Coaching:

[Snarlton Heston]

Now my serious answer:

There is nothing you can do to be a good coach when luck is entered into the game! Remember, the dice have a mind of their own!

Snarlton Heston
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Triple skulls; Re-roll; TRIPLE SKULLS!

I rest my case!

[Deathwing]

Learn how to avoid losses. In the end the same tactics will buy you more wins.

Disagree strongly. Dogged defence and clock control on offence buys you draws.
Aggressive defence and turning the ball over buys you wins. Otherwise you're only going to be winning games where double 1's or early skulls from your opponent allow you an opportunity.

[Thadrin]

Fair point, but playnig aggressive D with Dwarfs isn't the easiest. They are after all the very definition of Dogged defence.
Play overly aggressive with Dwarfs and you're going to be looking at big losses to teams that can run circles around you.

And there's more to avoiding losses than just sitting back and pulling the lousy elf "you're coming forward one square at a time" trick.

I was thinking more along the lines of:
* Never take ANYTHING for granted.
* Never think you've got a free run on the endzone if there is an opponent withing MA+GFI of you.
* Never think your opponent can't score if he has a player withing MA+2GFI of your endzone. That Lineman can catch as well as a catcher if he has a reroll.
* Always plan for the worst case scenario. Always have a contingency plan for when things go to hell.

In short - don't get lazy, because there's always a 1-rr-1 or double skulls waiting to make a hash of the most carefully concieved plan.

Fairly obvious stuff I know, butthats what I meant.

[shaniepoo]

....Be a hippy and let the big bifta in the sky win the game for you........Make love man, not war.

[roysorlie]

Team management, play tactics, improvisation, adaptation and risk management. Theese are the most important factor over which you have control. Luck is an entirely different matter.

Personally, I always expect worst case scenario to happen, and make contingencies for it. A way out if shit hits the fan.

Thus far, this has made me lose seldomly, and ionly a TD behind most often. But far more often, I win by at least 4 td.

[Devante]

How to be a good coach.......

not whining when your team is wiped of the pitch

[BlanchPrez]

Okay, my serious one.

Be flexable. Rest assured that whatever brilliant plan you have WILL fall apart on the pitch, either because of something your oponent does or lously dice rolls. Think ahead, and think about what you would do if faced with the very same plan you are trying to put into place. Be prepared to change your plan in mid-drive.

Chris

[l_dauguet]

Play it the french way: roll for injury every time you roll for armour...Who cares if you need a 9 or a 10 before? After doing it 20 times, your opponent will get confused.

[StillGas]

Be prepared to mutter darkly under their breath.

Particularly when failing to pick the ball up with a Norse thrower. Again.
Also when the reroll comes up with a one. Again.

One can but
Or something

[BlanchPrez]

Be prepared to mutter darkly under their breath.

I'm curious, StillGas, how do you mutter under someone elses' breath?

Chris

[roysorlie]

StillGas...

I'm sensing a nasty double meaning here. (referring to the nick)

1. Even after letting loose a real loud, noisy, long winded fart, there's still more gas..

2. Still, as in silent. More commonly knows a SBD's. Which is short for...
You guessed it, Silent But Deadly.

Those are the worst ones, aren't they?

I let go of one in the car recently. Completely silent, hardly anything came at all, yet my friends nearly jumped out of the car running.

Man, it was vicious. Sort of reminded me og 3 weeks old rotten egg, only subjected to large quanteties of radiation. You know..

Man, what a shitty post this was..

[littlemute]

I'm going to be serious for once:


1) Play alot. Blood Bowl is a mental martial art: out of practice means flabby brains and failure.

2) Practice plays and make up plays. There's not too many possible plays in BB: flood, da stomp, flying H, etc. but try to make up plays that play to your teams specific strength, like mega flood where your entire team leaps or dodges through the line leaving only the ball carrier on your side of the pitch or a play based on a specific player getting into the endzone.

3) be ruthless. Don't listen to the other coaches whining about luck, failure or theri illegal proceedure. Console him AFTER the game, not during with letting him score, not fouling, messing up your board position on purpose, etc.

4) Take chances. Playing conservative BB means draws and losses. Wins against good coaches come from luck and daring to push your luck.

5) Don't have sex before a match. I've lost more than one game because of post-coital passivity.

6) Pretend to drink, smoke ganga, etc. Some coaches like to get sauced during a game and want you to as well, best to pretend.

7) PAINT YOUR TEAM. Painted teams seem to have fantastic luck compared to tin or primer ones.

[DoubleSkulls]

1) Play alot. Blood Bowl is a mental martial art: out of practice means flabby brains and failure.

I'm sure this is one of the reasons ECBBL does well - regular games against good opposition its the best way to improve.

6) Pretend to drink, smoke ganga, etc. Some coaches like to get sauced during a game and want you to as well, best to pretend.

PRETEND! My God man you are missing the best part. Blood Bowl is like Pool - you play better drunk - or at least that's how I remember it.

[Grumbledook]

I did well at the blood bowl under the influence ;]

[Darkson]

My serious answer-

Haven't got a foggiest, but when I think I'm a good coach I'll let you know.















Wait a minute.........















Nah, that'll never work.