How the simulator works

Haha. As I said, I was going to give the lock an optional role so you could play several different types of tactical games depending on what happened when the lock got the ball, but the man-playing-the-ball problem got that idea scrapped.

If your left half is playing the ball (for example), your lock will become first receiver on the left hand side. If your right front rower is playing the ball, your right second rower moves into the front row and your lock becomes your right second rower.

 

Rogers doesn't have the defence for it. He'd be absolutely perfect in attack though. Just don't put someone like Taufua there and you'll be right. Imagine Taufua at halfback... *shudders*

 

Yeah, that's comes under catching. There's a separate attribute for actual air contests though - fullbacks don't normally have to compete for the ball as such, just catch it. Wingers have to get there first over the top of other wingers, then catch it.

Vatuvei for example will win most of his air-challenges but then drop the ball when he gets to it.

 

I'll get to that.

I'm typing up a summary of how the players move around, then I'll explain who kicks when.

 

That'd just be temperament. It doesn't exist yet but it will eventually.

 

Kicking from dummy half, yeah.

 

Yeah, I thought of that.. but the fullback has an actual role in the attack as it is anyway. If the fullback went to halfback, he'd have the pass the ball to himself in the backline movement.

 

Yeah, indeed. Every time one of the halves gets the ball (unless he's giving it to a prop on the inside), the pass goes behind a charging prop. There's one there every single play.