The Dark Elves

[roysorlie]

I hate the thought of Elves with Strength access. An easy way to get Guards with 4 AG just doesn't sit right with me at all.

I see your point. So i also suggested just giving the blitzers Mighty Blow, (to make them more bashy) Also, another suggestion was having only 2 blitzer positions, and not giving the DE the passing category, in which case, they also lose access to a skill category.

Do you perhaps have a constructive suggestion, or are you just out to critizise?

[Skummy]

Oh, don't get me wrong. I like criticizing. I voted for option #2, but I could live with giving the Blitzers Mighty Blow if they have the appropriate cost increase. DE's are missing something.

[Mestari]

Mestari said:

>No assassins in a fantasy football game.
Yet there are longbeards, slayers and what-not.
The darkies even have an assasin star.
What is the problem?
Martin

Because they have an irrational hatred of all things warhammer. They want a football game with a little bit of generic fantasy thrown in. Not the rich and varied world of warhammer. So they advocate removing all non-sports named positions and giving them a sporting name. They want to change the imagery of the players so they look like cheesy fantasy miniatures in sports uniforms (more so than the current line). And, they want to divorce Blood Bowl form the warhammer universe in everyway they can.

Damn right.
WHFB = constantly changing (in a bad sense), very generic, please-the-masses fantasy world.
BB = An entertaining and fun fantasy world with a definite Pratchett-like twist.

BTW. Have I ever said I like the longbeards, slayers and whatnots? They should be changed too!

Anyhow I have to say I really like that particular position and how it looks like. The only problem is the name. Granted, it's not the most horrible problem I've seen, but giving them a proper fantasy football name would be a much better option.

[lightingbug]

Here's a thought. Since almost everyone is wanting to take away passing from the Darkies to make them into a running team.

Why not give all the positions Dodge or Sidestep to start out with. If would sure help with the running game and Amazons all got Dodge and the Norse all got Block so there is precedence for a whole team getting a skill across the board.

I am not sure if no passing is enough of a trade off and I think that making Darkies AV7 is to much of one,( plus IMHO Darkies are the toughest elves around, so I wouldn't agreed with that change)

[Xtreme]

Amazons all got Dodge and the Norse all got Block so there is precedence for a whole team getting a skill across the board.

Some would call it laziness.

I would like very little change if a change has to be done. So new skills for the whole team I am against.

[wesleytj]

plus then you'd make the team unaffordable. if you give all the line elves skills you'd have to make them 80k each. so now great you could have 11 lineelves, 1rr, and 7ff. eek.

no, if the dark elves need a change it's a minor one. i honestly don't think they need anything at all.

[Mestari]

Yeah, if you give them all dodge for example you'd make the team immensely powerful as they have AG4. They could avoid most of their enemies, line-elves could gain skills even more easily than now and definitely faster than amazons. Dark elves would become the best team there is.

[Xtreme]

and most coaches will agree that the amazons are one of the best starting teams but are very boring in skill selection because it is so obvious. So why would you want to mess up the Dark elf roster which is quite good as it is and give them a boring alternative?

[Thadrin]

plus then you'd make the team unaffordable. if you give all the line elves skills you'd have to make them 80k each. so now great you could have 11 lineelves, 1rr, and 7ff. eek.

no, if the dark elves need a change it's a minor one. i honestly don't think they need anything at all.

Whoa...me agreeing with Wes...

A small shift in emphasis on the starting thrower/runner position rather than a full overhaul of the roster.
In truth that change is no change at all, but it makes the development of the player into a true runner a little quicker, while still allowing the development of passers.