Volley Brawl

•  NOTE : This is literally a prototype/Early  Release/Learning experience for Nik.  Download to the  PDFs and read/print the rules; and please send some feedback.
  
  

UK GAMES EXPO 2025 PLAYTESTING

Come find me at  on Saturday 31th May  at 3.00pm on Stand  2-108

I have been very fortunate in being able to book a slot for at the Playtest UK stand to get some playtest feedback for VolleyBrawl . So far the playtests have been from friends and work colleagues which had been informative. This is my first time attending the Playtest Stand as a "Designer" and not simply a "Tester" which leads to some levels of trepidation and anxiety on my part.  I put this game out as a challenge to myself this year to get out three games and its June already so I guess I should get hustling on the others. For now though I hope to meet many wonderful people at UK Games Expo and find some brilliant feedback to benefit the game. 

What are you seeing in the Downloads ? 

• VolleyBrawl Rules and Updates is the core rules and notes for the game .  

• Team Matt.pdf is a A4 page that assists players in placing their cards.
• VolleyBall Court A3 image with logo is an A3 image to give you a court to play on.  
  
  
• Team Stats Page is the two teams I made to work with as I assembled ideas.

The game was based on a passing comment by Scott of Miniac youtube channel the concept of mashing up Volleyball with BloodBowl(a Games Workshop property).
Which I later found out is something they too are working on.; just goes to show never get so eager as you dont finish watching a video.

Following the advice over on Snarlcast im not working on any magnum opus first; in fact this whole game and experience is about me learning how to use some of these publishing tools and to show my work as I go. 

I wanted to bring hand management functionality alongside Miniature board game experiences and develop something to offer up for a one box wargame challenge. 

This has developed from a few concepts around random number generation and views as to how to manipulate/amend experiences as the game has developed.  The rules and assets are an ongoing development work . 

The Lore

Legend has it,  that long in the past, in the before times that dark magic  oozed from deep underground ; and it was found deep beneath  the seas. The deep dark liquid magic  gathered men ,and beasts, of the land to seek  fortunes and find their riches.

The blackness covered their hands, and poisoned the land, yet they got rich and with it the twisted pressure of wealth and mystery obscured the legacy of those lands and with it the pressure of wealth and magic caused the peoples of this world   fight war. 

One such land, that once was a  deep green and fertile place,  with Hills and lakes and lore of its own ,  Scorchland. That land  grew rich and the city of Abroadeen grew fat on the industry as races from all over the world came to work and toil. The sands grew black with the waste and the runoff from factories and industry caused  it to  twist and by its presence divide , grow, change  until they shared barely more than their need for violence,  for sport, and for drinking.

Nowhere was it better than the Lands of Scorchland, their own people having raised up many local beasts to drive industry and work the fields as well as fight their battles.
One such small beast, the Haggis, was greatly changed. As more of them were hunted for the prized meat and wonderful fur those that learned to survive grew more vicious more prone to anger, longer teeth, deeper fur and quick to anger the nation of Scorchland soon tamed the haggis to work in times of war.
The Battle Haggis was born. 

Centuries come and go, wars are fought and forgotten; and Abroadeen, once a centre for deep dark searches of blackened wells of  magic, now sees many races gather on those  black sands to run off their need for violence and entertainment.
Under the sweltering heat of the Scorchland sun races gather in teams breeding their own Battlehaggis to use in the new national pastime. 

Volley Brawl.

Changelog

• 20250527 - Nik - Adjust layout of  Team Matt and reword Game loop
• 20250526 - Nik - Found some errata in Loop/Passing/Magic
• 20250524 - Nik - Added optional magic to team play
• 20250520 - Nik  - Adding draft version of Rulebook in place of doc
• 20250519 - Nik  - Adding assets before moving rules to pdf
• 20250515 - Nik - Cover Art by Noppy 
  
•  20250513 - Nik - Clarified the rules for Lunge and Passing between players. 
• 20250512 - Nik - Amended Spike rule to make it complimentary to Punch.
• 20250510 - nik - Added a player matt to go with the Player Court and continued to review move and moment
•  20250509 - Nik -  Reviewing the Moment and The Move differences in Server and Volley
• 20250510 - nik - Added a player matt to go with the Player Court and continued to review move and moment
• 20250509 - Nik -  Reviewing the Moment and The Move differences in Server and Volley
• 20250508 - Nik -  New Logo from Thomas Noppers
•  2025509 - Nik - Amending the Gameloop explanation
• 20250508 - Nik - New LOGO by Thomas Noppers
• 20250504 - Nik - First chance at playtest with new user, some iteration around rules   Editing over The moment and card reveal  process.    Tweaks to The Moment and the Move ( still in progress ) 
• 20250428 - Nik - Adding Early Draft to make it clear this is not the manual really Curated the Serve, Follow rules. After this Ball Anger 20250427 - Nik - Editing down the document further and tweaking movement  rules down 
• 20250426 - Nik - editing down content.
• 20250424 - Nik amended team stats to detail Movement. 
• 20250422 - Nik added rules for Magic ; added luck deck management. ,link to court map
• 20250421 - Nik Assembles rules overview .. no one has had a chance to actively try this out. 

Still to be Worked on 

• Getting actual playtest feedback !
• Getting actual playtest feedback !
• Solo play : unlikely 
• Diagrams of play
• Examples of plays
• Getting actual playtest feedback !
• It says brawl .. how will the minis actually battle?