Talk Fantasy Football

[Split from the "When inducements run "hot"... " thread, as it wasn't on-topic - Darkson]
Very sorry about that - Emrys

My halflings have been challenged to an "friendly" by the runaway top team in our league because we're the last team to have beaten them (some 12 games ago) so it'll be his 2.47M orcs against 1.51M of 'fling terror.

I'm planning to take:
* Deeproot Strongbranch
* Bertha Bigfist
* chef
* wizard
* 2 Bloodweiser babes
* 150,000gp of cards - or a 50,000gp card and a bribe

Is this the optimal 960,000 gp I could take? I'm thinking that 4 big guys (and gal) will hopefully keep his black orcs and troll occupied while my 13 flings spend the first half in a foul frenzy, hopefully reducing numbers sufficiently to score in the second half.

The teams (in case this affects advice are Moot Mosquitos and Dark Lands Gooners.

[Edited to (a) add apology and (b) hopeful read better as the opening post of a thread]

I'd take at least one bribe. It's comparable to dodging with AG3 without a reroll because of the odds. You'll probably succeed but the chances of failure are high enough that you'd rather do it the last thing in the turn.

A bribe allows you to foul early in the turn when you have it. That brings an advantage in positioning for assists (and you have grab which helps a lot). If you have to do the foul last thing in the turn, you'll most likely be outpositioned as your guys are all bunched up if you want lots of assists for a foul (which you will need against AV9). With a bribe you can foul early in the turn with possible assists that haven't done an action yet.

Man, I've convinced myself writing this. How about 2 bribes (for guarantee against burning a single bribe early in the match) and a merc halfling with Dirty Player and those star players.

Babes & Wizard are both better than a 2nd bribe IMO.

I think 50k card & bribe is a good idea since you know you want to foul.

One thing to consider tactically is that you probably want to try and tie up any tackle (and block/tackle in particular) with your trees. That might mean letting a BOB go off after the flings.