“2nd round of the WO, our first ever major.
Facing wood elves - after hiring deeproot they now have 2 str 7 block treemen, scary!! Their team is very good for their rating, with every lineman having at least 2 skills and there's a lot of tackle to take out my poor skinks. However we had a couple things up our sleeves, first of all counterhiring Silibili to even out the stars, and secondly Adohi-itza turning up high on illegal drugs and sporting knuckledusters!

And they prove useful as given the ball with a touchback he starts things out with a blitz BH'ing an opposing tackler. Normal, slow attack by us made easier by the elves falling over themselves though one Saurus BH'd by a treeman, another KO'd. Then their dauntless wardancer blitzes and takes down adohi-itza.

The next turn the nearby skinks attempt a brave play that unfortunately fails right at the final dodge into the endzone! The ball ends in the middle of a brawl which eventually seems to end in my favor as droves of the enemy leave the pitch. We start stalling and decide to risk it slightly (and get to turn 8 for safety) with a foul attempt on their start wardancer- unfortunately only manage to KO him. The woodies take down the ball carrier the next turn but the ball nicely drops between 2 saurus. In my final turn I knock out of the way any obstacles and lucky 13 stands back up, grabs the ball and runs in the TD on my final turn.

2nd half we set up 11 vs 8 - hopefully we can prevent them scoring! We kick things off with a good kick right to the side and a BLITZ - though unfortunately we're not able to push through and make things really difficult for them. However a nice blitz by star wardancer Arne Ambryst II lets the woodies break through. I manage to take down the ball carrier (adohi's 3rd casualty!) but as I dodge a skink through he slips onto the ball, badly hurting himself! As further insult he knocks the ball straight into a wood elf's hands! They capitalise on this mistake and dodge around to score the 1-1 TD. Can we make the drive to win it? Only 9 lizards to stand up vs 8 wood elves, hrm.

Wood elves rush in hassling my deep skink with the ball (+str Gecko) but we move towards the middle and cage up slightly while tagging all available elves. Need them to fail some dodges and burn those RRs really. Meanwhile one st7 tree is lolling on the ground glad of the break from the game. We take a good turn and push Gecko right through to a scoring position, slightly defended. But then silibili foolishly jumps to the ground instead of taking out his target elf (didn't notice the elf's +str for a minute) letting several elves charge down, taking down gecko and almost passing the ball upfield to slight safety. Lucky 13 grabs it back but he's very undefended and he's immediately knocked out!

Elves attempt the pickup but without any luck. In my next turn Silibili blitzes in and grabs the ball! He then withstands Deeproot's blitz! The fans go wild at this confrontation of the stars! The following turn mighty Ankhy takes down Deeproot (with a little help from his friends), freeing up silibili to make a wild rush for the endzone with a single saurus bodyguard. He's now in range of the endzone but what will the remaining elves do in their final turn? They pile in 3 around him and his bodyguard hoping to force some dice rolling on my part, but in the end it's not enough as i'm able to do 2x 2d blocks and a single GFI all backed by my reroll (didn't have to use) and silibili runs in the winning TD!

A great result for the brawlers, making round 3 with a full roster. Well done lizards!

Thanks for the game Onkelh!”