[Tactics] Testing Stats 2: more fun ! Block or Dodge ?

[Lebe666]

More Samba Calculator Scenarios ! Block or Dodge ?

Scenario 1: Several regular halflings block the way of your dodging ball carrier to the End Zone. Luckily you have several players with block skill among them. All you need is 4 knockdowns (2 die) or pushes to open the way (fails only on )... or you can do 2 dodges by the side of one of them to score. No RRs left.

1a) 4 blocks that fail only on
1b) or; Dodge 3+ / Dodge 2+ (dodge skill)


Scenario 2: Last turn. You still have a RR and your Blodge Elf's path is hindered by a Nurgle Beast with no Block on his way to a TD; or he can dodge 3 times around a few rotters including only 1 TZ dodge.

2a) Blitz Blockless Beast with a -2 die only bad result and has Re Roll.
2b) Dodge 3+ / Dodge 2+ / Dodge 2+ (has RR and dodge skill)


Scenario 3: Your War Dancer w/ Agi 5 is near the EZ but the thrower failed his pass. 3 zombies w/ no block move next to ball but don't surround it. Do you just go straight in pickup in 3 TZ and dodge out to score ? Or do you blitz w/ 1 die one of the zombies (fails only ) in order to make pickup easier ? 1 RR left.

3a) Pickup 4+ / Dodge 2+ (dodge skill & RR)
3b) 1 die Blitz (fail = ) / pickup 3+ / dodge 2+ (dodge skill & RR)

Answers below in white:

All blocks are better !

1a) 4 blocks = 89.34%
1b) 2 dodges = 83.33%

2a) 3 Dodges = 83.59%
2b) Blitz Beast -2 die w RR= 90.66%

3a) 4+ pickup 2+ dodge (RR) = 72.91%
3b) Blitz 1 die / 3+ pickup / dodge 2+ = 81% (with or without RR its better)

[Captain Thorrek]

Wow! I only got the last one right... quite surprising.

Great job on these, Lebe. They remind me of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" book series from when I was a kid... I wonder if they'd make a blood bowl version, although I can picture the endings all being, "thanks to your bad dice rolling, you curse Nuffle with your dying breath".

[Lebe666]

Originally Posted by Captain Thorrek

Wow! I only got the last one right... quite surprising.

Great job on these, Lebe. They remind me of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" book series from when I was a kid... I wonder if they'd make a blood bowl version, although I can picture the endings all being, "thanks to your bad dice rolling, you curse Nuffle with your dying breath".

Thanks Captain ! In fact you got two right !

As for the "Chose Your Own Adventure" these don't fit Blood Bowl... too grim and dark. The adventures of a young goblin would end under the hooves of some slobbering Minotaur with too many skills !

[illLich]

emmm mb i don't understand something but...
in white
1 task:
4 blocks = (5/6)^4=48%
2 dodges with dodge = 2/3*(5/6+1/6*5/6)+1/3*2/3*5/6=82%

[Nikolai II]

Halflings! Laughable critters that you almost always 2-dice! Ha!

[illLich]

oh yes, halflings
my mistake

[Captain Thorrek]

I love halflings in Blood Bowl, they're the only race to have their nutritional information sewn into their jerseys. Makes it much easier for us coaches with Big Guys who are trying to count calories.

[illLich]

Lebe666
btw u forget Foul Appearance on beast. But with it makes everything more interesting ._.

[Barmution]

Originally Posted by illLich

Lebe666
btw u forget Foul Appearance on beast. But with it makes everything more interesting ._.

Yeah, that surely changes things. I forgot about that, myself... d'oh!

[Netsmurf]

Originally Posted by illLich

Lebe666
btw u forget Foul Appearance on beast. But with it makes everything more interesting ._.

The reason I got Q2 wrong