“So going into the game, I'm thinking zon's only have 7 armour, even with blodge I have enough guard and tackle to cause them problems (surely lots of 2d blocks should hurt some of them?, they only have 11 players. I should be able to get a player advantage and then their armour will really be a problem for them.

NO!

Not only was my blocking absolutely terrible, (first turn I rolled 3 2dice blocks (double skull, push/pow and push, bothdown and skull to turn myself over) and then throughout the game (the players with tackle got both downs and pushbacks and the players without tackle got both downs and pow pushes). In retaliation my opponent beat my armour (a 9 or higher) 15 times out of 38 without factoring in his two mighty blow players (a further 5 rolls of 8) which meant I was the one down players from turn 1 and on the back foot throughout the game.

Shot in particular went on a rampage getting 4 casualties including seriously injuring the ogre in turn 8 of the 1st half.

I really couldn't compete with my opponents casualty rate against me and basically gave up.

My opponent suggested I shouldn't have gone toe to toe with his amazons, but what does a guard heavy ag3 team do when it is in contact?
I attempted to block my way out. Except even with then my blocking was so bad I couldn't limit him to a single blitz per turn as I was turning over on my own blocks, leaving players in contact allowing him to make those absurd number of high armour rolls and butcher my team.

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