Help with kick

[Coffeecool]

I struggle to use this skill.
Everytime i kick the ball im given ONLY the choice for 1 or 2 target squares that are farther from the point the ball would land without kick. Farther meaning off center, so opposite of what it is supposed to do. And i never see a option to not use it aswell.

Am i doing something wrong here?

[WulfByte]

Originally posted by Coffeecool:

I struggle to use this skill.
Everytime i kick the ball im given ONLY the choice for 1 or 2 target squares that are farther from the point the ball would land without kick. Farther meaning off center, so opposite of what it is supposed to do. And i never see a option to not use it aswell.

Am i doing something wrong here?

Per MorDorBihan[mordorbihan.fr]
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If this player is nominated to be the kicking player during a kick-off, you may choose to halve the result of the D6 to determine the number of squares that the ball deviates, rounding any fractions down.
"

In my experience Blood Bowl 3 Season 5 matches the above when my Kick player is automatically chosen. I haven't tried to manually choose a player that doesn't have Kick.

Kicked balls *always* scatter off the chosen square. The Kick skill just lessens the scatter distance.

(Note that in earlier seasons, BB3 would pick the first player in the roster that was in a valid position and use that player as the kicker. That was changed to always pick a player with the Kick skill, where possible.)

[Coffeecool]

Originally posted by WulfByte:

Originally posted by Coffeecool:

I struggle to use this skill.
Everytime i kick the ball im given ONLY the choice for 1 or 2 target squares that are farther from the point the ball would land without kick. Farther meaning off center, so opposite of what it is supposed to do. And i never see a option to not use it aswell.

Am i doing something wrong here?

Per MorDorBihan[mordorbihan.fr]
"
If this player is nominated to be the kicking player during a kick-off, you may choose to halve the result of the D6 to determine the number of squares that the ball deviates, rounding any fractions down.
"

In my experience Blood Bowl 3 Season 5 matches the above when my Kick player is automatically chosen. I haven't tried to manually choose a player that doesn't have Kick.

Kicked balls *always* scatter off the chosen square. The Kick skill just lessens the scatter distance.

(Note that in earlier seasons, BB3 would pick the first player in the roster that was in a valid position and use that player as the kicker. That was changed to always pick a player with the Kick skill, where possible.)

Selection works as intended.
I think i know whats going on, normally without kick you dont see the targeted square, only the final square. I think that whats confusing me here. I will check that.

[Splinter]

I wish they would go back to to what they did for BB2. They would have the zone of landing smaller letting you know the area it could land. One it would let you know if you got the right guy selected. You can see it now, but way easy to miss,

[WulfByte]

Originally posted by Splinter:

I wish they would go back to to what they did for BB2. They would have the zone of landing smaller letting you know the area it could land. One it would let you know if you got the right guy selected. You can see it now, but way easy to miss,

Agreed on all points! :-)

[rinku]

This is working perfectly. Including automatically selecting an eligible player with the kick skill if one exists (at launch you had to manually select them).
Kick has no effect on the direction d8 roll, or the d6 rolled for distance. You have, and always only had two choices - let it go where the two dice scatter it from your selection, or halve the distance. The game shows the possible scatter squares when your'e selecting the destination square, then shows you your two choices.

Sometimes you want to NOT halve the result. Having the zone be 3x3 was always misleading.