poorly thought through Block nerf!

[Shteve0]

Let's move block to S category.

I'm actually half serious. We have wrestle in general category, and dodge is in agility. Let's chuck block in strength.

I know there are issues with this - big guys just got hella better, for a start. But it's something I think might actually work!

[DoubleSkulls]

Funnily enough there was a misprint in one of the German editions of 3ed (?) which did just this. Needless to say teams without S access were much weaker (e.g. all Elves).

[garion]

I dunno, it would just reduce the blood even more really

What you could do is make Juggernaut a good skill, and stop it cancelling Stand Firm out (I personally dont like all the counters to things )

make it improve your Block dice roll, one stage, so skulls becomes both down, both down becomes push back, push back stays pushback, and Push Pow becomes Pow. That would sort all those evil blodgers pretty quick and would give St teams a weapon equal to Wrestle which only elfy type teams can really make great use of.

Yeah it would be an awesome skill. But meh would be nice to have some good skills again.

[Kort]

Let's move block to S category.

I'm actually half serious. We have wrestle in general category, and dodge is in agility. Let's chuck block in strength.

I know there are issues with this - big guys just got hella better, for a start. But it's something I think might actually work!

It is not a Block nerf at all. It will just make Block even more valuable.

It will devaluate General skill accss and enhance Strength skill access (A bad trade-off I think).

It will massively improve teams with large access to S skills (which are already popular enough) or starting with Block (Dwarfs and Norse) and make most hybrid teams (Humans, Skavens, Amazons, Necros) much weaker.

Terrible idea IMHO.