Wood Elf Guide Part 2: Screening, Cage Breaking, Offensive and Defensive Drive Control

[@Darkthoughts-z7r]

These step by step guides are amazing- your the best, don’t let anyone tell you different.

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

thank you kindly!

[@petergeddes5957]

Thanks Andy. I know you hate them, but as a Skaven coach I've learnt a lot that is applicable to them from watching this. Cheers, Pedders.

[@nyaahsee]

Literally have been playing like 2-3 years and not understood this fundamental offense. Thanks for breaking it down for us MV 3 type of people!

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

hey! you're most welcome, and welcome here

[@cleftboywonder]

Just started the second part of the guide and geeked out watching the intro. I'm at the point where I'd pay you 10 pounds to make a dark elf guide like this . Keep up the good work and I hope that you give in and create another great vid amongst your already extensive archive.

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

I'm seriously considering a venture into this, but it needs to be a good standard.Honestly glad you're enjoying it!

[@cleftboywonder]

@@AndyDavoBloodBowl Only you can make it the standard partner. Go dark elves, then chaos , then your other favorites. If you feed the masses they will support. Heck even make a countdown timer for your streaming viewers imploring them to go on youtube leave a like and comment. Share it on reddit and voila you're In business. No one has made content like this before. Be a trailblazer man. #SetTheTrend

[@kennyellis11]

Just wanna let you know that I am new to blood bowl (going on a week now) and your videos have been very helpful. Thank you so much

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

Great to hear, glad you are enjoying them :)

[@carlsaberton9058]

Great guide the 2 turn defensive set up formation helped win my Rebbl match.

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

Glad it helped!

[@alexandrefernandes6286]

You Sir... are a master!! Please make more of these videos. Superb!

[@tyrano1982]

This guide is golden! probably is also valid for a ton of teams that are also mobile, other elves, hummies, kislev, skaven etc. 2 turn td is something sooner or later is going to happen. Great guide mate! a ton of time waiting but totally worthy :P

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

It's made me think that actually some of what is here actually crosses into 'general tactics' rather than race specific, I'll be doing much more overall strategy stuff from now on.

[@RickRuckus]

More of these Andy! Great stuff...

[@dakarimane395]

Cheers chap! Always nice to see someone's logic on how a team plays. Particularly liked the alternative set-up run-down & will be looting some of those for my play book.

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

Lemme see the playbooks when you have written them, i'd also be happy to discuss ideas ith you prior/post their launch. The more resources we can get into the community the better! Good luck with them!

[@elvisoz1440]

Awesome Guide mate. Probably took you Ages to do, but very informative and entertaining. Love to see More of these with other races. ;)

[@ZephyrHawkins]

Thank you so much! Awesome guide! I've been looking for videos like this for a long time. I can't imagine the amount of time and preparation you dedicated to us through this video. I can't wait for your Necromantic guide! :p

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

Hey you're welcome. Necro will be one of the earlier guides too so you won't have long to wait. I just need to get some more people to see this, so feel free to point others in this direction.

[@Comfy_Salmon]

Cracking video Andy! Incoming loads of people playing Wood elves next CCL season =D

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

That would be great to see!! I got mine qualified for the knock outs but it went Pete tong very early on

[@EdVonderble]

Another great video Andy. Very useful, thanks 👍

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

Thank you!

[@Linger13]

Great stuff Andy

[@BeardLegend]

This was excellent mate. More like this. Especially for Dark Elves.

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

Cheers:)

[@tsw11385]

Mate this is awesome never tried woodies but came up against this play Need to try them myself Top job on the intro too 🙌🏻

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

glad you like it. All i need to do now is get this shared out to as many people as possible! :)

[@itsjustmints8671]

Loving the intro Andy

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

credit for that one to Andriy, see the comments section above for a link to his channel.

[@elodius82]

Best. guide. out. there!

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

thank you!

[@Tomfo0lery_]

This is super useful for a coach just starting with Wood Elves. Can you please make the 20 hour version now!

[@AdvancedSquadLeader]

Thank you so much for this. Super helpful. Condensed information :)

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

You're welcome. Please share it where ever you can :)

[@MikeDavies_sann0638]

excellent stuff - really slick video, will share the hell out of it!

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

Thank you! This is vs someone else but the match was staged to allow some explanation

[@Filmaker215]

26:11 Heh, you said "ball sack"

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

haha! I do like the odd double entendre

[@MaXiMooSe1028]

Long time fan and have loved all your content!. May I ask , however, if you would consider doing a guide like this for high elves? Cheers!

