The Jolly Waaaaagh!abonds 1 - 1 Fightin FairiesThat game involved some of the craziest luck I've seen in a long time. During the first half the elves successfully steal the ball from the orc cage and get it down to the endzone. The Thrower throws a beautiful pass and all Navi needs is a 2+ to catch it... when she rolls a 1... twice. Ball goes off field and bounces back near an orc, but that's no big deal. Next turn Ciela comes in and strips the ball out of the orc's hands and the Thrower goes for the 2+ pickup! And rolls a 1... twice. Now some of the orcs are nearby and they pick it up again but once more Ciela knocks it out of their hands and the Thrower goes for the 2+ pickup! And rolls a 1... twice. Now most of the orc team is there, but they don't manage to pickup the ball. If the Thrower can simply make a 2+ dodge it's just a 2+ pickup and throw for a score! When he rolls a 1 on the dodge... twice... and stuns himself.
Cut a few turns later to the start of the second half, and Ciela and Navi are all set to run deep faster and further than any orc can follow them! Cue a blitz, and the lone free orc blitzer near the starting line goes up for the ball! He fails the catch, but not to worry, for the treeman has the orc team covered! Cue triple die block, 2 attacker downs and a both down against someone with block. The team tries to help the treeman with a reroll, but he's too darn lonely to take their help. Orc Blitzer picks up the ball and begins to make his way downfield, but his team is far behind him due to setting up farther upfield. A couple of elves team up and take the ball out of his hands, the Thrower goes for the 2+ pickup! And rolls a 1... twice. Luckily for the elves the next turn the Thrower finally got his act together and managed to pick the ball up, dodge away, and throw it to Ciela who took off for the elves' only point in the game.
Now the orcs have the ball, and the elves are doing a great job at screening them. They've only managed to move their cage about half of the way from their endzone to the mid field! Only a single blitzer has gotten past them, and the elves are preparing to take him out next turn. The orc thrower squints at the sky, dusts off his lucky knuckle duster and says a quick entreaty to Gork and Mork, before performing a Hail Mary pass. The pass flies all of the way across the field, veering wildly through the air, and lands right where he originally aimed, straight into the hands of the blitzer only a few short steps from the endzone. Realizing they have to act fast Navi and Ciela both take off towards the thrower. Ciela originally flubs the first go-for-it needed to give support (with a 1, obviously) but a team reroll keeps her on her feet. Navi makes it there and knocks the thrower down, but rather than stand there so the ball is just a dodge and pickup away (the blitzer had dodge), she decides to do a single go-for-it to grab the ball. The worst that can happen is that she fails the pickup and would force several dodges from the blitzer to get to the ball right? Wrong. Cue another 1, Navi knocking herself over and bouncing the ball away. Blitzer stands up, does a little hokey-pokey away from Ciela, and scores a touchdown.
It's the very last turn of the game, and the elves have set up for one final OTTD attempt. They still have a reroll, and they have enough players to get Navi one square farther than she needs to be, meaning the score would just be a few dodges and a single go-for-it away. The ball goes off the field, meaning Navi doesn't even need to worry about catching the ball, and the Elves spring into action! First the treeman pulls the chosen lineman over with grab, setting up a catcher for a 3-die push attempt. If this succeeds then the elves are guaranteed to have a shot at the OTTD! At which point the catcher rolls 2 skulls and a both down... reroll... 2 defender downs and a defender stumbles. Dejected, Navi attempts to go for a 1-square pass to the catcher, but instead just rolls another 1 on the pass attempt to add insult to injury, ending the game.
And that's not all! Over the course of the game I hurt that dang troll
twice; both times
after the orc apothecary had already been used, yet he just kept shaking it off! I couldn't get rid of the dang guy, while he was proceeding to smash elves left and right!
Luckily no permanent injuries were sustained by the elves except for their wrestle catcher who took a niggling injury and is out of the next game (which is a shame, since he was one of the wrestle guys I was going to be depending on to help bring down the blodge + sure hands elves that Kanil likes to carry the ball with
).
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