“Sawankhalok Sweethearts 1 - 2 School of Hardknocks

This was probably the single best game I have ever been part of in all my 200+ games on FUMBBL so far. In the end, the girls and I came up short once the game was extended to 7 turns of Overtime!

With his main star tied up by my two Tacklers, you opted to pass to this other Catcher and make an endzone dash. I was delighted by this, as I had plenty of girls near by and was looking forward to seizing the football and scoring myself!

However, as my first tackler failed to put down her marker, I was faced with a choice- tackler Evangeline could dodge away and tackle, or else STR 4 April could blitz on 3 dice with a reroll. Fearing a failed dodge, I went with April, who failed to put the Catcher down! In hindsight this was perhaps an error and I should have taken my chances with Evangeline...though a failed dodge would have also hurt!

Needless to say, you scored in turn 3.

Still, not a disaster! We had the remainder of the first to score, followed by receiving in the second! Things were looking okay!

It is here that the tide began to build in your favor. First of all he charged his speedy Catchers right through my lines, right to Thrower Emilie at the rear! This was a risky ploy as they faced injury or worse...but my girls could not put them down, even using Tackle, and in the end they severely slowed down our drive.

In the meantime you efficiently used your Mighty Blow Tacklers to blitz and remove virtually one Sweetheart per turn! So by turn 6 we ended up only at the halfway line, and with severely depleted numbers!

Needless to say, our drive was halted short of a touchdown with the half time whistle.

Now things were looking bad- less than 9 girls on the field against the entire Nomad squad! I had to change tactics, and decided to make a slow drive lasting the whole half and try to remove Humans from the field in preparation for overtime.

This we did- in a single turn we SI'd one player and KOed two more, though you did it better! The result was a turn 8 score and overtime with 8 players versus the full 11 again!

In Overtime we received, and a Blitz for you seemed to be the end of us, but in fact it opened up his backfield for a long bomb for us! We managed to get a girl free and even throw the ball to her, and if it had even gone close to her then things would have gotten very interesting indeed. Unfortunately for us it went out of play and was thrown in back in our half!

From here a score for you seemed inevitable, but superhuman efforts from the 3-5 girls remaining kept you from scoring until close to the end of Overtime.

Though I have mentioned some incidents which didn't go our way, others did. For one, nobody got badly hurt. Somehow my two AV6 Throwers survived many Mighty Blow Tackles! Also your Ogre was useless, as usual :)

I think you played extremely well and gave us little chance in the game. The combination of Mighty Blow and Tackle on 3 players was too much for my AV 7 girls, and to combat it we will need more Guards and some Mighty Blow of our own. I am pleased enough to get a regulation time tie, and that is what we will have to aim for in our next meeting, unless we can get hold of those skills first!

Good luck in the Artist Cup Nomad, your team has the weapons to win it all! In particular, I think Crib with his AV7 players will be hoping you lose your next game ”