Nurdell

By Saad Akhtar (Saad) from New Delhi, India - Flickr, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1031620

Ogrobots start in the attack once again. But gobbos have the 'cunningly shuffle your players' on the kickoff event.  It is not very effective - our stup on the los with 2+2 ogrobots covers all. I blitz into chainsaw goblin - get '1.1' on the dodge. No amount of breaking tackle helps against that. Uh-oh, a foul for them on a silver platter!

They assemble good old 4-assist foul with the chainsaw. It's 1,1 on the armor break! Minus one bribe, out of 3.

I shouldn't have gone and put 2 ogrobots by the chainsaw this turn... At least I manage to pick the ball up with +movement snotpilot.

On t4, when I cover ballcarrier in the protection of 3 pilots by the sideline, the first grenade is being tossed. It's an intercept on '6'! And immediately a failure of launching it back on '1'!  (mentioned above friend-foe system is working) 2 pilots hit the ground, but are not out. They blitz the ballcarrier and find Pow on the very last of the 6 rerolled block dices. Ball jumps straight into the hands of blitzing goblin. And he finds protection in-between his allies.

And so, turn 6 - ball is mostly safe in the goblin's hands ready to score; bomber throws the bomb way deep in his field at 2 ogrobots - Intercept! My long bomb pass is... mostly successful. (and they don't intercept) Bomb lands on the ballcarrier - no result! Dreaded friend-foe protocol works again!

I send bomber to the KO box, and fail the snot dodge to cover the ball up.

That means goblin can stall as much as his little black heart desires.  But he doesn't do that and makes a touchdown on t7.

Giving me a chance at oneturner and spending 2 additional bribes to keep his 'good ' players on the field for the rest of the match. I fail the landing in 1 tackle zone. Score is 0-1 at half-time.

On t10 I accidentally put 3 snotpilots close to an ogrobot in the back. Trebuchet! Is heard from afar, and the fireball lands on them - KOing 2 pilots, and sending the others to the "Plus" box for the rest of the game. That's minus agility on D-2 Invincible. See, it needs a direct hit from an artillery shot to damage an ogrobot! Emergency repair crew wasn't able to help, but Delta-2 is my 'fighting' robot. So he doesn't exactly need agility.

Guess what, it's still turn 10 - and despite there only being 3 ogrobots on the field of battle, we got a bomb intercept. 3 for 3, baby! This time ogrobot just chucks the bomb right at the enemy cage, knocking 3 gobbos down (but not breaking armor, friend-foe, grumble-grumble!) Ball is caught right away by the corner of the cage.

So yeah, despite my best efforts - goblins so far only got 1 injury and 2 expelled by the ref. Delta wing on the other hand, has 3 pilots and 3 ogrobots operational (And I don't know why I insist on putting a snotpilot next to troll now - probably to give him something to eat. No, it's so that he doesn't blitz with MB my mechs). And soon there's simply no snotpilots around, only 3 ogrobots. Goblins score on t16 for 0-2.

None of the three snotpilots gets up from the KO, and we can't do a oneturner with just one pilot left spare.

As it's a 'bingewrite', I'll not be including all the events.

Orks start in the attack - we get perfect defence. Troll fails the bonehead, and fails to break armor on mighty blow, block snot blitz! Orks get an injured player on my turn.

Orks set up a half-cage on the sideline in my side of the field. I can try to push the ballcarrier off the field by 3d red blitz. But I don't risk it. After all, on my turn I put a stand firm D-2 Invincible on the baller, and 2 snotpilots in contact as well. It would have been pretty good if the snotpilot wasn't injured off the field, but he did. And ballcarrier dodges, run 1 gfi, second in the endzone is a Trapwire (just how the match day was named!) not even reroll helps!

I try to go for the pickup - gfi fails too, ball jumps inside the field, to the advantage of Goff Gougers.

Orks surround one ogrobot close to the sideline, a snotpilot can't handle the pow sent towards him. And even before trying picking up the ball they foul - with +str, guard blitzer? Yeah, they brought a bribe to the game, but still, woah! Pickup ends with wasting reroll on '1,2'.

On watching the replay, I should have blitzed and thrown one ork 'to the auditory' - but I didn't.

The blitzer near the ball picks it up in ogrobot tacklezone, dodges and scores on turn 6. 0-1 on the scoreboard.

