Your staff can also make suggestions, which you can accept, or delay, or even pass over to the rest of the staff to ask for a second opinion. This includes reports from your assistant manager, scouts and coaching staff. You have better communication with your support team too, via a new weekly Staff Meeting. This single-player mode is fun, and a good way to get to know the game, but the real attraction for many people will be the various multiplayer options, including the ability to set up your own online league, with teams that gain experience and power as they win matches. But, as it’s a Warhammer game, you also have options such as the ability to ‘blitz’ an opponent, taking them out in the most violent manner possible. These matches play out rather like traditional turn-based strategy games, allowing you to click on individual players and then move them around the pitch. Once you’ve got the hang of the basics you can continue the single-player game by taking charge of the Reikland Reavers in a series of matches against computer-controlled teams. We don’t understand English football, let alone the US version, but Blood Bowl 2 kicks off with a (not-so) friendly match that acts as an introduction to the game. This sequel is really just more of the same, although it upgrades the game’s graphics considerably – which might be a problem for owners of Macs that don’t have a decent graphics card.

The original Blood Bowl didn’t appear on the Mac (it appeared on iPad), but it took the monstrous races of the Warhammer games – ogres, orcs and other fantasy standards – and dropped them on to the field of an American football game.

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