Their other strong players are marking the rest of the Chaos Dwarves to prevent them regaining the position. In the example below, the Lizards are in a looser cage but crucially have knocked down and marked up the prone players around it, making any counter-attack or practical defense extremely difficult. Ensure you retain flexibility in your offensive approach and do not become trapped in your own cage! At this point you can transition to using a screen approach as your ball carrier breaks away. If not, use your Blitz action to penetrate your opponent’s line and then follow up with other players to secure the space you create.Īt some point, as you progress toward the endzone, and especially when the clock starts ticking, it is possible that you may be unable to maintain the cage or you may find a reason to break out of it. You may have to use your Blitz action to peel a marker off part of the cage and keep everyone moving forward. The rest of your team’s job is to make the blocks and mark downed players so that your cage has the freedom to move into the space you create, and your opponent is unable to make counter-blocks and base the cage on their turn. Wherever possible, your cage should be unmarked and unabased. Regardless of opponent, your approach is largely similar. Agile opponents will try and step away and create screens that you cannot get through, slowing your advance to a crawl. Stronger opponents will attempt to base you up and outblock you, keeping your players on the floor and unable to make blocks themselves. You will generally find two different defenses to a rolling cage. Depending on your particular team, and especially once you start to gain skills, you will need to vary your decision on who you use for each role. This gives us the best balance between safety and mobility in our cage while ensuring our hitters can focus on what they are best at. Note in the above example the cage has been created using our more mobile players while our stronger and slower ones are positioned up front. In the example below the Orcs have a strong position with the cage established and a powerful front line able to threaten in multiple directions. As a basher, sadly, sometimes damage must be passed up in the name of position. This is easily done, but it means forgoing the temptation to put everyone on the LOS and block everything in sight. To that end, when we set up as a basher we need to keep sufficient players deep and covering the threat of a Blitz! (even the less dangerous BB20 version) and available to form around our ball carrier. That threat mainly comes from natural agility teams like Elves and Skaven, but also other teams with high movement players or ways of getting through your lines,e.g. The biggest threat to your gameplan is a deep kick and an opponent that can get between your front lines and your ball carrier before you can form your cage. Consequently your two most important offensive skills are successfully creating your cage, and successfully moving that cage down the field.
Why? Because this is the undisputed safest method for slower and harder-hitting teams to move the ball downfield, and the most likely to play to your strengths and create opportunities to damage your opponent while you make your score. Bash teamsįor bashers, offense starts and ends with caging. In this article we are going to look at the fundamentals of offensive play for the two most prolific and polarised types: Bashers, and Agility teams. Hybrids can generally play either style depending on their opponent, while with Stunties anything goes! As with any broad category there are many nuances and variations within those groups, but for players looking to start out and understand the solid basics of play for their team, this approach works well. For Bashers, we generally find slower teams with higher strength, armour and blocking ability, but with less effective ball handling skills and lower movement and mobility and for agility teams the opposite is generally true.
Each of these categories tend to have fairly consistent qualities that determine the approach to how they should play the game to succeed. When talking about tactics in Blood Bowl we often divide teams up into four categories: Bashers, Agility, Hybrids, and Stunties.
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