“Ach... My opponent was a gentleman, but this match was just awful.

Despite our removal of the Human killer early on (Apo'd), that was the last time that the Underworld would remove a player from the pitch for this game. By contrast, the humans took out 4 players in the first drive, including our good blitzer. The silver lining was that we were able to stall until turn 8, so things looked good for a tie (which usually seems to be the best The Lost Children can hope for, these days).

The second half things just got brutal. The humans pounded nonstop, and both skaven throwers left the game. They played pretty loose with the ball, and we were able to get a few blitzes on it. However, 2 perfect bounces (the second into the hands of a human blitzer) just stopped any attempt at defense cold. They then decided to score, with the risk of counterscore quite low, as only 2 rats, 3 goblins and a troll remained on the pitch.

Well, at that point, it like it would end up as a little cat-and-mouse game with the humans having 4 turns to extract the ball from our hands and score a second time. However, the infamous 'players change positions after set-up' bug reared its ugly head, and our troll was suddenly left without a Goblin beside him to remind him how to play. His blitz, which would have tied up the human killer, was then wasted. If I had thought about it longer, I probably would have requested to cancel the match, because it was a game-losing bug. My bad call. But it sure made the rest of it feel like a waste of time.

Crappy way for a game to go, especially in light of the one-sided pounding. But that's Blood Bowl, I guess...
I hope I can play this fine opponent again on more even terms.”