Double 5 on an orc blitzer

Master Wang · Post by **Master Wang** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:57 am

Cheers for the responses.

Nobody has made any convincing argument to stop taking the MA, so that's what I'll do. He'll be another useful addition to my fairly unconventional team. Next skill will probably be tackle as there's now a lizardman team in the league and those skinks are crying out to be hit.

Unless there are other doubles or stat increases my blitzers' progressions are pretty much sort. I reckon at the rate we are arranging matches they'll get another increase or two before I try out another team. Now if I could only get the BOBs to actually cause casualties or win MVPs...

Andromidius · Post by **Andromidius** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:12 pm

Just to hammer the nail into the coffin:

Take +MA!

And yes, Tackle is an excellent second skill for him.

Also, if your Black Orcs aren't getting SPP's try running them with the ball. They have a 75% of catching a handoff if you use a reroll, and then your opponant will have hell trying to get it back off him. Mind you, it'll be a long grind to that touchline...

~Andromidius

Master Wang · Post by **Master Wang** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:06 pm

That's what I'm going to try next time I have a game in a fairly safe position. Thought it wasn't worth the risk against the wood elves as they could take advantage of any dropped balls to easily. My aim is to get each BOB a skill by the time the blitzers and thrower get their second.

AK_Dave · Post by **AK_Dave** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:17 pm

My BOBs somehow wind up with the ball like magic, it bounces off everyone else in the team after the designated catcher fails his job or the handoff is botched, and somehow the BOB rolls a '6'.

mattgslater · Post by **mattgslater** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:39 pm

I've played at least a few hundred games with Orcs, and won over 85% of them. Yet somehow I've never once had a score with a Black Orc.

Weird. I had my second-ever interception earlier this year after ten or eleven years of playing BB. I think odd stats just don't factor into my play style.

TeamTræls · Post by **TeamTræls** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 9:15 am

I would have went with Dodge. Dodge+Block is sick imo

Blodge turns the Block die into 3 push back, 2 attacker down and 1 defender down. That's only a 1/6 of the opponnent actually doing anything. Plus he can re-roll Dodge rolls.

Darkson · Post by **Darkson** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:31 am

ianwilliams wrote:If you don't want it I think sidestep is a better choice than dodge because he would be the only dodge on the team - so just attract your opponent's tacklers. Without any dodge on the team all that tackle is just a waste

If you already had 2 dodgers I'd use exactly the same argument in reverse. Most teams have a couple of tackle. So you need lots of dodge to prevent them easily negating your dodge.

QFT

Jural · Post by **Jural** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:14 am

Darkson wrote:
ianwilliams wrote:If you don't want it I think sidestep is a better choice than dodge because he would be the only dodge on the team - so just attract your opponent's tacklers. Without any dodge on the team all that tackle is just a waste

If you already had 2 dodgers I'd use exactly the same argument in reverse. Most teams have a couple of tackle. So you need lots of dodge to prevent them easily negating your dodge.
QFT

It's all local Darkson. Some leagues just don't get tackle guys... Maybe they historically haven't had a lot of elf and Amazons? When I first joined the OBBL, teams would often have only 1 or 0 tackle players, despite their being a Dark Elf, Wood Elf, Dominant High Elf team, and 2 Undead teams.

By the very end of the league teams stepped it up for the playoffs and picked up some tackle, but for most of the season Dodge was an awesome skill to have.

Master Wang · Post by **Master Wang** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:33 am

Haven't played any games since choosing the movement, but I'm convinced it'll be the right choice. There isn't a lot of tackle in the league at the moment. In fact, I think it's only to be found in the dwarf team so far. But I'll be suggesting other players take it soon (our small league is basically 2 experienced players and 4 new to the game, so we are trying to get across the importance of key skills such as block, guard, dodge and tackle to them) as the wood elf, human and lizardman team, i.e. half the teams in the league, have dodge in their line ups. I know that I'll be taking it on this blitzer and my lineorc if he ever skills up.

As for those BOBs, it's a bit cocky, but I think there will be games in the future when I'll be able to afford trying to score with them, unless the newbies pay a lot of attention to the tricks I pull against them

Fingers-crossed for some Blood Bowl next weekend...