Fairly balanced starting roster, still can't take too many hits, but a few RRs can let you 1d your way out of a bit of trouble and maybe dodge the catcher home. Trust in block, surf everything, and stick the boot in their key players.

Option:

• Can take an Apo or even 4th RR instead of the 12th man, but then you really want to win the blocking battle by a long way.

All-or-nothing, but this roster is very hard for most teams to handle early on, way more cannon than glass if you're careful to keep your frenzy from getting smashed on poor followups. Do buy an Apo ASAP, but less random lino MVPs is always nice.

Have to let the Ulfs fail, but they're a great surf threat if just left be and the Yhetee is great at pushing most teams off-centre.

Option:

• If you don't like managing down on a few positions, which, well, this is Norse, you could start with an Apo instead of say, one of the Ulfs.

Avoid the flimsy positionals, rely on a deep bench and reliability.

This kind of roster used to take the thrower for Leader access but skilling that player up will take longer now. You can still have a lino upgraded to thrower, in exchange for the 2DF.

You can swap the third reroll for the apo, which should be an early purchase anyway. Could also swap a Lineman for a Beer Boar and +3 additional Dedicated Fans

The new prices for Ulfwereners and Valkyries mean you have to take even numbers of them in all to avoid a 5k left over. A solution is to drop the Berserkers to begin with.

Option:

• Drop an Ulfwerener and Valkyrie, select both Berserkers, for a saving of 20k, which allows an extra lineman and +1 Dedicated Fans.