“WIL Plate - FINAL

Our undead (decimated in the semifinal) face DaCoach's dark elves. They have hired a wizard and a freebooter lineelf and we have hired the count. Our two handicaps are buzzing and virus (key- two nigglers removed!), while our niggled zombie can play, which means things are a little fairer than they looked before kick off.

We lose the toss and have to kick first. They start off the fouling on T1 KO'ing one of our DP zombies but getting their DP sent off! Down to 10 dark elves already! We take advantage of the turnover to blitz a hole in their front line and charge a wight and a zombie over to next to the ball. We try and get a gang foul in on their prone blitzer- but a blockless zombie messes up the 2d block to set it up and they get in a good return turn badly hurting our last DP on the pitch (regen fail) and nabbing the ball. We are defending quite carefully, making sure not to overcommit and they still haven't got the ball into our half by turn 6 when they drop a pass near the half way line. We pile players around and they are forced to go for a 1d blitz followed by a -2 dodge and -2 pickup (no problem!) followed by a few -1 dodges to get through, though they then fumble the pass with no rerolls left! The count blitzes back and steals the ball while we run a ghoul into range of their endzone. On turn 8 they badly hurt our frenzy ghoul and mark the count + our other ghoul by the endzone. We dodge the count (away from a tackle/diving tackle blitzer) and pass to our ghoul in one tackle zone but even using our last reroll he can't catch it and the half ends scoreless.

** HALF TIME **

2/2 KOs wake up on our side and 2/2 sleep it in on the elf side so we will have 11 vs 8 for the 2nd half. 0-0 but they still have their wizard to unleash.

They kick and roll a perfect defence to foil our first turn of bashing. We fumble the pick up with the count two turns in a row, using a reroll to secure it on T2. On their first turn they -AG seriously injure a zombie (regen fail), but fortunately on turn 2 we manage to KO 2 of their players to make it 10 vs 6. On turn 3 our mummy KILLS their thrower (apo saves) and our DP then KO's him to make it 10 vs 5. They are running out of players to make use of the wizard so they unleash him now: the fireball hits a big group of our players to open up a path for their strip ball attack vs the count- but at -2d and despite a reroll we can still pick a skull!

We run the count through and then surround the blitzer for a DP foul.. but double 1s +6 doesn't break armour! He then stands up, blitzes through two tackle zones and 2GFIs to -2d blitz the count for a double POW and a badly hurt AND catches the ball! Egads- what a turn!! The count has regenned but that may not matter.

We 2d blitz the blitzer with a reroll but can't get the POW we need, and he makes the -2 dodge to get out of trouble. Fortunately we can just get a double GFI 2d blitz with our tackle wight the next turn that with a reroll knocks him over and into the KO box! Our ghoul steals the ball and they can't get a POW with 4 dice, letting us stall out the final turn and score on T8 of the half to take the lead!

They try for a one-turner, but fail on the first blitz, meaning Cold Hands, Dead Eyes are crowned WIL Plate champions!!

Good game DaCoach!!”