A second apothecary?

[dode74]

I'm not stating a position here or anything, just wondering what the great BB minds we have here think would happen were teams allowed to roster 0-2 apothecaries at 50k each, or even at 50k for the first and more for the second.

[Hitonagashi]

The world would collapse under a rebellion from all the coaches that like playing Regen based teams.

Or, teams with multiple cool players would get slightly better than they are already and everyone else probably wouldn't be affected that much.

One of the two.

[voyagers_uk]

counter that with regen on a 3+... maybe although this sounds like a house rule in need of testing

[Winged_Human]

counter that with regen on a 3+... maybe although this sounds like a house rule in need of testing

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Regen is already gross enough as is, no need to make it stronger.

[Shteve0]

I suspect it would see more of an in game effect than first assumptions.

At the moment Apoths are, generally, reserved for a rainy day - they're insurance against that ocassional major hurt delivered against your top, skilled positionals. Double rostered apoth on a developed team would allow you both to save one for a rainday *and* guarantee you can set up that BH wardancer/gutter runner/whatever for the very next drive once per game on top of that.

I'd say if you doubled apoth allowance to slow long term injuries you'd need to counter with an adverse in game effect - perhaps remove the "if either result is a BH" full recovery rule and cut it back to a KO.

[spubbbba]

Under lrb4 I’d say that had some merit, but apoths were much better back then so probably still a bit broken.

But you can already have a 2nd or 3rd apoth (or 1 regen re-roll if you are undead or rotting) by spending inducement or your own money.

[dode74]

I know you can induce one. I'm talking about rostering one.

[Digger Goreman]

elf talk....

[burgun824]

I'd like to see what Heff would have to say about a dwarf team with two apos.

[garion]

Since apos are pretty terrible in CRP I wouldn't have a problem with it. With some teams I don't think they are worth their cost anyway. like Flings, Gobos, Vamps and Ogres (though i usually part with the cash and take the tv hit anyway).

A better house rule would be to make apothecarys on par with regen again (taking in to account their costs etc...). At the moment the balance there feels completely out of wack to me, and I have heard many other seasoned coaches complaining of the same...

I don't think it needs to go back to LRB4. But maybe -

ko - auto work and stay on field
BH - auto work and go to reserves
SI - 2+ and reserves
kill - 3+ and reserves

That would also do away with the stupidity of having a broken leeg, using the apo, and ending up with gouged eye.