What skill for a human lineman on a double?

Levinas · Post by **Levinas** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 9:51 am

Any ideas? I'm an absolute novice with the humans but thought I'd give them a go in our league (which uses Vault rules so there are a few new skills). We're only 3 games into the league so most players have few skills. I've got a blocking ogre

, a blodging catcher and a mighty blowing

blitzer. (plus blitzer, MA7 catcher

, 5 other linemen, 2 throwers, 4 RR)...

The league has 2 CD teams, 1 Dwarf, 2 dark elf, 1 other human, pro elf, lizardmen, norse and amazon.

I was thinking guard or dodge... but that just seems a bit obvious. Of course I could ignore the double and get kick or block which was my original plan.

Duke Jan · Post by **Duke Jan** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:30 am

Guard or dodge would be my idea too. I'd personally go for guard give some other players a bit of an edge.

Willi · Post by **Willi** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:35 am

How about Leader?

Would be my choice. Other option I think is guard, but I prefer Leader

Zy-Nox · Post by **Zy-Nox** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:42 am

Guard, Or even as an outside edge diving tackle to deal with all those elves.

sean newboy · Post by **sean newboy** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:44 am

Leader or Guard.

bubb · Post by **bubb** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 11:58 am

I like Guard as well

Levinas · Post by **Levinas** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:26 pm

Thanks for the comments - so far I'm tending towards guard as the team has 4 rerolls and the players have a few built in rerolls too. But, in vault rules getting a reroll cheap is nice as it keeps the team value down...

Any other suggestions? And I guess any ideas about how a st3 guarder should be used would be welcome. On the line with the ogre or kept free to help out on blitzes?

dendron · Post by **dendron** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:27 pm

I would take guard, because you have 4 RR already.

If you are allowed to take the leader reroll for your Oger I would take Leader!

Dendron

bubb · Post by **bubb** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:24 pm

Levinas wrote:Any other suggestions? And I guess any ideas about how a st3 guarder should be used would be welcome. On the line with the ogre or kept free to help out on blitzes?

hmmm.....either way actually. Personally I would use him on the line with two other lineman and keep the ogre back a bit to blast a hole through somewhere. This is all based of course on what the opposing coach has for team and the components of that team

Levinas · Post by **Levinas** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:31 pm

hmmmm. interesting - the ogre tends to sit on the line as he's generally a bit useless for me (the game before last he refused to blitz 3 times in a row - it could even have been 4 times) so I tend to use him to get in the way but generally leave anything important to the rest of the team. Of course if I get another double with the ogre it'll be leader or pro. But I can't remember if big guys can use them in the new rules so I'll have to check.

Anyway - guard it is, it seems like a suitably 'lineman' skill, not glamorous but hopefully useful...

bubb · Post by **bubb** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:46 pm

I play humans a bit strange I guess but I have had success using the ogre as hole puncher. True you run the risk of bonehead at times but I think you just ran into some bad luck.

Human lineman are fodder in my opinion and are meant as assistants and "get in the way guys".

Guard will be a wonderful addition as it now takes less players to achieve the same effect.

Levinas · Post by **Levinas** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 3:21 pm

Cheeers Bubb, I'll see how he get's on. Still scared of the Ogre's idiocy although last match he (Daisy) was only stupid once...

bubb · Post by **bubb** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 6:06 pm

Always be scared of an Ogre's idiocy..but, that is the price you pay for having a guy on your team who's fist is bigger than a Fling...

Good luck!