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Counter Attack: the football board game

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If the loose ball enters a valid player's hex then they take possession of the ball, for the attacking team either continue a Movement Phase if you were already in one, otherwise you must either begin a Movement phase or you may take a snapshot if you are in range. A second yellow card gives a player a red card and they will then be sent off and the counter removed from the board for the rest of the game. The attacking mangers moves a total of 7 players and the defending manager moves a total of 6 and individual players can be moved more than once during the sequence. Why not ask in the Counter Attack forums or in the Counter Attack Facebook group for an online opponent? Now that you've got enough down to play the game lets add all the little gritty bits that cover specific situations or rules that don't come up much.

I don’t normally go for football games, or 2 players games, but something about the game had stuck with me and I just couldn’t not leave without purchasing a copy, so that’s just what I did. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). If the ball is from an inaccurate long or high pass it will move directly to the space rolled to land in that hex, if the hex is out of play then the ball goes out of play on the nearest hex to the line it crossed. The player taking the shot performs a SHOOTING check with a target of 9+, not forgetting a -1 penalty from outside the box.Whoever wins the duel will decide on the direction to move the ball, starting from the ball hex not the player who won the duel, or if it was the goalkeeper then he has grabbed the ball out of the air and holds onto it. In Counter Attack you and your opponent play all of the moves on the pitch: pass, run, tackle, dribble, shoot and more!

This can take some time and is also an excellent part of the game which, when I read the rules, felt could be frustrating however, I am yet to be in a position where I cannot put together a team with players in appropriate positions. Goalkeepers are immune to these two harsher fouling penalties, they will still just check for yellow or no card in these situations (read up the Double Jeopardy rule). Run the injury check as normal as the severe LENIENCY check, success gives a yellow card and fail gives a red card. If I have one complaint, and this is likely only applicable to newbies, is that attacking moves can take a while to set-up while you flick back and forth in the rule book.The Counter Attack game box comes everything you need to play Counter Attack: the football board game. 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! Tackling is handled like a game of top trumps in that your defender uses their Tackling stat vs the attacking players Dribbling stat plus your dice roll. This is important as you will be relying on the numbers printed on each counter to link to your drafted team.

If you attempt to control a ball in your ZOI then you bring the ball to your hex, if the attempted control was 2 hexes away again it will be brought to your hex but you suffer a -1 penalty on the control attempt. If there is no opponent in range, or they do not commit to the challenge, then there is no roll required just take a free header. Outnumbered - Your team is 2-0 down in the second half with 30 minutes to go, but your opponent has had 2 men sent off. A delightful Easter Egg on the back of the board is the inclusion of various team set ups, one of which is the great PES Master League team, I’d recognise Ximelez and Castolo anywhere! The throw in has a range of a header, it can either be thrown to a player’s head, where a header must follow, or it can be thrown to feet or an empty hex, treat it as a standard pass with the reduced range for interceptions and follow up actions.The details that the designers have gone in to is outstanding and the game flows incredibly well due to this.

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