“Not much to say about this one. It was a pretty standard elven match up, with both teams having one good basher and a bunch of players that could deal with the business of scoring.

Sadly, my basher took root on his very first action and so missed out on several turns of potential hitting. Meanwhile, the high elves avoided the wood elf assault and calmly ran in the first score.

My first offensive drive was horrible. It began reasonably enough, but after the first turn the high elves just kept KOing my players and making sure I didn't have any clear targets downfield. Two attempts to free up a player ended in horrible fails, and then the high elves stole the ball away and scored for themselves.

I wasn't going to go for a one-turn TD on turn 8, but happily a riot broke out and apart from the line-fodder, all the high elves were too far back to stop me getting into as good a position as possible for a score. Which is what I did, fortunately not failing anything for once.

The second half began with me receiving...receiving the kick and receiving a blitz at the same time. It was a bit messy for a couple of turns, and then it was 3-1 to the high elves. Then, as so often happens, I started playing the way I should have been from the start and I pulled back a second score.

At this point, a blitz or some high elf bad luck would have made things interesting, but neither happened and dolphinandrew just gave the ball to his ST4 blitzer and kept him safely out of harm's way. I tried for a bit of final turn heroics, but my wrestling catcher couldn't get the ball free and that was that.

A good amount of gold for a loss, and no players need replacing. At the same time, I still can't afford the missing second wardancer so I'm still packing a bunch of journeymen next time out.

So basically, it was business as usual.”