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

I'm considering doing one of every race. The issue isn't recording it but editing it together. If any one wants to do that I'd dip the whole lot in a couple of months!

[@rogerbartels5690]

Andy, how would you perform a two turn score against the late half defense that you suggest in this video?

[@gjnoronh]

Love these videos

[@odgeUK]

14:42 I don't know many experienced players that would leave that gap on the scrum line so open. Especially when faced with Elves.

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

not sure I follow? this is a defensive setup at 14:42

[@odgeUK]

The offensive strategy at 09:40 is difficult against Orks as pushing back a scrimmage of Black Orks can feel impenatrable.

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

Thats a fair point, but you could then assume that the guy that I blitz is only STR3. He can then be pushed out of the way and it opens a diagonal to run everyone through.

[@15rawdogg]

Thanks for directing me to this video Andy. Really helpful. Looking forward to applying lots of this myself. I commented on one of your CCL woody vids, specifically asking about the difference between column defence and chevron defence. From watching this my understanding is that they’re pretty interchangeable. Is that fair or is one better than the other in some scenarios?

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

kinda do the same job, depends on opponent - think about what you're trying to achieve then pretend your the opponent and try and beat it. if you beat one easily and one not so easily, you know which one to pick.

[@Darkthoughts-z7r]

I’m assuming these offensive setups will work fine( or only somewhat worse) on with a kislev team?

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

Yes I would think so

[@Darkthoughts-z7r]

AndyDavo's Blood Bowl 2 thanks, so far so good.

[@mattloder8378]

In the far more lilkely scenario where you don't have 11 elfs... what do you factor in to the "can i keep screening?" vs "do i have to try and force something?" question?

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

Matt, you just nailed, for me, the major part missing from this guide. Some of the things that go thru my head; 1. Turn - how much longer do I need to hold out? 2. Current score and score if they score - will I be level/ahead? 3. Will I get a chance to 1 turn to alter the result? 4. Will the team be hurt more if I push- is this result worth more than results in the next few games 5. Probability of a ball recovery vs the above. Bit of a long answer but also the bare bones, hope it helped

[@billfromwork7203]

Thank you.

[@christopherbell9838]

Dont suppose there were videos like this made for other races?

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

i did Necro and Orcs in the end

[@matthewgough6446]

On the offensive plays you show, all the opponents defence are in the middle. No coach would leave their flanks exposed. Dwarfs, Orc and Khemri would close them off with tackle zones.

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

If they move from the middle to a flank, then they are by definition, spread out - poking a hole and flooding should be easy enough?

[@matthewgough6446]

I meant that, if they set up in spread out initially with well place tackle zones. And on the wings they had orcs having ST4 or Khemri ST5 players. Getting a 2 dice block is virtually impossible. Making puching a hole through extremely difficult, in my experience.

[@rogerbartels5690]

Andy, great guide! Keep them coming. Quick question: I have a 1 wardancer, 3 catcher, 1 thrower (leader), 1 treeman, 5 lineman (1 journeyman) roster with no rerolls (league play). I have 100k in the bank. Should I save to replace the dead wardancer or get the first reroll immediately?

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

The question to actually answer is this: What will give you the most on pitch gain? I have not seen you play so can't answer. For me, i would want the RR as I would muddle through with 1 WD for a while while saving to get 2 RR total. All this of course is dependent on you having an apoth (not listed), if no apoth, get one imo to prevent further player losses.

[@rogerbartels5690]

@@AndyDavoBloodBowl Sorry, I do have an apothecary.

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

@@rogerbartels5690 good :) Then it's the question above. I think i'd want the RR - it adds more safety net.

[@rogerbartels5690]

@@AndyDavoBloodBowl Thanks. I was leaning that way. I won't be trying the no reroll build again.

[@iayan2810]

please make guides for other teams too !

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

I have done Necro and Orcs. Something else is coming too...

[@Pembolog]

great analysis if your opponent plays perfectly for a tutorial video.

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

Please take away the principle, you might not get v the text book version, but something is viable

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

Please take away the principle, you might not get v the text book version, but something is viable .

[@Notsorandomnumbers]

26:10

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

Oh is that the "the" question?? :))

[@Celtik64]

But no good player defend like that again a fast team...

[@AndyDavoBloodBowl]

yes, the situations are contrived, but consider the underlying ideas here!