“We're up against iena's similarly rated humans. I seem to have a problem beating iena, with a vs record of 0/1/4 to date... let's hope we can break the spell!

They win the coin toss and choose to kick. We start quite well, badly hurting a lineman on turn 1 and another on turn 2. But the humans strike on turn 3 with a great turn, knocking the ball free and then stealing it with one of their throwers. With 2 stuns and a KO on players nearby on the same turn we're extremely hard pressed to recover. And in fact we can't stop them scoring by turn 4. Ouch!

With the eye back on the humans we go four our 2nd foul, and manage to get our DP sent off .. :( The following turn our ball carrier badly hurts a catcher in his way as we charge into their half. They defend well but given he's AGI4 they have a hard time keeping him back and he dodges two turns in a row before making it 1-1!

We set up for the 2nd half with a black orc in the KO box, giving us 10 vs 10. They immediately DP gang foul for a KO to get the number advantage. Then as we push in on one side they use a double-pow -2d blitz (for a KO, to boot) to free their thrower and switch sides. A third KO leaves us with 7 though we then manage to KO their catcher. We get players around the ball carrier, but a series of good turns lets them bypass us and get the ball to next to our endzone. We keep trying for it but just can't get a good blitz on him and they take the lead on turn 6, though not before our troll has killed a blitzer (apo fail).

1/4 of our KOs wake up so we have 8 vs 8 for the last few turns. We push forwards well, and on turn 7 it looks decent for us. As our ball carrier is safe at the half way line and we have a couple blitzers through deep. They stun one and put a blitzer over the other one- and when we can only get both-down with our blitzer trying for a pushback it means it's curtains.

Well won.. AGAIN iena! :(”