Fables hide from Halflings, but ultimately win 2-1. Rav manages to throw a halfling and knock down the target. Mister Dark killed Zara the Slayer and the Fables her back as a Zombie.
So, Rav had something like 630k inducements which he spent on Zara, the Halfing Master Chef and a bribe. All of which got used. I won the toss and elected to kick, setting up my players to defend against a throw team-mate. Rav pushes down my left flank, stabbing Bigby on the way with Zara. The Fables close in a bit and try to hit Zara but it doesn't go very well... Rav sees his chance to throw a halfing with a ball, but makes sure to tie up the Fables in tackle zones first. The thrown hafling fails his landing and the ball goes free deep in my half. We have a bit of a scrum for the ball, but with Zara about and my players tied up it's difficult for me to defend an Rav scores in turn four. Apparently Bagheera killed him self when he rolled attacker down against someone but thankfully regenerated.
Rav kicks to me and the Werewolf/Wight pairs push into the Halfling half on either flank of the pitch. Fairy Godmother picks up the ball and moves over to the left flank. The Halflings set up in columns to defend on the left, so Bloy Blue, Bahgeera and the Fairy Godmother push over to the right. A few more unwise hits are aimed towards Zara the Slayer and she eventually gets KO'd. A few halflings get thrown towards the ball carrier but there's not a lot to stop Fairy Godmother handing the ball to Boy Blue who scores in turn 8.
Second half: I think I'm down to 10 players, Rav still has Halflings in reserve and Zara recovers from her KO. Fables receive again, and stick to what works. Zara picks on a few Fables but only manages to KO Peter Piper, the newly hired Zombie, until Bigby unwisely stands within range of a Treeman. The Treeman rightly stomps on him and then the Halflings get a little bit distracted gang fouling Bigby. Boy Blue sees he chance and runs clear of the Halflings with a small escort. With Zara still in the Fables half and the rest of the Archers seriously attempting to do Bigby some serious harm, Boy Blue decides Bigby can probably take a bit of a beating for the team and stalls a couple of turns by the touchline. Eventually frustrated by their inability to do anything worse than Stun Bigby, the Halflings remember the ball and put an end to the stalling by pushing Boy Blue over the line, turn 12?
The Fables set up deep to receive a thrown Halfling, the Archers set up to throw a halfing. THE EMPEROR kicks the ball right off the end of the field, and a riot breaks out after such a stupendous kick losing the Archers a valuable turn to score back. Zara the Slayer runs forward to try and clear a hole in the defense. She Stabs Fairy Godmother in the back, causing her a Niggling Injury. Peggy Wooley tries to throw Eddie Grundy and the ball into the hole Zara made, but Eddie does not stick the landing and has to get taken off on a stretcher. With the ball loose and Zara within hitting distance, the Fables gang up on her. Mister Dark smashes her to the floor, kills her and then steals her soul to reanimate into a Zombie after the game. After that, it's just a matter of keeping the ball safe for a couple of turns and the game ends 2-1 to the Fables.
Well played Rav. Had my D6 not gone so well, I very well could have suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Halflings. Always fun to play against you, thanks for the game.
Dice:
The D6 were fairly lucky for both of us. Rav got 7.76 but didn't roll nearly as well as my 23.33. For once I succeeded every pickup (in contrast to last game) and didn't fail any GFIs either.
Conversely, the 2D6 were kinder to Rav: 11.83 vs my -0.67. We both succeeded half our injury rolls, but Rav was rolling against much higher armour values.
The Block dice had a tendency to roll in the worse end of what you'd like. 46 were attacker down or both down out of 129 block dice rolled but neither of us were particularly worse off, especially as I managed mostly two dice blocks.
