“This was a tough, hard game, and as the luck shows, SirJacks was ever so lightly the luckier player - he may not think so, but I had 5 players on the field at the end of the game, he had less rerolls and my rerolls never did any good (fail 2+ twice, 3+ twice plus others). Even so, with skaven you have the speed to make up for when things that should work don't come off.

The bizarre thing at the beginning (Troll had 3db, got two skulls and a block/pow against a linerat and DIED, no regen!) set the game off in my favour, with a run home to score, but a nice cage and dodge +2 GFI allowed the orcs to equalize. 1-1 at half time.

Kickoffs went the orcs way - Three touchbacks for the Orcs from kickoffs and a blitz against my one favourable kickoff (get the ref) and I was wondering if I would have enough players left to put up a fight. With pick the ball up potentially eating a reroll I wonder if the 3 touchbacks affected the result any, but we'll never know.

Two particularly good turns for the Orcs (ok, not that lucky - they only have AV7 to beat) left me picking what was left up off the floor and having to -2db against an orc blitzer with a gutter runner, after a dodge/blitz failed to dodge (the assistant had pulled one off already) and again with the reroll.

The -2db failed (got a block/pow & pow, reroll then pushback and skull) leaving the Orc to run down the field unopposed to pass to one of two nicely placed receivers.

Thankfully (for me) he tried a GFI in H2 T8 to narrow the range and that failed, handing me a scraped win by the slimmest of margins.

You are a good sport SirJacks - i thought you lost your head when I started using the ref, and would get players sent off, but your only foul left your player on the field.

As you can see from the number of blocks I threw, I was relying more on running the ball than bashing a way through, but had 4RR to back me up, so the blocks I did throw weren't too bad at all.

I'm amazed that the orcs didn't wipe the team off the field completely to be honest - 56 blocks against my 20, and against AV7. Even so I was 8 players down by the end, so I don't want too many games like this - if that troll had stayed on the field I would have been completely minced!!!

Close, tight game, and my first win in this tournament after playing a no reroll Elf team that failed in 2-3 things in 16 turns kinda had me wondering why I bothered taking rerolls when they don't do anything.

I'm still wondering why I took so many rerolls, cause they still aren't doing anything. :S

Cheers, and good luck in the next game!”