“I am doing a first woodelf match review here. Going into the match with ten players like is often the case for low TR woodies. I was hoping to get not more than one lino miss next game so that I would be complete for FUMBBL B minor. So apart from the usual target of winning I wanted to score 2 times with my wd (for very important strip ball) and if possible skill another lino with 3 spp.
It is the 5th match of the team which was intended for the minor from the beginning thats why ff is low.
So far i skilled 5 linos with 5 different skills I normally take dodge on the first lino and dp on the second. Then block and kick. I got a guard on one of the linos in between. The tree also was skilled already with guard. I think 2 guards are enough early on for woodies because I dont like blocking so much. One guard is often needed to punch a hole in the defensive set-up.

So its 8 linos one wd and atree against 11 darkelves. 2 blitzers (one with mb), 2 skilled linos (+ma and block). Main threat on the opposing team is the block mighty blow blitzer jungle. So the aim is to foul him out as early as possible.
I choose to receive first, to have the first shot at him. According to that plan i set-up aiming at a blitz and foul on jungle. Torun and Trochowski should probably not be placed on the los but closing the lower side one space of the line. Blocking is not very attractive without block and decend rr back-up.

The kick off ended in a decent place. So i started off with the secure 2db then the blitz on jungle without knocking him over so no foul. I wanted to follow up with three dice block with tree and then move mathijsen to cover the ball. but the tree rolled three skulls ;).
I would have targeted to pick up the ball with red shirt now as my oppo. But Saltosimoon decided to throw all blocks possible after covering the ball with his blitzer. He tried to get my dancer down with jungle but didnt get the pow. I was not unhappy with jungle blitzing the wd instead of a no skill lino, which would be a higher chance of casuality but of course a wd is always target #1. My tree was fouled but remained stunned.

After blitzing the ball covering player i tried to get jungle down again and succeeded. Then I picked up the ball with an overall very lucky turn. I fouled jungle with my dp to a stun. But the result of this very lucky turn was my players crowded in 2 places not really woody style. In retrospect I should not have tried to knock out jungle but set up my players more evenly distributed so that i could easily find a good position after my oppos next turn. Saltosimoon capitilized very well on his next turn, leaving me in a very tough position afterwards. I had a very lucky turn again and managed to place my ball carrier in decent position also with my wd in a good scoring position. Saltosimoon could have blitzed my ballcarrier with a 2db with some gft and dodges, but the scatter would probably go into a position not easy to pick-up. Probably that was the reason not to try it. A missed gft after a missed dodge gave me the opportunity for an easy td which I happily used after taking another shot at jungle. No stalling because I wanted to score three times in the game if possible.

The defensive setup is typical for me. I try to avoid putting rookie lino on the los because they get hurt even more easily. With the tree i can normally avoid many chainpushes. So there is a decent chance of them staying up. I normally give my oppo the opportunity to score quite easily with a pass when I have time to score afterwards. So covering the sides is not very important to me. If oppo does not want to pass for the score his ballcarrier may get to close to my wd than is good for him ;). And pass can always fail.

My oppo set-up 4 player to score and decided on a risky foul on Aogo which worked nice for him. He decided to keep the ball deep out of reach. With the eye not on me and too many players to cover i decided to take another shot at jungle but could not bring him down. My oppos blitz was stopped by a missed dodge. I could not capatilize because I didnt put a player putting preassure on the ball carrier probably another mistake. Tried to foul jungle again after a blitz in the wrong direction but my evil thoughts were spoiled by a missed dodge. Saltosimoon made a nice elvish score in turn 6 leaving me with 2 turns to score again. A timely injury time roll on kick off allowed me to get another nasty foul in which was equalized on my wd. I managed to score for 2 - 1 in first half with both apos gone maybe less fouling next half ;).

Saltosimoon put 4 players in scoring position but this time put the ballcarrier in a position for a 2db. Probably because for winning he needed to score fast. I normally go for the ballcarrier if possible and was rewarded. I normally dont like to put my players next to opposing players but with the guarding tree I decided to make it difficult for him to pick-up. After the following turnover the game was pretty much decided.

I managed to score once more after the 1db on the ballcarrier worked leaving with another skilled lino.

I was lucky in the important turns and with the injuries taken leaving me without a miss. Thanks Saltosimoon for the fun game ;).

The 30k and increased FF meant that by retiring a healthy lino and firing my assistant coach I could get exactly to 129 TR with 110k to spend. Probably on a catcher but depending on first round oppo.
If I wasnt signing up I would rather buy a reroll than a catcher. I normally buy catchers only when most linos are skilled. And for my aggresive style to go for the ball I need many rerolls, because if I am not as lucky as in this game I need more attempts to knock the ball loose.”