Playestyle wise, whats the opposite of Orcs?

studderingdave · Post by **studderingdave** » Sun May 04, 2008 11:00 pm

so from this im gathering that wood elves are more expensive player wise and get hurt easily, but have a stronger big guy (treeman) while skaven suffer from the same weakness but are alot cheaper, have a worse bog guy but are more fun to play?

i think modeling opps. tip the scales for me, skaven will prolly bemy next team./

fen · Post by **fen** » Sun May 04, 2008 11:11 pm

Just remember with Skaven that your Gutter Runners are the most important players. Storm Vermin and the RO are there to try and cause some CAS (or crowd push), Blitz and bolster defensive drives but it's the four Gutter Runners that will do most stuff for you. Linemen are almost completely disposable and Throwers aren't that important (but do have some uses).

Cramy · Post by **Cramy** » Mon May 05, 2008 12:52 pm

fen wrote:Just remember with Skaven that your Gutter Runners are the most important players. Storm Vermin and the RO are there to try and cause some CAS (or crowd push), Blitz and bolster defensive drives but it's the four Gutter Runners that will do most stuff for you. Linemen are almost completely disposable and Throwers aren't that important (but do have some uses).

Exactly. They play differently for sure.

Skaven have the 4 GRs do everything, with the Blitzers and ROs used as utility players, and the Linerats just get in the way. So the play is centered around the GRs.

Wood Elves have great Catchers and Wardancers, but their throwers are probably the best in the game, and their linemen with MV7 and AG4 can handle the ball almost as well as any other player on the team. So strategies and game play tends to get spread-out across all players (on the more successful teams at least).

FischerKing · Post by **FischerKing** » Mon May 05, 2008 3:59 pm

studderingdave wrote:so from this im gathering that wood elves are more expensive player wise and get hurt easily, but have a stronger big guy (treeman) while skaven suffer from the same weakness but are alot cheaper, have a worse bog guy but are more fun to play?

i think modeling opps. tip the scales for me, skaven will prolly bemy next team./

Skaven is like the discount version of woodelves. They share many of the same characteristics but tend to focus their game on fewer players, were woodelves are all primadonnas and every single player has the potential to do great things. Its like a full blood race horse vs a hmmm.....not so full blooded horse

With woodelves your more likely to have a beaten up roster with few remaining players, but you will also have the best team (of your league) if you manage to build it.

Andromidius · Post by **Andromidius** » Mon May 05, 2008 5:07 pm

FischerKing wrote:Its like a full blood race horse vs a hmmm.....not so full blooded horse

Vs a Mule, maybe?

And Skaven are a cool team. They are technically an agility running team, but they have the ability to bash when needed.

~Andromidius

studderingdave · Post by **studderingdave** » Mon May 05, 2008 7:04 pm

im actually looking at ogres as well as a second team. maybe something "counts as" with a nurgle theme, i was thinking diseased ogres and nurglings counting as snotlings.

can anyone gimme soem pointers on ogres? i realize they are smashy like orcs, but i dont want to run alot of ogres, focusing more on the actually snotlinhs and how amazingly bad they are. maybe after the decent success ive been having with orcs i need to get beaten back donw to ground level with a team that from what i know so far is pretty bad.

Post by **DoubleSkulls** » Tue May 06, 2008 3:28 am

FischerKing wrote:
studderingdave wrote:so from this im gathering that wood elves are more expensive player wise and get hurt easily, but have a stronger big guy (treeman) while skaven suffer from the same weakness but are alot cheaper, have a worse bog guy but are more fun to play?

i think modeling opps. tip the scales for me, skaven will prolly bemy next team./
Skaven is like the discount version of woodelves. They share many of the same characteristics but tend to focus their game on fewer players, were woodelves are all primadonnas and every single player has the potential to do great things. Its like a full blood race horse vs a hmmm.....not so full blooded horse
With woodelves your more likely to have a beaten up roster with few remaining players, but you will also have the best team (of your league) if you manage to build it.

Skaven have cheap road bumps who can't dodge. That makes for a different playing style in my experience to woodies.

stormmaster1 · Post by **stormmaster1** » Tue May 06, 2008 1:20 pm

ianwilliams wrote:
FischerKing wrote:
studderingdave wrote:so from this im gathering that wood elves are more expensive player wise and get hurt easily, but have a stronger big guy (treeman) while skaven suffer from the same weakness but are alot cheaper, have a worse bog guy but are more fun to play?

i think modeling opps. tip the scales for me, skaven will prolly bemy next team./
Skaven is like the discount version of woodelves. They share many of the same characteristics but tend to focus their game on fewer players, were woodelves are all primadonnas and every single player has the potential to do great things. Its like a full blood race horse vs a hmmm.....not so full blooded horse
With woodelves your more likely to have a beaten up roster with few remaining players, but you will also have the best team (of your league) if you manage to build it.
Skaven have cheap road bumps who can't dodge. That makes for a different playing style in my experience to woodies.

They also will have 3-4 Gutter runners, compared to the fewer (initially at least) wood elf catchers.