EHM The Blue Line

1/ If a 5 foot tall guy goes up against someone who is 6 foot 6 and weights heavier than his opponent do these factors actually come into play in the fights?

2/ Also does it come into play with checking etc and frequency of injuring others?

3/ Another question is, if a player wins a fight does that team get a morale boost?

4/ What is the best way to keep an opposing star playing from playing well, is it just done from getting a enforcer to check them?

5/ What is backchecking?

All yes but the last one I'm not sure enough to tell you. For the fourth question though any foward/defenseman with good checking stats could easily do the job not just a goon.

Height and weight definitely come into play with hitting and overall form. There are definite advantages to taller and heavier players, especially when it comes to physical play and fights.

In my experience, winning fights can definitely turn the tide for your team.

In my opinion, there's two methods to containing star opposition forwards. 1) Fight fire with fire and put your best players up against them and out score them. 2) Use your best defensive forwards (high checking/positioning/poke), set line matching and set individual tactics to check the player/s you want to target. I don't think enforcers are very good for this.

Backchecking is simply coming back to check in your own defensive zone. It's a term used mostly to describe forwards coming back and checking. If you set a player to backcheck hard, he will often go into the corners, dig for pucks and defend voraciously. If you set it to easy, he won't go hard in the defensive zone and will have a mindset to hope for turnovers and start breakouts going the other way.

Thanks guys,

Can anyone confirm this please also?

QUOTE - In my experience, winning fights can definitely turn the tide for your team.

With my post above I said yes. It definitely can turn a game to your advantage/disavantage depends on who win the fight.

What about the weight of a player or is that tied in with height or does it have 2 factors?

Hey Oliver,
check this link and BOTH of the referenced links there. You can find many answers yourself

The online guide is no longer there?

It's at http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/guide/ It's written for EHM2005 but 99% of tactics engine is the same as in EHM2007.