Blood Bowl should be played on a board, but I gotta admit loosing to FUMBBLers in real life .. this place is great for playing a lot of games fast. I love playing elf (and similar teams), especially on defence.




Elf Tactics:

DEFENCE: Elf defence is cool. We have two tools at our disposal:
1) The wall - two elves standing behind one another each 4th squares (2nd spuare from sideline) as far as possible. It's important to shut down one sideline.

XXXXXXX(sideline)XXXXX
---------------------------
-- EE - C C ----------
--------- C ------------
--------- C C ---------
-- EE - C B -- (other)
---------- C ----- team)
---------- C -----------
--- EE - C ------------
--------------------------
--------------------------

(- = pitch, E = elf, C = cage, B = Ballhandler, XXX = sideline)

2) Offensive catchers, running down after a deep kick to threaten the ballhandler. Shadowing and passblock are very useful. Kick is a must-have here. Put catchers one square from the LOS in the wide-zone and hope the kickoff wont turn up an 8 =)
You can often force your bashy opponent to make an early unpleasant pass or something.

vs. frenzy: If it's dwarf, they are usually too slow to run down the side anyways. Usually. If they run down the side (dwarf of a faster team) push them to score if it cant be prevented. Push toward the side prevents a stall.

OFFENCE: Spread out your potential scorers. Space catchers two squares apart to limit defence mobility with tackle zones (TZ). Run back with the ball such that none of his players can put a TZ on your thrower nomatter how many going-for-it's (GFI) they make. Then pass turn two and take advantage of NOS. It's important to
a) spread out all of your players
b) place the bulk of your lineelfs near the line of scrimmage (LOS). You may have to make a pass to a mid-fielder and hand-off for the score. They never expect that =)

Dump Off on a catcher is gold -> get it on doubles! you can make a nice running play with dump off, which is virtially impossible to stop if you have another catcher standing next to the dump-off ball carrier.


Necro Tactics:

Zombies are dumb. They like to eat a lot of brains, but it doesn't help. They move slow. They must stay close to the center. Ever played chess? Zombies are the pawns ... only a zombie dont turn into a queen when it scores. Then again, I havent verified this by experiment.

Werewolfs always die. Wolfs are unreliable!



A few wise words on the basics of bloodbowl:
http://fumbbl.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=1850

Ego polishing:
http://fumbbl.com/FUMBBL.php?page=coach&op=development&coach=16760

Imbalance table:
http://fumbbl.com/FUMBBL.php?page=stats&op=rankings