traveller wrote:Tim, how it went with your ogres ?
Well ... in short:
1-0 win over Lucy's Necros. He couldn't pick up the ball, i could not pick up the ball. period. Oh wait, turn 8, half 2, Nuffle changed his mind: Gobbo picks up, hands over to another Gobbo who went flying, scattered 3 times towards the opponents endzone, landed safely and walked into the endzone for the win. I managed to get both werewolves off the pitch in the first half, that helped a lot. (Break Tackle on an Ogre, Sidestep on a Gobbo)
1-3 loss against Yavatol's Skaven. Not the best matchup for the Ogres. Went down early, then couldn't get the offense rolling and lost the ball again. Casulties sparked too late to turn the game, but at least i managed to score with an Ogre in the end. (Guard, Guard on two Ogres)
1-1 vs. Valen's Chaos Dwarfs (6 Dwarfs+plenty Hobs, 4 RRs). 2 Dirty Players ... yack. Get the Ref on the kickoff ... YACK! He rolls a 10+2 .. OMG!!! I roll a 12+1 ... UFFFFFFFFFFFF! First DP sent off on his first roll, LOL! Well, it looked good in the beginning, i get some CAS, i managed to score. Up at halftime, then something went wrong, can't really remember what, bad headache ... finally it was a 1-1, sigh ... should have won this. (Surehands on the Break Tackle Ogre, BT on another one)
0-2 loss against Dave's Khemri. Dave had fullpoints up to that game, had two dirty players and a frenzy mummy and a guard/kicker but fortunately almost no block skills. So i managed to stand ground against the death machine. Too bad i had pouring rain during my drive, failed 4 attempts to pick the ball, lying in the very end of the pitch close to my sideline (6 dice 5+ failed, 1x 4+ failed). In between an anlighting moment when he fouls an Ogre with DP and 4 assists, rolls snake eyes not breaking armour, get send off on a 6 and successfully argues the call. Finally a successful pickup, but some skeletons swarming in ... 2 1/2 die blocks later my Ogre is surfing the crowd, the ball is tossed into my endzone and the blitzing skeleton picks it up as if it was nothing ... SIGH! another perfect kick next to the side line and too late for a response, i did not get the ball to a gobbo in time. His drive and OF COURSE the sky cleared up ... He grinded nice offensive drive advancing whereever a bonehead gap opened in my defence ... 0-2. I scored some Cas and KOs in the second half, but not enough to stop his drive. Again a perfect kick next to the sideline, and i could not even attempt to toss a gobbo ...
1-1 Against Louis' Chaos. Kicked to him, managed to stop the drive next to the sideline, ball went out of bounds when he pushed an Ogre onto it, scatters to the feet of his AG4, Surehands Beastman who dashes off to the other side of the pitch and scores a little later ... second half, my Surehands, Break Tackle Ogre gets the ball and runs up the sideline, protected by a screen of Gobbos.