Sysiphos
Joined: Feb 03, 2006
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May 02, 2006 - 11:44 |
 
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| sk8bcn wrote: |
sys, link also the tournament you play in |
I am playing in ranked division. |
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sk8bcn
Joined: Apr 13, 2004
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May 02, 2006 - 11:48 |
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| Sysiphos wrote: | | sk8bcn wrote: |
sys, link also the tournament you play in |
I am playing in ranked division. |
so as I thought, you're off-topic 
The question was about what to do with nigglers in a close format league. |
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Tinkywinky
Joined: Aug 25, 2003
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May 05, 2006 - 03:12 |
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Scheduled leagues tend to be a lot more... ugly than ranked play. If you play elves you can ill afford to fire players unless you have a 14 or 15 man squad. (and even then a blodge/sidestep line-elf with a niggle is a lot better than a rookie). Use the nigglers as line fodder.
The best advice in this thread is on what you should fire (positionals). If your linemen niggles, so what? He's useful in the 5/6 games that he plays and he won't detract from the team other than with the increased tr (which isn't all that bad, if you think about a high tr team tend to be favoured over a low tr team so the handicaps doesn't fill the gap). Positionals is very important though. If your chaos warrior or human blitzer gets a niggle you should usually give him the boot as your team is at a serious disadvantage when that +st/guard player is missing.
If you take a look at my chaos team that plays in the Swedish league I'll give a rundown on my current plans for my nigglers:
The block/guard chaos warrior just aged after the last match. He will be replaced as soon as I can afford it (probably just one match). The niggled claw/mb/tackle chaos warrior is very useful, his niggle gives me constant headache but I don't plan to fire him until I manage to get guard on all my other chaos warriors (and hopefully a clawed beastman). The two beastmen... well in themselves they arent' much of a problem as I can afford them being away now and then but as I have more niggles on the team and a high tr the threat of virus is getting too great so I'm going to get rid of the big hand/kick beastmen when I have developed another kicker (don't use the big hand player much now when I have two ag4 players).
Now this reasoning might sound weird for the ranked player but I value a deep bench a lot. I have three dirty players and I use them until they get ejected. If my bench get worse in a match because of a niggle I might foul less in that match but if I had a blockless reserve I would have to play almost like if he wasn't there.
But to finish of this long blabla-post I'm to give you a more relevant advice: At <200 tr (which you are going to be at for a while) you shouldn't fire a niggler unless it gives you an extra handicap in an important match. In many matches it feels good to have a player you don't care for at the LoS against a khemri team. |
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sk8bcn
Joined: Apr 13, 2004
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May 05, 2006 - 11:00 |
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| Tinkywinky wrote: | Scheduled leagues tend to be a lot more... ugly than ranked play. If you play elves you can ill afford to fire players unless you have a 14 or 15 man squad. (and even then a blodge/sidestep line-elf with a niggle is a lot better than a rookie). Use the nigglers as line fodder.
The best advice in this thread is on what you should fire (positionals). If your linemen niggles, so what? He's useful in the 5/6 games that he plays and he won't detract from the team other than with the increased tr (which isn't all that bad, if you think about a high tr team tend to be favoured over a low tr team so the handicaps doesn't fill the gap). Positionals is very important though. If your chaos warrior or human blitzer gets a niggle you should usually give him the boot as your team is at a serious disadvantage when that +st/guard player is missing.
If you take a look at my chaos team that plays in the Swedish league I'll give a rundown on my current plans for my nigglers:
The block/guard chaos warrior just aged after the last match. He will be replaced as soon as I can afford it (probably just one match). The niggled claw/mb/tackle chaos warrior is very useful, his niggle gives me constant headache but I don't plan to fire him until I manage to get guard on all my other chaos warriors (and hopefully a clawed beastman). The two beastmen... well in themselves they arent' much of a problem as I can afford them being away now and then but as I have more niggles on the team and a high tr the threat of virus is getting too great so I'm going to get rid of the big hand/kick beastmen when I have developed another kicker (don't use the big hand player much now when I have two ag4 players).
Now this reasoning might sound weird for the ranked player but I value a deep bench a lot. I have three dirty players and I use them until they get ejected. If my bench get worse in a match because of a niggle I might foul less in that match but if I had a blockless reserve I would have to play almost like if he wasn't there.
But to finish of this long blabla-post I'm to give you a more relevant advice: At <200 tr (which you are going to be at for a while) you shouldn't fire a niggler unless it gives you an extra handicap in an important match. In many matches it feels good to have a player you don't care for at the LoS against a khemri team. |
I agree with the tactical advices tinky gave (normal it's very similar to mine :p ). |
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Craftnburn
Joined: Jul 29, 2005
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May 05, 2006 - 20:56 |
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Here's a question...
Do I retire this guy?
The team plays in a closed league.
I'm giving 3 and 4 handicaps to most everyone in the league. Can't decide if he's worth the TR bloat considering Niggle roll+Virus chance. |
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Diabl0658
Joined: Oct 05, 2004
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May 05, 2006 - 20:58 |
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No you cant retire him! You need him to kill people! |
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