis since one year are all in the same opinions: can remember BB in a first impression only reading or hearing something, but play is really really really different.

[Greebo]

Download page

Here all downloadable pdf

[fitch-face]

O don't get me wrong, mate, I'll be giving it a go. Besides, I think I was pretty constructive before...

I'm sure it does play tactically very differently to Blood Bowl but so does Blood Bowl 7's! Trying out the the game won't change the fact that the basic mechanics are almost exactly the same as Blood Bowl. And that begs the question of why you changed the rules for blocking when you kept the rules for everything else (except scoring, of course). "If it wasn't broke, why'd you fix it?".

Also, in your game scoring a 'point' only ever happens by missing a 'goal'. In real Gaelic, teams tend to attempt more points than actual goals. I would have liked to have seen this option represented in your rules, maybe having a bonus modifier when going for a point. This would have added another unique tactical aspect of whether to go for an easy point or attempt a tricky goal. Like my old Gaelic coach always said "Goals are nice but points win games".

The game looks great and I'll definitely try it, but I'm not sold on your blocking system. I will probably use a modified version of your shooting rules as an occasional variant scoring system in Blood Bowl with my mates.

Don't mind me anyway, I'm just a grumpy GAA fan

[Greebo]

O don't get me wrong, mate, I'll be giving it a go. Besides, I think I was pretty constructive before...

I'm sure it does play tactically very differently to Blood Bowl but so does Blood Bowl 7's! Trying out the the game won't change the fact that the basic mechanics are almost exactly the same as Blood Bowl. And that begs the question of why you changed the rules for blocking when you kept the rules for everything else (except scoring, of course). "If it wasn't broke, why'd you fix it?".

Also, in your game scoring a 'point' only ever happens by missing a 'goal'. In real Gaelic, teams tend to attempt more points than actual goals. I would have liked to have seen this option represented in your rules, maybe having a bonus modifier when going for a point. This would have added another unique tactical aspect of whether to go for an easy point or attempt a tricky goal. Like my old Gaelic coach always said "Goals are nice but points win games".

The game looks great and I'll definitely try it, but I'm not sold on your blocking system. I will probably use a modified version of your shooting rules as an occasional variant scoring system in Blood Bowl with my mates.

Don't mind me anyway, I'm just a grumpy GAA fan

For score a point is not possible only missing a goal, but you can chose : kick in the door or try to kick above the door, rolling is different. Trying to kick above the door is more simple and goalkeeper can't save that. Where you read that you cant do point?

Blocking system is most simple as possible and delete all most of lucky from rolling, because in that system you add Strength to rolling, than compare result and you have 5 possibility. All people (not only BB players) and this 5 result are simple to learn , like 5 min. So Goblin vs Cyclopes start that rolling with a +x difference.

[Greebo]

To be clear:

A player who moves into the opponent’s third of the field with the ball may also attempt to score one point by shooting between the posts above the goal. To do this the player must roll equal to or under their BP in this way: the coach shooting rolls 2d6 - St + distance.

Is in the same section called Shooting for a score.
And yes, is like in Gaelic football: "Goals are nice but points win games".

[Elyoukey]

I did not read all the details, and did not even try to play. So you may put aside my opinion, but i have the same first impression as fitch-face: it smells like bloodbowl.

[Greebo]

I did not read all the details, and did not even try to play. So you may put aside my opinion, but i have the same first impression as fitch-face: it smells like bloodbowl.

I think that smell like Bb because you find tackle and one ball. But for other is all different. Can't pass forward, can't move with ball with same model for 2 consecutive turn instead he pass the ball , so forget the classic scheme with defender and player with ball that move all to score. You can pass with all singles in unique turn so if you have put them correct on field you can score in only only one turn, or if you parry or an enemy lose ball near your goal area is not very hard turn all this situation and find your pieces near enemy goal area next turn. Only this 2 things make Tutatis so different from BB, and you can verify that when you will try to play one game.
Every team have 3 heroes + mercenary. And also this modify the game and the strategy every time if you choose one instead another.
Tackle must to be, we have delete 3 special dices and change resolution.
Dodge must to be, foul must to be, this is Gaelic Football and running tackle must to be, fail to catch the ball must to be...resuming BASIC things like that are similar and modify when was possible, not because have to be like BB but only because can't be different. But all style, game play etc is pretty different.

[fitch-face]

Is in the same section called Shooting for a score.
And yes, is like in Gaelic football: "Goals are nice but points win games".

Sorry mate, I don't know how I missed that considering I was specifically looking for it!

I'm starting to like the idea more, I'll try and get a game in this week if I can force one of my friends into it! Should be nice and fast-paced if I can learn the blocking rules, I'll let you know what I think.

[Greebo]

Is in the same section called Shooting for a score.
And yes, is like in Gaelic football: "Goals are nice but points win games".

Sorry mate, I don't know how I missed that considering I was specifically looking for it!

I'm starting to like the idea more, I'll try and get a game in this week if I can force one of my friends into it! Should be nice and fast-paced if I can learn the blocking rules, I'll let you know what I think.

For anything I'm here!

[garion]

I did not read all the details, and did not even try to play. So you may put aside my opinion, but i have the same first impression as fitch-face: it smells like bloodbowl.

It seems very similar to bloodbowl when you read it, but it does not play the same. Stalling will not get you very far in this game for example. Of course it does have similarities, but after a few games you will realise it plays in a very different style. Give it try, its good fun.

@ Greebo: Door = Goal

[Corvidius]

I did not read all the details, and did not even try to play. So you may put aside my opinion, but i have the same first impression as fitch-face: it smells like bloodbowl.

It's like saying Cricket and Baseball seem the same. On the surface they are similar, underneath not so much.

The idea of tribes or nations choosing to use sport rather than war is similar but then again it's a common enough concept. The execution is the important part. Oh, and the Poffys of course, loving those Poffys.