If football is your thing…if you love football manager…if you can defend while keeping an eye on attack…then you will love this game! 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.

The Counter Attack rulebook is set up nicely with an easy to read layout, complete with picture references.In the rare extremes where due to injury or sending off you have to play a goalkeeper or outfield player out of position, they can continue to play that position, but any stats not listed on their card are considered 0 for any checks or duals they need to do. A failed nutmeg counts as a successful tackle for the defender, and a roll of a 1 for the defender is still a foul. If an attacker is dribbling in any of your goalkeeper's saving hexes you may also attempt to dive at their feet. There are also two sand timers, four red card and yellow card tokens, injury tokens for an advanced rule used in tournaments and two card tokens that match each team and two card tokens for the ball. 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!

Firstly, we started playing by laying out a 4-4-2 or 4-3-2-1 or any other formation we wanted to try and instead we now keep our formations but keep a flatter line than a traditional football match because we feel we can get players where we need them faster this way. The winner places one of their players in the centre spot with the ball counter, then may rearrange their team as they wish and may place any players into the centre circle that they want. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Any Other Scenario - This is the list of actions available for situations that crop up such as a defender recovering a loose ball. Those numbers are combined with a dice roll by each manager with the highest combined score winning the outcome.I managed to pick up a few expansion player packs for Counter Attack too, got home and played a game, and then convinced a friend to pick up the remaining player packs the next day as I was already hooked and could tell I would be needing them. That felt like a bad way to solve the issue and that a better way should be implemented however, when a similar situation happened in reverse I do remember thinking it was a good and just system. Was so excited to get this game, l played with my brother against my 9 year old daughter and his 8 year old son to help us all understand the rules. 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! You pick your players and then use your tactical know how to use them to the best of their abilities, to win the game.