Match Report
Season 10. Ostland. Match week 1: Mutant Ninjas vs Phantom Girls
Seems today that Nuffle was in a bad mood, for both teams. Start of the game one of the amazons best players got hit with a rock in the face and died, couldn't be saved by the apo and boom we actually have a fighting chance! The death of that amazon made it so the team only had 2 guard pieces instead of 3, and with me matching those 2 with my own 2 and having A LOT more strength than the amazons things were looking good for the nurgle for once!
Things were looking good on my drive until I allowed a 1D hit against my ball carrier which then caused a knockdown. 1D'in was a theme from the amazon players this game and the majority of them ended in very favorable results for them. Had a chance to score on T8 but failed the 4+ pass, those never work for me. Was VERY disappointed in myself this half. Had man advantage and strength advantage, should have scored but that 1 positional mistake and that 1D just caused havoc. 0-0 half time.
So during last seasons game against the Phantom girls they had a very easy time scoring against me, however with how the first half went I was pretty confident in my defense, it all just depended on one player to keep those dodging players in place. Yes you know the guy. He is big, ugly, smelly and has these weird tentacles coming out of his body, the one and only Lord Dregg!!! So we all know how that ended.......Magnificently! It was the strangest thing, he did everything he needed to do, he held players in place, he knocked players down, he moved to better positions, hell when people went to hit him he knocked them down instead! I couldn't believe it, MVP for sure this game! He either really didn't like me putting him in the Hall of Shame or the guy has been taking illegal performance enhancing drugs during the off season.
So less gushing over Lord Dregg and more about the game. Was able to tie up majority of his players on the LOS and keep them progressing no further, was unable to do that last season. Having that extra guard is pretty huge for my team. He made a dash for it on the side which had a little bit of weakness but I was able to intercept with Lord Dregg and have him against the ball carrier. Knocked ball out of his hands and was able to get it on one of my players. 4 turns left to score and the ball on my pestigor I felt pretty confident. Had a amazon behind my line being marked by a player and moved my pestigor into position so the amazon would have to dodge into his tackle zone and then would be just on a 1D. Remember that theme of 1D? Amazon gets the 4+ dodge and proceeds to knock the ball out of my pestigors hands. *Sigh*. I need to look at the replay and see if I had a better place to put him but I think with how the positions were he was always just 1 dodge away from getting me. Smarter choice may have been to place him directly against the dodgy amazon and make him roll up, however that would have required a GFI and I had no RRs. No one was able to pick up the resulting downed ball for the rest of the game and we end in an interesting 0-0.
This game I feel I lost the win. I don't think I played badly I just think I made mistakes during key moments of the game. Both of us had good dice throughout. I had 15 Armor breaks and only caused 1 injury and 5 KOs. Had great potential for gaining a lot of SPP this game but the dice wasn't with me there. I actually feel a little more confident about this season than I did before the first game. My STR advantage seemed to nullify the dodges, just need to keep my key pieces healthy in the next few games while I gain some more SPP.