“I have long contended that this is an extremely poor team build. However, 1 Claw/RSC and 3 other Claws on the roster mean that in open [L] play, it's pretty darned hard to prove. So when the Pride 'Super Heavyweight' division opened up it's doors to TR 200, I thought, why the hell not. At TR200, I expected to be defeated by guard/MB AV9 type teams in a classic 2-1 style. I expected to be fouled from the pitch by regen. But I expected to give it a good go with 100k ready to go on a star or a wizard, and the kill skills might win me the day if I played well and got lucky.

When I saw from the draw that I'd gotten Pro Elves, I kinda had a mixed feeling of joy (ooh - AV7, mmm) and horror (O Crap, I have zero skills to combat blodge, Leap, AG5 Elves, where's mah Orcs?!). But I expected the game to pan out thusly; I'd lose 3-1 ish, something like that, and my kill skills and a Nobbla hire would make things fun and maybe closer if I got some early CAS. That was with even dice!

I think it's fair to say that the natural winning roster of Azure, together with his excellent coaching against bashers was enough to win the game. The 6-0 came from Nuffle rubbing it in. I won't go all emo on you, but it's fair to say that 1dbs everywhere, leaps, scatters, even CAS dice were all with the Pro Elves this day. Still, 6-0 is pretty damned embarrassing. Every time I set up I hoped to get something off of the pitch, but by a T4 blitz! when I was already 2-0 down, my brain just shut down,a nd I expect my coaching went to pot.

Grats to Azure, and the very best of luck in the rest of it. I would imagine the 6 bashy teams remaining will be easy prey for a good Elven 11, the only hope for the bashers is that that damned armour breaks at some point. ;)

See you next time, and thanks for keeping a fun atmosphere.
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