Counter Attack: the football board game

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Often it will be listed like SHOOTING check 11+ or 6, which means they roll a dice and add their shooting stat value to the number, and either need a total of 11 or higher to succeed, or just need to roll a 6 on the dice to succeed, no matter what the total is. Then the players are repositioned as follows, attacker moves 2, defender moves 2, attacker moves 2, defender moves 2, attacker moves their final 3, then defender moves their final 2. Because every player has a unique set of skills, you’ll need to position them carefully as you build your attacks and mount your defence. It would probably cost millions to officially licence players and teams but nothing is stopping a community from making it’s own and the Counter Attack community has been VERY busy. You will need a printer, laminator and a corner clipper but if you get those things you will be able to play YOUR team, you could choose players from all over the world because board gamers are something special.

Fantastic and thrilling game, it really delves into the intricacies of football and immerses you fully in the game. It all depends on your strategy and tactics, based on the skills of the players you draft at the beginning of the game. Nutmegs - During your movement phase you can attempt a nutmeg on an opposing defender, you need to have at least two hexes of move remaining as you cannot finish on an opponent's hex, and it allows you to move to any space directly behind the opponent.Sometimes the game feels less like a game of football, there are less moments of teams playing the ball around the midfield, but the strategic options are varied, a high pass to a player in space, a long pass for a high defence with your high pace striker ready to out-sprint the left back, shooting against a keeper out of position, so many options! I will be separating the rules into all the normal rules here, and some more specific rules and advanced tactics in the next section. With a little imagination you can picture your players doing pretty much anything that happens, or has ever happened in a game of football.

The referee makes the final decision, for any issues that cannot be agreed on, such as whether the ball moves through a hex that looks on the edge of its path or so on, the referee can be consulted to decide for you.There are enough of these teams to create your own World Cup tournament, and the rulebook does contain some extra tips at the back for running your own tournaments. The movement after kick-off, the setups, feints, bluffing and things that can happen during the match are all there. We also tried to secure and play players with pace, pace was king, but have found that whilst it’s important for movement, especially on the wing, accurate passing is the true ruler. If you imagine ‘Subbuteo’ without the flicking, ‘Football Manager’ without the keyboard and ‘Risk’ without the horses you’ll be most of the way to imagining ‘Counter Attack’.