In the remaining 3 turns, I prepare an ogrobot to score the goal, or 2 snotpilots be thrown for a thrown teammate touchdown. Orks basically ignore the potentially scoring ogrobot. We clear the tackle guy on the enemy team off the field, pilot Makdier runs, shoots a '4+' short pass - successful! But the '4+' catch was not. Score remains a 0-1.

Unfortunately, D-6 Absolute doesn't leave the KO box, so we play second half in 5 ogrobots. But there's only 6 orks standing on the field too. Pile-on: excuse me, 5 orks.

On rewatching, I should have placed players better - there was a 'dodge and 1 gfi' blitz into the ballcarrier. But Goff Gougers don't take it. D-3 Brutalizer (the frenzy ogrobot) for my not fine standups gets a 'miss next game' repair notice from Troll. Forces are, uhm, getting even-er. with only 3 ogrobots left standing against 4 orks and a troll.

Once again, I should have put players differently - a black ork with block could have 'dodge, 1 gfi' blitzed into the ballcarrier. But they don't want to take risks.

A whole bunch of sloppy turns from me later, I have to pick with the break tackle ogrobot. Remaining orks take advantage of 2 our boneheads and make him fall down. picking the ball ends in '1,1' over the troll towards my team. On t16 I get the ogrobot into the endzone, pick the ball with my +move pilot Ghindoza and after a reroll, hand it over. 1-1. Shouldn't have been so close, had I played more safe!

What a crazy draw! With only 5 enemies, in second half I should have been taking the game, but it was my sloppy plays that almost cost me the draw. Well, always can learn from mistakes.

• Kickoff event is - Pitch Invasion. That's that 'surprise' I was talking about. Many of the elves are now lying on the ground for 2 turns, and on our side - only 2 pilots. And the ball is kicked into the frontline too, where after several bounces on LoS ogrobots, catches it. I really wanted to start the match strong, that means by an elf injury - but after hitting the 3 LoS loners a bit inaccurately, I closed the window for a blitz into witchelf and blitzed Wrestle guy instead. Only after Piling On he was KO'd. 'Starting strong' means also fouling almost every turn, so I do just that - kick the tackle guy while he's down even without assist. Armor penetrated but he is not injured..
• Then I base literally everyone on the opposite team while they still haven't gotten up. (in the hopes that they'll eventually get a '1' on the dodge, since that skill is still a rare sight in Norn Iron) That unfortunately means I got no perfect place for the ballcarrying snotpilot - so I choose the next best thing: next to a lying loner with a guard mech below.
• And - surprise-surprise, loner finds a "Pow'" into pilot Makdier on 2d blitz. Ball lands in 2 ogrobot tacklezones. But (grumble-grumble!) 6 '2+' dodges, one of which was into 2 additional tacklezones, and a pickup is not a problem for a blodger blitzer. He falls on a snakeyed gfi after he's done with the hard part instead. Ha-ha! (I don't even want to think of him passing the turn right there before the gfi and my ogrobots getting those ones. Yikes!)
• Another two of the Norn Irons is sent to sit it out under the bell sign, I surround the ball with 4 players - hitting 3d blocks, but not leaving a player for picking it up. (I think putting a pilot next to the other blodge blitzer was necessary still. If they managed to pick the ball up and pass it in to a 7 move guy - that would have been terrible. I could even defend myself from the replay putting specifically Sneaky Git pilot in the danger zone. But judges actually 'forgot' to bring red cards to the match, so it didn't matter who was doing the fouling in the end. Ha-ha!) Doing another gfi for picking the ball up for some reason seemed to me at the time like a bad idea.
• The elf injures my sneaky git guy, and all of them dodge from under the ogrobots. On my turn 4, I hit some of the elves - even getting a 2d block on the blodger with a pilot (arrow) followed by 1d (pow). Should have tried to pick the ball up with ogrobot next to the ball - don't even know why I didn't at the end there.
• Witch dodges out of potentially meeting the crowd position, the rest of the elves congregate towards the ball.
• On t5, I got them surrounded. Then I did a silly thing by pushing a player onto the ball. Not even at the start of a turn - in the middle when some players have already taken their actions. Well, I hit some more elves - without much success (Do you see why I called this episode Hammering Iron? Because they decide to not get injuries, that's why). And turnover on a dodge with pilot, trying to go for the pickup.
• Elves started the turn with a TRIPLE SKULL?! A light shone into my window. Oh yeah, they got rerolls for that, nevermind. Heh. They build a not wide 'screen' - only for witchelf to not make a pickup.
• That puts me into position for some more elf-hitting action. And while I almost don't bonehead, this results only in 1 more KO. 3 Mechs are sitting on top of the ball with no owner, I fail the dodge with pilot again, getting KO'd myself. (didn't go for piling on the witch because I thought a player on the ball is more important, I might be wrong with this though).
• Elves left picking the ball up to the loner - he didn't do it. But it's t7 and the ball is still on my side of the field, I should do something about it other than "using it as bait"
• Well, I don't do anything to advance the ball - Somehow I find the thought of 50/50 picking with ogrobot now too scary when I got no rerolls.  :-( Only put pilot Makdier in the position to score if it somehow finds it's way into his hands. There's only 2 of my players on the ball now, and one of them is a snotpilot,
• Naturally, I get punished for this indecision - witch with block blitzes the guy on the ball, loner picks up in one tacklezone, dodges out and passes (Curse you rules, that make passing with ag4 as easy as going a single gfi!) Catch is successful, and I got nothing to stop the ball from crossing my touchdown line next turn.
• But before the ball is scored and the half is over, I hit a 2d block with pilot Makdier, finding a 'pow' - and a 3d blitz on the witch - finding arrows. 0-1 on the score after the first half.

