Human team with 4 catchers?

[Oly1987]

Just wondered if anyone has ever run a human team with 4 catchers in league or tournament play and how effective is it?

[burgun824]

I always have the goal to run 4 catchers with two built for offense and two built for defense. Unfortunately I can't ever quite seem to keep them alive long enough to have all 4 of them in the game at the same time.

WHICH IS ANOTHER HUGE REASON WHY I BELIEVE HUMAN CATCHERS SHOULD BE ST3!

[Oly1987]

Lol burg ive been involved with the other thread your on about but I've said what I wanted to say on there

[burgun824]

Just for grins anyway.

[Smurf]

I working on it.

But yeah I would try and run 4 catchers. Go 2 at the moment but only played 7 games. Would like a bit more offence but when you get blitzers who think they are amazons it is hard to ignore (I don't want anymore doubles!)

[nazgob]

I have done it.

It did not go very well, but I think that it could, with a bit of practice. Give them all blodge, and then you can do the 'step away' defence. People always get 2 dice on their blitz anyway, so it doesn't matter. And, of course, your speed will be incredible.

[spubbbba]

Catchers are just too fragile to start with 4 of them, they will always be key targets since it is easy to get 2 dice on them and with AG3 they are not that great at catching or dodging even with the skill re-roll.

If you knew you would be facing slow bashy teams that lack tackle or much block such as chaos, orcs or khemri then I could see some merit as you’d lose the blocking war to them anyway so may as well make the most of your advantages in speed an agility.

But against all comers then you’d be one of the weakest blocking teams and would risk getting beat up by hybrid teams such as skaven or Necros and even dark/high elves could be a risk since they’d have equal armour but higher strength and the ability to pick their fights better.

[besters]

I did win a small one day 3 match tournament with 4 catchers, 4 blitzers, 2 Throwers, 2 Linemen and 2 TRR's.

But I was very lucky, 10 TD's to none tells it's own story.

[mattgslater]

4 Catchers on the roster? Crazy, but conceivable on, say, a 13-man squad. I think 2-3 is optimal.

4 Catchers on the field? That would make defense really hard. Play Skaven if you want to win with those games! Would be nice on late drives....

[Smurf]

These are not Gutter Runners. Never 4 on the pitch in one go. Maybe 2 offence and defence.

[burgun824]

DEFINITELY never all 4 in one go. No more then 2 on the pitch at a time. I don't think that was the point of the question though was it?