Rolling Thunder BBL Season 7

[Raveen]

Cool, so I have La on Tuesday. When can we get caught up Moose?

[Gandalf]

Oooh forgot to mention, elves reached 100 passes yesterday There's a lot of other landmarks, such as 100 TD's, suffering 100 casualties, my top passer making 50 passes/1000 passing yards that will have to wait until the next outing. I'm at 91 KO's though, so with your generous help I could reach 100 this season!

And yay for Moose finishing a game

Also, in the record-breaking theme, The Orkly Ducklingz moved up to 64 casualties caused, which takes them into first place ahead of Team Shrek (62), they have their "most casualties caused in 1 season" record in their sights too. Gertrude also now tops the most casualties by 1 player table.

[DaigaroOgami]

Allow me to quote Percy:

Orcs prove armour is lovely and much more use than a turquoise bikini.



So, the 'Zon's invite the Ducklingz over for a lesson in etiquette, who start the lesson early by insisting the Orcs start with the ball, even going so far as putting the ball straight into Gerty's hands.

The ladz however, still fueled on the injustice of PirlOrc's injury, treat the ladies with as much respect as an elf, their own fault for having all that dodge about. Gerty manages to create some space for herself out on the wing, letting her teamates cage up around her and stalling long enough for PirlOrc to limp up and join in. Mandela, Percy and Leroy start a chorus of alternating screams and 'BOING' noises on the LoS as Amazons alternately leave the field KO'ed or (annoyingly) stand firm.

Red Lion get's unlucky on an attempted cage break and leaves enough space for Gerty to get rid of the ball to someone else so she can focus back on hurting people instead. Orcs score on turn 8 with 5 ladies left on on the pitch, all but one lying down muttering something about 'chivalry is dead'. There's just enough time left in the half for the gobbo's to get their obligatory bashing, and even Percy elects to go in early for his half time oranges.

1-0 to the Ducklingz at half time.

Half time oranges must've been good 'uns as all 6 KO'ed players from both sides return for the Amazon drive. The ladies try a cautious cage & plod down the Ducklingz left, but are repelled by Gerty's rage, and the amazon's note she's in prime position to sack the ball carrier. Amazons switch to the right but (Percy thinks) they make a slight positional error and give the orcs time to block them in with a strong LoS and two columns stacked with tackle and (ST5 blodger) Leroy. The 'zons spend a few turns teasing the Orcs into stepping up the columns, but Leroy bats back the timid attack, with PirlOrc making a few cheeky blitzes and then running away to hide, sorry, tactifully take position, behind Leroy.

Then we get the play of the game - the Ducklingz make a slight positioning error, and the 'Zon ball carrier goes all Gung Ho and 2D-against blitzes, (gets double defender downs), punching a hole in the Duckling defence and makes a break for the endzone. Beautiful stuff. Even PirlOrc nodded in approval as he stood motionless watching the ladywith a ball sprint by.

Sadly for the Zon's Gerty had already fallen back to play sweeper... she lost her marker and flew like a patriot missile to free the ball, which thankfully bounced right next to Leroy. the ex-ballcarrier was stunned so didn't have enough time to recover and try to score again.

1-0 to the Orcs. D6 were even, 2d6 were skewed heavily to the orcs, but only 3 injuries from 24 armour breaks (not including the foul)(with a lot of Mighty Blow) makes me think all the Nuffle -love went on armour breaks and ran out on the injuries.

Block dice were pretty even; both of us throwing defender down the least. I got extremely fed up of hearing the stand firm 'BOING' from the lads with no tackle.

Reginald the solitary Line orc got MVP for out-casualtying Gerty. Makes sense.

Good game Red lion

The main target right now for the lads is getting those 6 casualties (and hopefully a few more) to break the 'Most Casualties is a Season' record.

Dark Elves and 'Flings left to play...

[Raveen]

The Ducklingz need to get 11.4 knock downs in the next three matches to beat the Carrions' record. The Carrions' average is 352 in 30 matches or 11.73 per match so it can be done!

[DaigaroOgami]

eh?

You worked that out from a shorter season or something?

That's pretty good going for the Carrions. they seriously get 11.73 casualties per match!?!? That seems exceedingly high Rav...

