“Our rats face Hero164's nicely developed orcs- and they have hired ripper with some extra cash! There's just one player with tackle, a blitzer, lets try and remove him to preserve our gutter runners.

We start well against all the power of the orcs, managing a gang foul a few turns in (after a couple harmless fouls back and forth) on their lone tackler, KILLing him! Their apo fails meaning one threat vs the gutter runners has been removed. We then manage with some dodges and reroll burning to get a 2d block versus their thrower that pushes him free, followed by a rat ogre blitz that seriously injures him and bounces the ball free temporarily!

It doesn't last however as they crowd around and pick it up with their DP and then push forward to score on their last turn while Ripper has badly hurt a linerat and -ST seriously injured our DP. We try for a one turn touchdown, but our thrower double-fumbles the pass before we even get started. Our fans however have thrown a rock, niggling a black orc!!

2nd half: we keep the ball deep in our thrower's hands, trying to get an advantage against the orcs before scoring. Eventually we make some space and run a lineman through towards their endzone- until he slips on a GFI despite a RR. A nearby orc blitzer dodges away, picks up the ball, and throws a 5+ long pass (with RR) right down to their STR4 blitzer who is surrounded by orcs. This is not going to be easy now! But some great dodges and our always-essential guard stormvermin mean we are able to get a 2d block on the ball carrier, breaking the ball free! We then grab it (despite 2 tackle zones) with our thrower, dodge away, pass to our waiting gutter runner who sprints upfield and with a single GFI scores the equaliser!

The orcs only have a few turns to get ahead again, but despite us getting a few players through near their blitzer holding the ball he runs by them and passes upfield to their STR4 blitzer who makes the catch. Our rat ogre goes for the blitz and he's badly hurt him! Unfortunately the bounce goes right into their waiting blodger blitzer who was standing next to them. We try and get a few more players around him but it's not enough and he can blitz his way out to make it 2-1 with a turn left each!

We go for a chain push 1-turn touchdown and get pretty close- but we need just one more player to plug a gap to make it work. The orcs spend their last turn killing a linerat, boo!

Well won Hero164, a great & extremely bloody match!”