“This was a harsh, bloody at times bizarre game.

The first half the 'Hoodz' took a real pasting as they had obviously done something to offend nuffle. It started with a pitch invasion knocking 4 of my guys down in the LOS and went downhill from there.

skaven turn 1 inflicted a SI for a niggle
skaven turn 2 inflicted a BH
hoodz turn 3 my ogre knocked himself out while 2db'in causing my ball carrier to get sacked
skaven turn 3, my thrower KO'd
hoodz turn 4 my star catcher the fence failed a rerolled 2+dodge and got SI.. which i apothed successfully... thank god
skaven turn 4 inflicted another SI for a missed game then scored.

hoodz turn 5 got my line setup up nicely to push one of the flanks... than failed to pick up the ball on 3+reroll...
skaven turn 5 they pick up the ball and are within scoring range

hoodz turn 6, looks like an easy sack of the carrier, i get an assist in then use my dauntless catcher to take the ball, but oh no, i get rerolled skulls...
skaven turn 6, inflicted another SI on me then scored

By this stage i felt like conceding to prevent my team potentially being retired, but im not that kind of guy and knew if i could just take some rats off the pitch the numbers would be about even as i had started with a deep subs bench and my opponant hadn't. Cue the fightback as i sacrified my hamster to nuffle to appease him and asked him to stop cursing the dice against me.

hoodz turn 7, i inflict a KO on LOS, blitzed a player into scoring position and even managed to pickup the ball!
skaven turn 7, very little action, just defensive blocking.

hoodz turn 8 , blitzed a defender out of the way, blocked another to so he cant interfere with a tackle zone, pass to my catcher so he can use his movement to reach my scorer... he gets there but the guy fails to catch the handoff :( but my catcher prevent turnover by getting the bounce himself lol. My planned scorer then caused a KO from shear annoyance.
skaven turn 8, the block dice and armour rolls seem to have failed them and i dont lose any more people

Im 2-0 down at half time but at least i start to beleive the team can actually play bloodbowl!

2nd half starts well as i get KO's back and the skaven dont meaning we start with even teams of 10.
Skaven turn 1, immediately they BH another linesman and i think 'here we go again' but after picking up the ball they fumble a simple throw; turnover!
hoodz turn 1 I block off their potential scorer and surround the skaven pack with my team to put tackle zones all over the ball so there is no easy breackout

skaven turn 2, they block a few players out of the way to open a route out, but fumble a very tricky pickup leaving the hoodz with an opening...
hoodz turn 2 starts with a chain block, killing one guy (saved by apoth) and chainpushes another out of the balls tackle zone. Another block sends a skaven flying causing the ball to bounce so theres only 1 tackle zone on it, i then blitz that remaining guy and push him outta the way.
Feeling somewhat happier with the team i then instruct 'thefence' to grab the ball and head for the TD leaving all skaven in tackle zones or down.

skaven turn 3, some decent blocking allows them to put 1 guy into my ball carriers tackle zone, but thats it.
hoodz turn 3 i easily blitz my ball carriers tackler outta the way and move onto some 'safe' 2db blocking bagging another KO for my trouble before scoring.

skaven turn 4, they seem to of caught my disease from the first half and only roll pushback results in the LOS. nevertheless they pickup the ball, successfully pass to a stormvermin, get him within scoring range along the touchline and box him in.
hoodz turn 4, my ogre finally comes good and KO's their rat ogre, i surround the rear of their cage and blitz a rat to put a tacklezone on the ballcarrier inflicting another KO in the process leaving the skaven at least needing to dodge to score.

skaven turn 5, successfully block my thrower out of the way and the ball carrier makes his 3+ dodge after a reroll and scores 3-1

hoodz turn 5, the skaven have gone ultra defensive leaving only 3 on LOS and the rest guarding the TD zone... 'thats a mistake i think' I KO one of the LOS and stun the other 2 allowing my ogre and aother guy to GFI towards the end zone, the fence carries the ball into within scoring range and hides behind these 2 with my other catcher heading for one of the wings to hopefully attract some 'attention'

skaven turn 6, another mistake made i think as he could of used his two gutter runners to assist then blitz my call carrier as they had the MA to move around my screen. instead their ratogre blitzed himself into putting a tackle zone on my carrier and one of the gutter runners put another tackone zone on. None of my guys went down though...

hoodz turn 6, i put an assist on their gutterrunner, then blitz him causing a KO ;) My ogre then smacks down their rat ogre again (only prone this time) opening up a clear run for the fence to score. 3-2 and the hoodz fans start singing thefence's name from the stands!

skaven turn 7, they mostly surrender the LOS and make a push down one of the wings, which was looking dangerous....until they fumbled the pickup leaving the rats in all sorts of trouble and my opponant cursing nuffle.
hoodz turn 7, i start by freeing up some players blocking their 3 players left in LOS and knocking 1 of them out and killing another! This was their STR4 thrower star player and i did feel sorry for my opponents loss, he was not a happy bunny, probably feeling he should of fouled me off the pitch in the first half when he had the chance (luckily he was very kind in that respect, very clean game, just very deadly!)
The turn continued with 3 of my players now free to move, i block off one of the rats se he cant head backtowards the ball, put a tackle zone on their guy who fumbled their pickup... then FORGOT to use the fence to blitz, nevertheless he made his normal move and went to pick up the ball, but fumbled it forwards :(

Skaven turn 8, still fuming over the death of his star my opponant went straight for my other catcher aiming to exact some revenge.. he succeeded, causing an SI for -1AG, Pickers days as a conventional catcher were over as he left the field with a broken neck :( the skaven then dodged their only rat in the ball tacklezone out of one tacklezone successfully, before moving to pickup the ball.. another fumble and this time it was fumbled staright into the fence's gloves! "and the crowd goes wild!"

hoodz turn 8, the score looks simple and they waste no time. marcellus their kicker blitzes and manges to pushback the serial fumbling rat! This leaves Thefence, with no tackles on him and a clear run for the score. He wastes no time obliging and gets his hattrick to make the full time score 3-3 bringing an end to an exciting, entertaining and extruciating game with has left both sides crippled for their next match!

Im proud of the fight back my team made to get the draw but this was a weird game. I had the most appalling armour/injury and blocks rolls for most of the 1st half with my opponant hardly failing any. But luck really did turn around in the second half especially with all of his fumbles that gave me the score and the really untimely demise of his star thrower.

My thanks go to joppie for not really sticking the boot in at any stage, and it was a very friendly clean game even though the losses on both sides might suggest otherwise!
Hope to play you again, but lets use AV9 teams next time ;)


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