ianwilliams wrote:Relborn wrote:(btw I played Woodelves and won a season, without seeing any balance problems)
Yes but what about teams without AG skill access across the board? At least you can give all your line elves dodge.
How do humans fare? I expect Undead would be shafted by this rule change too.
Amazons would find it hard too. They pretty much rely on Block/Dodge across the board to compensate for low MA and Av 7.
I can only speak for Undead and Humans who did fairly well. Of course some of their double skill rolls went on block IIRC. Both Races were found from top till down in the rankings.
Unfortunately I cannot evaluate the situation for Amazons, as no one has played them so far in our league.
If you consider the basic rosters balanced (where Norse and dwarves have heavy access to the block skill and others don't) at start, they stay balanced through team developement as the block-skill ratio represented stays approximately the same.
For example Amazons only have their blitzers for the block skills when recruiting them and dwarves have heavy access to it. Considering that theese teams are balanced at start, they will also be so after some player advanced for an skill. So if they meet after, let's say around 15 games the balance from the start shouldn't be lost.
It's on the other way round - The current rules favor the amazons, as they can upgrade their lack in Block Skill very easily with enough SPPs and the dwarves can't bring in additional skills that help them affect the block roll.
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