Oblio
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Exactly why there should be more admins ... no offense to you Cutlery but it is just silly Scream has to wait on one or two people.
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Cutlery
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Wasn't what that was about.
Scream D/C'd during a match, I waited around a little while for him, and he never came back.
There's never anyone in the queue to get a team approved. That's not the problem at all. I can see how that quote would be a little confusing, but no...teams get approved pretty much instantly.
Hatorade
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I agree with Oblio need more people to approve, can cut them down once everyone has a team they stick with etc.
I'm new to the game and have been playing an Orc team in campaign mode. What do you generally spend your cash on after you have an apothecary? I went with a pretty standard orc team: 4 black orcs, 4 blitzers, 2 lineman, 1 thrower and 3 rerolls. I've picked up a second thrower as a backup but the troll doesn't seem like it's worth the investment, especially since both of my lineman leveled really early.
Cutlery
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No bug. The injury needs to happen as a result of a block. Failing a dodge or a GFI is the other person inflicting the casualty on themselves.
There's literally no queue. Someone personally told me earlier that they made a new team, and in the 2 minutes it took me to log in and check, it had already been approved by Gavin.
Troll is up to you...he requires more babysitting and effort, but he's an excellent roadblock and is useful for overpowering the stronger teams. I generally only run one reserve when I'm playing Orcs or Chaos, and it's a lineman (or beastman, as the case may be). Extra thrower CAN be useful if you want to build one for offense and one for defense, but I personally don't see the need. You basically save the cash for the game you have a blitzer killed on turn 1, healed to dead, and then end up getting something devastating later on, like a -str somewhere, and have to replace that guy too.
It will happen.
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Hedeon
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I had fun playing against Hatorade the other night, we got two games in with some of the most horrible rolls ever, I failed two hand offs... The last game rain started and we spent 4 turns trying to pick up the ball sitting on right outside my endzone. I'm off tomorrow and will be online if anyone is looking for an easy win against some big meat slabs.
Cutlery
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Got this to play in a league with a buddy. Played the tabletop version years ago and I had some fun, but man, I dunno what it is about the computer version but I just can't get into it. Looks like others here share this experience. Maybe it's because playing a physical game is lighter and it's easier to make jokes and have fun, but fuck this game is so frustrating on computer. It promotes so much strategy and thought and then oh hey shitty dice rolls and turnovers, you lose gg.
Cutlery
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Never played tabletop, got into the game in the online version a year or so ago. I can see how tabletop would have kind of a Risk feel -- sit around with your buddies and laugh when he rolls trip 1's, but in all honesty, the RNG is actually better in this game than any set of dice are, so I dunno. It seems to be the most common complaint about the game, but hey...it's dice. Sometimes you win, sometimes your blitzer dies on a GFI.
Ah, missed this yesterday.
Big guys I try to set up 3 die blocks with whenever possible, mitigates the effects of loner, and always do their action last, so that if I fail it, I usually just take the turnover rather than burning the reroll. Loner mercenaries I just use for line fodder duty, or to foul with. If I can send them home dead, all the better.
Ah, missed this yesterday.
They won't "turn" loner because of a concussion, but if a lineman gets a concussion and you're running 11 players, the game will give you a mercenary lineman (who comes with loner) to get your ranks back up to 11 for the game while your other guy sits out injured for a game. So yeah, if you've got 2 loners on the line, that would be the cause of that. When you fail the loner roll (50%), the dice screen just flashes and that's what you get. It should probably be explained a little better, but it is all in the combat log for you to look at.
Big guys I try to set up 3 die blocks with whenever possible, mitigates the effects of loner, and always do their action last, so that if I fail it, I usually just take the turnover rather than burning the reroll. Loner mercenaries I just use for line fodder duty, or to foul with. If I can send them home dead, all the better.
