Dreadball
The Final Rush
Published on 10. September 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
250 pages
978-1-950423-89-7 (ISBN)
Description
Set in Mantic Games’ Warpath universe and based on its sports tabletop game Dreadball.
Set in Mantic Games’ Warpath universe and based on its sports tabletop game Dreadball.
Having won the Third Sphere DreadBall tournament by the proverbial skin of their teeth, Leeland Roth and his intrepid Corporate team, the Vitala Vipers, head to the “big leagues” for the chance to play in the elite FSIDL (First Sphere Intergalactic DreadBall League). It’s both an honor and a homecoming for Coach Roth, since he left six years prior, vowing never to return after the tragic death of his brother Victor.
But all is not forgotten. There are many within the DreadBall community who not only revere the Roth brothers, but also despise them. Their enemies will stop at nothing—not even murder—to end the Roth name and legacy once and for all. Leeland must now coach his team to respectability while trying to maintain his and Victor’s good name.
It’s a mad dash for survival, both on and off the DreadBall pitch. Can Leeland keep it together? Will the pressures of his personal life overshadow his responsibilities on the pitch?
Could this possibly be Leeland Roth’s final Rush?
Set in Mantic Games’ Warpath universe and based on its sports tabletop game Dreadball.
Having won the Third Sphere DreadBall tournament by the proverbial skin of their teeth, Leeland Roth and his intrepid Corporate team, the Vitala Vipers, head to the “big leagues” for the chance to play in the elite FSIDL (First Sphere Intergalactic DreadBall League). It’s both an honor and a homecoming for Coach Roth, since he left six years prior, vowing never to return after the tragic death of his brother Victor.
But all is not forgotten. There are many within the DreadBall community who not only revere the Roth brothers, but also despise them. Their enemies will stop at nothing—not even murder—to end the Roth name and legacy once and for all. Leeland must now coach his team to respectability while trying to maintain his and Victor’s good name.
It’s a mad dash for survival, both on and off the DreadBall pitch. Can Leeland keep it together? Will the pressures of his personal life overshadow his responsibilities on the pitch?
Could this possibly be Leeland Roth’s final Rush?
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Language
English
Place of publication
NJ
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
259 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-950423-89-7 (9781950423897)
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For the past 25 years, ROBERT E WATERS has served in the gaming industry, first as a Managing Editor at The Avalon Hill Game Company, and then as a producer, designer, and writer for several computer game studios. He is currently a designer at Breakaway LTD. His first published novel was "The Wayward Eight" (2014) for the tabletop game Wild West Exodus. His second novel, "The Cross of Saint Boniface," an historical fantasy set in the 16th century, is available now on Amazon. Robert has been publishing fiction professionally since 2003, with his first sale to Weird Tales, "The Assassin’s Retirement Party." Since then, he has sold over 60 stories to various online and print magazines and anthologies, including stories to Padwolf Publishing (the "13" anthology series), The Black Library (Games Workshop), Dragon Moon Press, Marietta Publishing, Dark Quest Books, Mundania Press, Nth Degree/Nth Zine, Cloud Imperium Games, Winged Hussar Press, Zmok Publishing, and the online magazine The Grantville Gazette, which publishes stories set in Baen Book’s best-selling alternate history series, 1632/Ring of Fire.