Raddish - Da Green Thwack'rs 2 vs 1 Criptfeind - Scaly and Lazy
That was a pretty amazing game. In some ways the opposite of our first game. (Somehow only got a match rating of 13, clearly the fans are crazy.) It opened up a lot like the last one, I received, set up a skink cage, and waited for a opening to run though. However, I took a bit of risker and sooner opening this time, as I felt like the orcs wouldn't fall for the same trick twice. It worked out and I got the first touchdown on turn 4, a bit early, but looking good. The second drive started with bloodlust in the orcs eyes though, as on the second turn of the drive they sent two saurus to the casualty box, although the alchemist was able to get one patched up enough to be ready for the next drive. Sadly, the one that stayed down was my star level three, he also got a broken neck. However, on further examination he doesn't even appear to have a neck, so the manager says he should be fine to keep playing. Despite the orcs big power advantage on the field because of these casualities they didn't move forward fast enough, and on the last turn of the half the orcs had to push a saurus into a orc to give him the boost needed to get a touchdown, but he failed the second go for it and the half ended 0-1.
The second half was when the craziness started. I kicked the ball out to the orcs, but then got a free turn from the event. I blitzed some saurus and skinks past the orc line up into his half, and made a royal scrum of it to try to get the ball. The ball was pushed back and fourth, skinks were knocked out like flies, and (just a touch of salt) a couple of dodges that would have ended the game in my victory were failed. In the end the orcs managed to dodge a blitzer out of the scrum and send him down the field. The only one who could block him was my Krox. Surprisingly, the Krox managed to not get bonehead, and chased down the offending blitzer. Sadlly though, this blitzer had his jumps on, and managed to get away from the Krox Twice, managing to get a touchdown on the final turn of the second half... Which means it's time for OVERTIME!
I went into overtime a bit shorthanded, but fate granted me it's boon, having a pitch invasion or something like that by fans who beat up a lot of the orc team. They also plucked my skink that was next to the ball, but no matter really, since they were fast enough that I could get a second one in right away. Except that he failed to pick up the ball. Once. Twice. Three times. As the orcs casually walked down the field. Apparently at this point the skink realized that if he didn't pick up the ball he would be reduced to a fine red smear, so he dodged out of the embrace of some orcs, picked up that ball, and made a run for it, I moved my scanty team around the ball carrier, and the orcs were unable to get a blitz on it. So much of the orc team had gone to grab the ball in fact that they were unable to cover my way out, all the skink had to do was make a single dodge and he would be completely free, with the orcs to slow to ever catch up. Needless to say he failed the dodge. All wasn't lost, as I still had a few skinks and my Krox to battle over the ball against the orcs that got past my saurus line, but unfortunately, they were unable to make anything happen, and the orcs every so slowly got away from my guys, and like ten turns later or something (orcs are slow, did I mention?) they got the touchdown.
It was. A very close. And very fun. And a lot of times very frustrating. Game. A nail biter up to the very end. Very much worthy of a semifinal.