I was curious about people's perception for "playing of a tie." For myself a tie always feels worse than a loss. I just had my 300th Fumbbl tie. With 627 Wins and 684 Losses I think having 300 Ties is quite low compared to other coaches. I also think a lot of my losses come from not playing for a tie. Scoring early in the second half hoping to steal the ball and win the game is a frequent dilemma for me. It is Not a hard choice, but much of a dilemma in retrospect. I would much rather have a loss, trying for a win, rather than staying put for an even score. I am not Min/Max'er, I rarely worry about my teams TV. I play with what I have and then try my utmost to win the game. I always try to win the game.

Now I know people skewer every detail of a blog so I should mention this; A tie, coming behind in a game and equalizing the score is probably sits around the 90% range out of the 300 of my ties. My intentions is to never sit and stall in the second half if the game is now Tied. This has brought me to recent conclusion. After 1611 games on Fumbbl, I'm probably more of an Elfy type coach than I rather like to admit. I normally play Bashy teams. But coming from behind, or scoring early in the second half (tying the game at the point) isn't cut out for slow Orc or Nurgle teams. I've played a lot of Lizards and Slann as of late and my style is better suited for faster paced teams. I have been and I will start pursuing the fine Art of Elf-Ball. At this point I do not know how to do this. I am very experienced with losing to Elves, so mimicking those losses probably will be the best way to actually start.

The questions is whether I try it in the Box or in Ranked. My time zone as of late has very little amount of coaches actively playing games. Since the Box changes, which I am absolutely for, many Aussie Min Maxers have stopped showing up to play. So having 25-35 coaches on line at one time is very frequent now a days. I saw 1 game being played last night at one point. That's 9pm my Pacific time. So I am probably going to keep pursuing Ranked Elves. Unfortunately that may turn me into a filthy picker at times. For this I apologize in advance. The one thing I will do is to avoid any coach under Star. I will only be picking teams, and I will pursue coaches and teams with my Elves that are also looking to Ball it out. I might as well learn from the better coaches on how to play that style of game. Losing is always a better way of learning how to win.

Going back to original question, am I kidding myself with the tie to win idea for Elves? Maybe I will learn to be a safer coach with more fragile players. Time will tell I am guessing. I just bought a 2nd Edition High elf team for my Table Top league next Season.