“Note, game was restarted as I won the toss originally (log posted to opponent) in an icybowl game, but he accidently chose to receive when we had to restart due to him having the wrong version on his laptop in a mudbowl game.

We agreed to restart due to my winning the toss, and third time there was no weather (gate range was same all 3 times).

FUMBBL Minors TR175 round 2 match.

The Nightmares came in stronger on paper, with a DP and a Bull Centaur with Break Tackle. However, this soon got turned on its head as the Nightmares DP was sent off on his first foul whilst only causing a stun (whoops).

The Nightmares were down a player, so kept the ball way back until eventually they got a KO and were in a good position to push the ball forwards to relative safety.

This was helped somewhat by my opponent accidently sending a BOB on a 6+ dodge as he was using his wife's laptop and using the touchpad and sent the player to the wrong square!

Opponent played very well to keep up the pressure, and in the end, it took a couple of one dice blocks needing a Push to set up a score.

Note, I did a silly follow up that made it a bit harder than it needed to be - it was a one dice push req, then a 2 dice blitz req a push, then a 2 dice block req a pow for a one dice block needing 2+ (CD vs skill-less Troll). If I hadn't followed up on my first block, then my final block vs the Troll would have been 2 dice block (fail 1 in 36 in stead of 1 in 6).

Second half, we set up on defence, and just as I thought I should kick short, I got a blitz on a midrange kick). The ball was too deep to attack directly, but we piled onto one side of the LOS whilst massing the rest of our team just short of the Orcs on the other side.

The Giantz pulled a couple of players back to try and defend the ball, but they were overwhelmed by a Bull Centaur and three Hobbos.

The Giantz pulled more players back, but the Nightmares were able to protect the ball and even milk a pass to give their 14 SPP Bull Centaur the ball for the skill up score.
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A tough game for my opponent. He played well, but I had a couple of good breaks (eg when I got 2 CD dodges using one RR to get out of trouble). Then again, he also had some good dice too, like when he -2D blocked my Bull Centaur with his Thrower who didn't have Block, and got double Pow on the reroll and caused a stun.

This put me in a tough position for a while, but I was able to block my way out of it and set up for a score attempt. I defended against the -2D surf on a 6+ dodge and ended up having a Troll on my Hobbo and needing the above play to score.

Second half, the Blitz gave me the upper hand and we took advantage of the gifted luck.”