6th game vs Wood Elves

"Anything but a 1"

This night's game was another switcheroo - I had planned to play against Tom's Lizardmen but we needed to move around to ensure everyone got in a game against someone they hadn't played before.  I was now playing against Andrew and his Wood Elf team.  His team had suffered a few lumps and bumps over the season so he only had one wardancer on the field and was sporting a journeyman.  My Chaos Dwarfs were also in a rough state after last week's drubbing and two of my blockers were missing - so I also had a journeyman, albeit a hobgoblin.

I won the toss and opted to receive and lined up my players to maximise the blocking - and they were pretty damn effective I must say.  I was knocking elves down everywhere, although none injured.  I got hold of the ball, handed to a bull centaur and managed to even stall a while as I kept thumping his players.  I scored in turn five when the elves got just too close for comfort.  I kicked to Andrew and he was shy a couple of players thanks to the earlier punching - I managed to get the ball off him ball carrier, pick up the ball with one hobgoblin, pass to another, then have him move and hand off the ball to a bull centaur who then charged forward to score again.  The half ended 2-0 to me.

I was a little shocked at this - and I must admit I took my eye off the ball with my positioning for the second half.  Andrew's wardancer made short work of leaping over my players and fleeing down field - he nicely tied up my fast players so all I could do was watch him score in turn two.  I did feel confident that I might be able to score again but Andrew's wardancer was everywhere.  Everytime one of my players made a move with the ball, his wardancer swept in and knocked him down.  Rather than try a go for it to score, I stupidly left a hobgoblin next to the endzone while I marked every player I could - and the wardancer duly escaped easily, blitzed the hobgob and caused a MNG into the bargain.  Damn dirty wardancers!

So the game ended 2-1 to me and I gained enough SPP's to give Guard to a blocker and give Block to a bull centaur.  I think that's probably my last game for the year - next one is scheduled for 8th January!

Score - 2-1 win

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

Andrew's team : 1 x wardancer, 1 x thrower, 4 x catchers, 4 x linemen, 1 x journeymen, 1 x reroll, apothecary