“A damn shame my comp crashed after I had finished the very last turn of the game as it ruined one of the most entertaining replays I would have had in my archive.

The game was far closer than the score represents and doesn't tell half the story:

The game starts thusly - ALL 5 of the Ogres I have standing on the LoS to block the rats fail their Bone Head rolls, so as I end the turn by failling a pick up it's 5 out of 7 Bone Head rolls that have failed.

The struggle for the ball begins as the 5 fools on the LoS have left a somewhat noticable gap in my offence (which soons turns into a defence) which allows first a Claw blitz on Nobbla for a stun followed by a DP ejection on the skaven as Nobbla is fouled to death. Ball is marked and a scrummage ensues with the skaven scoring somewhere in between turn 2 & 4.

Ogres start a drive down the field (after a Pitch Invasion stuns 6 Ogres and several rats) and manage to Badly Hurt the Skaven or Knock Out them - leaving only 6 rats (and the str. 6 Rat Ogre is BH) for the 2nd half as the score goes 1-1. Ogres seem to have an easier and easier time as the rats have fewer and fewer players left and I'm feeling pretty confident despite the 2 remaining Gutters who dodge and attempt some -3d blitzes. That is...

...till a Gutter manages a 5+, 3+, 2+ dodge followed by a ball handling Ogre without a ball but with a head ache as he hits the ground. If I recall correctly the skaven even manages to pick up the ball but fails a dodge away from an Ogre. I then manage to pick up the ball with a goblin and just barely screen it off, but a rat manages a 4+, 2+ dodge and 1d block later the goblin is Knocked Out and the ball is loose again. By now it's getting clearer and clearer that Over Time is very likely and as I try to pick up the ball to hand off to another Ogre I realise that the failed Hand Off would have to happen.

OT commenses - rats kicking but with 5 players and things aren't looking too bad, I recon, but when I chainpush a rat and end a turn, I suddenly realise that an Ogre is Bone Headed and thus not covering that ag4 lino properly... A 2+ dodge later, a 3+, 2+ and a pass later the ball is at least next to the lino. I mark the ball, blitz the rat and the rats knock down 1 ogre on a 1d block and picks up the ball on a 3+ and dodge away. I blitz, knock the ball loose (and into the hands of a Gutter Runner), and fail to cover a Gutter leaving the ag 4, Claw, Pro, Tackle lino to 1d blitz my Ogre and stall for a 6th turn score - though I did manage to get a blitz on the Gutter with the ball, but the 3d do not produce a result.

I have 3 turns to score and no Goblins or RRs and the ball lands in my own End Zone... Ag 3 Ogre is within 2 GFIs of the ball but I foolishly decide not to GFI and the 2 Gutters who wouldn't go down on the LoS (only 4 rats left on the field) now cover him with one of them and anotehr free to go for the ball next turn. I want to blitz the Gutter and hope for a POW (blodging SS Gutter) on the 3d but I fail the 1 GFI to get there.

Rats get the ball in their 8th turn. Game over.

Awesome match - I started with awful luck but half way through BooAhl got it tri-fold, and it looked like a lost match for the rats halfway into 2nd half, till luck turned around (again) and got us into OT where 1 mistake on my part definitley didn't help me along.

Great opponent, great game, great fun, great SMACK.

Thanks for the game, BooAhl”