“Stand Firm slows down my plans somewhat, and I just am unable to get the blocks to count where they're needed. It also didn't help that their deathroller BHed'd right through my new mino's Inertial Damper in the blizzard first turn of the game. Apothed just to keep him upThen I noticed he had super stars compared to my emerging stars at best and saw how badly I was outclassed.

My plan was to let them have the first score then aim for a tie in the second, only because Deathroller and my mino was out for the drive. Unfortunately, armor 9 is far harder to break (except on my dwarves) than armor 7 (which is STILL very hard to break, except on my hobs). Tied at the half of the second half because in no way was I stalling with their pressure, and that gave him more than enough time to pull the 2-1 grind off now that the weather cleared up.

On the other hand, I was playing minus two players so I wasn't really playing terribly for keeps. This team is in bad recovery mode as it is, they lack money (because they rolled only 10K winnings this match and gambled on buying a mino; it blew up in their face because of course Deathroller and constant misbehavior)... it's an ugly situation :P”