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Fireside Football box art
1996 Ranked #18,816

Fireside Football

From MNG-AJM Games and Collectibles description: Card game, simulation of a football season. Originally designed as a postal game, this version comprises 110 illustrated cards. Each player chooses which players to field in each match, and can buy overseas stars to bolster the tea...

Sports Simultaneous Action Selection Sports: Football / Soccer

Players

3-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

1.67/5

Rating

5.89

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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From MNG-AJM Games and Collectibles description: Card game, simulation of a football season. Originally designed as a postal game, this version comprises 110 illustrated cards.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Simultaneous Action Selection

Choose actions secretly or concurrently before revealing them together.
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From MNG-AJM Games and Collectibles description: Card game, simulation of a football season. Originally designed as a postal game, this version comprises 110 illustrated cards. Each player chooses which players to field in each match, and can buy overseas stars to bolster the team's performances. You can replay the whole season inside an hour. The short game version of the play by mail soccer game UNITED.

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Category

1
Sports

Mechanism

1
Simultaneous Action Selection

Family

1
Sports: Football / Soccer

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Play and group

Players
3–6
Best with
4–6
Play time
240 min
Age
12+
Complexity
1.7/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Alan Parr

Publishers

1
Gibsons

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