In the end I do still know I would play it the way I had initially mentioned, I like the closeness of the behind the pack breakout shot and by making sure you get a fair bit of angle you can get a very good breakout shot. You need to be as precise on that slow roll shot pushing the ball out of the pack as any other shot the other path takes. If you hit the last shot in the other method too hard you end up with too little angle or no angle to make the shot well, on the other hand if you hit it just a little too soft you end up with the ball being racked. The optimal place IMO on the nudge shot is getting the ball only 1-2 inches at the most out of the rack and therefore giving yourself a chance to play the long shot in the corner without thinking much at all about the breakout as the path of the cueball is going to be straight into the very close pack no matter how you shoot the shot and you can totally therefore commit to the pot with speed.
I see less variables in the pushing the break ball behind the rack play, if you push that ball out behind the pack you are set and you then have the ability to play the cueball off a really easy setup shot in the 1 to get the proper angle.
