BLOOD BOWL SUNDAY WEEK 2!

Caulk Bite 6

Alistair Hutton wrote:

Mathematically, in a league, you want to foul against teams higher up than you in the league to cripple them and hopefully overtake them and spare those teams lower down than you so they can take out the now crippled higher up teams.

I think that we can all agree though that a turn 16 foul against a Wardancer by Halflings is not just morally permissible but morally required?

Mathematically, you're a douche bag Silly Goose.

Alistair Hutton

Caulk Bite 6 wrote:

Alistair Hutton wrote:

Mathematically, in a league, you want to foul against teams higher up than you in the league to cripple them and hopefully overtake them and spare those teams lower down than you so they can take out the now crippled higher up teams.

I think that we can all agree though that a turn 16 foul against a Wardancer by Halflings is not just morally permissible but morally required?

Mathematically, you're a douche bag Silly Goose.

Wardancers deserve it.

Fiendishrabbit

Alistair Hutton wrote:

Wardancers deserve it.

If you haven't hospitalized Wardancers before Turn 16 you don't deserve the honour of fouling a Wardancer.

Although it's only in short leagues that Wardancers are that annoying. There is only two of them, and sooner or later all elf teams get blodgers, most of them with AV8.

Edit: Corrected quote

Caulk Bite 6

I didn't say that, mr rabbit.

Tonkka

Did I just read that someone said don't foul IN A BLOOD BOWL THREAD?

Fuck that shit.

Alistair Hutton

Caulk Bite 6 wrote:

I didn't say that, mr rabbit.

But you think it, you think it every time one of those pointy eared bastards takes the field.

Uriel

Should I have given this lineman a +1 agility boost?

I grabbed block instead though, He's only a lineman so I figured an orc doesn't really need to dodge.

Pony

Uriel wrote:

Should I have given this lineman a +1 agility boost?

I grabbed block instead though, He's only a lineman so I figured an orc doesn't really need to dodge.

made the right call

Uriel

I've got a blork with block now too.

Bizazedo

Yeah, calling for no fouls in a Blood Bowl league is silly imo. Cripple them, especially if they're beating you.

As for the league, I think my opponent Stu has been taken by Slaanesh. Or HellaJeff is. Maybe both .

Uriel

Yeah, hurting the other team is in the spirit of the game.

I always apologize for it though

Caulk Bite 6

Bah whatever. If the other team is able to foul me, I've done something wrong anyway.

Alistair Hutton

Uriel wrote:

Should I have given this lineman a +1 agility boost?

I grabbed block instead though, He's only a lineman so I figured an orc doesn't really need to dodge.

+AG on an AG 3 team is a precious, precious thing indeed. Not from the dodging point of view but from the ball handling point of view. Having an AG 4 player really massively helps securing the ball out of the scrum if it goes loose, helps getting the ball at the start of the drive and opens up a viable passing game by being a reliable catcher. Block is always available to a Lineman, +AG is a special thing.

Pony

once again

i disagree

it's a lineman

you aren't going to suddenly turn him into a ball carrier

give him block, move on with your day

Pony

(I don't even use linemen on an Orc team)

Fiendishrabbit

Unlike blorks linemen can at least keep up with orc cageplay, even when it's at its fastest.
And they're pretty price worthy (although not quite as priceworthy as a Chaos Warrior, but that's hard to achieve).
While +AG on a blitzer is better it's still opening up options for passing play. And that's a threat not usually available to orcs.

Anyway, it's not a simple choice. If it had been a Blork I would have just said "no, get block instead", but here you're opening up possibilities you didn't have before.

Alistair Hutton

Pony wrote:

once again

i disagree

it's a lineman

you aren't going to suddenly turn him into a ball carrier

give him block, move on with your day

I generally work under the principle of team maximums. Teams, for me, are defined by their maximums. The fastest human player is speed 8 - Humans are a fast team despite the majority of the side taking the field having speed 6, the maximum speed of an Ork player is 6 thus Orcs are slow. I wouldn't give +Mv to a human Linemand but I would give it to a human Catcher as that increases the speed of the team as a whole. Similarly I wouldn't give a Black Orc +Ag as that doesn't improve the agility of the Orc team but giving it to one of the AG3 players raises the teams agility to 4 which opens up the plays available. Agility is so crucial to anything involving the ball and going from 3+ to 2+ on those rolls is so big I would find it really hard to give up. and the extra mobility he has in terms of dodging means the opposition coach will have a harder time tying down your team although that's gravy and not a core reason to take the +AG on an Orc side.

Also, from a team management point of view, getting a AG 4 Lienman means you won't focus so exclusively on your Blitzers and Throwers for scoring TDs, this helps spread out the SPPs and not end up so reliant on individual super players as your scoring threats which bash teams often end up doing. A better spread of SPPs means a more balanced team in the long term.

Caulk Bite 6

so, are we still doing this? is this a thing?

Uriel

Caulk Bite 6 wrote:

so, are we still doing this? is this a thing?

I hope so.

I wanna see if @Firmskater and I can play our match later this week.

TheLawinator

I'm back into blood bowl, and I want to do things with people. Everybody man up and get back into this, also let me switch my elf team out for something else.

Caulk Bite 6

Speaking of manning up...