“So playing without a Troll, probably best to pick an easy opponent, one that doesn’t hit hard, something like Khemri, I mean how badly can 4 ST5 players hurt me? Anyway its becoming a habit to play against teams with no pulse, this will make four consecutive games: 2 against Undead, 1 Necro and now Khemri.

Match Highlights:
Things start well for the U-dogs a short kick and quick blitz gain them control of the ball just inside the Tombwarrior’s half. Quick ball handling switches play to the opposite side of the field, wrong footing the Khemri defenders and putting De-varr in a scoring position with the ball in hand, all he has to do is keep his feet for a glorious 2 turn TD against the kick. Fortunately for the Tombwarriors they had a blitz-ra in position to take the gobbo down leaving the ball loose on the touchline halfway into the Tombwarrior’s half. The Tombwarriors start to pile on the pain with 2 SIs and a KO in their next turn followed by 3 more casualties in the turn after. The U-dogs are looking thin on the ground. By turn 5 only 3 U-dogs remain on the field, with the Tombwarriors just 3 yards from scoring, and by turn 7 just Odd-een remains on the pitch, heroically he blitzes the Blitz-ra ball carrier showboating just short of the endzone – pushing him back, but is too little to prevent the Tombwarriors scoring. Halftime 1-0 to the Tombwarriors with 7 U-dog casualties, things are looking grim.

Second half and the only remaining Skaven on the field, Cee’gra, picks up the ball, no less than three gobos make it through the Khemri lines giving multiple catching options to the thrower – Cee’gra picks out Dave-eyets who only has two players marking him – completed pass! Dave-eyets has the ball 7 yards short of the TD line, he dodges twice but just fails to twist away from the final tackle and goes down within sight of the undefended endzone!

The Tombwarriors seem to have forgotten there is a ball on the pitch as they concentrate on hospitalising as many U-dogs as possible. By the time the ball is once again in hand the U-dogs are down to 5 players and seem to have no hope of preventing the second TD. But against all odds goblins Odd-een and Vosee-em blitz the ball carrier and regain possession on the half way line, once again the fate of the game hinges on the ability of a goblin to stay on its feet.

Vosee-em has the ball but goes down to a blitz from blitz-ra ‘Tefnekht’, ball is loose and surrounded by Khemri players – at the other end of the pitch U-dog goblin De-varr dodges away from his marker and sprints into the endzone. Odd-een dodges to the ball, picks up from under the noses of 3 Tombwarriors, he dodges out of the pack and gets within pass range of De-varr, launching the ball in a last desperate bid to score only to see his pass intercepted by ‘Inamunnifnebu’ of the of the Tombwarriors! For the second time in three games the U-dogs suffer an interception to a TD scoring pass by an AG2 opponent.

Tombwarriors make no mistakes as they once again advance the ball down field, surviving desperate blitz attempts by the few surviving U-dog players to sprint in for a turn 8 TD. Final score 2-0 to the Tombwarriors in TDs and 9-0 in Casualties inflicted!

I go away from this game realising how close the U-dogs actually came to tying it up on two occasions they were just one dice roll away from the endzone, so much heroism, so little glory.
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