Relative veterans take on fresh-faced elves with much bloodshed resulting....
The Elves received in the first half, at fisrt things looked OK as the front line all took one step back from the ogres to avoid being hit (from the KO roll). However, then their star player decided he didn't really want to play two halves of bruising blood bowl against the Ogres, so got himself "injured" on turn 1. The remaining elves quickly found themselves bogged down on the sideline. A couple of elves were on the other half of the pitch, but one ogre with his two snotling sidekicks (to get to three dice blocks) fortuitously depitched them both in fairly short order. This meant more elves had to emerge from the quagmire, along with the ball, to find a way to the touchdown zone. However, aforementioned ogre & sidekicks knocked the ball carrier over again, a snotling picked the ball up and eventually walked into the endzone, after some more elves got hit of course - there was only 1 elf standing at the start of one turn. Nearly messed that up though, needed a re-roll to sort out a failed block on turn 7.
Before long the second half started, the elves were back to 9 in number and launched a kick right into the endzone. A snotling picked the ball up at the second time of asking, but the broken field let the elves position themselves in an irritating fashion. The ogres however proved equal to this and bashed their way towards a mid-pitch cage, featuring 4 ogres and a snotling. Things didn't look good for the elves, but then, suddenly, some foul elf-ish magic was summoned and a fireball fell upon the cage! All 4 ogres were on the floor - 1 of whom sat out the rest of the match. The snotling was unaffected and sat there with a feeling of smug superiority as the elves picked the ball up, handed it off and scored, making it 1-1 with 4 or 5 turns each left.
The elves couldn't replicate last turn's great kick-off, instead giving it straight to the legendary agility 3 ogre (who caught it after the kick-off roll let him move one square). The ogres rolled forward in an unstoppable scrum (apart from the odd bone-head moment) as the elves bravely threw themselves in the way, resulting in blood stains all over the pitch. However, ideally the ogres would've liked to win the match, and these suicidal elves were getting in the way of that. There were two snotlings waiting for a pass so in the penultimate turn, agili-ogre thought about making a diagonal run follows by a pass. Instead he got distracted by a butterfly and tried to do it on his last turn instead, though he did have an elf standing next to him now. He blitzed that elf over and only then realised that this meant he couldn't pass the ball! After hitting a few more elves the game was over.
A hard-earned point for the joint elf & butterfly team, at the cost of 2 dead elves and 2 out the next game. The butterfly presumably is available for hire as a mercenary.
Quick dice analysis:
Ogres rolled 112 D6, with almost entirely average results. I only twice re-rolled boneheads and failed them both which was a bit frustrating! Elves were lucky with D6 but not by a big amount especially given the small number of dice rolled. 2D6 both teams did fairly well on. As for blocks, ogres rolled 112 block dice (making a total of 325 dice rolled) and got fairly average results, though zero turnovers from 47 blocks has to be considered lucky, even with re-rolls. An average of 2.36 dice per block! The elves only made 8 blocks all game!
Future plans/news:
I rolled a double for my snotling. So many options, though currently I'm leaning towards a non-confrontational skill, like Leader (ogres have expensive 70k re-rolls) or Kick. Though giving him block could be funny especially versus goblins. The snotlings are looking forwards to actually making a block or two against them in the next game - remember they did injure a halfling once! Hopefully it will be a hilarious bloodbath anyways. Just to scare my later opponents, I have 3 ogres who are within a casualty of their second level-up.
