Blood Bowl match report: Vongalazthag Violators versus Wood Babes

 My next feature in the TSA s3 Blood Bowl league, and opposing me are the crazy women of the Amazon team, the Wood Babes.

 After having survived the top-3 teams onslaught, even though it was a goal deficit of 10 vs 0, it is time to start the League in earnest.

 

And the first team on my path upwards, as I was currently holding the 9th spot in the league, was the dodge all around Amazon team that currently held 4th place, 3 points in front of me and a rating of 1160.

 

 

With two Strength 4's, but now I'm bringing a Minotaur to the party myself, and it is time to start saving for the second Bull Centaur to replace The Dude, a hobgoblin with AV 7 now, the only lasting injury those top teams made on me.  I certainly mangled them harder though...

 

But enough of the past, let's get ourselves back in that top-8 for the qualifications! My roster stood complete at 16 players, while the amazons could bring 11 of their roster, and induced forthe addition of Estelle La Veneaux, a Star Player.  Surely this would allow us to score some good casualties and obtain a heap of Star Player Points for the league.

 

The goal was to try and obtain some points on the Blockers, to get them Tackle for the game in two weaks against the dodgeing elves of the Elfheim Union...

 

 The game started with the Violators kicking off, and immediatly lose one of their Blockers, Ragnoth Karadras, being knocked out.  Little did we know, but he wouldn't return for the rest of the match anymore and a sign of things to come...

 

 

Of course, the ball fell right in the hands of one of the Amazon ladies during the kick-off, so the Amazons could start setting up their push over my flank.

 

 

My Minotaur veered up, blitzing one of the ladies as well into the knocked out box, but the ball slowly progressed over my side and I didn't manage to put anyone on the flank to the floor, the Wood Babes scoring a completed pass in the advance.

 

 

My line however kept being knocked to the floor, and soon the ball carrier was behind my lines.  

Stalling a bit on the line, we had one more or less decent turn pushing and flooring his team, but no casualties where scored.  Choosing safety, he scored the 1-0 quickly to prevent any serious damage to his team in the final turns of the half.

 

 

Both sides set up again for the a short drive, but the kick-off table smiled on me and gave me an additional turn as the tracker was pushed back 1 turn.

 

 

 Numbers collected the ball, threw an accurate pass to The Raging Trainwreck... and he duly let the ball fall to the floor while he had an open route in front of him...

 

 

To add insult to injury, Hot Milky Nipples double skulled himself down, and got a serious injury in the process, resulting in him missing the next game.  So much for my big guy debut, one KO and that was it.

 

 The Amazons swamped a flamesmith, yet with a +8 foul managed to put my Flamesmith only face down as the half ended.

 

 

The second half was kicked off, and the ball balanced on the edge of my end zone, of course not going over the line to have it being handed to a player of my choice.

 

 

The initial scrimmage saw some pushing and knocking over on both side, but no real hole was formed. 

 

 

And the fast ladies rushed over to poor numbers even before he got a chance to pass the ball he had just collected...

 

 

 As the Amazons started flooding around the lines, we had to try and close the holes wherever they appeared, and this seemingly was just about everywhere.

 

 

 And of course, the ball ended up with the Amazons, now behind my lines in big numbers...

 

 

 Well, at least I knocked out one of his ladies for small comfort as she carried the ball, the one and only KO caused by a stabber in the whole game. 

A whole battle for the ball was held as it scattered, and I had a 50% chance it would land on one of my guys, so the ball fell next to his players.

 

 

 A shame, as I had created an opening on the side, and all it had required was jsut grabbing a scattering ball and we would have had a chance to go for the equalizer.

 

 

The girls picked up the ball, and started moving away from my players.

 

 

In the process, my stabber Dievanons was also seriously injured and would miss next game as well, a bit of a sour loss, perhaps more then the Minotaur, even if they didn't perform this game.

 

 Desperately trying to hold of the crazed bitches off, it looked grim for my defenders, though i must say my Hobgoblins did a better job in blocking this game then my actual blockers.

 

 

 Knowing I couldn't reach him decently, his strength 4 ball carrier waited at the line with the ball.

 

 

 A last moment desperate attempt was undertaken to get to him, but there where to many ladies blocking the routes to get there unfortunatly.

 

 

And while a brave hobgoblin did his best, he was ultimately knocked over and he scored the 2-0.

 

 

 So I had one more turn before the match ended, and lined up to at least massacre the three linewoman in front of me.

 

 

 The kick off table smiled on me, and I could move up players... only to have the very first block come up double skulls, ending it all...

 

 

Well, that went really disastrous, not counting the MVP, which rightly went to that one player that actually had scored points in the game, I managed a single casualty.  The Stabba's, versus armour 8, managed to get through only three times, with 1 KO as a result.  The Flamesmith's only toasted themselves of didn't do anything.  That means my 4 players that could circumvent his dodge around failed miserably.  Add to that I barely got through his armour, failed every receive of a catch or attempt to dodge, and it quickly becomes a terrible game for the team.  

 

 

In every league or campaign, you have that one game where your dice brick-out totally, and I hope this was my turn for that.  I shuffled back to spot 8, but will automatically lose that next week when I'm not having a game.  Hopefully the game in two weeks against the Elven Union will prove the start of the ressurgence, but this unforseen loss will mean I fear I'll have to play for it until the very end to qualify for the play-offs as the points gap starts to grow... 

But on the plusside, I know what to do: get more re-rolls for the team, as just a single one isn't cutting it with all my bandle handle fumbling shennanigans...