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2012-04-26 10:58:12
9 votes, rating 5.1
The first two games are critical: tabletop successes and failures
I have recently started two new tabletop teams (in different leagues). The teams have a lot in common. Both teams have appropriate alliterating animal names, and both teams have played two games. I almost think there's some kind of quantum entanglement going on, because the results of the two could hardly be any more different.

First off, the good news: my Skaven team 'Rogue Rats':

First game: 3-0 win vs chaos. A blitzer scores a touchdown, a cas, and gets the MVP (mighty blow).
Second game, 3-0 win vs norse, that same blitzer got 2 cas and again gets the MVP (doubles, claw)

So after 2 games the team has 37 spps resulting in a total of 3 skill-ups: block on a gutter and claw mb on a blitzer. This makes for a lean TV team that can rush and ball out of the box, but now packing a solid punch as well.

However, the universe (and BB racial balance) also has a karmic flipside. The bad news:

My Slann team 'Fragile Frogs':
First game, 2-0 loss vs high elves. one lineman RIP, the team earned 1 spp + MVP.
Second game, 2-0 loss vs humans. The same blitzer earned all the spps in that game: again, one completion and the MVP Woohoo, blitzer skill! (Oh, and he also got RIP apo -ST). The other blitzer got off easy, with only a -AV.

So after 2 games the team has 12 spps. 6 of those went to a -ST guy, and a total of 280 k of my 990k starting TV is now dead or fired, including the only two guys I really wanted to build. This makes for a skill-less team with a big guy, a few linemen, a few loners and 0 potential.
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Posted by pythrr on 2012-04-26 11:04:14
fire the -st.
Posted by pingus on 2012-04-26 11:13:17
Keel all mens?
Posted by jarvis_pants on 2012-04-26 11:36:12
may i suggest po for your skaven blitzer as his third skill
Posted by bobafettsmum on 2012-04-26 11:36:49
Not the best choice of team name! Or maybe it is!!! :-D
Posted by the_Sage on 2012-04-26 13:02:20
@ Jarvis, yeah, I know.
I'm mostly an elfballer, and my skaven team tends to revolve around gutters more. The stormvermins are definitely made for bashing though. After MB as first skill, would you not have picked claw on a doubles?

@pythr: actually, I think I'll retire the frogs, as soon as they're out of the 3-game poule they're in. Of course the -ST is fired, and I don't think trying hard to skill a guy with 0 spp and -AV makes much sense either.

I'll hire a catcher and induce a wizard next game (against orcs), then hope for the best.

@Bob's mum: Yes, I know. Appropriate, innit? To be fair, it's not very prophetic when it's predictable. Unlike him:
http://fumbbl.com/FUMBBL.php?page=player&player_id=8288708
Posted by Araznaroth on 2012-04-26 13:25:42
http://fumbbl.com/FUMBBL.php?page=team&op=view&team_id=687409 Fragile Frogs you say? ;)
Posted by maysrill on 2012-04-26 14:06:36
Honestly, this says more about the psychological effects of team name than anything. You named them 'Fragile', then broke them to prove yourself correct.

If you are intent on re-trying alliterative slann, might I suggest: Fantastic Flying Frogs. Your Leap attempts are sure to improve, and they ought to be much more fantastic than fragile.
Posted by the_Sage on 2012-04-26 15:42:03
@Araznaroth: Indeed.
http://fumbbl.com/FUMBBL.php?page=team&op=view&team_id=671141

@Maysrill, I think you may be on to something there.