“Ok, I play a 'bashing' team and get 1 casualty against....I just don't understand this run of luck...

I got lucky this game.

1st, the Fist slowly march down the field...and are positioned to score..in fact, the CDB with the ball can walk in with no rolls...but he decides to throw a blitz..gets a push and I sidestep so that the dwarf with the ball can't make it in now without dodging thru TZ's...so he hands it off to a Hobo, who fails either a dodge or a GFI and we go into the half tied at one.

I recieve the kickoff of the 2nd half and manuever for the down field play..but the ball is close to the LOS and I don't have enough guys to make a credible threat down field and get the ball out of harms way...my GR is too far back...so I try to dodge to the ball with a linerat, but he failes the dodge and stuns himself.

The dwarves make a good cage and begin to slowly march down the field again.. I'm way out of position...all but two of my players are on the other side of the pitch....so, I resign myself to picking on the CD players on that half of the field and watch as the Dwarves march downfield at 3 or 4 squares a turn.

but, there is an opening of sorts..I can put TZ's on 2 of the 4 'posts' of the cage..and if my Agil 5 GR can dodge into 3 TZ, he can get a 2db dwarves pick on a hobo in the middle without block. And I can do the dodge from a square that doesn't have a tackler on it!!!!

I make the dodge in!! I throw the block, but one is a skull..so I have to rr...pow, pow! The Ball carrier is DOWN!!!
..but the ball bounces to the middle of the cage (where the BC was), so I don't dodge into 4 TZ, but dodge away and get a little bit away from the cage.

The dwarves then do something weird...they set up the cage a few squares closer to the EZ..but with a CDB in the middle...the lone hobo gets the ball, but fails the handoff/pass (or the CDB failed the catch)...
the ball bounces out and is in only 1 TZ...Speedy (agile 5) rushes in, gets the ball, runs downfield and passes to another GR..the pass is there, but the GR doesn't catch it..but it bounces to my SV next to him..and the SV catches the ball.

There are very few CD on this end of the field...so I head slowly to the EZ while knocking down everyone I can down on this end of the field. The dwarves don't make a good push from the other end, and I delay another turn...finally, they get some pressure close, so I score on my turn 5 of the 2nd half.

That leaves them 3 turns to score...Despite my best efforts (including another 2db opponent picks..didn't knock me down, but didn't knock the bc down either) the CD's scored..if only speedy had sidestep I think I might have had a better shot at stopping him..as it was, he had to block, then blitz, then block, then block again on him (the blitz might have been last).

Overall, it was a very good game...one of the few you'll ever see me stall in (at least with a skaven team)”