“FUMBBL Tour 150 Round I

It's the second tour event of the year; we crashed out in round 2 of the previous event. Lets try and do better this time! Our undead team only has a TR of 145 (limit 150) but we DO have the count pre-hired (a leftover from a smack final that got cointossed) to help us through round 1.

We're up against Zhluhur's 150TR undead. The two teams are pretty even, but the Count should swing things in our favour. They do however, have a very cool +MA +MA ghoul AND a +STR mummy on their side!

We kick deep and roll up a blitz! It's going to land in their endzone and may bounce out of bounds so we don't chase into their half but instead mess up their starting positions. It does bounce out and they hand it to the speed demon ghoul. Each team gets a BH (no regen) on a random zombie with a mummy on their first turn, and while we KO a wight they KO one of our ghouls. We manage to knock the ball free of their speedy ghoul's hands before he runs downfield, and then bounce the ball out of the scrum and into our surprised wight's hands. The ball is knocked free several times by both teams but it's not until turn 5 and us spending our last reroll before anyone's able to run it out of the center, as we leg it towards their endzone in a ghoul's hands. With their KO box filling up they have little chance of stopping us, only managing a single 1d blitz with their speedy ghoul and we're quite easily able to score on turn 8.

3/6 of their KOs return so they will have 11 for the 2nd half, but are missing a mummy, ghoul and wight! They have however badly hurt our guard wight which will help them.

We push forwards slowly and surely, trying to remove their players while giving them no chance of scoring twice even if we were to lose the ball. We push right up towards one corner with our sidestep/blodge ghoul holding the ball, and we start running down the clock. But Zhluhur's undead aren't just standing there, they are punching their way through slowly but surely, with their MA9 ghoul being a real pain in our side that we just can't get rid of! They eventually manage to knock down the ball carrier, but fortunately don't have the players to secure it. We then KILL their STR6 mummy and raise him as a zombie! On our final turn of the game we run in the TD to make it 2-0!

We line up their ex-mummy on the LOS to give them a chance to re-recruit him.. but even with a DP foul they can't do more than stun him twice.

Good game Zhluhur! The count made the usual huge difference at this level, but that's that.”