“Brutal encounter with the orcs - who seemed interested only in killing or maiming us (or, preferably, both!). Still, this has long been a favourite strategy of the orcs, so it came as no surprise.

They began by killing our Ogre, Ju-Nahhhhh, who "got better", due to the Apoc actually doing his job for a change. And in the last turn of the first half, the mighty bonehead got his revenge, picking the ball up, and scoring with a GFI, all with no RRs remaining....not that they could have helped him in any case.

The second half started with the Monks down to 9 - a state of affairs which soon became even worse as the orcs hunted down and killed Sub-Deacon Dave (our blodge/catch/side step catcher), and then stood laughing as Br David (bad day for the Daves on our team) dodged bravely out of a TZ, tripped, and landed head first on a discarded orcish warspike.... oops.

Facing only 7 humans, the orcs broke away downfield, but were stopped on 3 successive turns due to dodge/GI/1 dice blitzes from the scrambling Monks. However, this took an even heavier toll on the Monks, and Urka finally managed to level the scores in the final round.

A bloody and hard encounter, but fun nonetheless!

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