Slann Match Reports

Game 1 v Buggrit's Humans - drew 1-1

Always entertaining to play Bert, who managed to avoid losing to me for the first time ever! Came very close to losing this one as well, with it coming down to a 3+ roll at the very end.

Game 2 v Pinback's CDs - won 2-0

Rich is a player from the Cakebowl league whose game is rapidly improving, and this was hard work! Received and did the predictable 2 turn score, or would have done if I hadn't rolled snake eyes. There then followed a melee in his half, after which I managed to retrieve the ball, and then turned him over in the second half. Good game!

Game 3 v Glowworm's Gobbos - won 5-0

Bit of a nasty one this, scoring quickly and then turning him during his drive - the wrestling catcher was in his element with a S2 ball carrier. This meant that the secret weapons were pretty quickly off the pitch, closely followed by their standard team-mates as I rolled 8 after 8 for armour!

Game 4 v IrishDave's Pro Elves - won 3-1

With 4 leaping catchers, Dave's elves were acting as wannabe slann, but they reckoned without my lovely dice. Didn't do anything ridiculous, but all my 2+ rolls and 2 dice blocks worked, and my first turnover came in T16.

Game 5 v Mattwhile's CDs - drew 1-1

A de facto final, whoever won this was likely to win the tournament, so the draw kept things exciting! He received and at turn 5 I started to think I'd slowed him down enough to win, but he got there in turn 8. In half 2 a snake eyes got me again, but it wasn't disastrous so I scored in turn 3. This time I just about did enough to keep him out, which was massively helped by having lots of frogs in the second half.

Game 6 v vmcat's Undead - won 3-2

This time I score in 2 turns, and then did an amazing kick into the corner. Val failed the pickup and the ball scattered nicely into my catcher's path, so I was 2-0 up in 4 turns. Should have just got in his way to stop him scoring at this point, but kept going for the turnover so he made it 2-1 at the half. Some rigorous defence wasn't enough to stop it going 2-2, and then I had to do an unprotected short pass and GFI for the win. Not enough casualties to win the tournament though!

In summary:
My armour was amazing this weekend - everyone is amazed that they are majority AV8, but even then I should have suffered a lot more cas than I did. Still, it's a dice game...
Very pleased with my skill choices - leader, kick, 3x block on the linemen, wrestle and guard blitzers, 1x wrestle and 3x dodge catchers.