Warrior General Games

Originally posted by XxXMufasaXxX
I did do strength, I was just saying if you did have a Coverage LB wouldn't it be sort of a bad idea to do Agility first since most recieving TE's and Scat backs will have a higher speed and will easy be able to out run you in open field?

id still go speed. speed is kind. id get at least 100 natural speed on my coverage lb if i built one.

That's what I thought I would do if I did build that one. Another question is for a HH FS, woould you do Strenth first with Speed as you're number 2? Or the other way around?

Originally posted by XxXMufasaXxX
I had to retire the coverage LB and turn him into a HH LB, but i feel like if you start with agility you wont be able to keep up with half of the RTE/HB out of the backfield right?

Gotta look at your majors and minors. For a Hard Hitter LB...

Major: Strength, Agility, Tackling, Vision (+.5)
Minor: Speed, Stamina, Jumping, Confidence (+.25)

Since Speed is only a Minor on a HH LB, you definitely don't want to start with Speed. Instead, you'd want your first two attributes to be Strength and Agility. You can go Agility before Strength if you want, but those two need to go first since they're majors. After that you can consider Speed as your third attribute, but even then I'd give some thought to bumping Speed down to fourth and going either Tackling or Vision as your third attribute since they're both majors as well.

The exact order will depend on exactly what you want out of your LB. But you really don't want to go Speed first, or even second, on a HH LB.

Putting your Eq into Speed might not be a bad idea, since that doesn't affect your long-term build strategy at all. But again, that will depend on what you want your LB to do.

Personally, i would still go with speed.

Originally posted by ProfessionalKop
Personally, i would still go with speed.

On a Coverage or Blitzing LB? Yes.

On a Hard Hitter LB? No. Never start with a minor as your first attribute, and I can think of only a tiny handful of cases where you'd even go with a minor as your second attribute... and this ain't one of them.

Originally posted by Novus
Originally posted by XxXMufasaXxX

I had to retire the coverage LB and turn him into a HH LB, but i feel like if you start with agility you wont be able to keep up with half of the RTE/HB out of the backfield right?

Gotta look at your majors and minors. For a Hard Hitter LB...

Major: Strength, Agility, Tackling, Vision (+.5)
Minor: Speed, Stamina, Jumping, Confidence (+.25)

Since Speed is only a Minor on a HH LB, you definitely don't want to start with Speed. Instead, you'd want your first two attributes to be Strength and Agility. You can go Agility before Strength if you want, but those two need to go first since they're majors. After that you can consider Speed as your third attribute, but even then I'd give some thought to bumping Speed down to fourth and going either Tackling or Vision as your third attribute since they're both majors as well.

The exact order will depend on exactly what you want out of your LB. But you really don't want to go Speed first, or even second, on a HH LB.

Putting your Eq into Speed might not be a bad idea, since that doesn't affect your long-term build strategy at all. But again, that will depend on what you want your LB to do.

That was my bad for not explaining about the HHLB. I did start with strenghth, and I know about the majors and minors and where to go with all that, but I was still asking about Coverage Backers on the agility part. Again, my fault for not explaining lol XD

Originally posted by Novus
On a Coverage or Blitzing LB? Yes.

On a Hard Hitter LB? No. Never start with a minor as your first attribute, and I can think of only a tiny handful of cases where you'd even go with a minor as your second attribute... and this ain't one of them.

i meant the HH FS. speed and strength are both majors. i would go speed.

Originally posted by Novus
Originally posted by ProfessionalKop

Personally, i would still go with speed.

On a Coverage or Blitzing LB? Yes.

On a Hard Hitter LB? No. Never start with a minor as your first attribute, and I can think of only a tiny handful of cases where you'd even go with a minor as your second attribute... and this ain't one of them.

For a blitzing backer what do you think I should use as my third attribute? Also, should I do speed abouve agility, or make agility first to get around OL?

Originally posted by XxXMufasaXxX
For a blitzing backer what do you think I should use as my third attribute? Also, should I do speed abouve agility, or make agility first to get around OL?

i like speed,agility, tackling for my blitzing LBs.

speed>agility>tackling>strength imo.

so to sum it all up so it isnt as confusing


Blitzing LB- speed>agility>tackling>strength
coverage LB- speed>agility>vision>tackling
HHLB- not really sure. strength>agility>tackling>speed? maybe tackling before agility. i dont like HHLBs so idk.
HH FS- speed>agility>strength>tackling.


those are all just my opinions though.

That's how I thought to make them too but I wanted to get a second opinion so i didn't screw anything up. Like I said, it's been a long time since I've played this game and i didn't wanna make any mistakes due to updates or anything like that. It looks like not much has changed on the player building part of things here

Thank you guys again

no problem. im sure someone much better than me will come in here and correct anything that i said if im mistaken.so dont put CE on your players just yet or anything

Originally posted by ProfessionalKop
i meant the HH FS. speed and strength are both majors. i would go speed.

Oh, oops, I missed that he switched from talking about a Hard-Hitter Linebacker to talking about a Hard-Hitter Free Safety. My bad.

For a Hard-Hitter Free Safety, yes, the majors and minors are different than for a HH LB:

Major: Speed, Strength, Tackling, Vision (+.5)
Minor: Agility, Jumping, Stamina, Confidence (+.25)

So yeah, for a HH FS, Speed and Strength should be your first two attributes... swap them around if you want. Agility then should DEFINITELY be #3... and I might even consider putting my Eq in Agility to start out, actually, since maneuverability is so important for a Safety. I'd have to think about that more, though.

Sucks that Agility is a minor though... that's a big reason I don't like Hard-Hitter archetypes in the secondary.