“Raining Cats and Dogs faced their second defeat of the season last night (and second defeat in a row), in a very tough game against Sigmar1's Daemons of Slaanesh, Ecstasy and Agony.

It was always going to be a hard match, playing up 300-odd TV against a top coach with a healthy team that has featured in the final playoffs in the first two SLA seasons. Anyway, the cats gave it their best shot and came away with their heads held high.

The Slaanesh received first and set up a holding position in the middle of the pitch. Mistress of Razors failed to find anything better than a push on her first couple of blitzes (a pattern that would stick for most of the game). After tussling for 2 or 3 turns in the middle of the pitch, the Slaanesh made a break for it down the left flank. However, the cunning Were spotted a chink in their formation, which allowed the star player, Setekh, a blitz on the ballcarrier. Using his Strip Ball, he managed to dislodge the ball, sending it bouncing into the crowd. The resulting throw in landed deep in the Were half at the feet of several of their players. Things were suddenly looking good for the cats, until Sigmar's Greater Daemon, Deves'tatyll, blitzed through to snatch the ball. It seemed as if nothing would be able to prevent the towering daemon from scoring; however, the werewolf, Rowdeh Dawg!, tried his luck with a -2db blitz anyway and amazingly managed to roll a pow/defender stumbles. The monster crashed down hard and again it looked as if the Were might seize the initiative, as the ball bounced loose. However, the Slaanesh, fast, nimble and backed up by the hypnotizing daemonettes, dashed through to again secure the ball. However, yet again, the Were refused to give in and Setekh managed to pull off another amazing blitz to spill the ball for a third time. However, again, the cats were unable to get it under control and, on the last turn of the half, the Mistress of Barbs didn't have too much difficulty collecting the ball and running it in for the score.

On turn 8 of the first, the Were might have had a chance for a 1TTD, if not for the fact that the Slaanesh rolled a perfect defense on the kickoff, which denied them the opportunity.

So, the Were received at the start of the second with a big job to do. The Slaaneshi good fortune with the kick-off results continued, with them rolling a Blitz!, which could have effectively ended the game. However, the kick was deep and they were unable to reach it. Still, the Were's first two turns were not very kind and they found themselves under pressure early from the speedy daemons and their hypno gaze. On turn 3, the daemons used their gazes to expose the ballcarrying cat, but Barbs was unable to find a pow to bring Twinkletoes down. At this point, the daemons had committed to surging forward and the cats sensed it was their chance to get behind their line. With some favourable blitzing and dodging, Twinkletoes handed it off to Johnny Five, who ran the ball deep into the Slaanesh half. The Slaaneshi tried to scramble back, but were just too late to prevent the TD.

The Daemons received with 4 turns to play and by this point were surely favorites to win the match. The Were defended valiantly and, at one point, Rowdeh Dawg! had an outside chance to blitz the ballcarrying daemonette. However, he tripped and the daemons made it 2-1 on the final turn. On their last turn, the Were again had an outside chance for a 1TTD; however, Setekh failed to roll a push and that was it.

Thanks for a good and hard fought game, Sig. Amazingly, very few injuries were scored, even with all the AV7 and Tackle/MB. Slaanesh wasn't happy with the lack of carnage, but should at least be pleased with the result :)”