so md5 has been and gone. it ended up being 420k in inducements due to my poor maths skills, so i dropped a lino so he couldnt take silbili and a wiz. he ended up taking a wiz and 2 apothecaries, his reasoning being he is still in team development.
no real stars, a +st block ss, dt skink, a +ag ss skink, +ma ss skink, block guard krox, and 5 block saurii, one of those with tackle. 13 players all up.
i kick, leaving my catcher, dp, and back up thrower on the bench. his blocks do nothing on los, then his blitz manages to hit a blitzer on a gfi. this is his block tackle saurii, so i knock him over, send lutolf (+ag blodge tackle) up the left flank to annoy, then foul the tackler with my kicker, resulting in a ko! my opponent apo's this straight away to a stun.
the next few turns are pretty cage, with 3 skinks with the ball hanging around midfield of the lizards half, while lutolf was getting marked by a saurus. the rest of his saurii were spread out across the field, so he was having trouble protecting the ball from my tacklers if he moved forward. as his team had no mb on saurus i was much more comfortable man marking. t5 lutolf could get a blitz on the ball if he 3+ then 2+ dodged, so he did just that, using a reroll on the second dodge.
came up and the ball was free in no tz's. lutolf grabbed it up and took off to within 6 squares of scoring.
my block kick lino dodged a saurus marker, then kicked the head in of the +ag skink, killing him! unfortunately the apo was johnny on the spot.
my opponent responded by failing to knock over lutolf with the +st skink, so settled on sandwiching him between two skinks. wrong move, as after 2 gfi's to get a tz on the +st dt skink, who was the back of the sandwich, lutolf blitzed the forward skink,
, and with no ss it was a simple 2+ dodge to go 1 -0 up. woot! (the dt skink should have been in the tz of the other skink, so i couldnt escape by blitzing)
so 3 turns left in the half, blitzer daley is out ko'd so i bring on my thrower, while my dp lino jumps onto los.
i kick deep again, and my opponent push's right, making a sideline cage with 2 saurus and the +ma skink inside, ready to receive a handoff and score next turn. i blitz the front (block tackle) saurus and push him up against the sideline. i then mark up the saurus while a lino runs into the backfield. my opponent makes the handoff, then tries a blitz with his +st skink which fails on the gfi. my thrower then mng his tacklin saurus with his last apo used for no change, then i fill all the spots around the ss and blitz him into the crowd for a bh! the ball goes to the other side of the pitch and stuart picks it up, before the lino up field dodges free to act as a receiver. i then try to get lutolf into scoring range but fail the 4+dodge.
my opponent marks up the lino his turn, so t8 i need to choose between an unlikely td or skink hunting. i go for the td, but fail the second dodge on the lino with a reroll.
so 1-0 up, meninga is now ko'd but daley is back up. my opponent has 11 fit players while i have 13.
kicks midfield, and on the los my thrower takes out a skink this time.i knock the other 2 saurus over, which leaves a blitz to another skink with a block lino. que another bh skink. this allows another assist onto a niggled saurus, and after screening the ball and running my strip baller into the backfield to protect against wizards, i fouled the block guard niggle saurus in to the casualty box
he uses the wiz on the 5 guys surrounding the tz where his saurus use to be, for 1 knock down. next turn i foul out another saurus, and this sees his team scatter to the hills. i run it in with stuart on t12 much to my opponents disappointment (he wanted me to stall it out so he could hide).
so 7v11, i kick short, mark up the saurii, and blitz with my strip baller, who picks the ball up on the follow up. the +st skink foolishly tries a -2d block, and breaks his neck for his troubles. and with all 3 apos used (1 on a ko, 1 on a mng) that neck is staying permanently kinked
i handoff to my block tackle thrower, who with 2 casualties and now a td moves to 23spp's
3-0 basterdz!!
post match
well the dice were kind for me today. my block dice were average, but my injury dice were excellent, especially compared to my opponents. he threw 50+ blocks for 3 ko's.
he rolled 9+ on 2d6 4/35 times, i was 14/35. i gave away alot of blocks, but many were on linos getting pushed around.
next week is the undefeated chaos side Star Spanners. he still has md5 to play, against a woodie team. our tv's are pretty even at this stage.
another rookie lino lvl'd. block or dp is the question.
, to open up a shot for his blodge mb tackle CW to hit stuart on 2d. the blitz comes in.... and stuart calmly dumps off to the catcher in who ran in range last turn, just in case this happened 
