RT Cup Season 2

[Raveen]

Whoever you like Idan. Issue a challenge to one of the other knocked out coaches and see if they want to play. I certainly expect to be free next week.

[Gandalf]

Proper match report!

Pre-game

With 330k in inducements, Idanmel bought a Halfing Master Chef, who stole 1 re-roll each half (leaving me with 2).

First half

I won the toss and kicked off. I can't actually remember the details of the first 6 turns, except he scored and then I scored, Idan had a good pass in there somewhere and there was fun/good play all round. He had 2 turns left to score and didn't manage it, leaving me 1 turn to score, with the ball some 20 squares from the touchline, in Idan's hands and with 1 player in the opposition half. I managed to get the ball out of his hands, picked it up and was about to be in place for a 15-square pass for a touchdown when I failed a GFI. It would've been glorious. Even if the pass had failed, it would've been a glorious failure, so I felt a bit cheated out of the big moment by failing the GFI. With that the half ended and we both agreed it had been a great half of action. I KO'ed one of Idan's guys early on so he was down to 10 players for most of the game (such a lazy guy).

First half

Idan kicked off. We both knew the next touchdown would be crucial. My thrower lurked in the end field whilst everyone else ran around, trying to find space, or engaging in occasional punch-ups. I saw off one or two people Idan sent towards the ball carrier. Finally in turn 11 I needed to do something, I was racked with indecision and eventually settled on a long run and short pass before caging it a few squares into Idan's half. As he had a lot of players marking others it made it hard to get men round my cage, though he did try. Next turn I had a chance to score which I duly pulled off - I think it was 1 or 2 2-dice blocks to free up my guy with the ball, a hand-off and then a run for the line featuring one GFI. 2-1 to the Wood elves.

With 4 turns left, Idan knew he had to score fairly fast. He had a cage near the centre circle which turned into a mass brawl. My treeman waded into it too, his Guard proving invaluable. My wardancers did some crazy stuff, and despite a stupid move which I thought would make it a 2 dice block on the ball carrier but actually left it at a 1-dice block, I managed to punch the ball free. I had one elf who had just enough movement to run around the brawl, pick it up, dodge/GFI and pass it to Ernie the catcher, who ran it in on turn 14. 3-1 to the Wood elves.

With the game effectively over, Idan's KO'ed player returned!!! Idan then tried to beat up my treeman and failed, and a lot of hitting took place. Some dodgy defense and humans with good movement speed resulted in a touchdown on the last turn. 3-2 and full time.

Post-match

Prize money 60k to me, 50k to Idan.
I got 4 (!!!) players leveled up. As usual though, no doubles or 10+ were rolled. There's a complete smorgasboard of skills scattered across my team now. I only have two level 1 players left.
I think I have one player injured for the next match, I'd have to check.

I think in the end all my extra skills paid dividends, and the master chef didn't really make up for it. It was a cracking match though. The dice were pretty fair to us both. I did at one point roll 4 6's in a row which was amusing, if rather pointless given they were all 2+ or 3+ rolls needed, some coming with a free re-roll. The injury dice wern't in a mean mood, although Idan did more that guy of his I took out early on was the crucial one given he never came back on. Idan thought he had a spare man on the bench but for whatever reason that wasn't the case, it could've made quite a difference.

Not massively looking forwards to the pesky dwarves and their passing insanity next week. Though at least my tackle/wrestle lineman will be available, unlike our last game together.

[Gandalf]

Semi-final...


Maybe I will post a proper match report tomorrow. It was elf-ball at its annoying/brilliant best. Plus I had silly luck with armour rolls, taking out way more dwarves than could be expected. Also, there were 16 passes attempted! Even for these two pass-a-holic teams, that's a lot.

[Drakon]

Ouch

[lawastooshort]

Rough match report from the blizzard-ridden semi-final Skaven OverCheesers vs Amazon SuchDodge:
The Amazon kicked off, the skaven received and thrust down the right for a turn or two, got blocked off, and pulled back to behind their LOS. The amazons advanced a bit and then the skaven ran off down the left and lightly screened off the touchline and the ball carrier. The amazons managed to get a marker on the ball carrier, but the skaven dodged off and ran to the right side of deep into the amazon half and scored in about turn 7. The amazons didn't have enough time to score back so OverCheesers kicked off the second half 1-0 up.

The amazons picked it up and had a line across the pitch and the ball about in the middle of their half. The skaven blocked a gap in the line, ran a storm vermin and a gutter runner through and blitzed the ball loose! I think the same gutter runner also ended up with the ball in the bouncy mayhem, and next turn the amazons, I think, knocked HIM over and the ball bounced... to another gutter runner! A few blocks later and a blitz, if I recall, and a gutter runner was dodging out into the end zone, 2-0.

Then the skaven kicked off again in about turn 11, and the amazons flooded forwarded, slightly, leaving enough of a gap to get a gutter runner through and then another for a risky blitz on the ball carrier but there was a blizzard and he failed the GFI twice like a right eejit! Taking advantage, the amazon dodged away from their right hand side of their half, handed off to someone in the middle, who rushed forward, perfect launch short passed, and a catcher caught, ran, and then scored, 2-1 in the bottom right side of the skaven half.

Then the skaven messed up a bit (in my defence I was 2 players down nearly the whole the game I think) and when the skaven received the amazon ended up with the ball two turns later, breaking through the middle right of the skaven lines and taking advantage of some indecisive poor position. But! Once more a gutter runner blitzed the amazon ball handler, a gutter runner caught the bounce, and that was that, chance over and game over with it, 2-1.

It was a good game! Cagier than our first.

[Gandalf]

2 days on I'm struggling to remember the details of our game. It was 3-0 at half time I think, despite me kicking off to start with.

When I got to 3-0 I tried to score with my treeman - he did catch the ball but unfortunately got knocked off it by a Dauntless dwarf.

There was also a misclick at some point from Spinx, which led to a turn finishing rather sooner than expected.

A few of the touchdowns at least partly-resulted from some fumbled passes. I think all passes were either fumbled or caught!

The "best" touchdown from my point of view was when the dwarves had the ball a few squares inside my half, but I knocked it loose, picked it up and then launched a 7-8 suare pass - whislt in 1 or 2 tackle zones - to Ernie, who ran & scored.

We also had a pitch invasion which stunned 3 elves and all but 3 dwarves!!! Thankfully this was on turn 8 so it didn't really matter. Spinx hadn't had the luck of the dice at times so I was glad this calamity didn't really impact things.

One elf and one dwarf died. Both times this was via apothacaries re-rolling dead rolls into dead ones.  Spinx also planned to fire a dwarf, after reciving 2 serious injuries, down to ST2 or AG2 or something. Another dwarf lost a movement point!

All this was managed with 1 or 0 wardancers for most of the match 

Looking forward to the final next week. Hoping for a few spectators.

[id3nt1ty]

It was a good game la, I definitely feel like I'm starting to get the hang of the Amazons now. The end was close and I very nearly managed to pull off a draw but sadly it was not to be!

I'm very tempted to get myself a set of these Impact Amazon miniatures to paint whilst all this World Cup business blows over.

I'll certainly be there on Sunday to spectate, it should be a good game!

[Raveen]

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