The official Triple POW! Magazine staff league started last night. Hurrah! It was... interesting. Hurrah?

A quick backgrounder on how the league works: the four of us -- myself, aerofool, ravyn and legionsrealm -- went through four rounds of drafting teams from the standard list. This gave us each a stable of four teams to pick from for our first season. I opted to use Wood Elves to go up against the Orcs, Skaven and Necromantic teams -- we'll see how that turns out.

Game 1: vs. Orcs (aerofool). This could've easily been a blowout, had I not made some major goofs.

First, I botched an early touchdown by tripping over the goal line on a double-GFI. Then I botched the follow-up to that attempt by blitzing with my Catcher -- they look similar to Wardancers! Newbie mistake! -- and being knocked down on an unexpected two-die-against block.

Later in the game, up 1-0 on an excellent counter-rush to a huge screen, I manage to weasel the ball free from a scrum and park near my own end zone with a Wardancer to buy some time. Big mistake -- I get pushed into a corner and my Wardancer botches the Leap. (This was a recurring theme all night; is "Landing Gear" an acceptable General skill?) Lineorc picks up the ball, waddles in, 1-1. Draw!

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Aerofool and I blew off steam with an Academy match (my Orcs vs. his Undead) and, to put it lightly, Nuffle decided aerofool was going to lose. He dropped more skulls than a clumsy archaeologist, leading to a 3-0 (!!) blowout. On the upside, he did kill Skullsplitta (Black Orc Blocker), leaving me with 10 players for the next match.

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Can't wait for my next match, be it League or Academy! Leave me a PM if you're interested in a game.

--Rituro