is it me or is it hard for HE not getting beaten to the bone

green giant · Post by **green giant** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 1:58 pm

I suspect my friend player to be %$§%&#@ing lucky but I have no idea of what to do.
He plays a bit of every team, and has various rates in his teams.

Thx

martynq · Post by **martynq** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 2:19 pm

Depends what you mean by "beaten to the bone"...

If you mean that you are suffering lots of injuries and deaths, then that is avoided by dodging away at all opportunities, so your opponent can only make his blitz move and a minimal number of blocks.

If you mean that you keep losing.... then join the club! Elves seem to be difficult to coach early on as they've got very few skills. Although their players can do everything with a 1 in 6 chance of failure, this is a greater chance of failure than an AG3 player with a re-roll skill (dodge, sure hands, pass, etc.).

Apparently, elves become excellent and dominate leagues once they get to a TR of over 200. I wouldn't know because I've never got an elf team that high.

Martyn

Longshot · Post by **Longshot** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 3:06 pm

HE are not that easy to play but they are surely not that easy to beat!

Heiper · Post by **Heiper** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 3:18 pm

I'm not so sure of what you mean. If you mean you lose every game, yes it's pretty hard to win the 1st games with so few skills, and few RR as the elf teams are expensive. All I can say to this is that things will get better

If you find you lose all the time, you could try out Wood Elfs, I find them to be more easy to win with than any other Elf team, MA7 Linemen help more than you think.

If you are constantly getting Cas against you, you have to be playing a bit wrong, or your opponent is very lucky. As Martyn said, it is solved by dodging away from anyone that can throw a block on you the next turn. This way they can only use the blitz to hit you, so the chance of getting many Cas against is very low. Again, if this is the situation, you are at least playing the right Elf race, I've found the other two to get alot more Cas against (esp. Wood Elfs) than when i played HE. HE is IMO one of the best teams in BB with LRB rules (I play without Star Players)

green giant · Post by **green giant** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 4:11 pm

I don't really have problems for winning matches or at least getting ties but I always finish with at least 3 out. And I already use the dodge out technique.