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What is the best Defensive team in your opinion?

Chaos
15
15%
Chaos Dwarves
18
18%
Dark Elves
6
6%
Dwarves
37
37%
Human
6
6%
Lizard Men
2
2%
Norse
2
2%
Orc
11
11%
Skaven
0
No votes
Various Undead
4
4%
 
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Best Defensive Teams?

Post by Nick-O »

Just curious, what race do you guys think has the best defensive game? I guess you could define that as what type of team is the hardest to score against?

My current opinion is Lizardmen, especially when they have 6 Saurus - they just seem to have so many Str-4 guys that most players can't outrun....

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Wood Elves, not on your list. One mistake against them and they are away with the ball and have scored.

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dwarves.
- each and every player with strength skills, you're running against a wall of guard players
- try to dodge and avoid blocking those nasty guard-guys? no way, too many of these b******s with tackle

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Munkey wrote:Wood Elves, not on your list. One mistake against them and they are away with the ball and have scored.
Hmm... sorry - Wood Elves was supposed to be the last choice but they didn't show up. Personally, I think that is a fine line: they are the best counter-attackers and very unforgiving of mistakes, but I'm not sure that constitutes a 'good' defense in the traditional sense of Wood Elves are hard to score against - they are just hard to outscore... :)

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Post by TuernRedvenom »

I think it's dark elves, providing they have the time to skill up and buy 4 blitzers and 2 witch elves. At TR 100 it's probably woodies, leap is a great cagebreaker.

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without a doubt dwarves, so must tackle and block, then guard once they are slightly developed they are superb defenders.

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Chaos without a doubt.
They have the muscles to beat down a cage and as soon as 2 passblock/FA-beastmen are on the pitch and some more FA is spreaded, your passing-game is a mess.

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oh yeah i forgot the bloody chaos, yeah them as well.

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Has to be Chaos Dwarves, no question. Speed, durability, big guy, cheap rerolls... the list goes on.

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Hm I voted for Chaosdwarfs because the Bull-Centaurs make the difference at def. They are quicker then normal Dwarfs and have cheap Standartplayers to fill in with Hobgoblins.

But at the last games I played and have watched the Necromantic Team (not on the list) has shown his quality at defence. With 2 Werewolfs with Mov.8 and Claws+Frenzy they are perfekt backfield def. players against quick Catchers and Runners. And a slow cage is often not a good idea against the cheap but slow Zombies, and Mr. Flesh Golem is also near most the time. So Necro Teams habe a good chance to Stop or break a normal cage and also stop catchers in the backfield and are quick enough.

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Humans or orcs. Both versatile and don't let you in...

Dwarfs are easy to get round...

In our league humans have the best defensive record after 2100 games...

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Post by pseudo_draconic »

dwarves

i just hope and pray that he over commits and i can swing round the side, but i do play norse and look up at dwarves with all the jealousy of an av 7 player

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Chaos Dwarves because they're hard, but have more options then just plain dwarves

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Post by Joemanji »

I voted Humans, as I have a lot of success with them... but Dwarfs seem like the obvious option. They just don't concede TDs! :)

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Post by juck101 »

i think amazon are best overall side at not losing a TD. biggest pain is WE they can just run off with the ball before you ready. (a friend bless-used a one turner WE on defense and has put 7 in by half time :O)

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