“This was a real brain teaser.

The Harpies won the coin toss and opted to receive. With a lucky blitz we got possession, and then struggled to keep hold of it. If I'd been more sensible maybe I would have forced them to score earlier, but instead I forced them to slog through the orcs until a 6th turn TD, which didn't leave me enough time to go forward. Ah well.

Varag didn't do much in the first half apart from get surfed. I suppose if I'd been sensible I'd have induced 3 mercs with tackle and kept them sat by the end zone to stop the Amazons, but that would have been boring and probably would have failed anyway.

Second half, we did ok for a while; caged up and started moving forward. Some time in the second half we actually managed to take a few players off the pitch permanently, but it seemed like mighty blow was doing nothing to most players, most of the time. What is it with that incredibly durable AV7?

Got Nugbu and the ball within spitting distance of scoring. And then he got knocked down. And then he got up and got the ball, and got knocked down again. And then he got up and didn't get the ball, and still got knocked down again. At least one more bad dice stopped a hand-off and a score in the final turn, or it would have been 2-0.

Some sort of progression for the Orcs, then. We lost by half the amount we lost our first game. Onwards, to greatness!!!”