Begin from a goal kick from your goalkeeper, both managers may set up their squads on the pitch as they want and the clock begins on the kick. It doesn’t matter about the dice if you have moved past a defender and that defender is focused on stopping someone else or you manage to get through and put a ball right where you want it so that you can knock a goal in.

Next, you deal 4 player cards face up and taking it in turns you take one until they are gone, then you deal four more, switch the player who chooses first and continue until you have 15 outfield players each. I don’t think I will sleeve them as, whilst they are shuffled and dealt, it only happens once per match and we have some plans for these player cards that I will come to at the end of the review. Unlike the player pack expansions that are mixed into the deck with the rest of the players, these are kept separate as a whole team.A snapshot can also be taken in the middle of a movement phase as an action, if your player with the ball has taken the ball inside the penalty area or is already inside it. The penalty shot is taken as normal but there is a -2 penalty for the goalkeeper for a penalty kick. If the ball travels through any defender's ZOI they may roll to intercept as normal, but if a defender has moved onto a hex the ball will travel through then they can intercept on a TACKLING check of 10+ or on a roll of 5 or 6.

Playing out a simulated match and having different players and attributes means every game is different and you plan accordingly depending on which players you have. Separate the player cards by colour on the front and shuffle each deck, they all have the same back so keep the separate. The centre of the loose ball direction will always be from the centre of the incident, so the hex the pass was supposed to land on, or from a defender who has challenged for a tackle or header for example. With a little imagination you can picture your players doing pretty much anything that happens, or has ever happened in a game of football.

Any player who suffers a second injury cannot continue and play must be stopped for a set piece so they can be substituted. 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.

It was a football pitch set up with a hex grid on, no fancy miniatures but wooden discs with team patterns and numbers on them, something caught my interest so I sat down with the designer to play a demo of a few rounds. Away Goal - You are away from home and 1-0 down in the cup second leg, the first leg finished 0-0 so a single goal would be enough to see you through on away goals. The Counter Attack game box comes everything you need to play Counter Attack: the football board game. This means that if your defender has a 4 for Tackling and the attacker has a 5 for Dribbling the defender will be relying on their dice roll to win them the ball.Due to the real time aspect, most games of Counter Attack can be predicted to be the same sort of similar length, around the 2 hour mark. If a loose ball moves in a goalkeepers ZOI hex they can try to save it through a SAVING check of 10+ or a roll of 5 or 6.