As it stands now, a 1400 point Dwarf team is just a little bit tougher than a 940 point Dwarf team – the tactics don’t change even if they line-up does. But, importantly, they will also adapt to changes in their team and in response to increasing knowledge. Now how is this different from playing against a bad or new Blood Bowl player? New players tend to take more risks, for one thing, which could mean that they will make a lot of mistakes. When the Goblins try a strategy like this, it just means that I have all the things I can squish in one central location. I have lost to Dwarf teams, but only because of bad kickoff outcomes and a couple of unlucky injuries/deaths. The slow moving built-like-a-tank Dwarves cannot. The Skaven (a nasty rat race) have some great runners so they can turn this turtling into a break out offense. If it can, it will shelter its ball carrier with eight guards – a sound defensive plan, but a poor way to advance the ball unless you are willing to take some chances.

This is not a game about countering your weaknesses – it’s about emphasizing your strengths.īill points out the big obvious hole in the AI – it turtles too often. Wood Elves are the West Coast offense, Dwarves are the classic Pittsburgh Steelers, Chaos are mutant Indianapolis Colts, the Goblins are cheating New England Patriots…each race has a personality. Time to find my league opponent and beat his brains in.īill Abner has done a better job analyzing the AI than I ever could, but I figured I would have more time with the single player experience than he did because he’s an old veteran of the board game – he knows how all the races work already. If strategy games are about understanding and then defeating a system, then Blood Bowl has been thoroughly understood and defeated, at least at the single player level.

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