What to buy for a rookie Woodelves team ?

[Hegel]

After a couple of matches my rookie team consists of

2 wardancers (one with +MA, Strip Ball, one rookie)
1 catcher
8 line elves (one niggling, two -MA, one dodge)
2 rerolls
1 apothecary

Now I have enough gold to think about additional staff or rerolls (110k gold). What would you recommend ? My ideas are either 3rd reroll, thrower to skill with leader or save the money to be able to replace a dead wardancer in case of unlucky dice rolls...

[TheDoc]

Reroll. Get the 3rd RR and then start thinking about saving for dead players.

[MattDakka]

3rd reroll and fire that niggling lineelf.

[Jimmy Fantastic]

Buy 3rdd RR tthen sack all injured players.

[mattgslater]

Buy 3rdd RR tthen sack all injured players.

+1. Any injury is a firing injury, unless the decreased score is useless (AG loss on a Flesh Golem) or not very major on a really good player (niggle on a Legend, say). Some exceptions for -AV and -MA on a cash-poor team for positionals whose role is important and hard to fill with a different positional, but only for a little bit, until you have the cash to replace them. In your case, the latter only means niggled 'Dancers. Everything else must go.

[Hegel]

So you would fire all three injured linos and use journeymen instead ? And risk to have a MVP awarded ob them ? We play the optional League rules where only dead players can't be MVP's.

[besters]

I would have sacked them already! Get the journeyman line fodder.

[Digger Goreman]

Coffins!

I would have sacked them already! Get the journeyman line fodder.

Congrats, besters, as you have acknowledged (knowingly or otherwise) the exact reason for the creation of the journeyman rules: elf promotional abuse!!!

More than one league has been ruined by a fairy coach riding this intentional buff to a championship....

[MattDakka]

So you would fire all three injured linos and use journeymen instead ? And risk to have a MVP awarded ob them ? We play the optional League rules where only dead players can't be MVP's.

Where is the problem?
You can permanently hire the journeyelf if he should get the MVP.

[Hegel]

So you would fire all three injured linos and use journeymen instead ? And risk to have a MVP awarded ob them ? We play the optional League rules where only dead players can't be MVP's.

Where is the problem?
You can permanently hire the journeyelf if he should get the MVP.

Only if I have enough gold...

I'm trying to save at least enough money to be able to replace a dead wardancer first.

[swilhelm73]

I'd fire the niggle guy immediately.

-MA isn't great, but the player is still mostly useful - he can dodge, provide assists, and screen.

A niggle player though is more likely to go off the pitch meaning he can't do those things - that +1 to injury means an average injury rolls goes from 7 - stunned to 8 KO'd.

[fidius]

I'd still rather have a niggled player than a Loner. In fact I don't get hiring a reroll and simultaneously increasing your # of players who don't benefit from rerolls. Playing with Loners is hard. I have a team on Fumbbl that lost 3 Linemen in its first game (dead, dead, -ST) and playing with 3 (now 4) Loners is a frequent annoyance. Though I guess it depends on the size of your Inner Munchkin, and whether you think working your way out of such injuries in a sporting fashion is cool or not. Teams with character are way more fun to play.

[mattgslater]

You don't want the -MA guys or the niggle taking your MVP, either.

You could easily fire the three of them, then sit on your cash until you have 160k before buying a TRR. Then, should any of your Journeymen skill, you can hire them.

[Hegel]

You don't want the -MA guys or the niggle taking your MVP, either.

You could easily fire the three of them, then sit on your cash until you have 160k before buying a TRR. Then, should any of your Journeymen skill, you can hire them.

Scusi, what´s a TRR ? Team Re Roll ? Does this mean I should not buy a third reroll now with my 110.000 gold, but rather wait until I have 160k ? Then buy the reroll and save more money, only hire journeyman who skills up ?

[Chris]

So you would fire all three injured linos and use journeymen instead ? And risk to have a MVP awarded ob them ? We play the optional League rules where only dead players can't be MVP's.

You want an injured elf to get an MVP/skill?