“The Warpstone Open VII Finals - Round 3 (Round 7 overall)

Considered the "Bash" semifinals as the winner gets to face a decked out elf team - we squared off against a tentacle heavy Nurgle team. To start with, Stonetroll made the decision to hire Blackhoof instead of a bribe+wizard. It was a bold move and Blackhoof did not disappoint for the most part - his high movement and strength were tough to deal with. Anyway, the first half, we kicked off and the initial blitz by the nurgle killer took out a longbeard for the game (badly hurt). After that things settled down for a few turns...we surfed a nurgle warrior on turn 1 and picked up 2 early CAS (both regened). The key moment of the game was the Nurgle's decision to stall on Turn 4 of the first half. They ran over a rookie rotter for a 1 assist foul on John Little (our runner) - but it failed to break armor (and he was ejected too)...John then made a 3+ 4+ dodge to 2d blitz the ballcarrier - pushed into the corner of the endzone the ball was tossed back upfield. With us having numbers at this point, we grabbed the ball. A last ditch effort by the nurgle was to put their beast next to the ballcarrier, but we had JUG and so were able to surf the beast and at that point could not be stopped...so it was 1-0 at the half.

In the second half, there were tense moments, plenty of fail on both sides, ultimately leading to a single chance for the nurgle as their tackler 1d blitz our runner - but with no RR (used earlier on turn on failed JU roll) - the blitz did not take us down...and we raced into the endzone to secure the win 2-0. Four turns left, the nurgle tried to score in 2 turns (their only hope) - but were denied and the game ended in some good nature fouling.

A fun game with over 70 specs at one point and fun banter with Stonetroll. Good game and fun times! Thanks and see you around!”