“The Ulthuan Invitational. Our hosts saw fit to bless us with a lizardman mirror match.

And what a match it was. We chose to kick, and regretted it almost immediately. 2 skinks KO'd (one never woke up, one only woke up late in the second). A saurus KO'd. Shindahl badly hurt himself with a 2d block. The opposing kroxigor MNG'd Telleek. And nothing, nothing we could do, hurt the opponents (aside from one KO'd skink that woke up next drive).

With only 5 players left on the pitch, we started to be a little desperate, and we risked.. a 4+ dodge in order to do a 1d chain push in order to do 2 dodges with a saurus in order to sack the ball carrier. Somehow, this all worked (although the block used up the re-roll) AND the saurus caught the ball!

Of course the saurus went down instantly, in our end zone! But the ball didn't scatter into the crowd, and so Szssssss simply picked it up again - but they left Shrieking Bloodstorm with a 4+ dodge to blitz him, so we did! And then Ziaslees snatched up the ball off (despite scattering into the tackle zone of an enemy saurus), and zoomed off a million.. nope, not enough squares. He got brought down, hard, and stunned. We made yet another double dodge to blitz their new ball carrier, but.. push! And then a 6+ dodge to cover the ball with a second saurus! But.. they blitzed off, and 3+ dodged out to score.

For both the turn 8, and start of second half drives, there were three enemy skinks on the line; none of whom had their armor broken despite all going down to MB hits. We had no re-rolls, and so we couldn't one turn.

1-0 at the half
8v11.

But Ziaslees is still a scoring threat no matter what, and he nimbly got the ball on turn 1, and then, finally, BLOOD! One of the opposing skinks badly hurt themself trying a dodge.

We paced back and forth, switching to and fro, up and down, left and right! We got the end zone! We stalled, we stalled, WE CAUSED A CAS! (Another skink) and we stalled some more! We even risked a 2d blitz that would have crowd surfed Ziaslees, but the double GFI failed!

But on turn 7 it was too much, and we had to score. And our hard earned luck held.. 9v11! A saurus was badly hurt, but our apo said no! And lightning shocked him back to life! (Honestly, maybe we shouldn't use skaven electroshock therapy as our apothecaries main tool). And our defense held, and the enemy failed a key GFI.

1-1 at the end of the second.
9v11.
But, we had BOTH managed to save up FOUR RE-ROLLS!

And we won the coin toss. And Ziaslees proved too slippery and darted away to safety, scoring on turn 3.

Thanks for the match Joeodessa!”