“Both teams came in missing 2 players, but misfortune struck the Dark Elves as one of their players also failed his niggling rolls leaving them with 10 to start the game.

The Dark Elves started in offence and controlled the ball well using their superior speed and dodging abilities (I only had one tackler) despite having 2 players KOd early.

The Norse tried to apply the pressure and eventually the Darkies went to score, making a 3+ pass and 3+ catch, only to snake eyes the 2+ dodge and have the player stunned!

The Norse were able to recover the ball, and then try their own difficult TD. 2 GFIs set up a chain push to put a player into range. Then a 3+ dodge and 2 GFI put him in the end zone! The ball carrier did his own GFI to hand off to a Lineman who did 2 GFI to bring the ball into Quick Pass range. Just a 3+ 3+ to steal a 1-0 lead! The pass was good but the catch was dropped (reroll failed)! What a climatic finish to a first half dominated by the Darkies.

The second half saw the Darkies only start with 8 players as their 2 KO players were still snoozing! However, they aquitted themselves well on the field and pressured the Norse team who made things harder for themselves by rerolling a 2 dice block into double skulls and a stun!

The Dragonbowl were able to set up a 1 dice blitz and got a Pow on the reroll, but the Norse recovered the ball and screened it before running to one short of the endzone.

The Darkies used their AG5 Blodge Leaper to do a one dice blitz but only a push came up on both attempts and the Norse were able to push him away to win 1-0.
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A hard fought game. Well played by my opponent who had some really bad luck deny him a certain score in the first half, and also had his apothecary fail on the RIP.

I hope you get a good recovery game.”