“Warpstone open IX qualifier 1, semifinals:

A very tense game, in which I made quite a few mistakes but got lucky and elfed through in the end. The cdorfs won the toss and chose to kick. A snaked gfi left them out of position, and I spent half my drive trying (but failing) to hurt his vampire hobo, so that I could start playing aggressive defense. I scored on turn 7 and sent up pretty far back. Got a blitz and threatened enough for some action, then fouled the main blitzer (mb tackle frenzy) bull to death (apo niggle).

Second half I nearly managed to stop the cdorfs, although I was missing a few players, but then they score due to me screwing up turn 15 (an unnecessary jump up that allowed a T16 chainpush when it didn't push). No push in 6 dice stopped my OTTD, and so the game went to overtime. Starting with a 5 vs 6 pitch invasion, overtime went back and forth from turn 18 or so right up until turn 24. Both teams playing with no rerolls, and with many clinch moments, it was a fun game to play.

In the end there was surprisingly little damage either way: a -MA on a lino for me, and a niggle on a bull for the cdorfs. I hit 0 cas with 3 mb plus a pomber, but given the amount of tackle (with (po)mb, the cdorfs were definitely hitting further below par with only 2 cas in 24 turns. In the end, more players were ejected than cas'd.”