“Desite our last win, we didn’t feel too happy with the game, not enough of our boys had really got to see much action, so we got our second game underway against some Rats… spirits were high as we prepared ourselves for the extermination!

Well yall, it didn’t go quite according to our plan… those Rats are tougher than they looks. We simply could not knock these pesky varmints down! Nevertheless we scored as planned - late in the first half, after finally starting to control the flow of the game mainly because they had taken to trying to knock down our dwarves with a Clawed Gutter and two of his buck toothed pals, leaving their coverage short. 1 – 0.

Those nasty rats tried for a One Turner and suddenly realised they didn’t have the speed to make the leap and so had to dodge through us… heeheehee, poor critter fell on his furry little ass! But they had taken one of dirty boys and the troll out, but small price to pay for being up at the end of the half.

By the second half those them there rats tried to stall on us… on us! We were having none of that, and went to great lengths to hit ‘em hard and threaten the ball… half way through they scored, unavoidable really folks, but now we had superior numbers and a hell of a long time to score in.

We suckered most of their defence to the opposite flank and caged our boy all the way to the endzone… the threat of the leaping strip baler was in our minds and we considered a handoff to a bull… but it just didn’t seem like a good idea shaky as things had been. The leap and strip came, but our nearby dorf was happy to pick it up – Yeeehaw! 2 – 1 against one of main rivals this season!

8 games… 8 wins!

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I was surprised against Nico, the lack of being able to knock rats down, never mind break armour, really let his team start running circles around us, and a couple nice moves by him and his Rat Ogre made for a great defence. We eventually scored with a turn or two left to stall out.

The second half was really close, and it was really left to nuffle in the end after his leaping -2d strip ball… thankfully, nuffle had me covered and gave the ball to a dorf.

This was the closest game for a while and the limited CAS inflicted on him also was attributed to the way he kept my DPs out of it.

GG Mate!
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