• Weather has changed - it started raining. Pilots' boots make funny shlink sounds when they move.  2 beer babes help 3 out of 4 elves to get up, there's no dark elf under the 'big red plus'. I see the first failed elf dodge on t10 (reroll) and they didn't manage to handoff the ball too.
• I couldn't really approach where it bounced to though - in the middle of 3 elves. But I surely shouldn't have fouled from the left of the elf, top wouldn't be leaving the road to blitz into Makdier. (he's KO'd)
• On t12 elves move through the middle of the field, helped by 2 ogrobots boneheading the previous turn. But they use a reroll on gfi early in the turn, and don't manage to dodge to complete the cage.
• From my side - I start the turn with a "blessed" pile on, bringing the player back from being KOd, and don't find pow or defender stumbles on 3d block when I so need it to blitz into the ballcarrying witch. The moment has passed, I use up my last reroll on gfi next to the witch and fail pilot dodge when all else has been done.(KO)
• A blodger blitzelf only finds arrows in hitting a pilot - that means only making dodges for witchelf one roll longer (she does it easily) And now all my ogrobots but one are too far from the ball to participate in the fun.  (not like they would - I get 3 boneheads on t13)
• And the ball is scored on t14. 0-2 on the score. And 2 remaining KOd elves get back to the field.
• 3 turns to score 2 touchdowns?  Let's try! Especially since we got a 'move 1 square' event and the ball lands right on the nose of my pilot in the back. The rain is still pouring, so it slips out of his hands (it was a '2', he wouldn't have caught that one in the dryest desert) Elf-hitting as well as boneheading commences, and I finally foul and unlock the injury box for elves. (Fouling before picking the ball up, but you already know judge forgot the red card at home this time) I pick the ball up, and move the +movement Makdier on a line above LoS. While having the fouler even farther.
• Elves blitz the farthest guy in their territory and put 2 guys on my ballcarrier.
• I still do all the hits that non-boneheads (2 this time) allow before attempting for a throw oneturner on t15 - get '2' on handoff catch. Oh well.
• Next turn elves try to pick the ball up in 3 tacklezones and under rain - unsuccessfully, scatter to a free elf - didn't catch too (!) scatter exactly back (!) and yeah, didn't catch.
• And it's t16 now, with 0-2 - won't be winning this one for sure. At least witchelf was the third to get badly hurt, giving me SPPs I was so thirsty about.

So yeah, a little bit much of "elven agility", not a lot of "elven injuries" to my liking in our match. During the match I said that I would be upset if even the mvp would not land on an ogrobot - and yeah, snotpilot got the award. But I can live with it.

I think I did a lot right in this match, would probably even say that "I played better than I usually do". Didn't went for picking up the ball 2 times when it was least risky - but allright. I just hoped too much on their Dodgeless players to fail, it didn't happen. Lesson learnt. So I liked this match.

And the match begins!

