Players with the Kick skill are also high on your Hit List because deep kicks are harmful to your strategy. Your Grind will shatter to pieces if you suffer a one-turn score. If the opposite team has players on the pitch who can one-turn score, you must attempt to eliminate them whenever it is reasonable to do so. Each player distracted on a feint is one less player applying pressure convincing him to score quickly. Chances are slim that your opponent will use them because if he does, he plays your Grind for you. Here, an entire article is dedicated to this subject.Īs additional tips to the article above, do not siphon more players than necessary to cover feints suggesting a quick touchdown. As a result, you must apply a lot of pressure to enforce a quick touchdown or, failing, a mistake. The trouble is that if he is the least bit experienced, he knows that it is what you want and will delay this fatal moment by grinding the sh*t out of eternity.
So, your opponent must score quickly on his only offensive drive of the game.
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Thus, receiving the first kick is possibly detrimental when you are coaching a team that vitally needs to free up some space on the pitch. There may even be a third attempt if your opponent manages to equalize the score during the first half. The second is at the end of the first half.
If you instead receive the game’s first ball, your opponent will benefit from two attempts to bring back his KOs. “When you kick first and get scored quickly, statistically, half of your opponent’s upcoming KOs will not come back of the whole game.” But, the big advantage of kicking instead of receiving is that the KOs you will deal out will only have one opportunity to be brought back in the game. At this moment, most inexperienced coaches will elect to receive the game’s first kick and, against a bunch of Claws and Mighty Blows, you should probably too. The decision to attempt a Grind is taken when you win the coin toss. Obviously, no one will applaud your flamboyant genius, but you still won the game. Touchdowns ground this way only leaves one game turn for the opposite team to counter score. Ideally, one of 7 game turns in the first half followed by one of 8 game turns in the second half.įrom this moment, you keep the ball safe and score on turn 8 of each half. The logic is that when you are scored very early in the game, you get two long drives in return. Therefore, since he will score anyway, it better be quick. “A lumberjack team triggering a heavy scrum for a stupid ball is a lumberjack team that will not have time to even the score before the end of the half.” What is a Grind?Ī Grind is a strategy assuming that a talented coach disposing of enough time will rarely fail his offensive. In fact, by doing so, they have better chances to waste the game turns and the rerolls they will need to score back a touchdown of their own. Their tactical unidimensionality complicates ball thefts and, when successful, their low movement is rarely enough to move the ball to safety… And even less to score a defensive touchdown. Even more convolutedly, we are not even seeking to score the game’s first touchdown! In fact, we do not care if our opponent scores first, as long as he does so quickly.Īctively chasing the ball carrier is rarely the best defensive approach for Blood Bowl’s slowest teams. Yes, you are reading correctly we are not talking about a shutout. This strategy, often named The Grind, aims to win the game by a score of 2 to 1.
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