stabby
Learned
Well who would have thunk it, as it seems like a certain someone's a little embarrassed that his precious Khemri team conceded a touchdown, let alone to a freakin' retard's shennanigans. Anyhoo, I could use a little practice in match write-ups (as who knows, I may actually win a game at some point).
CDS - Khemri vs. Halflings
CDS - Khemri vs. Halflings
stabby playing Halflings? Well, RK was saying he wanted to get a match in before his bedtime, and, seeing as how the CDS league only takes fresh rookie teams, the only team I had laying around was a Halfling team that I most probably put together while quite drunk. Had to trim them down a bit to get some extra inducement cash (which I didn't completely use up as the time limit kicked in while I was looking over the extra options I wasn't used to seeing), and got the essentials of star player Zara and the good ol' Halfling Chef.
First half began with RK choosing to receive, and as you can imagine, it didn't take that long for my defensive line to crumble. Quickly parking his ball carrier next to the endzone, RK's gameplan then focused on keeping the trees marked and proceeding to gang-foul the shit out of Zara, who was face down near the left side of the pitch, at the centre line. My response was to quickly initiate plan "It's Raining Halflings, Hallelujah!" as one of my trees started chucking every available halfling towards the endzone (causing 2 casualites and a death), since Zara was taking those boots to her tits like a damned champ, and whoever survived their landing (two did) then pulled kamikaze blitzes on the Throw-Ra holding the ball as assists just weren't going to happen.
Yup, single Halflings blitzing a stronger player with block. Repeatedly. The first couple of attempts were with the Throw-Ra on the edge of the field and risking (albeit at a slight possibilty) getting himself crowd-surfed, and when he took a safer spot in near the center of the field, my blitzes were actually aimed to push him into the endzone if I connected with a push. Finally RK got nervous enough to score earlier than planned, leaving me with two turns in the half to tie it up. And without fail, Nuffle decides to be a bastard as the kickoff starts with the Blitz event, though perhaps RK got a little cocky as after making sure the my Trees were marked just enough, he pushed the rest of his players down the right side of the pitch to chase after the ball, leaving his half wide open for some fine, young halfling to fly into. Picked up the ball without a hitch, got it to the plucky projectile in wait next to the tree on the left, knocked down his marker, and crossed my fingers as I set up the flight down field... only to watch the 'fling land right back into the square he was in, thankfully on his feet. Having an 'Oh shit!' moment, RK quickly repositioned his players as best he could to try to mark a potential scorer, leaving gaps in the tackle zones to try and get a better coverage, because since when does a Halfling land where he's aimed?
Without fail, Nuffle proves to be a magnificent bastard as not only does my halfling land in that little gap, he lands and makes his 2 GFIs to score without a reroll.
Second half ... well this one just came down to attrition. I started with 9 players to RK's 11, and in getting the Perfect Defense event at the kickoff, RK was a little more prudent in his positioning. I couldn't get a hold of the damn ball (8% ball possession, R00fles!), and did my best to split RK's attention on the field as I kept a couple of halflings next to my trees as potential scorers, and Zara quickly made it on her back to soak up the gang fouling (RK finally managed a KO on turn 14), so I once again resorted to kamikaze blitzin' tactics once RK got a hold of the ball. I was a little more prudent in it this time around (as assists were an option at times), but he did a good job of moving out of range and keeping my boys marked. My last turn had me try to dodge away from three players to see if I could perhaps luck out on a crowd surf and ball scattering out of reach, only to fail the GFI needed to blitz.
RK scored for a 2-1 win. And I'm taking bets on how long a 1ST halfling will survive.
TL;DR version:
First half began with RK choosing to receive, and as you can imagine, it didn't take that long for my defensive line to crumble. Quickly parking his ball carrier next to the endzone, RK's gameplan then focused on keeping the trees marked and proceeding to gang-foul the shit out of Zara, who was face down near the left side of the pitch, at the centre line. My response was to quickly initiate plan "It's Raining Halflings, Hallelujah!" as one of my trees started chucking every available halfling towards the endzone (causing 2 casualites and a death), since Zara was taking those boots to her tits like a damned champ, and whoever survived their landing (two did) then pulled kamikaze blitzes on the Throw-Ra holding the ball as assists just weren't going to happen.
Yup, single Halflings blitzing a stronger player with block. Repeatedly. The first couple of attempts were with the Throw-Ra on the edge of the field and risking (albeit at a slight possibilty) getting himself crowd-surfed, and when he took a safer spot in near the center of the field, my blitzes were actually aimed to push him into the endzone if I connected with a push. Finally RK got nervous enough to score earlier than planned, leaving me with two turns in the half to tie it up. And without fail, Nuffle decides to be a bastard as the kickoff starts with the Blitz event, though perhaps RK got a little cocky as after making sure the my Trees were marked just enough, he pushed the rest of his players down the right side of the pitch to chase after the ball, leaving his half wide open for some fine, young halfling to fly into. Picked up the ball without a hitch, got it to the plucky projectile in wait next to the tree on the left, knocked down his marker, and crossed my fingers as I set up the flight down field... only to watch the 'fling land right back into the square he was in, thankfully on his feet. Having an 'Oh shit!' moment, RK quickly repositioned his players as best he could to try to mark a potential scorer, leaving gaps in the tackle zones to try and get a better coverage, because since when does a Halfling land where he's aimed?
Without fail, Nuffle proves to be a magnificent bastard as not only does my halfling land in that little gap, he lands and makes his 2 GFIs to score without a reroll.
Second half ... well this one just came down to attrition. I started with 9 players to RK's 11, and in getting the Perfect Defense event at the kickoff, RK was a little more prudent in his positioning. I couldn't get a hold of the damn ball (8% ball possession, R00fles!), and did my best to split RK's attention on the field as I kept a couple of halflings next to my trees as potential scorers, and Zara quickly made it on her back to soak up the gang fouling (RK finally managed a KO on turn 14), so I once again resorted to kamikaze blitzin' tactics once RK got a hold of the ball. I was a little more prudent in it this time around (as assists were an option at times), but he did a good job of moving out of range and keeping my boys marked. My last turn had me try to dodge away from three players to see if I could perhaps luck out on a crowd surf and ball scattering out of reach, only to fail the GFI needed to blitz.
RK scored for a 2-1 win. And I'm taking bets on how long a 1ST halfling will survive.
TL;DR version:
Wut team
