So... you find yourself entering a major. Good for you! Here are three quick tips to ensure that you bathe in the tears of your opponents.

1.) When it comes to TV... less is more!

Looking at the Warpstone Open field, you can see a bunch of teams that are TV 2,300+. Most will not be making the actual draw. As you get into the higher TV range, inducements become more powerful for two reasons. The first is the relative value of the bloodwieser babe (see below) and the second is the versatility. Playing against elves? Here's a chainsaw or a freebooted mino with tents. Bashy chaos in your path? Here's an apoth and some babes.

Finally, remember that the higher TV team has to ready themselves up first in the future rounds. Knowing what you are facing before spending your money is a helpful trick.

2.) When in doubt... take the babes!

Here is a bit of meta math for you.

For a player without thick skull or stunty or MB, breaking AV means a 25% chance of a KO. Point being that it happens. Getting that player back on a kickoff is a 50% shot. So a 300TV player KO'ed has an e(v) of 150TV (meaning you can expect 150TV of value on your field). Adding 100TV worth of babes means the e(v) is now up to 250TV. The babes have now just paid for themselves and that was only factoring in one star on one kickoff. You can see pretty quickly how babes pay for themselves when you have a team with clear starpower.

3.) Stressful games place greater stress on the offense.

So you got your trim TV 1900 team with your babes on the sideline and you draw an evil clawpombing monster of a team. You lose the kickoff and are forced to defend. Think you are screwed right? Wrong... here's why.

Tourney games bring the stress on coaches. Many have admitted to playing a little tighter as they see the specs count start to creep up. Stress always favors the defense. They are thinking of how they can score, but not score too quickly, and all of this while ensuring they cause enough damage. All the while, they know the audience expects them to send your team off to the graveyard.

All you have to do is try to stop them from taking the entire half to score. In the event they do take the full 8 turns to score, you have two KO shots with those babes in tow. Let Overtime be your friend. Just don't let the early blocks bring down your strategy and remember there are at least 8 more turns to go.

Hope this helps and remember... have fun.

__Synn