I am soon to try Dark Elves so it was great to see what a high ranked coach can do with them.
It quickly became apparent that we were outclassed.
LEARNINGS:
1. SHAPES
Defensive shapes- column, L shape, T shape, spaced with overlapping tackle zones, holding strong through the middle. This was great.
I really had to engage with the mummies, and did not want to move to a sideline as we are very slow. Effective.
2. TEMPO
Dark Elves sit back in front with terrific defensive shape, little chips to the edges on first couple of turns.
Then on T3, the aggressive tempo is set, tagging corner cages. In the end, we needed much luck, and a 77% chance play to succeed, for an EARLY score.
3. HOOK BLITZ
Positioning a strong front line, directly in front of ours, allowed Coach Carthage to direct the blitz target, pushing into secondary blocks. Well played and resulted in stunned wight.
4. OWN THE CORNER
Undead are slow, and quite spread out. The Dark Elves on T4 send many players to occupy a sideline, protecting ball carrier.
POSITIVES
In an effort to be kind, it has been suggested I try and find something done well from our side. In truth, we were lucky, but we can find some things perhaps.
1. SACK
We did find a total of 6 dice on ball carrier. These were skulls x4, push x2. We even had a 21% sack attempt at end. I've lost games on worse odds than that.
SUMMARY
Coach Carthage was great to play against, and opened my eyes as to what dark elves can do.
I should also learn better to protect my ghouls- they are life blood of the team. Without them, we struggle to move the ball. ”
“Jambon is too hard on himself. He really employed the 2 players in a line spaced 1 apart really well which is brutal to deal with for elves. I misplayed the attempted score in the first half. I should have overloaded one side and looked to set a side cage with a pivot available towards the middle. I realized that on about turn 6 or 7 but Jambon used his mummies as an excellent road block to keep me from switching the field, if only elves could pass again :(.
Offensive drive required me to get a 1 die push and/or pow to spring it and we got a little lucky and got what we needed.
Great game and Jambon pilots the undead well, he knew when it was time to just take his points and did a great job containing me from doing anything *too* creative. ”
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I am soon to try Dark Elves so it was great to see what a high ranked coach can do with them.
It quickly became apparent that we were outclassed.
LEARNINGS:
1. SHAPES
Defensive shapes- column, L shape, T shape, spaced with overlapping tackle zones, holding strong through the middle. This was great.
I really had to engage with the mummies, and did not want to move to a sideline as we are very slow. Effective.
2. TEMPO
Dark Elves sit back in front with terrific defensive shape, little chips to the edges on first couple of turns.
Then on T3, the aggressive tempo is set, tagging corner cages. In the end, we needed much luck, and a 77% chance play to succeed, for an EARLY score.
3. HOOK BLITZ
Positioning a strong front line, directly in front of ours, allowed Coach Carthage to direct the blitz target, pushing into secondary blocks. Well played and resulted in stunned wight.
4. OWN THE CORNER
Undead are slow, and quite spread out. The Dark Elves on T4 send many players to occupy a sideline, protecting ball carrier.
POSITIVES
In an effort to be kind, it has been suggested I try and find something done well from our side. In truth, we were lucky, but we can find some things perhaps.
1. SACK
We did find a total of 6 dice on ball carrier. These were skulls x4, push x2. We even had a 21% sack attempt at end. I've lost games on worse odds than that.
SUMMARY
Coach Carthage was great to play against, and opened my eyes as to what dark elves can do.
I should also learn better to protect my ghouls- they are life blood of the team. Without them, we struggle to move the ball. ”