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Octagon board with game components for a 4-team scrimmage game.

Turn sequence and athlete action reference sheet

Slaughterball (2016)

Players

2–4

Best: 4

Playing time

60–60 min

Age

14+

7.57

Average rating

120

Ratings

2.50/5

Weight

#11332

BGG rank

Outside top 5,000

Designer:Erik Kjerland

Artist:Andy Monks

Publisher:Frog the What Games

Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).

Game DNA

Strategy5.0

Luck7.0

Interaction5.0

Complexity5.0

Theme6.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

Science FictionSportsMiniaturesVariable Player PowersDice RollingGrid Movement

Overview

Slaughterball is a competitive sci-fi board game simulating a brutal future sport where 2-4 teams of genetically-engineered super-athletes clash in a remorseless steel pit. Teams score points by making goals and inflicting carnage.

Three different modes of play give you control of how long the game lasts. Scrimmage games are the quickest, using identical rookie teams and a subset of the rules to help you learn how to play the game. Exhibition games add skills, edges, and unique pro teams to give you many more options. League games add support staff and let you improve your team over a full season of games.

The game includes rules for risk-based scoring, penalties, injuries, mascots, cheerleaders, physicians, assistant coaches, mavericks, 50 player skills (like Savagery and Immaculate Reception), 70 strategy cards (like Epic Fail and No Time to Bleed), and more. All of this adds up to enough strategic options to fuel hours and hours of thrilling victories and agonizing defeats.