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GalakStarscraper wrote:Nothing stops this of course .. however, you are throwing a suck player onto the field as a walking TZ only basically
Yeah, but he'll only be taking someone else's place for one or two turns. After that, it's dugout time for him until the next drive.
GalakStarscraper wrote:and odds are the Vampire that fails the OFAB roll won't even be able to reach him.
Not if you keep the thrall near the center of the board. Since his only function is to get bitten, it's not hard to position him in a proper way to make this happen.
I think all of you may be missing what is in my mind the most important consideration. What do you name such a Thrall whose job is to simply be the lunch on a Vampire team?
A vamp team banking on a couple of players like this one might find itself with few players on the field after only a couple turns, so it would be best to keep drives as short as possible to bring in "new blood".
The best handicap result for a vamp team is "iron man". I had that in one of my earlier MBBL games and the poor sap was bitten 7 or 8 times in one match
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Currently an ex-Blood Bowl coach, most likely to be found dying to Armoured Skeletons in the frozen ruins of Felstad, or bleeding into the arena sands of Rome or burning rubber for Mars' entertainment.
I have to agree with Narkotics assement of the Vamp and Ogre teams in that I don't really like the way they play. You get very skilled (or very strong) players of which many become useless because of their negatrait.
I don't doubt that they are balanced or will be by the time they become official, it's just that I would like to see a team with slightly less powerful players that could be balanced without the negatrait.
Negatraits are ok for the odd Big Guy but seem a bit clumsy for a whole team (plus I thought the BBRC was trying to cut 'unecessary' dice rolls where possible).
I guess if the teams become official in a similar form to know it won't cause me a huge problem, I won't be using them and as long as they are balanced I don't mind playing against them.
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[size=75]The short answer is "no", but it is a qualified "no" because there are odd ways of interpreting the question which could justify the answer "yes".[/size]
Galak, according to the calculations i just made, once the team can field 8 vampires at once, if they all have pro but never use a team reroll for their COFAB roll, you'll still be biting only 3 thralls every 4 turns. Keeping the drives short, you'd still be able to end most drives without losing a single vamp from COFAB. Give all the SPPs to the vampires and use the thralls as food only, and this looks like a winning proposal. And pro isn't a waste either, because the 5 times out of 6 that you pass COFAB without it, you still have it for rerolling whatever block, blitz, or roll you intend to make.
So to answer your earlier question, when you asked how many games you had to have before i would agree that your test is meaningful, i guess my answer is enough games to have 8 vampires on the roster, with most having pro. If that team isn't dominating the league, i think i'll be ok with the roster.
I recently played a vampire team in FUMBBL using the original OFAB. It was the first boring BB match I've played so far. The game was all up to the rolls of a few dice.
But on the other hand, Clown-OFAB has never appealed to me. Slapstick is fine when it comes to the fanatic on the goblin team, but this? Nah. Vampires are supposed to be cool.
Iron Man on a Thrall? That's classic! I thought it was good on a linerat!
