10th Game vs Lizardmen

Bad hair day for Luke

The season is over (boo!) but I had a cracking game to finish it all off.  I was playing my old mate Luke with his Lizardman team and he's had a rough season with them so far; sauruses are always slow to skill up and he's had a lot of injured players to cope with.  As such, he was fielding a couple of journeyman skinks but had enough in inducements to take Silibili and a couple of Bloodweiser Babes.

Winning the toss, Luke elected to Kick and a got to work punching his players to make a hole so I could move forward.  I knocked a few of his players out during the drive but I couldn't protect my ball carrier enough to stall so I scored around turn five.  In my turn to kick, Luke's wall of sauruses and Silibi were formidable and he managed to break a skink free to get ready to equalise.  Thankfully my blitzing bull centaur knocked him over and some hobgoblin passing razzle dazzle soon saw my greenskinned sneaky gits charging towards to endzone.  I thought I'd done enough to get another touchdown but I had to blitz a saurus out of the way to do so and my other bull centaur rolled double skulls.  The hobgob was taken out in the subsequent turn and the half ended 1-0 to me.

In the second half, I'd injured one of Luke's journeymen and in return he's badly hurt my wrestle hobgoblin and a guard chaos dwarf blocker - Silibi had done then in in the final turn of the previous half.  Thankfully I'd bought a spare hobgoblin so I still have 11 players.  Luke received my kickoff and set off with a similar tactic that he'd done in the first half drive - but this time it worked perfectly and we were soon level at 1-1.  Those skinks are soooo fast... Luke kicked off again and this time my blocking was starting to take effect - his skinks weren't able to take the punishment my team was dealing and I tied up his sauruses with spare blockers while my bull centaur surged down the field.  Even the minotaur got in on the action by knocking out Silibi.  Struggling to backtrack, Luke had to try some 5+ dodges to try to get close to my centaur but I get tackle zone on them and they couldn't make the dice rolls the needed.  I stalled out and scored in my turn seven.  Luke's final turn was aimed at getting a completion for a skink on 5 SPP's (which is managed) and the game finished 2-1 to me.

So - 5 wins, 4 draws and only 1 loss is, I think, pretty good for a team which I've always struggled to get to grips with.  There's a slight chance they might even make the play-offs but I'm not going to tempt fate further by discussing it here...

Score - 2-1 win

My team : 2 x bull centaurs, 6 x chaos dwarfs, 4 x hobgoblins, 1 x minotaur, 3 x rerolls, apothecary

Luke's team : 5 x sauruses, 3 x skinks, 3 x journeyman skinks, Silibili, 4 x reroll, apothecary