I'm a big fan of the passing game. I play it with my humans fairly successfully, my orcs somewhat less successfully, and now with my Khemri.

I've decided Khemri are amazing at it.

Maybe it's just my low expectations. 'THis player has pass. I will pass with him... HOLY EXPLETIVE THAT ACTUALLY WORKED?!?' One thing I know for sure is that if you don't think it will work, your opponent is utterly unprepared for it.

I have a tendency to play the risky and unexpected plays, which plays nicely with my tendency to be a jammy little jerk. When you look at the actual math though (done in my head, for the first time in 5 years), the play seems more plausable.

I'm not saying you should play the pass every time, the math isn't anything like favourable to that kind of thing. But a one off play, on an opponent who's let you get a blitz-ra or skele unmarked in the back field? it's an option, and the wider your options the better your chance of scoring. Khemri's ability to control the opponent team (read; kick the snot out of) means that as long as the pass lands in the general area of your unmarked player, you should have time to pick it up and walk it in.

The bottom line is that fumbbl has sharpened coach skill to a fine art, and thus there are set and conventional plays and counter plays. Running a high risk and unexpected play gives you the edge over that communal wisdom, and quite often against equally skilled players it's that option that wins games.

Plus when it works it's AWESOME.

EDIT: The play in the comment below is genuinely the greatest thing I've ever seen so I'll repost the game up here. Skip to turn 15 for the action.

http://fumbbl.com/FUMBBL.php?page=match&id=2427337