We got a second reroll before the match and 12 players - orks got a Bomber Dribblesnot and 12 real players. We're expensive, oh how the tables will turn in BB3, can't wait!

Physicz Boyz start in attack - an put bombardier on the los for some reason. (I'm more or less scared of him, because it's 'free' blows on the armor of the 5 str guys with a bonus. And I can't necessary approach the guy easily) Sure, he manages to throw a bomb and send pilot Tryniken to heal for the match. But one boneheading troll - and I get to hit the bomber with a pow. Blitz and put an ogrobot on the ballcarrier.

And Troll boneheaded on turn 2 as well.

On t3 I kill guard blitzer Farad, but the apothecary saves him fully. The ball is moved into potentially scoring zone - nothing a blitz with break tackle and 2 gfi can't handle. Still, pows or defender stumbles are nowhere to be found even after a reroll so he stays upright.

Orks' turn 4 ends after the road to score has almost been cleared by a 2 skull block by troll. Bomber is having a leisurely chat with pilot Nikton away from the main battle. And next turn I smack down the ballcarrier finally.

On t5 I semi-intentionally smack the mb-tackle blitzer ork onto the ball - and it lands into the hands of a black ork with a 6+ catch! Almost any other scatter was better, but if the black ork didn't catch  - it could have been even worse as there was a goblin next to him. Even with 0 rerolls on the ork side - I would have attempted a 4+ handoff to the goblin and running the ball in, through a dodge and 2 gfi, but coach said: "Hit more!" and the team obeyed.

On t6 I smack the black ork carrying the ball down, and pick the ball up to transmit into a safer hands of an ogrobot. Even with 0 rerolls, I still think about instead trying to toss a pilot with the ball up the field to potentially score - in previous matches I would have done that, but in that game I chose to play safer. Maybe I should have done the opposite - play safer against elfs, and played riskier against 'slow' orks. Don't know.

T7 is a turnover for Physicz Boyz because bomber, even left without tacklezones because of ogrobot on him boneheaded the hit - still threw the bomb a little too far and caught blitzer Coulomb in the explosion. It KO'd my snotpilot who I was planing to give the ball to later, but didn't hurt the ballcarrying ogre.

Seems like we won't be scoring this half with just one pilot on the field standing and one lying, so I block some orks around a bit. And of course, foul mb-tackly-block guy with 4 assists, to no result. 0-0 after first half.

KO'd snotpilot doesn't get up, we got 2 injured ; Troll doesn't get up from the KO he put himself into, the other guy does. So we are starting second half with 9 players against 11 orkz. Very respectable result if you consider we had only one sub for this match. The kiler Coulomb is still standing despite many attempts to bring him down, unfortunately for us.

We failed some rollzes on t8 and t9 - so my team didn't even get to picking the ball up part of the turn. At least Physicz Boyz didn't manage to pick the ball up on t10 too.

I still think I lost the match on t11 by not moving third big guy, D-1 Morningstar down towards the ball, but to the right hopefully to circle around. 2 of my ogrobots were getting bogged down on the left away from action by one goblin and 'wiring malfunctions' nearly the whole second half.

With lots of guards, ogrobots on the right side were pushed more or less away from the ball

Then I decided to play bold and rolled for push with 3 red dice. The 50,4% of the 'not turnover with reroll' didn't work out and pilot Xardnut met his demise here. Mighty blow was not needed, I think.

Orkz clear the area of our players, pick the ball up on t12. And still, next turn even though I ran out of rerolls - I still managed to do a 2d blitz into the ball, only a push. I could have potentially brought a break tackle guy on the ball with 2 dodges - but I didn't. Orks group up to find a 2d blitz into ogrobot next to the ballcarrier, push and they score. 0-1 on t13. I still got 3 turns for an answer.

Ball lands nicely on the right side near los, and I go to pick it up. Bring everybody together and stuff, the +move pilot Makdier doesn't pick the ball up. It scatters very safe for me. But yeah, oneturner by throwing teammate with no rerolls left is not the ideal way, so we didn't manage - Boneheaded both t15 and 16 blitzes. and didn't dodge from tackle on t16 eventually (into injury with pilot Makdier, luckily it was just badly hurt).

Allright, 0-1 in the end. I felt I could have won that, even through no injuries even on goblins. I just needed to focus the fist of my attack differently... Still, a pretty good match.

