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My friend is getting wood elves, and from what it says in the LRB if he uses what comes in the wood elf box only his team rating will be 100 before he buys TRR or FF! Teams starting in our league start off with 1,mil gc, so if the players alone are 1 mil, he's pretty stuffed! What is the solution to this?

I don´t know what you get in one of those boxes but wood elves are expensive where only a lineman costs 70k, thrower and catchers costs 90k while a wardancer 120k.
So usually people dont start with more than 1 or 2 positional players and the rest linemen.

Your startingteam is independent of what comes in a box of woodelves.
Personally i would recommend him starting with:
1 wardancer
10 linemen
2 rerolls
8 fanfactor
go for apothecary first, then second wardancer, then some catchers and maybe a thrower and a reroll or two. Then start replacing injured players.

which is far from the box which contains:
2 wardancers
1 thrower
2 catchers
7 linemen

He will need the extra linelves eventually anyway, so he may aswell get them now, if he can, if not, just use these other players as lineelves.

i usually start with the same lineup as slup suggested, so until he gets extra linemen just use thrower and catchers as linemen.
You know that this is the reason they have only 7 linemen and are selling minis outside boxes

You could also start with
1 wardancer
1 thrower
2 catchers
7 linemen
2 rr
2 ff

It might not be the best starting line-up but it does give you a chance to see what all the players can do. And you already have the models for it.
Otherwise you will proxy other linemen. Maybe get some other wood elf models from the WHFB range and convert those.

if you are playing in a league you want high ff because of the high cost of wood elves you also don't want to be losing pitch invasions with high cost players
so for that reason i always suggest using what slurp suggested

as for the models that come with it you can just use the catchers, throwers etc as linemen just mark them suitably to let your opponent know

I actually started my team with what comes in the box..Less one lineman, of course.. it had nothing to do with the models though, as I don't even own WELF minis myself, I borrow them off a mate..

240
90
180
420
----
930
1 RR
2 FF

Needless to say, they don't make a lot of money.. but they are doing OK so far...

Not much money, but very dangerous going forward with the ball.

I would have thought that with only 1 rr and 2ff you would have big troubles with turnovers and replacing /buying new players.
But then again, not everyone has my bad luck and gets 1 wood elves killed pr game.

The real trouble will start when your team rating breaks 200 and you still have a FF of 6. By then the other teams will have plenty of tackle and other nasty skills, your players start aging, and you still get no money.

And even the +1AV on Darkelves can't compansate this.

Start With a Treeman and 10 Linemen.

The Tree will keep a lot of damage from your team so you can get a couple of Block&Dodge Linemen before you start to buy the more expensive players.

Slup's lineup is almost perfect.

Trade one lineman for a thrower, and take FF down to 6, and you have my preferred lineup.

no man, don't start an elf team (for league play) with a thrower. your line elves can throw very well, and if you spread completions out among them, whoever gets the mvp for the game will get a skill.

makes for a much better team in the long run.

anyway, the preferred starting roster for wood elves in a league is

1wd
10line
2rr
8ff