tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632106184805302361.post5130235169818672964..comments2023-07-10T04:09:48.435-07:00Comments on WAAAGH! Gargunki!: Blood Bowl: general tacticsGargunkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09507880761391604629noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632106184805302361.post-45811241087376783162013-02-22T06:58:50.596-08:002013-02-22T06:58:50.596-08:00Yes I would say great content with the exception i...Yes I would say great content with the exception its better to kick-off as an agile team and stop an attack with all your players. A basher can hurt you and if you want to stop them for a late 2-1 you might be lacking the players, and thus lose the game.<br /><br />Overall a great few basic points.justin.vaughan@port.ac.ukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03115553141825186159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632106184805302361.post-25968837100090982842010-05-15T01:05:49.788-07:002010-05-15T01:05:49.788-07:00@Coach: Thanks for the link and an interesting rea...@Coach: Thanks for the link and an interesting read but I still think electing to receive is better than kicking almost always.<br /><br />A Bashy team (no matter who they face) is going to want to try and get numerical advantage ASAP and will usually be fielding 11 players on defense throughout the game anyway. Simply put: Please don't elect to kick if you are a bashy team, it's just... N00bish. Keeping the ball OUT of the hands of an agility team should be your goal, not playing to an agility team's strength and actually electing to give them the ball on the kickoff. Nuffle forbid they actually break your armor on those first few blocks... Anyway...<br /><br />I've seen this literally hundreds of times: An agility team kicks off and gets stomped by the other team putting too many players in the hurty box for the agility team to win, two rolls to get dudes out of the KO box or not... I've seen this happen more than an agility team actually scoring a defensive touchdown. Of course team build and coach skill have a lot to do with it but still... the dice have spoken in my experience.<br /><br />A defensive score is very quick. As a defender that gets control of the ball you usually don't stall unless things are going very very well. Ideally what I try to do when I'm playing as an agility team is elect to receive and score around turn 5 or 6 and still be able to field 11 players on the ensuing defense. This is particularly effective against AG3/bashy teams, etc as they try to rush to score quicker than they are used to or their skills allow, which in turn opens up the field where offensive mistakes are more likely. An agility team at the half with a 2-0 lead or a 1-0 lead and a numerical advantage against a 'bashier' team is going to win almost always or at worst a 1-1 draw. There have been cases where I've forgone scoring a 2nd TD to ensure the other guy didn't get two rolls on the KO but this is extremely rare, in fact I think I've only done it two or three times in well over a thousand games...<br /><br />Electing to kick-off with the expectation to score a defensive touchdown is asking for trouble, everything else equal too many things have to go right for you and too many things have to go wrong for you opponent. Play defense to mitigate the damage to your team and simply stop the other guy from being able to score and pounce on an opportunity if one presents itself, but never think that you will be able to score a defensive touchdown unless the other guy is a total n00b.<br /><br />Damn that's long winded...Gargunkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09507880761391604629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632106184805302361.post-36386968041989484352010-05-13T09:54:06.399-07:002010-05-13T09:54:06.399-07:00Hi, was browsing around for Blood Bowl stuff and f...Hi, was browsing around for Blood Bowl stuff and found your post. Some good basic advice but I can't agree with the second point about the Coin Toss.<br /><br />Take a read of http://bbtactics.com/kicking-receiving/ and I'd be interested to hear your reactions to it.<br /><br />I do have some other conflicting thoughts as well but that was the main one!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632106184805302361.post-71688414857365402002010-04-08T11:51:18.300-07:002010-04-08T11:51:18.300-07:00@Harun. Thank you. What I will do to skill up sl...@Harun. Thank you. What I will do to skill up slower moving guys or AG2 guys (like Black Orcs or what not) is keep one in the back field on offense and if you get a High or Bad Kick result then either move him under the ball (high kick) or give him the ball (bad kick). <br /><br />If it's safe then I may try and pass to get a quick SPP (if they are sitting on 5 spp from an earlier MVP for example) or just cage around them and march down the field.<br /><br />Often times I will keep one of the slower guys who needs points in the cage advancing with your usual ball carrier and if there isn't too much risk hand it off to him later (ideally handoff in turn 6 or 7, wouldn't try a handoff on turn 8) to go in for the score...Gargunkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09507880761391604629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632106184805302361.post-28626929043911565582010-04-08T08:31:23.874-07:002010-04-08T08:31:23.874-07:00Any tips for getting more SPP with slow moving tea...Any tips for getting more SPP with slow moving teams?<br /><br />I tend to gravitate towards slower, punchier teams (Chaos, Orks, etc). And while I do very well, I'm always looking for extra tips to maximize the SPP I can get.<br /><br />Thanks.<br />Oh, and congrats on winning your league!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02945839079969584512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632106184805302361.post-60458259589611740502010-04-07T21:16:11.258-07:002010-04-07T21:16:11.258-07:00Yes indeed. Being pushed into the crowd is still ...Yes indeed. Being pushed into the crowd is still a straight injury roll so stay away from the sideline! In fact I've taken pushes over pows to be able to move a player to the sideline just to be sure he is removed from the pitch by my incoming blitz!Gargunkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09507880761391604629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632106184805302361.post-39223878327074197732010-04-07T18:45:19.630-07:002010-04-07T18:45:19.630-07:00Good run down on what a player needs as the core b...Good run down on what a player needs as the core basics for developing a winning strategy at Blood Bowl.<br /><br />I'd add that fouling in the last turn is not poor sportsmanship, it's part of the game! It's Blood Bowl baby!<br /><br />Don't position players along the sideline at the beginning of the game, or anytime really. They can be pushed into the crowd and ground up into hamburger. (I haven't played BB in about 5 years so I'm not sure what changes have occurred with the living rulebook).Buyakihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07951538185501719999noreply@blogger.com