At first it was reminding me of some sort of comedy of errors. Our match was held very early in the sunday morning, so I guess we both didn't truly wake up. Either way, it was a fun one.

While my pilot didn't pick the ball up on t1, I handed it to an ogrobot on t2.  Don't count assists and Frenzy my way into 1d block, ending in both down rr into skull. Ha! Dark elves in 2red dice punch the ball out of ogrobot's hands and it is caught by one of them - who already moved and is standing near the border of the pitch. That's where Frenzy comes and pushes an elf out of bounds. Ball bounces right in the center of the field, I pickup and again put it into an ogrobot's hands and walk forward. On the next turn I try to push out of bounds by 3d blitz - use up our last reroll to start up the frenzy ogrobot near the sideline - 3 'both downs'! And I didn't take care of the ballcarrier ogrobot first. They blitz into 1d, 'defender stumbles', elf catches the ball and the ball slips away on t5 after such a good start!

I start t6 with an unnecessary ogrobot dodge. "Not a mistake if not caught". 2 mechs 'shortcircuit'. But my weak attempts to thwart the inevitable by 2 snotpowers - didn't bear fruit. Actinoid Androids lead 0-1 on turn 7.

On t7 I move my guys 1 square higher on the LoS, giving me a fairer chance at oneturner at the end of the half. But it doesn't work out when I get '1' on the handoff catch. Oh well, I still made 2 injuries by the end of the first half - better than the last match, ha!

Well, snotpilot numbers are drying up too - one KO didn't wake up so we are starting second half with 3 ground pilots against 9 Androids. T9, the ball is kicked close to our side and the withelf didn't manage to pick it up. Reroll wasn't used so 3 dark elves were left on los. Punching commences, and not much else - 2 boneheads and a failed gfi leave the 'road' on the sideline fairly open. Yeah, elves cover it up - but we got Delta-3 Brutalizer, who with the help of a frenzy programm finds himself a place near the witchelf android practically falling off the right side of the pitch. I support him with another mech from behind, so no easy pushing-outs are possible. One of the 2 remaining remaining on the field of battle pilots, Tryniken - bravely survives a blitz and a block and the witchelf now must be dodging into 2 mech (and 0,1 snotpilot) tacklezone. Which she BARELY fails! Phew!

Tryniken picks the ball up, goes forward. But is stopped by a dastardly 1d blitz from blitzelf Californium that finds a Pow. That lucky blitz is followed by a not-so-lucky '1' on the dodge (rerolled) and '1' on ball pickup! We punish that clumsiness by a 'miss next game' blitz. Unfortunately, 2 boneheads opened up an easy way forward, which many Androids use to form a loose cage. Turn 13 - I can blitz into the ball still. But first, preparations: one of the steps is chucking Tryniken towards the 'cage' and he finds his way on top of the enemy player. Good job, you leave the field with applause and badly hurt. Blitz results in "forced" 'both down', which KOs Delta-6 Sambogre and costs Erdar 'Uranium' a point in movement allowance. Ball scatters away from us, witch elf dodges, pickups and scores. T14 is 0-2.

(remember how in the Bounty Hunt topic I said 'you need incredible energy to injure an android? Well, it applied only to permanent injuries - on t14 5 dark elves are lying with red crosses above them)

Guess what? I can still tie the game ;-) Cheering fans give me an extra much-needed reroll, the ball goes way too far to make it a oneturn touchdown. So we do the TTM touchdown next turn. It was actually fairly dangerous for the score - we didn't manage to down a  darkelf ready to score by a Frenzy 3d both blitz. Landing in a tacklezone was successfully rerolled and 2 gfis were successfull, 1-2. on t15.

T16 kickoff event is not "extra turn" it's a simple quick snap.but the ball lands close to us again. LoS elves dodge away, forming a semi-cage around the ball, witch elf goes to the back of the field. Ball is picked up and - pass fails! We have a chance.

After a blitz into a loner and a mediocre foul that didn't penetrate the armor, we throw a snot and it lands in a beautifull spot right next to the ball but not in tackle zone. Just a pickup in 1 tacklezone and a single gfi separating us from tying up the game... We got no rerolls and the pickup is a '1'. We still lose the match 1-2, but it was incredibly close. Oh well, it was still a super fun match.

