Kobb's Khorne vs. Sheer Badassery
The Rematch
The Game For Half the Marbles
The Other Sundry Cliches
Sheer Badassery developed some bad habits before the match. Overconfidence can just kill a team, I tell you!
Khorne elects to kick. Also, it's snowing.
SB1: Khorne lines up with TAB deep, but otherwise mostly in Full Frontal Brutality. The elves put *four* men on the front line! And the snow immediately stops... a false alarm, much as it was in Boston today. The Khorne kickoff is short, and the Baddasses quickly pick it up. The elves manage to *stun* the Minotaur.
KK1: A few pushy blocks, and then a blitzing beastman accepts a both-down against the elven passer.
SB2: The elves finish opening a line down the middle. The thrower stands up, picks back up the ball, and tosses it to a catcher, who runs it to a few yards from the Khorne end zone.
KK2: TAB dodges away from his shadow and blitzes down the ball-carrier. The ball goes into the stands, eventually sailing
back to midfield.
SB3: The S4 elven blitzer knocks TAB down. The catcher goes into the end zone. A A5 elf picks up the ball, dodges a bit downfield, and tosses it to him. Touchdown!
KK3: The elves put the mandatory three men on the front line, then spread out in a prevent defense. TAB goes deep for Khorne, with the rest of the team in FFB. The kick goes to the goal line, sending TAB back to retrieve it. NATAB comes back to catch the pass from TAB.
SB4: Two blitzers get deep, pushing NATAB back.
KK4: The Minotaur gets the first injury of the game against a nearby lineman. TAB comes up to give NATAB support, and a rookie beastman tries and fails to knock over one of the elves shadowing NATAB. A Chaos warrior knocks out another elf.
SB5: A catcher tries to blitz downfield, and falls over on his second dodge.
KK5: After a couple of tries, the beastmen finally take down the slippery blitzer. The minotaur knocks out another elf. At the end of the turn, all 8 elves left on the pitch are on their backs, and NATAB has the ball behind a reasonable front wall, with a chaos warrior beside him.
SB6: An elf dodges twice around the Prehensile Tail, but falls over going for it.
KK6: NATAB continues the ball forward, with three teammates flanking him and several other in close proximity.
SB7: A catcher tries and fails to knock NATAB over, falling over himself in the process.
KK7: NATAB gets to within a few yards of the goal line. A chaos warrior injures another elf.
SB8: An elf catcher pushes NATAB back a space.
KK8: The elf gets knocked down, and NATAB runs the ball in.
Halftime Score: Kobb's Khorne 1 - 1 Sheer Badassery
KK9: Neither of the knocked out elves wakes up, leaving only 8 on the field. The elves go strong to one side, which shifts the distribution, but not overall shape, of the Khorne FFB. TAB picks up the kickoff, runs it downfield, and throws it to NATAB, who runs it farther downfield.
SB9: One catcher flubs a GFI, needing a reroll, and another fails a dodge, leading to a broken back (that the apoc fixes).
KK10: NATAB runs the ball in.
SB10: Khorne lines up in it's TAB-deep formation. The kickoff doesn't make it to the line of scrimmage.
KK11: The elven front line goes down, and the rest of the Khorne front moves toward the ball.
SB11: The elves throw the ball deep into the Khorne half of the pitch.
KK12: TAB picks up the ball. NATAB runs back to receive it.
SB12: Not much.
KK13: TAB passes to NATAB, who runs downfield.
SB13: Not much.
KK14: NATAB runs the ball in.
SB14: Ball picked up.
KK15: Two linemen injured, rest of team rushes toward the back.
SB15: Defense around the ball.
KK16: TAB tries to sneak a blitz at the ball, but falls over.
SB16: A chaos warrior intercepts a pass.
Final Thoughts:
Kanil felt that I could've just sat on the ball after his turn 9, with him then having 0 chance of stopping me from scoring on turn 16 for a 2-1 win. I felt it was more worthwhile to take the early score and go for more SPP for the finals, but he didn't put up much struggle after that. The first half was the hotly contested one. I got to kick the ball off, which was important, and I managed to get that score before halftime, which meant that Kanil and I were still tied, but he was down several players *and* giving me the ball at the start of the second half.
I'll be getting several of my players hurt by the Norse for the finals. That, plus a strong showing here in the first round makes me feel good about my chances of a second straight Bay12 Championship.
Kanil has been all class in the two matches I've played against him, even when things weren't going his way. Plus, his team's ability to score seemingly at will has put fear into everyone this year. Hats off to him.
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