“XFL IX Halfling - Final

After Zed took us most of the good inducements away, Morg and Master Chef, we started with Deeproot and a second apothecary this final. He didn't put more money in his treasury to buy also Deeproot because my team was not worth it, so were his words at the beginning of the game.

It showed fast, that after a good early shot at his Strength 3 Block Tackle Mighty Blow Stunty-Nemesis, which badly hurt him by then, the first half, where we were on offense, was doable and we controlled more and more of the pitch by every subsequent turn.
In the second half his healed monster returned on the pitch and swept away everything in sight. There was absolutely no way to defend once in turn 1 Deeproot failed to do one Go For It and was an easy target for one of his many Dirty Players. We tried to preserve our players and rerolls as much as possible and hoped for best in Overtime.

Unfortunately Zed started on offense then. He had one reroll left and we had four left, with 11 vs 10 players to our advantage, so the chances to win the game were still alive.
His tactics were extremely conservative, he put up a deep cage and seemed to fear our trees very much. Although he had only one rooted tree left, the firepower was always in favor to Zed thanks to his one freakish player. And so it came that instead of trying to overpower the opponent we concentrated on blocking his path, which worked for most of the time. A lucky throw team mate attempt offered the chance on a one dice Blitz, which was successful and popped the ball free. We could not take advantage of it and had to watch how Zed threw his new ball carrier in turn 7. He failed to land on his feet and the last attempt at turn 8 was similar unlucky. In the end it was a coin toss that won us the game and the tournament against teams much more versatile and dangerous.

Kleine Kerle ganz groß will carefully improve themselves over the next few months to defend their title at XFL Halfling X.”