“Nuffle must have enjoyed this one. On the opening drive the weather was sweltering but Zabrax Greyheart managed to run the gauntlet of scary dwarves to score the first TD of the game.

For the ensuing kick off 4 of my guys, including the ST6 mummy with block, the Strip Ball Wight and my kicker all suffered from heat exhaustion and then after the kick the rowdy fans invaded the pitch, leaving all but 3 of my players lying stunned on the field. Luckily I was able to bog down the ball-carrying runner with defenders and he ran out of time before he could score the equalizer.

The 2nd half saw the dwarves beating up on my team while running the ball down the field. My worthy opponent tried to stall the half out to force overtime but I managed to apply just enough pressure that he had no choice but to run the ball in or risk losing all together. With 4 turns left on the clock all I had to do was score and victory would be mine. One of my ghouls got the ball and ran it down the field, gaurded by a cage of defenders—but they were quickly swarmed by the dwarven horde. With the clock clicking down and little room to maneuver, the ghoul decided to take a chance and make a break for it, which required a successful dodge...which of course he failed, even with the skill reroll. The ball was quickly surrounded by players from both sides and it looked like OT was imminent. With one desperate attempt to seal the victory, Zabrax tried dodging into 3 TZs to go after the ball and the win. The dodge failed as did the reroll and then disaster struck....SI-Broken Collar Bone (-ST), Zabrax did not regenerate. :(

Overtime saw the dwarfs kicking to my depleted squad but I still had hope of scoring...until I failed to pick up the ball on 4 separate attempts. That gave the dwarves enough time to swarm my end with his ST4 dudes and surround the ball. Eventually he removed enough of my players that I was helpless to stop him from scoring. With 2 turns left to score the equalizer and force the coin flip all remaining hope (there was litte left at this point, the horrible failed dodge and the string of 1s on pick up ball attempts had pretty much depleted it entirely) was completely eradicated when I rolled another 1 when I tried to pick up the ball. Congrats to SavageJ who played very well and is sporting a very tough squad of hombres. Only at the end of the match did I realize I was a complete idiot and forgot to hire the Count at the beginning of the game!!! doh!
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