“I'd like to thank Temujen for my first game back from a very long layoff. It was nice to be back in the low-pressure environment of Academy.

In the spirit of Academy, here's a few tips to help him work on.

1) This Orc team is seriously imbalanced - there are too many Linemen, when Orcs are sufficiently hardy that that they don't die by attrition, meaning Temujen will have to fire some to fit the essential Blitzers and Blockers into this side. At least there's quite a treasure trove now, which will pay for two new players, probably one each of the aforementioned positionals. After that, only more RRs are needed, with Linemen replaced by positionals when they die/niggle.

2) Don't get sucked into the mid-pitch brawl - because I out-strengthed his side, Temujen needed to avoid getting into a punch up. Instead, on offence, his players all ended up on the LoS, where I simply marked them out of the game, then outflanked them with my wide Beastmen, who did a good job of hunting down the isolated thrower. If you leave a thrower alone like that in the backfield, you'd better have a cage surrounding him, or a receiver to catch the pass and score. Voicerot had neither.

3) Pick your blitz carefully. There was one occasion when the ball scattered out of the grip of a Beastman, and managed to end up partially exposed. Temujen missed the opportunity to take out the one Beastman blocking his path to the ball, or at least allowing him to get plenty of Orcs around it - against moderate ball handling sides like Chaos, the pick-up isn't always needed; killing it with TZ cover is enough.

Finally...sorry about the play time - this is the first one I've played under the timer, and I didn't have much left of my 15 minute reserve! I also have to figure out how to access the right-click menu on the client for setups, now that I'm using a Linux machine.

Anyway, good luck, Temujen, and have fun.”