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Last night, one of my HE Blitzers got a few SPPs and is ready for his 2nd Skill now. I rolled a double, so a have quiet a lot of opportunities. And this is why I´m asking here for advice. His 1st skill is "Leap" and I planned to give him another skill that helps him stealing the ball (like Strip Ball, Wrestle or Tackle). But now, I don´t know if I should take a Strength Skill and give him Guard, Stand Firm or Mighty Blow.

Our league consists of 10 coaches, 3 Elves, 1 Skaven, 1 Undead, 1 Khemri, 1 Necro, 1 Human, 1 Dwarf, 1 Halfling. I played 6 games now and will play another 17 games. So far, my team has 13 players, all 8 position players. My catchers got a mixture of Block and Dodge, one thrower has Leader, a few lineelfs Wrestle, the other blitzer Frenzy.

What do you think?

I would say Guard to maximise the Leap-Cage Break opportunities

Although it is surreal that I am telling Prince Moranian how to skill up a High Elf Blitzer.....

Seeing the teams in your league I'd take Mighty Blow to cause some pain!

I'd probably be tempted by MB, too. Lot's of AV7 in that league. If not, then Guard for the reason above. Definitely wouldn't take a normal skill.

Guard, Mighty Blow. Both good choices. Maybe you should take "Mighty Guard"

There are plenty of bash teams in that league. I'd plump for Guard.

Yeah, there's a fair amount of bash, but Guard won't save you against all the ST5 you're going to face, and there's not a lot of ST4 out there (and that which there is mostly has Stand Firm, so you don't want to stick a 150k AV8 guy next to it if you don't knock down).

Guard is best against the Dwarfs, MB is best against the Undead, Skaven, Halflings, Necro and Khemri: both are good against Humans and Elves, but since I wouldn't put this guy on the line against even an elf team, I'd probably prefer MB against Elves. So unless your direct rival* is the Dwarfs, I'd go for MB in context. Leaping Guard is cool and all when it opens 3 new blocks, but it sucks to make a leap just to turn 1d into 2d: it's better to make the hit with this guy. This is especially true in a league like this one, where so many teams are dependent on AV7 ball-carriers. Get him Tackle or Pro at 31.

* the coach against whom you have the most at stake, not necessarily the best coach: if you can't beat his with yours, don't bother, but if you just need that "edge" more than you need it against the other teams....

MB is always nice against any team. Having a single one on the team is a big boost, particularly on something as mobile as an elf blitzer. Pretty much every other double should be guard, but I'd go for MB on this one.

Actually, if I get so lucky as to get doubles on 3 High Elf linos (or a second double on one) in my league, I'm getting Grab! Who needs to develop a Catcher for 1TTD when you have a Grabber and a Frenzy guy and can do it with a rookie Catcher? You can even save the blitz for hole-punching! Heck, with a Grabber, you can just engineer extra blocks against those silly Elves and Rats and play a cage offense like an AG4 Orc team! Particularly the Rats, because they don't get Side Step. After all, everybody's AV12 when you're stunned.

voyagers_uk wrote:Although it is surreal that I am telling Prince Moranian how to skill up a High Elf Blitzer.....

I know! My inner voice keeps telling me: " Take Dauntless, take Dauntless, take Dauntless ..." and it´s kinda hard to ignore that.

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Thanks a lot for your suggestions! Probably MB s the best choice and I´ll give that a try. Next skill would be Tackle or Strip Ball to maximize his ball stealing abilities.

I would say MB, the Blitzers are the only ones in my HE team that delivery some kind of pain. Then you should got the tackle, strip ball route.

No question, MB. I have a HE team and the blitzer are the hitters of the team. If you take MB and roll doubles again for him take piling on.

my 1st tff-post:

Thanks for your answers! I gave him MB and I´m really looking forward to the next league match to see how it works.