Have been silence long enough to now to get the reader itching for some news?
No? Not at all?...
... come on... just leave me this illusion.
Played my match against reQQy´s nurgle yesterday in the evening.
His Team suprised me a bit lacking of punching power with just 2 NW, 1 Beast, 3 Pestigores and a 4 Rotter (+1 Loner). I think he has lost a player or two allready.
The TV difference was 200k and so I was expecting a Wizard and a babe but he decidet for a forth RR and an Igor. (Must have seen my 2 kills allready.)
He decidet to recieve and the game started with a perfect defence for me.
The Sun was burning and everybody had a -1 for passing... not that I was expecting much passing but that stopped every idea about it. Picking up the ball and put it save in a cage he started to pressure my right wing. Me having more Block, more Guard, more claw, more Mighty Blow and the same amount of strengh after giving his Beast my #1 Punchbag as Bodyguard I decidet to start a little blocking war and moved my player in for some fighting.
In turn 2 he wasn´t able to get my player away but sadly I wasn´t able to bring a single player down but pushed both of my wolves a bit out of positions cause of them going two frenzy. Starting with Turn three the Nurgle decidet to show me that numbers don´t count and they are the stronger team. A Rotter Ko´ed one of my zombies and a warrier gouged the eye from a Golem. Luckely I had one nearly new eye left in my tool box so he was able to regenerate. To finish his nice Turn his Beast bite of the Head of my #1 Punchback. As a good Necromancer I have allways lots of pieces around and so just replaced it with a new one (regenerated as well). Sending another bodyguard for the beast I tried to do some damage as well but wasn´t able to achiev anything more then a stun. In Turn 4 his beast was mad about me regenerating his offer to nurgle and full of anger right smashed his new bodyguard and Badly Hurting him. This time I decidet to let if calm down a bit and choose to not regenerate the player. Again my player pushed his around a bit but decidet to play clean and nice fearing to touch the dirty rotter I also had to send my last Golem to the beast to keep it busy. In Turn 5 he really suprised me by freeing his Beast with a blitz and sprinting it to my right wing pinning both of my werewolfs (one of them at the sidelines). My mistake they where standing quite bad but I simply didn´t expect my blocking beeing so pushy and with frenzy I lost controle about their positioning a bit. He was also able to bring a rotter in the back of the two wolfes so even with a good tentakle roll the dodge was quite hard. In my turn 5 I decidet to exchange my last zombie with freddy (my lvl 3 WW). Moving the zombie right to the sideline asking to get pushed out but with his help I was able to blitz away from the beast. Finally Ko´ing a rotter with that blitz but my second Wolf wasn´t able to leave his tentacles. In his turn 6 he used his last RR (with a Loner) to push Ulf (my fresh WW) and the zombie in the fans but nothing happend. After that I only had 5 player left on the pitch while nurgle had 10. I decidet to play a bit like elfs.. blitzing and avoiding his player. That´s more the way my team likes to play and freddy directly killed one of his rotter. (Third kill in his fifth game)
In Turn 7 he was finally moving the ball in my half but wasn´t able to build a safe cage around it. So he still needed a gfi in his last turn to score without a rr.
In my Turn 7 I tried to make it as hard as possible for him. Binding his halfcage with my Ghoul I was able to make a 1 db blitz with freddy against his ballcarrier. Hopped for a
but nuffle was nice and gave me a clear
. I could lay a second TZ at the ball but hadn´t enough player left to get the ball. In his turn 8 he had no trouble pushing my TZ´s away and was able to make a PU and HO for a well deserved TD.
I didn´t tried for a One-Turn. Instead I hoped to get a nice hit on one of his player and also trie a QP with freddy beeing just 1 SSP away from his next skill.
But a roit started and gave me two turns to score!
Sending Ulf and my two Whights into scoring range I crashed his frontline. My block golem MNG´ed a rotter and a zombie KO´ed another one. Freddy wasn´t able to pick up the ball but I was saving my last RR for my last turn. He blitzed Ulf down and doubled one of my whights. But thanks to his beast going stupid the other whight was just singled from a warrior. But Freddy wasn´t able to pick up the ball after using the RR to free my Whight with a blitz and so it was halftime.
My Ko Zombie came back and one of his two Ko´ed rotter.
And suprisingly I outnumbered him quite a lot. 11 Nekros against 8 Nurgle player.
Maybe a tie or even a lucky win seems possible.
Even the Sun was getting weaker and the weather was nice making qp´s possible in some situations at least.
Second half will be a bit shorter ´cause I´m running out of time now..
My Block Golem Hurted another Rotter and a Zombie Ko´ed a second one so I was able to score in turn 4 with my Ghoul after making a quick pass to him with my Ulf to get him into MVP range.
reQQy then had to trie a offence play with 7 against 11 which started with a blitz for me and ´cause nurgle aren´t an Elf team I was able to get the ball from him after a failed sprint in Turn 6 to stall for one turn and score in Turn 8 with Ulf for a dirty but nice win.
Freddy was still sitting one SSP away from the next skill but was choosen for the MVP so I have 2 level ups.
A Normal for Freddy (dodge)and a Double for my unskilled Ghoul.
So what shall I give the Ghoul? I want him have Block as soon as possible but Guard is realy nice to have. Can´t have to much Guard with Nekros. Also the second skill isn´t that far away either. But keeping him without block longer makes me nervous... don´t like to have a dead guardgoul.
I have 120k money right now and strangle I was able to ressourect the dead rotter. (My magic powers are so masterfull that I´m even able to ressurect rotters... noone else can do that!)
So I have 14! player right now and I haven´t decidet if I shall buy my second Ghoul or a forth RR as next.