2/28/2023 0 Comments Blood bowl 3 skavenIf they get smacked down, they have the best stars in the game. Yes, their players turn over a lot, but they're cheap, they can make do with Journeymen, and their development curve is pretty wicked. Skaven are a great team for the long haul, despite their low MA. I think Skaven are one of the better teams, but a lot of your criticisms are legitimate. I'm probably playing them wrong (certainly I'm not enjoying them), any suggestions how they should be played? They are the most dice dependent team I've played IMO and while they can take the fight to the top teams with the dice behind them it doesn't take much for them to sink like a stone. ![]() When I lose the dice have turned against me (a series of 2's are often fatal, not just 1's) or the opponent has played a steady game without major mishap and just ground it out with often little the skaven can do. I'm finding that when I win either my opponent is unlucky (loose balls are great), a couple of high risk moves come off for me or I get ahead in the attrition war and score too many before they recover. The majority of the skaven can't dodge for toffee so it's suicide to try generally, there's limited access to agility skills so they can't blodge up and the only serious potential leap pieces are ST2 so throwing them into a cage is high risk. On defense the various elves can survive ok and slow down an opponents offense, mass blodge and AG4 means they can keep dodging away in front of the cage until the killer assault to rip out the ball. Once you've lost a handful of players then the scoring is much harder. Sure they can score better than most others, but there's a lot of pressure to score every time because they suck at defense (at least in my hands!). They're obviously not a bash team but I've found they lack the killer offense of the pro/wood/high elves and they can't do the dark elf trick of playing the opposite to your opponent (bash vs crunchy team, out-skill a bash team). ![]() Game Four vs Hobnail's Lizardmen 1-1 draw.Most polls I've seen rate the skaven right up there with the top teams but what is it that puts them there? I've recently started playing them in a league and have put in some practice online to prepare so I don't have a lot of experience with them (20 games or so, probably about 50-50 W/L). but in a 4 game tournament I knew my chances of any podium had gone. Mustn't get too despondent I told myself. Itchen then received in the second half, starting of course with a high kick and of course caught it on a natural 6! Despite the off half chance, Itchen made good his attack, scoring again, and there was no such repeat (or enough players against 3xStr5 guard Tomb Guardians to get a quick score. This left me a turn to score, but a Riot! helped turn the clocks back and I scored by the skin of my yellow rodent teeth to equalise, but at the cost of most of my team. Once the Khemri were fully engaged with the Blitz! they made numbers count and reduced mine. I always seem to do okay at tournaments but have a game that stuffs me. For the second game in a row my surehands gutter runner failed to pick up, and Itchen had rolled a Blitz! (which he gleefully told was hi 3rd in 3 games in a row! - jealous much).And this is how the game proceeded. But it was the luck that deserted me this game. ![]() but I have to say, the number of times I had to check myself from thinking they had stand firm or less movement was annoying. Okay, so Itchen had to borrow a Khemri team, so it's not his fault that his Tomb Guardians were 3x Trees and an Ogre.
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