Counter Attack: the football board game

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It’s up to you how you match the unique attributes of your players to the style of football you want to play. There is also a small sturdy box included for player cards, as good a quality as a regular board game box, and enabling us to hold all the cards neatly and protected in one place. If you roll a 1 then you have committed a foul and follow the procedure as normal, a penalty will be awarded if the attacker chooses. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Shooting - There are three types of shot actions you can take, headed shots as described above, which have the shortest range.

Next, you deal 4 player cards face up and taking it in turns you take one until they are gone, then you deal four more, switch the player who chooses first and continue until you have 15 outfield players each.Following the movement phase you may now choose to take another movement phase or take a pass or shoot action. This could mean that slower players may eat up the clock, whether by accident or on purpose, but as said earlier the box contains some sand-timers to counter this, and the rules do state that they can be used for slow managers and a turn will end with the timer if they take too long.

There are regular shots, these can only be taken after a move phase when your player has had time to composed himself for the shot. For me, I think if you like football, if you enjoy strategy games, if you like board games, if you ever wanted to manage a team if you think card drafting is fun or if you just appreciate round counters you should own Counter Attack. A tie will result in a loose ball, but any players involved in the headed challenge cannot stop the ball and it moves one space further if necessary. Extra Time - Once you hit the 45 minute mark and finish your action then the half is over, or is it? Following the opening kick-off pass, each turn of Counter Attack will feature the attacking manager choosing one of several actions to take, involving moving players, passing the ball and shooting, some of which allow the defending player to also move players.Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.

Games are injected with real drama and nothing beats a successful dice roll resulting in a goal-saving tackle or the ball nestling in the back of your opponents net! The Counter Attack game box comes everything you need to play Counter Attack: the football board game. Any pass that moves through a defending player's ZOI can be intercepted if the player can make a TACKLING check with success 10+ or a 6. It’s a two player board game that somehow manages to combine the tactical, analytical side of the sport with the chaos factor of a bouncing ball or a deflected shot. Because dice play a large part in Counter Attack there is an element of luck and admittedly when a couple of rolls go against you in succession you do want to flip the table but overall the game is well-balanced.He decided to play a high pass to one of his midfielders to flick on to his number 9 who was onside and had a clear run in behind. Counter Attack, on the surface, is “Football” the board game, but there is also a very strategic sub-game going on and you will be using your grey matter for the whole match.

If you successfully save then move to the target hex to collect the ball, and move the player from the occupied hex one space away, moving any other players 1 space as needed.It doesn’t matter about the dice if you have moved past a defender and that defender is focused on stopping someone else or you manage to get through and put a ball right where you want it so that you can knock a goal in.