Well, woodies vs ogres have statistically been the worst matchup in the history of the game - I didn't exactly expect to win there. But I was surely hoping for a tie. And yeah, to bring home lots of spp's from those armor 7 guys who haven't gotten many Dodges yet.

'The plan' is obvious - hit hard, hit often. With little boots too. They only got exactly 11 players after all.

And as people say - Injuries are too random to rely upon.

I gave the ball to an ogrobot, went down the sideline more or less ready to score. My 6th turn ended with a failed snotpilot dodge into badly hurt (my first minus player of the game, only on 6th turn!) Elves find a 1d 'Pow' after using their last reroll on a 2d skulls hit on frenzy ogrobot in the middle, and set the player on the ball. On t7 I did 2 gfis with the ballcarrier for 0-1. Elfs have 1 guy stand up from the three ko'd with a bloodweiser beer's help even. First half - a success overall, but I would have liked to have some elves in the injuried box, you know.

Yes, they got 2 turns to score now, but I had no rerolls by the end of the half. 2 gfi is not much harder than making him pass the bonehead test at the turn 8.

And I made sure they don't have an easy time scoring their 2-turner afterwards! Blitz with a ball landing near the los - the bounce wasn't idea for us. Ball is picked in one tacklezone, 2 guys were sent for a scoring threat in my field - one had to do 2 gfi for it, so I blitzed the other. But just like me, (with added 1d block of covering ogrobot, a handoff and a 3d block of snotpilot that nearly ended their turn preemptively with 2 skulls and a both down), they do those 2 gfis for a touchdown and the score is now tied on t8, 1-1.

On t9 I attempt a throw teammate at the cage - the guy surprisingly lands, but unfortunately not on the enemy's head. On t10 I successfully do a good ol' 4+ dodge into the ball - and use up the reroll (probably shouldn't have as I didn't have players to pick the ball up anywhere near) to pow the ballcarrier. 2 turns into the half and I only got 2 or 3 snotpilots left on the field, as the ref notices a foul. The rest of the little guys are in the injury box. Then they score for 2-1 (the gfi after reroll was used was moderately risky)

T12-11 and the full elven roster is back on the field. They use their strip ball to have a 1d blitz  into the ballcarrying ogrobot through a 'line' of 2 snotpilots - they don't need a reroll to knock him down. Elf attempts pass, but is inaccurate. That allows me to grab the ball next turn with +move pilot. It's not exactly a secure position - blitzer with tackle finds a 'both down' on him, and a 5 agility elf just laughs at all the tacklezones after using the reroll for pickup. 3-1.

I still want to try to salvage the game by first doing a oneturn throw and later playing by the situation in the last two turns. Well, everything worked - including 2 gfis to hand the ball over, the good throw. Until the part where you need to roll for the landing. pilot Makdier (+move guy) didn't land and earned himself a 'miss next game'.

So yeah, another touchdown seals the deal, 4-1.

"Elven bullshit"? Maybe yes, maybe not. The match might have swung the other way if Olympic Gold Sprinters didn't have only a single lineelf in the injuries at turn 14. We certainly fouled a lot (maybe even more than I 'should have') But at least I took away a movement point off a +str elf by a t16 foul. Some satisfaction at least.

The battle was tough. And for sure, it was a battle, more than a match. Devil's Details right from the start (they won the cointoss) surrounded and took down D-4 Smashinator, showing their intention of dismantling the ogrobots before they can pose a threat. It really was a test of armor's durability - that we passed with flying colors.

So what if on t2 a 3d blitz into an amazon ballcarrier (courtesy of failed dodge at the end of last turn) didn't bring the desired result. And on t4 I had a 4+ chance to do one dodge and be blitzing into the ballcarrier - and it didn't work. It's just 1-0 on t6. The mediocre attempt at oneturner on t8 from me shattered on a skull-skull blitz.

And, as I did a write-up of 2 moments in the div 6C smack talk thread - I didn't play perfectly. But out of the many less than perfect options, I chose the best one - that led to scoring on t14 with D-6 Sambogre. Diabolu was impressed by that one. And a tie of 1-1 in the end. I guess, I can be proud of that, but there's still a lesson to be learned from those 2 moments for me.

Oh, and the "will remember" part? That's a good old t16 foul that deducted an agility point off of a level 2 catcher. Leading to her early retirement from the team.

