While I do struggle vs lizzards myself with my wood elves I don't think you are "doomed" once they cage.darwinn69 wrote:I'm specifically thinking lizardmen here, where one skink ends up surrounded by 6 saurses with guard and a krox. So basically your saying if they formed a cage I've already lost the battle and my efforts should really go into keeping the cage from even forming?
It seems like I've really underestamated sidestep....really going to have to get that on some of my elves.
You will have to learn to manage the clock vs them. and pick off the caged skinks.
If you can score in 1 or two turns easy, and he wants to cage like that, then you should be able to force him to take 3 turns to score fairly easily by placing the players as ianwilliams has shown.
So in the half you kick to him, he gets a score in say 3 turns or so. Then you score in 2 and then he has 3 more turns to score 2-1. There is plenty of room in there to deny him a score via either scoring in 3 yourself, or making one of his drives go 4 turns even. Additionally, you should be able to OTS in turn 8 if he did go up 2-1 to make it 2-2.
On the half he kicks to you, you score in 2 or so. Then if he takes 3 turns to score his td, you can easily score another td in the time remaining and stall his cage out the remaining few turns. Right?