“I figured this would be a really tough game to win, since shusaku had a wizard, two monster wardancers, and a great catcher. Protecting the ball from either the wizard or the wardancers was going to be almost impossible, and when the ball would get loose, the cather could pick it up and swoop away.

Luckily, shusaku got horrible dice at times, most notably getting quadruple skulls while blitzing my ball carrier who was exposed after the cage corners were taken out with a fireball. This allowed me to score 1-0 quite comfortably at turn 8, but shusaku still had a very good chance of scoring in one turn with his catcher. This time, he rolled snakes while dodging with his wardancer who was about to hand off the ball to the catcher.

So, 1-0 at halftime, 7 woodies on the pitch, and things looked good for me. Pitch invasion took down two players from both of us, so shusaku progressed slowly. I put some pressure on the ball and actually managed to get the ball carrier down because shusaku forgot about jump up on one of my chaos warriors. The woodies stole the ball back, and my next attempt on the ball resulted in double skulls after the reroll. This lead to an almost sure TD for the woodies, but shusaku snaked another dodge, and I was able to bring down his wardancer with the ball.

The ball went into the crowd, who threw it towards shusaku's end zone. The only players near there were my chaos warrior and shusaku's catcher. My warrior picked up the ball, ran into scoring distance, and promptly lost the ball after the catcher blitzed him with two dice against (pow/pow!). After this, I tried to stop the woodies from scoring, and managed to kill the 114 SPPs, AG 5 wardancer on a foul. In the end, the catcher was the only wood elf on the pitch, but that didn't stop it from running 12 squares and scoring the tying TD on the last turn.

The luck varied wildly in this game, with me coming on top in the balance (seriously, quad skulls?). I might have been able to come up with a win in the end if I'd played a bit better (piling on in turn 14 was idiotic), but I feel a tie is a good result considering the matchup. Woodies with a wizard, two great wardancers, and a reliable OTS option are just really, really hard to beat.”