Something like that, thanks for streaming it at ChrisFrosin twitch. (I still had to search for it, you didn't mention the link to your channel. At least, I don't remember you did)

First things first - Thiods' team is skaven, not underworld. It's just their confusing name, Warpstone Underworld.

So, rats only got one own reroll. For the match they bought a help from the mage and a beer lady from some of their team's fund.

True to the above text, our match happened very early on sunday morning. That may have affected my opponent's playing a little. But I came to the match not for winning. It would be a really hard thing to pull off - I dreamed of maiming the 7th armor, and hunting my bounty target, runner 'I can't miss my flight'.

The starting whistle blows. Surprisingly, I get +2 fame - when would you see an ogre team having more than double the viewers over skaven next time! The fame instantly gives it's fruits - I receive a reroll on the kickoff event. But then it went downhill.

• My target was left exposed for blitz on the setup. I try to blitz - bonehead says 'no'. LoS rats get 2 broken armor, but no injuries - we got 2 more boneheads on the first turn, and I mistake this for an empty square on the right - and like a dumb, leave an even bigger empty field on the left by moving the last active snot there. At least I picked the ball without problems.
• Despite the massive flaw in our defence line - situation on the 2nd turn is not too bad. Snots themselves even smack some 2d blocks on skavens.At least, it wouldn't have been - if my snotpilot ballcarrier didn't fail the dodge. Oh no! The ball rolls across players into a square with tacklezone of an ogrobot, a pilot and 3 rats.
• On resulting skaven blocks (all pushes), I may have needed to sidestep next to the ball. I didn't. Another mistake, and a 4 agility runner picks up the ball with '3' on 3+ roll. He successfully runs away with the ball, a 2 player screen is formed above him. (I still think one gfi was needed to move the gutter runner down additional square to create another layer of spaced defence)
• Because next turn I blitz the ball carrier with break tackle D-4 Smashinator. The dodge was a success, used reroll from the fans, and found the pow. Oh, and before that blitz - pilot Vrozski hits the (Very few actual minuses in this match) injury on a rat - a KO of a gutter runner. We don't risk picking the ball up so close to our score line, but put a pilot on it in addition to the ogrobot.
• Skavens move up on the loosely protected ball, blitz the pilot next to the ball - skull-push-skull. They have to hit the ogrobot in red 2d now. Which they do, it's a push on the ball. But it bounces and is picked by the rat who already moved.
• Thankfully, D-4 Smashinator doesn't bonehead and finds the 6 on the new ballcarrier. Ball bounces away from mech tacklezones, so I have to pick it, at least try. I move a pilot above the ball and try to pick - fail, but it bounces up top, right into the hands of a waiting pilot Xardnut. Turnover.
• Skavens find a 6 in 2d blitz the ballcarrier - it scatters in tackelzone of 2 ogrobots. Nice. But a nasty red 2d block succeeds and downs one of those big guys. Rats don't dare to try for a pickup.
• I set up for a little pushthrough, clearing 2 tacklezones off the ball for the price of one good block. I could clear the last player off the ball - but after some thinking, I decide to blitz into 3d, but my bounty hunter target, over some random skaven. Turns out that picking the ball wasn't in the cards anyway because a snotpilot fails dodge after that.
• A snotpilot is KOd way up in the field, but also pilot Xardnut - earns his Second nigling injury (!), taking an opponent on an unlucky block with him for a turnover.
• I respond with a skull-bothdown turnover block myself. (and a bonehead in the field on that turn too) At least there are 2 ogrobots on the ball still.
• Skavens try for a pickup - 4+ roll fails on '3-rr-2', the ball jumps on 2 rats and one mech (none caught it) and lands near my touchdown area. This particular turn was the scariest for me in terms of getting a score so far. A bit of a phew moment about the non-pick-up.
• On my turn - I move my frenzy ogrobot for a scoring threat, a bit clumsily push scavens up. And fail to pick up the ball without tacklezones. It again bounces on the mech, and lands covered with 2 big guys and a pilot.
• It's turn 7, time for something desperate. And this time rats dodges are working for them. I did the correct sidestep, blocking the left path by the sideline. Gutter runner picks the ball in those terrible conditions on '6', dodges away from my players, but this sidestepped pilot Polpetak stops his winning stride. (dodge skill was used on the very first dodge of his move). Ball falls off to the viewers, who kick it Really far horizontally on my right flank. It lands in the touchdown zone even.
• I really don't have better options on my turn 8 other than to cover the ball with a pilot and a mech. Do a 4th KO in the match and that's it for my half.
• Stormvermin blitzes my guy on the ball - just a push. Gutter Runner with his 4 agility dodges into 1 tacklezone (because there's no TZ from a pilot) and minus 2 on pickup: And he succeeds. 1-0 in the first half. Ouch.

