New Norse Build, sensible or mental?

[hissa-lives]

Am looking at building a Norse team for local league, comprising of Necro, Ogre, 2x Dwarf, 2x Undead, Dark Elf, Humans, and Necromantic.
with 1,100,000 gold to start
I'm thinking of

Troll
2 Ulfs
2 Bezerzers
1 Runner
6 Lineman
2 RR
and Apo

Thinking I need all the strength I can get to start with and plenty of frenzy to deal with pesky dwarves. Is this plain mental or an okish idea?

[MKL]

5 frenzy and 2 rerolls make me uncomfortable.
The Norse usual lack of sure hands makes it just worst.

[Jimmy Fantastic]

Well if you want to use Norse, of course this is sensible. How else could you build them?

[hissa-lives]

Well if you want to use Norse, of course this is sensible. How else could you build them?

All players with block and 4 rr??

[mzukerman]

Depending on the length of the league, I'd drop a reroll and a lineman and go up to another runner. I love them as safeties. You can always pick up the reroll as the season goes on and with all that block there will hopefully be less rerolls. This way your players have more time to go up in level.

[Digger Goreman]

You're using a spammoth team and you want to know if it is mental?!

Sounds rhetorical to me....

[Jimmy Fantastic]

You literally have to have the troll. Yeah I guess you could drop your other best two players for re-rolls but that seems pointlessly bad. 2 RR is fine up to about 1800 TV. I would never have more than 3 RR.

[fidius]

I find Norse's natural advantage (Block) gives them enough of a head start that they can afford to take risks early-on. For TV1000 leagues I like starting with 2x Ulf, 1x Troll, 3x RR and 0x Zerkers. Hire Zerkers as your Ulfs get Block -- feed them TDs to get them there quickly.

Your problem will be the MB on Undead and Ogre teams, I'd worry more about them than the Dorfs. 12 players and Apo is a good idea in case you run into more than 1 of those in your first few games. Runner will be useful vs ST5 (Dauntless) but other than that are a bit overpriced. So are Zerkers for that matter, but in League you'll eventually have them all anyway.

The conventional wisdom is "kill or be killed" but I've found that Guard works better than MB as early skill on the S guys. Troll being the exception...

[swilhelm73]

I'd trade the apo for an RR.

You'll need 3 and better to pay half price for it now vs full price later.

[mattgslater]

To each his own. I hate big guys, including the Snow Troll, so for me it's 2 Ulfs, 11 linos, 3 RR, Apoth. But I guess that's why I prefer Humans to Norse.

[Jimmy Fantastic]

Oh I hate big guys too, to the extent that I don't even take a Beast of Nurgle. However Norse are a bash team that can't bash bashers without their big guy so it essential imo.

[hissa-lives]

We've just had a third dwarf team sign up! I mean seriously, a quarter of the teams in the league are dwarf! that's 3 out of 11 games I'll either fall asleep or just give up on!
I'll give the troll and 2 ulfs a go I think, need the strength and could be fun maybe. either that or I just paint my flings really, really fast and use them!

[Heff]

Play chaos. ALWAYS go Claw MB Pile on Block (in that order) and watch the Timmys whine. That or find a new league.

[hissa-lives]

Play chaos. ALWAYS go Claw MB Pile on Block (in that order) and watch the Timmys whine. That or find a new league.

I do have a chaos team ready to go... Or I could put a bounty on all dwarf players? My norse team do look nice, or at least I think they do.

[Heff]

Play chaos. ALWAYS go Claw MB Pile on Block (in that order) and watch the Timmys whine. That or find a new league.

I do have a chaos team ready to go... Or I could put a bounty on all dwarf players? My norse team do look nice, or at least I think they do.

Nice is no substitute for a good set of claws. Use the figures but say they are Chaos. Honestly 3 Dwarves, how boring is that!