We Are Ball Kickers UTD

The Beautiful Game

We Are Ball Kickers UTD is a 2 player game that captures the tactical nuance in a game of Soccer, only with less sweating and shouting and more card playing and dice rolling. Sweating and shouting is still of course encouraged!

The game has players using a shared deck to build a play of 4 cards at a time that can alter the dice that are rolled each time a card is activated.

It runs on a unique turn system where one player is always on 'offence' in which they are the only player that can score a goal, the way to score points. The player on 'defence' is trying to 'change possesion' as far up the pitch as they can so they will be on offence. The closer to the opponents Box, where there goal is, the better your chance of scoring.

Shooting, saving, tackling, dribbling and everything in between is all done via dice, but just having more doesn't guarantee you will win a particular roll as it's just down to whoever had the highest number on the dice themselves.

With 66 unique cards using Footy terminology, two halves that split up the game with extra time giving the offence player additional time to score goals, and a fatigue system that gives a risk/reward to players drawing from a bigger pot of cards gives Football lovers plenty of material they will recognise but also a one of a kind game underneath that will give even the most 'It's a bunch of overpaid primadonnas' naysayers that thrill the pie eaters and split scarf wearers love when watching a game end with 0 goals after 90 minutes.

How To Play

Each player chooses 4 of their starting cards from the 6 main types. (Shot, Dribble, Pass on offence and Save, Tackle, Block on defence)

Set up the Bench where cards are drawn from and fatigue is tracked. Does the card furthest from you look like the best card for your current situation? Then it will move the Fatigue card 2 spaces towards you. If it reaches your side, you must draw it and play it as one of your 4 cards.

Each time an offence player activates one of their 4 cards they take into account the position of the ball on the pitch which will boost different dice rolls as well as their other cards which may boost others. The defence player then chooses one of theirs best to counter that card and each rolls the dice to try and get the largest numbers

Roll the dice and if the offence player wins, they move closer to the goal... Or even score. If the defence player wins, they play a defence token onto that section of the pitch, if two defence tokens are ever played into the same area, they swap and now go onto offence from that section.

With cards coming in all sorts of types, some don't roll any dice but offer other bonuses, some get boosted if you opponent has fatigue, some directly impact if you change possesion with that card. Players need to balance activating the cards that they need, but also keeping them if they have a passive action that benefits others.

At any point possession can change and you don't want to get caught defending your goal with only offensive cards in play!

As the ball moves up and down the midfield and defence, as dice roll up and down the table, and players friendship moves up and down as they narrowly score an overhead kick or just nick the ball after their opponent gets a great set of offensive cards in play there is plenty of action and changing strategy in an approachable foot to ball based package.

Play a version of the game on Tabletop Simulator Steam Workshop::We Are BallKickers UTD