• At the start of second half, 3 out of 4 kod rats get up, 1 out of 1 pilot too. We play 11 vs11. But it's "Underworld"s turn to receive. High Kick - didn't catch, the very first hit results in 'BD-skull' Turnover that cost me a badly hurt on a pilot. I can potentially score right away with a thrown teammate...
• Yeah, as if! Pilot Bachsum couldn't control the air currents and fails the landing (on a roll of '4'. If only he scattered a tiny bit better!) That sends him to the KO box. And I I do some dumb blitz, that's not a pushtrough on the best day, instead of hitting a guy normally.
• Skavens dodge out of the way of my mechs, but the last dodge is failed - it leaves me an open road to at least blitz part of the half-cage, covering the ballcarrier.
• And I bonehead the blitz this turn... That along with another bonehead leaves gutter runner on my right flank free. I try to remedy it with a "tacklezone" of a +move snotpilot, but fail a gfi.
• It wasn't necessary to pass and handoff this turn to score, but - whatever works. I would have just done 2 gfis and a handoff for a score, but it would leave the ball in semi-dangerous position, and wouldn't give 1 spp. (it can be remedied by putting players forward anyway). Oh well, all the necessary rolls are completed - and the score on T11-12 is now 2-0.
• Despite losing, I still wanted to play for victory - that's how we call a 'draw' on the language of tier 3 teams, haha. I set up for a oneturner. The crowd decides to throw a rock, at no other than my target, 'I can't miss my flight'! And it's a KO. Touchback and I give the ball to my +move guy, pilot Makdier. He is really good at landing this time, 2 boneheads stop me from fully smacking the los, and D-4 Smashinator is really good at throwing. 2-1.
• The weather gets even better on a kickoff, and skavens run the ball deep into my field right away. With a fairly questionable-quality screening - That is, if they didn't have a wizard waiting. But they do, and my frenzy ogrobot in the back falls struck by lightning.
• But all my big guys are in tackle zones, break tackle mech is safely cut off in the middle. After a little hitting of rat heads that lead to nothing, I try to blitz - (only!) 2 times the 4+ roll and I would be hitting the ball. But it wasn't meant to happen. D-6 Sambogre falls on the first dodge. (Oh, and I try throwing a player towards the ball in the middle of this turn. '1' on the attempt. But I don't know what I was thinking, not putting the throwing ogre one turn to the left)
• 'I can't miss my flight' runs the ball in before anything bad happens. 3-1
• Fans cheer us up for another reroll. 3 boneheads on the LoS, happens. A pilot doesn't pick up the ball - even after the reroll. Should have brought more snotpilots around the ball first, ugh.
• Skavens don't manage to down my pilot on the ball, and - don't manage to pick the ball up because of that.
• Before moving my guys closer to the ball, I hit a 2d block - finding double skulls. Turnover.
• Pickup, handoff - and it's a 4-1 on the score.
• T15 and we get another touchback. I uhm, do another mistake - this time I don't leave a second ogrobot ready to throw, instead blitz with the guy closer to the ball. The mech I intended to throw with - boneheads. (it wasn't as simple as a mistake - I intended to blitz my target player, but in the last moment saw that the path is covered from all sides now. Had to choose another target)
• Skavens run far far away, but not before smacking a snotpilot with a blitz.
• Last turn of the game - I figured I should not try to go for a risky 4-2 result, but instead foul some, and throw some at the rat live targets too. I foul, breaking armor - but not injuring. The throw at targets wasn't successful either. Thought about going for a vanity pass, but for some reason - didn't do it. 4-1 at the end of the game.

Now, yeah - I didn't play this match super duper well, After watching the replay I found 3 more mistakes on top of 2 I noticed when I played it. But still, I could have pulled a draw maybe, if I played better! So, - play better next time, right?

Yeah, and hopefully I won't get 43 '1's when 'every other face' is at 30-33. Bonehead is at 76%. It's like we skipped a d5 and went straight to d4. Oh well. Still it was a very fun match!