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About the Book
Blood Bowl is packed with character, chaos, and moments of brilliance (or disaster) that make every match memorable, fun and silly. But beneath the dice rolls and dramatic touchdowns lies a deep, strategic game that rewards thoughtful play and continuous improvement (while still giving you 100% opportunity to blame the dice). This guide draws on the CLAW (Liverpool Area Blood Bowl league) collective experiences from thousands of online and in-person games, as well as online resources, and community wisdom, bringing them together into one place that is (hopefully) accessible and useful. Whether you’ve been playing and learning as you go, or watching online streams and reading forums, this book is designed to help you make sense of it all and take the next step in your development.
Volume 1 is to help you bridge the gap between understanding the rules and understanding the game. This is aimed at players who already know the basics; how to move, block, and score, and know most of the core skills, but who want to start winning more often. Because let’s be honest: losing every game isn’t as much fun. Even small improvements in decision-making, positioning, and planning can combine to make a big difference in your results.
We focus on the core concepts that matter most for developing as a player: how to think about positioning, how to manage risk, how to build a team that works, and how to start seeing the game a few turns ahead. Whether you’re playing in a local league, online, or at your first tournament, this volume will give you the tools to start improving right away.
About the Author
I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool in England where I teach Laboratory Skills to Masters students, Experimental Design to PhD students, and run writing courses for Postgraduate students. I currently have five PhD students working in my laboratory and each year I also supervise three to four undergraduate and four to five Masters-level project students. Much of the content in this book actually started life as the handouts and lecture notes from the courses I teach. As the years have passed and the material grown it realised that I had generated a resource that would be more useful gathered togetehr into a single volume book that could be easily shared. Hence, this book.
In addition to teaching, I run a molecular biology research lab focused on cell to extracellular matrix interactions (LaNts and laminins). My team’s work encompasses a range of scales from whole organism human disease samples and transgenic animals, to ex vivo, 2D and 3D cell cultures, and molecular or protein biochemistry measuring alternative splicing and protein-protein interactions in vitro. I have written and reviewed many papers and serve as an associate editor on research journals within my field. Some of the examples within this book come from my research; however, the core messages apply equally well across the entire biological sciences and medicine disciplines.
Before moving to the University of Liverpool, I was a post-doctoral researcher and then Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, Chicago. In total, I spent almost seven years working in the USA. I obtained my PhD in Molecular Genetics from the University of Dundee, Scotland. For most things in science, the location of the lab does not make a difference. However, I have attempted to point out local differences wherever these are relevant.