Scaly and Lazy 1 - 1 Da Green Thwack'rs A glorious 1-1 victory for me!
Whata a freaking game. I was feeling a bit bad about it from the outset. Going into a match where I needed every last ounce of strength on my team just to hold on with one of my saurus missing was a quite terrifying.
It went basically as I expected at first. The orcs received and crashed into my line in a wave of green fists and boots. (The initial pummeling was so harsh that my Krox decided to spend the next several turns on the ground rolling bone head over and over.) My saurus were completely unable to contain the green tide and it looked like he would be able to walk the ball in with leisure. But then a skink blitz send the ball carriar to the ground and the ball into the hands of a skink, who took that ball and ran for all he was worth. Unfortuntly, with my skinks ether out of position or used up on the blitz he was left totally alone, with me unable to mark the enemy sufficiently. I only had the ball for a single round. At this point I realized that I couldn't sneak the ball out, and I couldn't muscle the ball out, so instead I gave up. The orcs left a few guys caging the ball carrier near the endzone as the rest of them and my saurus punched it out for the rest of the half and my skinks ran around fowling. This punching match I managed to mostly win with the improved odds, and a skink even managed to stomp in the head of a blackorc, slaying him, although their healer patched him right up, ready to go into the next drive. The orcs got their touchdown on there last turn.
The orcs lined up on the backfield and separated their guys on the line as far as possible before kicking the ball to me for my single turn in the drive. Not thinking of anything but trying to inflect more injuries to hopefully tie in the second half I set my whole team on the line. But then the event popped and I got to move all my guys one square. And the ball was kicked out of bounds. I set up my guys in formation and... A few blocks later the ball was in the hands of a surefooted skink just within go-for-it range of the touchdown. He marvelously ran though the clumsy orc lines and got the one turn touch down, bringing the game to a tie!
In the second half I received and pushed forward. Keeping my skinks back and looking for a oppertunity to break for it. Unfortuntly I got bogged down in the strong orc lines far too soon, and I wasn't able to juke the black orcs this time. In the end with only a few turns left in the game I sent a skink behind enemy lines to set up a passing play. On the next turn though between the orc marking my receiver and the pouring rain they fumbled the handoff. Both my skinks and the ball were pushed up against the side of the pitch, although I managed to maintain possesion a bit, almost the whole orcish team were pinning them down, too much for even the tricky skinks to get away.
I dogpiled my Saurus onto the orcs backline, but it wasn't enough to get a skink and ball free, and soon the orcs popped out the ball and make a break for it. Unfortunately for them it was far too late, with only two rounds in the game to go the slow orcs didn't have a hope in the world to send the ball 75% of the way down the field, and thus the game ended.
A 1-1 tie. But being down a saurus, and with the end at the end being this:
It's hard not to feel a sense of achievement against the team that had crushed me last time.
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