It’s a wet weekend, there is no football on TV, so what better to do than to make a new video about Counter Attack?! Feast your eyes on this little piece of video wizardry:
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Make your own kits!
Fancy making your own concept kits for Counter Attack? I’ve uploaded a file you can edit so you can make some classic kits yourself. Who knows – maybe one day we’ll make your kit! To download the EPS file, click here. Please share your creations with us on Twitter @ctrattackgame and we’ll show the world […]
The Edinburgh Counter Attack League kicks off!
Football fans have been spoiled for choice when it comes to big events this summer: the Women’s World Cup, Copa America, the U21 Tournament…and now the biggest of them all: The Edinburgh Counter Attack League! Kicking off in Sofi’s Southside Bar last night, 5 heavyweights of the Counter Attack scene drafted their squads and got […]
Welcome to the universe!
Counter Attack will feature a total of 200 players. Let’s have a look at some of them… I collected 150 prototypes from my brilliant local printer and I’ll show some of them off to you in this article. Why only 150? Because these 150 represent the remainder of the cards in the Counter Attack ‘universe’. […]
The shop is open!
After a fair bit of head-scratching, I finally managed to open up an eCommerce store for Counter Attack! This involved learning a few new tricks on WordPress, spending a fair bit of money and quite a lot of muttering and cursing at the screen. If you visit the shop you will see you can buy […]
Creating the team kits
The choice of kits for Counter Attack has been the subject of much debate between my friends and I, and latterly among Counter Attack supporters. We ran a Facebook and Twitter poll on the subject several months ago where one big idea emerged: the standard kits should not be plain old blue vs red. Subbuteo […]
Drafting players in Counter Attack
At the start of every game you and your opponent go through the process of drafting your squad of 16 players (1 goalkeepers, 10 outfielders and 5 subs). This video explains how the process works: Note: the cards and pitch shown in this video are from the prototype.
3 headers, 2 screamers and a penalty
What happens when you bring together 5 Counter Attack newbies, 1 experienced pro, the 2 inventors of the game and 3 pitches in one Edinburgh pub? It rains goals! We hosted a Counter Attack evening last night in Scotland’s capital city, and it was a lot of fun! After a 30-minute learning curve, the six […]
Developing the player database
Counter Attack will ultimately feature 200 unique players for you to use in your games. How did we go about creating the players? Find out in this behind the scenes video… At the time of writing, every standard box of Counter Attack will come with the same 46 player cards. Eventually you will be able […]
I’ve spent all day on this…
I thought it would be a quick job to make some videos explaining the rules of Counter Attack, but it has taken me all day to make just one! AND IT’S ONLY 2 MINS 30 SECONDS LONG!! Still, I’m sure I learnt some valuable lessons along the way… Here’s the result of my day’s work […]