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Hi,

we're staring a new pod of 4 teams, each team playing 2 games against each other team, top 2 playing the finals...

The others teams are Chaos, Skaven and Orcs. I took Dark Elves (over Amazons and Undead, retrospectively I think Amazons would have been easier to build...)
Now I need to build a team knowing the first 6 games are essential (we can play one of our pod teams afterwards in an advanced pod...)

I have made 4 builds to chose from:

11 Linemen
3 RR or 2RR and an APO
8 FF
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8 Linemen
3 Blitzers
1 RR
9 FF
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9 Linemen
2 Blitzers
2 RR
7 FF
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9 Linemen
1 Throwers
1 Blitzers
2 RR
8 FF

I lend towards the first and the 4th...

Any advice welcome

For a short tourney, I'd lean towards #3, actually. Those blitzers rock, but you want to have a few RRs to help minimize the elven curse.

Of course, you can never really eliminate the curse, but you have to pay it face value or Nuffle will find a way to screw you even worse.

2 blitzers gives you a decent chance of dealing with the inevitable BoBs and CWs. Block + 1 assist (which dodges there on a 2+ if need be) gives you a 50% chance of putting him down and only a 16% chance of going down yourself.

I've tried the 11 and 3RR tactic.

Don't! The move of 6 without any skills is a real sod. I think 2RR's and skill positions is far more likely to get you SPP's and win games.

Richard

#3 is what I pretty much always take as well. Of course, my Executioners are now 10th out of 11 teams in our league, but that has more to do with running into a VERY nasty chaos dwarf team midseason - that took me down to 6 elves for my next game...still haven't really recovered from that one And I have to play Skummy's Orcs next with only 10 *sigh*

I've played DE's for all my time in BB and firmly believe that you take your skilled players first with an apothecary and 3 RR's and worry about the rest later. No Elven team is a great starter so just accept that they will get better over time and build for the long term. By taking your better players first they also develop quicker.

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take your skilled players first with an apothecary and 3 RR's and worry about the rest later.

Sure I'd love to but it kinda exceeds the bugdet.
I think I'll go with 2 position players, 2 RR and a high FF to buy the apo asap...
I that case the 2 blitzer option seems the best as for only 10k more the guy gets +1MV and block instead of pass for the thrower (and with an AG of 4 pass is often luxury...).

I didn't mean to imply that you can buy them all, just what you want as the core of the team. I would go for all 4 blitzers 1 thrower and 1 WE. The blitzers are the key to DE success. My team has only ever had 1 thrower but I am considering getting another so I can develop surehands and dump off with him, passing the ball to my main thrower. I see an apothecary as quite essential from the start. If I couldn't afford the skill players above I would cut the WE, too easy to take down for an aggressive player and too unpredictable.

Why do you go with so high FF for so few games? If you want the RR:s, you could go

9 linemen
2 blitzers
3 RR
2 FF

or maybe 12 players to play less risky in the first games:

10 linemen
1 thrower
1 blitzer
2 RR
1 FF

Of course, you'll have to try not rolling the wrong numbers for the kick-off table...

Micke

As I wrote we can use the teams later on (in fact we'll play 4 pods like this then a "Champions pod" where we all pick our best team between the 4 teams we had...)

That's why I take a high FF, for instance in pod 1 I played woodies and did well with them as I played the finals (ending the pod in 1st place). The money was important to really improve the team so after 7 games the team looks like this:

10 Lineman One has Kick another Leader and a third Dodge (3 have niggling inj. including the dodge)
1 Catcher Block
Wardancer +1MA
Wardancer +1AG
Thrower
Treeman Block
2 RR (+1 from the Leader -works for treeman!- so that's 3RR)
1 APO
7 FF (Damn 1!)

So to build a better team than that, I'll a lot of money!
Also with a high FF I like my chances to get an APO after the 1st game.

berserker wrote:As I wrote we can use the teams later on

Oh, sorry, I missed that completely. Then please ignore my stupid advice

Micke

i would do this:

1 blitzer
10 lineelves
2 rr
9 ff
10k treas

use the 10k towards apoth, then buy blitzers and a witch. you don't need a thrower, especially not early on. You want to use your line elves to throw quick passes instead, so that whoever gets the MVP will get a skill.

I like the idea Wesleytj, but why can't you do that with a thrower and so just pick up passing skills, they are only slightly more expensive?

DeputyDawg wrote:I like the idea Wesleytj, but why can't you do that with a thrower and so just pick up passing skills, they are only slightly more expensive?

i don't want a thrower on my starting teams...they stunt the growth of the line elves. I want to spread around completions amongst them for the first few games, so that they can get skills.

remember that a line elf is roughly equivalent to a human thrower in terms of ability to pick up the ball and throw a quick pass. you have a team full of throwers!

clearly, as the team goes on, you'll want an actual thrower to get passing skills. but you don't need one to start.

What skills do you take for your Linemen to start with? Block and Dodge for me, so they can hold up a grind by running teams.

DeputyDawg wrote:What skills do you take for your Linemen to start with? Block and Dodge for me, so they can hold up a grind by running teams.

mostly just that...some blk then dge, a few dge then blk, guard on doubles, a guy with kick, a dirty player....basically a nice mix.