Blitz Bowl: Ultimate Edition Spoilers

More details are emerging about Blitz Bowl: Ultimate Edition as the game has already been released in other countries. It appears this version of Blitz Bowl has a large number of fundamental changes to the different teams and players.

For example, the normal Armour of a Human players is now 3+, while Orcs have a normal value of 2+; many of the changes to Armour values for different teams is likely is due to the new "Fouling" rule which allows attacks on prone players.

Touchdowns are now worth four points, the "Get On With It" rule is gone, and and there are a great number of changes to the different challenge cards.

A few other tidbits include:

• Black Orc Blockers and Saurus Blockers don't have any skills, but both have Block of 2. The Mummy also sports a Block of 2 with a nice skill (called Bonebreaker) which counts a Smash as a Kerrrunch!
• The Snotling Pumpwagon has a Block of 3, Throw of "-", and an Armour of 3+.
• The Chamelon Skink now has a typical Catcher skill (like the Human Catcher, etc.)

Blitz Bowl: Ultimate Edition Preorder at Barnes & Noble

Blitz Bowl: Ultimate Edition is now available for pre-order at Barnes & Noble's website and its official release date is Saturday, October 22, 2022.  Its price is $49.99, which is the same original price of Season 2 (which is still listed for sale at Barnes & Noble) and five more bucks than the original game (which is also still listed for sale at Barnes & Noble). Also, there is a maximum of two per order!

Fantasy Flight Games Announces Star Wars: The Deck Building Game

Today, on the last day of Gen Con, Fantasy Flight Games announced Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game at the very end of their Day 4 in-flight short. The stream ended without further details, leaving only a few images, including one of what appears to be the box cover. 

The game is designed by Caleb Grace, the lead developer of Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, and one of the three designers of Marvel Champions: The Card Game.

With no additional details, we'll need to wait for FFG to reveal more information about the game and a potential release date.