For completeness, here’s how Sunday went (did you miss Saturday?).  My cunning ruse to lose game 3 on the Saturday in order to get an easier game on the Sunday (not really…) worked a treat, as the woodland folk managed to run in 5 touchdowns against a norse team hell bent on passing the ball!  Lovely chap, but the sun didn’t help, and he ran out of rerolls pretty quickly.  With 15 touchdowns in 4 games, I was pretty sure that I had most TDs in the bag, but was keen to consolidate!

Then came my first NAF game against Bretonnians, who I had heard impressive things about in tournament settings, and I am running them in our tabletop league.  This was Firebreather completing his 26-team quota after using Khorne at UKTC.Steve was using Dolfar (the one with long legs at the back, but he left the pitch pretty quickly (a lack of any blocking skills will do that to a person).  I received and went for the slow score, but left myself just a smidgeon to do in the last couple of turns, so went in at 0-0 (boo to most touchdowns!). The Brets started the second half strongly, but they lost all the knights by turn 12 after the ball carrier got surfed due to a 5+ dodge into a sideline cage, and it was then highlighted that without the knights this team is pretty bad!  The elves did their elfy thing, going the length of the pitch, and snuck a 1-0 win.

Respectability was looming at 3-0-2, but I had to face Don_Vito’s Undead in the last game, who I had witnessed demolishing the skaven next to me in the previous round (a turn 10 pitch clear, no less).  Luckily for me, he used up all his good cas dice in that game, and despite multiple knockdowns due to my aggressive attack on his ball carrier it was turn 10 before any of my players actually left the pitch – bonkers stuff.

We finished 1-1 after a horrible double skulls for me in turn 15, which didn’t come close to outweighing his ridiculously bad armour dice in the first half.

Most touchdowns was mine, happily – a very large trophy for the mantelpiece, and as a family we took home these three Sizzlers (in commemoration my first opponent), which I will be using as my 3 free cheerleaders for Bubba on Saturday – more Blood Bowl!