Time for another match report, and this is one game I cannot afford to lose...
Because all those around me are also playing tonight, and the margins are somewhere around 2 points in each direction. So I faced Bjorn and his Amazon team for our "return game" in the League, amd hopefully this time I won't be messing up so much rolls as in our first encounter.
So in order to keep my qualifying chances for the play-offs clear, I need to win this game, and pick up one of the League bonus points as well to get above some again in the standings... what do you mean, pressure. And how will I handle the dodge and block speedy ladies? Hopefully, the addition of the second Bull Centaur will help towards this end, and the Minotaur not deciding to take another day off as he tends to do lately...
And that wasn't helped by the fact he had 380k worth of Inducements due to my high rating, which he spend on none other then Morg N' Thorg!!!! Guess it will come down to my flamesmiths and stabbers to keep his numbers in check and just go for those goals with the Bull Centaurs, trying not to get them tied up in a slogging fest.
Opting to receive first, my team formed on the line, hopefully taking out one or two of his linewoman from the get go.
And of course the ball flew as fas as it could be...
The initial push saw some of his ladies knocked over, but only a single one got KO'd unfortunatly...
... before a group foul took Morg N' Thorg also to the knocked out box!
Alas, we couldn't pick up the ball, so some things remain through the whole league.
And his runner pushed through with her Hit and Run, scoring the 1-0 and only a brief enjoyment of the knocked out ogre star player, who of course duly recovered.
And so we set up again, the bull centaurs wide to hope to go for the equalizer swiftly.
We quickly broke through his line, and The Raging Trainwreck stood poised ready to rush for his endzone. With his Sprint he would be out of reach of the Amazons, but numbers screwed the pass, first rolling a 1, but after re-rolls getting a 2... and gone was the chance.
On the other side Morg N' Thorg kept struggling with two of my Chaos Dwarfs, as we managed to keep him occupied without impacting the game to much so far.
The amazons of course easily collected the ball and passed it to each other without any issues... because yeah, how hard can a quick pass be, right.
And the 2-0 was on the board, sigh...
In the meantime, as the ladies had ran past, I just opted to try and do some violence, the Minotaur beginning his remainder of the game long series of blocks which resulted in nothing else then pushes. At least this game he didn't double skull himself into the hospital, even though at one point after a foul the apothecary had to do his job.
But setting up for the drive, we managed to do nothing, a double skull immediatly ending my turn...
The second half started with the Violators kicking off the ball, and no suprise it scattered right of the pitch and into the hands of his Jaguar Warrior as a result.
Morg N' Thorg managed to badly hurt a Flamesmith, but in all credit to the Chaos Dwarfs resistance, this was the only thing he did over the whole game.
The Amazons started to amass over my right flank, ready to bring their potential scorers in a straight line.
And ended up pushing Cochones Grande into the stands, but luckily to no injury, the Bull Centaur taking place in the dug-out
And through they went, one of the runners clearing my lines with the ball.
Stalling right before the line, he tried to put down some of my players, but failed to do so. It actually resulted in one of his linewoman, Hot Marijke, being Pile Drived so hard her departure was one of pure ecstacy, moaning until she breathed no more (yeah, his whole team is named after adult stars).
The stabbers failed to take down any ladies though this game unfortunatly, and seeing that it became a hardpressed slugfest in the middle of the field....
... he ran his player over the line and put the exaggerated 3-0 on the board.
Setting up for a final drive, the Violators wanted to try and get at least some honourable score.
And of course, the Bull Centaur failed to pick up the ball which had scattered from between both Hobgoblins, and out of the field, being thrown by the crowd straight into the clusted on the midfield. The Raging Trainwreck amazingly picked it up though, but was to far away to possibly score anymore.
The game ended with some beating and bashing around the mid-circle, but I just couldn't seem to smack through his armour, resulting of course in my final block once more getting attacker down as the final whistle blew.
What is this, 1 measly Star Play Point from a completed pass in the 8th turn of the 1st half... and that's it! Statistically this really isn't possible anymore, 8 games in a row I keep failing ball pick-ups or short passes / catches on 3+, with re-rolls. Or 5 games in a row against AV8 teams, yet not even managing to smack two off the field... if you're dice truly abandon you for a whole League know, there just isn't anything you can do, as rolling skulls on the block and 1's followed by 2's on the ball handling en masse just throws any gameplan and set-up down the drain...
At this rate of diceing, it'll be a true miracle if I manage to get in those first 8 spots for the play-offs, as I still hang on the 9th place, with the second Lizardman team now pulling up in the rankings.
So that meant the boat for this League has sunk, because even if I qualify in that last spot, I would be up against the Skaven again. So from now on I'm just going to focus on pure violence again, and don't care about the results, so all my skills will from now on be randomly rolled and I will just be fouling and bashing like mad again like in the early games.
The results of these rolls where as followed:
Numbers, my Sure Hands Hobgoblin, got Pro so more re-rolls to flunk!
My Blocker Arsham Hallvar obtained Multiple Block
Ragnoth Karadras, another Blocker, gained Brawler
The Flamesmith Brazhak ThacoBell got to pick, and took Tackle
And the Bull centaur The Raging Trainwreck obtained Sure Hands
Those are actually awesome skills, the hell... okay, bar perhaps the Multiple Block but he, at least something rolled right!
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