“Lots of stuff going on here, but the short version is that the rats played a better game, the wood elves ran on luck for much of the first half, and then lost too many important players at the end of the first half so were in no real position to keep up enough pressure on the rats for the whole of the second half.

Neither team was particularly tooled-up. I had the block tree, and extremegrazedknee had a nice MB tackle blitzer, but neither was a real force to be reckoned with. The tree took root a couple of times so his block tally was down, and the ones he did make were just ineffective. The skaven blitzer was seriously injured at the end of the first half, and extremegrazedknee wisely chose to use the app (even though there was no perm) and having him back for the second half did make a difference.

Being low on players for the second half, and having a sneaky pass-blocker threatening to mess up the one aspect of the game I can do well, my strategy was basically throw a safe pass and then run the catcher down as far as he could go - and hopefully out of reach of either the tackler, the diving tackler or any of the wrestlers. This worked once, thanks to a nifty (and extremely lucky) dodge into two TZs, but not a second time, where I would have had to dodge out of the diving tacklers TZ twice and pick up in two TZs to score.

So extremegrazedknee got the ball back with time enough to get all the way down to the other end for the final-turn winner - which he made by risking a hand-off to a linerat, rather than safely running it in with a gutter runner.

To be honest, it would have been grossly unfair if he'd failed as he played the better game and deserved the win, so the end result was the one it should have been and I'm happy enough with three scores and 5 for 55 passing.

Back to a 5-journeyman game next time out, as the wardancer is taking a break, but he did manage to pick up mighty blow for his trouble so it's not all bad news.

I really want to play another game right now, but it's way past my bedtime and I do have to be up in just over six hours so it'll just have to wait.

Harumph!”