[Ogre] Starting roster help

[Ghaz]

Hi all,

I am a new coach and i plan to play an ogre team for the league at my local gaming club. I have just begin playing blood bowl a few months ago, but I know the ogres is not an easy team, but i like the "challenge" and i don't care about winning, I just like to have lots of fun. I will be the "league maker" (my first too) and for lots of the participants, it's their first league too (lots of new player). Normaly, the league will be around 10 or 20 match long. (depending if we just do the first leg, or the first and the second leg)

Here is the team I intended to play:
- 5 Ogres
- 6 snotlings
- 2 rerolls
- 0 fan factor
- 40k gold in bank

What do you think about, did i have to take more snotlings, less rerolls or ogre ?

Thanks in avence for your answers

Ghaz

Ps: Sorry if my English is not perfect, but it's not my native language
Ps2: Sorry but i can't put the right image in thumbnail url http://bbtactics.com/wp-content/them...mages/ogre.png, don't know what I am doing wrong...

[Candlejack]

I'd take more snots for the 40k you got spare. They die fast and you will need quite some replacements even in your first game.

[Coach]

Welcome to the forum, I fixed the thumbnail, you don't need the Blood Bowl Tactics | LRB5 Playbooks and Strategy part at the beginning. I might move the images to make that easier in future.

4 Ogres – 560k
9 snots – 180k
3 rerolls – 210k
Apothecary – 50k

or

4 ogres - 560k
8 snots - 160k
4 rerolls - 280k

For a team that starts with none of the core skills, Block, Dodge, Sure Hands etc. 2 Rerolls isn't really enough in my opinion. I think I prefer the second of these two personally, the Apothecary is for the Ogres only in the first one, though I'd rather take the risk of injury on one and get the extra reroll to start. The first one also has more reserves, combined with the Apothecary should help keep 11 players on the pitch, Snotlings tend to get hurt quickly.

Good Luck!

[RedDevilCG]

You're going to need the rerolls, I'd go for the second team Coach posted up, but either of them are better choices I would say.

[Ghaz]

Thanks for the tips.

In the case I take your second roster coach:

4 ogres - 560k
8 snots - 160k
4 rerolls - 280k

What advice can you give me for the set up, as I have just a handful of ogre...
I suppose I put 3 of them on the line of scrimmage, but what to do with the last ogre ?

I have the impression I will have hard time at the beginning with only 4 ogres, I am wrong ?

What skill did i have to take with the ogre first ? Guard, Break tackle (block if double) ?
And for the snots ? Diving tackle, catch, sprint ?

Thanks again for the quick answers.

Ps @ Coach: Thanks for fixing the Thumbnail. I have try to put only the /wp-content/them...mages/ogre.png but it doen't work too...

[Zweistein]

Block on duobble for the Ogres is out of question -> Roll it = click it
(personaly i would use a +strength for block too!)

if you dont get it ... hm

1 or 2 guard for the first skill. The rest ... grab
Then a combination of another Guard to be sure of the strength advantage, a multiblocker and a grabber or just 2 grabber.

as your ogres will skill very slowly thats all you'll ever see

for the Snotlings jump up? or simply buy a bunch of new ones every game

[Ancre]

Break tackle can also come in handy with ogres I've heard, to make sure they go punch the guy you want.

[BeefyGoodness]

I've recently heard of someone firing their 5 snots at the end of the first game after buying 6 ogres and an apoth. All money gained in games goes to buying rerolls and playing the first 20 odd games with only the 6 ogres meaning that MVP's will always go to the ogres first and even though you are losing and they are scoring easily, every time they score they have to set up for you to smack them again and have a chance at a cas.

[Marlow]

It is certainly a tactic. You get to hire Morg for a lot of games with Inducements. Not sure how much fun it is to play, you would have to give it a try.

[Coach]

Trouble with this is that you are going to be losing all those early games. That is just a terrible state of affairs.