That’s right, sports fans – the Game of Fantasy Football is back with a new season. It brings two new teams (to begin with!), smart rules updates, and roster changes that will shake up team selections across the board. Written by Blood Bowl fanatics for Blood Bowl fanatics, this is the definitive edition of the game – it will shake up the meta and keep even the hoariest veterans on their toes.

It comes in an all-new boxed set loaded with everything you need to play, including two new teams, a hardback rulebook, dice, accessories and a pitch.

Let’s start with the teams: the Brionne Barons from fair Bretonnia take on the Nehekhara Nightmares, the truest veterans of the sport, in an Old World rematch with a markedly different vibe. 

The Bretonnians are totally new to the tabletop – Dauntless Knights with a haughty attitude and high armour, attended by scrappy Squires looking for a brawl. Peasants need not apply.

The Tomb Kings, meanwhile, are back from the dead with a familiar roster – they’ve been playing for thousands of years, after all – in which all four positionals return almost exactly as you remember them.

Alongside the teams, the new season box contains everything else you need to start playing: a sturdy double-sided board and dugouts, two sets of dice, quick reference sheets, and a chunky hardback rulebook (including rejigged rosters for every team in the game). 

There’s a plastic sprue containing the usual range ruler and scatter templates – and a new one which includes a clever ball marker for your players to stand on, and some new status markers to indicate who’s Prone, Stunned, Blitzing and so forth. So now, if you don’t want to lay your lovingly painted players on the pitch, you don’t have to. (But you still can if you like!)