What I suffered with from the dice was a failure to convert successful blocks into Knock-downs KOs and Injuries. (21 successful blocks, 1 KO no injuries, is a pretty low success rate, in comparison Ravs 7 successful blocks resulted in 2 KOs)
But then I Had a staggering piece of luck on my kick off for the second half.
Quick match report from my side.
Rav kicks off I try to punish the elves, but in what is to become the pattern of the game, I fail to injure/KO anyone.
I pick up the ball and try to cage it up the field, all the while trying to hit and/or get str 4 players next to Rav's Elves, so they need to make dodge rolls to do stuff.
I don't manage to make much of a physical impact, and Rav hits all of his dodge rolls.
Unfortunately I leave a weak-ish point in my cage which lets the Elves manoeuvre to a point where they get a single dice block on the ball carrier.
Annoyingly this is successful, and worse - the ball pops out entirely into reach of Rav's team
Rav picks up the ball and gets it quite distant from my players, (at this point he's quite likely to score anyway, so what happened next had little bearing on the game result)
- It's at this point my mother-in-laws dog who we are looking after decides to put her paws on the keyboard, which brings up some weird console dialog which covers half of my screen.
Annoyingly it's quite difficult to close, and I can't work out the magic key press to get rid of it. Eventually I get on google and find this page
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/991831-b ... n/67549405 which answers the question.
Anyway, back to the game
Whilst I'm wrestling with this and a strange issue where it's suddenly difficult to select players Rav trundles up over the next 2.5 turns and scores to end the first half (all the while Rav was trying to give me time to sort out my issues. Thanks Rav.)
Second Half I kick off. I deliberately kick a little short trying to suck Rav into a physical battle around the ball, and it scatters delightfully next to one of my chaos warriors (this was my biggest slice of luck all game and got me back in really).
A bit of a scuffle ensues which my team eventually win, and they emerge with the ball.
Rav stalls my drive by never engaging this time, dodging away from my players, and dropping back a little each turn, but my team manages to exploit what little gaps he leaves, and ponderously grind down field to score in the last turn (still without injuring one of the opponents).
I'm beginning to wonder whether this is the first pacifist chaos team to play the game, and whether they are allergic to actually hurting anyone.
