“Coming into this game, I was utterly convinced I was going to lose horribly. After all, a mino, a troll, a black orc and a chaos warrior walk onto a pitch...sure, sounds like the start of a joke, and the joke was on me, not having a single player above str 3. Second turn my agi 5 wardancer fails dodging, and got fouled for a bh. Game over, right? He tried to have his cw take the ball in, surrounded by his fellow big guys, and no hope of hitting him (though I tried like heck, even doing a frenzy 2d-HIS choice blitz...). However, I was able to stay close enough to force him to dodge, and that opened the game back up again. Lucky failing of RS roll on the troll freed up a dwarf to blitz his gutter, badly hurting his speed and agility to offset the loss of my own speed and agility. Other than the strength issue, back to an even game, and so the half ended scoreless (though I was in position to maybe score, if I could pick up the dang ball in one of the two turns I surrounded it...).

Second half lineup, and I foul out his troll, but get ejected in the process. Some failed dodges later, his cw is able to scoop up the ball and score, 1-0 with 5 turns to go. Then disaster strikes: Blitz!! He catches the ball and still outstrengths me, although lucky for me his troll is still ko. This one-person numerical advantage (with my dwarves tying down his heavy hitters) allows me to eventually free up the ball and race around the side, keeping just enough in his way to stop any pursuit. Game ends a draw, as his gobbo was ejected for fouling my wardancer early on.

Turned out to be an incredible game, one which had the dice been a smidgeon more my favor first half I actually could've won. I'll try to remember that in the future, when I look at a matchup and immediately consider it "unwinnable"...”