“Second round of Ulthuan Invitational, main draw.

After having eliminated an uber ugly Chaos team, the Wandering Feathers faced a very solid dwarf team in the quarter finals. Spam guard/stand firm would prove to be a problem, even in the absence of any diving tackle.

The Giants won the toin coss and chose to kick. Due to a brainfart in turn 1 I lost one of my blitzers soon. Deciding between stalling more (since the dodges actually worked fine) and scoring, I decided to do the latter. In hindsight this probably cost me the game, but it's always easy to say that once the game is finished. I put up a solid defense, but the dwarfs scored nevertheless in turn 8 (after two gfi's with the teamreroll gone).

In the second half the elves' numbers started crumbling quite soon (after losing the fame roll by 1, the Feathers suffered two thrown rocks in the game). Rather than slowly dying, I chose to go all in and do risky stuff. I got 4 blitzes on the ball (ok, 3 were -2d and only 1 was 1d), but I lacked the necessary luck. I probably also made a mistake not rerolling the pushes. Once you decide to go all in, it should really mean all in.

The dorfs made it to the semi's thanks to their conservative playstyle and solid coaching. Grats on the win to Harad and good luck in the semi's!
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