[DaigaroOgami]

oh, knock downs.

An additional record to break. Excellent.

[Red Lion Three]

Good review. I think the influence of tackle, albeit sparingly distributed on the Orc side, made quite a difference - the number of Zons downed with it was really pretty high (and unfortunately included the running-play-of-the-day contender). It wasn't at dwarf levels, but was certainly problematic as the usual get-up-in-their-faces tactics which worked well for the Zons in the first half of the season got nullified. Add to that the refusal of the Orcs to leave the field and it was a tough day at the office.

[id3nt1ty]

I completely forgot that one of my Wights had Tackle, and I think nj had him effectively sidelined for most of the match anyway... ooops.

[DaigaroOgami]

Yeah, high armour counted for once.

Was nice to get the Tackle in the right places... I was slightly bemused when you kept standing someone in Leroy's face.

A couple of dice rolls the other way and it could've been different. Either was it was a fun game, considering most of the 2nd half was a crowded stodgefest.

[Red Lion Three]

To be honest, I wasn't paying attention to which Orcs had tackle during the game; it was just an unpleasant surprise every time the word Tackle appeared on the screen. Given that none of the Orcs would do me the service of taking a break on the sides I was just walking players forward into danger to try and make a hole in your lines wherever it looked like it might be possible. Which alas wasn't particularly successful... last season's glass black-orcs-made-of-glass were much more satisfying to play against :-D

[DaigaroOgami]

Percy had a stern word with them pre-season to tell them to toughen up; then PirlOrc's injury added more resolve.

That and a ST5 Blodger help quite a bit.

[lawastooshort]

Well, a 2-1 win for the Undercheesers in what could have been anything from 2-1 to 2-2 to 3-1 to who knows, but it wasn't, so there you go.

I might get time to do a proper report tomorrow Rav?

The halflings failed a daring elf-style score in the first half, which let Jim Morrison run away with the ball and eventually hand it to Lou Reed to do his own filthy elf-type play, succeeding a pass and then watching er I think Jim Morrison score.

Then we let (stupidly) the halflings have time for a quick halflingfling, which meant we went into the second half 1-1 - but importantly, Burt Bacharach (I think) had pushed Zara the slayer into the crowd, who stomped her knee into bits.

In the second half, the underworld did a stalling 2-1 grind via the medium of hapless incompetence, failing passes and dodges all over the place. Highlight was er one of the trees whose name I forget getting Badly Hurt followed by Badly Hurt on two thrown halflings - one of whom actually Badly Hurt his head on Burt Bacharach's head. No, wait - the highlight was the connection error thing which came up at this point and then actually went away and let us carry on playing! Whoo!

Was a fun game!

[Raveen]

In my defence I was feeling a wee bit poorly yesterday so I probably wasn't playing my absolute best (although with Halflings it doesn't make much difference).

My first drive went well up until the final move of running Zara up the sidelines with the ball and passing to a waiting receiver. Nothing wrong in principal but I hadn't noticed the weather was very sunny making the throw harder. I should have held on longer and run it in a turn or so later, Zara being a St4 Blodger is very hard to get the ball off.

Missing that scoring chance basically put me 2-0 down (as I had yet to kick to the Underworld) and rather ended the game as a competition.

My 1TTD was fun and I think I had a reasonable chance in the second half of turning over but it just wasn't happening. I got the ball but he ended up surrounded on all sides and my plan to pass was thwarted by a failed GFI.

My other mistake was taking a bribe over the chef - taking rerolls from La would have made a difference.

[lawastooshort]

Ha! I was also a bit poorly and had indeed taken the previous day off work

Yes - a bribe that didn't get used despite at least 12 turns of fouling was not as useful as a chef would have been, although I don't think I needed a single reroll first half, and spent most of the second half ones trying to do passes to unsuccessfully get SPP on the right players.

Beating a halfling team 2-1 is probably about the right level of performance for underworld, so it was a decent even game. 19/20, too.

Bowie got KO'd and Really Stupided at least 3 times - he only KO'd a hafling and did nothing else all game. He got MVP.

[Gandalf]

I'm amused there were 9 injuries in total in the game and they were all badly hurt.