Wood Elf Team Development - Blood Bowl 2020 (Bonehead Podcast)

[@deckerCKY]

Save up for a stat on your wardancer, get it fouled to death (apo fail), buy a new one, rinse and repeat.

[@KarmaDemon619]

I think for Throwers a lot will depend on your starting roster. If you don't start with a Thrower you'll probably be picking one up quite a few games into your league, probably after you've spent 100k for that 3rd re-roll. For this Thrower I think Sure Hands/Dodge/Accurate build mentioned in this video is probably the best. However, given that passing has gotten so much harder for the Woodies I think that having a Thrower on your roster is going to be a lot more important in order to pull off those 2-turn-touchdowns reliably. The problem is that at $95k for a Thrower you are forced into making some concessions in your opening build, such as taking only 1 Wardancer. In such builds, I think that going for Leader super early is going to be necessary as you are delaying your purchase of that vital 3rd re-roll in order to purchase that 2nd Wardancer. As I haven’t played with the new ruleset all that much the question that I have right now is this: is it better to start with 2 Wardancers, 1 Catcher and 2 Re-rolls; or is it better to start with 1 Wardancers, 2 Catchers, 1 Thrower and 2 Re-rolls? If it’s the latter I think getting Leader on the Thrower ASAP (which can realistically be achieved within 1-2 games if you farm that SPP) is going to be a must, otherwise I think that Ben’s build is what I would run myself.

[@alexsdemkin]

I'd save up for a stat increase for wardancers. If its movement though I would consider taking might blow

[@BennyBartez]

Thanks for the vid, and all your content actually! I know my post will be quite long after when this vid was posted however, I am finally playing as wood elves in a league using the 2020 rules. I've gone for a none thrower build: treeman, 2 wardancers and 2 catchers, 3 rerolls, apo (I entered an existing league with slightly higher starting TV). Currently I just don't think the thrower is worth its TV and will only use pass once or twice a game, and I don't need leader. I've given a catcher block, then sure hands. I'm saving up SPP on the tree for block, and I'm saving SPP on the wardancers for +stat. All a big experiment and I will see how it goes!

[@starkravingmad9336]

How does 1+ work? Is it an auto pass or does it count as a 2+ then on a roll that would of been a 3+ now reduced to a 2+. Confused as a natural 1 is usually an auto fail.

[@BoneheadPodcast]

Hey Stark! Yeah a 1 will autofail (it'll be a Fumble for passing for example), it just allows you to ignore the first -1 essentially!

[@mylow89]

gotta love those war dancers, taunting most players on the field but 27.7% chance of a big guy successfully knocking down the dancer, and when it does, the dancer becomes a delicate little flower as mighty blow allows for a chance of 58.3% to penetrate armor otherwise its 41.6% and save the blow for injury roll making the casualty odds 16.6% into 27.7% and that could be a nice 125kg down the hole for them(12.5% chance to kill after injury roll) :D i relish this from the good ol days when wood elves were OP.

[@BoneheadPodcast]

Love this Mylow!! Such a TV sink, but you have to catch them first haha! *shakes fist like an old man with people on his lawn*

[@mirzabrkovic1317]

How do you get the 27,7% for a knockdown by a big guy?

[@mylow89]

@@mirzabrkovic1317 the big blocks with 2 dice, each dice has 1/6 chance of success which is 16.6% the chance of having at least successful block is 16.6+ 16.6% of 83.4 which yes i need to correct myself its 30.4% chance for successful block

[@Eyriour]

@@mylow89 pretty close for the variables you’re working with there! The best way to get the exact % is to square the chance of it NOT happening then subtracting 1. So: 0.83˙^2 = 0.694˙ 0.694˙-1 = 0.305˙ (Or 30.5˙%) Note: the ‘˙’ indicates the last decimal being recurring

[@mikesminiatures921]

Yay elves!

[@alexsdemkin]

Brawl and jump up is better than guard and block from where im standing

[@Suiken44]

I don’t understand the statement that war dancers Dodge only cages on a 4+. Assuming a standard cage, aren’t you dodging into 3 tackle zones for a 5+ dodge?

[@Lars923847928374]

With leap you can reduce negative modifiers by 1 to a minimum of -1

[@hampuskullberg9932]

Todays out of the box thinking: Diving tackle on Treeman (Or PD if you wanna save SPP and gamble), suddenly you got a way to uproot your stuck tree ;> Edit: My bad, that doesn't work with take root. Thanks for the correction Henri!

[@Invisigoth05]

Take root specifies you cannot use a skill to either move or place yourself prone (which is why pile driver, taking wrestle and using it for your bothdown etc will not work)

[@hampuskullberg9932]

@@Invisigoth05 My bad! Thanks for the correction! I really should double check stuff before I post x)

[@TStyx]

In the Nov 2021 FAQ this has been stated to work now. Any skill that make the Treeman prone will uproot it now. So Wrestle and Pile Driver would also work.

[@BluesPiano100]

So it seems it DOES work after the 2021 FAQ but it's still a very bad idea bc he has to stand up!

[@hampuskullberg9932]

@@BluesPiano100true but I guess that if you got enough spp to spend on diving tackle then you probably have already gotten jump up ^^