“First blood was ours. The rest of the blood was ours, too, including failed dodges leading to injuries. The moment he niggled my skink, I knew he would roll a double on his skill roll, which he did. (He also aged a second niggle, so the decision to fire him was rather easy.)

After scoring first, managed to steal the ball and score a second time. By this point I was playing with only 9 guys, and didn't really have much chance at stopping his score to make it 2-1 at the half.

Second half begins, I'm able to slow him down somewhat but have simply too few guys and fail crucial gfi's to be able to stop him tying the game 2-2. I have one RR left, and need it as I retake the lead 3-2 racing around the end. He has two turns left, I think I have him bottled up decently, but a 1d POW frees him up to dodge, two-gfi, handoff/pass/score to seemingly steal my victory 3-3.

But all my experience playing rats paid off, as I was able to chainpush promote a skink to OTS status. It's a lot easier when you have str4 guys doing all the pushing and shoving, with 3d blocks instead of the 2d I'm used to! Still took a little luck, as I had no RR to help, but the stunned chaos could only watch as my skink raced past for the winning score as time expired.”