“A tough proposition for Da Skarr Boyz facing 7 Dodgers and not having any Tackle. A pitch invasion taking down 5 Orks and only one Dark Elf made it even tougher as there were gaps everywhere and the Deads were able to score quickly despite momentarily losing the ball.

Da Boyz lined up in offence and managed a very difficult TD whilst injuring a couple of Dark Elves with blocks. It was a tough drive with highly developed players swarming da inexperienced (max 1 skill) Boyz.

The second half started with Da Boyz in offence with only 8 players as 4! players were suffering heat stroke and 1 out of 2 players failed to wake up from being KO'd. The Dead had 11 in defence and a Perfect Defence (grrrrrrrrr) made things very difficult.

Da Boyz caged and contained the ball behind their line of scrimmage, playing protectively as the were outnumbered by more developed players.

Both teams tried to use the sidelines to their advantage, with Da Boyz cramping a downed witch and KOing a Lineman with a foul.

However, it came unstuck for the Dead when their Blockless witch rolled Skull/Pows on a combination play and injured herself. Note - the Witch needed a push with two dice, then another push with two dice, then a one dice push/pow to get an OOB and would then probably get their own OOB next turn.

Da Boyz peeled off the sideline and regrouped, injuring the second Dead Witch Elf to make it 8 players apiece!

Da Boyz pushed the ball past the LOS but decided to protect their Guard player from a 2 dice blitz and face a tough wall to dodge past, giving up a 2 dice against Blitz option on their ball carrier.

2 dice against is safe right? Only 1 in 9... and today it was that 1 as he came up with two pows and knocked the ball lose! The Dead burned their last Reroll trying to catch the bouncing ball, and then pushed a player onto it to leave it in one TZ.

The Dead picked up the ball, dodged and threw the ball downfield where the catch was dropped. Unlucky to fail the catch, but damn lucky to knock the ball free.

Da Boyz chainpushed a player closer and blitzed the Dead player near the ball to free it up from TZs, recovered it and threw a short pass back up to where the ball was before!

The Dead tried a one dice Blitz on the ball carrier to no avail and Da Boyz ran it further downfield. With no RR left, the Dead made a 2+ Dodge and a 2+ GFI to get a 2 dice blitz but didn't even end up with a Push!

A Dead player then really became dead when he tripped and killed himself on a dodge and Da Boyz made the 3+ dodge (with a reroll left) to seal a tough 2-1 victory.
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A very very tough game. My opponent had a much better team, and the opening Pitch Invasion handed him a TD on a platter pretty much.

Then the second half heat stroke rolls were cruel, with 4/11 failed on my side, and just 1 from 11 but making their KO roll. Then a Perfect Defence on top of that. Ouch!

Some lucky cas evened up the numbers nicely, only for the game to be almost lost with the 2 dice against blitz. In hindsight, I should have made it harder to blitz (force a dodge and GFI) but I was trying to shield my Guard player from getting hit and then having 3 TZs onto my ball carrier.

A great bit of luck for my opponent to steal the ball, and a great piece of luck for me to get it back and eventually steal the win.

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