Orc Thrower with Blodge doubles AGAIN!

[Carnis]

With your freak blitzer the thrower is no good carrying the ball vs anything except ST3 strip ball leap teams (rare +no stats wood elves that is). Hence he has very little or no role in your team at all.

Keeping that in mind I think he has two options:

A) Man up the line - Guard (with blodge, he is more reliable & resilient than Block av9)

B) Become a oneturn option/thrower - Considering the MA8, AG4, Dodge ballcarrier receiver option I might actually consider skipping double for KICK OFF RETURN (Yeah, I didnt think I'd ever say this either!). Then followed by accurate later. MA5 thrower is just too slow for any OTT play, but with KOR he might be able to pull it off. After all you only need 3 LOS pushes (also grab on a BOB is not so far fetched in your gameplan later on).

[Smeborg]

Good post, Carnis - your suggestions have merit.

[mattgslater]

In fact, I narrowly failed a 1TTD effort about 10 games ago... Thrower did his thing, though. I'll have Grab and Frenzy guys soon.

[stormmaster1]

When you lose why do you lose? When i lose with orcs it's almost always failure to get the ball safe after a kickoff, esp a deep kick. My first skill for throwers is often KOR and first double sure feet (even before dodge). If you don't want to increase his mobility then increase the pasing option. Strong arm folowed with acurate changes your oprions significantly.
If you plan for both take strong arm now but if not skip the doubles.
Or just get more guard, he'll be better to help on defence too then.

[mattgslater]

EDITED, UPDATED
Since Jarromrolrg became a statfreak, I pretty much only lose when Nuffle tells me I'm going to lose, or when I beat myself by doing something stupid (like forgetting what turn it is). The biggest cause of losses for me are either outlier ball rolls or outlier AV rolls against me. I used to lose a lot because my AV rolls or blocks weren't going, but this new incarnation can handle 11-on-11 or even 10-on-11 indefinitely.

But sometimes I fail on offense because I play too conservatively and can't get downfield fast enough, or because I make some little mistake. Then, on defense, I find that I can usually force option A, B, or C... but not always. (A= turnover/cripple/score/reset ; B= turnover/stall/score/win 1-0; C= turnover/score/reset). All of those usually lead to wins. Plan D, deny, leads to a tie. That happens a lot. If I force a quick score, plan E, I go back on offense, and then may tie.

I don't often caught in my own backfield, unless the kickoff is a Blitz. But it has happened (once in a tournament, just on a positioning error on my part). Unless I take a ton of injuries right away (rare), my defense is pretty formidable: all told, my kicking squad averages around net-zero scoring, or slightly in my favor. But my offense is only somewhat positive in scoring, hence my .595 record.

Hey, maybe the solution is never to receive first? I play a lot of games against 11-man bash teams, so I like receiving first to see if I can get them down numbers (the best way to shut up the killers is to take guys out; it can be the killers, or it can be the guys around them). But otherwise, I like to kick, because I don't want to give my opponent a taste of just how strong I am until they have to walk into the kill zone, and opening up on defense gives me that edge.

[mattgslater]

Took Strong Arm. Not at all convinced it was the best choice, but the idea of 2+ Short Passes is hard to ignore.