Kobb's Khorne vs. Featherhawks
This time, the Amazons had 770k in inducements to spend. A chef, a star player, a wizard, some cheering fans... and then it was kickoff time. Khorne elects to kick.
F1: Khorne lines up in FFB. The HMC fails to nab any rerolls. In retaliation, the Star Player user her knife to gouge out the Minotaur's eye. (The apoc manages to put it back in.) One of the throwers picks up the ball, and the rest of the team forms an almost-solid wall around her, with only one spot in the back open.
K1: Pushes on the line clear out some of the wall, and a push squirts the thrower to the back corner hole left in the wall. Speedy blitzes in and injures the thrower, knocking the ball to one of the catchers. NATAB pulls back in defense.
F2: Good blocks by the Amazons stun a Chaos Warrior and knock over a beastman. A blitzing linewoman single-handedly knocks another beastman over. A catcher without the ball trips over her feet running downfield. At the end of the turn, most of Kobb's Khorne is lying down on the job.
K2: NATAB runs back to assist a warrior in blitzing the ballcarrier. She goes down, and the ball lands at NATAB's feet.
F3: Zara the Stabby knocks NATAB off the ball. An attempt to dodge by another Amazon fails, leaving the ball beside Zara the Stabby at turn end.
K3: A Chaos Warrior pushes Zara back. Tail frees TAB to run downfield. NATAB picks up the ball, but his third arm is unaccustomed to throwing, only catching. The ball ends up in the general area of TAB, near the Amazonian end zone.
F4: A blitzer gets herself back to pick up the ball. However, she muffs the pass back toward midfield.
K4: NATAB pushes the blitzer off the ball; TAB picks it up and runs it in for the score.
F5: The lineups stay the same. A pitch invasion knocks over the majority of the featherhawks, but only several of Kobb's Khorne. Two of the blitzers left standing for the Amazons run back toward the ball.
K5: Several players, including Tail and TAB, run downfield to get beside the Amazon players. The Minotaur knocks himself over trying to block the one blitzer left standing on the line.
F6: A linewoman dodges away from Tail and picks up the ball. She throws it in the general direction of midfield.
K6: Many Khorne players stand up. Tail pushes a player off TAB. NATAB dodges away to pick up the ball, but even with three hands, can't managed to get one around it.
F7: A blitzer knocks out a beastman. Another Amazon dodges right into the arms of a different beastman.
K7: NATAB again picks up the ball and, after some blocks to move amazons out of the way, tries a quick pass to TAB. He again can't throw straight, and manages to end up with the ball bouncing to another Amazonian player.
F8: The ballcarrier dodges away from Tail, and tries to throw the ball to a nearby Amazon, only to end up with it even closer to the Featherhawks end zone.
K8: TAB runs to the end zone to catch a ball. Tail dodges around an Amazon, but fails to pick up the ball.
Halftime Score: Kobb's Khorne 1 - 0 Featherhawks
K9: The HMC only gets one reroll, marking another game where the Featherhawks hired the one halfling who could burn water. TAB picks up the ball, passes it to NATAB, who pushes an Amazon out of the way and runs down the sideline. Despite five blocks along the line, not a single Amazon gets knocked over. However, the entire Khorne line does end up a couple of yards forward from where they were before.
F9: Three Amazons pull back to deal with NATAB, knocking him over. A block on the line takes out a *Chaos Warrior's* eye, and the apoc has already used all of his eye glue. As usual, the turn ends with a failed dodge.
K10: In retaliation, another Chaos Warrior kills Zara the Stabby, ending her reign of terror. After many blocks (some Amazons go down this time!), TAB gets a free path to pick up the ball (though he is beside an Amazon at the end).
F10: A gang of Amazons stuns TAB. A catcher ends up with the ball and a partial wall.
K11: Several blocks leave the ball carrier alone. She is blitzed down, and TAB runs around the end to pick up the ball.
F11: The Amazons get close to the ball.
K12: Another Amazon dies to another Chaos Warrior. TAB and another beastman get beside the ball.
F12: A thrower manages to pick up the ball and throw it downfield to a catcher, who runs it in for the score.
K13: The Amazons have only 10 players left to field. TAB again goes back to receive the kick. He picks up the ball and runs it up the middle. An Amazon is stunned, but most of the rest just get pushed around. NATAB blitzes on the edge and gets to the middle of the Amazonian backfield.
F13: One Amazon gets beside TAB; another is tripped up on the way.
K14: Another Amazon dies to Chaos Warrior brutality. TAB runs forward and tosses the ball to NATAB. NATAB gets beside the end zone. The Khorne line pushes, rather than knocking over, most of the Amazon line.
F14: An Amazon fails a 1D block on the edge.
K15: NATAB runs the ball in.
F15: Khorne, for the first time in a while, lines up with two defenders deep. The Featherhawks line up one thrower deep. She picks up the kickoff, runs it forward, and tosses it to a nearby catcher. Sadly, the catcher has no place to go, and holds as a wall builds around her.
K16: Khorne makes a few blocks of no import.
F16:
Final Score: Kobb's Khorne 2 - 1 Featherhawks
Final Thoughts: This game was definitely closer than the previous outing. The fact that Nuffle didn't feel the need to cost me many rerolls this game (1) and gave me rerolls for cheering fans and the like (2), and the fact that I inflicted three deaths, in addition to one or two other casualties, suggests that Nuffle had decided pretty well in advance who was winning today. Despite that, Sowelu put up solid numbers, and kept it close to the final turns. Hopefully, this one will be enough to squeak me into the playoffs. Also, hats off to Sowelu for coming in late as a replacement and facing his rookie team against my fairly brutal (though usually not this brutal) Khorne.