“Ulthuan Invitational Knockout Round 1 Match!

What a fun fun game this was for me heh. Not sure it was so much fun for my opponent, and understandably so.

The winner of this match had to play Buskopanz and his two DP, two Claw + Razor Sharp Claw and other Mighty Blow and Claw players so my goal was always to try keep my team alive to play another day. Winning was not a major goal LOL.

My cause was helped with one of my first blocks of the game seriously injuring a Chaos Warrior. I scored quick leaving my opponent 7 turns to grind me in the first half.

I thought the game was over when we rolled Get the Ref heh. I managed to survive the first round of blocks pretty well with a couple of KOs. There was not a good player on the ground for my opponent to foul without exposing his own DP to a big hit followed by a +3 foul with a DP in return.

So I spread out, and my opponent consolidated with the ball in the middle with a 5 player ball and cage. A fireball by my hired wizard flattened his Ogre, another Chaos Warrior and badly hurt the one Dirty Player he had fielded this half!

I was then quite unlucky not to steal the ball with a two dice blitz (rerolled too) on his ball carrier. I had high AG players all over the place so a Pow on either dice - 55.5% on each two dice block - would have made it very hard for my opponent to stop me scoring).

My opponent mobbed up to make use of his guard and I dodged away as much as I could and used by Dirty Player to foul away repeatedly.

I did not have much chance to attack his ball carrier as it was a Str4 guy with a couple of Guard escorts as I had a couple of snake eye dodges or used rerolls earlier in the turn before I had the chance to do dodges with my AG6 guard guy to get an assist in there.

So I focused on bashing and fouling as much as I could heh.

Unfortunately, I was still losing because I had 6 in the KO box at the end of the first half!

Second half, I was soon down to 9 after his first round of blocks heh.

I continued to bash where I could and we both fouled (it is a tourney after all heh). His last DP got sent off early, and mine got a few more good fouls in before getting sent off too heh.

In then end, I just did not have enough players as I kept geting players KOd, and I also did have a few snake eye dodges again whilst my opponent got a critical one dice POW late in the half to take out my AG6 Guard guy just when I had a chance to set up one dice blitz.

Whilst my opponent played well, giving up a couple of fouls in the first half to consolidate his position, we both had some good and bad luck. I think I got the slightly worse luck after the lucky fireball. Failing the pow on four dice, and then a couple of snake eye dodges made it too hard with the number of players I had KO'd.

That being said, we both played pretty well I think and the dice was not too unkind to either of us.

I enjoyed the game very much and I achieved my main goals - minimum injuries, and my AG5 Blitzer got to 76 SPP and did not age, and my Witch Elf on 26 SPP got the MVP.

I could not be happier really heh.

Jolt, best of luck in the rest of the tourney :).”