IMPACT! MINIATURES

Dark Lord · Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 2682

All they do is shove.

Effective yes, and they are a good player...but I don't consider them bashing threats.

As soon as your Piggies meet a Widowmaker I suspect Brownrob will be cooking bacon.

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Dark Lord · Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 2682

I have changed my tactics a little now that i am using Black Widows mainly.

I have developed a couple different styles of play. In one I leave my Widowmaker in the goalie spot and send everyone else forward in a swarm, last one to advance is the thrower with the ball. This swarm tactic has worked out fairly well. Against bashier teams it's trickier because you make sure you stay together and avoid the "pick offs"
But overloading the defense (or putting the opposition strictly on defense) has worked well. He can't capitalize on my errors if he is locked in his own half!

The other strategy with Black Widows has been a more aggressive style. I got sick of my Widowmaker being targeted and removed early in the game by bash squads. So I put her in the face off (Might 3 is respectable). If I win the face off, or don't get taken out I burn some cheerleaders and and use the momentum to gut the other face off player right away! Then drop myself and the ball back as much as I can. At that point I bring up hunters from the circles and wait for the opponent to come to me. Yeah, bashing with elves! Nothing like it!
If you can afford it a risky (but fun option) is to get a potion and use it on the widowmaker. Then take Cheapshot! Or just get her leveled up to that. Which mine will be soon. She would have been earlier but she was always dead by the time the goal was scored.

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GroovyCheetah · Joined: 04 Aug 2008 Posts: 1

WOW silly sod from FUMBBL i just joined impact minis but u are a awsome guy on fumbbl. (srry about this being of this topic)

Cephalopod · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:42 pm Post subject:

Heya,

A quick list of questions:

With 5.1 how has the game changed in regards to the strategies in this thread?

How do you keep players have being taken down since caging doesn't work? Our experience has been that as soon as one player moves forward, they get shoved, then tackled and knocked down in short order.

How do you keep someone in scoring position from being knocked down or taken out? Currently my solution has been to move up a sacrificial player and then put a midfielder behind them. When the sacrifice gets taken out the midfielder moves up and slams their defender.

What defense do most coaches adopt to start? Just one player in the defenders circle or a squad of 2 to 3? How are those 2-3 players set up?

Does anyone have any other advice for offense/defense? I've got 4 new players and I'd like to give them solid advice, but I don't have a handle on good strategy yet myself.