“Our new pygmy squad face bicarbonateofsteve's nurglings, who have a few games under their belt. We get two handicaps, giving our eagle warrior ironman and netting a bonus reroll from extra training. One niggled nurgling fails to turn up so they only have a 3 player advantage. Injuries could really wreck us here!

Their first turn blitz niggles our alligator warrior, using up our apo to save him. Uh oh! They grab the ball on their 2nd attempt and run forwards down one line with a pile of nurglings. We're able to stop most of them and get a couple pygmies and a jaguar warrior back though and they are forced to go for a 1d blitz to escape. Even with a reroll the best they can do is choose both down and we're able to recover the ball. It doesn't last long as we foolishly throw the ball towards our eagle warrior, forgetting about the -4 to catch from all the foul appearance nearby. A short brawl later and the ball has bounced around the centre for a while, until finally we're able to KILL a plaguebearer (regen) so there's no FA near the ball, and then grab it with our eagle warrior. With one turn till half time they go for a desperate play, a beast of nurgle attempting to 6+ dodge into the ball carrier's tackle zone to get tentacles on him- but they don't make it and we're able to GFI into the endzone to make it 1-0!

With a jaguar warrior and a pygmy failing to wake up for the 2nd half it's 9 vs 11. And they make things worse by MNG'ing our jaguar warrior in turn 1. They soon dislodge the ball, catch it on the bounce and run upfield while our players leave the pitch in droves. They score on turn 3 and we now have 7 vs 11.

And again, despite our best efforts they swarm forwards, overwhelming the ball, and managing to score again on turn 8 to win the game!

Good game bicarbonateofsteve, i'll get you next time!”