Taktik dalam permainan Petanque

Tactic

• Evaluate position
• Your team's/opponents' strengths/weaknesses
• Decide on a shot
• Position the jack
• Long/short
• Smooth or rough


General Tactics of a Game of Petanque

In the game of petanque the teams do not play simultaneously but one after the other. The team which starts the game has, an initial disadvantage, since the opponent has one more boule in hand than they have. It follows that the team that throws second has the advantage until they miss. Keeping track of this ball advantage is key to winning and determines when you should point and when you should shoot.

This advantage can be worth one point for every boule held, in real life this is rarely attained.

When your team as the ball advantage you must decide whether to point or shoot. When there is a choice between shooting and pointing, use the method which looks most likely to succeed.

In petanque, shooting is not necessarily attacking and pointing is not necessarily defending.

Shooting to defend a point or pointing to attack will enable you to regain the advantage.

Even if you have the advantage, you should point if the opponents' most recent boule is poor and easy to outpoint. Be sure that the nature of the surface or the skill of the opponents does not leave you open to attack. There are many elements which have to be taken into account including your own skill when you adapt your tactics.

Consider shooting to reduce the opponents' score or break up the game, send the jack out, scattering the boules even if the opponents have one or more boules more than you.

Nobody is immune from making an error of play, though this is usually a case of failing to carry out an attempted throw.