One more match played and the result was much better than last match. Especially on the SPP side. This time I only lost 2 SPP to the mercenary Ogre.
In the first half Vinterlegionen got an early advantage by causing 2 KO on me, while his guys just stood up again. I advanced into his half but in T3 the Ogre did not remember what a blitz was so I could not punch through. Then in T4 I started with the ogre but got lots of skulls, a very quick turnover and lots of men lying down. My bad. Vinterlegionen seized the opportunity, blocked my ball carrier, picked it up with a runner and formed a cage on my half. After that I could not do much. He scored 0-1 and so ended the first half.
In the second half the norse started with a very offensive lineup but I got a blitz. Unfortunately I had to move the ogre to get the nice opening in the wall that I wanted and I was stupid enough to once again try to blitz with him and failed. So the blitz did not give anything. The norse thrower failed to pick up the ball and I pushed far into his territory and marked all guys who could help the thrower next turn. Now he only had to fail just a little bit more and all would be well. Unfortunately he managed to pick up the ball, throw it to a runner who catched it and then advanced into my half and suddenly my entire team was in the wrong position. Next turn he made an easy touchdown. 0-2.
It was somewhere here that my luck with dices started to get better. I had some KO's and one or two BH at this time so he was decimated while I had a full team. This made it rather easy to press forward with the ball and then almost every block for two turns ended in a KO or BH. That made it easy to score my first touchdown with this team in T14.
Two turns left, a draw was not impossible, although improbable. He catched the ball and collected his 7 man team on my left flank. I advanced into his field with two players who could score. The rest tried to get as close to his ball carrier as possible. He realized what could happen and made a KO on my catcher and then placed two guys beside my blitzer. Then he dodged away with his ball carrier and placed him on the border. So, not easy but possible. I blitzed his runner with the ball and pushed him into the crowd where the audience promptly killed him. Unfortunately the ball landed to far away for me to even be able to pick it up and try for the TD. So the match ended in a loss 1-2.
Vinterlegionen managed to win 2-1 despite suffering 4 BH and 1 dead + lots of KO. I almost felt sorry for them, but only almost. :)
Looking forward to a very interesting ending of this group with a final between the two norse teams and a loser match between my humans and the orcs.
In the first half Vinterlegionen got an early advantage by causing 2 KO on me, while his guys just stood up again. I advanced into his half but in T3 the Ogre did not remember what a blitz was so I could not punch through. Then in T4 I started with the ogre but got lots of skulls, a very quick turnover and lots of men lying down. My bad. Vinterlegionen seized the opportunity, blocked my ball carrier, picked it up with a runner and formed a cage on my half. After that I could not do much. He scored 0-1 and so ended the first half.
In the second half the norse started with a very offensive lineup but I got a blitz. Unfortunately I had to move the ogre to get the nice opening in the wall that I wanted and I was stupid enough to once again try to blitz with him and failed. So the blitz did not give anything. The norse thrower failed to pick up the ball and I pushed far into his territory and marked all guys who could help the thrower next turn. Now he only had to fail just a little bit more and all would be well. Unfortunately he managed to pick up the ball, throw it to a runner who catched it and then advanced into my half and suddenly my entire team was in the wrong position. Next turn he made an easy touchdown. 0-2.
It was somewhere here that my luck with dices started to get better. I had some KO's and one or two BH at this time so he was decimated while I had a full team. This made it rather easy to press forward with the ball and then almost every block for two turns ended in a KO or BH. That made it easy to score my first touchdown with this team in T14.
Two turns left, a draw was not impossible, although improbable. He catched the ball and collected his 7 man team on my left flank. I advanced into his field with two players who could score. The rest tried to get as close to his ball carrier as possible. He realized what could happen and made a KO on my catcher and then placed two guys beside my blitzer. Then he dodged away with his ball carrier and placed him on the border. So, not easy but possible. I blitzed his runner with the ball and pushed him into the crowd where the audience promptly killed him. Unfortunately the ball landed to far away for me to even be able to pick it up and try for the TD. So the match ended in a loss 1-2.
Vinterlegionen managed to win 2-1 despite suffering 4 BH and 1 dead + lots of KO. I almost felt sorry for them, but only almost. :)
Looking forward to a very interesting ending of this group with a final between the two norse teams and a loser match between my humans and the orcs.