“After being crowned WIL Fringe Cup champions 'Cold Hands, Dead Eyes' have their eyes on the WIL Plate itself. Our first match sees us vs tesifonte's similarly rated skaven, with neither team hiring any nasty surprises. They get one handicap, but it's wasted on virus.

We kick, and despite failing the pickup on the first turn, by their third turn they have the ball in their blodge/SS GR's hands down one side and are able to score on turn 4 with no real trouble. At least we have managed to badly hurt a linerat putting them at 11 players.

We pick up the kick and badly hurt another linerat with our first foul of the game, getting a zombie sent off. We push through slowly, but the gutter runners are really putting the hurt in and making it difficult to get the ball safe. They foul twice in a row with their DP, and get him sent off without causing any damage. By turn 7 a storm vermin manages to POW our blodge ghoul holding the ball. Fortunately on our turn 7 we counter blitz, getting the POW we need on their sidestepper and retrieve the ball, and score with a couple of GFIs on turn 8 to make it evens at half time.

We receive the kick, facing just 9 rats (though still all 4 GRs), but now they are angry and go for a foul on a mummy with one of their GRs - getting him sent off! We push forwards with the ball and on turn 6 finally score some damage, badly hurting a GR and KO'ing two rats. However we also misclick and move a zombie into a tackle zone instead of past to close off access to the ballcarrier-and they blitz him over! We have two turns to try and recover the ball but the 5 skaven on the field are making it extremely difficult! On our final turn we try a 3d tackle block vs their blodge/SS GR but can't knock him down, and instead have to go for a pickup in a tackle zone, dodge, short pass - all without a RR... but we make it! 2-1!

GG tesifonte”