“fumbbl-cup semi-final game.

i freebooted hthark to even up the strenght a bit, having lost 2 players last game. we both had full teams playing despite 11 possible nigglers.

i started on defense and set up deep to prevent skink rushes.

after 2 turns of bashing i was down 2 cas to nothing, but i am used to that by now. ;)

he always surrounded the ballcarrying st1 skink with 4 sauri, so i har to use hthark to blitz into the pocket. it didn´t work first tiem, even with a reroll and he knocked him over. but then he made a small mistake and only moved the ball 1 square. next turn i simply stood up hthark and blitzed again, this time knocking the ball lose. i even managed to pick it up and run away a bit.

but he quickly caught me and the ball was now lose close to my endzone.

i concentrated on his last remaining skink, but could not remove him. he survived 1 blitz and 1 +3 foul.

in his last turn he picked up the ball and ran it in for the lead.

my last turn brought me my first cas, making it 1-4 at that time. BOOOO!

second half started with my 10 players to his 12 (the troll had regenerated his injury)

but like last game the second half was much more fortunate for me.
my hitting improved and i managed to remove a few of his players.
nothing worked against his kroxi though, who survived 2 dirty player fouls.

i wanted to stall to overtime, but his 4 break tackle sauri made that impossible, so i had to give him 3 turns to score the winning touchdown.
luckily a pitch invasion ruined any plans he might have had (4 stuns, 1 ko).

in overtime i received and was 6-0 rerolls up. it looked like an easy win when he rolled bad kick and i could give the ball to hthark.

but again his maneuvarable sauri made stalling to risky and he had 1 last chance to tie the game.

my perfect defense proved to be worse than my first setup and he could move 3 receivers into my half of the pitch. but then his lack of rerolls ended the game with a play that had a fair chance of scoring witha long pass.

this was the closest and most challenging game so far and very enjoyable too (except the first 4 turns which were complete crap).

gitzbang would have deserved the win as well, in the end was a bit lucky. well, maybe 2 bits. =D

on to the FINAL ! ! !
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