Posted by Rabe on 2014-04-17 17:32:58

Good luck and enjoy! Maybe you should allow yourself to play 2-3 teams at once... just to have some variety.

Posted by King_Ghidra on 2014-04-17 18:16:02

Hell of a bold plan, but sounds like a somewhat flawed premise. The fundaments of BB aren't so different from race to race, and playing against one is often as good as playing with one in terms of learning its strengths and weaknesses.

To put it another way, I would wager that any of the most skilled coaches here would do a good job with a race they had little direct coaching experience with - and certainly wouldn't feel they had to attain some 'basic level of proficiency'.

Or to put it in even another way, some people play the same races in hundreds of games and don't get much better.

Anyway, you have several hundred games ahead of you so I'm sure you'll find your own truth!

Posted by JimmyFantastic on 2014-04-17 20:03:55

I agree with King_Ghidra. Some teams have little tricks that good players use but really there is not much difference.
I fancied playing enough games to be top of box with every race but realised that would be hundreds of games and couldn't be bothered.

Posted by ahalfling on 2014-04-17 20:32:11

I mean, there's something to the idea of playing different TYPES of teams. But if you play elves, you know elves in general. If you play humans, you can extrapolate that to (for example) Norse and Amazons. You play pact, you could adapt to chaos. And so on.

Within reason, of course. There are some little things. If you play humans and move on to Norse, you're going to have to learn to exploit and manage frenzy. If you play orcs and move to dwarves, you're going to have to get used to less mobility and handling. If you approach dark elves with the same expectations of mobility that your wood elves had, you're going to come up a square or two short. And so on. And then there are the real oddballs -- nothing's that close to lizardmen, or Slann, or (thankfully) ogres.

But, I mean, it's something to do.

Posted by mrt1212 on 2014-04-17 23:34:19

Welcome fellow grid filler!

I've found that its actually less discouraging to lose with a multitude of teams in a row than suffer a string of losses with the same team.

Posted by JackassRampant on 2014-04-18 18:13:57

I encourage this practice. A lot of the "fringe" teams have unique development characteristics, especially Lizardmen and Underworld. There are common elements all teams share, and there are little "groups" and "bands" of teams that all play a certain way in contrast to other "groups" of teams, but even within these there are distinctions.

For instance, High Elves are very different from Pro Elves in their development and curve, with much better linemen and a much less stringent "rule of five" philosophy. But they're also very different from Dark Elves, lacking that jump on their hitters' development curve but having a better passing game and a run game unlike any available to either "similar" race.