New (for me) strategy

[CrunchTroll]

I'm trying a new strategy with my teams of assigning their orcs to my lines according to their position's primary stats instead of just using gold & silver star players for my primary lines. This has resulted in quite a few "dogs" making it into play instead of just being on the looting squad. Anybody else use this strategy? Has it worked for you? Still too early for me to see if it will produce any better results for me.

[ettiene]

Interesting thought, should try it sometime

[randomluck]

I'm trying a new strategy with my teams of assigning their orcs to my lines according to their position's primary stats instead of just using gold & silver star players for my primary lines. This has resulted in quite a few "dogs" making it into play instead of just being on the looting squad. Anybody else use this strategy? Has it worked for you? Still too early for me to see if it will produce any better results for me.

I've tried this with a few teams and have experienced good and bad results. Bad...i lose the first season or two, just takes awhile for them to get caught up. Good...After that watch their rise to fame as they begin to dominate the game.

One thing I'm still undecided on is if it is better to specialize an orc into a single position, or multi-task him in two areas. I have a team, still experimental, where I've taken all Level 1 orcs with high stats, trained them in their single position, and tried to see how they compare. So far, mixed results. Novice season was a total bust (8th place). Second season they did really well (1st), but there was a lack of talent to choose from and they really dominated. Third season was midling, although the did make it to 2nd, I think it was because the Looters stepped up the game and I got that extra armor on the second string!

So, please, let me know your results and see if we can make any generalizations.

[CrunchTroll]

Jury's still out on how this works for me, just had a team finish dead last (again) but with the dubious honor of losing every single game. That team is going to get the benefit of yet another new (for me) strategy of being gutted and have all the players replaced using Brakgwar's suggested minimum's as posted in his what's in a... series. Maybe that will work out better. We'll see. On the plus side, after gutting the team I can definitely let Brak know what's in these guys

BTW, Ice, if you read this post, how about a new award for dead last with NO wins

[TheIceMage]

I've still got to figure out how to do the trophy for finishing in first place after the regular season... and other assorted trophies. And 4 million other things. :-\

[Dizzy]

Now, I gotsta question for other Overlords out there: I have only two teams, and they play in a very similar fashion, because their Overlords are very similar to himself... er, yeah. Do you vary your playing style from team to team?

F'rinstance, are ALL of your teams bashy and defense heavy? Are ALL of your teams loaded with high Get and Lose? Do you get training facilities EVERY time? Do you ALWAYS bid in the same way (overbid vs. sensible)? Do ALL of your teams, well, suck EGGS? Do you shake THINGS up? Or ARE you a it-ain't-broke-so-back-off-with-that-ratchet kind OF Overlord?

OK, that was, like, eight questions.

[TheIceMage]

I definitely vary my play from one team to another. Sometimes I forget what I'm doing, though. A couple examples:

Brett's Steal Plates - every team member has full plate armor and a steel spike. Every team member loots the merchant.

Highland's Cherrypickers - all goalies from either Eek or Slam clans. All defensemen from either Sneak or Pound clans, and so on. This is one of those teams where I had an "oh yeah, that's what I was doing" moment, so it's a little diluted.

Sherman's Tanks - toughness 5 only, please. (Okay, okay, toughness 4 sometimes, too.)

[Brakgwar]

I Play teams with Different Styles ....

Some Bruiser, Some Defensive, Some Shooters, Even built one around Stripping the Ball. But the Teams all tend to Generalize abit as the Seasons go and what Orcs are available in the Homelands. And you will find Bruiser teams to be slightly less Effective the more Seasons your Team plays. With other Teams Armoring up! Unless you happen to Have a Pound of 10 or 11


Anywho ... thats my two Cents