“Scheduled SMACK Pro, Semi-Final

This game was defined by the cas count. I came into the game with 2 freebooters to bring my squad up to 11 players. JoeMalik had 13 ready to go, so I was working on a thin margin to avoid being outnumbered. As the game progressed though, I made steady progress bringing opposing dwarfs off the pitch (in various states of disrepair).

After allowing a TD to start the first half, we took the ball and came very close to scoring, but a late desperation blitz and a bounce into some well-defended hands cost us a chance to tie at the half.

The second half was a continued grind. Making progress to the point of outnumbering our opponents, Hammer took all half to score and take the game to overtime tied 1-1 and up 2 players.

We received in OT and it was more of the same. A hard grinding dorf/dorf win, though JoeMalik managed to make it interesting late, after I misclicked and dodged a beard into a TZ and turned the ball over with my carrier in a TZ. Still, my AG4 blitzer recovered and took it in for the game-winner.

GG JoeMalik. I'd have never predicted an 8-0 cas advantage going into this one.”