“Well, let's start by saying that I took this game to prove a point: that my pro elves are tougher than the JV Viking Girls team that I was playing against. I initially offered the fine norse ladies an even match with my chaos team. One big guy a piece, a couple guard each, him with skilled positionals against my ST4 guys, and 1 DP apiece...And he comes back begging to play my Pro Elf team instead (no MB, no DP, nothing scary at all). OK buddy, game on! :)

The game itself was a dicerape start to finish. His MB and tackle guys shredded my team up, and despite having equally bad armor, I managed nothing but a couple KOs all game. He only failed a couple real rolls all game, but one was a pickup attempt after he'd moved his whole team away. That let me take an early lead midway through the first half. He made an unlikely pass play with one of his AG4 blitzers though to end the half tied 2-2.

The second half I gave the game away, plain and simple. With the ball in the hands of one of my NoS catchers, he just needed a push on a 2db and an easy elf-dodge or two (one with a knockdown, 2 without) to score and go up 3-2. Instead, misclick creates a 4+ dodge (fail), and self-RIP. The norsettes clear the ball out and start downfield. Down a few guys now, I make a desperate 1db with a reroll and knock the ball loose, which hops right into the hands of an adjacent blitzer, and that was the last I saw of the ball all game.

Stupid dice luck on injuries and a misclick from hell ruined a pretty good game that I thought I had in hand (even with the luck differential). Next game I play with bera971, let's see him man up and play one of my bashers! The gauntlet is thrown down! :)

(bashy-team rematch is serious, and not an evenly bashy match like my chaos, a real bashy mismatch like my dorfs, orcs, or ogres, depending where your TR/TS is at the time)

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(edit after my opponent's response)

I'm basically calling you a hypocrite. You refused a match where you felt outbashed (bit a little, at that, 2 chaos warriors with guard isn't "all", its the same number you had), and wanted to play a match where you heavily outbashed your opponent. The result of the game have nothing to do with that fact. If I'd won I'd have pointed it out, just the same.

I call it both ways, I give props when an elf coach challenges one of my basher teams, and I don't let it slide when someone only wants squishy targets for his own bashy teams. If you think I'm a better coach than you, maybe it's because I don't pick only the favorable matchups for my team and take a tough game now and then. You learn how to play better that way.”