questions About the saurus cage

[celetaur]

hi i am start playing whit lizardmen, and u need axperimented opinions of my team advance.
i will get the 4 saurus of the cage whit block,and two of them whit guard.
1)what you think about this, i need stand firm on my cage saurus?
2)the skink of the cage will need sidestem or maybe sprint and sure feet?
3)the kroxigor will have block and tackle.
4) y will need a cage breker waht i must do whit this player
Thx!!! for all

[Laerderon]

Haven't made any good experiences with Lizard Cages. For what do you need them? Break a hole with your skinks and run through. Sure, you will protect your ballcarrier, but that's not what I understand as "Cage" Your Sauri are for making holes, binding enemies, crushing cages. Sure you will give your Sauri Block, Breack Tackle and / or Guard. Sure you will give your Skinks Catch, Sidestep, Sure Hands, Block.... But, well, just look for the lizards tactics a bit lower and you might find a lot usefull things.

[celetaur]

i understandyou but sari didn´t star whit block(any skill xD) so make holes is very dificult, i have proved
you can be surprised seeing a sauri making a block and fail even whit 2 block dices.
the 4 str alone didn`t make the block so i will need the cage for a time!
xD
Thx at all!

[Duke Jan]

True. people often underestimate the danger of 2 dice blocks in their favour without block, however, they also tend to overestimate the risk of a 2dice block against. Use this knowledge to your advantage.

Being dodgers, skinks are already hard to knock down when on their own. Don't waste your sauri protecting them with a cage. Cages are an effective defence but take 5 players from the rest of your defences and slow down your play. The strength of skinks lies in their mobility, a cage is a very stationary thing. Using a cage might sometimes be a good idea, to buy time for one or two turns. But it's probably more effective to pin down your opponent than to pin yourself down.

[celetaur]

i was thinking in play always first at defence being alweys the kiking team.
So i put mi defece trying to protect the skink and trying to get the ball making the other team to make a lots of dodge rolls, so i can get the ball and make a flash counter atack whit the skinks protected whit a saurus pair.
when i play as reciving team i will make the cage whit all the 5 players and score in the last turn to make the half for my adventage.

as lizardman are a very defencive team i think i can do this without problems(well problems alweys como alone).