“[Dear Vanyar,

After the bitter disappoint of the last campaign, I am pleased to report that we have begun this campaign on the right foot.

The fearsome Deadmen of Dunharrow were fashionably late as usual, but they had brought with them a buzzing Mummy and some refreshments, which we naively imbued – their poison distressing one of our kinsmen.

They elected to receive first, with only a single Throw-Ra deep to receive; a sluggish offence by them gave us the opportunity to blitz, and we embraced it, sending our scouts deep into their half.

The Deadmen were not perturb and began knocking everyone they hit to the floor, much to our dismay, for although bigger than us, they shouldn’t have had the skills to tackle us so readily. Nevertheless, using our dexterity we were able to make multiple blocks on the talent-less ball handler, but alas this foul creature would not be taken down and as our men began to tumble into the KO box it seemed the Deadmen’s curse was upon us.

Then a way of sunshine… finally, after almost a quarter of the game had expired the ball carrier was toppled – a chorus of boos from the Deadmen’s travelling contingency awakened our desire to score, and through some well thought manoeuvring we did just that!

1 - 0

None of our men returned from the KO box, leaving us with just seven men, but fortunately the Deadmen were left with very little time to even the score, and it was a mountain that their sore bones could not climb. That did not stop them from seriously hurting our thrower though.

Second half and we had increased our numbers to eight, but this time it was our drive. We piled to the flank, cutting off most routes to our would-be scorer. The awesome Wrath of Isildur formed a one man stockade in an attempt to prevent the score, but Torin was not daunted by the task ahead and toppled the much stronger opponent to clear the path ahead for the second touchdown.

2 - 0

The Deadmen setup once more against us and lunged forward after making a completed pass, keen to get on the score board. The Blitz-ra left himself dangerously close to the sidelines and was promptly helped into the crowd, scattering the ball. Angered, the Deadmen poured forward as best they could and fouled one of our brethren, who took the blow well. In retaliation we hit one of their Throw-Ras and called Lothga in to finish the job, which he did in grand fashion, killing the un-killable!

The Deadmen however did not lose heart and tried in vane to reclaim the ball as we skipped in the third touchdown.

3 – 0

A glorious victory that we hope will be the first of many. We pledge the triumph to the memory of our Thrower, Norik, who suffered what may be a career ending injury.

Regards,
Tarius, Coach

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I hate playing Khemri with my elves, especially with only 11 men as we’re very short on players after the opening drive. The beginning few turns were frustrating as Keravin POW’d everything, yet after 6 dice I couldn’t even get a Both Down result on his blockless, dodgeless, Throw-Ra. Once that was achieved however, the dice didn’t disappoint me anymore.

The Blitz screwed Keravin up from the get go and left him with an impossible task. The death on the Throw-Ra was more than I wanted and a cruel insult to the injury.

That said, his Mummies are developing and I’m sure he’ll make up for this defeat during the season.

GG mate.
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