“The Engines surprised the Dead Cousins by bringing Zara the Slayer along for a train ride.

The Engines started in defence and were soon in trouble as the Cousins caused two injuries on their first turn (1 from a foul) and the Engines had their DP sent off for by the ref on a retaliation foul.

Very one sided dice early on as the Engines were down 3 players. The Cousins continued to pound the trains and although Zara blitzed a few times, she only broke armour once, injuring a Wolf.

However, she soon got off at BH station herself as the Engines continued to have players injured or KOd. Despite being outnumbered, the Engines were able to get a two dice blitz on the Cousins ball carrier near their endzone and held out for a 0-0 draw.

In the second half, the Engines were again outnumbered after a few minutes in. They lost the ball for a while when they failed a 3+ dodge with reroll, but were able to get it back.

They transported it back deep into defence, exploiting the Cousins lack of pace and spread out. The ploy worked as the Engines were able to fire transport the ball back up the track quickly and bring the ball into scoring range.

The Cousins needed a few GFI and dodges to set up a two dice ball and were unable to pull it off and the Engines delivered the ball to End Zone Station to seal the victory.
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Very rough game, taking so many cas early and getting sent off. Zara was not that effective really - she lasted 4 turns and took out a young Wolf.

Opponent was playing well and had quite favourable dice for a while to help him out, eg I had multiple turnovers, including failed RRs on 1 dice blocks and lots of dodges, but I think my opponent only had one for the entire match, and that was turn 15 on a 4+ dodge with his Ghoul.

I guess he played more conservatively too, but with his higher numbers, he didn't need to try many dodges hehe.

Anyway, it was a good but costly game as I picked up a Niggle on T16 and another on the 31 SPP aging roll on a Blitzer.
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